Institute for East European Studies - Archive
2011
November 2011
Achim Schmillen completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Regensburg
On November 14, 2011 Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration completed his doctoral thesis "Essays on International Economics and Labor Markets" at the University of Regensburg's Faculty of Business, Economics and Management Information Systems. His thesis was supervised by Joachim Möller, former director of the Institute for East European Studies, and Richard Frensch, head of its Department of Economics, Migration and Integration.
October 2011
New Researchers in the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration
In preparation of OEI and SOI's merging to form the Institute for East- and Southeast European Studies (IOS) by January 2012, the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration has already by now been able to recruit three more young researchers.
Zvezda Dermendzhieva, PhD, and Olga Popova, PhD, have both earned their doctorates at CERGE (Charles University, Prague), with which the OEI has an ongoing collaboration. Their research focusses on labour markets and migration, and happiness economics and political economy, respectively.
Ksenija Gatskova is writing her dissertation at the University of Constance and has so far been a member of the VW-Foundation sponsored OEI project on Migration and Remittances in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
September 2011
Funded by DFG
Funded by DFG on behalf of a proposal by the OEI, Dr. habil. Oleksii Kuraiev (from the M. S. Hruševs'kyj-Institute for Ukrainian Archeography und Science of Historical Sources, Kiev) will stay in Germany and in Regensburg from October until December, 2011. His aim is to do research on his topic of the Russian and Ukrainian Panslav movements from the perspective of German journalism and science in 1856 to 1888.
April 2011
Dr. Roman Smolorz is now researcher at the OEI
Dr. Roman Smolorz, who has been associated staff at the Institute for East European Studies, is now researcher at the History Department. Dr. Smolorz devotes himself to the topic of East European immigration in South Germany after 1945. He is currently working on the joint project of the Institute for East European Studies and the city archive of Regensburg: "Die staatlich geregelte Zuwanderung aus Osteuropa nach Bayern seit 1988/89" (The state-regulated immigration from Eastern Europe to Bavaria since 1988/89).
April 2011
Richard Frensch appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Regensburg
OEI Deputy Director Richard Frensch has been appointed Professor of Economics, esp. Trade and Development of Central and Eastern Europe, at the University of Regensburg as of May 1, 2011. In conjunction with this appointment, he will serve as head of the OEI Department of Economics, Migration and Integration.