Member

Grégoire LE GALL

Statut / Poste
PhD Candidate (ABD)
Teaching and Research Fellow

Institution
EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Research themes
Contemporary Ukraine
Social Geography of War
Post-Soviet Conflicts

Email address
gregoire.le-gall@parisgeo.cnrs.fr

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals

Le Gall, Grégoire (2025). « Trajectoires familiales ukrainiennes dans l’« entre-deux » : la recomposition des réseaux de parentèle lue par leur mobilisation dans l’exil (2014-2024) » [« Ukrainian family trajectories in the “in-between”: The reconfiguration of kinship networks through mobilization in exile (2014–2024) »], Ethnologie française, 55(3), 35-54. https://doi.org/10.3917/ethn.253.0035

Conference papers

Le Gall, Grégoire (2026). « Kinship and the Front Line: A Typology and Lived Experience of Russian-Ukrainian Family Ruptures in the Context of Open Warfare »], Slovo, 55(1), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.46298/slovo.2026.18443

Scientific activites

International Conferences

Le Gall Grégoire (2026), « Russian–Ukrainian Families’ Spatial Experience and its Actualization after a Decade of War (2014–2024) », Danyliw Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine, University of Ottawa (Canada) 24-26/09/2026

Le Gall Grégoire (2026), “Reclaiming a Future though Legal Means: The Karta Polaka and Emancipatory Horizons among Ukrainian Exiles (2014-2026)”, 1st Swiss Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies (SCMMS), Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse) 07-08/07/2026

Le Gall Grégoire (2026), “Ukrainian Familial Trajectories in the ‘In-Between’ of Russia and Poland: The Recomposition of Kinship Networks through Their (Non-)Mobilization in Exile (2014–2024)”, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), 23-24/04/2026

Le Gall Grégoire (2025), “One’s own and one’s others : russo-ukrainian family breakdowns in the context of open warfare”, International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES 2025), University College London (United Kingdom), 21-25/07/2025.

Le Gall Grégoire (2025), “One’s own and one’s others : russo-ukrainian family breakdowns in the context of open warfare”, Association for the Study of Nationalities World Congress (ASN 2025), Columbia University, New York (United States), 22-24/05/2025.

Le Gall Grégoire (2024), “Kinship Networks and Ukrainian Trajectories in Exile: The Exercise of Migratory Options by ‘In-Between’ Families in a Context of Open War”, DGO-Congress of Central and East European Studies (CEECON 2024), Berlin Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany), 07-08/10/2024.

Workshop and Seminar Productions

Le Gall Grégoire (2026), “Ukrainian Families in the ‘in-between’ of Russia and Poland, a Cartographic Interpretation”, Visualizing Mobility Regimes Otherwise, Multimodal Mapping Symposium, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin (Germany) 15-16/06/2026.

Grégoire Le Gall (2026), Paris, “Souvenirs d’enfance, gestes répétés et fantôme des proches : la rugosité du réel rendue par les cartes bavardes”, Du réel aux modèles. Concilier l’objectif d’abstraction et l’imprécision de l’information, Université Paris-Cité, 30/01/2026.

Le Gall Grégoire (2025), “Russian-Ukrainian Kinships Narratives and their Actualization in the Context of Open Warfare”, Ukrainian Forced Migration, Transnational Family Processes and Co-Agency International Workshop, Centre for the Study of Transnational Families (CASTLE), Université de Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca (Roumanie), 04-05/11/2025.

Grégoire Le Gall (2024), Paris, “Les parentèles russo-ukrainiennes et la ligne de front : typologie et vécu de ruptures familiales en contexte de guerre ouverte”, Doctoriales de l’Europe Médiane, de l’espace russe et (post-)soviétique de l’INALCO, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), 23/11/2023.

Participation to Scientific Projects

2021-2024 LIMSPACES, “Living In-Between: Adaptation Strategies and Horizons of Expectation of Ordinary Actors in Ukraine and Moldova” (UMR Géographie-Cités, Centre Marc Bloch, ZOiS Berlin), French-German ANR/DFG project.

Diffusion of Science

January 2025. Participation to a public conference : “Liminal Experiences: Coping with War and Crises in Moldova and Ukraine”, Zentrum für Osteuropa und internationale Studien (ZOiS, Berlin).

March 2022. Conference on the situation in Ukraine organized by Saint-Étienne’s University in Le Méliès Saint-François cinema.

Professional experience

2025–2026: Temporary Teaching and Research Fellow (“ATER”), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
2021–2024: Doctoral Research Fellow (contract), French National Centre for Scientific Research , Paris
2020–2021: Project Officer of the Political Affairs Section, Embassy of France in Georgia, Tbilisi

Education

Since 2021: PhD in Geography, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS]
2018–2020: Master’s in European and International Studies, AlterEurope track, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
2019: Academic exchange, Saint Petersburg State University
2017–2018: Bachelor’s in History, Political Science track, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon / Université Lumière Lyon 2
2014–2017: Undergraduate Preparatory Program for the French Grandes Écoles (humanities track), Lycée La Bruyère