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Foto: Anders Lien/UiO The Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Oslo will be hosting two upcoming events. Both will be held by Andriy Danylenko, Professor at Pace University and a world‑leading scholar of the Ukrainian language. How Did It All Begin? On the History of the “Linguistic Colonization” of Russian-Ruled […]

The Northern Norwegian Ukraine Hub (Nordnorsk Ukraina-hub), in collaboration with the Centre for Geopolitics, Peace and Security (GPS), is organising a mini‑workshop with Ingunn Lunde (UiB) and Arve Hansen (the Norwegian Helsinki Committee). The event is open to the public and will take place on 20 March at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Program:

Diversity and Marginality in the Black Sea Region “Diversity and Marginality in the Black Sea Region” is the theme of the 2026 Summer School in Chișinău, which explores how the Black Sea region functions as a dynamic space shaped by interconnected societal, economic, cultural, and political transformations. Organized by leading research centers in Ukraine and

The UKRAINETT+ project has allocated funds to stimulate research project development and cooperation involving Norwegian and Ukrainian researchers and institutions. The next deadline is 1 May 2026. A Norwegian institution must be the applicant and project coordinator. At least two institutions should be involved in the collaboration, and both Ukrainian and Norwegian institutions must be

A national lecture tour with Ukrainian scholars in Norway, 23-27 March, addresses the topic of return migration to Ukraine. As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine drags on, some 3.8 million people are displaced within Ukraine and nearly 5.9 million Ukrainians are refugees abroad. Ukraine’s recovery depends in part on their sustainable return and reintegration. Three

By Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT) On 6 November 2025, at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, a UKRAINETT+-funded workshop took place dealing with the topic of Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism in wartime. The morning panel discussed the post-February 2022 interaction of Ukrainian and Russian languages in the sphere of Ukrainian higher education (Andriy Krasniashchykh, V N Karazin Kharkiv

We are pleased to extend this invitation from the Institute for Social Research (ISF) for the upcoming seminar “Ukrainian returns under conditions of uncertainty”. WHEN:  5 March 2026, 08:30 – 12:40 WHERE: Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo This seminar presents the project Ukrainian returns under conditions of uncertainty, which examines the legal, political, and humanitarian dimensions of return