SCIENTISTS OF THE INSTITUTE TOOK PART IN THE ECPR GENERAL CONFERENCE

11/09 2023

On 4–8 September 2023, the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) took place at Charles University in Prague.

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is an independent academic association founded in 1970. Jean Blondel and Stein Rokkan initiated the Consortium. Together with Peter de Janosi of the Ford Foundation and other prominent European scholars, they developed and implemented the concept of the European Consortium for the Promotion of Political Science. Twelve European universities founded the ECPR.

Today, ECPR has 350 institutional members from nearly 50 countries. The organization includes leading universities and tens of thousands of scholars and students engaged in research and teaching of political science.

The annual General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research is a significant scientific event aimed at developing research in all areas of political science. Due to its comprehensive coverage and inclusive approach, it allows scholars from different continents and countries to come together and present and discuss the results of their research work.

The General Conference, which took place on 4–8 September 2023, brought together more than 2,000 participants at Charles University in Prague and online. This year, 67 sections and more than 500 panels were held to discuss the most topical issues in political science.

For the first time since the ECPR was established, a Ukrainian research institution was represented at the General Conference of this organization. This institution, following a competitive selection process, was the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Ukrainian scientists – participants of the ECPR General Conference

The section „Ethnopolitical Resilience of Ukraine” was held at Charles University in Prague and online (chaired by Anastasiia Dehterenko, Leading Research Scientist of the Ethnopolitics Department of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, PhD (Political Science), Associate Professor, and Viktor Kotygorenko, Head of the Ethnopolitics Department of our Institute, Doctor of Political Science, Professor).

The panel „Ethnopolitical Resilience of Ukraine: Humanitarian Aspects” was held online on September 5, 2023. Professor Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko from the Hong Kong Institute of Education made presentations at the panel (topic: „Internationalization and Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in the Embattled Ukraine”), as well as researchers of our Institute:

Leading Research Scientist of the Ethnopolitics Department, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences Natalia Kochan (topic: „Profiling Civil Dimension of Religion”);
Acting head of the department, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Yurii Nikolaiets (topic: „The informational aspect of political resilience of Ukraine”);
Chief Research Scientist of the Ethnopolitics Department, Doctor of Political Science, Professor Oleg Kalakura (topic: „Ethno-cultural resilience of Ukrainian society in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine”);
Researcher of the Ethnopolitics Department, Candidate of Historical Sciences Oleksiy Liashenko (topic: „Identity as a factor of ethnopolitical resilience of Ukraine”);
Junior Research Scientist of the Ethnopolitics Department, Candidate of Historical Sciences Valeriy Novorodovskyi (topic: „The participation of national minorities in public life in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war”).

On September 6, 2023, the online panel „Resilience of the Ukrainian Nation and National Identity” was held. The presentations were made by the scientists of our Institute:

Senior Research Scientist of the Ethnopolitics Department, Candidate of Historical Sciences Liudmyla Mazuka (topic: „The role of Ukrainians abroad in countering Russian aggression and in the reconstruction of Ukraine”);
Head of the Ethnopolitics Department of our Institute, Doctor of Political Science, Professor Viktor Kotygorenko (topic: „The resilience of the modern Ukrainian nation: dynamics, potential, threats”);
Chief Research Scientist of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology, Doctor of Political Science Volodymyr Kulyk (topic: „Impact of Russian aggression on Ukrainian ethnonational identity”),

as well as a leading researcher at the V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Political Sciences Vira Yavir (topic: „Transformation of the Ukrainians’ ethnopolitical resilience phenomenon in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war”).

During the ECPR General Conference (at Charles University in Prague)

On September 7, 2023, at Charles University in Prague, the issues of Ukraine’s ethnopolitical resilience were discussed at the panel „The phenomenon of Ukraine’s ethnopolitical resilience: analyzing security and management issues”. The discussion was focused on the scientific papers of Dr. Oksana Huss from the Università di Bologna (topic: „Role of civic tech for resilience of Ukraine in the asymmetric war”), journalist Karin Kőváry Sólymos from Masaryk University (topic: „Hungarian revisionist narratives as a means of tension-building against Ukraine”) and Leading Research Scientist of the Ethnopolitics Department of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, PhD (Political Science), Associate Professor Anastasiia Dehterenko (topic: „Ethnopolitical management in Ukraine and selected EU states: a comparative analysis”).

On September 7-8, 2023, within the framework of the section “Transformation of the World System under the Influence of the Russian-Ukrainian War” (section chairs: Halyna Zelenko, Head of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Oleh Kondratenko, Leading Researcher at the Department of World Political Development, Doctor of Political Sciences, Associate Professor), two panels were held: “Genesis and trajectory of Russian imperial policy” (chairman: Doctor of Political Sciences Oleh Kondratenko) and “Russian-Ukrainian war; Strategic and military consequences” (chairman: Candidate of Political Sciences Leonid Kiyanytsia).

The Institute’s researchers made scientific reports:

Doctor of Political Sciences, Associate Professor, Leading Research Scientist at the Department of World Political Development Oleh Kondratenko (topic: “The Essence and Traditions of Russian Imperial Expansionism”);
Candidate of Political Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Department of Political Institutions and Processes Natalia Kononenko (topic: “Consolidation of society during the war and prospects for localization of the crisis of legitimacy of power in Ukraine”);
PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Department of World Political Development Leonid Kiyanytsia (topic: “Cooperation of Ukrainian Volunteer Organizations with European Governments and NGOs: Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War”);
Junior Research Fellow at the Department of World Political Development Oleksandr Herasymenko (topic: “Main directions of influence of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the nature of interaction between civil society and the state in Eastern Europe”).

Scholars from a number of foreign institutions also took part in these panels and made presentations:

Professor of the Free University of Brussels Olesia Tkachova (topic: “Political economy of military mobilization in authoritarian Russia: Evidence from Big Data Analysis”);
Professor Jan Ludwik of Charles University (topic: “Russia-Ukraine. Frozen conflict: results of an expert survey”);
Professor of the University of Defense of the Czech Republic Jan Ferina (topic: “War in Ukraine: Consequences for China in case of invasion of Taiwan”)
Professor of Kadir Has University of the Republic of Turkey Dogush Sonmez (topic: “Putin’s Third Term (2012-2018): Is it a Russian Imperial Declaration?”)
Professor Fabien Bossait, Ghent University of the Kingdom of Belgium (topic: “The influence of images on Russia’s actions in the neighboring region: a political psychology perspective”).