Academic Mobility without a Suitcase: Experience of Participation in the Non-Residential Scholars Program of the University of Toronto

Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian History of the DNU Svitlana Kaiuk implemented her own research project “War, Borders, Migrations, Everyday Practices and the World of Ideas at the Turn of the 18th and 19th Centuries in the Northern Black Sea Region” within the framework of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine Non-Residential Scholars of the University of Toronto (Canada).

Non-Residential Scholars means that specialists join international projects while remaining in their countries and universities. Over the years of the program’s existence, Svitlana Kaiuk became its only participant from the Dnipro.

Thanks to participation in the program, Svitlana Kaiuk had the opportunity to see that the world scientific community is beginning to perceive Ukraine differently – as a complex political and cultural subjective reality. And not as the periphery of foreign stories and the post-Soviet space, which is explained through Moscow, Warsaw, Vienna or Istanbul.

The DNU scientist considers access to the University of Toronto library – not just a service, but a space of freedom – to be the greatest practical opportunity for Non-Residential Scholars. After all, Ukrainian scientists during the war often work in conditions of limited access to literature, databases and new publications.

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