Events

Live recording UKRAINETT and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee are pleased to invite you to an open breakfast seminar on LGBTQ Rights and Anti-Gender Politics in Wartime Ukraine with Maryna Shevtsova (KU Leuven), Mina Wikshåland Skouen (Norwegian Helsinki Committee), and Maryna Rabinovych (UiT). Over the past decade, Ukraine has witnessed significant advances in LGBTQ visibility and rights, even as anti-gender movements and conservative actors […]

Photo: AlxeyPnferov / iStock In this seminar the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) will launch the NUPI Ukraine Centre and present fresh data from the first face-to-face street survey completed in Kyiv since the Russian full-scale invasion. Agenda The seminar is from 13:00 to 14:30, followed by mingling and refreshments. It will be held

UKRAINETT+ Conference in Ukraine Studies 2026 Save the dates for the next annual UKRAINETT+ Conference, titled “State and Society Under Pressure: Internal and External Dynamics,” hosted by OsloMet on 11–12 November 2026. This event will bring together scholars and experts from a wide range of disciplines to exchange ideas, foster collaboration, and engage in meaningful

Live recording During this seminar, Oleksandra Keudel will examine how Ukrainian local communities have rapidly mobilised resources, expertise, and institutional innovations to manage war-related crises since 2022. She will also discuss how pre-war decentralisation reforms and Ukraine’s evolving social contract since 2014 have shaped these community-level responses and enabled societal resilience under extreme pressure. WHEN:

Photo: ISF The Institute for Social Research (ISF) and the Norwegian Network for Research on Ukraine (UKRAINETT) will host a seminar on 14 January 2026, from 08:30 to 10:15, focusing on the European Social Survey (ESS). ESS is a large, researcher-driven cross-national survey that collects data on Europeans’ attitudes, opinions, and behaviors every two years,

In March 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a Coalition of the Willing in support of Ukraine. Today, one of the pressing questions is how this coalition can provide a credible security guarantee to Ukraine. While the idea of a reassurance force, a Multinational Force Ukraine,

Photo: Viacheslav Ratynskyi / the Collection of war.ukraine.ua How is social science data gathered during war, and why does it matter? Join Bergen Global on 13 January for a talk with ESS representatives from Norway and Ukraine on fieldwork challenges and insights under radically different conditions. WHEN: 13 January, 08:30 – 09:30 WHERE: Bergen Global (Jekteviksbakken 31,

Photo: Oleg Mityukhin/Pixabay The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo will host an event exploring how international crimes committed in Ukraine are investigated at both national and international levels. This event is part of Oslo Peace Days. During the war, attention has been drawn not only to the humanitarian impact of