Presentation & Discussion
Mo. 11 Dez. 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Living under Russia’s Occupation. The Locals’ Story

Presentation of the research from Ukrainian think-tank AMES led by Prof Oksana Mikheieva about de-occupied Kherson region.

Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

Kupiansk city (Kharkiv region of Ukraine) after the battle in 2022. The inscription: "Transit of military vehicles [?] of Russian armed forces and other military units through Kupiansk is prohibited! Detour."
Віталій Носач / РБК-Україна; rbc.ua CC BY 4.0

In spring 2023, a research team of Ukrainian think-tank AMES led by Professor Oksana Mikheieva conducted a study in the territories of Kherson region, liberated from Russia’s occupation. The research project aimed to analyze how an 8,5-month-long occupation affected Ukrainian communities residing on these territories. This impact was traced by studying how people lived during the occupation, what skills they acquired, how they resisted Russians, and what lessons should be learnt from their experiences. The AMES research team surveyed two focus groups and held a series of in-depth interviews with locals. A summary of the first wave of research has been published on the website of the European Resilience Initiative Center.

This meeting will discuss both the results of the two waves of the study and the methodological challenges of conducting research under conditions of war and occupation.

The presentation and discussion will be held in Ukrainian.

Serhiy Danylov is a deputy director of the Ukrainaian Association of Middle East Studies (AMES). In 2014, he co-foudned a non-governmental organization Peacekeeping School with a view to finding means of reconciliation in Donbas. His personal research focus lays in Kherson region. 

Ihor Semyvolos is an Executive Director at the Ukrainaian Association of Middle East Studies (AMES). He is an expert in reconciliation, and is a founder of the Ukrainian Peacebuilding School NGO project, which has been working in Donbas since 2014.

Prof. Oksana Mikheieva is a professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and Visiting Researcher 'UNET' at ZOiS Berlin. From 2020 to 2023 she was a DAAD visiting professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). In the spring semesters of 2020 and 2022 she was also a visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University  in Krakow, Poland.  She held a visiting professorship in Ukraine-European Dialogue at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna in 2016, and in 2015 she was a Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow at Harvard University's Ukrainian Research Institute. She is a member of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Sociological Association. She also serves on the editorial boards of the academic peer-reviewed journal 'Ukraina Moderna' and the analytical information journal 'East' ('Skhid').

 

In-person location:
Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

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Meeting ID: 961 2967 9250
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