Doctoral programmes with a focus on Southeast Europe
The programme, known as the Europeanisation Processes in Southeast Europe Consortium (ESOE) is part of the university-wide profile-building area Dimensions of Europeanisation and was accepted as a full member of the Doctoral Academy of the University of Graz in 2019. The consortium has strict organisational and academic regulations regarding administrative issues and academic knowledge production criteria.
The original "Southeastern Europe" programme was established in 2013 in the form of a DQ. Since then, it has brought together an interdisciplinary group of doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, and leading scholars who take interdisciplinary perspectives on Southeast Europe, promoting critical and comparative area studies. The programme reflects the university-wide focus on Southeast Europe and substantial research expertise in this field.
Currently, 14 dissertation projects are being developed as part of the programme. In addition to expertise and interdisciplinarity, internationalisation is a central component of the programme, which promotes the international exchange of ideas among doctoral students. Teaching activities, guest lectures, publications of research articles and dissertation projects exploring Europeanisation processes in South Eastern Europe are also essential.
Study programme
The training programme includes both the conceptualisation phase and the fieldwork and research phase at other universities. It consists of mentoring triangle, dissertation seminars, semester exams, mobility and teaching activities, skill development courses, conferences and workshops, as well as participation in brownbag seminars and discussion forums. The doctoral programme is designed for a duration of eight semesters - see PDF with detailed tabular presentation
Research
Our project is based on the understanding that the Europeanisation of Southeast Europe is insufficiently researched as an empirical phenomenon, and that the currently dominant analytical approach to Europeanisation is very narrow and often rests on problematic normative assumptions. Therefore, the project aims to generate new knowledge about the Europeanisation of Southeast Europe from diachronic and synchronic perspectives, and to create new understandable theoretical tools for a critical-constructivist shift in Europeanisation research. The project is also based on the understanding that Southeast European studies and area studies in general have limited concepts and empirical understandings of regions, as they construct, for example, regions as "container areas" that are supposedly unique, remote, different, and "peripheral", "other". The project aims to find out how these challenges can be overcome cognitively, theoretically and empirically. That is, the project aims to produce new knowledge and understandings of regions that go beyond methodological regionalism and nationalism, and conceptualise Southeast Europe as an integral part of the (European) world.
Gender Equality
Gender equality is a priority of this doctoral programme and is reflected on three levels: First, by ensuring and promoting an adequate representation of women as faculty members. Second, in considering research interests and further engagement of faculty members. And thirdly, during the selection of PhD students. The proportion of women in previous and current cohorts is higher than 65%. More than half (54%), or seven out of 13 core members of the faculty, are women - which clearly exceeds the FWF's recommended lower limit (30%). The composition of the faculty is not static: when a faculty position is to be filled, increasing the proportion of women is clearly taken into account as part of the selection criteria. While both the spokesperson and co-spokesperson are currently men, the faculty members have decided to rotate these positions every two years and to fill them with at least one woman.
Selection criteria for faculty members and associate members
The core of the faculty consists of 16 professors from five different faculties and the Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES). These faculty members can count on a further network of researchers from the respective faculties. Therefore, the programme is based on a gender-balanced network representing a wide range of disciplines, demographics, age groups, perspectives, and academic approaches.
- Florian Bieber, spokesperson of the consortium
- Heike Karge, Co-Speaker of the Consortium
- Boban Arsenijevic
- Bilgin Ayata
- Ulrich Ermann
- Ulla Kriebernegg
- Gerald Lamprecht
- Emma Lantschner
- Andreas Leben
- Libora Oates Indruchova
- Renate Ortlieb
- Tatjana Petzer
- Jürgen Pirker
- Klaus Poier
- Katharina Scherke
- Anita Ziegerhofer
Associate Membership:
Pablo Argárate
Tomislav Boric
- Ivana Spirovska
- Sophia Schönthaler
- Mirco Buoso
- Mladen Zobec
- Fjolla Ceku Syllejmani
- Maja Barisic
- Marie Jelenka Kirchner
- Alejandro Perez
- Benedetta Merlino
- Lorenzo Ugurgieri
- Diana Malaj
- Pavjo Gini
- Christopher Kee
- David Pimentel
- Adrian Waters
- Mirela Brajdic
- Tara Tepavac
- Richard Newell
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