BALKANS

 Presenter: Vjeran Pavlakovic

Claudia Laštro (U of Graz, Austria)

Do Elite Splits Stabilise Autocratic Regimes After All Insights from Serbia and Montenegro

CAUCASUS

Presenter: Julie George

Jane Kitaevich (U of Michigan, US)

Voices from the Borderlands: Formation of Public Opinion and Regime Preferences in the Shadow of Conflict Violence in Armenia

CENTRAL EUROPE

Presenter: Stephen Deets

Nikolas Weyland (Harvard U, US)

Tensions of the Nazi Dictatorship: Adjudicating Accusations against German Citizens of Polish Descent in the WWII-Era Ruhr

MIGRATION

Presenter : Daniel Naujoks

Tiphaine Le Corre (U of Oxford, UK)

The Politics of Crisis: Small Boats, Brexit, and Symbolically Autocratic Policymaking

Her second doctoral award

NATIONALISM

Presenter: Sofia Tipaldou

Santiago Lacroix Eussler  (Ohio State U, US)

Cultural Strategies of Populism: Explaining Shifts from Statism to Market Reform

RUSSIA

Presenter: Natalya Savelyeva

Andrey Davydov  (McGill U, Canada)

Radical Right Narratives in Russian Pro-Regime Discourses

UKRAINE

Presenter: Olga Onuch

Anna Vozna (U of Ottawa, Canada)

Non-State Teachers’ Organizations in Rebuilding Ukrainian Educational System