Conference reports Higher education and research in times of war and repression

The roundtable “Universities at War”, held in Vienna on September 27, 2023, provided a panorama of case studies analyzing how universities have been implicated and affected by wars and conflicts. The speakers reflected on the way academic communities have been affected and the role of European academic institutions as sites, agents, collaborators, resisters, and victims of military conflicts from the Second World War to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2024: 1-2. pages 111-121
Published on balticworlds.com on April 23, 2024

The roundtable “Universities at War”, held in Vienna on September 27, 2023, provided a panorama of case studies analyzing how universities have been implicated and affected by wars and conflicts. The speakers reflected on the way academic communities have been affected and the role of European academic institutions as sites, agents, collaborators, resisters, and victims of military conflicts from the Second World War to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The participanting speakers are: Philipp Christoph Schmädeke, Political Scientist at the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin, director of the Science at Risk Emergency Office; Kirstine Arentoft, currently a master’s student in Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, working with the University New Europe’s mentoring program; Svitlana Telukha, PhD in History, is a lecturer at the National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and fellow of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO). She is also editor of A Wounded City Residents of Kharkiv Talk About the Attack on Their City; Andrea Pető, Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna, a Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Alexander Etkind, Professor of History and since 2022 at the Department of International Relations at Central European University in Vienna; Dina Gusejnova, intellectual historian and Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Yuchen Li