ZOiS Newsletter
August/September 2023
Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 40/2023
Research, Mental Health and Traumatising Contexts: How to Take Care?
 
With Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, researchers and institutions became more aware of the fact that research on traumatising incidents also affects the researcher: In this podcast, we talk about mental health in academia and personal as well as institutional ways to take care.

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News
 
Call for Applications
PechaKucha Night at ZOiS Annual Conference
ZOiS is inviting students working on their Master’s degree or doctorate to present their research in a PechaKucha-style presentation in English at the next ZOiS annual conference. The PechaKucha night will take place on 16 November at ZOiS.

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New Website
KonKoop launches own website
For the BMBF-funded joint project "Cooperation and Conflict in Eastern Europe. The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War" (KonKoop), ZOiS is working together with IOS Regensburg, IfL in Leipzig, FSU Jena, HNEE in Eberswalde and ZZF in Potsdam. Interested parties can now find out more about the work of the research network on the new KonKoop website.

KonKoop website 
 
 
Publications
ZOiS Meet the Author
‘Change can happen only if domestic political forces and civic associations become strong enough’
with Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos
In ’The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy’, Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos addresses the development of democracies in Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. In this interview, he explains the difficulties of democratisation in the region and the opportunities he sees for a sustainable democracy.

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ZOiS Research
External Academic Publications
On the ZOiS website you can also get an overview of the external scientific publications of the ZOiS staff: sorted by research focus, from monographs to peer-reviewed journal articles and anthologies.
 
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Events
ZOiS Forum | 21 September 2023, 6.30 pm | ZOiS, Mohrenstr. 60, 10117 Berlin
Narrating Every Day Life During War Time in Ukraine
 in cooperation with PRISMA UKRAÏNA und Fulbright Ukraine
With three experts, we will discuss the power of popular visual culture in times of crisis and its potential to narrate and frame wartime experiences and the everyday life of people in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.

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Public Keynote | 28 September 2023, 6pm | ZOiS, Mohrenstr. 60, 10117 Berlin
Accommodating Ethnic Minorities in Border Regions. Lessons from the Danish-German Border for Eastern Europe?
Border disputes, with ethnic minorities involved, have characterised Eastern Europe and many regions of the world. Martin Klatt will explain how the Danish-German Border accommodates the minorities living in the region. Can this model be applied to more conflictual cases, even to war-torn Eastern Ukraine?
 
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You are welcome to find out about current events on our website: www.zois-berlin.de/en/events
 
 
Media
Article with assessments by Gwendolyn Sasse for RedanktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (23/08/2023)
Article by Alexandra Prokopenko for Bloomberg (17/08/2023)
Article by Félix Krawatzek and Piotr Goldstein for 300Gospodarka (13/08/2023)
Article by Félix Krawatzek and Piotr Goldstein for The Conversation (01/08/2023)
 
Links to more media coverage on current topics can be found on our website ZOiS in the media.