Important update (27/09/2025)
The play ‘Holding on to a dream’ on Wed, 27 Aug at 4:00 p.m. will be held in lecture hall P2 (Philosophicum).
This Summer School will focus on the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, with an emphasis on conflict research and international law. Key topics include responses by international actors, peace processes, dealing with war crimes and reconstruction plans.
The programme is aimed not only at students from our partner universities in Finland, France, the UK, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania and Spain, but also at students from Ukraine. This special setting enables international academic exchange on a current topic of global political relevance.
The interdisciplinary summer school invites students of all fields of social sciences including political science, psychology, communication science, journalism, sociology or educational science as well as other related disciplines.
Course language: English; ECTS: 3
For a day by day programme click here.
Register Now for Last-Minute Admission
Due to last-minute cancellations, a few places have become available again for students from JGU. If you are interested, please send an email to sowiso@uni-mainz.de (including your matriculation number, degree programme and semester).
The selection process for our international students is closed. Thank you for your interest and your many excellent applications.
Lecturers:
- Prof. Sergey Radchenko (Johns Hopkins University),
- Prof. Peter Sutch (Cardiff University),
- Dr. Friedrich Plank ( Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz),
- Dr. Olesia Zvezdova (Johannes Gutenberg-University and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
- Hauptmann Daniel Eisenmann
- Oberleutnant Fabian Kluge
Coordinators: Jan Koloska, Dr. Olesia Zvezdova and Dr. Barbara Müller
The Summer School is organised by the Faculty 02 Social Sciences, Media and Sport of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in cooperation with the School of Law and Politics of Cardiff University and takes place on the campus of Johannes Gutenberg University - with around 30,000 students, it is one of the largest universities in Germany.
