Working Groups of the Research Network 1989


New Researchers on Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-economic Change in Central and Eastern Europe

Coordinator:    Vera Trappmann and Sasha Janovskaia
Members:        Eszter Bartha, Maria Bytchkova, Roxana Bratu, Juraj Draxler, Esmeralda Gassie, Tim Goedemé, Katarzyna 
                       Growiec, Igor Guardiancich, Leo S. Halepli, Eva Jansova, Aleksandra Jasnovskaia, d’Artis Kancs,
                       Tatiana Karabchuk, Lucia Kurekova, Iain Reid, Sonja Strohmer, Christopher Swader, Narcis Tulbure, Olaf
                       van Vliet


Leadership cult, terror, abdication and the transition to democracy: Soviet relations of domination and their il/legality and il/legitimacy
An elaboration of social, political and legal theory

Coordinator:    Monica Ciobanu
Members:        Balazs Apor, Chris Armbruster, Timur Atnashev, Thieu Besselink


Searching for closure: dynamics of communism’s criminalization in Europe
Explorations in history, law and memory

Coordinator:    Bogdan Iacob
Members:        Maria Falina, Ferenc Laczó, Vladimir Petrovic, Simina Radu-Bucurenci, Marko Zubak


Bringing the nation-state back in: sovereignty, identity, private property and public service
Comparative analysis of law, state and nation

Coordinator:    Ivo Vassilev
Members:        Chris Armbruster, Nagore Calvo, Ewa Gromnicka, Kasia Lach, Damiana Gabriela Otoiu


Ideas in Transition: Workers and the Scholarly Imagination
A critical theory and research project

Coordinator:    Tibor Meszmann
Members:        Chris Armbruster, Timur Atnashev, Eszter Bartha, Christian Domnitz, Kacper Poblocki


New states and new citizens?
Interest groups and politics throughout central and eastern Europe in the context of European Union enlargement
Comparative perspectives on the politics and policies of interest groups

Coordinator:    Damiana Gabriela Otoiu and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán
Members:        Ramona Coman, Alexandra Alina Ionascu, Ninucia Pilat, Petya Slavova, Sorina Cristina Soare


Economy and Society: Social inequality and regional development in post-socialist Europe
Comparative analysis in economic sociology and political economy

Coordinator:    Nina Bandelj
Members:        Hennadii Korzhov, Tibor Meszman, Regine Spector, Alina Surubaru, Catherine Spieser, Ivo Vassilev


From Sputnik to the knowledge-based society?
Science and Technology in the post-socialist space

Coordinator:    Anna Geltzer
Members:        Natalia Glebovskaya, tbc


Making sense of 1989
Digital interviews for higher education teaching and learning

Coordinator:    Agnieszka Wenninger
Members:        Chris Armbruster, Mills Kelly, tbc


Interpreting and explaining 1989
Appraising the attributed significance and meaning of 1989 in historiography and social and cultural science

Coordinator:   Chris Armbruster
Members:        tbc


After 1989: Re-thinking the role of the European Union in Europe
 

Coordinator:     Laure Delcour
Members:         Gabriella Meloni, Elsa Tulmets, Joanna Gorska, St Antony's, Oxford, tbc

 

 

last modified: 2008-01-21