Summer Syllabi
We kick off August with the first installment of our Summer Syllabi series: The War in Ukraine
August 4, 2022
In this week’s issue of Public Seminar, we take you back to a curated selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine.
What’s at Stake in Ukraine
Mariia Shynkarenko, PhD Candidate in Politics at The New School for Social Research, Visiting Scholar at the Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, and Visiting Scholar at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU, offered a stern warning 22 days before the Russian invasion of her home country: “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
Making Sense of the War
“With the Russian invasion, all ambiguity disappeared. With the shock came renewed awareness that the country had been at war with Russia for the past eight years,” writes Tatiana Zhurzhenko as she turns to questions of the past, present, and future.
Preparing for an Apocalypse
“Improving social cohesion and civil participation should be treated with as much urgency as improving the army,” argues Angelina Kariakina, head of the newsroom at Suspilne, the Ukrainian public service broadcaster.
Echoes of War Reach New York
Anastasia Shteinert, political reporter and MA Candidate in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School for Social Research, gives a unique take on the impact of Putin’s war beyond Ukrainian borders: “As a Russian citizen studying journalism in New York, I feel concerned about my future as never before. Of course, our troubles pale beside the suffering Ukrainians are experiencing right now. Still, we anti-war Russians in New York are in a kind of limbo, often feeling unwelcome in both Russia and in the West.”
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Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Karolina Koziura, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research, writes on Russia’s imperial dreams and the tragedy of Central Europe.
What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, contends that “Perhaps the Ukrainian refugee crisis will simply reinforce the usual views of advocates that the European refugee and asylum system is biased and unprincipled. But it could also provide the basis for an important rethinking of the current international system of refugee protection.”
The Politics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Peter J. Hoffman, Nina Krushcheva, Jessica Pisano, and Everita Silina discuss the conflict and its consequences in a conversation organized by The New School’s Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, with an eye towards bringing light to different angles and perspectives on this conflict.