Lecture Series Summer Semester 2025
KIU and Jerzy Giedroyc Colloquium present their joint lecture series:
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The Ukraine Lecture Series organised by the KIU in cooperation with the Jerzy Giedroyc Research Colloquium at the European University Viadrina begins on 14 April. Two panel discussions, the ceremonial opening of the PhD programme and lectures by international acknowledged researchers and scientists are dedicated to discussing and reflecting on the 2025 semester theme ‘Ukraine in Europe: controversies, complexity and the ability to act in a multi-layered interdependence’:
Europe and Ukrainian European identity have long been important topics in Ukraine, while from a Western European perspective, Ukraine was in a marginal position for a long time. Today, Ukrainian-European entanglements are being researched more intensively, and the issue of Ukrainian membership in the European Union has gained new momentum. The lecture series analyses Ukrainian-European relations, cooperation, conflicts, cultural references and dynamics, both in relation to Europe as a whole and to the European Union.
Programme
Ukraine Lecture Series
UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES Ukraine in Europe: Controversies, complexities and agency of a multifaceted interconnection
Presented by: Jerzy Giedroyc Kolloquium and KIU – Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies
Time: Monday, 6 – 8 p.m.
Location: Room GD 102, Gräfin-Dönhoff-Gebäude (GD), Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 14.4.25 | Ukraine in Europe: What controversies, complexities and agency determine our common future? |
Timm Beichelt (Professor for European Studies, European University Viadrina) |
| 28.4.25 | Membership in the EU: Perspectives of Ukrainian elites and society |
Mykhailo Minakov (DAAD Guest Professor, European University Viadrina) |
| 5.5.25 | Eastern Partnership Perspectives on Ukrainian EU Integration | Andrea Gawrich (Professor for International Integration with a special focus on Eastern Europe, Justus Liebig University Gießen) |
| 12.5.25 | Does Ukraine Possess an Agency? A Historical Perspective | Georgiy Kasianov (Professor for History at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)Georgiy Kasianov |
| 19.5.25 | Paths to Ukrainian EU integration beyond the conditionality approach | Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven (Diplomat; former ambassador of Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic) |
| 26.5.25 | How to manage integration into the EU market: Lessons from Eastern Enlargement for Ukraine's EU Accession | Julia Langbein (Head of Research Cluster: Political Economy and Integration, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)) |
| 2.6.25 | War and Boundary Formation: the European Integration of Ukraine | Frank Schimmelfennig (Professor of European Politics and a member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich) |
| 16.6.25 | Opening Ceremony of the KIU doctoral programme: Resilience, Restoration and Transformation. Ukraine in a world of turmoil |
Volodymyr Sheiko (General Director of the Ukrainian Institute) |
| 23.6.25 | Germany, Ukraine, Europe: Approaches, Policies and Misunderstandings in the 1990s | Jan C Behrends (Professor for Dictatorship and Democracy. Germany and Eastern Europe from 1914 to the Present, European University Viadrina) |
| 30.6.25 | Can Civil Peace Extend beyond the Nation State? Europe, NATO, and the U.S. in the Shadow of the Russia-Ukraine War | Jeffrey Alexander (Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University) |
| 7.7.25 | Can EU External Action ensure justice and fair Peace Deal for Ukraine in Trump 2.0 era? Mission im/possible? | Roman Petrov (Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) |
| 14.7.25 | From the Weimar Triangle to the Frankfurt Quadrangle – new perspectives for European cooperation |
Marek Prawda (Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland: former Head of Representation – Poland at European Commission) |
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