“People are hungry”: Intra-ethnic betrayal and mistrust in post-war Abkhazia
Event details
The York Centre for Conflict and Security (YCCS) is launching a research seminar series this Autumn term. The seminar series will run throughout the academic year.
The seminars will take place fortnightly on Wednesdays from 12 to 1.30pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend - feel free to bring your lunch. Papers will normally be pre-circulated and one to two discussants will kick off the discussion. Please email gyda.sindre@york.ac.uk to receive the papers ahead of the seminar.
About the speaker
Andrea Peinhoff
Andrea Peinhopf joined the Department in October 2021 as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Prior to this, Andrea completed an ESRC-funded PhD in Sociology and Anthropology at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She also holds an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and a Mag.phil. in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. She has held visiting positions at the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg, Russia, and Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Andrea is an ethnographer and interdisciplinary peace and conflict scholar with a regional specialisation in the post-Soviet Caucasus. Her fieldwork-intensive research explores the long-lasting and complex effects of war, mass displacement and international isolation on people’s social relations and identities in the context of unresolved conflict and contested statehood.