Prof. Mälksoo at workshops in Japan

9 December 2025

Prof. Maria Mälksoo presented her work in progress on contested peacetiming in Ukraine at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2025 Winter International Symposium ‘Great Power Competition and the Survival of Small and Middle Powers: Perspectives from Eurasia and Beyond’ at the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan on 4 December 2025. The full symposium programme is available here.

She gave another presentation on memory-political deterrence à la Russe at the international Workshop ‘Justice and National Interests in a Shifting World Order: Against the Backdrop of the Russo-Ukrainian War’ at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan on 7 December 2025. The programme of this event is available here.

RITUAL DETERRENCE is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (ERC-2021-COG) awarded to Dr Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (project no 101043468) for 2022-2027.
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