The War in Ukraine: Reflections on Two Years of Conflict

On the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, UT professors discuss the state of the war, the impacts on people and the international community, and possible outcomes of the war.

Presented by the Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities at the University of Toledo.

The Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities (in the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Toledo) advocates for and supports the study of human culture — from a great variety of fields — at all levels of learning and scholarship, through both disciplinary and interdisciplinary means. It seeks both to sustain the work of humanities-related inquiries at The University of Toledo and also to foster the dissemination of that knowledge and expertise to a larger community of learners, both inside and outside higher education.

Speakers:

Dr. Joel Voss, Associate Professor of Political Science

Joel Voss joined the University of Toledo as an assistant professor of political science in the Spring of 2015. Prior to joining the department, Joel was a postdoctoral scholar in international studies and faculty in residence for global programs at North Carolina State University. Joel received his doctorate in August 2015 from the University of Virginia. Dr. Voss’s primary area of expertise at the intersection of international law and international relations and examines the role of international organizations in the creation and implementation of human rights. In his spare time, Joel is an avid traveler – having visited over 50 countries - and sports and technology enthusiast.

Dr. Barry Jackisch, Associate Professor of History

Barry Jackisch is an associate professor working in modern European and world history. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York-Buffalo (SUNY), and specializes in the history of Germany, antisemitism and the Holocaust, as well as comparative approaches to war, genocide, human rights, race, and the environment. His first book, The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918-1939 (Ashgate, 2012), examines an extremist antisemitic political organization independent from the Nazis and its role in destabilizing Germany’s inter-war democracy. Dr. Jackisch has also published six additional articles on topics including Nazi propaganda and the press and Berlin’s urban environment.