As of the 2017 summer semester, the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), in cooperation with the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University in Berlin, is opening invitations to a new multidisciplinary research colloquium. The colloquium is to serve as a discussion forum for work in progress by PhD students, postdocs, and established researchers whose work in the social sciences focuses on Eastern Europe. With this colloquium, the aim is to establish a permanent meeting point in the Berlin-Brandenburg area for those engaged in research on Eastern Europe. The research colloquium will take place at ZOiS every second Wednesday in the month during the semester.

• Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)
• Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Kropp (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Programme, 2017 summer semester

10 May 2017, 6:00–7:30 pm
Russia’s conservative revolts. Actors and concepts
Prof. Katharina Bluhm (Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin)

14 June 2017, 6:00–7:30 pm
Placing Kazakhstan on the map of Russian literature
Dr. Nina Frieß (ZOiS)

12 July 2017, 6:00–7:30 pm
Local policy-making in the Russian Federation. The case of Kaliningrad
Joanna Karasińska-Vogenbeck (PhD student at the Freie Universität Berlin)