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Announcements:
- My columns on The Ontology of Pain (in Eng and Rus) and on Geopolitics of Biopower in Times of Pandemic (in Rus) were published on Koine.Community in November 2020.
- My analysis of the philosophical background of Pope Francis’ new encyclical “Fratelli tutti” was published at the Nuovo Mondo Economico (ITAL), Koine Community (ENG) / Sapere Aude (RUS), October 22, 2020.
- I am honored to publish my philosophical column on the Koine.Community — a platform bringing voices of philosophers to wider audiences. One can follow K.C on its site, Telegram, or on the Facebook page.
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Recent academic reports and publications:
- Video of the debate with sociologists Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and Gennaiy Korshunov on Social and Political Sciences Understanding of the Processes in post-Soviet Societies (within the frameworks of the festival of intellectual books ‘Pradmova’) was published on October 18, 2020.
- My article “OTHERING FROM WITHIN. THE IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE IN 2015–2018” was published in the Ideology and Politics Journal, October 19, 2020.
- My report at the round table on “Protest Culture in Ukraine and Belarus: Differences and Commonalities” was published on the Wilson Center website, October 8, 2020.
- My analysis of the Change in Eastern Europe’s Authoritarian Belt is published at the Focus Ukraine, October 6, 2020.
- My paper on “The Ontology of Photographic Seeing” (in Russian) was published in the Journal of Odessa Photographic Society (#3, 2020).
- A chapter on “Shades of Periphery: A Typology of States in New Eastern Europe” was published in a book “Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space” (Nicolas Hayoz, Jens Herlth & Julia Richers·eds., Berlin, Peter Lang, 2020), August 20, 2020.
- My assessment of CoviD-19 and related crises impact on the political development of contemporary polities was published in May – June 2020 on Kennan Focus Ukraine (in English), European Dialogue (in Russian), and VoxUkraine (in Ukrainian).
- My new research on Ukraine’s Europeanization and Democratization in the 21st century was published by CEPS, June 9, 2020.
- My report Pandemics and Political Regimes (in Russian) at the PALE International Conference was published on May 23, 2020.
- My report on Biopolitical Trilemma and its Impact on Global Political Development (in Russian) is published on EEDialogue, May 20, 2020.
- My article on “Hundred years of the Ukrainian political system” (in Russian: Stoletiie ukrainskoi politicheskoi sistemy) is published at Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, #129 in March 2020.
- Transcript of my lecture on differences between revolution and progress (in Ukrainian) was published at The Studrespublika site, April 29, 2020.
- My lecture on Biopolitical opportunities for contemporary states (in Russian) was published at European Liberal Arts Colleagues in Belarus, April 27, 2020.
- My article “POST-SOVIET EASTERN EUROPE. ACHIEVEMENTS IN POST-SOVIET DEVELOPMENT IN SIX EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS, 1991–2020” was published at the IPJ #3(14), 2019.
- My book review “PLURALIST NOSTALGIES FOR MULTIPLE PERESTROIKAS. BOOK REVIEW: Li Bennich-Björkman, Sergiy Kurbatov (Eds.) When the Future Came. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Emergence of National Memory in Post-Soviet History Textbooks” was published at the IPJ #3(14), 2019.
- Yana Prymachenko and I published an intro “THE VELVET REVOLUTIONS OF 1989: A LASTING ‘END OF HISTORY’?” for the new IPJ issue (#3(14) 2019), The Freedom and Subjection in the Long 1989 Year. Societies in Eastern and Southern Europe in 1989/91.
- Alexander Etkind’s Intro to Post-Soviet Ideologies (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2020) can be read here: Post-Soviet Ideological Creativity.
- Very happy two books are being published:
- Mikhail Minakov, Dialektika sovremennosti v Vostochnoi Ievrope (Kiev: Laurus, 2020; in Russian);
- Etkind A., Minakov M. (eds) Post-Soviet Ideologies, Stuttgart: ibidem, 2020.
- I delivered my report on the Impact of post-Soviet secessionism on irredentists in Ukraine’s Donbas, 2014-19, at the URIS alumni conference at Basel University, 29-31 January 2020. Thank you colleagues for a great discussion!
- It was a great discussion at the Basel university’s Institute for European Studies during my report on “Democracy and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1989–2019” at the Basel University seminar on Ringvorlesung «Polen in Europa – Europa in Polen», 11 December 2019.
- I delivered a lecture on post-Soviet de facto states at the Geneva University, December 5, 2019.
- I participated in the panel on media and democracy Berlin Forum: In the quest of a lost universalism, November 23-25, 2019.
- I was honored to participate in the international seminar on the role of intellectual in the contemporary post-Soviet societies, European Institute University, Florence, November 21-23, 2019.
- Report on the results of president Zelenskyy’s first six months in office at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 14 November 2019, Washington, DC.
- Report on post-Soviet demodernization at the presentation of the books “Development and Dystopia” and “Demodernization” at the Europakolloquium at the Institute for European Global Studies, Basel University, 29 October 2019.
- The text of my lecture “Solidarity after democracy and Europe” (in Russian) was published by the Student Republic, 22 October 2019.
- I was an honor to deliver two lectures at the Geneva University dedicated to the Soviet modernization and post-Soviet modernization and demodernization, October 16, 2019.
- My research “TRANSFORMATION OF THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY. THE IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF THE UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL MEMORY IN 2014-2017” (in German) is published at “PORÓWNANIA” 1 (24), 2019. Vol. XXIV, P. 27-39.
- My study of Ukraine’s democracy development (1991-2019) (in Ukr.) was published at the Strategic Group Sofia, 3 October 2019.
- It was an honor to discuss demodernization and “regressive sociality” concepts with Tatyana Shchtsova and Alexander Dmitriev at the Belarussian Studies Congress in Vilnius, 27 September 2019.
- I am happy to see my book “History of Experience” being published in Russian at Laurus, September 2019.
- My philosophic introduction “Between Fire and Fire. From Flash to Flash of the Ukrainian Revolutions (in Eng., RUs. and Ukr)” to the “Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now” (Semperdepot, Vienna, 20 September – 8 October 2019) exhibition is published in the exhibition album.
- I am honored to join History Department of Basel University as URIS visiting scholar for the fall semester 2019.
- My new article on Ukrainians assessment of the Choice 1991 (in Russian) was published in Форум новейшей восточноевропейской истории и культуры, August 2019.
- Orysia Bila and I have finished the work on the Ukraina Moderna Journal special issue #26 dedicated to contemporary Ukraine’s philosophy. The issue “Philosophy Case in contemporary Ukraine” was published in August 2019 due to the support of Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak and Prof. Gelinada Grinchenko.
- The issue opens with an introductory article on “The Cause of Philosophy in Contemporary Ukraine: Questions and Answers” (in Ukrainian) by Orysia Bila and myself.
- My interviews with Prof. Anatoliy Yermolenko, Prof. Volodymyr Turchynovskyi, Dr. Volodymyr Fadeev, Dr. Vyacheslav Tysba, Dr. Oleksiy Vedrov and Dr. Candidate Ivan Ivashchenko organized in a joint material called “Philosophy in Ukraine: in the Permanent Quest for Itself“.
- My essay “Modernity and Peace. The Lessons of Kant’s Applied Enlightenment” (in Ukrainian) can be read here as well.
- My colleagues (Anton Tarasyuk, Nadia Chervinska, and Yulia) and I delivered reports on the ontology of photography at the Marushchenko School of Photography in Kiev, 9 July 2019.
- It was an honor to give an introductory lecture on “The Post-Soviet States from Commonwealth/Sodruzhestvo to Commonwealth/Sovrazhestvo” to start the Tenth International Social Science Summer School “War and Society: Making and Experiencing War (and Peace) in 19th-21st-century Eastern / Central Europe and Eurasia” in Kherson, July 2019.
Recent non-academic publications and interviews:
- My report on Ukraine’s local elections and constitutional crisis at the round table”Local Elections and the Future of Local Self-Governance in Ukraine” was published on November 5, 2020.
- My report at the round table on “Protest Culture in Ukraine and Belarus: Differences and Commonalities” was published on the Wilson Center website, October 8, 2020.
- My interview on Global Core and post-Soviet Periphery to Liudmila Nemyria (Ukrlife) was published on September 4, 2020.
- My interview on Photography’s role is scholarly work (also republished here) was published by Odessa Association of Photography, July 31, 2020.
- My interview on Political trends and forecasts for Eastern Europe in 2020ies with Artem Filatov (in Russian) was published as a podcast, July 8, 2020.
- My interview on the pre-revolutionary situation in Belarus is published on the Belarussian service of Svoboda Radio web-site (in Belarussian and English), June 29, 2020.
- My interview on Ideological competition in times of COVID-19 with Aleksei Yakubin (in Russian) was published at the Commons.UA, May 11, 2020.
- Ivana Dragicevic interviewed me on Demodernization in the times of pandemic (in English) for N1 Croatian TV, May 15, 2020.
- Alphan Eseli interviewed me on “What is coming?“ for the Istanbul Radio ‘74PODCAST, May 8, 2020.
- My interview on Solidarity in Times of Global Epidemic (in Russian) was published on UKRLIFE.TV, April 18, 2020.
- A discussion (in Russian) with Mikhail Nemtsev on Post-Soviet ideologies facing COVID-19 on the virtual platform of the School of Civic Education was published on 25 March 2020.
- My interview on Modern and De-Modern traits in post-Soviet societies is published on Vesti.UA, March 3, 2020.
- My interview with UkrLife.TV’s Liudmila Nemyria on post-Soviet history, February 28, 2020.
- Interview on the history of modernity in Eastern Europe at the Idealist,TV (in Russian), February 29, 2020.
- Andrian Prokip and I just have published an article on how media leakages deform our democracy, Ukraine’s Democratic Leakocracy, at Kennan Focus Ukraine, February 27, 2020.
- An article, written in cooperation with Matt Rojansky, on Zelenskyy’s first six months rule was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, 13 November 2019.
- My tv-interview on the spirit of time under Zelenskyy regime is published on the Apostroph TV, September 27, 2019.
- My interview on the new generation in Ukrainian politics (Rus.) is published at the Ukrfife.TV, September 16, 2019.
- My article on the risks of Zelenskyy’s presidentialism is published in Kennan Focus Ukraine, September 9, 2019.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s electoral campaign results is published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, July 24, 2019.
- My column on Zelenskyy’s rule as a chance for Ukraine (Ukr/Rus) is published at Hromadske.TB, July 22, 2019.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s parliamentary elections’ process is published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, July 17, 2019.
- My TV interview with Liudmila Nemyria on the third wave of authoritarianism was published at the UkrLifeTV, July 19, 2019.
- My review of new elites cleavages in Ukraine is published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, July 18, 2019.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s parliamentary elections is published in the ISPI Forum, July 17, 2019.
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