Speakers include: Eszter Bartha (Central European University, Budapest), Volodimir Kulikov (Karazin Kharkiv National University), Mikhailo Minakov (Kyiv Mohyla Academy; Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), Alexandr Osipian (Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv; Prisma Ukraïna, Berlin / ZOIS, Berlin), Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS, Berlin), and Andrew Wilson (European Council on Foreign Relations; University College London)
Prisma Ukraïna Workshop
Mo 29 Mai 2017 | 11:00–17:00
Mo 29 Mai 2017 | 11:00–17:00
Donbas Identities in Context: From Industrial Region to Zone of Conflict
convened by Alexandr Osipian (Visiting Prisma Ukraïna Fellow 2017)
Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin
The main aim of the workshop is to examine the making of multiple identities in the Donbas and their political implications, as well as the nature of the ongoing military conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Topics discussed will include an assessment of current attitudes and identities, industrial development and social transformation as historical context of the conflict, as well as a look at Ukraine at large and development in other countries such as Hungary.
Program:
10:45
Welcome Coffee
11:15 – 11:30
Welcome and Introduction: Alexandr Osipian, Andrii Portnov
11:30 – 13:00
Alexandr Osipian: Multiple Identities in the Donbas and their Political Implications
Gwendolyn Sasse: Attitudes and Identities during War and Displacement (based on ZOiS survey data)
Discussion
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Andrew Wilson: Explaining the conflict in the Donbas and Crimea: Do we know more than in 2014?
Esther Bartha: Shifting Alliances: How the Far Right can Mobilize Elite Workers in Hungary
Discussion
15:30-15:45
Coffee Break
15:45-17:15
Volodimir Kulikov: Company Towns and Social Transformations in the Donbas
Mikhailo Minakov: Development of Ideological Views of War-Affected Populations in Ukraine
17:15
Final Discussion and closing remarks by Alexandr Osipian