VMU Invites You to a Discussion with the Scientists from Ukraine
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy community highly condemns Putin’s actions and supports Ukrainian colleagues. VMU stands in solidarity with Ukraine and terminates all cooperation with Russian and Belarusian partners.
On Wednesday, 23 March at 15:00 public online discussion with Ukrainian scientists will take place: The role of universities in wartime. What are the practices and how is this happening in Ukraine now
Subtopics:
- The Behavior of Universities during Revolutions and War: The European Experience
- Why is it necessary to save the nation’s elite?
- How universities are part of European and global cooperation and what solidarity is needed during war.
- EU perspective for Ukraine/NATO or neutrality
Participants:
- Prof. Mykola Trofymenko, Mariupol State University, Mariupol, Ukraine
- Assoc. prof. Sergei Pakhomenko, Mariupol State University, Mariupol, Ukraine
- Prof. Maxim Lepskiy, Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
- Dr. Denys Kuzmyn, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine
- Assoc. prof. Marianna Hladysh, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Lviv, Ukraine
- Assoc. prof. Bohdan Cherkas, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Kyiv, Ukraine
Discussion moderator: prof. Gintautas Mažeikis, The Head of Social and Political Critique Center, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Discussion organizer: Aistė Žemaitytė, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Language of discussion – English.
Zoom link and login of discussion:
Meeting ID: 838 3047 4233
Passcode: 872768
