Impediments & engagements international workshop

IMPEDIMENTS & ENGAGEMENTS. Humanities and Social Sciences since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

International workshop within the program of the CEFRES non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars in humanities and social sciences, 2023

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 1420/3, Prague
Date: September 19—20, 2023
Language: English

Organizers:

  • Mateusz Chmurski, PhD (CEFRES, Prague)
  • Prof. Oksana Dovgopolova (I. I. Mechnikov National University, Odesa)
  • Prof. Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne University, Paris)
  • Valeriya Korablyova, PhD (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
  • Stanislav Tumis, PhD (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)

Scientific Committee:

  • Prof. Eva Voldřichová-Beránková (Vice-Rector for International Relations, Charles University)
  • Prof. Sylvie Archaimbault (CNRS-Sorbonne Université)
  • Prof. Ota Konrád (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)
  • Kateřina Čapková, PhD (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
  • Ioana Cîrstocea, PhD HDR (CNRS-CEFRES)

Partners:

  • French Research Center in Humanities & Social Sciences (UMIFRE 13, UAR 3138 CEFRES, CNRS-MEAE), Prague
  • Cultures and Societies of Central, Balkan and East-Europe Research Center (UMR 8224 Eur’ORBEM, CNRS-Sorbonne Université), Paris
  • Ukraine in a Changing Europe Research Center, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IMS FSV UK), Prague
  • Department of East-European Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (ÚVS FF UK), Prague
Thesis of the workshop

In the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we would like to jointly reflect on the impediments faced by the Humanities and Social Sciences both in Ukraine and abroad, yet also consider engagements that developed in the recent years to circumvent them by innovating in methods, objects, and models of conducting research.

 

Program: 


Tuesday September 19, 2023

14:30 Welcome Address by HE Alexis Dutertre, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic

14:45 Opening remarks by the Organizers

EVOLUTIONS: DISCURSIVE AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN RESEARCH ON/IN UKRAINE (1)

Chair: Sylvie Archaimbault (CNRS-Sorbonne Université)

15:00 Nataliia Romanyshyn (Lviv Polytechnic National University): Conceptualizing national identity: new methodological perspective and approaches

15:30 Vadym Osin (Dnipro University of Technology): Themes of the political science dissertations in Ukraine (1993-2022): Overcoming postcoloniality

16:00 Coffee break

EVOLUTIONS: DISCURSIVE AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN RESEARCH ON/IN UKRAINE (2)

Chair: Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne University, Paris)

16:30 Oksana Dovgopolova (I.I.Mechnikov National University): Thinking on the imperial heritage in Odesa (Ukraine)

17:00 Vyacheslav Grekov (Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology): Imperial-Soviet heritage of Ukraine: rethink impossible forget

17:30 Closing remarks of the first day

19:00 Diner


Wednesday September 20, 2023


IMPEDIMENTS: MAPPING THE LANDSCAPE

Chair: Kateřina Čapková (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences) and Ota Konrád (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)

10:00 Igor Serdiuk (Poltava National Pedagogical University): Quality of life in Ukraine in the 18th and 19th centuries: sources, markers, interpretations

10:30 Maria Maioroshi (Uzhhorod National University): Research on Church at/in War: Contemporary stakes in historical perspective

11:00 Dmytro Yanov (Odesa archaeological museum, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): Export of cultural property from Ukraine: state policy and the practice of conducting art expertise

11:30 Coffee break

SOLUTIONS: METHODS AND INNOVATIONS (1)

Chair: Valeriya Korablyova, PhD (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)

12:00 Elina Paliichuk (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University): Fight or flight, or how Ukrainians struggle for science commitment: exploring human trafficking vulnerabilities during the war

12:30 Yevhenii Tkachenko (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University): How has the research methodology on minority rights protection changed since the full-scale aggression of Russia against Ukraine?

13:00 Lunch break

SOLUTIONS: METHODS AND INNOVATIONS (2)

Chair: Kamila Urban (Slovak Academy of Sciences) 

14:30 Natalia Tsybuliak (Berdyansk State Pedagogical University): Isolation and migration: conceptual approaches to understand the phenomenon in war times

15:00 Nataliia Zachosova (Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy): How education can be used for forming security-oriented economic behavior of individuals: changes in the full-scale invasion period

15:30 Coffee break

SOLUTIONS: METHODS AND INNOVATIONS (3)

Chair: Ioana Cîrstocea (CNRS-CEFRES) 

16:00 Igor Lyman (Berdyansk State Pedagogical University): Progress of the initiative “Ukrainian Science Diaspora” as a response to the challenges caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine

16:30 Andrii Pastushenko (Oxford University, Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics): An academia in the war through the lens of personal experience

17:00 Coffee break

17:30 Yana Shliabanska & Louisa Martin Chevalier (Sorbonne University): A women composer in the war: musical closing (and opening)

18:30 Eva Voldřichová-Beránková (Vice-Rector for International Relations, Charles University): Closing Remarks

19:00 Vin d’amitié

 

CEFRES non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences

The workshop is part of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) program of non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences, developed in close collaboration with the French Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs, the French Embassy and Institute in Ukraine as well as the Ukraine in a Changing Europe Research Center at the Faculty of Social Sciences,  the Department of East-European Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, as well as the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (see: https://cefres.cz/en/20938).

Venue

Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales

Francouzský ústav pro výzkum ve společenských vědách
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences 

UMIFRE 13, MEAE-CNRS – UAR 3138
Na Florenci 3, CZ-110 00 Prague 1
Tél. : (+420) 224 921 400