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PROGRAM

Wednesday, 20 May 2026

09.45–10.00
Opening:
Veronika ZINCHENKO, SUS Fellow; Senior Lecturer, R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music
Constantin ARDELEANU, NEC Academic Coordinator; Senior Researcher, Institute for South-East European History, Bucharest; Professor of Modern History

10.00–11.30
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult.  Valentina SANDU-DEDIU (Professor of Musicology, National University of Music Bucharest, Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, Rector of New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study)
The Harsh Implementation of Socialist Realism in Romanian Music Institutions after World War II

Dr. habil. Yurii CHEKAN (Professor of Cultural Studies Department, Ukrainian Catholic University)
Music as Resistance. Activities of the Lviv Organ Hall after the Full-Scale Invasion

11.30–12.00
Coffee break

12.00–13.30
Dr. habil. Iryna TUKOVA (Associate Professor of Music Theory at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, NGO Liatoshynsky Foundation)
Music of the War: Ukrainian Resistance Case

Katrya HONCHARUK (Radio Kultura)
Radio Documentary Series ‘What Music Means to Me’: About Ukraine’s Contemporary Audio Landscape, Music Therapy for Soldiers, Music in Rituals of Remembrance, and New Works Born under the Sound of Sirens

13.30–14.30
Lunch break

14.30–16.00
Special event

Galyna DUB (Director)
Volodymyr BALABA (Composer)
Album ‘Music Under Siege’ – а Jazz Diary of the Invasion of Chernihiv: Concept, Creation and Artistic Methods

16.00–16.30
Coffee break

16.30–18.30
Special event

Tetiana KHOROSHUN (Composer and sound artist)
Wartime Transmit/Receive: Performative Lecture – Showcase of Wartime Sound Works from Ukraine

Thursday, 21 May 2026

9.45–12.00
Dr. Daria VYSTAVKINA (University of Bonn, Department of East-European History, Philip Schwartz Fellowship)
Between Ethnographic Rigor and Theatrical Evocation: Performance Ethnography as Art-Based Research in Wartime

Dr. Viktor RUBAN (co-founder and representative of NGO Impulse Transformation Platform based in Kyiv, lecturer at National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport (Dance Department), guest-professor at the Valeska Gert Program in Critical Dance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and AdK Berlin in 2024–2025 (DAAD), initiator of Tanzplan Ukraine)
Tanzplan Ukraine – Dance Development and Art Resilience Despite the War

Dr. Viktoria BAVYKINA (Research fellow at the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Studies (2026). Associate curator at Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool). Co-founder and researcher of Ukrainian. Photographies – an online platform supporting the Ukrainian photography sector) – ONLINE
War Photography in Ukraine: Evidence, Document, Archive

12.00–12.15
Coffee break

12.15–13.45
Special event

Dr. Mykola HOMANYUK (Professor at Kherson State University, Kherson Theatre Lab, Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia 2025-2026)
Theater under Occupation and about Occupation. Kherson Case & Kherson Theatre Lab. Performance Look to the Right, Look to the Left, Look to the Sky. Kherson Walking Tour

13.45–14.45
Lunch break

14.45–16.45
Special event

Dr. Oksana MAKSYMCHUK (Writer-In-Residence, Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta)
Dr. Max ROSOCHINSKY (Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia 2025–2026)
Words for War: A Reading and Discussion of Contemporary Ukrainian War Poetry

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The event is organized as part of the Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Fellowship Program run jointly by the New Europe College (Bucharest) and the Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia), and supported by the VolkswagenStiftung (Germany).