Event series

The photo exhibition shows four places: Chervonohrad and Sambir on the Polish-Ukrainian border and Berehove and Uzhhorod on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border. It is part of the research project The Liberal Script in Ukraine's Contested Border Regions, which is being carried out within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS.

This ZOiS Forum is part of the ‘Life in Dictatorships’ series organised by the Förderverein Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer and asks what role (in)equality plays in the legitimisation of authoritarian regimes. The discussion focuses on the GDR, Belarus and Russia.

Taming the Garden documents the creation of a botanical park by and for Georgia's most powerful man. Commercial cinemas in Georgia refused to show the film, which was deemed ‘too political’. In conversation with director Salomé Jashi, we talk about (in)visible politics in Georgia.

Anna Abalkina investigates academic misconduct and dishonest publication practices at Russian universities. She shows how the internationalisation of Russian universities has not only brought benefits but also created incentives for Russian scholars to engage in fraudulent behaviour.

Volodymyr Ishchenko and Oleg Zhuravlev apply the Gramscian concept of the crisis of hegemony to post-Soviet conditions. Flawed solutions to this are Caesarism and maidan revolutions. They show how the Euromaidan revolution of 2014 reproduces and exacerbates the hegemonic crisis to which it responds.

Irina Mützelburg and Félix Krawatzek show how families who have fled Ukraine struggle to meet the sometimes conflicting demands of German and Ukrainian educational practices: compulsory school attendance in Germany is incompatible with Ukraine's policy of binding students to their own school system.