Stories
“Unbreakable” Caryatids: The Women Who Have Held Kharkiv
In February 2022, the third-year female students of the Kharkiv National Medical University were serving their pre-medical (nursing) internship in…
Ongoing Programs
Have We Ever Been Modern? Modernism, Modernity, and Modernization in Twentieth-Century Ukraine
Course director: Volodymyr Ryzhkovskyi (Independent Researcher) This course offers a critical perspective on twentieth-century Ukrainian history by situating…
Intellectual Debates in Modern Ukrainian History
Course co-directors: Ostap Sereda (UCU/BCB) and Balázs Trencsényi (CEU) This course will be structured around the main political,…
War after War in the former Yugoslav Space
Course director: Vladimir Petrovic (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) The course rests on a UNDP-sponsored…
The Future (of the) Balkans: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine
Course co-directors: Marija Mandić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade) and Aleksandar Pavlović (Institute for…
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Course co-directors: Levente Littvay (CEU Democracy Institute) and Inna Melnykovska (EUI) This course is organized into three independent…
Constitutional Stories of European Integration: a Comparative Perspective for Ukraine
Course co-directors: Marta Mochulska (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) and Nazar Stetsyk Ivan Franko National University of…
Open Calls
Invisible University for Ukraine Summer School 2026
Between Pasts and Futures: Competing Legacies, Narratives and Visions of the Future in Ukraine and Beyond (1 July–12 July, Budapest and Lviv) The 5th IUFU Summer School will bring together 50 selected participants from the IUFU student cohort in two parallel sessions, organized at CEU Budapest campus (4–11 July)…
Contributors
Mariia Dotsenko
Mariia Dotsenko is a PhD student in History at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Her doctoral research…
Adrian Matus
Adrian Matus is an editor of the Democracy and Culture section in the Review of Democracy journal. He…
Olena Nikolayenko
Olena Nikolayenko is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. She defended her PhD at…
Mariia Prokopenko
Mariia Prokopenko is a PhD student at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her dissertation title is ‘Master…
Solomiia Beska
Solomiia Beska is a legal scholar and cybersecurity researcher specializing in information protection, cyber resilience, and hybrid warfare.…
Editors
Nadiia Chervinska
Nadiia is a researcher, curator, and cultural manager. She holds…
Kateryna Osypchuk
Kateryna is a History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus…
Yevhen Yashchuk
Yevhen Yashchuk is a DPhil Student in History at the…
Kateryna Lysenko
Bachelor’s student in Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.
Nataliia Shuliakova
Bachelor’s student in History at Yale University. Research Assistant in Forced Migration…