Greifswald Summer Schools

(Dis)Comfort Zones: Resilience and its Limits
(10–22 August 2026)

This year’s Greifswalder Ukrainicum explores the multifaceted, often contradictory nature of resilience, its limits, and its complex relationship to peacebuilding. It also seeks to connect Ukrainian suffering and responses to it with Europe’s intensive engagement with the traumatic events of the “extreme” twentieth century (Eric Hobsbawm), mapping possible bridges between different concepts of conflict resolution. Alongside (geo)political and large-scale economic perspectives, the program places particular emphasis on grassroots strategies of resilience, survival, and coping with trauma in society and culture. In doing so, it aims to uncover how these strategies transcend or even subvert official narratives, compensating for shortcomings and oversimplifications at the state level while shaping everyday practices beyond prescriptive models. Special attention will be paid to the potential of scholarship and art to unsettle society’s discursive comfort through critical interrogation, so as to avoid the fate of a new “uncomfortable place” (endroit inconvénient), so astutely documented by Jonathan Littell in his eponymous book on Babyn Yar and the war-torn Ukraine (2023).

Through interdisciplinary lectures, discussions, and cultural events, participants will engage with:

• academic and societal conceptualizations of resilience
• grassroots strategies of survival and coping with trauma
• the relationship between resilience, violence, and the risk of romanticizing suffering
• Europe’s historical experiences with war and their influence on current political culture
• the role of scholarship and art in challenging societal “comfort zones” and avoiding the “discomfort” of military confrontation and war

Join us in reflecting on how resilience is constructed, narrated, and lived — and how it shapes visions of conflict resolution and peaceful futures.

More details and registration information coming soon. Stay tuned!

Kunst Musik Vortrag / Lesung STRAZEcaféSTRAZEkultur, polenmARkT e.V.
Der Warschauer Punk Pakt und die p***y Pommern-Connection
Alexander Pehlemann liest, spricht und spielt Platten
Eine Mehrmedia-Lecture zur Beziehung zwischen den Punk-Szenen der DDR und Polens in den 1980ern sowie der späteren grenzüberschreitenden Aktivität zwischen Greifswald und Szczecin im Geiste dessen. Inszeniert als Zeitreise durch die Subkultur von Alexander Pehlemann unter der Flagge von " # # # Jahren Zonic", seiner 1993 in Greifswald als Fanzine für "Kulturelle Randstandsblicke & Involvierungsmomente" gestarteten Publikationsplattform mit angeschlossener Zonic Radio Show, die noch immer von 98eins ausgestrahlt wird.

Einlass: ab 19.30 Uhr
Beginn: 20 Uhr
Eintritt: frei, Spenden willkommen

Eine Veranstaltung des polenmARkT e.V. in Kooperation mit der STRAZE zum X. Polonicum.

The 25th Ukrainicum has just started today! If you are interested in listening to the opening lecture by Anka Feldhusen, German ambassador in Kyiv, you are welcome to join us now on Zoom:

Die Ukraine seit 2010 – Beobachtungen einer deutschen Diplomatin Eröffnungsvortrag von Anka Feldhusen, Botschafterin der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Kyiv im Rahmen des XXV. Greifswalder Ukrainicums – Greifswald Ukrainian Summer School „(Ze)Ukraine: Challenges of Hybridity"

https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/allgemeines/veranstaltungskalender/veranstaltung/n/zeukraine-challenges-of-hybridity/
You can now apply to participate in this year's Ukrainicum :-)
Information in English: https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/en/translate-to-english-d-call-for-applications-for-participating-in-the-international-summer-school-zeukraine-challenges-of-hybridity/

(Ze)Ukraine: Challenges of Hybridity XXV. Greifswalder Ukrainicum – Greifswald Ukrainian Summer School

Save the date for this year's Polonicum: 6-11 September 2021. In Greifswald or digitally: it will take place either way!

I'm very happy to share this year's "Save the Date" with you, as we have decided that our summer schools will take place either in Greifswald (hope dies last..) or digitally. In any case, the 25th Ukrainicum will take place from 9 - 21 August 2021.🥳 More information will follow soon.

Auch das Polonicum muss leider in diesem Jahr pausieren. Wir freuen uns aber schon auf die Sommerschule im kommenden Jahr (6.-11. Sept. 2021). Um sich die Wartezeit ein wenig zu verkürzen, sind auf unserer Homepage einige Vorträge vergangener Jahre verlinkt :-)

- ABGESAGT - Teschen-Cieszyn-Těšín. One Region, One Culture? IX. Greifswalder Polonicum – Greifswald Polish Summer School unter wissenschaftlicher Leitung von Professor Dr. Bernhard Brehmer (Konstanz), Dr. Marek Fiałek (Greifswald) und Professor Dr. Andreas Ohme (Greifswald)

Due to the Corona virus we unfortunately have to postpone this year's "Greifswalder Ukrainicum" to the summer of 2021. The new dates will be published shortly. You will find current information and some links to talks from past Ukrainian summer schools here:
https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/en/program/general-overview/calender-of-events/veranstaltung/n/zeukraine-a-new-chapter-in-ukraines-history-63405/