Time-Sharing Survey and 2025 Mini-Conferences
The East European Politics Grad Workshop is excited to announce our Fall 2025 Time Sharing Survey Mini-Conferences, hosted by the Graduate Working Group on Democratic Politics and Public Opinion in East-Central Europe Time Sharing Survey and Mini-Conferences. and made possible by a 2024-25 APSA Centennial Center Grant. Selected presenters participated in a blinded peer-review selection and spring 2025 survey design workshop in advance of fielding a time sharing survey in two less-commonly studied countries in the region: Estonia and Slovakia.
The resulting research will be presented at two online mini-conferences in Fall 2025. The first is on Friday, October 10 and the second will be on Friday, December 5; both from 11am-1pm ET. For links and materials please sign up using our mailing list below.
Friday October 10 11AM-1PM EST
Time Sharing Survey Mini Conference #1: Estonia
Paper 1: “The Democratising Effects of the 1989 Baltic Way Demonstration in Estonia,” Robert Lipinski (Oxford, World Bank)
Paper 2: “The Historical Determinants of Eastern European Solidarity with Ukraine,” Isabelle DeSisto (Princeton University)
Discussant: Krisztina Szabó (CEU, Royal Holloway)
Friday December 5th 11AM-1PM EST
Time Sharing Survey Mini Conference #2: Slovakia
Paper 1: “WWII Legacies, Memory Regimes and Support for Russia,” Ludwig Schulze (European University Institute)
Paper 2: “It Takes Fire to Fight Fire: Populists, their Challengers, and Shifting Conceptions of “The Elite,” Will Halm (Berkeley)
Discussant: Lotem Halevy (Cluster of Excellence, the Politics of Inequality, at the University of Konstanz)
The Graduate Working Group on Democratic Politics and Public Opinion in East-Central Europe is kindly sponsored by a 2024-25 Summer APSA Centennial Center Grant.
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.