Stories

Ukrainians Started as the Scots and Ended Up as the Irish

In this conversation with Visible Ukraine editor Marta Haiduchok and RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Yaroslav Hrytsak—author of the new book Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation—explains what makes Ukraine a geopolitically crucial borderland and why the Ukrainian question has become…

War, Migration, and Resilience: New Perspectives on Ukraine’s IDP Crisis

In this interview, Ukrainian sociologists Viktoriya Sereda and Oksana Mikheieva ​​shed light on the often overlooked power of civil society in times of crisis. Focused on the Russo-Ukrainian war, they highlight the active role of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), challenging…

Voices of IUfU: Memories from the Past Semesters

Before the beginning of the new fall semester of the Invisible University for Ukraine, editors of Visible Ukraine share their memories and experiences from the previous semesters. Fall is coming, and for the coordinators of the Invisible University of Ukraine…

Emerging Researchers: Academic Papers from IUfU Scholarship Program

In the Fall Semester of 2022, Invisible University for Ukraine launched a scholarship program aiming to support the research of students from Ukrainian universities with research grants provided by the Open Society University Network, with co-funding from the Deutscher Akademischer…

The Scheme of Squares and Main Roads of Zhytomyr (1991)

(Post-)Soviet Transition, Memory Politics, and the Postcolonial Lens

The full-scale Russian aggression has led to questioning the memory politics in Ukraine, which raised intensive debates about the appropriacy of imperial and Soviet memorials, monuments, and other sites of memory which had marked the country’s landscapes since the pre-independence…

Women in History and Women’s History

Zsófia Lóránd is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. She focuses on the history of feminism in post-WWII Eastern Europe, covering the history of feminist movements in the region, feminist…