Workshop : Ukrainian (Working) Lives : Vulnerabilities, Shifting Geographies, Resistance

Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this workshop examines how war has reshaped work, livelihoods, and social trajectories. It explores the effects of violence, displacement, mobilization, and destruction on everyday working lives, economic geography, and labor markets, as well as the emergence of new vulnerabilities and gendered transformations.

Focusing on under-studied sectors and skill-based social groups (e.g. agriculture, care, transport, industry, public services), the workshop also addresses diverse forms of mobility, from internal displacement to transnational migration, including those who remain in threatened areas.

Covering the period from 2014 to the present, with particular attention to developments since 2022, it adopts a multi-scalar perspective across front-line, occupied, and rear regions, as well as transnational spaces.

Organized by the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), ZOiS, and KIU, the workshop fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and connects research on Ukraine to broader debates on war, labor, migration, and democracy in Europe. It prioritizes fieldwork-based research and aims to highlight how labor, migration, gender, and violence intersect in everyday strategies and forms of resilience.

More information : https://cmb.hu-berlin.de/events/ukrainian-working-lives/

Organizing Team: Sabine von Löwis (ZOIS), Nathalie Moine (CMB), Fabien Théofilakis (CMB), Susann Worschech (KIU Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin), Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOIS)