Ukrainian Migration in Europe and Globally in the 20th and 21st Century

Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 several million Ukrainians have left their country, residing temporarily in Germany, Poland and Czech Republic, but also in Spain and Italy and many other European and non-European countries like Canada and the US. In addition, several million Ukrainians have fled from Russian occupied territories in eastern and southeastern Ukraine to the non-occupied territories of Ukraine.
Our Winter School addresses this theme within its manyfold dimensions: it puts it into a larger historical perspective of Ukrainian migration in the 20th and 21st century, discusses how Ukrainian culture, in particular literature, mirrors migration, explores how Ukrainians have experienced flight and migration, considering questions of age and gender, addresses the legal and political dimensions of the phenomenon, including the regional dynamics of migration, and analyzes how Ukrainian migration has shaped the perception of Ukrainians and Russia’s war on Ukraine in their host countries.

This Winter School is a joint initiative of the Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies – “Denkraum Ukraine” at the University of Regensburg, financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) through the funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Ukrainian Free University (UFU, Munich), the Bukowina Institute at the University of Augsburg, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Regensburg.

All interested participants are warmly invited to attend the sessions and join the discussion.

Contact person: Dr. habil. Alexander Kratochvil (alexander.kratochvil@lmu.de)