Stephanie Karmann, Kommunismus und Gesellschaft, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
(Para-)Military Violence, War Crimes in Post-Soviet Conflicts and Narratives of the Russo-Ukrainian War, May 21-23, 2024
May 21, 2024
Pilecki Institute
Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin
18:00: Collecting Testimonies from Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Why and How to Do it. Perspectives, Documentary Projects, and Archival Collections from Berlin, Warsaw, Lviv & Jerusalem
May 22, 2024
The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 9d, 14467 Potsdam
10:00 Beginning of the Workshop. Welcome at ZZF
Panel 1: Conflict Dynamics Revisited: State and Non-State Actors
Chair: Nina Janz (NIOD)
10:15-11:30
Jan Claas Behrends (ZZF/ Viadrina): Soviet/Russian Illegitimate Military Violence after 1945. Several Ideal Types.
Alyona Bidenko (ZZF): Unmasking Conflict Realities: An Insight into Russian Soldiers’ Experiences in Ukraine.
11:30-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-13:00
Thomas da Silva (CERCEC): Paramilitarization in Post-Soviet Russia: the Union of Donbass Volunteers in the War in Ukraine (2014 - 2024).
David Matsaberidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University): The Mkhedrioni (Riders) as a Non-State Actor in Post-Soviet Georgia: From Civil War to State Consolidation (1991-1995).
Panel 2: Reimagining Narratives: Legal Dimensions and Media’s Influence on Post-Soviet Conflicts
Chair: Sophie Lambroschini (Centre Marc Bloch)
14:00-16:00
Yuliya Krylova-Grek (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy): War and Words: from Hate Speech to Incitements to Crimes.
Miglė Bareikytė (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)) and Mykola Makhortykh (Institute of Communication and Media Science): War from within: Witnessing Russia’s War against Ukraine through Online Platforms.
Marcin Jędrysiak (Centre of Eastern Europe Studies in Warsaw, University of Lower Silesia DSW): Status of the Paramilitary Group Fighters in the International Law – How To Deal with the Problem of a “Being under a Command Responsible to a State Party”?
16:00-16:10 Coffee Break
Panel 3: New Avenues in Conflict Research Methodology
Chair: Kerstin Bischl (ZOiS)
16:10-18:10
Natalia Otrishchenko (Lviv Centre for Urban History): New Avenues of Methodology and Research. Selected Testimonies from the First Wave of Interviewing for the “24.02.22, 5 am: Testimonies from the War” Project.
Mateusz Fałkowski (Pilecki Institute): A Case Study Approach as an Empirical Window into Understanding Russian Crimes: Sexual Violence by the Russian Occupying Forces against Ukrainian Women.
Tetiana Tipakova: A Testimony to Russian Mass Violence.
May 23, 2024
The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 9d, 14467 Potsdam
Panel 4: Analyzing the Legacy: Perspectives on Historical Events in Post-Soviet Spaces
Chair: Evgen Zinger (ZZF)
10:00-11:20
Nikolaus von Twickel (Zentrum Liberale Moderne): Paramilitary Groups in Russian-controlled Donbas, 2014-2022.
Roman Khimich: Facing Uncertainty: Voluntary Formations of Local Communities in the Ukrainian-Russian War (2014-24).
11:20-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00
Semion Goldin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Russian Army and Anti-Jewish Violence during WWI: Some Lessons for Ukraine.
Glen Segell (University of Cambridge, University of the Free State): Different Framings of Historical Events and Processes: The Balkan and the Chechen Wars in the 1990s and 9/11.
13:00 End of Workshop