On 6 December 2023, Charles University in Prague hosted a workshop as part of the REDEMOS research project. The event, titled ‘Wartime Ukraine and Ukrainians: Politics, Migration, and European Integration,’ was organised by the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in collaboration with the Ukraine in a Changing Europe Research Centre at Charles University.
The workshop, opened by Dr. Valeriya Korablyova, Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague, Dr. Maryna Rabinovych, Assistant Professor at KSE, and Dr. Tomáš Weiss, Deputy Director for Research at the Institute for International Studies, Charles University in Prague, focused on three overarching themes:
- Ukrainian politics and democracy during the war.
- Outbound migration of Ukrainians.
- Ukraine’s European integration.
Discussions emphasized the challenges of sustaining unity and mobilisation in Ukrainian society during the war and historical parallels with a view to inform present-day policies and strategies.
- Dr. Ivan Gomza, Academic director of the public policy program at KSE, Kyiv.
- Dr. Oleksandra Keudel, Assistant Professor at KSE, Kyiv, and Visiting Researcher at Södertörn University.
- Professor Viktoria Sereda, Senior Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien; Director of the “Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory” project, and Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv.
- Dr. Olga Oleinikova, Senior Lecturer and Director of the SITADHub at the School of Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney.
- Kostiantyn Fedorenko, PhD researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOIS), Berlin.
- Dr. Yana Leontiyeva, Research Fellow at the Czech Social Science Data Archive, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
- Dr. Iryna Fyschuk, Scholars at Risk Fellow at the University of Agder, Kristiansand.
- Dr. Milada Anna Vachudova, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Dr. Andriy Tyushka, Senior Research Fellow, European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, College of Europe (Natolin campus), Warsaw.