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The 'Protest Events Dimension' of the Ukrainian Maidan: how significant were regional unevenness, far right participation, and violence?, public lecture by Volodymyr Ishchenko (Center for Society Research, Kiev)

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Speaker: 
Volodymyr Ishchenko
Building: 
Nador u. 11
Room: 
TIGY room
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 5:30pm
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Monday, September 29, 2014 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

The 'Protest Events Dimension' of the Ukrainian Maidan: how significant were regional unevenness, far right participation, and violence?

Public lecture by Volodymyr Ishchenko

(Center for Society Research, Kiev)

For 5 years Volodymyr Ishcheko has been coordinating a project of collecting a systematic database of all protest and repressive events in Ukraine. Now possessing the full database of protest activity during the whole period of the former president Viktor Yanukovych's rule including the days of Maidan uprising, we can start answering a number of hotly debated and highly politicized questions. Particularly, what was the relative impact of protests in Kiev and beyond the capital, in the West and in the East of the country? Who were the most visible participants of Maidan and how significant was the far right participation in the protests? How did the dynamics of violence and repression develop during Maidan and was the 'revolution' a planned takeover of state power? Finally, which impact might all this have had on the ongoing civil war in Ukraine?

Bio:

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a sociologist studying social protests in Ukraine and an MA graduate from CEU's Sociology and Social Anthropology department. He is the deputy director of the Center for Social and Labor Research, a member of the editorial board of Commons: Journal for Social Criticism and LeftEast web-magazine, and a teacher at the Department of Sociology in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He authored a number of comments and interviews about Ukrainian Maidan, particularly, for the Guardian and the New Left Review: http:// www.theguardian.com/ profile/volodymyr-ishchenko and http://newleftreview.org/ II/87/ volodymyr-ishchenko-ukraine -s-fractures

The 'Protest Events Dimension' of the Ukrainian Maidan: how significant were regional unevenness, far right participation, and violence?
Public lecture by Volodymyr Ishchenko
(Center for Society Research, Kiev)
For 5 years Volodymyr Ishcheko has been coordinating a project of collecting a systematic database of all protest and repressive events in Ukraine. Now possessing the full database of protest activity during the whole period of the former president Viktor Yanukovych's rule including the days of Maidan uprising, we can start answering a number of hotly debated and highly politicized questions. Particularly, what was the relative impact of protests in Kiev and beyond the capital, in the West and in the East of the country? Who were the most visible participants of Maidan and how significant was the far right participation in the protests? How did the dynamics of violence and repression develop during Maidan and was the 'revolution' a planned takeover of state power? Finally, which impact might all this have had on the ongoing civil war in Ukraine?
Bio:

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a sociologist studying social protests in Ukraine and an MA graduate from CEU's Sociology and Social Anthropology department. He is the deputy director of the Center for Social and Labor Research, a member of the editorial board of Commons: Journal for Social Criticism and LeftEast web-magazine, and a teacher at the Department of Sociology in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He authored a number of comments and interviews about Ukrainian Maidan, particularly, for the Guardian and the New Left Review: http:// www.theguardian.com/ profile/volodymyr-ishchenko and http://newleftreview.org/ II/87/ volodymyr-ishchenko-ukraine -s-fr