The Centre for European and Eurasian Studies is at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
The Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES) at the University of Toronto is one of North America's leading academic institutes for the study of the member countries of the European Union, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe. The Centre promotes interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in the social sciences and humanities. Each year CEES organizes sev
03/27/2026
On March 31, 2026, Dr. Tatsiana Astrouskaya of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will speak at an event. See below for more details.
Sponsors:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; Dissident Legacy / Héritages de la dissidence; Slavic & East European Languages & Cultures at the University of Toronto
03/20/2026
In case you missed the lecture delivered by Prof. Marci Shore on the 4th anniversary of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, you can now watch a recording:
Four Years into Full-Scale War: The Gap between Past and Future Speaker: Marci ShoreModerator: Lucan WayFebruary 24, 2022 brought a decisive end to “The End of History.” Afterwards German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke of a...
03/20/2026
In 2022, in response to russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, PJP began supporting Ukraine-based scholars with non-residential scholarships that give them opportunities to continue their professional activities during the times when many careers were interrupted. Since then, 58 scholars have been supported through these non-residential engagements.
We invite you to read an interview with Halyna Hleba, an art historian, curator of exhibition projects and a current Petro Jacyk Non-Residential Scholar, and learn about her research.
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/cees/news/when-artists-go-war-researching-cultural-memory-ukraine
01/09/2026
Congratulations Professor Robert Austin on receiving U of T’s President’s Teaching Award, U of T’s highest honour for teaching excellence, innovation, and leadership. From dynamic classrooms to global perspectives, Professor Austin continues to inspire students and shape meaningful learning experiences.
Professor Robert Austin receives the University of Toronto's President's Teaching Award Congratulations Professor Robert Austin on receiving U of T’s President’s Teaching Award , U of T’s highest honour for teaching excellence, innovation, and l...
12/17/2025
If you missed the 2025 Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial lecture on russia's invasion of Ukraine and the breakup of world liberal order delivered by PJP's co-director Prof. Lucan Way, you can now watch it on our Youtube channel:
Dylynsky Memorial Lecture: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Breakup of the Liberal World Order In this lecture, Lucan Way explains how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 challenged long-held assumptions about the nature of the liberal worl...
Dr. Karolina Koziura joined PJP and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto this September for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture and Society that is generously provided by the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation.
Karolina Koziura is a cultural and historical sociologist who studies the legacies of violence, identity formation processes, and politics of knowledge in/about Eastern Europe. For more than 15 years, she has conducted ethnographic and historical research in Ukraine and Poland. Karolina received her PhD in sociology and historical studies from the New School for Social Research, New York, in 2023. She was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2023-2025), where she worked on problems of environmental forms of violence, historical injustices, and European politics of memory. Karolina’s research was published in, among other places, Memory Studies, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, European Journal of Sociology, and East European Politics, Societies, and Culture. She has been a visiting fellow at, among other places, Konstanz University, IWM in Vienna, and the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Currently, she is finishing her first monograph on the politics of hunger and transnational political contests surrounding the Great Ukrainian Famine (1932-2022).
As a Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Koziura will develop her second book project on the transnational and multidirectional politics of recognition surrounding the Communist-era violence. In Winter, she will teach a course Topics in Ukraine: Violence, Justice, and Social Change in Ukraine and Beyond.
The call for applications for 2026/2027 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship is currently open: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/petro-jacyk/petro-jacyk-post-doctoral-fellowship-ukrainian-politics-culture-and-society
11/25/2025
Join us on December 5, 2025 as Professor Schatz sits down for a conversation with Ilya Yashin
Register here: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/conversation-ilya-yashin
11/21/2025
The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at CEES invites applications for the 2026-2027 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society.
For more information, please visit the website: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/petro-jacyk/petro-jacyk-post-doctoral-fellowship-ukrainian-politics-culture-and-society
11/03/2025
Germany’s housing crisis is making Europe’s sick man even sicker - Reframing Germany's housing crisis as an issue of national economic interest could create the political impetus needed to solve it.
10/03/2025
We invite you to online screening of Mama's Voice, a documentary produced by CEES alumna and former staff member Larysa Iarovenko at La Femme International Film Festival.
https://watch.eventive.org/lafemme2025/play/68d224eb203f58f0d860c08c
The documentary will be available for online screening and voting starting October 16, 2025, 3 am Pacific Time
PROMO code: BULK
Mama's Voice | La Femme International Film Festival In the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion, film director Ganna flees with her children and elderly mother from Russian gunfire near Kyiv.
