1st Corridors Young Researchers Workshop

In September 3-9 2017, the Corridors for Dialogue and Cooperation initiative organises the first "Corridors Young Researchers Workshop" on "Obstacles and Opportunities for Dialogue and Cooperation in Protracted Conflicts", bringing together young scholars from Georgia/Abkhazia, Moldova/Transnistria, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Germany. The workshop is open for up to 18 graduates, PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers from the field of peace and conflict studies, international relations, sociology, and neighbouring disciplines. Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research with their peers and receive feedback from senior international scholars. 
The application deadline is June 30.
Call for Participants

Looking for the National Dream. Austro-Hungarian Migrants in the Americas in Comparative Perspectives

Internationale Konferenz.
Organisiert vom Center for Advanced Studies der LMU und der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, in Kooperation mit dem IOS Regensburg und der LMU München.
Datum: 13–14. Juli 2017
Programm

‘Silenced’ Conflict Zones and the Case of Crimea

Im Schatten drängender Fragen wie der Zukunft der EU oder dem Krieg in Syrien lässt sich auf dem Gebiet der ehemaligen Sowjetunion eine Reihe vergessener bzw. gleichsam totgeschwiegener Konflikte beobachten. Diese Konflikte, die regionale Brennpunkte wie den Nordkaukasus oder das Ferghanatal umfassen, sind durch nachlassende internationale und nationale Aufmerksamkeit bis hin zur gänzlichen Vernachlässigung gekennzeichnet. Der Workshop beschäftigt sich mit den Hintergründen, Dimensionen und Konsequenzen vergangener und gegenwärtiger Prozesse des Vergessens bzw. Totschweigens mit Blick auf einen ebenso aktuellen wie vom „Vergessen“ bedrohten Konflikt: der Krim.
Wir bitten um Anmeldung unter: juengling(at)ios-regensburg.de

Datum: Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2017
Zeit: 9.00–13.00 Uhr
Ort: Landshuter Straße 4, 93047 Regensburg, Raum 017 (Erdgeschoss) 
Plakat

Institutional Change in Political Economies and Varieties of Methods in Social Science Research on Postcommunism

The workshop’s goal is to focus on the methodological challenges arising from the research on the multitude of economic transformation trajectories of the post-Communist countries (in Central and Eastern Europe and in the post-Soviet Eurasia) and their societal outcomes. One of the most contested issues between area studies and broader social sciences has been the need to, first, understand how concepts and theories developed in a particular environment ‘travel’ across different regions, and second, whether the empirical research methods are able to produce interesting results in different regional contexts (taking into account the specifics of local societies, data availability, constraints for researchers etc.). In some cases, this discussion is fairly elaborate (this is the case, in particular, for China). In case of the post-Communist world, this discussion has been more limited and, if happened at all, frequently detached from the actual empirical work done by social scientists. The workshop attempts to bridge this gap, with its two parts: the methods round table (devoted explicitly to understanding the conceptual and empirical challenges associated with studying post-Communist regions) and three thematical panels, where research papers on certain topics should be presented and demonstrate the actual empirical challenges researchers face.

Organizer: Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
Date: May 19 – 20, 2017
Venue: Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Konradstraße 6, 80801 Munich
Convenors: Prof. Dr. Alexander Libman (LMU), Peter Wegenschimmel, Mag. (IOS)
Program
Plakat

East Side Story of Ecological Globalization

The aim of the workshop is to integrate the ‘Eastern’ story into explanations of global environmental processes. Participants will explore the role that the Soviet Union played in an “ecological turn” of the 1970s, and what impact this had, in turn, on the Soviet Union.  By the mid- to late-1980s, in the context of perestroika and glasnost, socialist nations experienced a rapid and extensive rise in ecological consciousness. Public activities took hundreds of thousands of people to the streets and contributed decisively to the de-legitimation of the rule of the Soviet Party state. Only a few years later, however, ecology had lost its mobilizing effect almost completely. The workshop will look at both the rise of this phenomenon and its decline in the 1990s after the breakup of the USSR.
Organizer: EcoGlobReg, Dr. Melanie Arndt (IOS)
Contact: Alexander Legler (alexander.legler(at)stud.uni-regensburg.de)
Date: Tuesday, May 16th 2017 and Wednesday, May 17th 2017
Workshop venue: IOS, Landshuter Straße 4, 93047 Regensburg, Room 319 (3rd floor)
Program
Poster