Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES)
Summer Term 2021
The meetings take place every 14 days on Tuesdays at 4.15 p.m via Zoom. All interested parties are kindly invited. To register, please send an email to ifes@europa-uni.de.
4 May 2021
Study presentation (in English)
The authors Oleksandra Slobodian (Kiev), Tasha Lomonosova (Kiev) and Liliana Filipchuk (Kiev) will present their Study of the needs and challenges of civil society organisations that work with migrants and mobile populations with Stefan Henkel (EUV) and Oksana Mikheieva (Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv/DAAD). Facilitation: Susann Worschech (EUV).
In cooperation with Ukraine Calling and Cedos (Center for Society Research NGO).
18 May 2021
Special Issue presentation (in English)
Co-editor Paweł Lewicki (EUV) and the authors Anastasia Diatlova (University of Helsinki) and Daria Krivonos (University of Helsinki) will present the special issue of the Intersections EEJSP Journals Struggles over Europe: Postcolonial East/West Dynamics of Race, Gender and Sexuality (Open Access).
This event was recorded and is available for rewatch at the IFES channel at the Viadrina media platform.
1 June 2021
(Please note: This meeting takes place at 6 pm.)
IFES talk (open for the university public)
with the chair Katja Diefenbach (Philosophy of Culture/Philosophy of Cultures).
15 June 2021
IFES talk (open for the university public)
with the chair Sascha Münnich (Sociology of the economy).
29 June 2021
IFES talk / ENS meets IFES (open for the university public, in English)
in cooperation with the ENS Research Seminar
with Ulrike Klinger and Jan-Hendrik Passoth of the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS).
13 July 2021
(Please note: This meeting takes place at 6 pm.)
'In-Between' the Poles: 'Maverick Cosmopolitan' Actors in the Eurasian Cold War
Gautam Chakrabarti (EUV)
This event was recorded and is available for rewatch at the IFES channel at the Viadrina media platform.
26 May 2021
1-2 p.m
Covid 19 Vaccination politics: (In)equalities and the role of Europe (in English)
With Stuart Blume (Prof. emer. University of Amsterdam) and Caroline Meier zu Biesen (University of Leipzig).
Facilitation by Anja Hennig (IFES/EUV) and Marian Burchardt (University of Leipzig).
This event was recorded and is available for rewatch at the IFES channel at the Viadrina media platform.
17 June 2021
1-2 p.m
Book presentation:
From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine. A Contemporary History, 1991–2021 (in English)
Co-editor Mykhailo Minakov (Kennan Institute, Wilson Center / former IFES guest researcher) will present the newly published book From "the Ukraine" to Ukraine. A Contemporary History, 1991–2021 (ibidem Press).
In cooperation with the EUV chair of Entangled History of Ukraine.
This event was recorded and is available for rewatch at the IFES channel at the Viadrina media platform.
8 June 2021
6.00-7.30 p.m
Book presentation
"Rechtsparteien in Brandenburg. Zwischen Wahlalternative und Neonazismus, 1990-2020"
Invitation to a conversation with editors and authors Gideon Botsch (ed.), Christoph Schulze (ed.), Teresa Sündermann (author) and Hendrik Träger (author).
The event will be facilitated by Michael Minkenberg (EUV).
Further informationen about the collective volume can be found here.
In cooperation with the EUV chair of Comparative Politics.
This event was recorded and is available for rewatch at the IFES channel at the Viadrina media platform (in German).
The Public Lecture Series (Ringvorlesung) Life and Death at the European Borders take place every Monday from May 3 to July 5 from 4 p.m (sharp) to 5.30 p.m via Zoom.
Concept and organization: Estela Schindel (IFES/EUV) and Carolina Kobelinksy (Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology/Université Paris Nanterre).
Registration at: ifes@europa-uni.de
The program and the poster are also available for download.
The lectures wil be recorded and are available at the Viadrina media portal.
3 May 2021
Michel Agier (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales/IRD-CEMS)
Living at the Border until Death
10 May 2021
Carolina Kobelinsky (CNRS/LESC)
The ‘Completeness’ of the Dead: Practices of Management and Modes of Attachment to Unknown Border Crossers Buried in Catania
17 May 2021
Antoine Pécoud (Université de Sorbonne Paris Nord/CERI)
Civil Society, International Organizations, and the (De)Politization of Border Deaths' Numbers
31 May 2021
Vanessa Grotti (Università di Bologna)
Ecologies of Remembrance: Situating the Afterlives of Migrant Dead at Sea in Italy (1997-2019)
7 June 2021
Vanessa E. Thompson (EUV)
Politics of (Un-)Breathing. Policing Blackness in Europe
14 June 2021
Gerhild Perl (Universität Bern)
Recovering Remnants. The Erasure of Deceased Migrants and the Exculpation of Responsibility at the Spanish-Moroccan Frontier
21 June 2021
Karolina Follis (Lancaster University)
Not Crossing Borders: The (Im)mobilities of the Covid-19 Pandemic
28 June 2021
Valentina Zagaria (Central European University)
The Place of Others: Weddings, Funerals, and the Work of Dignity in a Tunisian Border Town
5 July 2021
Estela Schindel (EUV)
Between Life and Death: The Migrant as Ghost over Europe
