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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
At the beginning of November, EURUS was able to host its first graduate student conference thanks to the generosity of the Magna Fund for Russian Studies. The conference was called “Russia in the 21st Century: Historical Legacies, Present Challenges and Future Outlook.” On November 2nd, graduate students from Carleton University and... More
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Dr. Martin Geiger, who recently returned to Carleton University as a Government of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, was interviewed by the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences on his research, entitled "Smart new border world: Information technologies and security industries in the management of human cross-border mobility in North... More
The IXth annual Valdai Club Summit, held from October 21st until October 25th in St Petersburg and Moscow, was attended by EURUS Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz. The theme of this year's Valdai Meeting was the Russian economy and its future. The argument put forth by Russian colleagues, in a report prepared prior to the Valdai... More
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Environment Days are coming to Carleton University, hosted by the Centre for European Studies, the German Embassy, the Goethe Institute and the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. From October 15 until October 19, Carleton's Environment Days will be headlined by an art exhibit in the Galleria of the University Centre entitled "Berlin on... More
Friday, September 28, 2012
A message from EURUS Director Jeff Sahadeo; Dear EURUS Community, With great pleasure I introduce the newest member of our EURUS teaching and research community, Martin Geiger, who joins us (cross-listed with Political Science) as a post-doctoral scholar on a prestigious Banting fellowship. Many of you know Martin already as he was a visiting... More
Thursday, September 27, 2012
EURUS associate professor Piotr Dutkiewicz along with Vladislav L. Inozemtsev recently edited Democracy versus Modernization: A Dilemma for Russia and the World. This book seeks to "re-think democracy." Over the past few years, there has been a tendancy in the global policy community and, even more widely, in the world's media to focus on... More
Monday, September 24, 2012
EURUS Professor and CES Scholar Crina Viju spoke to Embassy Magazine on September 19 on the issues in the Canada-EU Trade Talks, saying that if certain issues are to remain on the table, it may in fact take longer than the remaining few months of the year to sort them out. According to the article, the... More
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
EURUS director Jeff Sahadeo visited Tashkent in July to forge scholarly and professional connections between Canada and Uzbekistan. Professor Sahadeo had productive meetings with the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The highlight of the trip was the... More
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Carleton is launching a new automated Graduate Admissions and Funding Applications System, which means the application process for graduate studies for the Fall 2013 semester will be slightly different than preceding semesters. More information for prospective students can be found on this handy How To Apply page. Just figure out when you want to... More
Friday, June 1, 2012
On May 28, EURUS Director Jeff Sahadeo and several of his students attended a lecture by former President of the Kyrgyz Republic Roza Otunbayeva, held at the Global Centre for Pluralism. Ms. Otunbayeva became the interim president of the Kyrgyz Republic and Central Asia's first female head of state in April 2010 after a popular uprising... More
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Throughout the spring of 2012, EURUS has been preparing for the transition to a new building on Carleton's campus. We completed the big move from Dunton Tower to the third floor of the new River Building in April. Now we're settled in (for the most part) and want to show off our beautiful new space. The building... More
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Professor Jeff Sahadeo and a group of EURUS MA students travelled to the University of Toronto April 16-18, 2012, to take part in a symposium on Soviet nationalities post-1945 at the Munk Centre for International Studies. Over the course of the two-day conference, the EURUS students had the opportunity to look on as academics... More
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