Activities

Activities

Upcoming Events

Cafe Kyiv 2025

Film screening 'We are U': Education in wartime conditions

"We are U" by SavED features students and teachers from across Ukraine who reflect on their experiences and their aspirations for the future. We will discuss the transnational educational experiences of Ukrainian students and ask why families are not always satisfied with German schools.
Discussion

Being a Child in the Context of War

This event will explore the complex realities of childhood in times of war based on the findings of the research project ‘Children and Social Cohesion: Vulnerability, Role and Interests’. The discussion will present the results of focus group discussions with children of internally displaced persons and local communities in Ukraine.

Archive

Book talk with Serhiy Kudelia

Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia’s War on Ukraine

When does separatism become a cover for foreign aggression? How do local communities respond when state institutions come under pressure and militants take over? Serhiy Kudelia will give insights to such pressing questions at ZOiS, where he will present his new book.
Book Talk

The Post-Soviet Human

In the first Book Talk of 2025, Mykhailo Minakov offers new perspectives on the collapse of the Soviet Union. Combining approaches from different academic fields, his new book delves into the developments and challenges of the period from 1989 to 2022 and encourages readers to reflect on its deeper lessons.
ZOiS Forum Playback Theater Performance

'Seeing the Difference'

This improvisational theatre performance is linked to a research project that accompanies refugees from and in Ukraine from their place of origin to their place of arrival. It investigates and visualises the experiences of displacement and arrival as well as questions of identity and the sense of belonging.
Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS

Food for Thought on Contemporary Ukraine

With the first two waves of scholarship funding now complete, the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS will present research outcomes on topics such as displacement, reconstruction, civil society, education, religion, and popular culture and discuss policy implications.
ZOiS Forum in cooperation with PRISMA UKRAÏNA and Fulbright Ukraine

Narrating Every Day Life During War Time in Ukraine

With three experts, we will discuss the power of popular visual culture in times of crisis and its potential to narrate and frame wartime experiences and the everyday life of people in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
UNET Series

Evacuation Alerts: Behavioural Insights from Ukraine

Evacuation alerts can be a crucial tool in ensuring the safety of civilians in the context of natural disasters and war. The rapid spread of information can help people escape danger before it's too late. However, there has been a lack of scientific testing to determine how best to design these alerts.

External Events

 

18.01.2023     UNET network design consultation with external scholars

01.03.2023     Discussion "Evacuation Alerts: Behavioural Insights from Ukraine" by Volodymyr Vakhitov and Nataliia Zaika in partnership with the Institute of Behavioral Studies at the American University Kyiv

16.03.2023     Discussion "Displacement, Emplacement, and Self-Organization: Ukraine 2014-2021" by Emily Channell-Justice in partnership with the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and UFORUM. The UFORUM is a network of researchers studying migration and was originally started as a collaboration between ZOiS and DeZIM

02.04.2023     BASEES-ZOiS round table “Ukrainian Researchers in Times of War" at the British Association for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference

04.-08.06.2023 “Methodological, Ethical and Personal Challenges of Research In and About the War”: A Networking Workshop for Scholars Researching Ukraine for UNET fellows and other scholars from Ukraine

09.06.2023    Research presentation "War Time Research at ZOiS: Ukraine Inside Out" Julia Bidenko, Inna Volosevych, Anastasiya Shurenkova and Nataliia Zaika 

16.06.2023     Panel "Ukrainian Scientists in Times of War and Displacement" at the Annual Conference of (and in collaboration with) the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde with participation of Anastasiya Leukhina and Oksana Dutchak

19.07.2023     "Forced Migrant Women from Ukraine - Perspectives on Arrival in Germany" presentation in partnership with Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin and DeZIM Institute – discussion of the key trends in the migration research

31.08.2023     Lecture by Juliya Bidenko for Annual Transsectoral Summer School Viadrinicum in cooperation with the European University Viadrina

31.08.2023      Co-organization of the “Learning City. Beyond the Classroom” at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

19.09.2023     Presentation "Examining Lived Experiences of Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian War Diaries and Digital Media" by Alina Mozolevska 

21.09.2023     Discussion "Vom Alltag im Krieg erzählen in cooperation with PRISMA and Fulbright Ukraine - "Ukraine: War and Resistance" and Exhibition Opening at ZOiS (exhibition continues into 2024)

16.10.2023     ZOIS Internal Colloquium focused on the educational choices of Ukrainian refugee children in Sweden with the UNET fellow Helen Pidgorna

23.10.2023     Discussion "Maidan: Ukraine's Democratic Revolution" by Sophia Wilson in cooperation with PRISMA

08.11.2023     Lecture "Displaced Ukrainians in Europe and Germany: Who Are They and What Are Their Intentions to Return" by Dariia Mykhailishina in cooperation with the Center for Economic Strategy

21.11.2023     Discussion "Freshly Delivered from Ukraine: Wanna talk about reconstruction of the de-occupied regions?" By Tetiana Skrypchenko

23.11.2023     Discussion "UNET Freshly Squeezed: War-Caused Harm and Attitudes of Ukrainian Civilians to Peace Negotiations" by Mykhailo Livaryuk in cooperation with the Kyiv School of Economics