Domestic Spaces and Resistance on the Russian-occupied Territories of Ukraine

Wednesday 11 February: 15h00 – 16h30, Ghent University, Room 1.11, Campus UFO, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41

“Domestic spaces and resistance on the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine”

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Yuriy Matsiyevsky, Professor of Political Science, National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine

Yuriy Matsiyevsky is Professor of Political Science and the head of the Center for Political Research at Ostroh Academy National University, Ukraine. His research interests include Ukrainian politics, political regimes, democratization and informal institutions in politics. Yuriy has recently held several non-residential scholar positions including at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy (2024-2025) and at the IERES, GWU (2022-2023). He is a member of Midwest Political Science Association, PONARS Eurasia Policy Network, Fulbright Alumni Association, and Ukrainian Political Science Association.

Presentation about: Ukrainian resistance on the occupied territories, including civil protests and armed partisan actions.

Dr. Guénola Inizan, postdoctoral fellow, Lviv Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe, Ukraine

Guénola Inizan is a geographer specializing in urban and social geography and associate researcher at the Environment, City, Society Research Center in Lyon, France. Her research focuses on questions of home and dwelling, residential trajectories, and urban planning policies. Guénola earned her PhD in Geography and Urban Planning from Lumière Lyon 2 University in 2024. Since then, she has held research fellowships in the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig (Germany), the Department of Geography of the University of Łódź (Poland), and the Lviv Center for Urban History (Ukraine).

Presentation about: housing confiscation in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine and various forms of resistance to this policy.

Moderation by: Dr. Dmytro Panchuk, postdoctoral researcher, Department of Public Governance and Management, Ghent University

PLEASE REGISTER: https://event.ugent.be/registration/uaresistance from 15-01-2026 14:36 until 10-02-2026 12:00

Online participation possible: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/620f2267-bbc8-427c-9a6e-81110efa0d1e

Event organised by: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and CEVIPOL; Ghent University: Ukraine+ Knowledge Center of the EuroEast Platform, CESSMIR and UNU-CRIS