Plenary sessions offer academic exchange on topics relevant to all scholars from the field. Seven discipline-specific sections tackle research questions from a broad variety of topics and methodological approaches. A special time slot is reserved for the presentation of research projects by junior scholars.
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> HFB/C
11:00–11:30:
Verena Blechinger-Talcott, Vice President of Freie Universität Berlin
Gabriele Freitag, German Association for East European Studies (DGO), Berlin
Gwendolyn Sasse, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
11:30–13:00:
OPENING PANEL
Maciej Górny, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw
Angelika Nußberger, University of Cologne
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Chair: Ulrich Schmid, University of St. Gallen
13:30–14:15:
PROJECT PRESENTATION
Félix Krawatzek, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
Hakob Matevosyan, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
Sophia Winkler, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
20:00:
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> HFB
11:00–12:30:
PhD PRESENTATIONS
Social Mobility
Laura Loew, Justus Liebig University Giessen: Social Advance in Socialist Poland, 1944-1974
Piotr Majda, University College London: Nexus of Power: Investigating Informal Networks in Russia
Representations of the Nation Across Shifting Mediascapes
Paul Primbs, LMU Munich: The "Wild Nineties" in Myth. Trauma, Nostalgia and Political Spectres in the Pop-Cultural Discourse on the First Post-Soviet Decade
Ana-Maria Țăranu, Babeș-Bolyai University and University of Warwick: Aestheticizing Banal Nationalism. The Resurgence of Cultural Nativism across East Central Europe
Memories of an Uneasy Past
Anna Ivanova, Justus Liebig University Giessen: Decommunization in the Urban Space of Ukraine: De-Commemoration of the Soviet Past in the Urban Space of Ukraine in the Lights of the Ongoing War and Post-Soviet Hegemony Crisis
Domenico Scagliusi, Sorbonne University Paris: Echoes of Injustice: Russian-Speaking Literature Coming to Terms with the Soviet Repressions
Gundula Pohl, University of Hagen: Historical Comparisons of Genocidal Violence as a Political Resource: Historical Comparisons of Genocidal Violence as a Political Resource: Struggles for Recognition, Political Discourse and Historical-Political Practice in the Russian Federation and the Republic Belarus
Chair: Matthias Melcher, LMU Munich and Annemarie Polheim, JLU Giessen
12:30–12:45
BOOK PRESENTATION
Anni-Lotta Hamer, Freie Universität Berlin
Sarah Walgern, Freie Universität Berlin
13:00–13:45
PROJECT PRESENTATION
Guido Hausmann, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg
Susann Worschech, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
16:00–17:30
CLOSING PANEL
Dalia Grybauskaite, Former President of Lithuania, Vilnius
Sylvie Kauffmann, Agence France-Presse, Le Monde, Paris
Ruprecht Polenz, President, German Association for East European Studies (DGO), Berlin
Chair: Kirsten Bönker, Northeast Institute at the University of Hamburg
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI 55/121
14:30–16:30
PAPER SESSION
Anna Artwińska, Leipzig University / Alfred Gall, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Introductory Remarks: Contemporary Self-Positionings
Natalia Borisova, University of Konstanz: Memory of the Self-Historicization of Personal and Collective Experience in the Novels of Vasilii Aksenov
Jane Doe, Independent Researcher, (Un)Coping with the past as Task and Value at the Turn of the 1980s and 1990s
Chair: Anna Artwińska, Leipzig University / Alfred Gall, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
16:30–18:00
PAPER SESSION
Shaban Darakchi, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia: How “Gender” Became the Biggest Threat in Eastern Europe: Anti-gender Mobilization and the Heteronational Eastern European Identity
Alexander Chertenko, Justus Liebig University Giessen: Anticipating War: Serhii Zhadan’s Self-Masculinizing Losers
Iris Bauer, Leipzig University: Queerness as Political Strategy in the Prose of Joanna Bator and Olga Tokarczuk
Chair: Anna Artwińska, Leipzig University
18:15–19:45
PAPER SESSION
Johannes Kleinmann, University of Vienna: Emancipation through Transformation? Policies and Debates on Work and Gender in Poland (1980-2004)
Mareike zum Felde, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) / University of Bremen: Political Actors and Strategies in Post-socialist Poland: An Analysis of Elites and Debates about Higher Education Policies (1990-2021)
Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska, Justus Liebig University Giessen: Transnational Flows of Knowledge and the Legislation of Abortion in Poland (2015-2023)
Chair: Alfred Gall, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> OEI 55/121
9:00–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Alina Mozolevska, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv / UNET@ZOiS-Alumna, Berlin: I am Ukraine: Geographic Imagery in Visual Popular Art of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Kateryna Yeremieieva, LMU Munich: How Long Can We Laugh at It? Soviet Humour and Self-Positioning in Modern Ukrainian Communications and Media
Gregoire Le Gall, Géographie-Cités, Paris: Kinship Networks and Ukrainian Trajectories in Exile: The Exercise of Migratory Options by 'In-Between' Families in a Context of Open War (2014-2024)
Chair: Alfred Gall, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
14:00–15:30
PAPER SESSION
Tatiana Shchyttsova, European Humanities University, Vilnius: Belarusian Revolution and the National Agenda
Aleksandra Tobiasz, Institute of Civilisation and Culture (ICK), Ljubljana: Literary Vertical Reconfigurations of Central Europe
István Kollai, Comenius University Bratislava: Genius Loci in Central and Eastern Europe: Local Multicultural Memoryscapes within Homogenizing National Remembrance
Chair: Anna Artwińska, Leipzig University
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI 302/a
14:30–16:00
PAPER SESSION
Marta Bucholc, University of Warsaw: Trap-Setting as a Mechanism Extending the Resilience of Illiberal Regimes: Polish Judiciary Post-2023
Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Leipzig University: Bringing back the Rule of Law in Post-PiS Poland?
Lukas Lemm, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: Why Do Not All Threats Result in Judicial Backsliding? Analyzing Actor Constellations to Explain Erosion and Resilience across Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Nicolas Hayoz, Universität Fribourg
Discussant: Hans-Joachim Lauth, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
16:30–18:00
PAPER SESSION
Yuliia Chystiakova, Eastern Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives (EUCCI): Children Who Have Lost Their Parents and Caretakers in the War Time Perspective
Aurore Chaigneau, University Paris Nanterre: Transformation of Matrimonial Relationships
Chair: Caroline von Gall, Goethe University Frankfurt
18:15–19:45
PAPER SESSION
Artur Simonyan, Research Group (KFG) "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?", Berlin/Potsdam: Desovietizing International Law: Local Expertise, Living Empire, and Uti Possidetis
Vello Pettai, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg: Securitization and Law: Changes in Residency Requirements for Russian Federation Citizens in Latvia as Legal Backpedaling
Izabela Wróbel, WSB Merito University, Wrocław: The Erosion and Restoration of Poland’s Membership in the Eu’s Community of Law – National and Supranational Consequences and Conclusions
John Doe, Independent Researcher: Law as Solution and Obstacle to a Territory Conflict: Territory and Constitutional Law in the War in Ukraine
Chair: Sylvia von Steinsdorff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> >> OEI 302/a
9:00–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Svitlana Mazepa, West Ukrainian National University, Ternopil / Osnabrück University: Democratic Challenges of Free Speech Restrictions in Times of Russian-Ukrainian War
Jane Doe, Independent Researcher: The System of Protection of the Rights of Children in Dysfunctional Families as an Instrument of Pressure on Protesting Parents (Belarus 2020), How to Defend Oneself from Those Who Came to Defend?
Maryna Rabinovych, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv /UNET@ZOiS Affiliated Researcher, Berlin: Local Governance and Democracy under War: Mapping the Wriggle Room for Ukrainian Municipalities under Martial Law
Tina de Vries, Institute for East European Law (IOR), Regensburg: Restoring the Rule of Law in Poland
Chair: Caroline von Gall, Goethe University Frankfurt
14:00–15:30
PAPER SESSION
Pavel Usvatov / Alina Monceanu, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bukarest: Usurpation of Legislative Powers by the Executive in Southeast Europe
Jan Sommerfeld, Institute for East European Law (IOR), Regensburg: The Bicameral Parliament in the Czech Republic as a Bulwark Against the Abuse of Power
Oleg Tankovsky, Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest: Exploring the Socio-political Impact of Historical Turnovers: Analysing the Legacy and Consequences of Populist Leadership in Contemporary Ukraine
Anna Fruhstorfer, Freie Universität Berlin: Constitutional Change under Autocracy
Chair: Rainer Wedde, RheinMain University of Applied Science
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI 55/105
14:30–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Iryna Maidanik, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv: Remittances to and from Ukraine after the Full-Scale Russian Invasion
Volodymyr Vakhitov, American University Kyiv: Return Intentions of Ukrainians in Poland: Results from the Priming Experiment
Natalia Dziadyk, Central European University Vienna: Contested Polycrisis: Its Epistemic Construction by the Displaced People from Ukraine and the Politics of Recognition in a Radicalised Political Space
Oksana Mikheieva, UNET@ZOiS Alumna, Berlin: Young Ukrainian Refugees in Europe: Everyday Experiences of Forced Migration and Vision for the Future
Chair: Inna Melnykovska, Central European University Vienna
16:30–18:00
PAPER SESSION
Tsypylma Darieva, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin: Diasporic Mobilization in a Time of Crisis: Perspectives of Russian Migrants’ Activism in Georgia
Tatiana Golova, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin: Russian vs. Russian: Diasporization Projects by Anti-war vs. Pro-kremlin Migrant Activists in Germany
Karolina Nugumanova, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Activism beyond Borders: Gender Dynamics and Political Participation among Russian Wartime Migrants
Sophie Jaeger, Central European University Vienna: Online Opposition in Exile: Online Strategies and Audiences of the Russian Opposition in Exile before and after February 2022
Chair: Regina Heller, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH)
18:15–19:45
PAPER SESSION
Inna Melnykovska, Central European University Vienna: Resilience Across Borders: Exploring Societal Commitment in the Response of Ukrainian IT Businesses to War Times
Margarita Zavadskaya, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Helsinki: A Long Shadow of Autocracy: Russian IT Sector between Migration and Security
John Doe, Independent Researcher, Hirschman in Belarus: A Sectoral Analysis of Business Exit Patterns from an Authoritarian Political Economy
Chair: Fabian Burkhardt, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> OEI 55/105
9:00–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Klaudia Kosicińska, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: New Destinations, Old Ties? Azerbaijanis from Georgia in Azerbaijan, Poland and Germany. A Comparative Study of (Im)Mobility and Migratory Routes in Anthropological Perspectives
Jane Doe, Independent Researcher, New Russian Migrants in Armenia and Georgia: Causes and Consequences
Tatiana Sitchinava, East European University, Tbilisi: Russia-Ukraine Post-war Migration and its Impact on the Socio-Economic Environment of Georgia
Chair: Tsypylma Darieva, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
14:00–15:30
PAPER SESSION
Regina Heller, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg: Societal Peace Formation and the War in Ukraine: What and How Can We Learn from Russian and Ukrainian Diasporas?
Hakob Matevosyan / Félix Krawatzek, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin: History and Intergenerational Agreement on Politics in Germany
Felix Riefer (independent scholar): Russia's revisionist foreign policy and the false diaspora discourse in Germany
Chair: Margarita Zavadskaya, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Helsinki
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI 55/302b
14:30–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Beatriz Matafora, University of Duisburg-Essen: Exploring European Identity: A Comparative Analysis of Linguistic Influence and Educational Opportunities in the Baltic States (2016-2022)
Ketevani Kapanadze, Charles University, Prague: Bring Together What Belongs Together. The Case of Divided Cities in Europe
Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford: The Economic Consequences of Brain Drain: How the Exodus of IT Specialists Affects Russia's Competitiveness
Chair: Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford
16:30–18:00
PAPER SESSION
William Pyle, Middlebury College: Russia's 'Impressionable Years': The Legacy of the Early 1990s
Anna Fruhstorfer, Freie Universität Berlin: Logistics of Protest CampsDoes Middle Class Promote Civic Activism? Individual and Group-Level Effects of the Middle Class in an Autocracy
Chair: Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> OEI 55/302b
9:00–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Gwendolyn Sasse, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin: War Trauma, Identity, and Political Attitudes in Ukraine
Tetiana Kostiuchenko, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: “A Friend or a Foe”: Perceptions and Attitudes Towards the Security Threats and Alliances in Eastern European Countries
Tetiana Skrypchenko, UNET@ZOiS Alumna, Berlin: Ukrainians' Perspectives on Community Development and Establishing Refunding Justice in De-Occupied Cities: Insights from a ZOiS Research Fellow Project
Chair: Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford
14:00–15:30
PAPER SESSION
Michael Dobbins, University of Konstanz: “Backsliding Lobbying”: How can Post-Communist Interest Groups Better Navigate Democratic Decline?
Olga Kutsenko, Technische Universität Berlin: How do Attitudes towards Democracy or its Alternatives Structure European Societies? Comparative Quantitative Insights
Ivaylo Dinev, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin: When Do Protests Succeed? First Evidence from Protest Waves in Eastern Europe Dataset
Chair: Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI 55/101
14:30–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Susanne Wengle, Uppsala University (SW): The Political Economy of Ukrainian Agriculture; Before, During and After the War
Robin Leterrier, Paris 8 University: New “Paths” for Kazakhstan’s Agricultural Sector after Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Niklas Mariotte, Freie Universität Berlin: Agriculture, Geopolitics, Imperialism: Russian Food Policy in the 21st Century and the Reconfiguration of the Global Food Regime
Mihai Varga, Freie Universität Berlin: Specters of Hunger: The Weaponization of Global Wheat Trade in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Chair: Alexander Vorbrugg, University of Bern
16:30–18:00
PAPER SESSION
Mariia Bogonos, Kyiv School of Economics, Current and Long-Term Impacts of Russia´s War against Ukraine on Ukraine’s Agricultural Production and Trade
Karolina Pawlak, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Polish Foreign Trade in Agri-Food Products with Particular Emphasis on the Russia-Ukraine War Impacts
Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani / Linde Götz, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale): Wheat Trade between Iran and Russia; A Sustainable or Temporary Trend?
Mariusz Hamulczuk, Warsaw Uni of Life Sciences,Trade and price consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war for the corn and wheat markets in CEECs
Chair: Linde Götz, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale)
18:15–19:45
ROUNDTABLE
Angelina Davydova, n-ost, Berlin
Kateryna Polianska, Environment People Law, Kyiv
Susanne Wengle, Uppsala University
Mariia Fedoruk, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Olena Melnyk, Sumy National University / Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester
Jonathon Turnbull, University of Oxford
Chair: Alexander Vorbrugg, University of Bern
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> >> OEI 55/101
9:00–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Mariia Fedoruk, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences: Ukraine Nature: Silent Victim of the Russian War
Nataliia Miroshnyk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv: Landscapes of Ukraine - Loss of Homeland or Finding New Meaning?
Olena Melnyk, Sumy National University / Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester: Devastating Effects of the Russian War on Ukrainian Natural Resources
Mariia Rastvorova, University of Graz: What Price for Grain? Ukrainian Farming and Global Markets Taking into Account the War
Chair: Mihai Varga, Freie Universität Berlin
14:00–15:30
PAPER SESSION
Alexandra Pulvermacher, University of Klagenfurt: The Starvation of Soviet POW in Occupied Ukraine, 1941-44
Oksana Nagornaia, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: Soldiers’ Bodies against the Raging Nature: Bodily Experiences in the Mountain War in the Carpathians 1914/15
Andrei Dörre, Freie Universität Berlin: Everyday Food Expenses in the Post-soviet Pamirs, Tajikistan
Chair: Robert Kindler, Freie Universität Berlin
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI 55/A
14:30–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Karsten Brüggemann, Tallinn University: Pax Sovietica
Konrad Clewing, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg: (In-)Stability, No Matter Whether with Peace-Treaty or with Armistice? Lessons from the Bosnian and Kosovar Post-war Arrangements of 1995 and 1999
Heidi Hein-Kircher, Martin-Opitz-Library, Herne / Ruhr University Bochum: The (Failed) Promise of Creating Security: Minority Protection and Its Realities After the Paris Peace Treaties
16:30–18:00
PAPER SESSION
Anastasiia Magazova, Independent Journalist, Berlin: Russia’s Strategic Narratives on Ukraine between 2019-2022 (The Case of Ukrainian-Prorussian Parties)
Irakli Javakhishvili, Webster University Georgia, Tashkent: The Attempts to Establish A Peacetime Order In Georgia: A Long-Term Threat to the Country's Security?
Kateryna Kobchenko, University of Münster: Anti-soviet Conceptions of Ukrainian Emigrants during the Cold War: “Alternative Models” of the Collapse of the Ussr from a Modern Perspective
18:15–19:45
PAPER SESSION
Rūstis Kamuntavičius, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas: The Problem of Litvinism: a Lithuanian Perspective
Andrzej Pukszto, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas: Uncelebrated Day of Victory. Some Reflections about Modern Politics of Memory from the Perspectives of Lithuanian-Polish-Belarusian Relations
Andrei Kazakevich, European Humanities University, Vilnius: The Politics of Litvinismas. Political Discussion in Lithuania about the Threat to Lithuanian Heritage and Identity from Belarus
Chair: Aliaksei Lastouski, Belarusian Institute of Public History, Poland
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> OEI 55/A
9:00–10:30
PAPER SESSION
Borbala Zsuzsanna Möller-Török, University of Vienna: State Strength and Security Aspects in State Descriptions ("Staatsbeschreibungen") in European History from the 18th Century until Today
Yuri Zazuliak, University of Münster / Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv: The Insecurity of Ukraine in Johann Christian von Engel "Geschichte der Ukraine und der Cossacken" (1796)
Franziska Davies, LMU Munich: Conceptions of Statehood in the 1980s and State-Building In Early Independent Ukraine after 1991
Guido Hausmann, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg: The Illusion of Economic Security in Handbooks on Ukraine in the Interwar Period
Discussant: Andreas Wittkowsky, Center for International Peace Operations (ZiF), Berlin
Chair: Guido Hausmann, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg
14:00–15:30
ROUND TABLE
Philipp Christoph Schmädeke, SCIENCE AT RISK Emergency Office
Sven Jaros, SCIENCE AT RISK Emergency Office
Day 1: Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI/323
14:30–16:00
ROUND TABLE
Olexandra V. Antoniouk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Scientific Committee of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Ukraine
Olga Garaschuk, University of Tübingen, President of German-Ukrainian Academic Society
Susann Worschech, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Academic Coordinator Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin
Chair: Florian Frank, BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Head of Division Cooperation with (non-EU) Eastern European Countries, South Caucasus, Central Asia
16:30–18:00
ROUND TABLE
Florian Frank, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Berlin
Caroline von Gall, Goethe University Frankfurt
Sylvia von Steinsdorff, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Chair: Gabriele Freitag, German Association for East European Studies (DGO), Berlin
18:15–19:45
BOOK TALK
Katharina Bluhm, Freie Universität Berlin: Russland und der Westen. Ideologie, Ökonomie und Politik seit dem Ende der Sowjetunion, Matthes & Seitz 2023
Alicja Curanović, University of Warsaw: The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy, Routledge 2021
Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen: Putinism – Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology, Routledge 2024
Dmitry Uzlaner, Freie Universität Berlin: The Moralist International. Russia in the Global Culture Wars. Fordham University Press, 2022 (co-author: Kristina Stoeckle)
Day 2: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 >> OEI/323
9:00–10:30
ROUND TABLE
Harald Franzen, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Berlin
Klaus Gestwa, University of Tübingen
Anna Hofmann, ZEIT Stiftung Bucerius, Hamburg
Chair: Sebastian Lambertz, German Association for East European Studies (DGO), Berlin
14:00–15:30
PAPER SESSION
Sophie Lambroschini, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin: The „golden hands“ of repair in war: the expertise, trajectories and professional identification of critical infrastructure workers in the war in Ukraine
Gregoire Le Gall, Géographie-Cités, Paris: Kinship Networks and Ukrainian Trajectories in Exile: The Exercise of Migratory Options by 'In-Between' Families in a Context of Open War (2014-2024)
Sabine v. Löwis, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin: Bazaars in the context of EU market integration - Past economic order or adaptive structure? Insights from the Piața Centrală in Chișinău
Chair: Irina Mützelburg, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
View the detailed program in grid layout here:
ceecon24_program.pdf (PDF, 3 MB)