Date: 19 November 2026; 6:30–8:00 p.m.

Location: Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Doktor-Johann-Maier Straße 5, 93049 Regensburg  

Speakers: Katrin Boeckh (Denkraum Ukraine; IOS Regensburg; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert (University of Augsburg), Moderator: Jana Osterkamp (Bukowina Institute; University of Augsburg)

Organized by: Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie; “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)

Language: German

• Free admission 

• You can register on the website of Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie or by calling 0941 29 714 20 (Tue–Sun, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.)

The expulsion of 12–14 million Germans after 1945 and the flight from Ukraine since 2022 - to what extent can these experiences of forced migration be compared? What helps people when they are forced to leave their homeland? How do they talk about the experience of expulsion -and how do they remember it?

These questions are at the center of the discussion between Prof. Dr. Katrin Boeckh (Denkraum Ukraine; IOS Regensburg; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), PD Dr. Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert (University of Augsburg), and Prof. Dr. Jana Osterkamp (Bukovina Institute; University of Augsburg). The panel discussion explores the similarities and differences between the two processes of displacement and examines what connects people across time and generations in their experiences of forced migration and how they cope with it.

Katrin Boeckh

Prof. Dr. Katrin Boeckh is a historian at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, where she heads the research unit “Culture and Memory: Displaced Persons and Resettlers in Bavaria.” Within the “Denkraum Ukraine” project, she coordinates the thematic area of flight, migration, and value transfer.

Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert

Tanja Hoggan-Kloubert is an associate professor of adult education at the University of Augsburg. She is co-editor of the journals “The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies” and “International Journal of Lifelong Education,” as well as co-director of the Institute for Civic Education and Democracy Education. As a migrant from Ukraine to Germany, her research focuses on adult and civic education in diverse migration societies and in post-totalitarian contexts. She is also a co-founder and director of the German-Ukrainian Dialogue e. V. and vice-chair of the City of Augsburg’s Integration Advisory Board.

Jana Osterkamp

Jana Osterkamp holds a law degree and a postdoctoral qualification in history. Since 2023, she has been a professor of the history of Germany’s interconnections with Eastern Europe at the University of Augsburg. There, she also heads the Bukovina Institute.

Photo credit: Jana Osterkamp. Photo: Universität Augsburg