Facts and Findings: KIU Sur Place fellows present their research (online-event)

The first group of KIU Surplace Fellows focused their research on topics concerning our KIU umbrella topic in the winter semester 2024/25: “War in Ukraine: Destruction of heritage – Matering legacies”. Under this umbrella topic, our Ukrainian colleagues were researching memory studies, food security, higher education, political preferences, history, to name but a few. We are proud to present the broad range of studies conducted by this year’s KIU fellows during their scholarship from October 2024 to June 2025. This event offers a chance to learn about their findings – and to explore together the new questions and perspectives that emerge from them.
In the second part of the conference, recent KIU Surplace Fellows will present their ongoing research under the topic of ‘Infrastructural fragmentation, infrastructural resilience - Interdisciplinary perspectives on techno-politics and crisis’.

The event is open to previous, current and incoming KIU fellows, KIU alumni network, KIU allies, researchers connected to the KIU as well as everyone interested in the topics.

Please feel free to to share the information about the event with probably interested collegueas, institutions and organisations.

Part 1: https://europa-uni-de.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/iBWVXcJbQamWG2R1rIuiSQ (surplace fellows Oct 2024-Jun 2025)

Part 2: https://europa-uni-de.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/eSkI7KftQAyrlRFKLkKgmg (current surplace fellows Sept 2025-Dec 2025 present their ongoing KIU-research projects)

Programme:

Session #1: Research results of KIU Sur Place Fellows 2024-25
(Host & Comments: Andrii Portnov, Susann Worschech, Frank Fischer)

09:30–09:45
Welcome & Introduction, Susann Worschech

09:45–10:15
Albert Venher: Homes for Disabled People in Ukraine during the German Occupation, 1941–1943
Tetiana Kalenychenko: Exploring possibilities to frame a peacebuilding in times of war
Inha Kozlova: Work after Frontline: Veterans Coming Back Home

10:15–10:45
Nataliia Vusatiuk: The Experience of War in the Ego-Documents and Poetry by Oswald Burghardt and Maksym Rylskyi
Lesia Bidochko: Ukrainian Far-Right in the Armed Forces Post-2022: Key Trends in Their Rhetoric
Ekaterina Bataeva: Higher education in a frontline city

10:45–11:15
Tetiana Hoshko: The Women’s View of the Everyday Life of Ukrainian Emigrant Scholars after the Second World War
Pavlo Martyshev: The Effect of Ukrainian Grain Corridors on Food Security in Selected African Regions
Denys Chyk: Lviv. War. Word: Narratives of Memory, Trauma and City in Ukrainian Literature of 2022-2024
 
11:15–11:30
Looking back – thinking ahead: collective outlook

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Session #2: Recent Projects of KIU Sur Place Fellows (2025)
(Host & Comments: Susanne Strätling & Theocharis Grigoriadis)
 
13:30–13:40
Welcome & Introduction, Susann Worschech
 
13:40–14:10
Yuliia Fetko: Rethinking the role of cross-border cooperation on the EU’s external borders in the context of Ukraine’s integration into the EU
Maksym Obrizan: Violence and Political Preferences in Ukraine during the Full-Scale War
 
14:10–14:40
Roman Galych: Adaptation of the social dialogue model in Ukraine on the path to the EU
Marta Mazur: The integration of mediation into criminal proceedings in Ukraine: Challenges and opportunities in wartime
 
14:40–15:00
Closing: Reflections & next steps