2019 CERES Graduate Student Conference
Power Transitions in Europe and Eurasia
Thursday March 7, 2019
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
1 Devonshire Place, room 108N
8:30–10:30 Panel 1: Former Soviet States and Power Dynamics in Eurasia
Moderator: Prof. Matthew Light
Alexis M. Lerner (PoliSci):
“Competition in Hybrid Regimes: A Post-Soviet Study”
Lauren Hogan (CERES):
“China-Russia Relations and Natural Gas Pipelines in Siberia”
Thea Hilding (Oslo)
“History politics in Kazakhstan, The 550th anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate: Geopolitics of Nation Building?”
Mridvika Sahjpal (CERES):
“The Factors Behind Diverging Anti-Corruption Outcomes Post-‘Coloured’ Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine”
Coffee Break 10:30- 10:45
10:45–12:15 Panel 2: Gender and Power in Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Moderator: Prof. Dragana Obradovic
Katharine Petty (CERES):
“Sexual Violence in the Bosnian War: Testing the Dehumanization Thesis”
Emily Lalande (CERES):
“The Memory of State Socialism in Women’s Lack of Representation in the Hungarian Parliament”
Cristina Baciu (UWO):“The Impact of Democratization on Women in Romania”
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:30 Panel 3: Populism and Migration in the European Union
Moderator: Prof. Jennifer Allen
Nicola Augostino (York): “Eurozone, Refugee, and Sovereign-State Crises in the EU”
Luka Dursun (CERES):
“A Comparative Analysis of Migrant Integration and Language Policies in the EU”
Farah Rasmi (CERES):
“Anti-Semitism and the Migration Crisis in Hungary”
Benson Cheung (CERES):
“Co-opting the Left: Radical Right and Anti-Migrant Discourse from the European New Right to Populist Parties”
Rachel Glowinsky (CERES) and Talene Torigian (London): “The Migration Crisis: Memories, Myths and Meanings of Homeland to Jewish and Armenian Diaspora Communities”
Coffee Break 15:30- 15:45
15:45–17:15 Panel 4: Ukraine
Moderator: Prof. Paul Robert Magosci
Yevheniia Hasai (Vilnius): “The Image of Ukraine in English, Russian, and Ukrainian Media in a Cross Linguistic Study“
Yaromyr Udod (Kyiv): “A Comparative Analysis of Oligarchy and Politics in Ukraine and Russia”
Nadiia Kachynska (OISE): “The Changing Role of State in Higher Education Governance: The Cases of Poland and Ukraine in Comparative Perspective”
18:00- 20:00 Keynote Address
Prof. Jennifer Allen, Yale University “Which Alternative? Lessons from Germany’s Past for a Europe in Tumult ”
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
315 Bloor St. W., Boardroom
