Aktuelle Visiting Fellows
Seven ERDOĞAN
Seven ERDOĞAN is currently an Associate Professor at the International Relations Department of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University. She graduated from Boğaziçi University (İstanbul, Turkey) in 2007 and received her MA degree from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2010. Her MA thesis is on the Western Question of Muslim societies. She holds a PhD degree in European Studies from Ankara University (Ankara, Turkey). Her dissertation is on the role of the supranational institutions of the European Union in the accession process.
Her main research interests focus on various aspects of European integration, including the EU's external relations with accession and neighbourhood policy countries, the historical and institutional development of the Union, and the EU's migration agenda. She has published numerous book chapters and articles and has given numerous presentations and speeches. She is on the editorial board of two academic journals. She is also a member of the global paradiplomacy network.
In addition to her long and continuing interest in research on the European Union, her recent studies have focused on gender, paradiplomacy and climate change. Her recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Asian and African Studies and the Asian Journal of Women's Studies, indexed in SSCI. Her most recent piece entitled "From Neighbours to Potential Members: Is the War in Ukraine a Critical Juncture for the European Union's Enlargement Policy?" will be published on March 2025 in Siyasal: Journal of Political Sciences, indexed in ESCI.
Brown Bag: The Implications of the European Green Deal for the Realm of Enlargement: Reading the Process through EU-Turkey Relations
Gabriele Leone
Gabriele Leone, Ph.D., holds a master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Calabria (UNICAL), where he completed a thesis on the birth and evolution of protest in the Turkish Republic and the role of the PKK in the Kurdish movement. His Ph.D. dissertation, which was done at the University of Lapland, focused on political-philosophical investigations aimed at clarifying the power relations between the Turkish nation-state and the unrecognized Kurdish minority. This research contributes to the extensive literature on the subject, particularly addressing the segment of biopolitical mechanisms and their potential totalitarian effects on Turkish democracy.
During the Summer Semester of 2023, Gabriele Leone was a Junior Visiting Fellow in the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europe” Program. While residing in Graz from March to June 2023, he researched the project titled “Turkey: Biopolitics and National Identity.” His work explored the motivations driving the nation-state to employ biopolitical practices, understood as biological extrapolations of the political enemy, and examined the prospects for a possible rapprochement between Turkey and the EU regarding offers for the Kurdish minority. During the academic year 2024/2025, Gabriele Leone will be a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies.
Brown Bag: “Turkish-Syrian Border in the Aftermath of the Syrian Civil War: Between Necropolitics, Gender, and Ethnicity”.
Andrea Matošević
Andrea Matošević is a professor at Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. He graduated in Ethno-anthropology and Italian Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Padua (2003), earned his MA degree in Intercultural Studies from the same faculty (2005) and his PhD in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2010). His fields of research are ethno-anthropology, history of ethnology/anthropology, oral history, industrial anthropology, popular culture, theories of multiculturalism and philosophy.
He has published and edited nine books and published a volume for Berghahn Books Almost, but not Quite Bored in Pula: An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia. He has been a visiting scholar at University College in London, at Institute of East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg and at University of Padua.
Brown Bag: Shipbuilding Knowledge: Yugoslav Socialism, Documentaries and Community
Enduena Klajiqi
Enduena Klajiqi is a fundamental research fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and a doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her dissertation focuses on encounters of feminist statebuilding in Kosovo during the 1990s. Her research interests lie in the nexus between feminist activism, nationalism and statebuilding practices.
Brown Bag: Conceptualising Feminism(s) at War: The case of Kosovo in the 1990s
Marina Kostić Šulejić
Dr. Marina Kostić Šulejić is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Politics and Economics (a scientific institute under the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia) and Head of the Centre for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament of the Professional Association of Security Sector, a Belgrade based think-tank organization. She has published a dozen of research papers dealing with international institutions and world order, strategic and nuclear arms control and non-proliferation, bilateral and regional relations in the Western Balkans, security issues in Serbia and its policy of military neutrality, as well as the EU enlargement policy. In 2024, she published a monograph “Military neutrality and nuclear weapons: between a possession and a ban”, and, in 2022, a monograph “Strategic Stability in a Multipolar World”.
Marina received scholarships from Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (in 2023) and Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Science (in 2024). On several occasions she was a mentor in the framework of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Internship Program. Her ORCID is: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1342-7332.
Brown Bag: Thirty Years of Austrian Membership in the EU: Experiences for Serbia
Tahir Latifi
Tahir Latifi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Prishtina. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Graz, Center for Southeast European History and Anthropology. His research focuses on family and kinship, gender, social policy, migration, demography, and cultural heritage. Recently, he has worked on several projects: Cultural Identity of ethnic minorities in Kosova: An Anthropological Study; Researching and Documenting the Memory of Albanian migrants – Gastarbeiter; The curatorial conception and design of the museum exhibition (one of the curators) of the Museum of the Krusha e Madhe Massacre; "Kujtesa e Kosovës: Rrëfimet e të mbijetuarve të masakrës së Krushës së Madhe" [Kosova memory: Documenting the stories of survivors of the Krusha e Madhe massacre]; Documentation of intangible cultural heritage of Kullas (a traditional fortified tower house) in Dukagjini Plateau; Historical demography in Kosova.
He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, supported by the JESH Fellowship (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities) - grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for five months (May–September 2025).
Brown Bag: Legal Pluralism practices among Albanians in Austria
Tetiana Drakokhrust
Tetiana Drakokhrust is a Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, and Professor at the Department of Theory of Law and Constitutionalism, Faculty of Law, West Ukrainian National University (Ternopil, Ukraine). Member of International security and cooperation center at West Ukrainian National University: coordinator of international cooperationCo-chairlady of Ukrainian Hub of European Law Institute (Vienna, Austria), founder of NGO “EDUCATIONAL START”, Head of the Ukrainian Bar Association Branch in Ternopil Region, Academician of the Academy of Political and Legal Sciences of Ukraine.
Her areas of expertise include MigrationLaw, Constitutionalism, and Public International Law. She is the author of numerous scholarly publications addressing key issues of legal system development, human rights protection, and the improvement of legislative authority mechanisms. Tetiana Drakhohrust actively engages in academic teaching, research activities, and participates in international projects and conferences.
Brown Bag: Climate change: Legal Trends
Venelin Bochev
Venelin Bochev is a PhD candidate in political science at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His research focuses on processes of resistance to autocratisation with an institutional focus on legislatures and a regional focus on Southeast Europe.
Brown Bag: Legislatures in Southeast Europe amid Global Political Regime Developments
Denur Paçaku
Denur Paçaku is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Faculty of Contemporary Social Sciences, South East European University. He previously completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science at the University of Prishtina, specializing in European Integration and Public Administration.
His doctoral research addresses critical questions in the fields of international relations and security, with a particular focus on how public institutions and security policies in the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe respond to the evolving challenges of hybrid warfare in the 21st century.
Beyond his academic endeavors, Denur Paçaku is a scholarship recipient and alumnus of several local and international organizations and institutions. He has actively participated in preparatory programs for researchers, schools of political thought, and research initiatives, with a particular emphasis on European studies, foreign policy, higher education, and human rights.
Denur is a member of the Roma ethnic community in Prizren and holds the distinction of being the first Roma PhD candidate in the history of the Republic of Kosovo—an inspiring milestone for both his community and the broader discourse on inclusion in academia, governance, and society. In addition to his academic and civic engagements, he maintains a strong interest in cultural activities, writing, and literary criticism.