Yana Lysenko

researcher

 

yan_lys@uni-bremen.de

 

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Project “Comparing Protest Actions in Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces, Data Reuse - Ukraine”

Research interests

• Armed conflicts

• De facto states

• Identities and civil society in crisis times

• Ukraine-Russia relations

 

Short CV

Education:

2019 – 2024: Master’s degree in Political Science, University of Bremen

2015 – 2019: Bachelor’s degree in Integrated European Studies, University of Bremen

2014 – 2015: Master’s degree in Philology and Translation (German / English), Donetsk National University (Vinnytsia)

2013 – 2015: Additional qualification as a teacher for school and university education in two foreign languages (German / English) and foreign literature, Donetsk National University (Donetsk and Vinnytsia)

2010 – 2014: Bachelor’s degree in German Philology and Translation, Donetsk National University (Donetsk)
 
Professional Experience:

Since October 2024: Researcher in the project “Comparing Protest Actions in Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces, Data Reuse – Ukraine”, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen

Since May 2016: Teacher for German language in integration classes, School for Further Education (Schule für Weiterbildung (SfW)), Bremen

June 2022 – January 2023: Research Assistant in the project “Subnational Elite Cohesion and Turnover in Authoritarian Regimes: A Network Analysis Perspective”, University of Bremen

October 2021 – March 2022: Research Internship, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen

April 2018 – July 2021: Research Assistant in the project “Media Control as a Source of Political Power”, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen
 
University Teaching:

Winter Semester 2024/2025: Introduction to Comparative Politics (practical course), University of Bremen

Winter Semester 2018/2019: Insights into the Russian Language and Regional Studies (block seminar within the degree programme “Integrated European Studies”), University of Bremen
 
Publications: 

Lysenko, Yana (2025): Sensitive Subjects: Talking about the Residents of the Territories Occupied by Russia in Official Ukrainian Discourse. In: Digital Culture and Society, Vol. 10, Issue 1/2024 – Digital War: Media Strategies and Visual Politics during the Full-Scale Attack of Russia on Ukraine, 57-82. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6868-1/digital-culture-society-dcs/?c=312000168

Lysenko, Yana (2024): Text corpus “Residents of the Territories Occupied by Russia in Official Ukrainian Discourse,” v. 1.0, Discuss Data, 2024: https://doi.org/10.48320/BE472806-5F65-427B-8E2B-203779089F28

Lysenko, Yana (2023): “Filtration”: system, process and goals, in: Ukrainian Analytical Digest 3, 7-12. https://css.ethz.ch/en/publications/uad/details.html?id=/n/o/3/r/no_3_russian_occupation_in_ukraine

Lysenko, Yana (2023): Etablierungsformen russischer Herrschaft in den besetzten Gebieten der Ukraine: Wege und Gesichter der Okkupation, in: Ukraine-Analysen 275, 2-6. https://www.laender-analysen.de/ukraine-analysen/282/etablierungsformen-russischer-herrschaft-in-den-besetzten-gebieten-der-ukraine-wege-und-gesichter-der-okkupation/

Lysenko, Yana (2022):“Filtration“: System, Ablauf und Ziele, in: Ukraine-Analysen 275, 5-10, and Russland-Analysen 427, 9-14. https://www.laender-analysen.de/ukraine-analysen/275/filtration-system-ablauf-und-ziele/,https://www.laender-analysen.de/russland-analysen/427/filtration-system-ablauf-und-ziele/
 
Lysenko, Yana (2022): Die Ostukraine als Schlachtfeld im Identitätskonflikt, in: europa ethnica 3/4 (79. Vol.), 163-172. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.24989/0014-2492-2022-34/europa-ethnica-jahrgang-79-2022-heft-3-4?hitid=00&search-click&page=1

Lysenko, Yana (2022): Learning from the SMM to Ukraine: A new mission or a new OSCE? In: Cornelius Friesendorf and Stefan Wolff (eds.): Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Implications for the Future of the OSCE, OSCE Network Perspectives I/2022 (OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions, June 2022), p. 56-61.

Lysenko, Yana (2022): Kommunikationsstrategien im Krieg: Andrij Melnyk und Vitali Klitschko. In: Ukraine-Analysen No. 268, 04.05.2022, 13-16.

Lysenko, Yana (2022): Die OSZE-Sonderbeobachtermission in der Ukraine: Wunsch und Wirklichkeit.  In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 262, 22.02.2022, 14-15 and Russland-Analysen Nr. 414, 22.02.2022, 22-24.

Lysenko, Yana (2022): Leben im Schatten: Überlebensstrategien der Menschen in der «Volksrepublik Donezk». In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 261, 14.02.2022, 2-6.

Lysenko, Yana (2022): Offshore-Geschäfte: Selenskyj und Kolomojskyj in den Pandora-Papers. In: Ukraine-Analysen Nr. 256, 14.10.2021, 7-8.