Friday, April 24th
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Keynote Speech
Dieter Segert (University of Vienna): The Current Crisis in Ukraine as a Result of the Post‐Soviet Transformation Processes
Saturday, April 25th
9:00 am – 10:30 am Panel I: The Dissolution of the Soviet Union – The Historical Dimension
Victor Apryshchenko (Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don): Empireship after the Empire: The Collapse of USSR and Russian-Ukrainian National Issues
Kerstin Jobst (University of Vienna): The Crimea as a Russian lieu de mémoire
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Panel II: 25 Years of Post-Soviet Transition – the Economic Dimension
Joachim Becker (Vienna University of Economics and Business): Development Models and Crises in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Yulia Yurchenko (University of Greenwich): Social Forces in the Making of Contemporary Ukraine: Capitalist Rivalries and the Dispossessed
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch break
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Panel III: The Conflict in Ukraine and its Consequences – the International Dimension
August Pradetto (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg): External Actors in the Ukrainian Crisis and the Defeats of the Ukrainian Army in 2014
Rasa Ostrauskaite (OSCE): The Role of the OSCE in Ukraine - Ongoing Challenges
Jutta Sommerbauer (Die Presse): At the Frontline of Information. Fact-finding, Propaganda and Media Coverage of the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Coffee break
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Informal discussion session for conference presenters