Russia’s War on Ukraine in its fifth Year: Current Challenges for Germany and the EU
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel
From 2019 to 2024, Viola von Cramon-Taubadel was a Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA. She was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee.
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel was also part of the delegation to the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute member of the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT), the Committee on Industry, Technology, Research and Energy (ITRE) and the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. A graduate in agricultural economics, she joined the party in 2001: “When Renate Künast became the first Green Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, I wanted to support the change in agricultural policy.”
Guido Hausmann
Prof. Dr. Guido Hausmann is Head of the History Division at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and Professor at the University of Regensburg. Guido Hausmann is Co-Chair of the DAAD Center for interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies “Denkraum Ukraine” / “Think Space Ukraine”, co-chair of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission and a member of the Jean Monnet Network “Challenges and Opportunities for EU Heritage Diplomacy in Ukraine”, coordinated by Catholic University Leuven (2023-2026).
Guido Hausmann is project leader of “Commodity Frontiers in Eastern Europe. Environment and Societies at Global Risk (16th-21st Centuries)”, and subproject leader of “The Rise of a Manganese Ore Frontier in Western Georgia and Southeast Ukraine, end of 19th Century – 1950s” (Leibniz Collaborative Excellence Programme, 2025-2028).
His scientific interests encompass modern history of Ukraine in comparative perspective, in particular state building (1918, 1991), urban history, social and economic history.
Winter School 2026 “Ukrainian Migration in Europe and Globally in the 20th and 21st Century”
This event is part of the Winter School 2026 “Ukrainian Migration in Europe and Globally in the 20th and 21st Century” in Munich, organized by “Denkraum Ukraine” / “Think Space Ukraine” at the University of Regensburg, financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) through the funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Ukrainian Free University (UFU, Munich), the Bukovina Institute at the University of Augsburg, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Slavic Department) and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Regensburg.
The Winter School addresses the issue of Ukrainian migration within its manyfold dimensions. Over 25 international speakers will deepen into a larger historical perspective of Ukrainian migration in the 20th and 21st century. They will discuss how Ukrainian culture, in particular literature, mirrors migration, explore how Ukrainians have experienced flight and migration, considering their age and gender. The legal and political dimensions of the phenomenon, including the regional dynamics of migration, as well as the perception of Ukrainians and Russia’s war against Ukraine will also be in the focus of the event.