February 21 |  Friday 

9:15-10:15 AM

Opening Session 

Break: 15 minutes

10:30-11:45 AM

Session 1:

Russia’s Cyber and Communication Strategies in the War Against Ukraine

Carolina Vendil Pallin

Russia’s Cyber Strategy and Its War Against Ukraine

Ofer Fridman

The Collage of Russia’s Communication Strategy

Break: 11:45 AM-1:00 PM

1:00-2:15 PM

Session 2:

The Role of Social Media in Propaganda Strategies

Anatoliy Gruzd

Mapping the Spread of the Kremlin’s Propaganda and Disinformation on Telegram

Marta Dyczok

Russia’s All-Out War is Changing Social Media Usage in Ukraine

Break: 15 minutes

2:30-3:45 PM

Session 3:

Countering Russian Influence Operations: Regional and Global Perspectives

Agnieszka Legucka

Countering Russian Information and Influence (FIMI) Operations: Poland vs. Baltic States

Sarah Oates

From Moscow to Mar-a-Lago: The Role of Trump in Amplifying and Creating Russian Propaganda

Break: 15 minutes

4:00-5:15 PM

Keynote Address

Serhy Yekelchyk

Why Putin’s Russia Attacked Ukraine

February 22 | Saturday 

9:00-10:30 AM

Session 1:

Round Table 

Olga Budnyk, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Serhy Yekelchyk, Oleksandr Pankieiev

Building Academic Resilience: The Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies

Break: 15 minutes

10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Session 2:

Fact-Checking, Digital Warfare, and AI in Russia’s Information War

Viktoriia Romaniuk

Fact-Checking in Times of War: How StopFake is Redefining the Rules of Information Warfare

Philip Mai

Digital Battleground: An Examination of Anti-Refugee Discourse on Twitter Against Ukrainians Displaced by Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Break: 12:15-1:30 PM

1:30-2:45 PM

Session 3:

Russian Narratives in the War Against Ukraine

Roman Osadchuk

Russian Disinformation Campaigns Against Ukraine During the Full-Scale Invasion

Nataliia Steblyna

How to Conquer and Surrender Cities with the “Russian World” Idea: The Case of Odesa, Ukraine

Break: 15 minutes

3:00-4:30 PM

Session 4: 

Round Table 

Adam Zivo, James Gatica Matheson, Marta Dyczok, Viktoriia Romaniuk, Oleksandr Pankieiev

Reporting on Ukraine: The Role of Journalism in Countering Russian Propaganda

4:30-5:00 PM

Closing remarks