Oxford Ukraine Hub Podcast

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The Oxford Ukraine Hub is an interdisciplinary network connecting expertise across the University of Oxford with international researchers and practitioners working on Ukraine-related issues. By placing Ukraine at the centre of scholarly inquiry, we aim to disrupt long-established epistemological hierarchies within Slavic and East European studies. Our podcast series brings together diverse voices and perspectives to explore Ukraine's past, present, and future through various disciplinary lenses.

Episodes

  1. DEC 17

    Episode 5: The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy: Power Sharing, Regionalism and Authoritarianism

    This episode features two members of the Oxford Ukraine Hub steering committee discussing Dr Kibita’s monograph The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy (OUP, 2024). Speakers: Dr Zbig Wojnowski, Associate Professor of Soviet History at the University of Oxford and Dr Nataliya Kibita, are search associate at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies.

    43 min

  2. SEP 3

    Episode 4: Ukrainian environmentalisms - perspectives from culture

    This episode features two panellists from our inaugural seminar 'Ukrainian Environmentalisms: Perspectives from Science, Policy, and Culture.' Host: Dr Jonathon Turnbull, a geographer and Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College. Guests: Oksana Semenik, art historian and decolonial researcher, and Iryna Zamuruieva an artist and cultural geographer.

    1h 22m

  3. SEP 3

    Episode 3: Ukrainian environmentalisms - perspectives from science and policy

    This episode features two panellists from our inaugural seminar 'Ukrainian Environmentalisms: Perspectives from Science, Policy, and Culture.' Host: Dr Ievgeniia Kopytsia, an associate professor of environmental, climate and energy law, a visiting academic at the University of Oxford and an MSCA4Ukraine research Fellow. Guests: Dr. Svitlana Krakovska, a renowned climate scientist and Ukraine's representative to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Anna Ackermann, a leading environmental policy expert and advocate for sustainable energy in Ukraine.

    1h 11m

  4. SEP 3

    Episode 2: Challenges to state consolidation

    This episode features three panellists from our workshop 'Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in the postwar reconstruction of Ukraine.' Co-hosts: Dr Nataliya Kibita, a scholar of 20th century Ukrainian history and Ukraine's institutional design and Dr Zbig Wojnowski Associate Professor of Soviet History at University of Oxford, whose work has focused on the history of Ukraine in the second half of the 20th century. Guests: Dr Olya Homonchuk (ODI Global), Vladimir Dubrovskiy (CASE Ukraine) and Dr Maryna Utkina (University of Warwick; Sumy State University, Ukraine)

    37 min

  5. SEP 3

    Episode 1: Building trust in state institutions

    This episode features two panellists from our workshop 'Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in the postwar reconstruction of Ukraine.' Co-hosts: Dr Nataliya Kibita, a scholar of 20th century Ukrainian history and Ukraine's institutional design and Dr Zbig Wojnowski, Associate Professor of Soviet History at University of Oxford, whose work has focused on the history of Ukraine in the second half of the 20th century. Guests: Dr Oleksiy Bondarenko (University of Birmingham) and Dr Yuliya Bidenko (Karazin Kharkiv National University)

    45 min
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The Oxford Ukraine Hub is an interdisciplinary network connecting expertise across the University of Oxford with international researchers and practitioners working on Ukraine-related issues. By placing Ukraine at the centre of scholarly inquiry, we aim to disrupt long-established epistemological hierarchies within Slavic and East European studies. Our podcast series brings together diverse voices and perspectives to explore Ukraine's past, present, and future through various disciplinary lenses.

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