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Displaced Perspectives Seminar: Open Sessions

May 4th, 2 pm - 4 pm  Trauma: meeting with artist  Lia Dostlieva  (hybrid) We’re meeting in person in room 105, and Lia Dostlieva will join online.  Lia Dostlieva  (born in Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist, cultural anthropologist, and essayist whose work explores themes of memory, trauma, and social vulnerability. She works across multiple media—including photography, installations, video, and textile sculpture—and focuses on issues such as  collective trauma, postmemory, decolonial narratives, and the visibility of marginalised groups .  Lia Dostlieva has exhibited internationally at major institutions and participated in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the  60th Venice Biennale . Her practice often combines artistic production with research and writing, reflecting her academic background in cultural anthropology.  May 11th, 2 pm - 4 pm  Chornobyl: meeting with  Dr Jonathon Turnbull  (hybrid) We’re meeting in person in room 105, and Jonathon Turnbull will join online.  Jonathon Turnbull  is a more-than-human geographer from Newcastle upon Tyne with a broad interest in the geographies of nature. His research examines how environmental knowledges are produced and contested across diverse geographical contexts from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine to the rumen of livestock cattle in Europe and India. We will focus on Jonathon’s upcoming book, in which he explores the ‘return of nature’ to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, the site of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe of 1986. This work is currently being prepared for publication as a monograph, provisionally titled  Radioactive Resurgence , which explores how the Zone has come to be understood simultaneously as a post-apocalyptic wasteland and a thriving nuclear nature reserve, and how more-than-human life endures after nuclear catastrophe. June 1st, 2 pm - 4 pm  Post-industrial urban ecologies: meeting with artist Karolina Uskakovych and screening of her latest movie, White Cliffs of Vinnytsia (2026).   We’re meeting in person in room 105, and Karolina Uskakovych will join online.  The territory of the Vinnytsya Chemical Plant stretches along the railroad tracks, not far from the central city railway station. Founded in 1920, Khimprom was one of Ukraine's largest chemical enterprises and went bankrupt in the late nineties, leaving behind a toxic legacy – a phosphogypsum stack known locally as the "white mountains." In her project, Karolina Uskakovych returns to her hometown to explore the landfill ecosystem through archival work, visual research, collaboration with experts, and the conceptualisation of post-industrial urban ecologies. What is the ecosystem that forms on the phosphogypsum stack? What is its cultural and ecological significance? Do the "white cliffs" pose a threat of environmental pollution, or have they become a haven for wildlife within the industrial zone? Can these roles coexist? We will discuss the decolonial rethinking of the urban landscape and the creation of artistic visions for post-industrial ecosystems. June 8th, 2 pm - 4 pm  The Post-Soviet: meeting with artist Lada Nakonechna    (online) Online, please contact Ewa Sułek at  ewa.sulek@fu-berlin.de  to receive the link to the meeting. Lada Nakonechna is a contemporary Ukrainian artist whose work spans drawing, installation, performance, and video. Her work critically examines systems of power, visibility, and representation , often focusing on how political and social structures shape everyday life. Primarily, she focuses on cultural infrastructures that enable violence. She engages with documents and found footage, challenging modes of visibility by intervening in culturally stabilised images. In her works with historical Socialist Realist paintings, Nakonechna questions the future to which the landscape, in its often politicised forms, has long laid claim. A significant strand of her practice addresses displaced bodies and the loss of orientation , which is particularly relevant in the context of Russia's war against Ukraine. Her work frequently reflects absence, erasure, loneliness, and the fragility of personal and collective memory. She is a member of the R.E.P. group and a co-founder of the Method Fund. June 15th, 2 pm - 4 pm  Home: meeting with Yuriy Biley from Open Group . In person, room 105. Open Group is a Ukrainian contemporary art collective founded in 2012 in Lviv by six artists: Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga, Stanislav Turina, Roman Khimei, and Andriy Rachynskyi (As of August 2023, Open Group consists of three people: Yuriy Biley, Anton Varga, and Pavlo Kovach Jr.). The group works collaboratively across installation, performance, video, and participatory practices. Their work often explores collective authorship, communication, and the construction of social space , frequently involving audiences directly in the creation or activation of artworks. Open Group is particularly known for its interest in everyday interactions, institutional critique, and the boundaries between artist and viewer . In recent years, their practice has increasingly addressed the impact of war, displacement, and shifting identities in Ukraine , reflecting on how communities are formed and reshaped under conditions of crisis. Their projects often engage with testimony, shared experience, and the role of language and storytelling. Open Group has represented Ukraine at major international platforms, including the Venice Biennale, where their work has drawn attention for its subtle yet powerful engagement with contemporary social and political realities. June 22nd, 2 pm - 4 pm  Memory: meeting with Mykola Ridnyi.   In person, room 105. Mykola Rydnyi (born in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores the intersections of memory, history, and political reality . Working across video, installation, sculpture, and photography, he examines how personal and collective memories are shaped by ideology, media, and urban space. A central focus of Rydnyi’s practice is the construction and erosion of memory in post-Soviet contexts , particularly in eastern Ukraine. He often engages with archives, testimonies, and fragmented narratives to reveal how histories are mediated, forgotten, or manipulated. His works address themes such as trauma, propaganda, and the legacy of Soviet and post-Soviet transformations , as well as the ongoing impact of war on collective consciousness. Rydnyi is a co-founder of the SOSka group and has been closely involved with independent art initiatives in Kharkiv, contributing to critical cultural discourse in Ukraine. His films and installations have been shown internationally, including at major exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, where his work has been recognised for its nuanced engagement with memory, image-making, and political subjectivity.   The meetings are part of the seminar series  Displaced Perspectives: Ukrainian Art and Cultural Resilience in Times of War .

Ort: Osteuropa Institut FU Berlin Garystr. 55 Raum 105

04.05.2026 - 22.06.2026
01.07.2026 | 16:00

OEI Absolvent_innenfeier

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A

10.07.2026 | 14:00

Reckoning with Ecocide

Ort: 11.06.2026 FU Berlin, Institute for East European Studies, Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin 12.06.2026 FU Berlin, Conference Center, Room L 116, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, 14195 Berlin

11.06.2026 - 12.06.2026

2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA Film screening & conversation

From the Oscar®-winning team behind 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point. Following his historic account of the civilian toll in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian soldiers —who they are, where they came from, and the impossible decisions they face in the trenches as they fight for every inch of their land. Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian brigade battling through approximately one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. Weaving together original footage, intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam video and powerful moments of reflection, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that, for them, this war may never end. Introduction by Dr Ewa Sułek Q&A with Ivanna Kozak, director of the Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin. The movie’s language is Ukrainian with English subtitles. The language of the event is English. 

Ort: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Osteuropa-Institut Garystraße 55 - A

04.06.2026 | 16:00 - 19:00
21.05.2026 | 12:00 - 14:00

Rustam Samadov | Transformations of Gender Relations in Central Asia

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

11.02.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
04.02.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
28.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
21.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45

Linker Antisemitismus?

Ort: Hörsaal /Thielallee 67

20.01.2026 | 19:00

Aleksey Oshchepkov | Changes in Migration Patterns in the Post-Soviet Space after 02.2022

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

14.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
07.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
17.12.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
10.12.2025 | 16:30

Susanne Strätling | Kulturelle Kartographie der frühen Sowjetunion

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

03.12.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
26.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Workshop mit der Regisseurin Eva Neymann

Ort: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin Seminarzentrum Silberlaube Raum L 113

24.11.2025 | 09:00 - 12:00

FÄLLT AUS! Robert Kindler | Mobilität und Ordnung. Anmerkungen zur sowjetischen Geschichte

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

19.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Aglaya Glebova | Oilscapes of Socialist Realism

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

12.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Alexander Libman | Transformations of Authoritarianism in the Post-Soviet Eurasia

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

05.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

1st European RASA Conference

Ort: Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystr. 35, 14195 Berlin (Friday: Hall D, Saturday: Hall A )

31.10.2025 - 01.11.2025
29.10.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Theocharis Grigoriadis | The Political Economy of Brain Drain

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

22.10.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Buchvorstellung und Diskussion | „Marx gegen Moskau" von Dr. Timm Graßmann

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Raum 121 Garystr. 55 14195 Berlin

14.10.2025 | 18:00

Conference | Beyond Empires – Fokus Osteuropa

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Garystr. 55 14195 Berlin

09.10.2025 - 10.10.2025

Erstsemestereinführung | MA Osteuropastudien

Ort: Hörsaal A Osteuropa-Institut Garystraße 55

08.10.2025 | 10:00

Russlands ‚heiliger Krieg‘ mit Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm und Prof. Dr. Regina Elsner

Ort: Katholische Akademie in Berlin Hannoversche Str. 5 10115 Berlin

07.10.2025 | 19:00 - 21:00
07.10.2025 | 13:00 - 14:00

Conference | (Un)Safe Plurality: Ukraine and Beyond

Ort: Free Universität Berlin Institute for East European Studies Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

29.09.2025 - 01.10.2025

Kurzfilmfestival | Central Asia: At the Crossroads

Ort: SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA Lindower Str. 20/22, Haus C 13347 Berlin

27.09.2025 - 28.09.2025

Workshop | Russia’s Right-Wing and the War

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Edwin-Redslob-Straße 29 14195 Berlin

26.09.2025
15.09.2025 - 26.09.2025

Absolvent*innenfeier

Ort: Hörsaal A, Garystr. 55

11.07.2025 | 14:00
10.07.2025 | 10:00 - 17:00
04.07.2025 - 13.07.2025

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften | Logistik von Protestcamps

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Rostlaube Raum K31/102

28.06.2025 | 17:00 - 21:00

Internationale Tagung | I̶m̶p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶t̶u̶r̶. Gatekeeping, Buchmarkt und Publikum

Organisiert von Melina Brüggemann, Florian Fuchs, Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Cornelia Ortlieb und Susanne Strätling, Projekt Obscured, Unrecognized, Forgotten. Negative Circulation in Literature, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies" Was auf dem Buchmarkt – und in der Folge in Wohnzimmern, Seminarräumen und Bibliotheken – zirkuliert, was in Buchläden und auf Messen verkauft, in Salons und Literaturhäusern verhandelt, in Verkaufsstatistiken erfasst oder gar für Literaturpreise nominiert wurde und wird, das hat nach einer langen Reihe von Prüfungen das Gütesiegel der Imprimatur erhalten: Es durfte verlegt und gedruckt werden. Was aber macht diese Prüfungen aus? Wie laufen sie ab? Was wird geprüft? Nach welchen Kriterien wird geprüft? Wer darf prüfen? Was streicht der Lektor an? Was die Verlagsgutachterin? Was der Zensor? Inwieweit verändert sich der Inhalt im Lauf dieser Prüfungen? Und was passiert schließlich mit den Texten, die aussortiert werden, die die Prüfung nicht bestehen und die Druckfreigabe nicht erhalten? Die Tagung wendet sich den Mechanismen zu, die seit dem 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart für die Leser:innen grundsätzlich unsichtbar geblieben sind, weil sie vor der Schwelle der Drucklegung stattfanden. Sie untersucht die Institutionen und Praktiken, in und mit denen Texte auf ihre Veröffentlichung hin bewertet und entweder weiterprozessiert oder aber aus der literarischen Wertschöpfungskette ausgeschieden oder gar nie in sie hineingenommen wurden. Gefragt wird, welche Bedingungen und Faktoren Meinungsbildung und Entscheidungsfindung bestimmen. Dabei kommen ganz unterschiedliche Akteur:innen und Strukturen des literarischen Gatekeeping in den Blick: von Kompilator:innen, Redakteur:innen und Verleger:innen über literarische Influencer:innen und Literaturagent:innen bis hin zu religiösen und politischen, staatlichen und nicht-staatlichen Zensurbehörden. Es werden aber auch die unterschiedlichen Logiken des Selektierens beleuchtet, in denen das ökonomische Kalkül der Verkaufbarkeit mit anderen Wertmaßstäben austariert werden muss. Zentrales Erkenntnisinteresse der Tagung ist es, durch eine Untersuchung der vielfältigen Begutachtungs- und Gatekeeping-Prozesse im Buchmarkt seit der Moderne jene Segmente des Literaturmarkts in den Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit zu rücken, welche in den diversen Selektionsstufen aussortiert werden und deshalb jenseits des öffentlichen Lesehorizonts und letztlich im Status einer bloß potentiellen Literatur verbleiben.

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" Raum 00.05 & 00.07 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin

26.06.2025 - 27.06.2025
12.06.2025 | 17:00 - 19:00

Löwenthal Lecture 2025 | Return and Return Intentions of Ukrainian Refugees

Ort: Hörsaal A Osteuropa-Institut Garystr. 55 14195 Berlin

11.06.2025 | 16:00

Transcribing Violence: Art, Nature, Politics

Ort: taz Kantine Friedrichstraße 21 10969 Berlin

24.05.2025 | 16:00
15.05.2025 - 16.05.2025

Workshop: Ukraine’s Resilience and Recovery: Social Dimension

Ort: Seminar center (Seminarzentrum) of Freie Universität Berlin Room number L115 Silberlaube (ground floor) Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin

05.05.2025 | 08:40 - 17:45

Book Presentation | "The Assault on the State" by Jeffrey Kopstein (UC Irvine)

Ort: Room L 115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26

30.04.2025 | 12:00
12.02.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
11.02.2025 | 17:00 - 22:00

Manuela Boatca | Siebenbürgen zwischen Kolonialität und Interimperialität

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

05.02.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
29.01.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
22.01.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
15.01.2025 | 10:00 - 11:30
08.01.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
04.12.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
27.11.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
13.11.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
06.11.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45

Susanne Strätling | Derussifizierung. Kulturelle Praktiken einer politischen Agenda

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

23.10.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
10.10.2024 | 10:00 - 15:00
07.10.2024 | 18:15 - 19:45
07.10.2024 | 10:00 - 12:00

Studentisches Film-Screening: "Qas" von Aisultan Seit

Ort: OEI-Fachschaftsraum, Garystr. 55, Raum 109

17.07.2024 | 16:00

Sommerfest 2024!

Ort: Hörsaal A, Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

12.07.2024 | 16:00 s.t.

Menschen im Schatten der Umweltzerstörung – Ein Jahr nach der Kachowka-Katastrophe

Ort: Libereco-Geschäftsstelle Berlin Brunnenstraße 9, Hinterhof/Souterrain 10119 Berlin

09.07.2024 | 17:00 - 18:30

3rd Annual Conference of DFG-Network "Russian Ecospheres": Scales of Ecology

Ort: GWZO Leipzig Conference Room 4th floor, Entrance A, Specks Hof Reichsstraße 4-6, 04109 Leipzig

05.07.2024 - 07.07.2024

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am OEI | Neue Perspektiven auf Osteuropa

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Silberlaube Raum K 25/11 Fabeckstraße 25, 14195 Berlin

22.06.2024 | 17:00 - 20:30

Löwenthal Lecture 2024: Prof. Judith Pallot "Is There a Post-Communist Prison System?"

Ort: Hörsaal A, Institute for East European Studies, Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

19.06.2024 | 16:00

Georgien zwischen Widerstand und Isolation | Anmeldung bis 14. Juni!

Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal Meierottostr. 8 10719 Berlin

17.06.2024 | 19:00
12.06.2024 | 10:00 - 19:30

Jetzt bewerben: Entdecke Osteuropastudien mit uns!

Bewerbungsfrist: 15. August 2024

24.04.2024 - 15.08.2024

Vortrag von Ekaterina Shulman

Ort: Henry Ford Bau, Hörsaal C

14.02.2024 | 12:15 - 13:45

VL "Energy Empires" - Alexander Libman (Freie Universität Berlin)

Wintersemester 2023/24 18.10.2023-14.02.2024 Mi 14:00-16:00  Garystr. 55 / Hörsaal A

07.02.2024 | 14:00 - 16:00

VL "Energy Empires" - Samuel Rogers (Freie Universität Berlin)

Wintersemester 2023/24 18.10.2023-14.02.2024 Mi 14:00-16:00  Garystr. 55 / Hörsaal A

31.01.2024 | 14:00 - 16:00