For Global Supplementary Grant Program grantees based in Europe, PhD scholars from the University of Aberdeen to the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa gathered to share research projects at Clare College.
In addition to presentations from Scholarship Programs' staff Zoë Brogden (Program Coordinator) and Celine Keshishian (GSGP-EU Program Manager) as well as Elena Naumkina (Program Manager at the Higher Educational Support Program, OSI Budapest), Tufyal Chowdhury, Senior Policy Advisor of the At Home in Europe Project, gave an overview of the Project's recent work.
The majority of the conference time was devoted to presentations and panel discussions on the fellows' current research. Eight panels addressed issues encompassing migration and integration, community formation in cities and archeological studies in Eurasia.
Guest Presenters
- At Home in Europe Project – A Report on 11 EU Cities, Tufyal Choudhury, Senior Policy Advisor for At Home in Europe Project and Lecturer in Law, University of Durham
- Open Access Issues, Alma Swan, Director, Key Perspectives Ltd.Scholar
Presentations
Ethnic Identity: Origins and Impact of Nationalism
- “Imperial Politics and Local Communities: Orthodox Missionary Activities, Assimilation and Acculturation Policy in the Middle Volga Region in 1860–1914,” Oxana Zemtsova, European University Institute
- “Identity Construction and Ethno-National Violence in Georgia,” Nino Kemoklidze, University of Birmingham
- “Mapping the Ephemeral: Yugoslav Anti-War Activism and its Legacy,” Bojan Bilic, University College London
Children and Adolescent Social Policies
- “Retrospective Comparative Analysis as Strategy of Helping Professionals’ Reflexivity,” Victoria Schmidt, Masaryk University
- “The Overlap between Bullying and Victimization in Adolescent Residential Care: Are Bully/Victims a Special Category?”, Ivana Sekol, University of Cambridge
Economic Development in Changing Times
- “Public to Private Wage Differentials in Serbia,” Jelena Laušev, University of Nottingham
- “Impact of Financial Crises on Poverty in Developing World: An Empirical Approach,” Zlatko Nikoloski, University College London
Creating Communities and Cities
- “Norms, Laws, and Welfare as Means of Social Control: Case Study of Mahalla Institutions in Uzbekistan,” Rustamjon Urinboyev, Lund University Imagining and Constructing the Socialist City: Second Generation Soviet Architects,” Daria Bocharnikova, European University Institute
International Relations and National Perspectives
- “Regions in Foreign Relations: Conceptualization of the Subnational Governments’ Role in International Affairs,” Alexander Kuznetsov, IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies
- “Europeanisation Trends and National Parliaments beyond the EU Member States: the Case of Ukraine,” Anzhela Yevgenyeva, University of Oxford
Culture and Translation
- “Anticipation during Language Processing: Linguistic and Cultural Aspects,” Ena Hodzik, University of Cambridge
- “Translating from a Minor Culture into English,” Svetlana Skomorokhova, University of Warwick
Corruption, Economic Development, and Judicial Decline
- “The Financial Elite and Political Corruption in Contemporary Serbian Society,” Marija Zurnic, University of Nottingham
- “A Socio-legal Approach of Judicial Corruption and Organized Crime in the Western Balkans: Albania in Focus,” Fabian Zhilla, University of London
Migration and Assimilation
- “Marriage Migration in and out of Russia since the Early 1990’s,” Ekaterina Bartik, University of Aberdeen
- “Russian-speaking Migrants in London: Patterns of Sociality in a Scattered Bunch of Networks,” Darya Malyutina, University College London
Archaeological Studies in Eurasia
- On the Origins of Metallurgy: A Look from Europe,” Miljana Radivojević, University College London
- Network Dynamics of Late Neolithic Communities in Western Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean: A Social and Spatial Approach through the Analysis of Obsidian Exchange,” Marina Milić, University College London