Upcoming events

TUESDAY, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | GD HS 08 (Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building), Europa-Universität Viadrina I Hybrid format I Started in 2014 and escalated into a large-scale invasion in February 2022, the Russian war of aggression has brought widespread military use of rivers and other bodies of fresh water across Ukraine, in what it is known as hydrological warfare. Using ‘water walks’ as a river-making practice, Francesc will present part of his ongoing ethnographic work in several war-affected riverine communities across Ukraine both in the rear and frontline regions. He will elucidate how everyday hydrosocial relations, water infrastructures, and more-than-human beings mutually shape one another to form what he conceptualizes as ‘enduring waterscapes’. Lastly, offered as a humble contribution to present and future restoration efforts, the presentation will touch on the implications of these ‘enduring waterscapes’, especially in light of EU Nature Restoration Law and its potential application in Ukraine.

TUESDAY, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Hybrid format I The lecture addresses the mass-media discourse studies, namely, mass-media political space as a specific platform where political actions are performed and social opinion is formed, where one competes for the control over the people's reactions on the political decisions and processes, over the possibility to interpret some political events. In mass-media discourse, ideology is inextricably intertwined with manipulation as both are based on social and cultural settings a certain society lives by. Moreover, ideology is viewed as one of the social and cultural factors which mainly influence a translated text. Thus, the main theme of this lecture is to demonstrate how translators from different social-historical backgrounds – or, in other words, of different metapragmatic awareness – are manipulated by different ideology, how they meet different cultural demands, and how the information presented in the translated text varies from one language to another.

Hybrid format | Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Registration required | Rebuilding Ukraine: Security, Recovery & the Future of Europe brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to reflect on post-war reconstruction, security challenges, governance, humanitarian recovery, and Ukraine’s role in the future of Europe. The conference will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, and a roundtable with international experts working on Ukraine, European security, and post-conflict transformation.