B3: ‘Living together – living with difference’ – Everyday Diplomacy in Transregional Contexts (Workshop)

Piotr Goldstein is a social scientist. At ZOiS, he works in the team of the MOBILISE project, which aims to understand why in times of crisis some people protest while others migrate.

Piotr  Goldstein holds a master’s in International Peace Work from the University of Trieste as well as in Philosophy from the University of Lodz. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester working at the intersection of social anthropology, sociology and political science. Before joining ZOiS in June 2019, he held a Thomas Brown Assistant Professorship at Trinity College Dublin and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Manchester. During his fellowship, he researched various forms of donor-independent, informal, everyday activism, conducting fieldwork in Novi Sad (Serbia), Debrecen (Hungary), Lodz (Poland), Cádiz (Spain) and Manchester (UK). He is also a recipient of a Leverhulme/British Academy Small Research Grant, thanks to which he co-produced a 30-minute ethnographic documentary entitled  ‘Active (citizen)’.

CV Piotr Goldstein

Tsypylma Darieva is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), where she heads the Migration and Diversity research cluster. Tsypylma Darieva studied Social Anthropology  at Freie University Berlin and received her doctorate as well as her habilitation from Humboldt-University zu Berlin.  Before coming to ZOiS, she was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and research associate at FSU Jena, at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle). She is a co-founder of the ZOiS Caucasus Network and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jena-Cauc project Resilience in the South Caucasus (FSU Jena), and  she teaches in the Department of Transregional Central Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.