‘Rearticulation of belonging: the regionalism, identities and the role of minorities’ - Opening Lecture by Viktoriya Sereda
This talk addresses the challenges of researching identity in a conflict-affected context and the methodological difficulties of capturing shifting hierarchies of belonging and changes in the symbolic structure of national identities. It examines the consequences of Russian aggression and war-induced displacement on minority groups that are often overlooked by both Ukrainian minority studies within Ukraine as well as by international migration research.
Viktoriya Sereda is a professor of sociology at the Kyiv School of Economics and Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She is also an Associate with the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Her research centers on migration, memory, and identity in Ukraine. She has held faculty positions at the Ukrainian Catholic University and Ivan Franko Lviv National University, where she taught sociology.
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