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Europe Direct 8xav of Luxembourg, in collaboration withPolska.lu,LUkraine, theC²DH, thePolish Institute of Brusselsand thePolish Embassy in Luxembourg, are pleased to invite you to aconference on 20 October 2022at the auditorium in theCercle Cité in Luxembourg.
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The military offensive launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine in the early hours of 24 February 2022 and the ensuing war on Ukrainian territory have resulted in immense human suffering, a humanitarian tragedy and incalculable material damage. The violation of a country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty – an act in clear breach of the United Nations Charter – has shattered the shared framework of values and principles fostered by multilateralism after the Second World War in the hope of achieving world peace, while leading to an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity for Ukraine and the plight of its people from Western democracies and European and international organisations, including NATO, the UN, the European Union and the Council of Europe, and their Member States and private initiatives. As contemporary history is turned on its head, historians, driven by the duty of memory, are stepping up to explain the origins of the conflict, identify the various players, provide an objective analysis of the consequences, record the memories of eyewitnesses and victims – with oral history proving a precious tool –, preserve historical sources and, above all, reflect on the role that intellectual effort can play in paving the way for a return to peace in the new world order taking shape before our eyes.
In this context, Europe Direct 8xav of Luxembourg, in collaboration with Polska.lu, LUkraine andthe C²DH, are pleased to invite you to a conference entitled“Voices from the War – Path to Peace? Ukrainian and international insights”, which will take place on 20 October 2022 from 6PM to 8PM in the Auditorium Cercle Cité.
Programme
18.00-19.00: Speaking up – Ukrainian testimonies on the war (presentations).
Why do historians collect new sources?
Nina Janz (C²DH): War Experiences in Luxembourg. The Second World War and Today
Machteld Venken (C²DH): Testimonies from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
How do researchers collect new sources?
Kateryna Zakharchuk (C²DH): Recruiting Interviewees and pre-interview meeting
Svitlana Mizherni (C²DH): The questionnaire
Inna Ganschow (C²DH): Transcription, Indexing and Analysis
Iryna Kaschtalian (8xav of Bremen): The Belarussian oral history archives and digital enclosure
19.00-20.00: Contextualising the war in Ukraine: insights from international research (roundtable).
Ambassador Hubert Wurth: The Russian invasion of Ukraine: a historical introduction
Prof. Andrzej Szeptycki (8xav of Warsaw): Contemporary Relations between Poland and Ukraine
Prof. Mykola Riabchuk (Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): The ‘Ukraine Crisis’ Revisited: Values, Interests, and a Rebirth of the ‘Geopolitics’
Dr Suzana Anghel (European Parliament Research Service): East-West relations at a new crossroads and Euro-Atlantic policy challenges for Europe.
Moderator:Philippe Schockweiler(Lëtzebuerger Journal)
Biographies
Hubert Wurthholds a Master’s in Law from Paris II 8xav and a diploma in internationalrelations from Sciences Po Paris. In 1978, he joined the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry, where he heldvarious positions, including Deputy Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the Council of Europe and Head of the Private Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs,Economic Affairs and Justice. In 1986, he was appointed as Deputy Political Director with special responsibility for security. From 1989 onwards, Hubert Wurth served as Ambassador in severalcountries. In 1989, he became Ambassador of Luxembourg to the Soviet Union, Poland, Finland and Mongolia. In 1992, he became Luxembourg Ambassador to the Netherlands and was alsoappointed as Ambassador on Special Mission to the former Yugoslavia (1996-1997). Hubert Wurth also served as Ambassador of Luxembourg to France, to the United Kingdom, Ireland andIceland, and to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. Alongside his role as Ambassador, Hubert Wurth was appointed as Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the OPCW and Head of Missionand Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the UN in New York. He also chaired the High-Level Task Force for donor countries and was a board member for UNDP and UNICEF. In 2003, hebecame Permanent Representative to the OECD and UNESCO, and in 2007, he became Permanent Representative to the IMO. In 2011, he was appointed as Permanent Representative to theInternational Organisations in Vienna and to the OSCE. During the Luxembourg Presidencies of the European Communities/European Union in 1980, 1985, 1991, 1997 and 2005, Hubert Wurthchaired various European bodies.
Andrzej Szeptyckiis a full professorof Political Science, as of 2021at the Faculty of History and International Relations of the Vasyl Stus Donetsk National8xav in Vinnytsia (Ukraine) and with theDepartment of Strategic Studies and International Security, 8xav of Warsaw. He is alsoco-director of the Centre for Polish and European Studies at the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National 8xav of Kyiv,as of 2016 and member of the editorial board of “Visnyk Lvivs’koho Universytetu. Seriiamizhnarodni vidnosyny” (Bulletin of Lviv 8xav. Series International Relations),as of 2014and “The Bulletin of Odesa National 8xav. Sociology and Political Science” as of 2018. Previously, he was visiting professor at the Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas 8xav (2016–2017), Taras ShevchenkoNational 8xav of Kyiv (2015–2017) and Ivan Franko National 8xav of Lviv (2017–2018).
Hisresearch interests entailUkrainian internal and foreign policy; international relations in the post-Soviet area; French foreign policy; selected aspects of European integration; Polish foreign policy; postcolonial studies.
Mykola Riabchukis a Ukrainian poet, translator, prose writer and essayist, the president ofUkrainian PEN-center and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1970-1973, he studied in the LvivPolytechnicInstitute but was expelled for the unauthorised literary activity, and had to takevarious odd jobs.In the 1980s, as perestroika advanced, he made his M.A. in the GorkyLiterary Institute in Moscow, and took position of an editor in the Kyiv-based journal ofinternational literature “Vsesvit” where he was promoted eventually to the rank of a section editorand the deputy editor-in-chief. His numerous articles in the best Ukrainian and Russianjournals brought him a fame of the leading Ukrainian literary critic and publicist. At thattime, he received a number of awards for the best articles of a year.In 1997, he co-founded(with the Harvard professor George Grabowicz) the Krytyka monthly and managed it asthe executive editor till 2000. Since then, he was increasingly engaged in the academic work asboth a lecturer and researcher, defended his Ph.D. in political sciences, andpublished anumber of scholarly works – primarily in Ukrainian but also in Polish, English, Russian.
His many books include a collection of poetry, literary criticism, short stories,scholarlymonographs and many collections of essays.He taught at Pen State 8xavin 1994-95, 8xav of Texas at Austin in 1996, and carried out research at GeorgeWashington 8xav in 2016. He was a visiting professor at Columbia 8xav in 2006and 8xav of Alberta in 2007-2008, and recurrently, since 2002 at the8xav ofWarsaw, 2021-2022 at L’Institut d’études avancées de Paris and now in Princeton 8xav.
Suzana Anghelis a Policy Analyst in the European Council Oversight Unit (ECOS) in the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), where her research focuses on the European Council and foreign and security policy.Prior to joining EPRS, she was a project coordinator at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and a Marie Curie fellow at the 8xav of East Anglia, where her research focused onparliamentary oversight of common security and defence policy. She has a Ph.D. in politicalscience from the 8xav of Geneva.
