Book Launch Presentation with Reception: Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis. From the Soviet Union into Eurasia?

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Book Launch Presentation with Reception: Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis. From the Soviet Union into Eurasia?

Veranstalter
Centre for Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg; Sigmund-Neumann-Institute (Berlin, Dresden, Flensburg)
Veranstaltungsort
University of Southern Denmark, U 101 Alsion, Sønderborg
Ort
Sønderborg
Land
Denmark
Vom - Bis
01.03.2017 -
Website
Von
Hirt, Mario

Recent events in Ukraine and Russia and the subsequent incorporation of Crimea into the Russian state, with the support of some circles of inhabitants of the peninsula, have shown that the desire of people to belong to the Western part of Europe should not automatically be assumed. Discussing different perceptions of the Ukrainian–Russian war in neighbouring countries, this book offers an analysis of the conflicts and issues connected with the shifting of the border regions of Russia and Ukraine to show how ’material’ and ’psychological’ borders are never completely stable ideas. The contributors – historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists from across Europe – use an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to explore the different national and transnational perceptions of a possible future role for Russia.

Programm

Date: March 1st, 2017
Time: 16:00-18:00

Welcome
Steen Bo Frandsen, Head of Centre for Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg

Welcoming words from the Europa-Universität Flensburg
Monika Eigmüller, Vice-President of the EUF, Europa-Universität, Flensburg

Greeting
Christian Elmelund-Præstekær, Head of Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Presentation of the theme of the book
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, European Studies, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University (Sweden)

Comments on the book
Artem Vladymyrov, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Denmark

Ukraine from the Polish Perspective
Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, Ambassador of Poland in the Kingdom of Denmark

Round table discussion
Chair: Jaume Castan Pinos, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, Centre for Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, European Studies, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University (Sweden)
Jussi P. Laine, Assistant Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, and the Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Borderlands Studies, Finland/USA
James W. Scott, Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland
Katarzyna Stokłosa, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, Centre for Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg
Gerhard Besier, Director of the Sigmund Neumann Institute (Berlin, Dresden, Flensburg)

Questions, comments and discussion with the auditorium

Reception

Kontakt

Katarzyna Stoklosa

Centre for Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, A2 Sønderborg - DK-6400

stoklosa@sam.sdu.dk