Events / Katherine Younger

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told?	Wed, 08.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha GlennyAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha GlennyAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This round table was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This round table considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha GlennyAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This round table was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This round table considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
	Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future	Wed, 08.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Sofiya DyakMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron, Winfried Garscha	Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Sofiya DyakMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron, Winfried Garscha Series: Panels and Discussions The round table on the morning of February 7 brought together scholars, archive specialists, and preservation experts who discussed the challenges and opportunities and exchanged best practice examples of preservation and archive building during war. They reflected on the importance of balancing the exigencies of the present moment with the need to build secure and lasting collections, the ethics of inclusion and exclusion, and questions of access and interpretation. Seeking to learn from and build upon other archival initiatives that document experiences of war, this session considered the technical, intellectual, and ethical guiding principles that should govern how to manage building archives under extreme time pressure and extreme circumstances. Discussants considered ways of defining the purpose and scope of collections, who does the collecting, and what resources are needed to make collecting possible. Other questions explored included identifying whom a particular archive is intended to serve and managing access and rights. Read more
Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Sofiya DyakMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron, Winfried Garscha Series: Panels and Discussions The round table on the morning of February 7 brought together scholars, archive specialists, and preservation experts who discussed the challenges and opportunities and exchanged best practice examples of preservation and archive building during war. They reflected on the importance of balancing the exigencies of the present moment with the need to build secure and lasting collections, the ethics of inclusion and exclusion, and questions of access and interpretation. Seeking to learn from and build upon other archival initiatives that document experiences of war, this session considered the technical, intellectual, and ethical guiding principles that should govern how to manage building archives under extreme time pressure and extreme circumstances. Discussants considered ways of defining the purpose and scope of collections, who does the collecting, and what resources are needed to make collecting possible. Other questions explored included identifying whom a particular archive is intended to serve and managing access and rights. Read more
	Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose?	Tue, 07.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko	Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Tue, 07.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first round table reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more
Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Tue, 07.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first round table reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more
	Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals	Thu, 26.01.2023	Lecture	Katherine Younger András Bozoki Misha Glenny	Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals Thu, 26.01.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger András Bozoki Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Book presentation by András Bozóki, the author of Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals (2022, CEU Press). The model of rolling transition offers a new account of dissident intellectuals’ contribution to the literature of regime change, following neither the vanguard model, nor the New Class explanation. The account focuses on the exceptionally influential political role of Hungarian intellectuals in the period of 1977–1994. Read more
Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals Thu, 26.01.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger András Bozoki Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Book presentation by András Bozóki, the author of Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals (2022, CEU Press). The model of rolling transition offers a new account of dissident intellectuals’ contribution to the literature of regime change, following neither the vanguard model, nor the New Class explanation. The account focuses on the exceptionally influential political role of Hungarian intellectuals in the period of 1977–1994. Read more
	From Victory to Invasion: The Dialectic of Soviet and Post-Soviet War Commemoration	Tue, 13.12.2022	Lecture	Katherine Younger Mischa Gabowitsch	From Victory to Invasion: The Dialectic of Soviet and Post-Soviet War Commemoration Tue, 13.12.2022 Speakers: Katherine Younger Mischa Gabowitsch Series: Lecture In this lecture, Mischa Gabowitsch argued that state ideology and local practices have always shaped each other, in a process that can be traced from before 1945 all the way to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read more
From Victory to Invasion: The Dialectic of Soviet and Post-Soviet War Commemoration Tue, 13.12.2022 Speakers: Katherine Younger Mischa Gabowitsch Series: Lecture In this lecture, Mischa Gabowitsch argued that state ideology and local practices have always shaped each other, in a process that can be traced from before 1945 all the way to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read more
	Policing a Postimperial World	Mon, 12.12.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	David Petruccelli Katherine Younger	Policing a Postimperial World Mon, 12.12.2022 Speakers: David Petruccelli Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, David Petruccelli showed how the drive to internationalize policing in the early twentieth century was tied to the messy processes of imperial collapse convulsing Eastern and Central Europe after 1918. He considered the implications of the postimperial roots of Interpol for our understanding of international policing and international crime control today. Read more
Policing a Postimperial World Mon, 12.12.2022 Speakers: David Petruccelli Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, David Petruccelli showed how the drive to internationalize policing in the early twentieth century was tied to the messy processes of imperial collapse convulsing Eastern and Central Europe after 1918. He considered the implications of the postimperial roots of Interpol for our understanding of international policing and international crime control today. Read more
	War and the Future of Ukraine - Conference	Fri, 18.11.2022	Conferences and Workshops	Katherine YoungerPaul Chaisty, Roy Allison, Gwendolyn Sasse, Timothy Garton Ash	War and the Future of Ukraine - Conference Fri, 18.11.2022 Speakers: Katherine YoungerPaul Chaisty, Roy Allison, Gwendolyn Sasse, Timothy Garton Ash Series: Conferences and Workshops 10am on Friday, 18 November 2022 to 2pm on Saturday, 19 November 2022 Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College Chair: Katherine Younger (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna); Paul Chaisty (OSGA, St Antony's); Roy Allison (REES, St Antony's); Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS, Berlin); Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's). Convenors: REES, OSGA; ESC & RESC, St Antony's; Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin. Read more
War and the Future of Ukraine - Conference Fri, 18.11.2022 Speakers: Katherine YoungerPaul Chaisty, Roy Allison, Gwendolyn Sasse, Timothy Garton Ash Series: Conferences and Workshops 10am on Friday, 18 November 2022 to 2pm on Saturday, 19 November 2022 Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College Chair: Katherine Younger (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna); Paul Chaisty (OSGA, St Antony's); Roy Allison (REES, St Antony's); Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS, Berlin); Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's). Convenors: REES, OSGA; ESC & RESC, St Antony's; Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin. Read more
	The Odesa Childhood of Isaac Babel	Mon, 14.11.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Aleksander Kaczorowski Katherine Younger Mischa Gabowitsch	The Odesa Childhood of Isaac Babel Mon, 14.11.2022 Speakers: Aleksander Kaczorowski Katherine Younger Mischa Gabowitsch Series: Seminars and Colloquia Odesa, the hometown of Isaac Babel (1894–1940), was the youngest and most cosmopolitan city of the Romanov Empire. What is the true nature of this city, which today is associated with television reports of Russian bombings and the local gangsters made famous in Babel’s stories, but in the writer’s time was primarily a great financial and intellectual center of Jewish life? How did Odesa shape Isaac Babel? How does his literary vision contribute to the modern myth of Odesa? Read more
The Odesa Childhood of Isaac Babel Mon, 14.11.2022 Speakers: Aleksander Kaczorowski Katherine Younger Mischa Gabowitsch Series: Seminars and Colloquia Odesa, the hometown of Isaac Babel (1894–1940), was the youngest and most cosmopolitan city of the Romanov Empire. What is the true nature of this city, which today is associated with television reports of Russian bombings and the local gangsters made famous in Babel’s stories, but in the writer’s time was primarily a great financial and intellectual center of Jewish life? How did Odesa shape Isaac Babel? How does his literary vision contribute to the modern myth of Odesa? Read more
	Small and mighty: The policies of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine	Mon, 17.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Aliesia Soloviova Katherine Younger	Small and mighty: The policies of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine Mon, 17.10.2022 Speakers: Aliesia Soloviova Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia The subject of this research is the dynamics of changes in the foreign policy of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine as well as the peculiarities of defining the foreign policy strategies of small states in the context of the Benelux policy towards Ukraine. The project will also interrogate the characteristics of the policies of small states in matters related to the resolution of international conflicts through the prism of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Read more
Small and mighty: The policies of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine Mon, 17.10.2022 Speakers: Aliesia Soloviova Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia The subject of this research is the dynamics of changes in the foreign policy of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine as well as the peculiarities of defining the foreign policy strategies of small states in the context of the Benelux policy towards Ukraine. The project will also interrogate the characteristics of the policies of small states in matters related to the resolution of international conflicts through the prism of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Read more
	Documenting Ukraine Info Session	Mon, 12.09.2022	Session	Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko	Documenting Ukraine Info Session Mon, 12.09.2022 Speakers: Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko Series: Session This info session was intended for those considering applying for a grant within the framework of the IWM's Documenting Ukraine project. Learn more about the project's concept and goals, the application and evaluation process, and what happens after a proposal is accepted. Project staff will be available to answer questions in English and Ukrainian. Read more
Documenting Ukraine Info Session Mon, 12.09.2022 Speakers: Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko Series: Session This info session was intended for those considering applying for a grant within the framework of the IWM's Documenting Ukraine project. Learn more about the project's concept and goals, the application and evaluation process, and what happens after a proposal is accepted. Project staff will be available to answer questions in English and Ukrainian. Read more