Leipzig University conference ‘Reordering Europe. Consequences of the Russian Aggression and the future of Ukraine’s EU accession

Co-organised by the European Identity and Heritage Arqus Living Lab, it will count with two speakers from other Arqus universities: Lina Strupinskiene (from Vilnius University) and Elzbieta Stadtmuller (from the University of Wrocław).

The Conference will held in hybrid mode. Researchers interested in attending online must send an email to arqus@uni-leipzig.de.

The conference seeks to provide insights into debates within Ukraine and Europe more broadly on how this war as major humanitarian and geopolitical turmoil affects the reconfiguration of Europe’s political map and its position in the world. It includes reflections on mental maps and memory politics, transitional justice, migration regimes, energy and climate policies, or strategies to integrate e.g., Ukrainian agriculture into the EU.

In an interdisciplinary way, bringing together historical, social and legal sciences, it aims to provide perspectives from within and beyond Ukraine as well as from different parts of the European continent, while also discussing its variable entanglements with other world regions.

Venue

Leipzig University, ReCentGlobe, Nikolaistrasse 6-10, 5th floor, Room 5.55

Programme

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

03:00 p.m.     Welcome Coffee

03:30 – 04:00 p.m.    Opening (Matthias Middell/Steffi Marung)

04:00 – 05:15 p.m.    War, Memory, and Justice: The

ICTY’s Legacy and its Relevance for Ukraine’s Path to European Integration

Lina Strupinskiene (Vilnius University/online)

Commentary: K. Ristic

05:15 – 05:30 p.m.     Coffee Break

05:30 – 06:45 p.m.     Ukraine’s western border regions between the EU accession and the war with Russia

Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZiOS, Berlin)

Commentary: S. Marung

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

08:30 a.m.     Welcome Coffee

09:00 – 10.15 a.m.     Europe in changing global order, the shifts and challenges accelerated by the Russian aggression (working title)

Elzbieta Stadtmuller (University of Wrocław)

Commentary: S. Rohdewald

10:15 – 11:30 a.m.     Ukraine’s EU Accession ‐ The Legal Framework

Till Holterhus (Leuphana Univ. Lüneburg)

Commentary: F. Michl

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Coffee Break

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Final Discussion

12:45 p.m. – 01:00 p.m. Closing (S. Rohdewald)