At the annual conference of ZOiS, scholars and experts will come together to reflect on how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is reshaping understandings of war, peace, and security in Eastern Europe. The conference will focus on re-evaluating key social science concepts such as development, mobility, temporality, and generation, questioning their relevance in a rapidly changing political context. By combining concept-driven discussions with practical sessions on the methodological challenges of conducting research in conflict-affected and hard-to-access regions, the event will foster critical exchange and encourage new perspectives on studying and understanding the region.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 16 November
2.00 pm Registration
2.45 pm Welcome with ZOiS Director Gwendolyn Sasse
3.00 pm – 4.30 pm Session 1: Youth and Generational Change
Simone Abendschön (JLU Gießen): Children, Youth and Politics – Current Research Perspectives
Hakob Matevosyan (ZOiS Berlin): Making Generations? Implications for Political Socialisation among Young Poles
Alena Zelenskaia (LMU München): “We Stay Out of Politics”: War Memories and Political Neutrality within a Jehovah’s Witnesses Family from Donbas
Chair: Félix Krawatzek (ZOiS Berlin)
4.30 pm – 4.45 pm Coffee Break
4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Session 2: Simultaneity, Continuity or Disruption in Times of War?
Nadja Douglas (ZOiS): “Security is paramount“ – Changing perceptions of security in Poland and Lithuania
Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS): The impact of the war on the party system in the Balkans: re-emergency of the West-East divide?
Benjamin Beuerle (CMB, Berlin) Climate Change Policies in Russia Before and After February 2022
Chair: Sabine v. Löwis (ZOiS)
6.00 pm – 6.30 pm Break
6.30 pm – 8.00 pm PechaKucha Night
From 8pm Reception
Friday, 17 November
9.00 am – 10.00 am Coffee and Juice
10.00 am – 11.15 am Session 3: Paradigms and Practices of Development
Julian Bergmann (Institute of Development and Sustainability, IDOS) online:
Build back better? Strategies for Ukraine’s Reconstruction in Light of Debates on Post-Growth and Green-Growth
Valentin Krüsmann and Beril Ocaklı (ZOiS):
A Greening Belt and Road? China’s Role in Kazakhstan’s Energy Transition
Chair: Julia Langbein (ZOiS)
11.15 am – 11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30 am – 1.00 pm Session 4: Displacement, Migration and Diaspora in Times of War
Viktoria Sereda (VUIAS, Prisma Ukraina): Migration Governance Responses of Türkiye toward Minorities Fleeing Ukraine after Russia’s Aggression
Félix Krawatzek (ZOiS): Who Are the New Russia Migrants? Insights into Their Political Attitudes and Behaviour
Tatiana Golova (ZOiS) and Liliia Sablina (CEU, Vienna): Old Migrants, New Diasporas? Pro-War Mobilization and Diasporisation of Russian-Speaking Migrants in Germany
Chair: Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS)
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Parallel Sessions: Methods
Session 1 (Library): Opening the Black Box War
Inputs by Tymofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics, online), Nataliia Otrishchenko (Center for Urban History, Lviv) and Olga Onuch (University of Manchester)
Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)
Session 2 (Conference Room 3): Data Challenges in Russia: How Can We Deal with the Black Box?
Inputs by Alexandra Prokopenko (ZOiS), Michael Rochlitz (University of Oxford) and Kevin Limonier (Université Paris-8/ Institut Français de Géopolitique)
Chair: Julia Langbein (ZOiS)
Session 3 (Conference Room 4, EG+): Research and Ethics in Conflict and War
Inputs by Tetiana Skrypchenko (UNET Fellow), Tatjana Thelen (Universität Wien) and Marie-Céline Schulte (NORC at the University of Chicago; Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Heidelberg Institute of Global Health)
Chair: Nina Frieß (ZOiS)
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Final Session: Visualisations and Cartography: How Do They Fuse (Spatial) Discourses on War, Peace and In-between?
Mela Žuljević (Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig): Flooded with Maps: Cartographic Legacies and Futures of Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
Maksym Rokmaniko (Center for Spatial Technologies, Kiyv/Berlin): The Center for Spatial Technologies’ Study of Mariupol Drama Theater
Timothy Barney (University of Richmond): The Rhetorical Lives of War Maps
Chair: Kerstin Bischl (ZOiS)
5.30 pm Closing
