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

Research Area 1: Displacements, “dépaysements” and discrepancies

Contact: louisa.martin-chevalier(@)sorbonne-universite.fr

Louisa Martin-Chevalier is associate professor at Sorbonne University (Musicology Department), where she teaches music history and the analysis of twentieth-century works, as well as thematic courses such as “music and politics” and “musical creation in Eastern Europe”. Her current research extends the work she began on her doctoral thesis on the Soviet avant-garde composer Nikolay Roslavets. It provides keys to understanding contemporary artistic creation in Eastern Europe. She co-created the “Building Relationships in a Changing World – European Musicological Seminar” and the innovative action-research seminar “Forming a collective without a leader”. She is co-director of the ‘Institutional and Social Frameworks’ research team at IReMus and coeditor of the journal Filigrane. Musique, esthétique, science, société. She is initiating a wideranging research programme to examine the impact of exile on women’s artistic creation.  Continue reading Louisa Martin-Chevalier – Research & CV →

Sapphic Modernism in Central and Eastern Europe:
Cultural Transfers and Intersections (1848–1933)

Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions

Contact: anna.dzabagina(@)uw.edu.pl

Anna Dżabagina is a literary historian primarily interested in XIXth and early XXth century Central and Eastern European literature, with the core focus on women’s writings, queer literature, and transnational modernist networks. She holds a Ph.D. in literary studies from the University of Warsaw (2019), where she defended a thesis on Polish-German modernist writer Eleonora Kalkowska (1883–1937), investigated through the lenses of transnational modernism studies, exile studies, and locational feminism. Between 2015–2023 she taught courses on the history of Polish literature and Literary Theory in the curricula of bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Faculty of Polish Studies (University of Warsaw) and a series of author seminars on modernist queer women’s writings (Open University and Postgraduate School of Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences). Her current research examines sapphic modernism – a new literary language to express nonheteronormative experiences, desires, and identities – in women’s writings from the territories of the Russian Empire (particularly in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian literature). She is also working on the first queer biography of Narcyza Żmichowska (1819–1878).  Continue reading Anna Dżabagina – Research & CV →

Contested energy transitions.
Conflicts and Social innovations in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and France

CEFRES Research Area 2 : Norms and transgressions

Contact : martin.durdovic[@]soc.cas.cz

Martin Durdovic is a research scholar at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, specializing in energy social research. His current research interests center around social aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear waste management on the one hand and sustainable energy transitions on the other. His research relies on both qualitative and quantitative approaches, such as narrative analysis, stakeholder interaction analysis, public opinion surveys, and other, and also involves engagement with sociological theory and meta-theory. Martin Durdovic is a laureate of the 2020 Czech Sociological Association biennial award for the best sociological book (Narrative and Dialogue. The Theory of Social Intersubjectivity) and a member of various expert bodies and associations. In the 2021-2022 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University in California. Since February 2024, he coordinates with Gilles Lepesant, the senior research fellow at CNRS – National Center for Scientific Research, Géographie-Cités, a two-year incubation project supported within the Tandem program and entitled: “Contested energy transitions. Conflicts and social innovations in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and France”. More information about Martin Durdovic is available here: https://www.soc.cas.cz/en/lide/martin-durdovic

Recent publications

• Durdovic, Martin. 2023. „Counter-strategizing after a dialogue failure: Stakeholder involvement and nuclear waste disposal in the Czech Republic.“ Energy Research & Social Science 103: 103198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103198
• Durdovic, Martin. 2022. „Emergent Consequences of Narrating Futures in Energy Transitions.“ Futures 138: 102930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102930
• Durdovic, Martin. 2022. „ A Morphogenetic Approach to Social Aspects of Energy: The Case of Coal.“ Pp. 37-55 in Iwińska, Katarzyna & Bukowska, Xymena (eds.). Gender and Energy Transition. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78416-4
• Durdovic, Martin. 2022. „The Transformation of Order in Narrative as Discordant Concord: Using Paul Ricoeur to Explore Narrative Realism as Part of Social Morphogenesis.“ Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 52 (2): 260-278.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12319