KIU Guest Lecturers

Nataliia Steblyna is a Ukrainian media researcher at Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University. She is the acting head of Journalism and Social Communications Department and the guarantor of the educational program “Political Journalism”. Her research interests are transformation of news in the digital times, modern political communication and computer assisted analysis of media texts. As a media analyst she cooperates with Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy and several Ukrainian media, covering the problems of Ukrainian regional media during the full-scale invasion, Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns, journalism education etc.

In summer semester 2025 Nataliia was teaching 3 seminar courses at the European University Viadrina:

• Digital instruments for media and political analysis
• Hacking and Restoring the Truth (Modern Russian propaganda studies)
• Media. War. Digitalization

´I am hoping for creativy and curiosity´- Dr Nataliia Steblyna teaches at the first KIU guest professor:

What German and Ukrainian universities can learn from each other: observations of a journalism

KIU guest professor Nataliia Steblyna was named one of the 100 most important and influential scientists in Berlin

Oleh Nivievskyi is a Professor of Economics at the Kyiv School of Economics and a founder of the Center for Food and Land Use Research at KSE. Oleh holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Applied Statistics from University of Göttingen with more than 20 years of experience in agri-food markets and policy. Oleh is also interested in a political economy and performance of local governance in Ukraine, EU integration, conflicts’ impact and post-war rebuilding and recovery, as well as in transport services pricing and policy.

In 2025/26 winter semester Oleh will be teaching 3 seminar courses at the European University Viadrina:

• Food security, agricultural markets and policy
• Transportation markets and infrastructure
• War Research Laboratory

Oksana Mikheieva is Professor of Sociology at the Kyiv School of Econom­ics. During her work at various academic institutions, including Donetsk State University of Management, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), as well as during research fellowships at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (HURI), Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), ZOiS/the Centre for East European and International Studies, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin she researched vari­ous aspects of migration processes related to war and forced displacement. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of peer- review journals ‘Ukraina moderna’, ‘City: History, Culture, Society’, and ‘East’ (‘Skhid’). Her research focuses on aspects of paramilitary motivations, everyday life under conditions of war and occupation.

In Summer Semester 2026 she is teaching 2 courses at European University Viadrina:

• War, occupation and borders: daily lives under occupation and the violence of territorial demarcation (Wednesday, 11 am to 1 pm, European University Viadrina, Gräfin Dönhoff Building, GD 201)
• ‘Ordinary’ totalitarianism: the phenomenon of the Soviet system and its consequences (Thursday, 11 am to 1 pm, European University Viadrina, Gräfin Dönhoff Building, GD 206)

The courses are available on viaCampus under the section ‘Courses’ via the following link.