Interdisciplinary conference: "Re-Thinking Post-Socialist War(s): Comparative Dimensions of the War in Ukraine 2014 -2024"

On March 8-10, 2024, the Interdisciplinary Conference "Re-Thinking Post-Socialist War(s): Comparative Dimensions of the War in Ukraine 2014 2024" was held in Giessen, Germany. 

The conference is a collaborative effort between the Justus Liebig University Giessen and the Charles University in Prague. It is part of the project “UNDIPUS—(Un)Disciplined: Pluralizing Ukrainian Studies—Understanding the War in Ukraine”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (subproject “After Masculinity: Female Perspectives on the War in Eastern Ukraine”).

The conference was attended by our Valeria Korablyova, a member of the Department of Russian and East European Studies and the head of the Ukraine in a Changing Europe Research Centre situated at IMS FSV UK. She presented her paper "From Hope to Fear and Back: The Geopolitics of Emotion after 1989" at the conference on March 8 and introduced the kynote speaker Marc R. Beissinger in the evening.

She also moderated the panel "Unravelling the post-communist space II" on 9 March and led a post-screening debate on the film "20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL". This film can be seen as part of the upcoming One World Festival. 

The whole programme of the conference can be found here