Event series

The photo exhibition shows four places: Chervonohrad and Sambir on the Polish-Ukrainian border and Berehove and Uzhhorod on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border. It is part of the research project The Liberal Script in Ukraine's Contested Border Regions, which is being carried out within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS.

This ZOiS Forum is part of the ‘Life in Dictatorships’ series organised by the Förderverein Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer and asks what role (in)equality plays in the legitimisation of authoritarian regimes. The discussion focuses on the GDR, Belarus and Russia.

Taming the Garden documents the creation of a botanical park by and for Georgia's most powerful man. Commercial cinemas in Georgia refused to show the film, which was deemed ‘too political’. In conversation with director Salomé Jashi, we talk about (in)visible politics in Georgia.

In her dissertation, Claudia Eggart uses spatial models to examine the intersection and the mutual co-constitution of the intimate and the geopolitical. Bodies, boxes, markets, ports, hubs, nodes, and the regimes that regulate them are all part of larger networks of commerce and power, which change over time. It is the aim of this thesis to shed light on the production, negotiation, and shaping of geopolitical and geo-economic realities through the everyday practices of cross-border market traders at the 7Km Market in Odesa and the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek.

In her dissertation project, Janine Pinkow-Läpple expands the theoretical foundations of the social remittance concept. This results in a new definition and typology of the enhanced concept of intangible remittances. In addition, she deals in particular with the determinants of the acquisition and transfer of intangible remittances. In the empirical part of her project, she applies the new concept to the case of highly skilled female returnees in Southeast Europe.