Ongoing Programs

Politics and Narratives at European Borderlands: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine

Course co-directors: Marija Mandić (University of Belgrade) and Olesia Marković (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) The course aims to critically rethink the Balkans as a borderland and to challenge simplistic readings of its history and culture. Some of the biggest empires and political…

Research Methods for the Social Sciences

Course director: Levente Littvay (CEU Democracy Institute) The course introduces students to the fundamentals of empirical research in the social sciences and gives an overview of the main approaches and epistemologies in political science research. The aims of the course…

Migration, Belonging, Policies

Course co-directors: Oksana Mikheieva (ZOiS / European University Viadrina / Ukrainian Catholic University) and Viktoriya Sereda (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Ukrainian Catholic University) Migration, Belonging, Policies is an interdisciplinary course that delves deeply into the complex dynamics of migration and…

Sexuality and Decoloniality

Course co-directors: Nadiya Chushak (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy / Bard College Berlin) and Olena Dmytryk (Cambridge) The course will cover a range of topics, which include but are not limited to: understanding disability, gender, sexuality, and race as analytical categories; interconnections between…

Times of Uncertainty: Wars, Revolutions, and the Politics of Historical Events

Course co-directors: Tetiana Zemliakova (CEU Democracy Institute) and Guillaume Lancereau (European University Institute) The course aims to problematize politics as a practice of contestation that engages with the meanings of modern historical events. Combining approaches from political theory, intellectual history,…

The Security and Political Economy of EU Integration: Theory and Policy

Course co-directors: Veronica Anghel (European University Institute) and Inna Melnykovska (Central European University) The course engages with EU strategies and policies to counter internal and external threats, and promote peace and prosperity among members, in its neighborhood and internationally. The…

Civil Society and the State in Ukraine

Course co-directors: Diána Vonnák (University of Stirling) and Taras Fedirko (University of Glasgow) The course offers a historically informed and critical examination of the notion of civil society and its relevance to understanding civic associations and activism in Ukraine, their…

(Re)thinking “Soviet”: Modern Ukrainian Identity and the Legacy of Communism

Course director: Olena Palko (University of Basel) In the last decade, the Ukrainian parliament has issued two laws outlining the legal framework for dealing with the Russian imperial and Soviet past. These laws have sparked numerous scholarly debates on how…