Research Seminar

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At the IFES research seminar institute members and their guests present and discuss works in progress. The meetings take place several times per year. If you are interested in presenting your work send us an e-mail to ifes@europa-uni.de.

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Summer semester 2024


30 April 2024

Panel discussion in cooperation with the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies (VCPU)
20 Jahre EU-Mitgliedschaft - (Zukunfts-)Perspektiven aus Ostmitteleuropa (in German)

Timm Beichelt (MES)
Wojciech Gagatek (Warsaw)
Anja Hennig (IFES)
Sonja Priebus (IFES)
Falk Flade (VCPU)

Moderation: Susann Worschech (IFES/KIU)


11 June 2024

Aspect blindness: The problem of migration from Wittgenstein's perspective

Witold Jacorzynski (CIESAS, Mexico)

Moderation: Estela Schindel (IFES)


19 June 2024

Remembering transitions across East Central Europe: Preliminary findings from the field research in Poland and Germany

Agnieszka Mrozik (MES)


25 June 2024

World Congress Foucault: 40 Years After
Foucault's Reception 40 Years After

Part 1
Foucault in Research and in Class: Teachers & Students Talk

Christian Becker (EUV)
Amadou Sow (EUV)
Kira Kosnick (EUV)
Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar (EUV)

 

Part 2
Foucault in Central and Eastern Europe: Readings and Reception

Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak (Łódź)
Michał Kozłowski (Warsaw)
Balázs Berkovits (Budapest)

Moderation: Estela Schindel (IFES)


16 July 2024

In cooperation withViadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION
Grenzkontrollen zwischen Frankfurt (Oder) und Słubice - Eine wissenschaftliche Bestandsaufnahme (in German)

Markus Engler (DeZiM)

Lea Sophie Christinck (EUV/ DeZiM)

Moderation: Estela Schindel (IFES)

Summer semester 2023


26 April 2023

Panel discussion in cooperation withB/ORDERS IN MOTION
Das Erbe (zeit-)historischer Verflechtungen und der Krieg: Ukraine und Russland nach 1991

Jan C. Behrends (EUV)

Oleksandra Bienert (Berlin)
Ruslana Bovhyria (Berlin)
Wolfgang Eichwede (Bremen)

Welcome: Eduard Mühle (EUV President)
Moderation: Anja Hennig (EUV)


10 May 2023

Author meets Critics
Gespräch mit Buchautor Jürgen Neyer: „Europa im Unfrieden. Soziale Konflikte und politische Umwälzungen in der europäischen Geschichte und Gegenwart“ (in German)

Jürgen Neyer (EUV)
Claudia Weber (EUV)
Michael Minkenberg (EUV)
Eva Heidbreder (Magdeburg)

Moderation: Sonja Priebus (EUV)


24 May 2023

Pani Odra? Von Flüssen als juristische Personen in der ökologischen Krise (in German)

Andreas Gutmann (Kassel)
Hans Leo Bader (Munich)
Matthias Schloßberger (EUV)
Estela Schindel (EUV)

Moderation: Anja Hennig (EUV)

recording of the event is available on the media portal of the Europa-Universität Viadrina and a report about the panel discussion has been published in the Viadrina-Logbuch (in German).


30 May 2023

Public Interview with the initiator of "OsobaOdra“ together with the seminar by Estela Schindel

„Die Oder als juristische Person? Zur (Rechts-)Subjektivität von Flüssen und Natur“ (in Polnish with German translation)

Robert Rient (Wrocław)

Moderation: Estela Schindel (EUV)


07 June 2023

Zurück ins europäische Haus: Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte in Film und Fernsehen der 1960er Jahre (in German)

Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Gießen/Medellin)
Discussant: Randall Halle (Pittsburgh)

Moderation: Estela Schindel (EUV)


21 June 2023 --> postponed!

Roundtable 
Illiberal Politics and Academic Freedom

Moderation: Sonja Priebus (EUV), Zsuzsanna Végh (EUV)


12 July 2023

Gesellschaftstransformation. (K)ein gehaltvolle Ansatz zur Analyse sozialer Wandels (im Osten Europas)? (in German)

Raj Kollmorgen (Zittau/Görlitz)
Timm Beichelt (MES/EUV)
Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast (ZIP/EUV)
Amelie Kutter (MES/EUV)

Moderation: Anja Hennig (IFES/EUV)

A recording of the event is available on the media portal of the Europa-Universität Viadrina.

Winter semester 2022/23


19 October 2022

Auch ein Kulturkrieg? Die Rolle von 'Gender' und 'Europa' im russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine (in German)

Kristina Stöckl (Universität Innsbruck) 

Moderation: Anja Hennig (IFES/EUV)

Podcast on Deutschlandfunk Nova


16 November 2022

Discussion round on the relaunch of the IFES Working Paper series (not open to the public)


11 January 2023

Die Osteuropawissenschaften und der Anfang vom Ende einer europäischen Geschichte (in German)

Elisa Satjukow (University of Leipzig)

Moderation: Clara Frysztacka (IFES/EUV)


25 January 2023

Soziale Lebenslagen im ländlichen Raum in Brandenburg. Werkstattbericht eines laufenden Lehrforschungsprojekts (in German)

Jonas Rietschel (IFES/EUV)
Sascha Münnich (IFES/EUV)

Viadrina Logbuch entry (in German)

Winter semester 2021/22


3 November 2021

In cooperation with the Chair of German-Polish Cultural and Literary Relations and Gender Studies
Die Rolle des polnischen Ombudsmannes in Zeiten der illiberalen Demokratie

Adam Bodnar (SWPS University, Warsaw)


16 November 2021

Die Verfahren nach Artikel 7 EUV gegen Ungarn und Polen: Nukleare Option oder zahnloser Tiger? (in German)

Sonja Priebus (Chair of European Studies/IFES/EUV)


23 November 2021

Researching Society at War

Oksana Mikheieva (Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv/EUV)
Viktoriya Sereda (National Academy of Science of Ukraine)
Tetiana Kostiuchenko (National University of Kyiv)
Іnna Volosevych (Deputy Director, research agency Info Sapiens)
Svitlana Babenko (National University of Kyiv)

Moderation: Susann Worschech (IFES/EUV)


07 December 2021

Internal discussion on Critical European Studies


4 January 2022

Conceptualising Europe in Research

Joint session with the Research Seminar of ENS – European New School of Digital Studies


18 January 2022

Book discussion
Paradoxical Right Wing Sexual Politics in Europe

Jennifer Ramme (IFES/EUV)
Cornelia Möser (CNRS, Cresppa-GTM, Paris)
Judit Takács (Hungarian Academy of Science Centre of Excellence, Budapest)


8 February 2022

Film screening as part of „30 years of Viadrina“ and in cooperation with the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION
Grenzland (A. Voigt. Germany/Poland, 100 min., 2020)

Andreas Voigt (Film Director)
Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh/guest researcher at IFES/EUV)