{"id":16925,"date":"2024-03-11T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/?p=16925"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:00:12","slug":"sustaining-ukrainian-scholarship-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/sustaining-ukrainian-scholarship-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/nec.ro\/events\/sustaining-ukrainian-scholarship\/\">https:\/\/nec.ro\/events\/sustaining-ukrainian-scholarship\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Event: Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: NEC conference hall &amp; Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>14 March 2024, 9.30-18.30 (Bucharest time)<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Join Zoom Meeting<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/83128366739?pwd=NHZjenpacUxQUDk5dUlvalFveVZ0QT09\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/83128366739?pwd=NHZjenpacUxQUDk5dUlvalFveVZ0QT09<\/a><br \/>\nMeeting ID: 831 2836 6739<br \/>\nPasscode: 567087<\/p>\n<p>The first conference under the Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS) program is organized by our partner institution, New Europe College Bucharest, and will be held in Bucharest on the 14th of March, within its premises. It will be in hybrid form and will bring together representatives of the founders of SUS \u2013 CAS and NEC institutes, as well as the other parties, involved in the making of the program &#8211; University of Sankt Gallen, and our donor VolkswagenStfiftung, our Ukrainian fellows and their colleagues, Dr. Katherine Younger, Research Director: Ukraine in European Dialogue at The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), and the special guests of the event \u2013 prominent Ukrainian authors Andrey Kurkov and Andriy Lyubka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROGRAM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9.30-10.00 Welcome remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Constantin ARDELEANU, Senior Researcher, NEC\/ Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest<br \/>\nMatthias N\u00d6LLENBURG, Program Director, VolkswagenStiftung<br \/>\nNora KOTTMANN, Program Director, VolkswagenStiftung<br \/>\nDiana MISHKOVA, Director, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia<br \/>\nKatharina BIEGGER, Strategic Advisor, Center for Governance and Culture, University of Sankt Gallen<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.00-12.00 Keynote lecture followed by Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thinking Together on, in, and from Ukraine: Frameworks for Intellectual Equity<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nKatherine YOUNGER, Research Director of the project \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.at\/program\/ukraine-in-european-dialogue\">Ukraine in European Dialogue<\/a>\u201d at Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna<\/p>\n<p>12.00-12.30 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>12.30-13.00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>How to support Ukrainian scholarship? A view from the recipients (I)<\/strong><br \/>\nRoundtable with SUS Fellows from NEC Bucharest and CAS Sofia, and Ukrainian Alumni of former fellowship programs of the NEC (<em>Pontica Magna<\/em>, <em>Gerda Henkel<\/em>, <em>Black Sea Link<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>13.00-15.00 Lunch at NEC<\/p>\n<p><strong>15.00-16.00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>How to support Ukrainian scholarship? A view from the recipients (II)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16.00-16.30 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p><strong>16.30<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Artists at the Time of War: Words and Deeds<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAndrey KURKOV (writer; President of PEN Ukraine from 2018 to 2022) in dialogue with Andriy LYUBKA (writer; NEC Alumnus)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrey Kurkov <\/strong>born 23 April 1961 near Leningrad, grew up and lives in Kyiv. He is a Ukrainian novelist\u00a0who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of more than 20 novels\u00a0and 10 books for children. His work is currently translated into 42 languages, including English, Japanese, French, Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew. He has also written assorted articles for various publications worldwide including New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, La Liberation, Le Monde, Die Welt, Die Zeit.<\/p>\n<p>From 2018 till 2022 he was acting President of PEN Ukraine, running international and national literary and socio-political projects.<\/p>\n<p>For his novels, for literary and human rights activities he was awarded Halldor Laxness Prize (Iceland, 2022), \u201cLegion d\u2019Honeur\u201d (France 2015), Medici Prize for Best foreign Novel (France 2022), \u201cFreedom of Expression Award\u201d (Index on Censorship, London 2022), \u201cReaders\u2019 Award\u201d (France, 2012), Hans and Sophie Scholl Prize (Germany, 2022), National Critic Circle Award (USA, 2023)\u00a0 and others.<\/p>\n<p>His books are full of black humour; they are mostly set in post-Soviet reality.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andriy Lyubka<\/strong>\u00a0(1987) \u2014\u00a0Ukrainian\u00a0poet,\u00a0writer\u00a0and essayist.<\/p>\n<p>He graduated from Mukachevo Military School, Ukrainian philology at Uzhgorod University and Balkan studies at the University of Warsaw. The author of the books of poetry: \u201cEight Months of Schizophrenia\u201d (Uzhgorod, 2007),\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Terrorism\u201d (Lviv, 2009),\u00a0 \u00ab40 Dollars Plus the Tips\u00bb (Lviv, 2012);\u00a0 collection of short stories: \u201cThe Killer\u201d (Lviv, 2012), collection of poems in German translation \u00abNotaufname\u00bb (Austria, Innsbruck, 2012), book of essays \u201cSleeping with Women\u201d (2014), novel \u201cKarbid\u201d (2015, short-listed to top-5 books of the year by BBC Ukraine; Polish translation was short-listed to the Central-European award Angelus in 2017; Slovenian translation was published in Ljubljana in 2019, English translation was published in London in 2020), collection of short stories \u201cThe Room for Sadness\u201d (2016), book of essays \u00abSaudade\u00bb (2017), novel \u201cYour Gaze, Cio-Cio-san\u201d (2018), travel essay about the Balkans \u201cIn search of barbarians\u201d (2019), novel \u201cThe Small Ukrainian Novel\u201d (2020) \u0444\u0442\u0432 book of essays \u201cSomething is wrong with me\u201d (2022).<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the prizes \u201cDebut\u201d (2007), \u201cKyiv Laurels\u201d (2011), recently he received literary award of Kovalev Foundation (USA) and became a laureate of Shevelov Prize for the best book of essays of 2017 in Ukraine. He is the member of Ukrainian PEN. He is also the translator from Polish, Croatian, Serbian, English and the curator of two international poetry festivals. He is an active volunteer who helps the Ukrainian army, including organizing the purchase and delivery of nearly 200 jeeps to the Ukrainian armed forces. Lives in Uzhgorod.<\/p>\n<p><em>This event is organized within the Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS) fellowship program hosted jointly by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nec.ro\/\">New Europe College Bucharest<\/a> and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, with the support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagenstiftung.de\/de\">VolkswagenStiftung<\/a>. NEC also hosts Ukrainian scholars as part of the St. Gallen, IWM and\u00a0Gerda Henkel fellowship programs.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first conference under the Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship programme was organised by the New Europe College and held in Bucharest on 14 March 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20906,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925\/revisions\/20906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}