Welcome! The East European Politics Graduate Workshop (EEPGW) is a once a month, online workshop for political science graduate students. We aim to create an environment for those working on East European politics (broadly understood) to seek feedback and build community amongst other graduate students working on similar topics.

We welcome graduate students at any stage in their career. Feel free to reach out to us at eepg.workshop@gmail.com with further questions.

Current Series: Spring/Summer 2026 Workshop

Friday April 17th 11AM-12PM EST

“Decentralization and Ukrainian Resistance Against Russia’s Invasion,” Isabelle DeSisto (Princeton University)

Discussant: Silviya Nitsova (University of Manchester)

Friday May 8th 11AM-12PM EST

“When Does Civil Society Respond to Government Threats?,” Frances Cayton (Cornell University)

Discussant: Will Halm (Berkeley)

Friday May 29th 11-12 AM EST

“Ethnic identity, citizenship, and public support for NATO in Estonia, 2019–2024,” Yurii Kondratyk (European University Institute) and Piret Ehin (University of Tartu)

Discussant: Robert Lipinski (Oxford)

Friday June 26th 11-12 AM EST

“A Tale of Two Villages: Political Causes and Consequences of Within-Rural Inequality,” Felix Beilin (Princeton)

Discussant: Hanna Folsz (Stanford University)

Friday August 14th 11-12 AM EST

“Do Wartime Casualties Affect Support for the Autocrat? Evidence from Russia,” Konstantin Bogatyrev (LSE), Georgy Tarasenko (Cornell), Andrey Tkachenko (Nazarbayev University), Nikita Savin (UCLA)

Discussant: Ildar Daminov (Central European University)

Friday August 21st 11-12 AM EST

“Surviving the Commons: Land Tenure, Extraction, and Revolution,” Igor Kolesnikov (UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Frances Cayton (Cornell University)

Statement on Russia’s War Against Ukraine

The EEPGW wholeheartedly condemns Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s sovereignty over the last ten years and its recent full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We stand in support of Ukraine and its people as they fight in support of their country and freedom. For more information on the war, and how to support the Ukrainian war effort, refugees, and media, we include resources compiled by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Razom for Ukraine.

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