The kick-off event of the BYRD postdoc network “Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Understanding the Country through Ukrainian Voices”
organized by the BYRD postdoc network took place on February 20, 2023. Aiming to situate the current state of Ukrainian studies in and outside of Ukraine in the context of the ongoing Russian invasion, it [...] whether it is unethical for scholars of an invaded country to write about internal problems of the state such as corruption, human rights violations, or centralization of power, thus potentially risking [...] Inna Melnykovska, key questions in political science include, for instance, how a notionally “weak state” such as Ukraine has shown strength and resilience in the face of invasion or what accounts for the