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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
As thousands of innocent lives are lost and millions of people are displaced and forced into exile, an embattled population in Ukraine displays remarkable resilience and puts up resistance to the assailant, with many convinced that winning the peace requires winning the war. In Russia anti-war demonstrations have been criminalised by the government and pacifist protesters are now treated as dangerous subversives. In Germany, Putin’s invasion ignited debates about the antimilitaristic postwar consensus and a foreign policy striving for a trade-based rapprochement with Russia: did the pacifist leanings of the Federal Republic not only fail to uphold the peace but inadvertently encourage Russian expansionism?
The shock over the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war has alerted the intellectual community to how partial its understanding of the political processes in both Ukraine and Russia was. This has cast doubt on the adequacy of the categories and narratives marshalled in previous analyses of post-Soviet political reality. Awareness of Russian traditions of imperial thinking remains limited, while it is still common to view Ukraine as a mere object of geopolitics, caught between NATO expansion and Russia’s “security concerns”. How to do justice to the diversity of Ukrainian culture and society? How do we comprehend Russian imperialism and popular support for it within Russia? How does the war mobilise or imperil different social groups in either country? What are possible repercussions of the invasion for future visions of international order and security?
Rather than pretend to offer conclusive answers to these questions, the roundtable will tentatively approach them from different angles, bringing together academics, activists and representatives of human rights NGOs from different countries.
OPENING REMARKS
Volker Heins, KWI
PANEL 1
Volodymyr Artiukh, University of Oxford
Victoria Smolkin, Wesleyan University
Olga Shparaga, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
CHAIR
Danilo Scholz, KWI
PANEL 2
Nataliia Tomenko, European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
Volodymyr Ishchenko, FU Berlin
Tatiana Levina, Academy in Exile@KWI Fellow
CHAIRS
Britta Acksel, KWI
Dezső Máté, Academy in Exile@KWI Fellow
ORGANISER
Organised by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)
Information on participating / attending:
Participation on ZOOM
Participants can register for the lecture via e-mail to Emily Beyer (emily.beyer@kwi-nrw.de) by Tuesday, 5 April 2022. Participants will then receive the Zoom link.
Date:
04/06/2022 17:00 - 04/06/2022 19:30
Registration deadline:
05/05/2022
Event venue:
Goethestr. 31
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Media and communication sciences, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
03/30/2022
Sender/author:
Miriam Wienhold
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event71156
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