From the 25th till the 30th of June, the IX International Summer School for Social Sciences, organized by the Department of Ukrainian Studies of the University of Ottawa (Canada), the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (University of Nanterre Paris, France), the Slavonic Center, is taking place at the Faculty of Sociology and Management of the Zaporizhzhya National University. (University of Paris and the Pantheon of Sorbonne, France), LabEx Research Center "Writing a New History of Europe" (France), Mark Blok Center (Berlin, Germany) with the support of the French Embassy and the ZNU Rectorate.