Events
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
15-22 January 2017: UPTAKE Training School ‘Post-communist transformations, models of development and implications for an emerging multi-order world’. For more information please visit the ‘Training School’ page on this website.
PAST ACTIVITIES
27-30 October 2016: UPTAKE @ Kent team (Igor Merheim-Eyre, Nele Ewers-Peters) take part in the annual GLOBSEC Tatra Summit in Bratislava, Slovakia. They represented Kent at the Young European Leaders forum, where they discussed issues of migration and reforms of the intelligence services, and where they met with European politicians as well as representatives from investment platforms.
27 October 2016: UPTAKE @ Kent team (Elena Korosteleva) presents a report at the Minsk Dialogue 2016, co-authored with Yauheni Preiherman, Roza Turarbekova, and Kristian Blum.
The report (in Russian) can be viewed here: minsk-dialogue-2016-paper
9 – 13 October 2016: UPTAKE @ Kent team (Elena Korosteleva) participates in the German-Russian Dialogue in Baden-Baden, where experts from different countries discussed issues of co-operation and deepening of relations. Professor Korosteleva reported on the differing views of both sides, and engaged in wider discussions on the topic.
25-29 June 2016: UPTAKE @ Kent team (Eske van Gils) joins the ASEEES Conference in Lviv, in a joint panel with Ryhor Nizhnikau (University of Tartu), Sophie Bedford (Uppsala University) and Laurent Vinatier (Uppsala University).The panel is named ‘Resisting the irrestistable: Theorizing opposition in post-Soviet authoritarian states’.
23-25 June 2016: UPTAKE @Kent team (Elena Korosteleva, Miruna Beldiman, Igor Merheim-Eyre and Eske van Gils) joins the ISA CEEAS Conference in Ljubljana with a panel titled ‘The Politics’ and ‘the Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative: Reshaping the agenda’.
15-17 June 2016: UPTAKE @Kent team (Elena Korosteleva, Igor Merheim-Eyre and Eske van Gils) convenes a panel ‘The Politics and the Political of the EaP: Re-shaping the Agenda’ at the BISA 41st Annual Conference in Edinburgh.
12-14 June 2016: UPTAKE @Kent team have a strong presence at the 1st TARTU Annual Conference ‘Europe under Stress: The End of a Common Dream?’ Kent will be represented by Elena Korosteleva, Igor Merheim-Eyre, Miruna Beldiman, Rabekah Everett, Camille-Renaud Merlen, Zachary Paikin, Susanne Szkola, and Eske van Gils, who will be involved a range of panels.
25-27 May 2016: Professor Elena Korosteleva speaks at the top policy LSE Dahrendorf IDEAS Forum in Berlin.
20-21 May 2016: UPTAKE @Kent team – Professor Elena Korosteleva, Eske van Gils, Igor Merheim-Eyre – are invited to join the EURINT Jean Monnet Conference ‘The Eastern Partnership under strain – Time for a rethink?’ in Iaşi, Romania. They will deliver papers on SME promotion and economic diplomacy in Moldova; EU security governmentality and visa diplomacy in the Eastern Partnership; and negotiations over the Association Agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan. Professor Elena Korosteleva will contribute to the plenary session ‘The effectiveness of the EaP in light of recent events’.
02-13 May 2016: Professor Korosteleva has been commissioned by the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan to assist with the development teaching, research, CPD and outreach provision at the top-ranking University of Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADAU) in Baku. Professor Korosteleva, ADAU executive staff and the European Delegation have developed a Technical Assistance Project to support the establishment and institutionalisation of the Centre of Excellence for European Studies (CEEUS) at ADAU. The overall objective is to develop international partnerships between the CEEUS and its European partners and HEIs.
29 April 2016: UPTAKE has its 1st Steering Group meeting to define its strategic priorities and to agree on the common agenda and rules of engagement in Brussels.