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Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Taras Tsymbal, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Ukraine’s resolute distancing from Russia came as a surprise to many audiences in the world. In the lack of its intellectually satisfying explanation, conspiracy theories temptingly attributed this change to the interventions of external actors, overlooking Ukraine’s internal development and path dependencies, engrained in its spatial and temporal structures. This talk will discuss dynamics of spatial and temporal heterogeneity of Ukraine that set the course and pace of its distinct post-independence development.

Taras Tsymbal is the vice-dean for science and international relations and an associate professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. His initial research was focused on globalization and its implication for sociological theory, while more recently he concentrated on studying historical effects of globalization on the Ukrainian society in 18th and 19th centuries. Currently, he holds a scholarship and continues teaching online to his students in Kyiv from the University of Konstanz. While in Konstanz, he engaged into collaborative research on authoritarian attitudes in Ukraine and on Ukrainian forced migrants in Konstanz municipal area.

Zoom-link for online participation available on request.