Doctoral seminar 2021-2022: Understanding contemporary Ukraine

9 February 2022

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This workshop, which began work in 2018, is open to all doctoral students, master's students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences, whatever their field of study. Contemporary Ukraine presents themes encountered in other geographical contexts, post-Soviet or otherwise (democratic transition, emigration, "hybrid war", identity reconfigurations...). Young researchers less familiar with the geographical area in question may find sources of inspiration and points of comparison with their own fields of study.
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The Centre de recherches Europes-Eurasie, CREE (Inalco) announces the resumption of the doctoral seminar "Understanding Contemporary Ukraine" for the year 2021-20220, held on a monthly basis at Inalco in a hybrid format (description below).

Argumentary

Since the Maidan Revolution and the conflict in the Donbass (2014), Ukraine has seen a resurgence of academic interest. Researchers, doctoral students and masters students have begun work aimed at understanding developments in Ukrainian society, culture and politics, and bringing them into dialogue with the research of their predecessors. These young researchers generally manage to discuss their subject from a thematic point of view, but often lack a forum for exchange with specialists from the same geographical area, outside seminars on Eastern Europe and the Russian worlds.
In addition to opening up a space for methodological, theoretical and empirical dialogue, this workshop therefore aims to refocus. While Ukraine is increasingly well known, it sometimes remains a periphery of major regional groupings (the European Union's "Eastern Neighborhood", the "Russian World") or a buffer zone between them. Without neglecting the country's place in its regional and international environment, we take Ukraine as our starting point. Offsetting - or rather refocusing - our gaze on this space will enable us to better understand its internal dynamics, and shed new light on the workings of the "centers" (European Union, Russia).

PROGRAMME

- Tuesday, November 23, 2021 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Amphi 2 (2nd floor), at Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13ème.

  • Olga Ruzhelnyk (young doctorate from Université Paris Nanterre): Ultras of Ukrainian soccer and political reconfigurations around the Maïdan: genesis and transformations of a collective political figure in post-Soviet Ukraine

- Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, distancial via the zoom platform

  • Bertrand de Franqueville (PhD student with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa): Penser la radicalité différenciée de droite et de gauche en Ukraine : quelques pistes de réfléxion

- Tuesday, February 15, 2022 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, distanciel via the zoom platform (see below)

  • Louis Pétiniaud (young doctor from the Institut Français de Géopolitique): La puissance par la donnée : les fragmentations des réseaux Internet en Ukraine

Connection link
Meeting ID: 961 5670 2290
Secret code : 730178
Participate using a SIP protocol
96156702290@zoomcrc.com
(remember to log in with your first and last name)


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Iryna Dmytrychyn, Inalco-CREE
Alexandra Goujon, Université de Bourgogne-CREDESPO
Adrien Nonjon, Inalco-CREE
Hervé Amiot, Université Bordeaux Montaigne-Passage

Contacts: idmytrychyn@noos.fr and adrien.nonjon@inalco.fr