Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences

Course Co-Directors: Levente Littvay (CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest) and Inna Melnykovska (European University Institute) Can we compare apples…

Justice Across Europe: Trust, Judicial Independence and Courts in Times of Transition

Course Co-Directors: Marta Mochulska (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) and  Marta Spodaryk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv…

Transnational Relations of Care: Ukraine and Beyond

Course Co-Directors: Oksana Ovsiiuk (University of Fribourg) and Madlen Kobi (University of Fribourg) Contemporary social relations increasingly transcend…

Ukrainian Literature: Literary Canons, War and Social Change

Course Co-Directors:  Diána Vonnák (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Vienna/Prague) and Iryna Shuvalova (poet, independent scholar,…

Borders and Spatial Imaginaries in Ukraine and Beyond

Course Co-Directors: Elżbieta Kwiecińska (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Hanna Perekhoda (University of Lausanne) Academic research has long shown…

Decentering Soviet Histories: Regional Perspectives on Everyday Life and Politics in the USSR

Course Co-Directors:  Iaroslav Kovalchuk (Columbia University) and Arslan Akanov (Nazarbayev University)  The course explores central debates in Soviet…

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)…

Csilla Fedinec

Csilla Fedinec

Csilla Fedinec is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of National Minorities of the Center for Social…

Stanislav Kravchenko

Stanislav Kravchenko

Stanislav Kravchenko is a Ukrainian jurist who has been serving as the President of the Supreme Court of…

Anastasiia Puhach

Anastasiia Puhach

Anastasiia Puhach is a PhD Candidate, at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). Her scientific interests include…

Mariia Dotsenko

Mariia Dotsenko

Mariia Dotsenko is a PhD student in History at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Her doctoral research…

Adrian Matus

Adrian Matus

Adrian Matus is an editor of the Democracy and Culture section in the Review of Democracy journal. He…

Nadiia Chervinska

Nadiia Chervinska

Nadiia is a researcher, curator, and cultural manager. She holds…

Kateryna Osypchuk

Kateryna Osypchuk

Kateryna is a History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus…

Yevhen Yashchuk

Yevhen Yashchuk

Yevhen Yashchuk is a DPhil Student in History at the…

Kateryna Lysenko

Kateryna Lysenko

Bachelor’s student in Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.

Nataliia Shuliakova

Nataliia Shuliakova

Bachelor’s student in History at Yale University. Research Assistant in Forced Migration…