Visiting Fellows 2008-09
Yana Krupets
Dalglish Visiting Fellow, 20 April-17 May 2009
Dr Yana Krupets is Dalglish Visiting Research Fellow from the Department of Sociology at Samara State University, Russia. She writes:
"I work as a senior lecturer at Samara State University, Sociology Department and as a researcher at the Research Group “Svobodnoe mnenie” (“Free opinion”) in Samara.
In my PhD thesis I considered the problem of social meanings of money and different practices of money treatment in everyday life. During this visit in University of Glasgow I will develop my research interests in the following areas: identity studies, sociology of money (especially the meaning of money in non-economic spaces: commodification of body, feelings, etc), and methods of qualitative sociological research. I will develop the courses I teach at Samara State University (“Research Methods of Sociological Research”, “Identities Representation in Mass-media”, “Debating Subjectivities: Critical Introduction in Identity Studies”). I will work on paper “Price(less) commodity: debating the commodification of body in contemporary Russia”. I will participate in CRCEES 3rd Annual Research Forum with the paper “Selling sex: redefining the borders between job, pleasure, and violence” and in CRCEES Research Forum Roundtable: 'Ideas that Never Meet': Navigating Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Practice within Slavic & East European Studies. "
Anna Maltseva
Dalglish Visiting Fellow, 26 January-22 February 2009
Dr Anna Maltseva, who will be visiting from 26 January to 22 February 2009, is from the Faculty of Sociology at Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia where she is Head of the laboratory of statistical support of sociological and psychological researches and Associate Professor of the chair of mathematical methods in social sciences. Her current area of interest is education, in particular the role of social identity of modern student youth and its influence of the decision making process. Dr Maltseva will present a guest research seminar on 17 February "The Altai Region: its culture and sociological science" which will include an introduction to and overview of the region, followed by discussion about sociological research trends at the Faculty of Sociology at the Altai State University. She will give a masterclass seminar to our postgraduate students on Wednesday 04 February entitled 'Case Study of Social Identity'. Dr Maltseva will welcome the opportunity to meet new colleagues and share ideas while in Glasgow.
Comments from Dr Maltseva on her time with CEES: When I think about my visit to the University of Glasgow I’m close to compare my impressions with watching really interesting film. Architecture, people, climate … and everything were so different from usual for me that I hardly was able to keep my cognitive processes from some kind of coma. Of course, I mean only positive emotions saying that! It was precious opportunity for me to spend lots of wonderful moments communicating with my colleagues from CEES and students, working in the university library and just walking around. I would like to say many thanks and appreciations to everybody in CEES for their cordiality. Sorry that I was not very talkative during my visit but it is very difficult to talk when you see something really enthralling....
Murad Ismayilov
Dalglish Visiting Fellow, 3-30 November 2008
Murad Ismayilov, visited CEES from 03 to 30 November. Murad is in the final year of his PhD at the Baku State University (Azerbaijan) and in the second year of an MSt at the University of Cambridge. He is also a research fellow and projects coordinator (research and publications) at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) where he, among other things, edits “Azerbaijan in the World”, their biweekly online publication (http://www.ada.edu.az/biweekly). He teaches at the Baku State University (BSU) where, as an OSI AFP fellow, he is actively involved in the renovation and reformation processes within the International Relations Department, aiming to transform the Department to meet the Bologna requirements.
His research interests include international relations theory (especially constructivist and post-structuralist approaches), political theory, energy security, issues related to national identity and civil society of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan’s national security, Euro-Atlantic security, and sociology and security of the Middle East. Mr. Ismayilov authored a monograph The Middle East in the System of Contemporary World Politics (2002, in Russian). Among his latest articles are “Education Abroad, Civil Society and Nation-Building: The Case of Azerbaijan” (together with M. Tkacik, Current Politics and Economics of the Caucasus Region, Vol. 2, Issue 3, October 2008, https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=9094); “Baku and the Azerbaijani Diaspora: How Much Interaction and Influence?” (Azerbaijan in the World, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy biweekly online publication, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 15 February 2008, http://www.ada.edu.az/biweekly/articles.aspx?id=12); “Azerbaijani National Identity and Baku’s Foreign Policy: The Current Debate” (Azerbaijan in the World, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy biweekly online publication, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1 February 2008, http://www.ada.edu.az/biweekly/articles.aspx?id=9). During his time with CEES he will continue his ongoing research on the energy-induced partnership among Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia working particularly on developing a theoretical framework accounting for the processes of Azerbaijan's nation- and state-building. Mr. Ismayilov will give a seminar entitled "Structure, Agency and the Resource Curse: Azerbaijan's Efforts to Minimise the Curse and Maximise the Blessings" on Wednesday, 19th November. To serve his teaching-related goals and activities at the ADA and BSU, Mr. Ismayilov is also interested in getting exposed to as many relevant curricula, syllabi and teaching methodologies as possible and is looking forward to sharing information and receiving feedback and reflections in this regard.
During his stay, Mr. Ismayilov also work closely with the Centre’s staff to explore the possible ways of developing the Azerbaijani/Caspian dimension in the teaching of East European Studies in UK.
Dr Artūras Tereškinas
Dalglish Visiting Fellow, 6 October-2 November 2009
a.tereskinas@smf.vdu.lt More information: www.tereskinas.com
Dr Artūras Tereškinas, Visiting Research Fellow from 06 October until 02 November 2008. Dr Tereškinas is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. His most recent publications include Essays on Different Bodies: Culture, Gender, Sexuality (2007), Imperfect Communities: Identity, Discourse and Nation in the Seventeenth-Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania (2005) and Public Lives, Intimate Places: Body, Publicity, and Fantasy in Contemporary Lithuania (2002).
Tereškinas’s current research examines how Lithuanian men construct their masculinity in relation to work, family, fatherhood, citizenship, sexuality, health, disability and cultural representation. It traces the changes in male practices and perceptions of masculinity from 1990 to 2008. During his stay he will make use of the Library to continue his research and work on a monograph.
Dr Artūras Tereškinas gave a seminar on 21 October 2008, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Applied Social Sciences, the International Centre for Gender & Women’s Studies and the West Coast Seminar Series entitled “Post-Soviet Masculinities, Shame and the Archives of Social Suffering in Contemporary Lithuania”. He also gave a very well received postgraduate masterclass seminar on Gender, Class and Social Suffering: Social Research in Practice.
Comments from Dr Tereškinas on his time with CEES :
“My time in the Department of Central and East European Studies was extremely rewarding and fulfilling. It was a wonderful opportunity to exchange ideas and expand my research on Eastern European masculinities. The Department was very helpful and accommodating. CEES is absolutely fabulous!”