Saturday, June 6, 2020

Statement from the Director

Dear EURUS Family and Colleagues, The Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is the main North American scholarly organization in our field.  I have been a member since 1999 and, along with my EURUS colleagues, am active in the association.  Yesterday ASEEES posted a statement condemning systemic racism and police... More

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Russian Writing Contest judge Svetlana Klimova shares her impressions of this year’s contest

On May 9, to commemorate the end of the Great Patriotic War, two Moscow libraries, Library 180 and N.F. Fedorov Museum-Library, organized an online seminar to discuss this important event. One of the participants of the seminar was Svetlana Klimova, one of the judges of this year's Canada-Wide Russian Writing Contest, organized by Carleton... More

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Remarks on the successful conclusion of the 3rd Annual Russian Writing Contest

April 10th marked the successful conclusion to the 3rd Annual Canada-wide Russian Writing Contest held by Carleton University, in cooperation and support from the Russia-Canada Business Council and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada, with the announcement of winners across several different categories. You can learn more about this... More

Thursday, April 16, 2020

EURUS Faculty Highlights: Piotr Dutkiewicz

In this series of posts, we are looking at various notable accomplishments by our faculty members and the department as a whole. This week we are celebrating Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz. Professor Dutkiewicz recently submitted his newly edited book, Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics, to Routledge for publishing... More

Friday, April 10, 2020

2020 Russian Writing Contest Winners

Carleton University, in cooperation and support from the Russia-Canada Business Council and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada, is pleased to announce the winners of the Third Canada-Wide Russian Writing Contest This year marks the 75th Commemoration of the End of the WWII OR 75-летие Победы в Великой... More

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Message from the Director (April 8, 2020)

Dear EURUS Students, I wanted to write to wish you all the best in these unprecedented and challenging times and remind you again that EURUS is here for all of you.  I apologize in advance for the length of the message but I wanted to address several issues.  Also to let you know that... More

Monday, April 6, 2020

EURUS 2019 Highlights: Professor Crina Viju-Miljusevic

  In this series of posts, we are looking at various notable accomplishments by our faculty members and the department as a whole. This week we are celebrating Professor Crina Viju-Miljusevic. Professor Viju, together with Patrick Leblond from University of Ottawa, has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of European Pubic Policy (Vol.... More

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Message from the Director: Supporting Students during COVID-19 Crisis

Dear EURUS Students,   I wanted to check in with all of you as we move into the second week in what is likely to be a longer-than-we-would-have -hoped time during which our lives and behaviors must fundamentally alter. Please do, above all, know that you can count on my and my colleagues at... More

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

EURUS 2019 Highlights: Professor Achim Hurrelmann

In this series of posts we will be looking at various notable accomplishments by our faculty members and the department as a whole. Starting this week with Professor Achim Hurrelmann. In March 2019, Professor Hurrelmann launched a new research project on “The Reconfiguration of Canada-Europe Relations after Brexit”, in collaboration with Petra... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Accepting Applications for the EU Study Tour and Internship Program 2020

The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies invites applications from upper-year undergraduate and graduate students for participation in the EU Study Tour and Internship Program 2020.  The European Union (EU) Study Tour is an initiative of the European Studies Network (Canada), a consortium of Canadian universities of which Carleton... More

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Applications Open for McMillan Chair in Russian Studies

The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies invites applications from qualified candidates for an advanced preliminary (tenure-track) or tenured appointment as the McMillan Chair in Russian Studies, with a research and teaching focus on Russian politics, at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (the level of appointment will... More

Thursday, October 17, 2019

McMillan Chair in Russian Studies

The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) invites applications from qualified candidates for an advanced preliminary (tenure-track) or tenured appointment as the McMillan Chair in Russian Studies, with a research and teaching focus on Russian politics, at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (the level of appointment... More

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Centre for European Studies selected for two new Jean Monnet grants

The Centre for European Studies (CES) has been selected for two new grants from the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Carleton University will receive a new grant of €100,000 ($146,000) for the years 2019-2022. The Centre’s thematic priority areas for the new grant period will be (1) policy... More

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Achim Hurrelmann awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has awarded an Insight Grant to Professor Achim Hurrelmann for a study on “The Reconfiguration of Canada-Europe Relations after Brexit”. The research will examine how Brexit – the process of negotiating and implementing the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the... More

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

EURUS MA Graduate Jennifer Diamond featured by FPA Voices

We're incredibly proud of recent EURUS MA grad, Jennifer Diamond! Not only for her successful completion of our program and convocation in May, but for being featured on FPA Voices by the Faculty of Public Affairs. Read the FPA Voices article here:... More

Thursday, June 27, 2019

EURUS Professor Mikhail Zherebtsov Represents Carleton at International Forum

EURUS Adjunct Research Professor, Mikhail Zherebtsov, represented the Institute and Carleton University as the keynote speaker at the IV International Scientific Forum"Public Administration: the role of citizens in the formation of digital governance", which was held in Saint Petersburg, Russia on June 21-23. The annual forum unites senior... More

Monday, June 10, 2019

Experiential Learning Group: EU-Canada Joint Ministerial Committee Simulation

Check out the video of the Experiential Learning Group: EU-Canada Joint Ministerial Committee Simulation, featuring EURUS adjunct research professor Mukhtar... More

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

EURUS Alumnus Joins Canadian Delegation at G20 Youth Summit

Ali Bahman, an alumnus of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) was recently selected as one of two Canadian youth delegates for the G20 Summit (Y20) in Tokyo. He was chosen by the Young Diplomats of Canada and the Y20 Japanese Committee following a series of evaluations and interviews. Bahman engaged in... More

Friday, May 31, 2019

New FYSM Course: Power, Politics and Populism in Russia and Europe

FYSM 1614: Power, Politics and Populism in Russia and Europe Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in Russia steered the country away from liberal democracy.  Personal power and calls to resist western political and economic elites have resonated across Europe.  Populist politicians rally against perceived social turbulence, economic crises and... More

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Congrats to EURUS Undergrad Student Zack Kryworuchka!

EURUS undergraduate student, Zack Kryworuchka, was awarded the Leo J. Krysa Family Undergraduate Scholarship in Education, History, Humanities and Social Sciences 2019-2020! Zack is currently traveling in Ukraine and will return to EURUS in September to complete his final year of undergrad.... More

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Congratulations to Professor DeBardeleben for Winning the 2019 FPA Teaching Excellence Award

Our very own Professor Joan Debardeleben has been awarded the 2019 FPA Teaching Excellence Award! This award is an opportunity for our faculty to celebrate their hard work and creativity produced in the past year in the Faculty of Public Affairs. As said by dean of FPA, Andre Plourde, Professor Debardeleben's contributions are invaluable... More

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Dr. Helbling visits Carleton University with New Tools to Understand Migration Policies

On March 6th, 2019, Dr. Marc Helbling (University of Bamberg, Germany) gave a guest presentation on Measuring Immigration Policies and their Effects in all OECD Countries. In doing so, he introduced The IMPIC Project, a newly formed set of qualitative indices for measuring immigration policies across OECD countries based on data gathered from 1980... More

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Talent Mobility for Innovation Gives a Trans-National View of Migration Regimes for the Highly-Skilled

On Monday, March 4, 2019 four members of the Talent Mobility for Innovation transnational research initiative presented their research profiles at the Faculty of Public Affairs Emerging Perspectives Conference.  Bridget Healy (MA EURUS, 2020), Andreas Tibbles (MA NPSIA, 2019), Alex Dauncey-Elwood (MA Political Science, 2019), and Jennifer Lee (MA... More

Monday, April 15, 2019

Event Summary: BORDERS, DATA, PRIVACY

On April 5th, renowned border scholars Dr. Didier Bigo (Queen Mary, University of London and Radboud University, Nijmegen) and Dr. Elspeth Guild (King’s College London) visited Ottawa to deliver a talk on Borders, Data, and Privacy, speaking to the legal and conceptual risks posed by increasing reliance on technology and corporate data in... More

Monday, March 18, 2019

EURUS MA Student to Participate in CANADEM’s Election Observation Mission to Ukraine

One of EURUS' MA students, Christine Evans, has been selected to participate in CANADEM's Election Observation Mission to Ukraine 2019. As a Short-Term Observer, Christine will be deployed to Ukraine for the first round of elections, and potentially for the secondary round of elections if they occur. She will be reporting to the headquarters of... More

Monday, March 18, 2019

The Value of Experiential Learning with Professor Mukhtar Hajizada

The Carleton University newsroom wrote a piece on experiential learning lecture that our adjunct research professor Mukhtar Hajizada spoke at.  Click on the link to read the article:... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Faculty Spotlight: Piotr Dutkiewicz

Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz has been instrumental in planning and hosting the events at EURUS this semester. On March 28th, 2019 he will be introducing Canada's Chargé a.i to Russia, Stéphane Jobin, at the EURUS event: Russia at Home and in the World: the View of a Canadian Official in Moscow. On April 11th, he... More

Monday, March 4, 2019

EURUS MA Delegation at Carleton Model NATO 2019 Win Big

This year, a team of 6 EURUS MA students participated in Carleton's Model NATO 2019 Conference. One team of 4 student delegates represented the Republic of Estonia in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) by Christine Evans, Military Committee (MC) by Jessica Passey, Civilian Intelligence Committee (CIC) by Demyan Plakhov,and the Euro-Atlantic... More

Monday, March 4, 2019

Faculty Spotlight: Crina Viju

EURUS Professor Crina Viju, along with Achim Hurrelmann and Ece Özlem Atikcan, received a SSHRC/ESRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant to study Political Contestation about International Economic Agreements: Lessons for the Canada-UK Trade Relationship after Brexit.  Among her publications and research was “No Middle Ground? Economic Relations Between... More

Monday, February 25, 2019

Dr. Anna V Shkuropat’s lecture on “Transition & Role of Regional Policy in Russia”

On February 7th, Adjunct Research Professor of EURUS, Dr. Anna V. Shkuropat presented a Guest Lecturer Presentation on “Transition & Role of Regional Policy in Russia” to the class ECON 3808 – ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION, at the Institute of European, Russian & Eurasian Studies, including on some results of her recent projects as a... More

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Faculty Spotlight: Achim Hurrelmann

Achim Hurrelmann (Dipl.-Pol. University of Hamburg, 2000; Dr. rer. pol. University of Bremen, 2004) is Associate Professor of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.  He is Co-Director (with Joan DeBardeleben) of the Centre for European Studies (CES), a Carleton University Research Centre focused on European affairs, and holds... More

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Carleton University Newsroom Article

The Carleton University Newsroom wrote an article about EURUS featuring Director Jeff Sahadeo and MA student Madeleine Zwirello. Take a look using the link below!... More

Friday, February 1, 2019

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Joan DeBardeleben

Joan DeBardeleben published four articles this year, including, with Dmitry Nechiporuk (2018) “Diverging views of EU-Russian borders: points of congruence and difference in EU and Russian analyses,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2018.1534727.  She also became an active member of the BEAR (Between European and... More

Monday, January 28, 2019

CES Hosted Event, Beyond Brexit: The Future of the European Union, Major Success

The event, Beyond Brexit: The Future of the European Union, which was hosted by the Centre for European Studies (CES) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation was held in MacOdrum Library’s Discovery Centre on Jan. 9, 2019. During this event, Professor Joan DeBardeleben posed questions to Niels Annen, who is minister of state in the German Foreign... More

Monday, January 14, 2019

Call for Applications: Graduate Student Travel-Research Grants

Grants on the European Union, European Integration, or EU-Canada Relations (Spring/Summer 2019) Based on funding from the European Union, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Carleton University – which forms part of the Centre for European Studies – invites applications from Carleton University graduate students for travel research grants... More

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