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Ukraine-related research, teaching, and transfer. Led by the European University Viadrina. Together with ZOiS, Humboldt University, Freie Universität, BBAW and Wissenschaftskolleg. Funded by DAAD. Site details: bit.ly/4ik6W7u | Privacy Policy bit.ly/3B2gLB
🇺🇦 Yaroslava Gnezdilova: Cross-Linguistic Framing of Emotion and Ideology - The Media’s Role in Translating and Shaping Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian War
📅 09.12.2025, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. /hybrid event/zoom link on website
📍 Europa-Universität Viadrina, GD Hs 08, Frankfurt (Oder) @viadrina.eu
Vacancy at DAAD Ukraine!
DAAD Ukraine is looking for a Head of the Information Centre in Kyiv.
💼 The position is full-time.
📍 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
🕛 Deadline: 31 December 2025
More info: www.daad-ukraine.org/de/2025/11/2...
@daadworldwide.bsky.social @viadrina.eu
Ukraine Lecture Series – Recap
On Tuesday, 25 November, we were honored to host Sashko Protyah — independent filmmaker, activist, and co-founder of Freefilmers, an art collective and film NGO from Mariupol at the Ukraine Lecture Series.
He was presenting his film 'War Songs'.
@viadrina.eu
Rebuilding Ukraine: Security, Recovery & the Future of Europe
Speaker Lineup
4 December 2025
Freie Universität Berlin, Room K 005, Garystraße 21, 14195 Berlin
Online: fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/theocha...
Ragistration: kiu-communications@europa-uni.de
Full lineup on FB, Insta, Linkedin
@viadrina.eu
Ukraine Lecture Series – Recap
Nataliia Mushyrovska (Rivne State University for the Humanities; KIU Research Fellow) on Tuesday, 18 November, spoke on how Ukrainian memes function as social therapy, national memory, and support for civilian resilience during the war.
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Svitlana Matviyenko -Terror Infrastructures under and beyond occupation: Environing regimes of control
🕰 2 December 2025, 11:00 am
🏫 Europa-Universität Viadrina, GD Hs 08, Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building
💻 join online: europa-uni-de.zoom.us/j/6872966985...
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📢 Job Opportunity
@viadrina.eu together with KIU are looking for a Student Assistant (10 hours/week, all genders) for the research project organised together with Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
Apply by 10 December
Details www.europa-uni.de/de/universit...
PROGRAMME RELEASED | International Conference
4 December 2025
NEW LOCATION: Raum K 005 at FU Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Garystraße 21, 14195 Berlin.
To register please write to kiu-communications@europa-uni.de @viadrina.eu
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS — KIU Research Fellowships (Summer Term 2026)
Theme: Nationalities, minorities & identity: (Re)Configuring Ukraine?
Fellowships: Apr–Jul / Apr–Dec 2026
Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
Q&A: 7 Jan, 2:00 p.m.(CET)
🔗 www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/fellowshi...
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KIU Fellows at the International Alumni Conference (Cottbus)
Francesc G. Rodríguez & Seila Fernández Arconada present
“The Many Lives of Rivers in Wartime: A Focus on Ukraine”
Tue, 25 Nov | 4:30 p.m. | BTU Cottbus
Roundtable: Thu, 27 Nov | 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Link b-tu.webex.com/webappng/sit...
FORUM | Live bei SWR Kultur
Susann Worschech im Gespräch mit SWR Kultur
„Frieden ohne Freiheit? – Diplomatie im Krieg gegen die Ukraine“
📅 Heute, 25.11.2025 | 17:05 Uhr
Link: www.swr.de/kultur/gesel...
@viadrina.eu @susannworschech.bsky.social
SAVE THE DATE | International Conference
Berlin | Henry Ford Building (FU Berlin)
4 December 2025 | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
✉️ Registration is required.
To register, please email: kiu-communications@europa-uni.de
More details & the full speaker lineup coming soon.
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Meet the KIU Fellows of the Winter Semester 2025!
Open Ukraine Lecture Series:
Every Tuesday, 11:00 a.m., GD HS 08
KIU Lunch:
12:30–1:00 p.m. in the university cafeteria — meet the fellows & exchange ideas.
More info about fellows: www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/fellowshi...
@viadrina.eu
War Songs: Film Screening & Talk with Sashko Protyah (Freefilmers Mariupol)
Tuesday, 25.11.2025, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Europa-Universität Viadrina, GD Hs 08, Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)| Hybrid format
Zoom-Link: europa-uni-de.zoom.us/j/6872966985....
@viadrina.eu
Ukraine-Forschung – Wie deutsche Unis Wissenslücken schließen
Susann Worschech im Gespräch mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur über die Entwicklung und Bedeutung der Ukraine-Forschung an der Europa-Universität Viadrina.
Link www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ukraine-fors...
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@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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@wiko-berlin.bsky.social
@bbaw.bsky.social
Energoatom: The corruption scandal exposes structural weaknesses in the oversight of state-owned enterprises — and shows that Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies are working, as political scientist Oleksandra Keudel argues. Yet, given the blackouts, the scandal feels especially painful.
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UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES
Nataliia Mushyrovska: The Power of Ukrainian Memes - From Social Therapy to Building National Memory and Supporting Civilian Infrastructure
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 11:00 am
European University Viadrina, GD Hs 08
Zoom europa-uni-de.zoom.us/j/6872966985...
@viadrina.eu
Am Dienstag, 18. Nov 2025, hält @susannworschech.bsky.social im Rahmen der Reihe „Müssen wir für die Freiheit kämpfen?“ einen Vortrag zu:
„Historische Wurzeln und aktuelle Formen des ukrainischen Unabhängigkeitskampfes“
18:00 Uhr
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
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We’re happy to share the latest activities from our KIU Fellows!
Nataliia Mushak is back at Viadrina with two lectures on Thursday, 13 Nov 2025
Yaroslava Gnezdilova
Friday, 14 Nov 2025 | 9:50 am (online)
📍 PH Schwäbisch Gmünd
🔗 lnkd.in/dArjDWWQ
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💙💛 Join them online or on campus!
Join the KIU team!
We’re looking for a Press & Communications Editor (f/m/d) to join our dynamic KIU team in Frankfurt (Oder)–Berlin starting 1 January 2026.
Application deadline: 25 November 2025
All additional details you can find here: www.europa-uni.de/de/universit...
@viadrina.eu
UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES
Konrad Sobański: Crisis–Innovation–Transformation: Digital Financial Infrastructures in Wartime and Postwar Ukraine
Tuesday, 11 November, 11:00 am
Europa-Universität Viadrina, GD Hs 08, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt(Oder) @viadrina.eu
europa-uni-de.zoom.us/j/6872966985...
📚 Buchvorstellung: „Freiheitsschauplatz“
🗓 10 November, 16:00–17:30 Uhr
📍 Berlin-Mitte, Zentrum Liberale Moderne
In Kooperation mit KIU – Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder)–Berlin @libmod.de @viadrina.eu
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👀 Oleh Nivievskyi presented “Efforts of Local Governments in Ukraine to Respond to Wartime Challenges.” He showed how Ukraine’s 2014 decentralization reform strengthened hromadas—boosting autonomy, trust, and resilience for post-war recovery. @viadrina.eu
05.11.2025 11:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📻Next interesting lecture within UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES is coming up: 👉Dmytro Goncharenko (Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv): Sonic Resistance: Experimental Music and Cultural Activism in Wartime Ukraine
To join online follow the zoom-link: europa-uni-de.zoom.us/j/6872966985... @viadrina.eu
📨Invitation to join the online audience! 👉 Between 16:15 – 18:00 Susann Worschech and Mikhail Minakov participate in the Panel Discussion III: "Shaping the Future Together: Ukraine’s Tomorrow and Europe’s Identity ". Register here: uni-konstanz-de.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @viadrina.eu
29.10.2025 17:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES continues with its next lecture on ⌚️28.10.25, 11 am
🏠GD Hs 08, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Zoom-Link: europa-uni-de.zoom.us/j/6872966985... 👉Oleh Nivievskyi: Efforts of Local Governments in Ukraine to Respond to the Wartime Challenges
📌 SAVE THE DATE & REGISTRATION OPEN
Our surplace research fellows will present findings from their scholarship period (Oct 2024–Jun 2025) and share the new questions and perspectives that emerge from their work. 👉 Registration: europa-uni-de.zoom-x.de/.../iBWVXcJb... @viadrina.eu @zois.bsky.social
Today at 6:00 — join us at @bbaw.bsky.social.
We will discuss how infrastructures have become targets, resources, and symbols of resilience in Russia’s war against Ukraine – and what Europe can learn.
In cooperation with the German Platform for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.
🇺🇦UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES continues with the lecture of 👉
📌Alexandr Osipian: Critical infrastructure as a crucial factor in the Russo-Ukrainian war of attrition, 2014-2025
⏰Tuesday, 21 october 25, 11 am - 1 pm
🏠Europa-Universität Viadrina, Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building, GD Hs 08 (hybrid event) @viadrina.eu
