Seminars: Week 2
Gender, photography, narrative work.
We really, really should have started our projects sooner.
Day Seven
Women's Experience of Violence and War
Marta Havryshko describes the lives of women in the WWII Ukrainian underground. Not all heroized fighters are what they seem. ​
Day Eight
Women Soldiers in Donbas
Marta Havryshko speaks about the women on Ukraine's front lines, their experience, and how they're seen at large.
Public Science, Rethinking University
Stefan Selke and Nils-Eyk Zimmerman want to dismantle the ivory tower and bring knowledge production to the people.
Hybrid Education: A Trans-Sectoral Approach
A public discussion on how academia, civil society and the arts can truly integrate into holistic educational experiences.
Excursions take us out of the classroom and into the field. From visiting local cemetaries to frequenting local cultural initiatives to heading down to Gdansk's Museum of the Second World War, we locate spaces where topics from the seminars play out in real time.

Plus the odd eight-hour bus trip. We learn to love each other.
Day Nine
Framing War Through Photography
Kateryna Iakovlanko examines our images of war, asking about what's been included, what's been left out, and why.
Gender-Based Violence in Conflict
Heide Serra elaborates on gendered violence in war, as well as how women across the world are moving from harm to hope.
International NGOs in the Caucasus and Ukraine
Varvara Pakhomenko describes the work done by NGOs in some of the more complicated corners of the former Soviet Union.
Tackling Conflict in Post-Soviet Space
Viadrinicum's final, and most ambitious, public discussion: what does it mean to truly integrate the different tracks of the peacemaking process?
Day Ten
Photo Projects and The War
Kateryna Iakovlanko presents various photography projects and questions what duty an artist has when representing a conflict visually.
Restoring the Social Fabric
Vesna Hart speaks about the need to bridge memories and narratives if we want to restore the social fabric.

Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine

"Having no wi-fi certainly helps inspire real-time socialization."

"Another seminar on memory? Is there really nothing else to talk about?

Svetlana Alexievich
Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Narrative Encounters: Where Did You Learn That?
Vesna Hart encourages us to engage honestly with the ideological other.
Check out our labs
Documentaries, media, performance.
We spent a lot of time on these.