Women played a significant role in the Armenian Velvet Revolution in 2018. Learn how some protesters leveraged traditional gender roles in the process in an article by our student, Giulia Panfilo: helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri… @LenaAGorbacheva Margarita Zavadskaya Eugenia Pesci

Urban activists are facing grave challenges in Minsk but they continue to fight for a brighter future. "Their story deserves to be told", states Jalmari Sarla in his article "Building sustainability under repression in Minsk": helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri…

"For Natasha and Irina, the silent protest took the form of stickers portraying anti-war slogans affixed in the neighborhood during the night." Read about experiences of Russian anti-war protesters in an article by our student, Elisa Zamolo: helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri…

Very timely publication by Власть "How to make employment promotion policy in Kazakhstan more effective" vlast.kz/jekonomika/590…

Call for applications: EU-Central Asia Connectivity Fellowship 2024. For citizens of #CentralAsia, deadline: March 31. PAID cabar.asia/en/call-for-ap…

The third volume of the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality edited by Alena Ledeneva is out! It contains my contribution on the informal practice of #Koshumcha in #Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 You can download the volume from there 👇 uclpress.co.uk/products/232613

.Eugenia Pesci Franco Giulio Benedetti

Join us on May 28th for a joint online workshop by @CAB_CentralAsia & ESCAS on Survey Research in #CentralAsia! 📊🗣️ 🕕 6 PM Bishkek time (UTC +6) 📅 When: May 28 Register now! helsinki.zoom.us/webinar/regist… More info:escas.org/cab-escas-webi…

📢 Online workshop alert! 📢 CAB and ESCAS invite researchers interested in Central Asia and quantitative methods to join a 1-hour online workshop on Survey Research in Central Asia. Join us on 28th May at 6 PM Bishkek time (UTC +6) for an insightful 1-hour session.

When reading headlines is not enough "The University of Helsinki has announced a suspension of all student exchange programmes with Israeli institutions" "Research cooperation with Israeli universities is not being suspended, however, despite protesters' demands"

My piece for Власть looks at the marketization of medical education and the contradictions of #Kyrgyzstan 's labor market to better contextualize last week's violent mob against South Asian nationals in Bishkek. Special thanks to Paolo Sorbello for the editorial work! ✨

On 4 June I will present some insights from our policy brief on labor market policies in 🇰🇬 at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and online. Welcome! Details 👇

Not to be missed! 🙌🏼

For #CentralAsia scholars. We are very excited to announce call for papers. Samarkand will be the next destination for ESCAS regional conference in 2025! Deadline: November, 15.

🌟 ASIAC24 Conference Opening 🌟 A glimpse from the stunning #AulaMagna Silvio Trentin at Ca' Foscari University #ASIAC #CaFoscariUniversity #Venice

Another great discussion: WHAT’S IN A JOB? RETHINKING INFORMAL, PRECARIOUS, AND MIGRANT LABOUR IN CENTRAL ASIA Presenting: Franco GALDINI, Eugenia PESCI,  Binazir YUSUPOVA,  Giulio BENEDETTI Chair: Frank MARACCHIONE Discussant: Luca ANCESCHI

📢 Great news: I will join SOAS Politics as an Economic and Social Research Council postdoc fellow. I'll turn my PhD into a book and keep working on the political economy of South-South relations, local agency and Uzbekistan-China ties. If you want a preview of the book read my latest: tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…