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 it within broader global processes of modernity, modernization, and modernism. The central premise of the course is that claims to be “modern,”…
Intellectual Debates in Modern Ukrainian History
Course co-directors: Ostap Sereda (UCU/BCB) and Balázs Trencsényi (CEU) This course will be structured around the main political, social and cultural debates in modern Ukrainian history and contemporary public discourse that dealt with the key issues of historical legacy, challenges…
War after War in the former Yugoslav Space
Course director: Vladimir Petrovic (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) The course rests on a UNDP-sponsored project, “Overcoming points of contention: transgenerational coping with the legacy of the Yugoslav armed conflicts of the 1990s.” It is a sequel…
The Future (of the) Balkans: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine
Course co-directors: Marija Mandić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade) and Aleksandar Pavlović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade) The southeastern peninsula of the European continent, more commonly known under the loaded term Balkans,…
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Course co-directors: Levente Littvay (CEU Democracy Institute) and Inna Melnykovska (EUI) This course is organized into three independent modules, each offering a focused engagement with a distinct methodological area. Students may choose to enroll in any single module or combine…
Constitutional Stories of European Integration: a Comparative Perspective for Ukraine
Course co-directors: Marta Mochulska (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) and Nazar Stetsyk Ivan Franko National University of Lviv / Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights) This course is designed to explore the dynamic and evolving process of…
New Media and Russo-Ukrainian War
Course director: Alina Mozolevska (Universität des Saarlandes) The course examines the mediatization of the Russo-Ukrainian War, focusing on how new media and digital technologies reshape modern warfare. It explores social media, popular culture, and visual practices as spaces of mobilization,…
Post-Empire Transformations: Georgia and Ukraine in Comparative Perspective
Course co-directors: Nino Gozalishvili (University of Georgia) and Rusudan Margiani (ELTE University) Georgia and Ukraine, both positioned on the edges of Europe while at the same time neighboring Russia, have long shared a paradoxical geopolitical fate—aspiring toward Europe, yet remaining…
Ukraine-Poland-Europe: Entangled Histories, Asymmetric Memories
Course director: Andrii Portnov (Centre for Advanced Study Sofia) The complicated and controversial relations between Poland and Ukraine, decisive for the entire European continent are often perceived and analyzed on a bilateral basis with their ideological, territorial, religious, and economic…