The Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wrocław
invites to public lecture:
‘THE WELL-BEING OF UKRAINIAN CHILDREN WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEMS OF EU MEMBER STATES’
Ivan Posylnyi
Date: November 28th, 2024, 14.00-16.00 (CET).
Location: Room 13, Willy Brandt Centre, ul.Strażnicza 1-3, Wrocław
Link ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/96517592593?pwd=SActhsJbZ1FBI4kmcm4YHeXGO7Qrtc.1
Meeting ID: 965 1759 2593
Passcode: 057185
Information about the guest lecturer:
Ivan Posylnyi is a Luhansk-born Ukrainian sociologist, residing in Warsaw, Poland. He holds an MA in Applied Sociology from Kharkiv National University and an MA in Sociology from the Graduate School of Social Research of Lancaster University. He has been involved in research on children and adolescents’ rights since 2016, particularly on the topics of foster care in Ukraine, and children’s identity in occupied areas. Since 2022 Ivan has collaborated with Polish (CEO) and international (UNICEF, Plan International, Save the Children) organizations researching the well-being of Ukrainian children and adolescents with displacement experiences. His interests also include forced migration and internal/external displacement, human rights, and identity formation in occupation. Currently, he is working on a PhD dissertation thesis at Warsaw University and is teaching the course “Ethnicity and Identity in Donbas”.
The upcoming lecture by Ivan Posylnyi on the topic "The Well-being of Ukrainian Children with the Experience of Forced Displacement in the Education Systems of EU Member States" will focus on the well-being of Ukrainian children in schools of selected EU member states. What influenced their integration in the educational environment and what obstacles were there in the first two years after the full-scale war began? What problems did children experience and where did they find support? What changed over almost three years? In his presentation, Ivan will discuss these and other questions with particular attention to the Polish educational context. He will reflect on his conversations with Ukrainian pupils in Polish schools, as well as interviews with teachers, intercultural assistants, Polish pupils, caregivers, psychotherapists. Finally, the presentation will elaborate on the narratives of national identity present in the school discourse and how various school actors contribute to such narratives' formation.
This lecture is the third of a series of lectures on the topic "Ukraine between history and modernity: war challenges, historical narratives and a conflict of interpretations".
Moderator of the discussions: Prof. Sören Brinkmann
Organizer of the lecture series: Prof. Oksana Danylenko (Contact and questions: Adres poczty elektronicznej jest chroniony przed robotami spamującymi. W przeglądarce musi być włączona obsługa JavaScript, żeby go zobaczyć. )
Partner Institutions for these events: Coordination Center of the German Studies Center (ZDS) at Peking University, FU Berlin (Dr. Julia Kobzar)
The project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The events will be held in a hybrid format (streamed on Zoom with English-Polish interpretation); additional information and links will be provided in separate announcements closer to the event.
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