Programme
9.00 am Registration
9.30 am
Welcome with ZOiS Director Gwendolyn Sasse
9.45 am – 11.15 am
Panel: Researching Young People in Eastern Europe from the Outside: Different Approaches and Stages
- Veronika Pfeilschifter (Friedrich Schiller University): New Horizons of Expectation: Researching Left-Wing Youth in the South Caucasus
- Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford): The Ukrainian Political Landscape Seen Through the Eyes of Young People
- Nina Frieß (ZOiS): Second thoughts: Youth, Historical Narratives and Their Perceptions
- Chair: Félix Krawatzek (ZOiS)
11.15 am – 11.45 am Coffee Break
11.45 am – 1.15 pm
Roundtable: The Everyday of Geopolitics
- Regina Elsner (ZOiS): “Just Orthodox”? How Geopolitical Strategies Shape the Religious Identity of Believers
- John O’Loughlin (University of Colorado): How Much Does Regime Legitimacy in Eurasian De Facto States Depend on Kremlin Support? Evidence from Public Opinion Surveys 2010–2022
- Claudia Eggart (ZOiS): Waiting. Lived Geopolitics at Border Crossings in Bessarabia
- Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOiS): Russia’s Rule on the Newly Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Terror, Collaboration, Resistance
- Discussant: Gerard Toal (Virginia Tech)
- Chair: Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
1.15 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Panel: Beyond the ‚China Threat‘: How China Shapes Development in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Valentin Krüsmann (ZOiS): Colliding Scripts? Comparing the BRI and the EU Approach to Development Cooperation
- Samuel Rogers (Open University): Moving Beyond Project ‘Success’ and ‘Failure’ and Towards the Infrastructure Consensus
- Beril Ocaklı (ZOiS): Whom the Roads Bypass. East-West Connections in a Disconnected Georgia
- Discussant: Sarah Eaton (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Chair: Beril Ocaklı (ZOiS)
3.30 pm – 4.00p m Coffee Break
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Panel: East European Migration and Migrants’ Activism
- Tatiana Golova and Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS): Recent Political Migration from Russia to Germany and Georgia
- Karolina Łukaciewisz (University of Warsaw) (via Zoom): Forced Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities in a Crisis Context
- Piotr Goldstein (ZOiS): Researching Everyday Migrant Activism: Between Grasping the Opportunity and Long-Time Engagement with the Field
- Discussant: Sabrina Zajak (DeZIM)
- Chair: Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS)
5.30 pm – 6.30 pm Exhibitions at ZOiS (Parallel Guided Tours)
Piotr Goldstein (ZOiS) and Jan Lorenz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): Active (citizen) – Can Anyone Be an Activist?
- Guided Tours by Piotr Goldstein
Volker Kreidler (Photographer) and Anastasiia Kuznietsova (Photographer): Border Areas: Places and People on the Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-Hungarian Border (10/21-8/22)
- Guided Tours by Volker Kreidler (German) and Anastasiia Kuznietsova (English), Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOiS) and Péter Balogh (Eötvös Loránd University)
6.30 pm – 8.00 pm
How to study Ukraine and Eastern Europe During/After War
- Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOiS), Tanya Richardson (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Guzel Yusupova (Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS))
- Chair: Beril Ocaklı (ZOiS)
8.00 pm Reception
