🇪🇺 CIVICA Short-Term Visit Contest

The third competition for a 5-day visit to one of the four universities of the CIVICA European University Alliance is now open!

🔎 What’s included:

• participation in CIVICA events and conferences under the European CIVICA brand;
• learning activities, discussions of joint research projects;
• exchange of best practices

👉 Ideally, the visit should combine at least two types of activities.

📌 Who can apply:

• faculty members and researchers of KSE

📢 Call for Applications Virtual Ukrainian Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS)

In close cooperation with partner institutes from Ukraine, Europe, and the United States, Wissenschaftskolleg has launched an initiative to support Ukrainian scholars in establishing an Institute for Advanced Study in Kyiv.

VUIAS provides fellowships to Ukrainian researchers, coordinates their work to form a virtual cohort, organizes colloquia and other virtual or hybrid events, facilitates connections with international colleagues and academic institutes, and offers services such as library access and assistance with translation and publication of research.

The program is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

❓How Should Remembrance Sound?

KSE Center for Human Rights and War Memorialization Held an Expert Discussion on the Sound Accompaniment of the Minute of Silence.

On September 16, the Center for Human Rights and War Memorialization at the KSE, together with the NGO Vshanuj (“Honor”), organized the first expert discussion dedicated to the sound accompaniment of the minute of silence.

🔎 Key points of the discussion:

• Experts in musicology, memorialization, public history, and museum work shared their knowledge of Ukrainian and international practices of using sound in commemorative rituals.
• The initiative was inspired by a call from Anton Drobovych, head of the Center, and Kateryna Datsenko, co-founder of Vshanuj, who noted that the widespread use of the metronome sound in Ukraine has Soviet origins dating back to the mid-20th century, when the USSR used it to honor World War II victims.
• This raised an important question: Is it time to rethink the tradition and find a sound more deeply rooted in the Ukrainian cultural context?