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The new Ukraine Lecture Series for Winter Semester 2025/26 is here!
Infrastructures are both physical and knowledge-based. Physical infrastructures—such as bridges, power plants, and cable networks—and knowledge infrastructures—including universities and civil society organizations—are increasingly being attacked and destroyed in Ukraine and its occupied territories by Russia's full-scale invasion. As geopolitical uncertainties rise, these attacks are also increasingly affecting other parts of Europe. In this lecture series, we will discuss what infrastructural resilience means today, how it is being tested by different forms of attack, but also how resilience can become preventive rather than merely reactive towards physical and informational attacks. We will focus on socio-technical, historical, cultural, economical aspects of both infrastructures and resilience, and find out what role critical engagement plays in shaping infrastructural developments.
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