Platform Ukraine Symposium

Platform Ukraine is a multidisciplinary project that aims at bringing together academics and professionals from various fields of study to discuss the ongoing events in Ukraine and their wider significance for the entire post-socialist space. 

The Symposium will commence a series of multidisciplinary thematic workshops with the intention of finding overlaps, tensions and synergies across academic disciplines.

The Symposium is organised around three multidisciplinary panels, which will provide opportunities for specialists from a diverse academic background to analyse the most urgent themes that relate to the current situation in Ukraine and the post-socialist territory.

Programme:

10:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: How have the recent events in Ukraine changed the East versus West divide?

9 September 2014

UCL SSEES Room 347

This panel will explore the East/West divide in Ukraine and its significance for the further development of Ukraine and the wider post-socialist territory.

Chair: Andrew Wilson (Ukrainian Studies; UCL-SSEES)

Speakers:

- Kathryn Cassidy (Human Geography/Ethnography; Northumbria University)

- Simone Ciufolini (Psychiatry; King’s College London)

- Erica Richardson (Public Health; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

- Vsevolod Samokhvalov (International Relations; University of Cambridge)

12:30 – 14:00 Panel 2: What is a fair price for happiness and a good quality of life?

9 September 2014

UCL SSEES Room 347

This panel will discuss the intersection between socio-economic and ethical aspects of the ongoing events in Ukraine.

Chair: Robert Brinkley (Chairman of the BEARR Trust)

Speakers:
- Uilleam Blacker (Culture and literature; UCL-SSEES)
- Elena Denisova-Schmidt (Politics – Corruption; University of St. Gallen)
- Olesya Khromeychuk (History; UCL-SSEES)
- Olena Nizalova (Health Economics; University of Kent)

14:30 - 16:00 Workshop-Panel 3: Studying the post-socialist space in times of crisis – methodological issues

9 September 2014

UCL SSEES Room 347

This panel will probe into the ethical, logistical and methodological issues concerning research in the post-socialist territory.

Chair: Peter Duncan (Russian Foreign Policy; UCL-SSEES)

Speakers:

- Ellie Knott (Politics; LSE)

- Kaneshko Sangar (International Relations; UCL-SSEES)

- Anton Shekhovtsov (Area Studies – Far Right; UCL-SSEES)

- Ondrej Timco (Politics – Corruption; UCL-SSEES)

16:00 – 16:30 Closing words

9 September 2014

UCL SSEES Room 347

- Honourable Chair: Professor Geoffrey Hosking (UCL-SSEES)

16:30 – 18:30 Wine Reception in UCL SSEES Masaryk Room

9 September 2014