Oksana Gela, PhD student of the department, has an internship at the University of Basel (Switzerland)

Oksana Gela, PhD student of the department, has an internship at the history department of the University of Basel (Switzerland): from April 1 to July 31, 2022 as a Stellung Assistentin Funktion Doktorandin; from August 1, 2022 to present day as a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin of the department.

During the internship, she participated in a number of seminars at the University of Basel:

- Transferable Skills workshop "Writing to Be Published" at the University of Basel (07.03.2023, 14.03.2023, 21.03.2023)

- Transferable Skills workshop "Time Management" at the University of Basel (20.03.2023, 27.03.2023)

- Transferable Skills workshop "Project PhD: The pass to a successful doctorate" at the University of Basel (20.04.2023, 21.04.2023)

In addition, Oksana became a participant in several conferences and colloquiums:

- The Images of Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Soviet Caricature (1941-1991) // Vortrag im Rahmen des Kolloquiums der Professur für Osteuropäische Geschichte / des Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrums für Polenstudien an der MLU Halle-Wittenberg (25.05.2022, Halle, Germany)

- Scientists in Times of Crisis: The View of a Ukrainian Scholar // Keynote lecture im Rahmen die Jahrestagung BGSH “Krisen” (17.11.2022, Universität Basel, Switzerland)

- Images of the Intelligentsia in Soviet Socio-Political Discourse (Based on Cartoons) // Vortrag im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums «Osteuropäische Geschichte» (30.11.2022, Universität Basel, Switzerland)

- Consequences of the Russian War of Aggression for Ukrainian Postgraduate Students // URIS Conference: Consequences of the Russian War of Aggression for Science and Research in Ukraine (24.02.2023, Universität Basel, Switzerland)

- Creating the Image of the Intelligentsia in Soviet Cartoon under Stalin The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies // «BASEES Conference 2023» (31.03 – 02.04.2023, The University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

During her stay in Switzerland, Oksana gave several interviews to local media, in particular, she talked about the war in Ukraine and the reasons for her move to Switzerland:

«Erst am dritten Kriegstag habe ich aufgehört, an meiner Doktorarbeit zu schreiben», https://www.higgs.ch/erst-am-dritten-kriegstag-habe-ich-aufgehoert-an-meiner-doktorarbeit-zu-schreiben/51792/

Die Schweiz aus Sicht einer Ukrainerin – Schweizerisch-ukrainische Beziehungen Teil IV, https://jetztzeit.blog/2022/09/10/die-schweiz-aus-sicht-einer-ukrainerin-schweizerisch-ukrainische-beziehungen-teil-iv/