Time: Wednesday, 2–4 p.m.
Location: Osteuropa-Institut, Garystr. 55, Hörsaal A

This lecture series is offered by both OEI and international researchers with a focus on Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. The role of voluntary and involuntary human mobility within and across state borders is coupled with the role of political regimes, social orders and cultural landscapes in Eurasia. Diversity and labor, migration and development as well as the imprint of refugees in their host economies and societies are discussed across several disciplinary dimensions. Yet, interactions between mobility and order in the region occur in a time of reshaping the existing political, economic and cultural world order. This reshaping is driven by the deepening of the Russian-Chinese partnership, Russia’s attempts to secure its zones of influence, economic nationalism, and the weakening influence of the “West”. Therefore, we also invite lectures that connect the regional focus to the emerging logic of geopolitics and geoeconomics and the construction of alternative institutions that influence both –- mobility and order.

Lecture Series Program

15.10.2025
Katharina Bluhm (FU Berlin)
Einführung

22.10.2025
Theocharis Grigoriadis (FU Berlin)
The Political Economy of Brain Drain
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

29.10.2025
Alexander Papaioannou (Greek Embassy Berlin)
Refugees & Migrants at the Borders of Europe: A Perspective from Athens
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

05.11.2025
Alexander Libman (FU Berlin)
Transformations of Authoritarianism in the Post-Soviet Eurasia
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

12.11.2025
Aglaya Glebova (UC Berkeley)
Oilscapes of Socialist Realism
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

19.11.2025
Robert Kindler (FU Berlin)
Mobilität und Ordnung. Anmerkungen zur sowjetischen Geschichte
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

26.11.2025
Vladimir Kozlov (Nazarbayev University)
The Influence of Deprivation on Birth Intentions among the Recent Waves of Russian Migrants
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

03.12.2025
Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin)
Kulturelle Kartographie der frühen Sowjetunion
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

10.12.2025
Guram Kvaratskhelia (FU Berlin)
Kino-Screening – Mediothek

17.12.2025
Maja Savevska (Nazarbayev University)
Authoritarianism Without Isolation: Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Vectorism Revisited
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

07.01.2026
Tatiana Golova (ZOiS)
Von russischsprachiger Migration zu Diasporas: Dynamiken in Deutschland seit 2022
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

14.01.2026
Aleksey Oshchepkov (FU Berlin)
Changes in Migration Patterns in the Post-Soviet Space after 02.2022
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

21.01.2026
Volodymyr Ishchenko (FU Berlin)
Post-Soviet Vicious Circle: The Crisis of Hegemony & The Crisis of Revolution
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

28.01.2026
Woosik Moon (Seoul National University)
When the East Meets the West: A Critique of the Uniqueness of the Asian Development Model
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

04.02.2026
Jannis Panagiotidis (Universität Wien)
Remaking Eastern Europe through Migration: A Global Historical Perspective
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

11.02.2026
Rustam Samadov (United Nations University)
Transformations of Gender Relations in Central Asia
Lecture Recording | Event Calendar Entry

Note that the lectures by Robert Kindler and Alexander Libman have been swapped places!