Workshop: The Evolving Dynamics of Polish-Ukrainian Relations — with Jakub Bodziony und Karolina Wigura
Workshop: The Evolving Dynamics of Polish-Ukrainian Relations
With Jakub Bodziony und Karolina Wigura
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Time: 2 p.m. — 5 p.m.
Place: Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Reinhardtstraße 15 10117 Berlin
The workshop explores the evolving dynamics of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. While Poland initially emerged as one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies, offering humanitarian aid, military support, and political backing, the relationship has since become more complex. Historical grievances, disputes over memory politics, and tensions around migration and economic competition have resurfaced, testing the resilience of regional solidarity. At the same time, domestic political shifts in Poland, marked by the rise of the nationalist right and growing anti-migration sentiment, have reshaped public discourse around Ukraine. The ongoing crisis of the governing coalition further exposes divisions over Poland’s place in Europe and its strategy toward Kyiv. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s increasingly direct engagement with Western powers such as France, Germany, and the United States raises new questions about Poland’s role as a key intermediary and advocate for its eastern neighbor. This workshop invites participants to examine these intersecting trends, historical, political, and social, and to discuss how they shape the future of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in a rapidly changing European order.
Our Speakers:
Jakub Bodziony — deputy editor-in-chief of ‘Kultura Liberalna’. Head of the audio-visual department, editor of the political section. Bodziony is graduate of International Relations at the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics.
Karolina Wigura — historian of ideas, sociologist, and journalist. Board of Kultura Liberalna Foundationand Senior Fellow of the Center for Liberal Modernity. Wigura is also lecturer at Warsaw University’s Institute of Sociology and focuses on the political philosophy of the 20th century and emotions in politics, as well as sociology and ethics of memory, particularly transitional justice, historical guilt, and reconciliation.
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Your LibMod-Team