ZOiS Newsletter
March 2023
ZOiS Report 1/2023
Education and Displacement: Ukrainian Families in Germany
by Irina Mützelburg and Félix Krawatzek
This report focuses on the question of education in the context of displacement, looking specifically at the conditions in the very first months after arrival. We draw on an original online survey conducted among displaced Ukrainian parents as well as numerous qualitative interviews.

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News
Podcast Roundtable Osteuropa
Nostalgia in political history museums in Germany and Russia
In this episode, Félix Krawatzek discusses the use of history and particulary of nostalgia in Russia and beyond with Jörg Morré and Oleg Lutohin, who are both engaged in portraying and exhibiting contemporary history – in theory and in practice.

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Video: Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS
Evacuation Alerts: Behavioural Insights from Ukraine
Workshop with Volodymyr Vakhitov, Natalia Zaika, Monika Pompeo and Anastasiya Leukhina
A workshop with members of the Behavioural Scientists for Ukraine network and the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS (UNET) to gather feedback and ideas on how to translate hypothetical evacuation alerts into a more realistic setting to increase their potential to save lives.

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Vacancy
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) within the ERC Project MoveMeRU
Alongside developing their own research agenda as a postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d), the successful candidate will assist the Principal Investigator in realising the research tasks within the ERC-funded project “Moving Russia(ns): Intergenerational Transmission of Memories Abroad and at Home” (MoveMeRU)”.

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Vacancy
PhD Candidate (m/f/d) within the ERC Project MoveMeRU
Alongside writing a thesis in collaboration with the Chair of Political Communication with a focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region at the University of Passau, the successful PhD candidate (m/f/d) will work in an interdisciplinary research team within the ERC project “Moving Russia(ns): Intergenerational Transmission of Memories Abroad and at Home” (MoveMeRU)”.

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Publications
ZOiS Spotlight 3/2023
China’s Peace Plan for Ukraine: Responsible Leadership?
by Valentin Krüsmann
Chinese president Xi Jinping reportedly plans to speak with his Ukrainian counterpart later this month. But China’s positioning towards Russia shows that far from being an honest broker, it is using the war to present itself to the global South as a responsible leader while framing the US in the opposite terms.

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ZOiS Spotlight 5/2023
The International Grain Trade and the War
by Linde Götz
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven up grain prices, disrupted value chains and threatened grain supply of countries affected by hunger. There is a serious concern that Russia – the world’s largest wheat exporter – could exploit its power as a weapon of war. How are things looking in the global grain trade?

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Events
You are welcome to find out about current events on our website: www.zois-berlin.de/en/events
 
Medien
 
ARTE Journal report with assessments by Félix Krawatzek (26/03/2023)
Contribution by Richard Schmidt for Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (20/03/2023)
Episode of the Meduza podcast The Naked Pravda with Félix Krawatzek (11/03/2023)
Article with quotes by Yuliya Bidenko (07/03/2023)
 
Links to more media coverage on current topics can be found on our website ZOiS in the Media.