DU_Recommends: Ukraine-related presentations at the IOS Annual Conference

Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies: From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and Southeast Europe

The 13th IOS Annual Conference marks the official launch of the newly established Department of Politics at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. Conceived as an inaugural event, the conference aims to introduce and discuss the department’s emerging research agenda and to foster dialogue with scholars whose work resonates with the focus of the institution on political institutions, actors, and processes in East and Southeast Europe. 

Below you can find information on Ukraine-related presentations in the framework of the conference. 

In the panel Democratic Erosion & Authoritarian Resilience on 23 April 2026 at 9:00 – 10:45 in IOS Room 319. 

Ukraine between European Integration and the Russian War of Aggression: Regime Change from Within or Externally Imposed Democratic Backsliding?

• Stefan Wolff & Tetyana Malyarenko (University of Birmingham & National University 'Odesa Law Academy')

In the panel Liminal Insecurities & Conflicted Sovereignties on 23 April 2026 at 13:00 – 14:30 in IOS Room 319.

“Pockets of Non-Resolution” and the Limits of Peace Processes in Ukraine (2013–2014)

• Oksana Myshlovska (University of Bern)

In the panel Political Mobilization, Representation & Resistance on 23 April at 15:00 – 16:30 in IOS Room 319.

“Impressing de Tocqueville?” Interest Group Mobilization in Wartime and Democratizing Ukraine 

• Michael Dobbins (Leibniz University Hannover)

“I Know I Must, but I …” Attitudes and Coping Strategies toward Mobilization and Travel Restrictions in Ukraine 

• Yana Lysenko (University of Bremen)

In the panel Digital Transformations & Information Control on 24 April 2026 at 9:00 – 10:30 in IOS Room 319.

A Comprehensive Peace or War without End? Public Opinion as a Constraint on Russia’s Endgame in Ukraine

• Matthew Blackburn (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (currently visiting fellow at ZOiS))

Learn more about the conference