“Alarmed Science” — Knowledge-Production in a State of Emergency
20-22 January, 2025
Budapest
About
The full-scale Russian war changed the strategies of knowledge production and cultural diplomacy of Ukrainian institutions. Ukrainian academia had to deal with changing research agendas, dependency on foreign funding, and mass displacement of scholars and students. All this threatens Ukraine’s academic infrastructure and can have devastating consequences. At the same time, the international exposure of thousands of academics from the country also created new connectivities andintellectual opportunities. The Ukrainian experience is also indicative of larger, global trends of an academy at risk, pointing to the need to re-evaluate institutional partnerships, emergency funding mechanisms, and to reect on epistemic injustices.
The goal of this conference is to discuss how institutions of knowledge production have adapted to the emergencies of the war. Ukrainian and international scholars will have a chance to discuss new academic models that have been developed and nd practical solutions for sustaining academia during and after the
crisis, based on the lessons that were learned so far.
Main conference themes:
- • Displacement of Ukrainian Scholars
- • Emergency Funding Mechanisms
- • Grants Economy during the War
- • Brain Drain of the Ukrainian Intellectual Ecosystem
- • Academic Infrastructure Under Fire
- • Rethinking Knowledge Production
- • Disrupted Knowledge Exchange Flows
* A full description of the topics is available in the event programme file.
Organised by
VUIAS / CEU IAS