Events

If you are interested in joining this academic mission or would like to get more details on the programme, please send an email to eureast@ugent.be

We warmly invite you to join us at VOX-POP on January 30, 5-7 pm, for a new year’s event that embodies a collective spirit of support and generosity – the launch of Book Boost, a new initiative by the University of New Europe.

Join The Moscow Times for Women Against the Kremlin, a groundbreaking event uniting leading women politicians, activists, artists and more from the anti-war, anti-Kremlin movement. Together, they will address these challenges and showcase their strength, resilience and commitment to change.

Op 7 november wijdt het Gronings Instituut voor Midden en Oost-Europa (GIMOES) een conferentie aan de geschiedenis van de betrekkingen tussen Oekraïne, Nederland en België.

Get ready for the March programme of Eastsplainers! In this final edition of Eastsplainers we devote our attention to academia and the knowledge production in Central and Eastern Europe, and in Ukraine in particular.

This paper offers a rebuttal to the long-standing narrative about a prohibition on the development of cotton mills in Tsarist Central Asia.

Prof. David R. Marples will speak about Ukraine's modern history. The lecture covers the various manifestations of Ukrainian self-assertion and aspirations toward independence and democracy from the end of WW2.

On 07 December, during the #HumanRightsWeek, NHC will create a space for further reflection on the future of human rights work in the wider Europe region

Konstantine Eristavi’s research explores the link between neoliberal reforms and authoritarianism in post-Soviet Georgia. Mainstream accounts wrongly assume that authoritarian practices are somehow accidental to the neoliberal project implemented in the region.

Volodymyr Ishchenko will discuss the concepts of caesarist rule, passive and Jacobin revolutions and hegemony crisis in relation to the post-Soviet condition.

Mark this date and join us to learn all there is to know about the activities and goals of the five Platforms: Africa, ASEAN+, CESAM (Latin America), China and Russia. Their central ambition is to bring people together to stimulate academic cooperation in their respective regions.

For Russia, history is an ideological tool to justify political decisions, both internal and external.