RETHINK. Objects, models, and methods in Humanities and Social Sciences since the invasion of Ukraine
Seminar within the program of the CEFRES non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars in humanities and social sciences, 2023
From May 2023, the CEFRES Ukraine fellows in Humanities and Social Sciences will remotely present their current research projects in discussion with Czech, French, and international specialists of respective fields. Our goal is to analyze what the Russian invasion has done to our disciplines, objects, methods of research and ways of thinking. Together, we invite fellows, colleagues in situ and all interested public to rethink:
a. concrete projects and debates regarding knowledge under war conditions: connecting researchers, enhancing critical thinking and teaching while developing interactive tools;
b. methods and models of research facing the war: addressing displacement, disinformation, minority rights or cultural property;
c. epistemological objects – such as memory, identity, heritage, discipline, area, border, territory… – brutally (re)defined by the conflict and observed both by fellows in Ukraine and colleagues abroad.
Through the presentation of both research projects already developed or work-in-progress launched recently, the seminar aims above all at building longer-lasting collaborations between Ukrainian fellows and colleagues in the Czech Republic, V4 countries or France.
All discussions are held in English in an interdisciplinary spirit.
The seminar takes place monthly online & at the CEFRES Library and gathers Ukrainian fellows, colleagues, or PhD students from France and the Czech Republic, among others.
The seminar is a part of the French Center for Research 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 of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the French Embassy, and Institute in Ukraine as well as Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Preliminary schedule of the seminar 2024–2025
When: Seminars take place on Tuesdays, 15:30–17:30 in Prague (16:30–18:30 in Kyiv)
Where: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3 and online. To attend online, please register at cefres@cefres.cz.
Language: English
See the schedule of the program of the seminar 2023–2024 here.
April 22, 2025
Sergii SHEVTSOV (Department of Philosophy of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University): Borders of Transgression: Violence of Norms and Violence of Violations
Diana HRYNIUK (Department of Regional Studies and Tourism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): Cultural Heritage at Risk: Museums of Kyiv Region after De-Occupation and during the Russian War in Ukraine
March 25, 2025
Ilona DUMANSKA (Department of International Economic Relations, Faculty of International Relations and Law, Khmelnytskyi National University): Digital Transformation of the Economy and Development of IT Entrepreneurship in Post-War Reconstruction of Ukraine
Maryna LITVINOVA (Department of Software Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at the Kherson Educational and Scientific Institute of the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding): Mosaic Thinking as an Evolution of Cognitive Abilities in a Digital Society
February 25, 2025
Oleksii ANKHYM (Department of German philology and foreign literature, Ivan Franko Zhytomyr National University): Transnational Literature: Conceptualization, Research Methodology, Poetics
Vadym ADADUROV (Faculty of History, Lviv Catholic University): Les stratégies d’intégration culturelle et le réseau intellectuel d’un émigré ukrainien
Discussant: Helga MITTERBAUER (Université libre de Bruxelles / CEFRES)
January 21, 2025
Viktoria GERBUT (Faculty of Law, Uzhorod National University): Gender Identity and Expression: Theoretical and Legal Perspective
Vasyl DEREVINSKYI (Kyiv National Construction and Architecture University): An Alternative Opinion of Publications of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union in Soviet Ukraine (1988 – 1989)
Discussant: Mariia KAPLINA (CEELI Institute)
December 17, 2024
Mykola GNATIUK (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
Ukraine’s European Integration Path: Consequences of the Contemporary Russia-Ukraine War
Volodymyr MOMOT (Management Department at the Alfred Nobel University, Dnipro)
A Challenging Mercy Gesture – Ukrainian Refugees in the EU Countries
Discussant: Michal SEJVL, head of the department of jurisprudence, Institute of State & Law, Czech Academy of Sciences
November 19, 2024
Nazar KOZAK (Department of Art History at the Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)
Displaced Performers: Artmaking at the EU/Ukraine’s State Border
Bohdan SHUMYLOVYCH (Department of Cultural Studies, Ukrainian Catholic University, and researcher at the Center for Urban History, Lviv)
Late(post)Soviet Ukrainian Art: Urban Creative Groups and their Involvement with the Place/Space of the 1980s-1990s
Discussant: Ondrej Ondřej Daniel (Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
October 1, 2024
Ivana TSAR (Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics of the Institute of Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Language Behavior of Ukrainian Youth During the Russian-Ukrainian War
Natalia MATVEIEVA (Department of the Ukrainian Language and Slavistics, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnaituk National Pedagogical University)
Language Biographies of Temporarily Internally Displaced Ukrainians in the Context of the Full-Scale Russian-Ukrainian War
Discussant: Valeria KORABLYOVA (FSV UK/CEFRES)
