University of Helsinki
Call for Applications
Methodological choices and challenges in the study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe
The International Network in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (INREES) welcomes PhD students working in the field of social sciences and humanities to the three-day spring school at the University of Tartu on 7 – 10 March 2023
Area studies is a multidisciplinary field of research and area studies scholars apply a myriad of quantitative and qualitative methods. These methods are connected to different epistemological positions thus also offering answers to different kinds of questions. INREES spring school invites area studies scholars and doctoral candidates to discuss methodological choices in the study of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. During the lectures and workshops, the scholars can discuss how the information, viewpoints, and insights that are attained with different methods can be brought into a dialogue. In addition, the INREEES spring school offers the opportunity to reflect on the new methodological challenges that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created. How to find reliable information during the war, especially in authoritarian countries with strict censorship? When many sources are no more available, what kind of innovative solutions can scholars find?
The spring school contains lectures from experts in different methods. In addition, there will be three workshops on digital research / quantitative methods, archival work, and discourse analysis. Before spring school, the participants are asked to send a one-page paper about their methodological choices in their research project for the workshops. The spring school will take care of the costs for accommodation, meals, and transportation from Helsinki to Tartu.
The speakers of the Spring school are:
- Luca Anceschi, University of Glasgow
- Sari Autio-Sarasmo, University of Helsinki
- Ammon Cheskin, University of Glasgow
- Vladimir Gel’man, University of Helsinki
- Yulia Gradskova, Södertörn University
- Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu
- Julia Malitska, Södertörn University
- Svetlana Erpyleva, Public Sociology Laboratory, University of Bremen
Please send your applications with an abstract (max 500 words) of your doctoral research project, your affiliation, and contact information by 25 January, 2023 through the following link:
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/121463/lomake.html
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 January 2023. For more information, you can contact the coordinator of the INREES Kaarina Aitamurto (Kaarina.aitamurto@helsinki.fi )
More about the INREES project: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/inrees-research/