
The Blog for (Interdisciplinary) Polish and Ukrainian Studies is an academic platform of the Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies (VCPU). This blog builds on the experience of the Polish Studies Blog (Pol-Int) and serves to network different research institutions and to transfer knowledge about the region from different disciplines to the general public.
Our blog features a wide range of content, including academic articles, opinion pieces, book reviews, interviews and open forums. From in-depth analyses of historical events to contemporary cultural phenomena, we’ll explore topics such as identity politics, linguistic dynamics, diaspora communities, geopolitical shifts and much more.
- Forced Migrants with a Question Mark: Displaced Ukrainian Roma in Poland
Text by Dr. Kamila Fiałkowska, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. „A Roma is a Roma” is what I heard during one of many interviews we did during our fieldwork in Poland. Our ethnography of the reception conditions in small, mostly rural localities in Poland, where arrival of few hundreds of displaced Ukrainians changed, … Continue reading Forced Migrants with a Question Mark: Displaced Ukrainian Roma in Poland - Neutrality That Fails to Protect: Displaced Ukrainian Roma and the Blind Spots of Humanitarian Support
Text by Dr Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. At the level of the law, everything appears simple and clear. After Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, the European Union activated the temporary protection mechanism — the Temporary Protection Directive (2001/55/EC) — on 4 March 2022. On 12 March 2022, Poland adopted the … Continue reading Neutrality That Fails to Protect: Displaced Ukrainian Roma and the Blind Spots of Humanitarian Support - The Russian War against Ukraine and the Reform of the United Nations
Text by Maryna Olinishevska, Master’s Student at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU). Over the past 80 years, Ukraine’s trajectory within the United Nations (UN) has been characterised by significant transformations. The country evolved from a Soviet Socialist Republic with limited autonomy beginning in 1922 (and as a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 … Continue reading The Russian War against Ukraine and the Reform of the United Nations - Youth in Action: The Role of Young Ukrainians in the July 2025 Protests Against Anti-Corruption Rollbacks
Text by Ruslana Ivaniura, Bachelor’s law student at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Introduction It is the evening of 23 July 2025. It is still light outside and I am standing in a crowd near the Taras Shevchenko monument in Lviv, surrounded by hundreds of young people shouting, holding cardboard banners and refusing to be silent. … Continue reading Youth in Action: The Role of Young Ukrainians in the July 2025 Protests Against Anti-Corruption Rollbacks - “C’est l’Ukraine!” – The Story Behind the Silent “Cultural Embassy” in Paris
Text by Artem Kucherov, Master’s Student of International Relations at the Taras Shevchenko National University (KNU). Last summer in Kyiv, at the leading cultural institution Ukrainian House, I visited “ПроЗорі”, an exhibition dedicated to boundary-pushing Ukrainian artists of the 1960s–1980s. After exploring the first three floors, I noticed an announcement for another exposition on the … Continue reading “C’est l’Ukraine!” – The Story Behind the Silent “Cultural Embassy” in Paris - Соціолінгвістичні репрезентації в умовах війни
Текст д-ра Такумі Ікедзави (Takumi IKEZAWA), наукового співробітника—постдокторанта Японського товариства сприяння науці – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Мову зазвичай описують як засіб спілкування, як систему фонологічних, морфологічних, синтаксичних і семантичних правил, пов’язаних із певною лексикою, які поділяють носії мови та які дають їм можливість спілкуватися між собою. Водночас ми всі поділяємо … Continue reading Соціолінгвістичні репрезентації в умовах війни - Die Sprachgrenze überwinden? Ja, aber wie? – interlinguale Kommunikation an der deutsch-polnischen Grenze
Text von Goro Christoph Kimura, Professor für Soziolinguistik und Europastudien, Fakultät für Auslandsstudien, Sophia-Universität, Tokyo (Japan). „Ohne Grenzen. Bez granic.“ So liest man es auf dem Logo von Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice. Dabei besteht zwischen diesen zwei Sätzen eine Grenze, die auch durch die zwei Farben im Logo verdeutlicht wird: die Sprachgrenze. Wie verständigt man sich mit … Continue reading Die Sprachgrenze überwinden? Ja, aber wie? – interlinguale Kommunikation an der deutsch-polnischen Grenze - Languages and communication in borderlands
Text by Prof. AMU Dr hab. Barbara Alicja Jańczak, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Adam-Mickiewicz University, Poznan. As re-securitization and re-bordering processes around the world, fueled by the migration crisis and reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic, gain pace, can Europe’s borderlands still be seen as places that offer unity and not diversion? While the Project of … Continue reading Languages and communication in borderlands
