Research Colloquium

The Research Colloquium provides a forum for faculty members and PhD students to present and discuss their current research. The aim of the colloquium is not a presentation of finished work, but rather work in progress that would benefit from the criticism and commentary of colleagues.  The format includes a 15-20 minute presentation on a precirculated draft of recent research (usually an article or chapter), a 10-15 minute comment by a discussant, followed by 40-45 minutes of open discussion with all those present.   Please note that this semester (unless otherwise indicated) the Research Colloquium will start promptly at 16:00 and end at 17:15 in Lossi 36-305. We are starting the colloquium a bit earlier and ending a bit earlier as well in hopes that colleagues with families and other evening commitments will find it easier to attend.   

Colloquia for the 2023/2024 Academic Year

Spring semester

• 28 February: Ville Haapanen, “Varieties of Green Politics: A Multi-Dimensional Expert Survey of Parties' Environmentalism”

• 13 March:   Izzet Yalin Youksel, “Navigating the Ocean of Politics: Elite Navigations in the Compact of Free Association States”

• 27 March:   Kristel Vits and Eiki Berg, “Geopolitical Role Construction of De Facto States: The Actor-Centered Approach”

• 10 April:   Biao He, “Divergent Approaches of Accessibility Upgrade of Government Websites in Chinese Municipality: A Comparative Analysis”

• 24 April:   Rein Taagepera, "Runner, Rider and Engineer Empires: 5000 years of Growth"

• 8 May:  Thomas Linsenmeier, “Persisting Blind Spots in the English School Account of the Expansion of International Society” 

• 22 May: 1st Year Doctoral Student Dissertation Prospectus Presentation:   
  16:00-17:00:  Akbar Mammadov, "How the War in Ukraine affects far-right parties in Baltic Sea Region"

• 29 May:  1st Year Doctoral Student Dissertation Prospectus Presentations:   
  16:00-17:00:  Karl Lembit Laane "The Crisis and Renewal of Procedural Democracy"
  17:00-18:00:  Pirjo Turk, "Applying behavioural insights to decrease the carbon footprint of digitalization"

Autumn semester

• 27 September:  Marlene Jugl, „Country Size, Vulnerability, and Collective Crisis Cognition:  why Germany was less prepared to respond to the 2015 migration crisis than Luxembourg“ 

• 11 October: Louis Wierenga and Magdalena Musial-Karg, "Why do democracy meddlers fail to succeed in Estonia?" 

• 25 October: Shpend Kursani and Butrint Berisha, “When Netflix recognises (de facto) states: How transnational non-state actors are transforming the practice of state recognition in the digital landscape”

• 8 November: Stefano Braghiroli and Sandra Hagelin, "Easier said than done: assessing elite crisis framing and patterns of decision-making in the context of EU’s Eastern border"  

• 29 November: Aleksandr Shishov, "Towards a 'Latvian Latvia': 'Reclaiming Sovereignty' in Far-Right Discourse"
   
• 6 December: George Spencer Terry, "Articulating National Culture and Actorship through Education: Logics from the Cases of the Estonian, Polish, and Italian Right"