2023 — present
The Research Alliance War and Society proposes to structure the discussion between historians and sociologists from different scientific traditions around the experience of war in Eastern Europe. The aim is to conduct collective research into war as a process of movement — of bodies, links, institutions, goods, ideas, legacies and possible futures. Founded on the interdisciplinary tradition of area studies, the laboratory also seeks to overcome the spatial compartmentalisation effects induced by the division of Europe into 'cultural areas' by bringing together researchers from the east and west of the continent.
The 'laboratory without walls', or 'research alliance,' will be both a place for the emergence and structuring of new scientific dynamics born of this historical mobility and for understanding this common experience of war as the heart of a shared European experience over time. Hosted by the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, it is supported by the Centre d'études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centre-asiatiques (CERCEC / UMR EHESS — CNRS), the Center for Urban History in Lviv (CUH), and the Institute of International Studies (Charles University) in Prague. The CERCEC is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of the diverse societies and state formations in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, with a focus on regional or transnational processes. A high-level interdisciplinary research center since 2004, the CUH has also become an important host center for many social and human sciences researchers from eastern and southern Ukraine and a key player in collecting war testimonies. The Institute of International Studies hosts interdisciplinary research on all cultural areas. In particular, it is home to a dynamic research team focusing on the links between war and the post-war period in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries, examining political, economic and social reconfigurations and reconstructions, including the history of post-war psychiatry.
Focus areas:
- Refugees, exiles, displaced persons: the mobility of war in the European experience
- Military and militant mobilization
- Traces and memories of war
Research Visits
In 2023, within the framework of this research network, with the support of EHESS and the French Embassy in Kyiv, the Center's researchers Dr. Ivanna Cherchovych and Dr. Natalia Otrishchenko were on a one-month internship in Paris. Natalia Otrishchenko were on a one-month internship in Paris.
Conferences and Seminars:
- Mobilization, demobilization, reconstruction: Wars and post-war in Central and Eastern Europe (XX-XXI centuries), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague / 23.5.2023
