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CEFRES Team

Halyna Shumytska – Research & CV

Consciousness in Transition: Forced Migration, Identity, and Language Integration in Transcarpathia Across the 20th–21st Centuries

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: halyna.shumytska@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Halyna Shumytska is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work and Coordinator of the Research Center for Sociology of Language at Uzhhorod National University. Her research project, entitled Linguistic Consciousness in Transition: Forced Migration, Identity, and Language Integration in Transcarpathia Across the 20th–21st Centuries, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1. The project examines how forced migration reshapes linguistic consciousness, identity negotiation, and social integration in Transcarpathia, one of Ukraine’s most multilingual regions. By comparing political displacement between 1919 and 1939 with contemporary displacement caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war (2014–ongoing), the research traces long-term patterns of linguistic adaptation and explores the role of language in processes of belonging and identity formation. Continue reading Halyna Shumytska – Research & CV →

CEFRES Team

Iryna Tukova – Research & CV

Ukrainian Art Music Under the War: Statements and Reflections

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: tukova@ukr.net

Iryna Tukova, PhD Music, Dr Habil., is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine), a co-founder of NGO Liatoshynsky Foundation. In 2024–25 she was the Petro Jacyk non-residential scholar at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (Canada). In 2023–24 Dr Tukova held the position of a non-resident visiting scholar at the Indiana University Bloomington (USA). Her research interests include the history of Ukrainian art music from the 20th and 21st centuries, Borys Liatoshynsky creativity and the intersection of natural science and art music. Dr. Tukova is the author of more than fifty articles, as well as the 2021 monograph, Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th–Early 21st Centuries). Her new monograph, The Times of the Looking Glass: Boris Liatoshynsky`s Choice, which she co-authored with Dr Olena Korchova, was published in 2026. In 2024 Dr Tukova held the Ukrainian State Lysenko award for achievement in musicology. She has presented her research at the musicological conferences in Ukraine, Germany, Lithuania, Austria, France, Poland, USA, UK, etc., and lectured on contemporary Ukrainian art music at the Ljubljana Academy of Music (Slovenia), at the Indiana University Bloomington (USA), and at the Capital University Columbus (Ohio, USA).

During a year at CEFRES (2026–27), she will carry the project “Ukrainian Art Music Under the War: Statements and Reflections” with Louisa Martin-Chevalier.

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https://orcid.org/
0000-0002-4786-0484

EDUCATION

02/2022 Dr Habil in Art Criticism Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music

Dissertation title: Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th―the Early 21st Century)

06/2003 PhD in Art Criticism Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music

Dissertation title: Functioning of the Western European Baroque instrumental genre models in Ukrainian music of the second part of the 20th century

06/1999 Master of Music Art. Donetsk State Music Academy named by S. Prokof’ev. Graduated with Highest Honors

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008—present: associate professor at the Music Theory Department at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music

2026: professor at the Ukrainische Freie Universität

2003–2008: lecture at the Music Theory Department at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music

FELLOWSHIPS

08/2024–08/2025: non-residential scholar, the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine | CEES | Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (Canda)

08/2023–08/2024: non-residential visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington (USA)

AWARD

2024: Ukrainian State Mykola Lysenko Award for Achievement in the Musicology

PUBLICATIONS: two monographs and more than 50 articles in the Ukrainian and international musicological journals. Among them:

  • Tukova, Iryna & Korchova, Olena. (2026) Times of the Looking-Glass: Borys Liatoshynsky’s Choice. Kyiv: Laboratoria, 256 p.
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2021) Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th–Early 21st Centuries). Kharkiv: Acta, 456 p.
  • Melnyk, Lidia & Tukova, Iryna. (2025) Herausforderungen der Musikforschung in KrisenzeitenFallbeispiele aus der Ukraine. In: Die Musikforschung. Bd. 78 Nr. 3,268–271. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52412/mf.2025.H3.5082
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2024) Vox Humana of War: Ukrainian Art Music as a Mode of Resistance (2022–24). In: Musicology Today. Vol. 21, p. 3–11. DOI: 10.2478/muso-2024-0002
  • Tukova, Iryna & Homon, Tetiana. (2024) Borys Liatoshynsky’s Opera The Golden Hoop: History, Versions, Primary Sources. In: STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LXIX, Special Issue 3, pp. 9–20. DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2024.spiss3.01
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2023) Art Music and War: Ukrainian Case 2022. In: Musicologica Brunensia, Vol. 58, iss. 2, pp. 193–204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5817/MB2023-2-12
  • Rybas, Sergey & Tukova, Iryna & Lentsner, Dina. (2023) Rising Up with “Kalyna”: Examining the invitational rhetoric of “Ой у лузі червона калина” as a social media response to the Russian war in Ukraine. In: GESJ: Musicology and Cultural Science,2(28), pp. 52–69.
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2022) Empirics and theory: is there a ‘female’ music? Or the creative work of modern Ukrainian women-composers. In: Reissing E. and Stefanija L. eds. Composing women. ‘Feminity’ and Views on Cultures, Gender and Music of Southeastern Europe since 1918. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2022, pp. 117–124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3405pw4.11
  • Tukova, Iryna & Redya, Valentina & Kokhanyk, Iryna. (2022) Ukrainian Music Criticism of the 2010s: General Situation, Problems, Directions of Development (Based on the Examples from Contemporary Art Music Scene). In: STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LXVII, 2, pp. 129–143. DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2022.2.07
  • Lisniak, Inna & Cherneta Tetiana & Tukova Iryna. (2022) Musical amateur performance in Ukraine of the 1930s as the manifestation of Soviet totalitarian ideology. In: STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LXVII, Special Issue 1, pp. 7–20. DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2022.spiss1.01
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2021) Sonoric as a compositional technique: the attempt of critical analysis. In: Scientific herald of Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Vol. 132. https://doi.org/10.31318/2522-4190.2021.132.249969
  • Tukova, Iryna. (2018) The Development of Western European Trends in the Kyiv Composition School (2010–2017). In: Lietuvos muzikologija (Lithuanian Musicology), № 19. pp. 52‑61.

CONFERENCES: more than 90 papers at the Ukrainian and international musicological conferences. Among them:

  • Tukova, Iryna. Ideological Compromise as a Strategy of Artistic Survival in the 1920s Soviet Ukraine: The Case of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society. In: 1991: Fall Of Communism and Its Impact On Music And The Arts (28–30 May 2026, UK Parobrod Belgrade, Serbia).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Music of the War: Ukrainian Resistance Case. In: War and Artistic Responses: Theories, Practices, Meanings (International Workshop, New Europe College Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 20–21 of May, 2026).
  • Tukova, Iryna. The Opera The Golden Hoop by Borys Liatoshynsky: From Archive to Production. In: Seventh Annual Virtual 2026 Indiana University Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Studies Conference (Indiana University Bloomington, March 26–28, 2026, online).
  • Tukova, Iryna & Batstone, Leah. Politics and policy in the work of the Kyiv-based composer Borys Liatoshynsky during the period of 1920s Ukrainization. In: AMS&SMT 2025 Joint Annual Meetings (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, 6–9 November 2025).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Composer Agency in Soviet Ukraine: Borys Liatoshynsky’s Efforts to Have His Fourth Symphony Heard. In: Music on the Move in Communist Europe (Department of Music, RMA Music of Eastern Europe and Eurasia Study Group, University of Bristol, UK, 28—29 May, 2025)
  • Lentsner, Dina & Tukova, Iryna. Branding National Identity through Ukrainian Art Music of the Wartime. In: Postcolonial Situation in the Arts After the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Experience, Impact, Reassessment: International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, April 9 – 12, 2025).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Ukrainian Musicology Under the War: Everyday Life and Current Challenges. In: Seminar of British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (Online, 15.01.2025).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Resistance Through Art Music: The Ukrainian Case. In: Ukrainian Cultural Diplomacy and Musical Creation (CEFRES Prague, 27–29 November 2024).
  • Tukova, Iryna (keynote). Music Composition as a Political Statement: Art Music, War, and Resistance in Ukraine 2022–23. In: Music on the Periphery of Aesthetics: Between Politics, Business and Wellbeing (University of Warsaw, Poland, 6–7 June 2024).
  • Tukova, Iryna & Homon, Tetiana. Solving the Puzzle of Liatoshynsky’s Golden Hoop. In: Les avant-gardes musicales ukrainiennes: de 1910 à nos jours (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, April 24–25, 2024).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Art Music as a Resistance Tool: The Ukrainian Case of 2022–2023. In: 5th Annual Taras Shevchenko Conference (IU Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, March 21–23, 2024, online).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Ukrainian Art Music at the Time of the War: Composers’ Reflections. In: International Conference Ukraine in Music History (University of Vienna, Austria, May 19–21, 2023).
  • Tukova, Iryna. Musicology in Ukraine Today. Problems of Everyday Life, Reflections on the Past, and New Challenges. In: Building Relationships in a Changing World. European Musicological Seminar (Institut de Recherche en Musicologie Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, May 15, 2023, online).

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

2023—present: a co-founder of NGO Liatoshynsky Foundation

CEFRES Team

Said Rafik Lahmari – Research & CV

Izlan-n-Tlawin in Diaspora: Kabyle Women’s Multigenerational Migration and the Formation of Cultural Belonging in Paris

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: lahmari_rafik@phd.ceu.edu

Said Rafik Lahmari is a doctoral candidate at Central European University in Vienna. His PhD dissertation, entitled Izlan-n-Tlawin in Diaspora: Kabyle Women’s Multigenerational Migration and the Formation of Cultural Belonging in Paris, contributes to feminist gender studies, ethnomusicology, oral history, and diaspora studies.

My dissertation examines how Kabyle women in Paris construct spaces of belonging and negotiate processes of racialization through women’s oral traditions, particularly Izlan n Tlawin, a poetic form traditionally performed by women during weddings and communal celebrations in the Kabylia region of Algeria. By tracing experiences across three generations of migration, the project explores how women’s voices, performances, and embodied practices of song and storytelling participate in the production of diasporic space. Rather than approaching diaspora as a fixed or stable condition, the dissertation conceptualizes it as an ongoing process of negotiation shaped by displacement, affect, and forms of cultural production. Within this framework, Izlan are understood both as a living archive and as a performative practice through which memory, belonging, and collective histories are transmitted, reworked, and reactivated across time.

Methodologically, in order to achieve these goals, my PhD project adopts a feminist historical approach combining oral history, archival research, and participant observation. It situates these materials within broader questions of colonial legacies, secular modernity, and gendered regimes of visibility in both Algerian and French contexts. The project engages critically with dominant national frameworks, particularly Algerian nationalist narratives and French republican universalism, and examines how Kabyle women’s expressive practices generate alternative forms of belonging that exceed these categories. In doing so, it draws on interdisciplinary approaches from feminist theory, oral history, and ethnomusicology to explore how embodied practices of song, language, and performance produce alternative forms of historical knowledge.

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Education

  • 2024 – 2028: Ph.D. in Comparative Gender Studies, Central European University (CEU)
  • 2022 – 2024: Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA), Central European University (CEU) / The University of Oviedo (UniOvi)
  • 2017 – 2021: Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication, American University of Beirut (AUB) / The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)

Teaching Experience

  • 2026-2027: Teaching Assistant, Women’s/Gender History and Archival Methods, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University (CEU)

Recent academic activities

  • 2026 – 2027: CEFRES-CEU Ph.D. Fellowship at the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague, Czechia.
  • July 2026: Romani Music between Heritage and Politics Summer School at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
  • November 2025: Panelist at the Gender Oral History Archive International Conference at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, American University of Beirut (AUB).
  • May 2025: Panelist at the Transnational Feminisms: The Otherwise of History, Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • July 2024: London Critical Theory Summer School at Birkbeck, University of London.
  • July 2023: Transdisciplinary Trauma Studies Summer School at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Fellow Scholar at the NewGen Fellowship at the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) at AUB.

CEFRES Team

Zihan Yang – Research & CV

“Political Ideas of Europe in Czechoslovak Dissent from 1975 to 1992”

Research areas 1 & 2: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices & Norms and Transgressions

Contact: zihan@post.cz

The subject of this dissertation is an analysis of the development of political ideas about Europe among Czechoslovak dissident intellectuals. It approaches debates on “Europe” not as fixed ideological positions, but as political languages shaped by changing international and domestic contexts.

The project identifies two major currents within dissident conceptions of Europe. The first emerged from the Helsinki process and the discourse of universal human rights. It promoted what I term “Helsinki Europe”, grounded in transnational legal norms, civil society, and grassroots cooperation across the Iron Curtain. The second understood Europe primarily as a civilizational and cultural community rooted in historical, cultural traditions, and, at times, religious heritage.

Rather than reducing these dissident thoughts about Europe to a single coherent tradition, the dissertation reconstructs its internal plurality, tensions, and negotiations. In doing so, it seeks to highlight Czechoslovakia’s distinctive contribution to late Cold War debates on Europe and to examine how these ideas influenced post-dissident political practices after 1989.

Methodologically, this dissertation situates itself within the methodological debates of the history of political thought and adopts an approach informed by the contextualist school associated with Quentin Skinner, complemented by the theory of ideological morphology developed by Michael Freeden.

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Education

from 2023 till present: PhD Candidate, Contemporary European Cultural History under the supervision of PhDr. Michal Kopeček, Ph.D. (AV ČR) at FHS, Charles University, Prague, Czechia.

2021-2023: Mgr., Master in Area Studies at FSV, Charles University, Prague, Czechia.

Academic activities

  • UACES 56th Annual Conference 2026 (7 September – 9 September 2026), Prague, Czechia. Article Presenter. Envisioning Helsinki Europe: Ex-Reform Communists and Their Reimagining of Political Ideas of Europe in Czechoslovak Dissent
  • “Introduction to Conceptual History” Summer School (August 17 – August 28. 2026), Helsinki, Finland.
  • Summer School of Slavonic Studies 2018, Prague, Czechia. Holder of a reciprocal scholarship of the MEYS CR.

Recent publications

Envisioning Helsinki Europe: Ex-Reform Communists and Their Reimagining of Political Ideas of Europe in Czechoslovak Dissent (Forthcoming) Soudobé dějiny (Czech Journal of Contemporary History).

CEFRES Team

Zsófia Bacsadi – Research & CV

Invisible Veins of Europe: The Circulation of Blood Plasma and the Narratives of Gift and Commodity in the EU

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements”, Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: Bacsadi_Zsofia@phd.ceu.edu

Zsófia Bacsadi is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in Vienna. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Invisible Veins of Europe: The Circulation of Blood Plasma and the Narratives of Gift and Commodity in the EU, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of medical anthropology, the anthropology of the EU and policy, and economic anthropology. In her master’s thesis she explored the interconnections between the ideas of gift and commodity in the practice of compensated plasma donation in Hungary. She continued to investigate this topic during her doctoral studies in the context of policymaking in the European Union. The main theme of her dissertation is the formulation of the discourses of gift and commodity, as well as the question of self-sufficiency and supply of blood plasma as raw material for pharmaceutical manufacturing in the EU. Having spent 1,5 years in Brussels doing fieldwork, she followed the “social life” of policies and studied through the shifting networks of policymakers and lobbyists. To understand how blood- and plasma-related policies emerge as social and moral artifacts, she combined the methods of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and discursive document analysis. In her work, she analyzes the role diverse epistemic communities (consisting of patient advocates, pharmaceutical representatives, EU bureaucrats, and medical experts) play in shaping policies through lobbying and advocacy. Their conflicting and converging lobbying efforts generate a surge in specialized knowledge about medicine, economy, as well as morality that feeds the European policymaking machine. Her research examines the way these experts form alliances and negotiate the role of the public sector and the industry through moralized arguments about care, the role (and boundaries) of the market, and the circulation of bodily materials within the EU which is (re)imagined as an economic, (bio)political, and moral community.

Furthermore, she is interested in film and visual studies, autobiographical and trauma narratives in graphic novels and memory studies.

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Education

  • 2021 – ongoing: Central European University (Vienna)

PhD student in Sociology and Social Anthropology

  • 2019 – 2021: Central European University (Budapest and Vienna)

MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology

  • 2014-2016: Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)

Master of Arts in Media and Communication

  • 2011-2014: Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)

Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication (minor in Film Theory and History)

Teaching experience

  • 2025 January – 2025 April: Central European University

Teaching Assistant in the mandatory course titled Ethnographic Methods

  • 2024 September – 2024 December: Teaching Assistant in the course titled Key Issues in Anthropology
  • 2015/2016: Lecturer of the course ‘Változó identitásképek az amerikai képregényben’

[Changing Identities in American Comics] at the Department of Media and

Communication (Eötvös Loránd University)

Recent academic activities

  • June 2026: “Caught up in the Web – Agonsitic Epistemic Communit(ies) around Policymaking about Plasma Collection in the European Union” paper presented at the annual Council of European Studies conference, Dublin
  • June 2026: „Patient, Consumer, Advocate: Forging Alliances and Expertise among Plasma Protein Using Patients in the European Union” paper presented at the Democracy as Health workshop. Geneva Graduate Institute
  • November 2025: „Sharing Body, Sharing Knowledge – Getting Woven into the Network of Experts around Plasma Collection and Policymaking in the EU” guest lecture given at KU Leuven, Belgium
  • July 2025: „The Invisible, Caring Hand of the Market – Discourses of Care, Efficiency, and Morality among Pro-Market Advocates in the EU Plasma Field” paper presented at annual Economy and Society Summer School – Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  • 2024 July: “Invisible Veins of Europe: Fostering Markets and Taking Care in the European Union through Policymaking around Plasma Donation” paper presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference, University of Barcelona
  • 2024 June: “Paid Plasmapheresis from a Donor Point of View” paper presented at the annual congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, Barcelona
  • 2022 June: Extraction: Multiple Frontiers of Power and Resistance – co-organizer, Central European University, Vienna, Austria.
CEFRES Team

Lucia Brazdilová – Research & CV

Diglossia and Code-Switching in Algerian Arabic

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: brazdilova.luc@gmail.com

Lucia Brazdilová is a doctoral student in General Linguistics within the Department of Classical and Semitic Philology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. Her doctoral research investigates the multilingual landscape of contemporary Algeria, with a primary focus on diglossia and code-switching among speakers in Tlemcen. The project examines how historical, political, and social developments have shaped language practices in Algeria, investigating the interaction of multiple linguistic varieties in everyday communication, namely Algerian Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, French, Berber languages, and the increasingly influential role of English.

This research aims to conceptualize the relationship between diglossia and codeswitching by identifying and systematically analysing the sociolinguistic variables that influence the occurrence and extent of code-switching. Situated within a broader historical, social, and cultural context, the study examines the patterns and functional differentiation of code-switching between Modern Standard Arabic, Algerian Arabic and French, while simultaneously tracking the cultural significance of Berber and the emerging socio-economic role of English. Presently in its preparatory phase, the study relies on a systematic review of secondary literature to identify and map the distribution, function, and relative significance of key sociolinguistic variables, such as age, gender, education, profession, regional or religious affiliation, and communicative context, that govern speaker behaviour in this region. This stage aims to establish a robust theoretical and methodological framework to guide the subsequent primary data collection and analysis, which will focus specifically on the linguistic dynamics of Tlemcen.

By analysing the sociolinguistic architecture of this multilingual setting, the research seeks to deepen understanding of the relationships between language varieties and their respective social functions in contemporary Algeria. More broadly, it aims to contribute to the fields of multilingualism, language contact, and language variation in North Africa, offering critical insights into how linguistic practices reflect the region’s complex historical and social landscape.