Week

Topic

Content and Reading Assighment

Teaching Activities and Homework 

1

Introduction

• Reading: Serhii Plokhy. 2024. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. W. W. Norton & Company

Share the motivation of conducting the course and explain the anticipated assignment and task for the participants to realise the potential benefits of taking this course

2

 War narratives Part 1

Vladimir Putin. 2021. On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians. https://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

Review the varieties of key war narratives

3

War narratives II

Julia Davis. 2024. In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions. ibidem Press. 

Discussion

4

Russian Nationalism I

Marlene Laruelle. 2019. Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines & Political Battlefields. Routledge.

Review the official line of Russian nationalism and the role of its propaganda  

5

Russian Nationalism II

VICIOM

https://wciom.com/about

 Study the foundation and impacts of Russian nationalism on the society and the public opinions

6

Ukrainian nationalism I

Hryb. 2020. Understanding Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism. ibidem Press

Study the narratives, statements and practice of Ukrainian nationalism

7

Ukrainian nationalism II

Andreas Umland. 2017. The Ukrainian government’s Memory Institute against the West. New Eastern Europe. 2017/March/07. 

Ukrainian extreme nationalist channels on social media

   Demonstrate Ukrainian nationalist channels on Telegram then to review the influence of Ukrainian nationalism on regional conflicts

8

Film on Donbass

Donbass (Anne-Laure Bonnel, 2016) / 

Donbas (Sergei Loznitsa, 2018)

Demonstrate how to conduct a survey then student to give their ideas and practice

9

Midterm Presentation

Oral presentation

Students to give a 20-min oral presentation on selected topics

10

The challenging task to current studies

O’Loughlin, J., Sasse, G and Toal, G. 2024. What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Geopolitics, 1-26.

Nationalism, Patriotism, the origin and and state narratives then Russians attitude toward propaganda

11

The theories of Geopolitics

John Mearsheimer. 2022. The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine War. 

Jade McGlynn. 2023. Russia’s War. Polity

Firstly to introduce some theoretical works which give another view of the current conflict; secondly require the students to provide their feedbacks

12

Guest Speech

TBD

Learn to define and understand the success and failure of and its latest impact

13

Leadership, regime and war

Mikhail Zygar. 2023. War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. Scribner.

Understanding the roles of governance and the leadership on forging the war

14

The construction and consumption of war: images

• Volodymyr Kulyk. 2019. Memory and Language: Different Dynamics in the Two Aspects of Identity Politics in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine. Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity. Cambridge University Press.


• Volodymyr Kulyk. 2023. What Have We Learned about Ethnonational Identities in Ukraine. Nationalities Papers. 


• David Marples. 2015. Ethnic and Social Composition of Ukraine’s Regions and Voting Patterns in Ukraine. E-International Relations. https://www.e-ir.info/pdf/54608


• Halyna Mokrushyna. 2014. The challenge of reconciling Donbas and the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine[Conference presentation]. ‘‘United Ukraine? The Euromaidan revolution and the Donbas rebellion in domestic and international perspectives’’. December 4, University of Ottawa, Canada. https://bit.ly/3yaa8QR

Explain why the readings selected then to assign group reading task. Continue the group reading presentation for the following week

15

The construction and consumption of war: languages

As described above

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Submit the term paper before the indicated deadline

16

War and Media

              Group task

To discover and discuss the patterns of misinformation, disinformation and misrepresentation