David Leupold (Postdoctoral research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO))

Cross-cutting Urban Sociology, Social Geography and the History of the Soviet South (Caucasus and Central Asia), I explore not only how urbanity was created, but how as a physical remainder of the ancien régime, they condition social relations in present-day Bishkek and Yerevan. Engaging with the wide-spread consensus that space shapes and, in return, is shaped by social relations, this paper asks: which role plays urban materiality that has outlived the system to which it owes its existence?

As of the winter semester 2020, the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), is opening invitations to a new multidisciplinary research colloquium. The colloquium is to serve as a discussion forum for work in progress by PhD candidates, 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 online every second Wednesday at 5pm in the months during the semester. We will send the access data shortly before the beginning of each session.

If you wish to participate, please register with Anja Krüger (events(at)zois-berlin(dot)de).

Organisers

• Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse, Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien
• Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm, Freie Universität Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Kropp, Freie Universität Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Timm Beichelt, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Anja Krüger
Communications Coordinator
events(at)zois-berlin.de