International Conference “The Business of Worldmaking: New Perspectives on Liminal Actors in Postcolonial Development Cooperation.”

On 19-20 September 2024, the Research Platform for the Study of Transformations and Eastern Europe, University of Vienna, jointly organised an international conference with the Science and Research Centre Koper, held in Koper, Slovenia. Seeking to move beyond a focus on former colonial Metropoles and Cold War superpowers, and zooming in on peripheral modernization projects, … Read more

YuWorkZambia at the ECAS Cologne and the University of Potsdam

Goran Musić and Immanuel Harisch presented the early findings from the research project at this year’s European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) taking place in Cologne between the 31 May and 3 June 2023. The event gathered 2000 participants from 80 countries under the theme “African Futures” presenting a great opportunity for meeting other colleagues … Read more

Participation at the ASEEES Convention (Chicago, 10-13 November 2022)

Goran Musić and Anna Calori participated at the recent Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention, held between 10-13 November 2022 in Chicago. Together with Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu (University of Vienna) and David Tompkins (Carleton College) they presented their current research on a panel entitled “Fragile Connections? (New) Institutional Variations in Global … Read more