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Call for Proposals ......................................................................................................... 1
Program of the Workshop ............................................................................................ 4
List of Participants ........................................................................................................ 7
Biographical Abstracts ................................................................................................. 8
Everything you need to know ..................................................................................... 15
Kyiv Centre for German and European Studies ......................................................... 19
Master-Program „German and European Studies“ .................................................... 20
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Call for Proposals:
Conference: «Political Development between Competing Empires:
Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus in Search of Sustainable Political and
Economic Orders», Kyiv, NaUKMA, 2/3 Dec 2016
Since 2014 and the events following the «Revolution of Dignity» in Ukraine, the still
so called post-Soviet region has taken yet another step towards more diversity in
terms of regime characteristics as well as geopolitical orientations. While post-
revolutionary Ukraine and a more democratically consolidated Georgia are trying hard
to integrate into the West, turmoil-ridden Moldova and Armenia are struggling to find
working models and direction, and even Belarus and some Central Asian states –
despite the persistence of autocratic rule – are eager to strike a new balance by
reducing Russian influence. Clearly, however, most states of the region confront a
new quality of domestically and internationally-induced stress for the foreseeable
future: whereas the prolonged and structurally–based economic recession of the
whole region is questioning the existing political and economic orders with a growing
potential for social unrest, Russia's military answer to Ukraine's revolution and the
EU's foreign policy-«catharsis» challenge statehood and make security a priority.
Those observations are a challenge also to existing approaches in the study of
political transformation and democratization. Whilst it has been accepted now that the
once popular «linear» or «convergence model» of transformation cannot explain the
many democratic roll-backs and hybrid or even autocratic «regime equilibria» in many
third and fourth wave democratization contexts, there is still a considerable lack in
explanations of what drives political and economic development and how new
«equilibria models» could look like. The Conference is designed to explain the latest
development of political and economic orders in the post-Soviet region from a
multitude of mainstream and not so mainstream perspectives (such as (critical)
political economy, political learning or political culture/psychology). It is encouraging
esp. young researchers from the region itself but also from EU states to present
papers based on creative theoretical and methodological thinking and profound
empirical observations. Comparative perspectives discussing empirical observations
from two or more countries are most welcome.
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We accept paper/presentation proposals on the following three overarching topics:
1) Political Institutions and Open Societies: Proposals should concentrate on
institutional change and the development of particular political regimes in the
region. What are the structural, ideational and agency-related causes for a
certain developmental path? At the same time, the societal dimension should
be addressed, asking for the nature of observable social activity (civil or uncivil?
civil without political society?) and the relationship between active civil society
and state institutions.
2) Post-Soviet Capitalisms and National Economies: Proposals should focus on
the variety of economic models in the region, explain their whereabouts and
problems of inter-connectivity, discuss their sustainability, their answers to the
current crisis and potential for reform. Special emphasis should be devoted to
the central role of the state in many post-Soviet economies, to the role of
commodities, but also to likely agents of change. Proposals based on focused
studies of specific regional or local contexts are welcome.
3) Challenges of Globalization and Multipolarity: Proposals should address the
external dimension of domestic political and economic change. What is the
reaction of regional policy-makers and business to the increased pressure of
globalizational forces? Which role do International Organizations play in the
region and do their policies have an effect on local development? How does the
renewed focus on security as well as the availability and competition of two
integration alternatives influence domestic political and economic calculations
and coalitions?
In order to narrow the focus while discussing a variety of regime types we will
discuss political and economic developments in three post-Soviet states in particular:
Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus.
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The 2-day Conference will take place on 2nd and 3rd December 2016 at the
premises of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) in Kyiv,
Ukraine. The organizers are the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),
NaUKMA and the team of the joint MA program (DSG) “German and European
Studies” of Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSU Jena) and NaUKMA. The CfP is
open to young scholars, meaning PhD candidates or Post-Docs from the post-Soviet
region, Germany, and other EU countries. We cover travel and accommodation costs
depending on your affiliation (university, think tank, etc.) based on DAAD-defined rates
and categories. Working language is English. Proposals (no more than 250 words)
fitting well into one of the three overarching topics outlined above can be sent to the
main organizer Dr. André Härtel ([email protected]) until no later than 15
October 2016. A publication based on paper versions of selected presentations of the
Conference is planned for 2017.
The conference is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany within the
framework of the special program: “Strengthening the cooperation with civil societies
in the countries of Eastern Partnership and Russia”.
Contact:
Dr. André Härtel
DAAD Associate Professor for “German and European Studies”
Political Science Department, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA)
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Program of the Workshop
Friday, December 2nd
1:30 pm WELCOME ADDRESS
André HÄRTEL, Organizer, DAAD Associate Professor at the National
University of Kyiv-Mohyla Acadamy (NaUKMA)
Maksym YAKOVLYEV, Ukrainian Coordinator, “German and European
Studies”- Program, NaUKMA
Felix SCHIMANSKY-GEIER, Coordinator “German and European Studies”-
Program, NaUKMA
1:40 pm KEYNOT SPEECH
Andriy MELESHEVYCH, President of NaUKMA
1:50 pm INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
André HÄRTEL (NaUKMA)
2:15 pm Start of the Conference
I. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND OPEN SOCIETIES
2:15 pm PANEL ONE
- 3:45 pm
Huseyn ALIYEV (University of Oxford)
“When Informal Institutions Change: Institutional Reforms and Informal
Practices in the Former Soviet Union”
Zuzana NOVAKOVA (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
“Consolidation and Contestation of Regime Characteristics in Ukraine's
Recent History”
Kostiantyn FEDORENKO (Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv)
“Political Transformations and Party Systems Developments in Ukraine:
Observing Interconnections”
Coffee Break
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4:15 pm PANEL TWO
- 5:45pm
Dorit HAPP (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig)
“Civil Activism in Small and Peripheralised Cities in Ukraine and Belarus”
Dennis REDEKER (Bremen International Graduate School for Social
Sciences)
“CSO's vs Online Surveillance – Transnationalization and Agenda
Setting of Civil Society in Georgia”
Denys YAKOVLEV (National University Odessa Law Academy)
“Leviathan in Matrix: Mass Media in Post-Communist Ukraine”
Saturday, December 3rd
9:00 am PANEL THREE
- 10:30 am
Aliaksandr HERASIMENKA (University of Westminster)
“Transformation of the Belarusian Political Landscape in the Era of
Digital Platforms”
Shota KAKABADZE (University of Tartu)
“Not European Enough? How Liberals and Populists in Georgia Make
Use of It”
Natia MECHITISHVILI (International Centre for Migration Policy
Development, Vienna)
“Migration Management in EaP Countries – Georgia and Armenia”
Short Coffee Break
II. POST-SOVIET CAPITALISMS AND NATIONAL ECONOMIES
10:45 am PANEL FOUR
- 12:45 pm
Aliaksei ZHURAULIOU (National Academy of Statistics, Kyiv)
“Comparative Analysis of Post-Soviet Economic Transformations in
Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia”
Iryna SOLONENKO (Viadrina European University Frankfurt/Oder)
„Oligarchic Strategies of Wealth Defense: Explaining Varying Reactions
to Attempts to Change the Social Contract”
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Ihor MOSHENETS (NaUKMA)
“Bringing Oligarchs Back In? Big Business in the Fluidity of Ukraine's
Hybrid Regime”
Lunch Break
III. CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION AND MULTIPOLARITY
2 pm PANEL FIVE
- 3:30 pm
André HÄRTEL (NaUKMA)
“Finding their Own Path: Transformation, Globalization and the Role of
Political Ideas in the (new) Post-Soviet Space”
Johann ZAJACZKOWSKI (Zeit-Stiftung Fellow)
„The Development of Ukraine's Political Order and the Russo-Ukrainian
War”
Mykhailo MINAKOV (NaUKMA)
“Report on 'Post-Soviet Political and Economic Experiments'”
Short Coffee Break
4 pm PANEL SIX
- 5:30 pm
Aron BUZOGÁNY (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
Vienna)
“Dimensions of Overlapping Integration in the Post-Soviet Space”
Maryna RABINOVYCH (I.I. Mechnikov National University Odessa)
“DCFTA Agreements as a Means to Private Sector Development in the
'Contested Neighborhood'”
Darina DVORNICHENKO (National University Odessa Law Academy)
“Ukraine's Europeanization: Challenges and Perspectives”
5:45 pm CONCLUSION AND FINAL REMARKS
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List of Participants
Name
Institution E-Mail
Huseyn Aliyev Oxford University [email protected]
Aron Buzogány Vienna University [email protected]
Darina Dvornichenko Odessa Law Academy [email protected]
Kostiantyn Fedorenko IEAC Kyiv [email protected]
Dorit Happ IfL Leipzig [email protected]
André Härtel NaUKMA [email protected]
Aliaksandr Herasimenka Westminster University [email protected]
Shota Kakabadze Tartu University [email protected]
Natia Mechitishvili ICMPD Vienna [email protected]
Mykhailo Minakov NaUKMA [email protected]
Ihor Moshenets NaUKMA [email protected]
Zuzana Novakova Rotterdam University [email protected]
Maryna Rabinovych Odessa University/
Thessaloniki University
Dennis Redeker BIGSSS Bremen [email protected]
Iryna Solonenko
Viadrina University,
Zeit-Stiftung
Denys Yakovlev Odessa Law Academy [email protected]
Johann Zajaczkowski Zeit-Stiftung Fellow [email protected]
Aliaksei Zhurauliou NAS Kyiv [email protected]
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Biographical Abstracts
Huseyn Aliyev
Huseyn Aliyev is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Russian
and Eastern European Studies) and a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of
Bremen (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa). Huseyn has earned his PhD in Political
Science from the University of Otago (New Zealand) in 2014. Huseyn is author of
“Post-communist Civil Society and Soviet Legacy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). His
most recent publications have appeared in Security Dialogue (2016), Contemporary
European Studies (2016), International Security (2015), and The Journal of Strategic
Studies (2015). Huseyn’s current research interests are armed and quasi-state
groups, as well as informal politics in the former Soviet Union. His previous research
focused on civil society, informal institutions, and institutional reforms.
Aron Buzogány
Aron Buzogány is assistant professor at the Institute of Forest, Environmental, and
Natural Resource Policy, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna,
Austria. He holds a doctoral degree in political science from the Freie Universität
Berlin with a thesis that examines the impact of Europeanisation in Eastern Europe.
He held academic positions at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin,
the German Public Administration Research Institute in Speyer as well as Yale
University, where he was Fox International Fellow. He was also an interim professor of
comparative political economy of Eastern Europe at the LMU Munich (2013-2014). His
research is located at the intersection of research on European integration and
Eastern European comparative politics. His publication appeared in Environmental
Politics, Acta Politica, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies,
Climate Policy, and other journals.
Darina Dvornichenko
Being a graduate of International Relations Department of Odessa National
University n.a. I. Mechnikov, She has a Ph.D degree in political science as well as an
extensive experience in research. She has published over 30 articles in Russian,
Ukrainian and English for the last 8 years. Given that her Ph.D thesis was focused on
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the Europeanization of domestic and foreign policy of Greece in the context of
European Integration, the issue of Europeanization holds center stage in her
career. Since September 2016 Dvornichenko has been working as a senior
researcher of the Political Science and Sociology Research Laboratory and an
associate professor of the Department of International Law and International
Relations. In addition to the expertise in the field of International Relations and
Political Science she also has experience in administration as a Vice-Dean of the
Faculty of Psychology, Political Science and Sociology, National University “Odessa
Law Academy”.
Kostiantyn Fedorenko
Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. He was
awarded his Master degree in Political Science from the National University of Kyiv-
Mohyla Academy in 2013, and Master of Arts degree in European and European
Legal Studies from Europa-Kolleg Hamburg in 2014. From 2011 to 2013, he worked
for the Center for Society Research as a coder for their Ukrainian Protest and
Coercion Data project. He is an active contributor of opinion pieces for reputed
Ukrainian media, among them ‘Focus’ and ‘Zerkalo Nedeli’. His publications include
'Ten Steps to Save Ukraine' (2014, in collaboration with Andreas Umland) for
Harvard International Review and The Ukrainian Party System before and after the
2013-2014 Euromaidan’ for Europe-Asia Studies. His research interests include
domestic politics of European states, radical movements and parties, and
international relations in Europe.
Email: [email protected].
Dorit Happ
M.A. East European Studies, researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional
Geography, Leipzig/Germany, PhD student at the Friedrich-Schiller-University,
Jena/Germany
Ms. Dorit Happ is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in
Leipzig/Germany. Her research focuses on the effects of the EU’s external policy
on its eastern neighbour states, focusing particularly on political and social
transformation and the role civil activism plays within this process in Belarus and
Ukraine. Through extensive field studies in both countries, she has established
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close working contacts with representatives of several local municipal administrations
and with local NGOs. She has also cooperated with international organizations and
civil society representatives to conduct research on the integration of refugees and
asylum seekers in Eastern Europe. In 2006, she received her Bachelor’s degree from
the University of Erfurt. As her main area of interest is Eastern Europe, she studied
political and cultural science in Moscow and Prague. In 2009 she completed her
Master’s degree in East European Studies at the Free University in Berlin. From 2010
to 2011, Ms. Happ held a Bosch-Foundation lectureship at Brest State Technical
University, Belarus.
André Härtel
Dr. André Härtel (born in 1979) currently works as DAAD Associate Professor for
„German and European Studies“ at the National University „Kyiv-Mohyla Academy“ in
Ukraine. Before he has been Political Advisor at the Council of Europe’s Directorate of
Policy Planning (Strasbourg, France) and a Lecturer in International Relations at
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. He was educated in Political Science and
International Relations at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, the University of Virginia
(US) and Oxford Brookes University (UK). Aside from being a regional specialist for
the Post-Soviet space his research interests cover foreign policy analysis,
international organizations, democratisation, and state-building.
Aliaksandr Herasimenka
Aliaksandr Herasimenka is a PhD student at the Communication and Media
Research Institute, University of Westminster in London, UK. He studies political use
of social media platforms. He focuses on the interaction between internet technologies
and political activism in non-democratic countries such as Belarus, Russia, and China.
Aliaksandr Herasimenka holds an MA degree in European Studies from Aarhus
University (Denmark), and a BA in Political Science from European Humanities
University (Vilnius, Lithuania).
Shota Kakabadze
Shota Kakabadze – currently 2nd year PhD candidate of political science at the
Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Doctoral
dissertation project focuses on the construction of European identity in Georgian
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public discourses (supervisors: Maria Mälksoo and Andrey Makarychev). The thesis
uses critical discourse analysis, combining liminality theory, securitization theory
the concepts of self-colonization from the post-colonial studies. Shota’s broader
research interests are identity studies, memory politics, and Europeanisation
processes in the post-Soviet space. Academic background includes MA in
European Union-Russia Studies from the University of Tartu and BA in International
Relations from the Tbilisi State University, Georgia.
Natia Mechitishvili
Natia Mechitishvili is pursuing her PhD in Caucasus and Black Sea Region
Studies specializing in migration management. Her research question is the effect
of Europeanization on migration management in Georgia and country policy for
return and reintegration. She graduated from Ilia State University in 2007
specializing in Philosophy and Social Sciences with the major in International
Relations. In 2007-2009 she completed master course in European Studies at
Tbilisi State University. She began her research career at the European Centre For
Minority Issues where she had been employed as a research assistant since 2008.
After employment at the International Organization for Migration (2010-2013) she
continued her career at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development
(2014-2016). Currently she is working at the ICMPD HQ in Vienna, Austria. She can
be reached at the following address: Gonzagagasse 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria, Tel:
+4366-565102537, E-mail: [email protected]
Mykhailo Minakov
Mykhailo Minakov (Krupp Fellow: 2013-2014; Fulbright Kennan Fellow: Wilson
Center-Harvard-2012-13; Fulbright Fellow: Harvard-2013; Shklar Fellow: Harvard-
2010; UKMA Alumnus: 1998) received his Doctor of Sciences in philosophy in 2007
from the Institute of Philosophy, Kyiv, and is Associate Professor at the Department
of Philosophy at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Author of three
books and over 70 articles in philosophy, political analysis, history, and culture, he
also runs a peer-reviewed Ideology and Politics Journal as Editor-in-chief. He also
works outside academia as political consultant to politicians in Ukraine, Germany
and EU and is a President of the Foundation for Good Politics. More info is
available at: http://www.minakovphilosophy.com/
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Zuzana Novakova
Zuzana Novakova is PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the
Institute of Social studies in The Hague. She is an associate expert at the East
European Security Initiative (Kiev), a Future Lab Europe fellow (Brussels) and works
in the editorial office of the European Political Science Review journal (Cambridge
University Press). Her main interest are societies in transition and the multitude of
social processes that mark policy change.
In the past, she was a visiting research fellow at Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a programme executive at the European Policy
Centre (Brussels). Zuzana holds MA in development studies with focus on governance
and democracy, MA in international relations and a degree in European studies.
Maryna Rabinovych
Maryna Rabinovych is a 2-year PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law at the
University of Odesa. In autumn semester 2016/2017 she is a Visiting Research
Student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She combines the work at her
thesis with participating in the ‘Returning Experts’ Program’ at the German
Corporation for International Development (GIZ). Ms. Rabinovych obtained her LL. B
degree with Honours from the University of Odesa in 2014. In 2016 she completed her
LL.M studies, focusing on the EU Law of External Relations at the University of
Hamburg. During her studies Ms. Rabinovych interned at the EU Border Assistance
Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), the Parliament of Canada and GIZ
Hamburg.
Her current work focuses on the role the EU trade and association instruments play
in the promotion of the rule of law in target countries of the EU modern Enlargement
and Neighborhood policies. Broader research interests of Ms. Rabinovych include EU
foreign policy, development cooperation, EU Neighborhood Policy, Eastern
Partnership and Ukraine’s domestic law and politics. Ms. Rabinovych fluently speaks
English, German and Russian languages, and currently studies Spanish and Greek.
Dennis Redeker
Dennis Redeker is a PhD student at the Bremen International Graduate School of
Social Sciences (BIGSSS) in Bremen, Germany. His dissertation aims to shed light on
the strategies of an emerging transnational civil society in the policy field "Internet". In
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the 2015/26 academic year, he conducted research on Internet Governance as an
Affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Dennis'
research focused on the political debate on privacy and surveillance in Georgia, on
data governance in the context of refugee camps, and on Internet rights documents
that amount to the phenomenon of "digital constitutionalism". He holds a BA in
Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht (Netherlands) and a
joint MA in International Relations from the University of Bremen and Jacobs
University Bremen (Germany). Dennis is also a co-founder of the Island Ark Project
Foundation (USA), which supports communities from small island states to
safeguard their intangible cultural heritage using digital tools.
Iryna Solonenko
Iryna Solonenko is a ZEIT-Stiftung Fellow at the European University Viadrina,
Frankfurt/Oder and Associate Fellow at the Robert Bosch Center for Central and
Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia of the German Council on Foreign
Relations (DGAP). Her current research focuses on the political role of oligarchs in
Ukraine.
From 2000 till 2012 Iryna worked with the Open Society Foundations in Ukraine
as the Director of the European Programme and with the EastWest Institute in Kyiv
as a project manager. Iryna is also a founder and expert of the European
Integration Index for Eastern Partnership Countries, Ukraine expert of the
Bertelsmann Transformation Index and member of the Board of the Kiev Dialogue,
a major German-Ukrainian civil society platform, of a Horizon 2020 eleven-partner
international consortium project EU-STRAT, and DiXi Group think tank in Kyiv.
Solonenko holds degrees in International Relations, European Studies, Public
Administration and History from the Central European University, Budapest;
National Academy of Public Administration, Kyiv; National University 'Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy', Kyiv and the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of a
number of academic, policy and media publications and a frequent speaker at
international conferences.
Johann Zajaczkowski
Johann Zajaczkowski is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bonn and a Fellow
of the Zeit-Foundation Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Previously, he was a Fellow of
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the Bosch-Foundation and worked as a lecturer and project manager at the National
University of "Kyiv-Mohyla-Academy” in Ukraine. Experience as project assistant at
Dimap Communications (Berlin), in the Foreign Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-
Foundation (Warsaw) and the German-Polish Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw). He
worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign
Policy of the University of Trier. Several years of journalistic, editing and translation
activity for various outlets. He holds a Magister Artium (Political Science & Public Law)
from the University of Trier.
Aliaksei Zhurauliou
Aliaksei Zhurauliou, PhD in Economics, is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Management and the Head of International Relations Office at National
Academy of Statistics, Accounting, and Audit (Kyiv, Ukraine). In 2008 graduated from
V.N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv.
A specialist in Econometrics and an expert in post-soviet economic transformation,
he is the author of more than 30 research papers in academic journals and member of
the Board of Editors of The WSB University in Poznan Graduate Research Journal.
The sphere of research interests – new comparative economics, path-dependence
problem of post-socialist countries, statistical modeling of economic systems’
transformation.
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Everything you need to know
How to get from hotel to workshop venue?
The workshop venue is on the old campus of the Mohyla Academy with the
official address Grygory Skovoroda Street 2. The entrance is however not so easy
to find so that someone will take the whole group from the hotel to the venue for the
first time on Friday December 2nd, 12:30pm (meeting point in hotel lobby). For the
next day, you can walk there alone, it is an easy walk of about 25min. We would not
recommend to take the metro as it will take you more time. Even in the night this
walk should be safe. This map shows the way (blue recommended):
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Legend:
14 = NaUKMA Historical and Museum Centre
The Hotel
The hotel “Dnipro” is located right at the end of the famous “Kreshatyk Street” on
“Evropeyska Plosha”, the site of the so called “Anti-Maidan” during the “Euromaidan”
in fall 2013 and later one of the main hot spots of the “Revolution of Dignity”. The
“Maidan Nezaleshnosti” (Independence Square) is just nearby. The hotel is paid for
you and breakfast is included. It is an average-priced hotel with 3 stars (booking.com),
so please do not expect luxury.
How do you get back to the airport?
Just order a taxi at the hotel reception during your stay. It should not cost more than
250 UAH to Borispol airport this way. You need approx. 30 min for the trip if traffic is
normal.
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Other Useful Information
Emergencies: Please check before your departure whether you have a world-
wide applicable health-insurance which also covers Ukraine. In any case, if
something happens to you during your stay you should call me first
(+380996216527 or [email protected]).
Transport/Security: Kyiv is a major city but not to be compared with other major
European capitals. Most events of significance take place on a small territory in the
so called “upper town” and the old district Podol, where the Academy is located. All
major sights are very near to your hotel and in walking distance. The metro runs till
approx. 1am and costs 4 UAH per trip. Taxis are cheap (approx. 50 UAH for an
inner-city trip), but foreigners are often tricked into paying more. So, it’s better to
agree on the price before, most drivers speak a bit of English. Crime is not a
problem, but keep an eye on your belongings in crowded places or the metro. The
new police are generally very friendly and approachable for foreigners.
Money: The exchange rate Euro/Hrivna is approx. 1:27 these days. You can take
money from ordinary cash machines, but we would recommend you putting it in
safe places such as inside banks or hotels.
Weather: Please bring warm clothes and shoes – the temperatures can get well
below zero degrees in December.
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Addresses and Telephone Numbers
Conference Venue:
Museum of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Grygory Skovoroda Street, Kyiv, 04070, Ukraine
Office of the Project inside NaUKMA:
National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Dept. of Political Science
Voloska Street 8/5 (building 4, office 224), Kyiv, 04070, Ukraine
Національний Університет "Києво-Могилянська-Академія", Кафедра Політології
вул. Волоська 8/5 (корпус 4, кімн. 224), Київ, 04070, Україна
Dnipro Hotel:
1/2 Khreshchatyk St., Kiev, 01001, Ukraine
Tel: +380 44 254 67 77
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.dniprohotel.ua
Hospital (private medicine, but covered my most Western health insurances):
Boris-Klinik
Prospekt Mykola Bashan, 12a, Kyiv, 02140, Ukraine
Tel.: +380442380000
Private André Härtel:
+38 0996216527 or [email protected]
Private Felix Schimansky-Geier:
+ 38 0957053047 or [email protected]
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Kyiv Centre for German and European Studies
Mission Statement:
The "Kyiv Center for German and European Studies" (KCGE) is an
interdisciplinary and international institute at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy” (NaUKMA). Our main goal is to support the reform of Ukrainian social
science in the fields of teaching, research and strategic consulting, where a
knowledge transfer from the German and European science systems is believed to
play its major role. The operation of the study program, students and teachers
exchange as well as targeted support of young scientists and creative research
projects are expected to lay down a new basis for a social science which promotes
excellence in teaching and research as well as the Ukrainian democratization
process.
The KCGE has been organized around a German-speaking study program
"German and European Studies" which came into existence in 2007, is funded by
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and operated by the Friedrich-
Schiller University of Jena together with the NaUKMA.
Since then, the range of our activities has greatly expanded and now includes
collaborative research initiatives of a different kind, namely regular-basis
colloquiums, joint research projects, conferences, workshops and publications. By
the means of the latter, we also succeed in reaching a wider public. The
establishment of the KCGE is intended to contribute to a strategic concentration of
our activities and strengthen their effectiveness within and beyond the Ukrainian
scientific landscape.
For us, it is important to emphasize that the KCGE's contribution is of a
supportive character, and our Ukrainian partners exercise absolute freedom in
laying down the main directions of their own social science. We look to demonstrate
a high scientific level of our own work and thus prove how value-neutral,
theoretically and empirically founded work can contribute to the progressive
political, economic and social development of a society.
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Master-Program „German and European Studies“
One of the most important subjects of the long-term cooperation project between
the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) and the Friedrich-Schiller-
University (FSU) is the two-year social science master's program "German and
European Studies". The postgraduate course takes place mostly at the NaUKMA, but
there is the possibility to complete your studies by spending one semester abroad at
the Friedrich-Schiller-University.
Germany and the European Union are not only amongst the most important trading
partners of Ukraine, but they also play an important role in the political sphere,
especially for external relations and the future development of the country. The master
program provides the scientific requirements to analyze political, legal and economic
issues in Germany and Europe. It also focuses on the international relations of
Germany as well as of Europe.
The program was developed by the University of Jena and the Kyiv Mohyla
Academy and was founded in 2007. The program is designed as a two-year
postgraduate course. The first year of the program takes place at the NaUKMA and is
at least 50% in German language. In the second year, students may spend one
semester abroad in Jena. In addition to the master's degree in Political Science
NaUKMA there is the possibility to acquire also a Jena master's degree in Political
Science (MPOL), after spending a semester abroad. The program can of course be
completed without staying abroad as well, in that case with the simple title of Master of
NaUKMA and a certificate from the University of Jena.
For more information, see: http://www.des.uni-jena.de/Homepage.html
