UPTAKE workshop: Ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in a State of Flux

The keynote speaker is Dr Roland Kostić (Uppsala University). His research areas are conflict resolution in intra-state armed conflicts (with a focus on ethnic conflicts in Southeast Europe), post-war peace building, reconciliation, transitional justice, and diaspora and peace.

The main objectives of the workshop are to:

• take stock of the state of ethnic relations across Central and Eastern Europe, with due attention to cross-national differences and regional specifics;
• facilitate cross- and interdisciplinary exchange;
• allow participants to embed their research more solidly into the wider regional and European contexts;
• establish a network of cooperation among academic and non-academic experts

The convener, Vassilis Petsinis (PhD Birmingham), is a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. His expertise is European Politics and Ethnopolitics (nationalism, ethnic relations, and the populist & radical right) with a regional specialization in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Baltic States.

The workshop is organized within the framework of the H2020 UPTAKE consortium which is a cooperative project between the Centre for EU-Russia Studies at the University of Tartu, the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent, and the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. It is financially supported by the European Commission under a Horizon 2020 twinning project entitled ‘Building Research Excellence in Russian and East European Studies at the Universities of Tartu, Uppsala and Kent’ (UPTAKE). It receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 691818.

Full program below! See you there!

Further information: Visit the UPTAKE website or contact Vassilis Petsinis, Marie Curie researcher, University of Tartu, vasileios.petsinis@ut.ee