We cordially invite you to a meeting with Yulia Kiselyova, PhD, and Viktoriia Ivashchenko, PhD, during which the researchers will tell us about their project on the acceptance of academic Ukrainian migrants in Poland. The project is devoted to the forced migration of academics from areas of military conflict in Ukraine. The first wave of this movement began in 2014 from the region of Donbas and represented internal migration associated with the relocation of educational institutions and a proportion of their faculty to Сentral and Western Ukraine. The second wave began after 24 February 2022 and spilled out across the western border into other European countries. The objective of the project is twofold. We aim to study the changing strategies of survival and career-building in extreme circumstances and the level of solidarity and cooperation within the academic community. In addition, we will be interested in the motives and degree of involvement of representatives of the host countries in their interactions with forced migrants. We propose to identify the dynamics of these phenomena throughout the entire period of forced migration, which involves an analysis of “expectations” and first “collisions with reality.” In the future, this project can become the basis for exploring long-term changes in the configuration of the European academic community, academic climate, and the degree of integration of Ukrainian scholars into the world academic community after the end of the military conflict. The methodology of the project involves collection and analysis of oral history interviews with academic employeesof Ukraine’s institutions of higher education and those representatives of the European academic community who are directly involved in the accommodation of academic migrants.

Viktoriia Ivashchenko studied history at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, obtaining her PhD in 2004 with a dissertation on nineteenth-century university memoirs. Since 2005, Associate Professor at the Department of Historiography, Source Studies, and Archeology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. In addition, since 2017, the director of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University History Museum. Her research interests center around the peculiarities of the representation of the scientific community in ego-documents. Viktoriia’s current Oral History research project at the MPIWG (together with Yulia Kiseleva) deals with study of the forced migration of historians from areas of military conflict in Ukraine in 2014–2022. She is also working on a research projects Aberration of memory in the autobiographies of university professors of the Russian Empire in the late 18th – early 20th centuries and M. Drinov`s epistolary heritage in collaboration with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has been an Еditor of the series Kharkiv University in the Memory of Its Faculty and Alumni: Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2004–2016, in Ukrainian), has participated in the international research project DHI Moscow supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation Transfer and Adaptation of the University Education in the Russian Empire in the second half 18 – first half 19 centuries (2008 – 2010), research project supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine University Culture in the Ukrainian Intellectual Space (2004 – 2013).

Yulia Kiselyova – Candidate of History (equivalent of PhD). Assistant professor of the Department of Historiography, Source Studies, and Archeology of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Historian of Ukrainian historiography and an author of the book “Formation and Development of Historiography at the Imperial Kharkiv University” (Kharkiv, 2014, in Ukrainian). Author of more than fifty papers including fife collective monographs and two collections of documents. The member of the of «Polish Ukrainian Historiographical Community» (Towarzystwa Historiograficznego). She is particularly interested in the evolution of the professional ethos of Ukrainian historians in the early Soviet era, focusing on the fracturing and reshaping of ethical principles in response to external events. In 2018-2021 she is the participant of the research project “Practices of the Self-Representation of Multinational Cities in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Era”, supported by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. The author together with Viktoriia Ivashchenko of Research Oral History Project “Moving West”: Ukrainian Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration”, sponsored by Max Plank Institute for the History of Science (2022).