Ukrainian perspectives are essential to understanding Russia’s war in Ukraine. Dr. Yakovlev's lecture forms part of an interdisciplinary series of lectures on Ukraine and from Ukraine. It aims to engage in particular with Ukrainian scholars and is entitled "Russian Invasion in the Core of Europe: Bringing Ukrainian Voices to the Fore". For more information about the lecture series, please, see https://bit.ly/3NsrQSl
The lecture series is organized by the Degree Programme of Politics from Tampere University in collaboration with the HEPP research group and its Now-Time Us-Space Kone Foundation project, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Aleksanteri Institute from the University of Helsinki.
Dr. Maksym Yakovlyev is Head of Department of International Relations, Director of School for Policy Analysis at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy at which he also taught for the Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Kyiv-Mohyla School of Public Administration, School of Public Health. In autumn 2021 Dr. Yakovlyev became member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He did his BA in social work, MA (with distinctions) and PhD in politics (2010). Dr. Yakovlyev was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, University of Maastricht, University of Geneva, and taught at Corvinus University in Budapest, Comenius University of Bratislava, University of Helsinki, Glasgow University. His research focuses on social science concepts, post-socialist social and cultural transformations, Ukrainian identity, the Donbas region, and the (post)modern Russian imperialism. He also has a passion for both qualitative and quantitative research methods and is active in translating books into Ukrainian (most recent translations: Erich Fromm “Escape from Freedom”, James Mace “Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation…”, Richard Florida “Creative Class” etc).
Link to the Zoom lecture.
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Anni Kangas, anni.kangas@tuni.fi