Gender Identity and Expression.
Theoretical and Legal Perspective

Research Area 2. Norms & Transgressions

Contact: gerbut.vs(@)gmail.com

Victoria Gerbut is an associate professor at the Department of Administrative, Financial, and Information Law at the Faculty of Law, Uzhhorod National University. Her academic work primarily focuses on human rights, particularly the rights related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, as well as partially on the theory of gender equality and women’s rights.

She is the author of the monograph “The Right to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity,” published in 2019, Ukraine.

Currently, she is undergoing habilitation and is engaged in the issues concerning the legal protection of gender identity.

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Digital Transformation of the Economy and Development of IT Entrepreneurship in Today’s Challenges and Priorities of the Post-War Reconstruction of Ukraine

Research Area 1. Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies

Contact: dumanskai[@]khmnu.edu.ua

Scientist, researcher, professor of the Department of International Economic Relations, Faculty of International Relations and Law, Khmelnytskyi National University (Ukraine). She graduated in Business Economics (MA, 2009) and Law (MA, 2013). In 2013, she received the degree of PhD in Economics, in 2020 – the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences. From 2009 to the present, she held the positions of Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor and Professor at Khmelnytskyi National University.  Continue reading Ilona Dumanska – Research & CV →

The voice of the unconquered.
An alternative opinion of publications of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union in Soviet Ukraine (1988–1989) 

CEFRES Research Area: Displacements, “dépaysements”, discrepancies

Contact: vasyldr[@]ukr.net

Vasyl Derevinskyi is doctor of history, professor of the Department of Political Sciences and Law of the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. Researcher of the history of the struggle of Ukrainians for personal and national freedom in the 20th century, as well as national politics and biography. 

He published a number of books about Vyacheslav Chornovol, a well-known Ukrainian public-politician and statesman, editor of underground publications, leader of the largest Ukrainian National Democratic Party in the 1990s, political prisoner of the Russian-communist regime in the 1960s-80s.   Continue reading Vasyl Derevinskyi – Research & CV →

Transnational Literature: Conceptualization, Research Methodology, Poetics (Based on Modern German Language Literature by Authors of Ukrainian Origin)

CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experiences of spaces

Contact: ankhimoleksii[@]gmail.com

Oleksii Ankhym is an associate professor at the Department of Germanic Philology and Foreign Literature (Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, Ukraine). He received his PhD in Philology in 2019 with his doctoral project titled “Literary Creative Work as a Dialogue and Interpretation (Based on Helmut Baierl’s Drama)”. Since 2022 he is the Head of scientific and research laboratory “Brecht Centre” at Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, which specializes in research, translation and popularization of B. Brecht’s works.  Continue reading Oleksii Ankhym – Research & CV →

Cultural integration strategies and the intellectual network of a Ukrainian émigré:
The non-statistical case of Élie Borschak 

Research Area 1. Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies

Contact : vad[@]ucu.edu.ua

Vadym Adadurov received his candidate of sciences degree from Lviv State University in 1997. From 2002 studied at the interdisciplinary doctoral program at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. In 2004 received a French interdisciplinary degree in Religion and Sciences of Society (directeur d’études Claude Langlois, consultant membre de l’Institut Jean Tulard). DEA: “The Religious Policy of Napoleon in the Duchy of Warsaw (1806–1813)”. After return to Ukraine, has been working in various positions (lecturer, associate professor, professor, head of the department) at the Faculty of Humanities of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. In 2008 received his degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences (HDR) from the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (advisor Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak). Dissertation: “Napoléonide” in the East of Europe: Perceptions, Projects, and Actions of the French Government towards the South-Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire at the dawn of the 19th Century”. Vadym Adadurov he was fellowships and taught at the scholarly institutions France, Austria, Germany, Poland, USA, and the Vatican, and published more than hundred works in seven languages, including ten monographs and anthologies of historical sources.   Continue reading Vadym Adadurov – Research & CV →

A Subaltern That Sings:
From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine

CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “dépaysements” & discrepancies

Contact: valeriya.korablyova[@]fsv.cuni.cz

Dr Valeria Korablyova is a sociologist and political theorist working on post-Soviet transformations in Ukraine and the region, with the research focus on performative politics and entangled imperial/colonial legacies. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Russian and East European Studies and the Leader of the Research Centre “Ukraine in a Changing Europe” at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Dr Korablyova received her habilitation (D. of Sc. degree) in 2015 from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, with the book Social Meanings of Ideology (Kyiv University, 2014) that covers transformations of the European modernity, where the ethos of solidarity underpinning the Maidan uprising stands as a specific case in point. She has held fellowships and visiting professorships at Stanford University, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, the University of Basel, Justus Liebig University Giessen, and other institutions. Most recently, she has presented on broader implications of the Russian war of aggression for European political imaginary and structures of knowledge production. Her latest publications on the matter include: “Fighting Russia’s ‘Dark Power’: The ‘Bright Power’ of Enacted Values” in Putin’s Europe. Russian Influence in European Democracy (European Liberal Forum, 2023); ‘Why Is Ukraine Important? Challenging the colonial and Cold War legacies in European social sciences’ in Soziologie (vol. 52, no. 3, 2023); ‘Russia vs. Ukraine: A Subaltern Empire Against The “Populism of Hope”’ in Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia (# 2 2022); and editing the special Topos issue “Transformations of Society and Academia in the Wake of the Russian War in Ukraine: Urgent Notes” (#2 2022). 

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