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4th Doctoral School in Urban Geopolitics:
Urban Perspectives
on the russian War in Ukraine
October 9-12, 2022
Lviv
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The University of Oslo, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the City Institute (Lviv), in collaboration with partners of the Norwegian Research Council-funded UKRGEOPOL research project
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Introductory talk “War and the city”
Prof. Kostyantyn Mezentsev (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
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Lecture and discussion “Analyzing individual geopolitical preferences at the local and national level: pre-war and post-war trends”
Dr. Ángel Torres Adán (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
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Lecture and discussion “Socialist urbanism, transition and postcolonialism in Ukrainian cities experiencing war”
Dr. Olena Denysenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
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Lecture and discussion “Information and disinformation in urban space”
Prof. Grygorii Pidgrushnyi (Institute of Geography)
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Panel discussion 1 “IDPs in the city”
with Anton Kolomieitsev (Chief Architect of the city of Lviv), Myroslav Zayachuk (Chernivtsi National University), Diana Berg (Mariupol Art-platform ‘Tiu’)
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Panel discussion 2 “Cities under occupation”
with Tetiana Zhuk ("Skhidnyi Variant"), Oleksandr Sosnovskyi (“Azov Development Agency”), Ihor Pylypenko (Kherson State University), and distantly Daria Malchykova (Kherson State University)
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Lecture and discussion “Theorising from Ukrainian cities”
Prof. Michael Gentile (University of Oslo)
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Repopulation and reconstruction talks by PhD students
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Excursion to Sykhiv,
guided by Khrystia Koliasa
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3rd Doctoral School in Urban Geopolitics:
Cities, Identities and Spaces of Information
September 15 - October 29, 2021
virtual space
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Seminar 1
Identity construction and negotiation in Ukraine: between official informal and invisible narratives
Dr. Abel Polese (Dublin City University)
Moderator: Dr. Sven Daniel Wolfe (University of Lausanne)
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Seminar 2
The Role of Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories in Russian Security Thinking
Dr. Martin Kragh (Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Uppsala University)
Moderator: Dr. Eugenia Kuznetsova (Kyiv School of Economics)
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Seminar 3
The (post)industrial town: Urban identity between 'local' and 'global'
Dr. Nadir Kinossian (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
Moderator: Prof. Michael Gentile (University of Oslo)
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Seminar 4
Dealing with the Uneasy Past: Mediated Memory and Urban Activism in Kharkiv
Dr. Ivan Kozachenko (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Moderator: Prof. Oleksii Musiezdov (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)
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Seminar 5
Renaming and Reclaiming Urban Spaces. Decommunization of Urban Identities in Ukraine
Dr. Valeria Lazarenko (Cedos, NGO Centre for Society Research)
Moderator: Dr. Oleksii Gnatiuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
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Seminar 6
Performing nation and its emplacements: re-assessing citizenship in post-1991 Ukraine
Dr. Valeria Korablyova (Charles University in Prague)
Moderator: Prof. Kostyantyn Mezentsev (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
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Seminar 7
Discussions on Donbas cities after 2014: role of industrial heritage
Dr. Iryna Sklokina (Center for Urban History)
Moderator: Dr. Olena Denysenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
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2nd Doctoral School in Urban Geopolitics:
Life in geopolitical falt-line cities
September 28 - October 10, 2020
virtual space
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| Organisers: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the University of Oslo, in collaboration with partners of the Norwegian Research Council-funded UKRGEOPOL research project. It took place over four days - "Days of Urban Geopolitics" and a virtual field trip to Dnipro, the city which was originally supposed to host this Doctoral School event. Within the scope of the Doctoral Scool, participants gained insights into socio-spatial polarization, identity, and IDP-related issues in cities. |
Lecture: "IDPs in post-Soviet cities – the case of Georgia"
Prof. Joseph Salukvadze, Tbilisi State University
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Lecture: "IDPs and the media in geopolitical fault-line cities"
Dr. Eugenia Kuznetsova, Kyiv School of Economics
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Lecture: "Not even past: contested urban memories of Ukraine`s unresolved conflict"
Dr. Tatiana Zhurzhenko, University of Vienna
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Virtual fieldtrip “Encounters in fault-line cities – getting a sense of Dnipro”
guided by Prof. Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Discussant: Dr. Sven Daniel Wolfe, University of Lausanne
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Lecture: "The causes and consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine: An economic geography perspective"
Dr. Vlad Mykhnenko, University of Oxford
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First International Doctoral Summer School in Urban Geopolitics:
Urban Identities, Geopolitics and Urban Policy
6-9 June 2019, Kharkiv
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| The Doctoral School provided an open and informal atmosphere for mutual exchange among young scientists and distinguished senior researchers, followed by a field trip to the twin cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, located in the Ukrainian government-controlled area of the Donbas. There was intense, productive, interdisciplinary and international dialogue and learning at the intersection of urban identities, geopolitics and urban policy |
Opening, welcome speeches by Vice-Rector Prof. Anton V. Panteleimonov and Head of the hosting department Prof. Liudmyla Nemets
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Participants
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Lecture: "Urban geopolitics"
Dr. Sven Daniel Wolfe, University of Lausanne
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Lecture: "Geopolitical fault-line cities"
Prof. Michael Gentile, University of Oslo
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Lecture: "Urban fences, Europeanness and urban identity"
Prof. Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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Lecture: "Urban identities in south-eastern Ukrainian cities: the case of Kharkiv"
Prof. Oleksiy Musiyezdov, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University
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Lecture: "Comparing conflicts at the edges of the metropole"
Prof. Taras Kuzio, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy & Johns Hopkins University
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Lecture: "Countering misinformation and disinformation"
Dr. Evgenia Kuznetsova, Kyiv School of Economics
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Discussion of and feedback on PhD students' work with Prof. Gentile, Prof. Kuzio, Dr. Kuznetsova, Dr. Wolfe and Prof. Mezentsev
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Full-day field trip to the Donbas
(Kramatorsk/Sloviansk)
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Field day in Kharkiv
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