IGSD News
The post-war Soviet famine 1946-47, as explored by Professor Igor Casu, Director of the Moldovan National Archives
The talk will focus on the post-war Soviet famine with a special focus on what was occurring in Moldovan and Ukrainian SSR. It will be of relevance to all those who are interested in history, politics, geography and sustainable futures, of the post-Soviet space and beyond. The talk is happening on 7 May at 11-13.00 in R0.14 (Ramphal) - everyone is welcome! Alternatively you can join via teams.
Professor Korosteleva speaks at the EUISS, European Council Brussels
Professor Korosteleva was invited by the EUISS to speak onshtag resilience and the need to rethink EU support for Moldova, Georgia and Armenia, at the European Council Building, Brussels. The meeting was attended by the officials from the European Commission, External Action Service, and country representatives working towards developing a new strategy, based on resilience. This was research with impact, in the making.
SHAPEDEM-EU publishes third podcast series' episode
SHAPEDEM-EU, a transnational research project, where the University of Warwick is a partner, published third episode of its podcast series “Democracy Support Dialogues”. In this podcast episode, Professor Jamil Mouawad from the American University of Beirut engages in a frank conversation with the podcast Fabian Schöppner about democratic practices and the important contexts for democracy support in the EU's Southern Neighbourhood.
The third episode featuring Professor Jamil Mouawad, American University of Beirut, is available at the following platform:
ISA2024 in San Francisco
Last week Prof. Korosteleva attended the #ISA2024 conference in San Francisco as part of the #SHAPEDEM, #AGMOW and #WUB-hub projects. It was an amazingly fruitful experience: she chaired and acted as a discussant to a panel on #Community of Relations under threat: #SocietalResilience across #post-#Soviet space, and presented a paper on #Resilience in #CentralEurasia at the AGMOW panel chaired by Trine Flockhart. Together with Dr Chukitskaya she also met with the Association of Belarusians in America (ABA), and discussed a series of book launches with a focus on Belarus and the wider region.
@LesiaRudnik Karlstad University
@TatsianaChulitskaya Manchester Metropolitan University
Chiara Pierobon, PhD Washington University
Liv Nelsen SDU
Xing Li Aalborg University
@James Fielder Colorado
WUB-hub publication of the 'Belarus in the XXI century' book in Belarusian
The book 'Belarus in the XXI century: between dictatorship and democracy' edited by Elena Korosteleva, Irina Petrova and Anastassiia Kudlenko, is now translated into Belarusian, produced and published by Skaryna Press London on 7 April 2024! The book looks at the evolution of peoplehood in Belarus taking the year of 2020 as a watershed moment for the rise of the new political force in the country, called 'the People!'. This process of emergence is examined from historical, cultural, anthropological, economic and political perspectives. The book is available for order here.