Winners of the FOR UKRAINE Programme
PhD habil. Sławomir Łukasiewicz
Dr. Hab. Sławomir Łukasiewicz, Associate Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin is a historian of the twentieth century, political scientist, and Europeanist. He works at the Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Catholic University of Lublin. His research focuses on the history of the idea of European integration, with particular emphasis on the role of Polish emigration after 1939. His work also includes publications on comparative studies of political emigration from Central and Eastern Europe, the history of historiography, the history of Sovietology, and the history of civil intelligence of the Polish People’s Republic. He is currently researching Polish themes in European integration and the legacy of Polish thinking about the Soviet Union in the twentieth century.
PhD Mykola Riabchuk
Mykola Riabchuk, Ph.D., is a literary critic, essayist, and a doctor of literary theory and political science. He is a recognized authority on Ukrainian culture and domestic politics, as well as on the political transformation of the post-Soviet area. He is the co-founder of the Kyiv-based opinion-forming monthly Krytyka and the translator of Polish classics. For many years, he has been a regular guest lecturer at the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw. In 2022, he was awarded the Ukrainian Shevchenko National Prize.
The main goal of the project “From discourse of “Europeanness” to EU membership: integration narratives in Poland and Ukraine in a comparative perspective. Merging theoretical and utilitarian approaches.” is to compare historical experiences of European integration, find answers to the questions of how history and politics affect the mutual understanding of narratives of integration and dialogue, and examine main tendencies in pro-integration attitudes in Polish and Ukrainian society. The project will also help prepare students from Ukraine for the country’s EU negotiation and accession process.
