The War in Ukraine

This Salon will feature a conversation about cultural, political and economic aspects of the ongoing war, including the warmongering of the war literature, the effects of the war on Ukraine’s civil society and the economic costs and consequences of the war, with three Ukrainian scholars: Mariia Shuvalova, literary critic and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Yulia Bidenko, Associate Professor of Political Science at Karazin Kharkiv National University; and Alexander Rodnyansky, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Moderated by Alya Guseva, alumna of Karazin Kharkiv National University, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and Chief Editor of Socio-Economic Review.

About the speakers

Yuliya Bidenko is Ph.D. in Political Science (2009) and MA in Sociology (2004). She holds the position of Associate Professor and Guarantee of the Master’s Program at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Political Science Department. She was a Research Fellow for Civil Society Studies Department of Charles University, an Individual Research Fellow for the Center for Advanced Studies and Education in Europеan Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania), the participant of post-Soviet Researchers and Teachers Excellence Program by the Temple University, Institute for Civic Studies by the Tufts University and the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Dr. Bidenko is an alumna of the European Union Visitors Program (2018), the Aspen Institute-Kyiv International Seminars Program (2019), Ukrainian School of Political Studies by the Council of Europe (2014).

Professor Bidenko was a speaker for more than 100 conferences, seminars, panel discussions, and round tables in Ukraine, the USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Belarus, and Moldova. She has published academic articles and papers devoted to the problems of civil society, decentralization, ideologies, political regimes’ changes, and the establishment of democratic institutions and reforms in Ukraine and in Eastern Europe.

Since 2016 Dr. Bidenko is the expert for the “Team Europe” Initiative by the European Union’s Delegation to Ukraine. In 2021 she was the expert and the author of the Ukrainian annual country report for the Nations in Transit by the Freedom House. Yuliya Bidenko regularly cooperates as an expert, a political analyst with local, national, and foreign media and think tanks, such as Alliance for Democracies, Belgium; Inmedio-Institut for Dialogue and Mediation, Berlin; Prague Civil Society Centre, Prague; Caucasian House, Tbilisi; New Europe Centre and Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv.

As a trainer for civic education projects for the Ukrainian youth, women in politics, civic activists and electoral commissions’ members she co-works with Ukrainian and international NGOs, among which are OESCE, Freedom House, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Hans Seidel Foundation, European Endowment for Democracy, SIDA, NED, OPORA-Ukraine, IFES-Ukraine.

Alexander Rodnyansky is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Cambridge, a research affiliate of the CEPR, and a member of the CFM. Alexander is also a presidential adviser in Ukraine, a supervisory board member of Ukraine’s biggest bank, The State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank), and the former chief economic adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine (2019-2020). Alexander received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2017 and joined Cambridge shortly thereafter. Alexander’s main research fields are empirical macroeconomics and finance and international finance.

Mariia Shuvalova is a literary critic and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Fulbright Scholar (Harriman Institute, Columbia University in the city of New York, 2019–2020). Editorial assistant of the international peer-reviewed journal Kyiv Mohyla Humanities Journal. Translator at Tapas Localization, an agency of media content localization, Annual International Film Festival Molodist. Co-founder and head of the non-governmental organization New Ukrainian Academic Community whose latest projects were the publication of a book by Volodymyr Dibrova Taras Shevchenko. New Perspectives, an international conference The Female Artist as an Icon of National Modernization: The Phenomenon of Lesia Ukrainka in a Comparative Perspective (in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of the Writer). Projects were implemented in cooperation with such organizations as the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, the Association of Hispanics of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society in America, and publishing house Bilka.

Alya Guseva is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University specializing in economic and medical sociology. Her particular interest is in the processes of market formation. She is the author and co-author of two books on emerging credit card markets in the postcommunist region — Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (2008) and Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries (2014, with Akos Rona-Tas), both at Stanford University Press. Her work also appeared in American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Socio-Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Family Issues, Geneses, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, East European Quarterly and Social Science Research.

Combining her expertise in sociology of markets and medical sociology, she is currently researching emerging markets for gestational surrogacy in several surrogacy-friendly jurisdictions in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan).

She has been a member of SASE for 10 years, is a co-founder and co-organizer of Research Network N: Finance and Society, and served as the Chair of Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

About SASE Salons

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This webinar series presents cutting-edge research from leading thinkers in anticipation of the 2022 annual SASE conference at the University of Amsterdam, "Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control" - 9-11 July 2022.

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SASE seeks to advance the understanding of economic behavior across a broad range of academic disciplines; to support the intellectual exploration of economic behavior and its policy implications within the context of societal, institutional, historical, philosophical, psychological, and ethical factors; and to balance inductive and deductive approaches to the study of economic behavior at both micro and macro levels of analysis.