Stories
“Unbreakable” Caryatids: The Women Who Have Held Kharkiv
In February 2022, the third-year female students of the Kharkiv National Medical University were serving their pre-medical (nursing) internship in…
Ongoing Programs
Justice Across Europe: Trust, Judicial Independence and Courts in Times of Transition
Course Co-Directors: Marta Mochulska (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) and Marta Spodaryk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv…
Transnational Relations of Care: Ukraine and Beyond
Course Co-Directors: Oksana Ovsiiuk (University of Fribourg) and Madlen Kobi (University of Fribourg) Contemporary social relations increasingly transcend…
Ukrainian Literature: Literary Canons, War and Social Change
Course Co-Directors: Diána Vonnák (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Vienna/Prague) and Iryna Shuvalova (poet, independent scholar,…
Borders and Spatial Imaginaries in Ukraine and Beyond
Course Co-Directors: Elżbieta Kwiecińska (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Hanna Perekhoda (University of Lausanne) Academic research has long shown…
Decentering Soviet Histories: Regional Perspectives on Everyday Life and Politics in the USSR
Course Co-Directors: Iaroslav Kovalchuk (Columbia University) and Arslan Akanov (Nazarbayev University) The course explores central debates in Soviet…
Have We Ever Been Modern? Modernism, Modernity, and Modernization in Twentieth-Century Ukraine
Course director: Volodymyr Ryzhkovskyi (Independent Researcher) This course offers a critical perspective on twentieth-century Ukrainian history by situating…
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Contributors
Olena Nikolayenko
Olena Nikolayenko is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. She defended her PhD at…
Mariia Prokopenko
Mariia Prokopenko is a PhD student at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her dissertation title is ‘Master…
Solomiia Beska
Solomiia Beska is a legal scholar and cybersecurity researcher specializing in information protection, cyber resilience, and hybrid warfare.…
Bohdan Krawchenko
Bohdan Krawchenko is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Afghanistan Research Initiative at the University of…
Natalia Dziadyk
Natalia Dziadyk is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University and a…
Editors
Nadiia Chervinska
Nadiia is a researcher, curator, and cultural manager. She holds…
Kateryna Osypchuk
Kateryna is a History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus…
Yevhen Yashchuk
Yevhen Yashchuk is a DPhil Student in History at the…
Kateryna Lysenko
Bachelor’s student in Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.
Nataliia Shuliakova
Bachelor’s student in History at Yale University. Research Assistant in Forced Migration…