Current calls and events

Join the SUUN Lecture Series 2026: Ukrainian Education and Academia in Times of War.

From 11 June to 16 July 2026, scholars from Ukraine and Germany will come together for five online lectures and a roundtable discussion exploring how education and academia respond to war, displacement, and societal change.

Topics include:

• Academic freedom and resilience in wartime
• Challenges facing secondary and higher education in Ukraine
• Ukrainian students abroad and transnational educational experiences
• European integration and the internationalisation of Ukrainian education
• Universities in exile, academic communities, and cross-border cooperation

Online via Zoom | Open to all interested participants

June-July 2026, Thursdays, 16.00-18.00 CSET / 17.00 - 19.00 EEST
Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89662760990?pwd=Gbn1XCKoYK3RrUM7hCuq3KxOGpMzbU.1 (external link, opens in a new window)
Meeting ID: 896 6276 0990
Passcode: 0fAdD0

More about the Saar-Ukraine University Network (SUUN) (external link, opens in a new window)

An event of the Saar-Ukraine University Network, supported by the DAAD with funds from the BMFTR.

Join the SUUN Lecture Series 2026: Ukrainian Education and Academia in Times of War.

From 11 June to 16 July 2026, scholars from Ukraine and Germany will come together for five online lectures and a roundtable discussion exploring how education and academia respond to war, displacement, and societal change.

Topics include:

• Academic freedom and resilience in wartime
• Challenges facing secondary and higher education in Ukraine
• Ukrainian students abroad and transnational educational experiences
• European integration and the internationalisation of Ukrainian education
• Universities in exile, academic communities, and cross-border cooperation

Online via Zoom | Open to all interested participants

June-July 2026, Thursdays, 16.00-18.00 CSET / 17.00 - 19.00 EEST
Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89662760990?pwd=Gbn1XCKoYK3RrUM7hCuq3KxOGpMzbU.1 (external link, opens in a new window) 
Meeting ID: 896 6276 0990
Passcode: 0fAdD0

More about the Saar-Ukraine University Network (SUUN) (external link, opens in a new window)

An event of the Saar-Ukraine University Network, supported by the DAAD with funds from the BMFTR.

7th Annual Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES at the University Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World.

From witnessing stones and talking rivers to breathing ruins: The 2026 Graduate Workshop Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies seeks to highlight how materials, objects, geological strata, and the environment function both as archives of (collective) memory and as agents that foster memory practices outside, beyond, and at times against well-established institutions and dominant narratives. The workshop will be held from 05-06 February 2026 at the University of Regensburg and invites applications that explore entanglements between material culture and memory studies.

We welcome research addressing the themes of the workshop in any context from around the world. Contributions featuring East and Southeast Europe, or the Americas, as well as comparative studies, are particularly welcome given the focus of the expertise in Regensburg. The workshop will be held in English.

Notice: Applications are closed!

In case of questions please contact gsoses.conference@ur.de. (external link, opens in a new window)

The Days of Ukraine is an annual event organized by the German-Ukrainian Academic Society (DUAG) in a different federal state of Germany since 2016. Taking place at the University of Bayreuth on 1-2 of October 2025, this year's Days of Ukraine in Bavaria / Tage der Ukraine in Bavaria is organised together with the Chair for Metals and Alloys of the University of Bayreuth and focuses on Bavarian-Ukrainian projects.

This year's event is organised under the motto "Bridging Ideas, Building Knowledge - Shaping Excellence and Partnership / Ideen entwickeln, Wissen aufbauen - Exzellenz und Partnerschaft stärken". The programme brings together representatives from universities, research institutions, funding bodies, and governmental organisations to engage in dialogue, exchange experiences, and explore new formats of collaboration.

The registration for this event is open until 31.08.2025!

For more information, please visit The UKRAINE Network here (external link, opens in a new window)!

October 8-10, 2025 at University of Regensburg | Denkraum Ukraine

Scholars and practitioners are invited to contribute their research and perspectives on how war affects organisations and institutions in the fields of economics, politics, law, history, culture, and beyond.

The conference is organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Think Space Ukraine, established in 2024 at the University of Regensburg and financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) through funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA). The Center pursues a discursive, relational, and action-oriented approach to Ukraine-related research in culture, economics, politics, and law within (trans)regional and global contexts. The Annual Conference is one of the Center's key events, aiming to further develop established contacts in research, exchange, and knowledge transfer into an internationally visible scientific hub.

Applications for the conference are closed. (external link, opens in a new window)

BAYHOST-Workshop @University of Regensburg

The Bavarian University Centre for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies "Denkraum Ukraine (external link, opens in a new window)" and the Forum Multilingualism and Regionality"FoMuR" (external link, opens in a new window) at the University of Regensburg are organising a workshop on cooperation with Ukraine in the research and teaching field of "multilingualism" from 28-29 October 2025 in Regensburg.

This year's event will follow on from the previous conference in 2024, but this time will be dedicated exclusively to the topic of "multilingualism", with a focus on language didactics and trauma processing. Here, too, the aim of the workshop is to establish and deepen cooperation with Ukraine.

The workshop is aimed at interested teachers and researchers in Bavaria, Ukraine and other countries.

Registration for the workshop is closed - thank you very much for the great interest!

You can find the preliminary program (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible) here.