{"id":6853,"date":"2024-04-04T06:27:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T04:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/conference-report-to-ukrainian-studies-across-the-borders\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:07:31","slug":"conference-report-to-ukrainian-studies-across-the-borders","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/conference-report-to-ukrainian-studies-across-the-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference report to \u201cUkrainian Studies Across the Borders\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The conference organized by the U-CORE project took place at the University of Luxembourg, 26-27 March 2024 and hosted UNDIPUS-scholars from three German universities, four disciplines and five projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

As part of the joint project (Un)Disciplined: Pluralizing Ukrainian Studies \u2013 Understanding the War in Ukraine (abbreviated UNDIPUS), interdisciplinary approaches to Ukrainian studies are being explored at the universities of Greifswald, Gie\u00dfen, and Regensburg. This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and aims to diversify the understanding of the current situation in Ukraine. In addition to analyzing developments, attention is also focused on neighboring states, especially Poland and the Republic of Moldova. The thematic focus lies on critically examining cross-border societal dynamics, the impact of the war on Ukrainian society, and pluralistic identity discourses. Equally central to the project is networking Ukrainian studies and providing new impulses for its academic establishment. Since the Ukraine. Collecting. Recording (U-CORE) project recently started at the University of Luxembourg, it was considered an excellent opportunity to organize a joint scientific conference under the title Ukrainian Studies Across the Borders, which already implies multinational approaches to current issues surrounding Ukraine. Therefore, approaches from Luxembourg, Germany, and Ukraine were synthesized at this event.<\/p>\n\n

In the first thematic section moderated by Vitalii Klymchuk (Luxembourg), two contributions on psychology were presented. To start, Roman Dubasevych (Greifswald) provided an overview of the metaphorical aspects of war events and demonstrated how heroism is constructed. His presentation titled From Zero to Hero: Masculinity and War in Ukraine also explored the mythological forms currently activated in Ukrainian discourses. The second presentation titled Mental Health for Ukraine focused on the complex issue of mental health. Viktoria Gorbunova (Luxembourg) described how this phenomenon can be targeted and theorized for different groups of people.<\/p>\n\n

The second section, under the direction of Alexey Aleksandrov (Luxembourg), was dedicated to the construction of identities and narratives of freedom. Ksenia Fedorova (Luxembourg) first discussed Delineating a Digital-Scape: A Critical Practice of Freedom during the Russian War in Ukraine. In her dissertation project, she examines the concept of freedom and the role of the internet in times of war, analyzing various databases. Olga Plakhotnik (Greifswald) then elucidated the interplay between self-determination and state institutions. In her presentation (Sexual Citizenship and Borders-Crossing), she characterized citizenship as a complex and dynamic process specific to LGBT+ communities in Ukraine, expanding beyond borders as some fled before the war to settle in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n

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