Nonresidential Scholars Program for Ukraine: January Research Workshops

The Nonresidential Scholars Program for Ukraine, led by Indiana University and supported by the Big Ten Academic Alliance and partner universities, is pleased to announce our first research workshops for the 2025 program, featuring the scholarship of the new cohort of fellows. Our first research workshops will take place on Tuesday, January 21, and on Thursday, January 23. Each workshop will last one hour, including a 30 minute presentation and 30 minutes Q&A. The link for all workshops is here: https://iu.zoom.us/j/83074856556?pwd=am5wdVhIRFJuaWlmdEZFOFJ5ek9vZz09

Meeting ID: 830 7485 6556

Password: Indiana

Tuesday Lectures will take place in Ukrainian, with simultaneous English interpretation: 

Tuesday, January 21, 10:00 EST/ 17:00 Kyiv

Oksana Pukhonska (History, Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University, supported by Penn State), “War as a reason to explore family memory: Literary stories about Ukrainian identity trauma”

Tuesday, January 21, 11:00 EST/ 18:00 Kyiv

Yevhen Zakharchenko (History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, supported by Ohio State), “Kharkiv is the first capital” vs. “Kharkiv is reinforced concrete”: Memory and identities in Kharkiv before and after Russian invasion.

Thursday Lectures will take place in English, no interpretation provided: 

Thursday, January 23, 10:00 EST/ 17:00 Kyiv

Serhiy Shevchenko (Logistics/Risk Management, Lviv Polytechnic National University, supported by Penn State), “Restoration of Ukraine’s Ecological Balance in the Context of Post-War Natural Landscape Reclamation”

Thursday, January 23, 11:00 EST/ 18:00 Kyiv

Olga Brusylovska (International Relations, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Supported by U of Maryland), “Russian Narratives of the War in Ukraine 2024”

The NRSP is grateful to all the BTAA partner universities sponsoring fellows in the program: Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, UIUC, Washington, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.