Challenging Eastern Limits
Opening Speakers
Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Mach (Honorary Patron)
Professor and Rector's Proxy in International Relations
Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University
Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Mach is professor in sociology and anthropology at the Jagiellonian University. Founder of the Institute for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and one of the main authors of the European Studies curriculum in Poland. He has broad international teaching experience from Europe and America. His research interests cover identity issues such as nationalism, minorities and ethnicity, the development of European citizenship, migration and the reconstruction of identity, the ethnic origin of a nation and construction of identities as well as the development of the idea of Europe.
Dr hab. Dariusz Niedźwiedzki (Opening Keynote)
Director
Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University
Dr hab. Dariusz Niedźwiedzki is the Director of the Institute for European Studies at Jagiellonian University. He is an Assistant Professor in sociology at Jagiellonian University. He has published widely on European identity, local community and migration in Europe as well as post-communist cultural and social transformations. Dr hab. Niedźwiedzki has broad international teaching experience from university positions held throughout Europe.
Discussion Panel
Prof. Xymena Kurowska (Panelist)
Professor
Central European University, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Budapest
Center for European Union research
Xymena Kurowska is an IR theorist her research and writing concentrate on interdisciplinary approaches to security and international state-building, with the focus on EU’s security and border policies in EU’s Eastern Neighbouhood. She was a fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme, conducting fieldwork research on border reform in Ukraine. She is also the CEU principal investigator for “Global Norm Evolution and Responsibility to Protect”, a collaborative grant awarded to a consortium led by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and encompassing institutions in Europe (CEU, Oxford University, the University of Frankfurt), Asia (Peking National University, J. Nehru University), and Latin America (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil). The project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in cooperation with the Compagnia di San Paolo and the Riksbanken Jubileumsfond within the research framework “Europe and Global Challenges.”
Rafał Sadowski (Panelist)
Senior Research Fellow and Analyst
Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw
Rafał Sadowski is a Senior Research Fellow and Analyst at the Centre for Eastern Studies since 2001 where he writes extensively about the EU's relation with its Eastern Neighbours and the Soutern Caucasus states. He has been working as a policy analyst for the Department for Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States in 2001-2007 and as a head of the Central-European Department in 2007-2009. In 2010-2011 he was the head of the Eastern Partnership Department and the editor-in-chief of the EaPCommunity website (www.easternpartnership.org). He received his M.A. in the Centre for East European Studies of Warsaw University. He also studied a cultural anthropology in the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Warsaw University.
Dr. Stanisław Górka (Panelist)
Lecturer
Jagiellonian University, Institute for European Studies, Kraków
Stanisław Górka is a lecturer and researcher on European Union relations and the Eastern Partnership at the Institute of European Studies at Jagiellonian University.
Paweł Świeżak (Panelist)
International Analyst
National Bureau of Security of Poland (BBN), Warsaw
Paweł Świeżak is an analyst of the National Security Bureau of Poland at the Department of Strategic Analyses which he joined in 2007. He holds a M.A. degree from Warsaw School of Economics in international economic relations. Mr. Świeżak is the author of publications concerning national security and international politics (“National Security” Quarterly, Portal for International Affairs, “New Eastern Europe”). His areas of interest are the political situation in Central and Eastern Europe and Security Policy of Poland.
Adam Reichardt (Moderator)
Editor-in-Chief
New Eastern Europe, Journal
Adam Reichardt is the Editor-in-Chief of New Eastern Europe. Prior to assuming the role of Editor-in-Chief, Adam served as the Managing Editor of New Eastern Europe. He previously spent eight years in public policy in Washington DC, as well as a large portion of his studies in Krakow, Poland, where he now permanently resides. Adam has an MA in Public Administration in Public and Nonprofit Management from the George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia USA, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.
Lecturers & Seminar Leaders
Lecture: "The Thawing of Caucasian snow? Likelihood and implications of a Georgian-Russian rapprochement"
James Nixey
Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme
Chatham House, London
James Nixey is the Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. He publishes and comments extensively on Russian foreign policy, on foreign policy in Southern Caucasus and on Central Asia. Currently, he is involved in projects on the 'Means and ends of Russian Influence Abroad' and on 'Faultlines and Western engagement in the South Caucasus'. He joined Chatham House's Russia and Eurasia Programme in 2000 before heading the programme starting from 2013. He earned a MSc degree in International Relations at the University of Bristol and a BA (Hons) in Russian with Italian at the University of Exeter.
Seminar: "The widening implementation gaps of the Eastern Partnership's 'Frontrunners': Ukraine and Moldova, an odd couple?"
Zsuzsanna Vegh
Research Assistant
Central European University, Center for EU Enlargement Studies, Budapest
Zsuzsanna Vegh is a Research Assistant at the Center for EU Enlargement Studies at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. She holds an M.A. degree in international studies from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2011) where she wrote her thesis on the transformative power of the European Union in its Eastern neighborhood. During her Master program, she also studied at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Zsuzsanna Vegh earned a second M.A. in international relations and European studies from the Central European University, Budapest (2012). In her thesis she discussed conflict resolution in the case of the Transnistrian conflict. Before joining CEU she worked at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs as a research intern (2009-2011) and from 2011 as an adjunct fellow.
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