We would like to invite you to a public lecture to be held NEXT THURSDAY at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies (Wroclaw, Poland) and simultaneously broadcast on Zoom (hybrid format) on the November 28th, 2024, 14.00-16.00 (CET).

This lecture is the fourth lecture in a series of lectures on the topic: ‘Ukraine between history and modernity: the challenges of war, historical narratives and a conflict of interpretations’.

The lecture in English entitled ‘THE WELL-BEING OF UKRAINIAN CHILDREN WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEMS OF EU MEMBER STATES’ will be delivered by Ivan Posylnyi (see please attached poster).

Link ZOOM:

https://zoom.us/j/96517592593? pwd=SActhsJbZ1FBI4kmcm4YHeXGO7Qrtc.1

Hier is information about Ivan Posylnyi and his lecture:

Ivan Posylnyi is a Luhansk-born Ukrainian sociologist, residing in Warsaw, Poland. He holds an MA in Applied Sociology from Kharkiv National University and an MA in Sociology from the Graduate School of Social Research of Lancaster University. He has been involved in research on children and adolescents’ rights since 2016, particularly on the topics of foster care in Ukraine, and children’s identity in occupied areas. Since 2022 Ivan has collaborated with Polish (CEO) and international (UNICEF, Plan International, Save the Children) organizations researching the well-being of Ukrainian children and adolescents with displacement experiences. His interests also include forced migration and internal/external displacement, human rights, and identity formation in occupation. Currently, he is working on a PhD dissertation thesis at Warsaw University and is teaching the course “Ethnicity and Identity in Donbas”.

The upcoming lecture by Ivan Posylnyi on the topic "The Well-being of Ukrainian Children with the Experience of Forced Displacement in the Education Systems of EU Member States" will focus on the well-being of Ukrainian children in schools of selected EU member states. What influenced their integration in the educational environment and what obstacles were there in the first two years after the full-scale war began? What problems did children experience and where did they find support? What changed over almost three years? In his presentation, Ivan will discuss these and other questions with particular attention to the Polish educational context. He will reflect on his conversations with Ukrainian pupils in Polish schools, as well as interviews with teachers, intercultural assistants, Polish pupils, caregivers, psychotherapists. Finally, the presentation will elaborate on the narratives of national identity present in the school discourse and how various school actors contribute to such narratives' formation.