Senior lecturer Märta-Lisa Magnusson, Caucasus Studies (Malmö University) delivered key points and concluding remarks by at the Seminar on State and Society Building in Georgia: Context and Challenges in Copenhagen September 28.
The event was organized by: Europe Foundation (Georgia), link and The Danish Foreign Policy Society, Copenhagen, link
See the full Program.
Prof. Bo Petersson, Global Politicas Studies, Malmö University, acted as commentator at the film screening of “The Russian Woodpecker”, organized by Doc Lounge in Malmö.
Derek Hucheson and Bo Petersson, Global Political Studies, Malmö University, have published a new research article: “Shortcut to Legitimacy: Popularity in Putin’s Russia” in the journal Europe-Asia Studies, pp. 1-20: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2016.1216949
Markus Boman and Madeleine Mattsson from the Swedish Institute visited RUCARR on September 20. Programme manager Markus Boman (to the right on the photo) gave a presentation about the Visby programme and interesting new developments in the coming year.
The programme includes a number of different types of scholarships (both to and from Sweden) for students, researchers and experts and targets the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine.
Professors Bo Petersson and Karina Vamling (Malmö University) are the authors of the chapter “Vanished in the Haze: White Elephants, Environmental Degradation and Circassian Marginalization in Post-Olympics Sochi” that recently appeared in a topical volume on mega-events in the series Mega Event Planning.
As the text on the cover states: “The edited volume explains why sport mega events can be discusssed from the viewpoint of politics and power, and what this discussion can add to the existing scholarship on political regimes, international norms, national identities, and cultural narratives.”
Editors of the book Mega events in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) are Andrey Makarychev (Tartu University, Estonia) and Alexandra Yatsyk (Kazan University, Russia). More info about the book.