29.09, MONDAY

4:30–6:00 p.m.

Jules B-Part (Grace) (Luckenwalderstraße 6b, 10963 Berlin)

Introduction to the exhibition “Treibende Kräfte ”(for the conference participants only)

Podium discussion with artists and curator Bettina Klein (Berlin)

Discussant: Jessica Zychowicz (Warsaw)

Participating artists: Olha Marusyn, Lada Nakonechna, Mykola Ridnyi, Eugene Shimalsky

6:30–8:00 p.m.

Laura Mars Gallery (Bülowstraße 52, 10783 Berlin)

“Treibende Kräfte” (for the conference participants only)

Olha Marusyn | Lada Nakonechna | Mykola Ridnyi | Dana Kavelina |

Library of Visual Phenomena (Olga Gaidash / Eugene Shimalsky)

Curated by Bettina Klein

30.09, TUESDAY

Free University of Berlin, Institute for East European Studies,

(Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin)

9:30–10:00 a.m. Conference opening, room 55a

10:00–11:15 a.m. Panel presentations, rooms 55a and 55b (ground floor)

55a Christoph Augustynowicz (Vienna)

The Economic Historian and Marxist Roman Rosdolsky in the USA: Spotlight on a Marginalized Figure

Alexander Dmitriev (Prague)

The Ukrainian Idea in the Distance, 1905/1991: Olgert Ipolyt Bochkovsky, Dmytro Chyzhevsky, and Yuri Barabash

55b Valeria Korablyova (Prague)

De-Centering Eastern Europe, Creolizing the Theory: Strategic Inter-Imperiality in Ukraine’s Wartime Cultural Production

Matthew Blackburn (Oslo)

Is Peace More Dangerous than War? The Triumph of Identity and Ideology over Realism in Europe

11:45 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Panel presentations, rooms 55a and 55b

55a Alla Koval (Berlin)

Agency and Structural Vulnerability: Coping with Potentially Traumatic Experiences among Ukrainian Women in Germany

Svitlana Odynets (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

Lost in Recognition: The Unseen Dynamics of Gendered Ukrainian Displacement after 2022 as a Form of Hermeneutical Injustice

Olga Plakhotnik (Greifswald) and Maria Mayerchyk (Kleve)

New Mobilities, Old Vulnerabilities: Colonial Design of the War-Related Migration

55b Roman Dubasevych (Greifswald)

“My Thoughts Are Silent”: Voices Lost in the Noise of War

Oleksandr Chertenko (Giessen)

Voiny sveta vs. voiny Svety: Gendering Crisis in Belarus and Ukraine

Sofie Rose (Copenhagen)

“I Used to Be a Patriot”: Exploring Experiences among Ukrainian Men who Flee the Full-Scale War

3:00–4:30 p.m. Keynote lecture, room 55a

Serhiy Kudelia (Waco, Texas)

Strategic Neglect: The West and Ukraine’s Unfulfilled Security Aspirations after the Cold War

Moderator: Matthew Blackburn

5:00–6:45 p.m. Panel presentations, rooms 55a and 55b

55a Oleksandr Zabirko (Regensburg)

Decolonizing the Wasteland: The Evolution of the STALKER Game Series

Svitlana Pidoprygora (Innsbruck)

Contested Narratives and (Un)Safe Plurality: Ukraine in International Documentary Comics

Matthias Schwartz (Berlin)

“I, You, He, She”: Plurality, Gender, and Resentment in Post-Soviet Film Comedies

55b Mikhail Kizilov (Mainz)

Is There an Indigenous Population in Crimea? Discourses on Crimea’s Ethnopolitical History before and after 2014

Alina Strzempa (Regensburg)

The Donbas and the Environmental Humanities

Veronika L. Sharova (Halle/S.)

Post-Socialist, Post-Colonial, and Post-Crisis: Symbolic Urbanscapes in the Cities of Contemporary Ukraine

01.10, WEDNESDAY

Free University of Berlin, Institute for Eastern European Studies,

(Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin)

10:00–10:15 a.m. Briefing on the previous day

10:15–11:30 a.m. Panel presentations, rooms 55a and 55b

55a Joanna Kula (Wrocław)

Russian or Russophone Literature? The New Linguistic Sensitivity in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War (The Case of Alisa Ganieva and Other Authors)

Nadine Menzel (Bamberg)

Particularities and Interconnections of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde

55b Yuliia Soroka (Kharkiv/Geneva)

Wartime Society's Hate Speech: How Our Own Weapons Are Turning against Us

Natalia Kudriavtseva (Kryvyi Rih)

Researching Language in the Time of War: A Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistic Approach

12:00–1:30 p.m. Keynote lecture, room 55a

Manuela Boatcă (Freiburg i. Br.)

Whose Times Are Turning? On Interimperiality and Semiperipherality in Unequal Europes

Moderator: Maria Mayerchyk

3:00–4:15 p.m. Panel presentations, rooms 55a and 55b

55a Dirk Uffelmann (Giessen)

Strategic Essentialism in Ukrainian Appeals for Decolonization

Svitlana Biedarieva (Mexico City)

Introducing Ambicolonial Theory: Epistemic Borderlines, Colonial Desire, and Neocolonial War

55b Eka Tchkoidze (Tbilisi/Halle-Wittenberg)

Greece and the Russian Invasion of Mariupol

Martin Henzelmann (Greifswald)

Multilingualism and Language Management in Moldova and Ukraine

4:45–6:00 p.m. Panel presentations, rooms 55a and 55b

55a Tatjana Hofmann (Graz)

Escaping National Narcissism(s): Marta Havryshko’s Facebook Chronicles as “Literature of Fact”

Marta Havryshko (Worcester, US / online)

Dangerous Liaisons: Feminism and Nationalism in Wartime Ukraine

55b Ljudmila Popović (Belgrade)

Language Diversity in Ukraine from the Perspective of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Bartłomiej Chromik (Warsaw)

On Political and Scientific Revolutions: Studying Languages in Independent Ukraine

6:00–6:45 p.m. Common discussion and closing remarks. 55a