Veronika Pfeilschifter

Since 09/2022

Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, Berlin (Germany), Research Affiliate, research unit: Youth and Generational ChangeExternal link

Since 05/2021

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (Germany), Doctoral candidate and research associate for the project Resilience in the South Caucasus: prospects and challenges of a new EU foreign policy concept (Jena-Cauc); Dissertation topic: Concepts, Ideologies and Emotions: Taking Stock of the New Left in the South Caucasus

08/2018-02/2021

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)/University of Tartu, Tartu (Estonia)/Ilia State University, Tbilisi (Georgia), International Master (IntM, MA, MSSc), Central, Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IMCEERES); Thesis: Righting the wrong? Illustrating and understanding post-authoritarian transitional justice in Georgia and Armenia (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Vello Pettai, Giorgi Meladze)

06-07/2019

American University of Central Asia (AUCA), Bishkek, (Kyrgyzstan), Summer Practicum; Final project: Transitional justice and women’s rights in post-2010 Kyrgyzstan

07/2019

Catholic University Eichstätt, Tufts University and University of Maryland, Herrsching, (Germany); Summer Institute for Civic Studies

05-07/2018

Bard College, New York, (USA); Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA)

08/2016-02/2017

Jagiellonian University, Kraków, (Poland); Erasmus + Bachelor semester

09/2014-03/2018

University of Regensburg, Regensburg, (Germany), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political science and European ethnology; Thesis: Russian foreign policy in the South Caucasus 2000-2017 (supervisor: Dr. Gerlinde Groitl)

Additional experience

Short-term writer and intern at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) South Caucasus, Tbilisi, Georgia (2019-2021) ; Intern at FES Warsaw, Poland (2018); Consultant at PEN America Eurasia department, New York, USA (2020); Intern at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium (2017); Student Research Assistant at Europeaeum, East-West-Centre Regensburg, Germany (2015-2017); Student Assistant at Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (ios) Regensburg, Germany (2017)

Articles in refereed journals

Forthcoming. Bringing the Lyrical to the Political: The Socio-political Landscape in the South Caucasus Through the Lens of Young People. Europe-Asia Studies, with Félix Krawatzek.

2024. Memorializing and Prefiguring (In-)Justices: Perspectives From the 1990s Leftist Generation in Georgia.External link Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 1-13.

2022. 'External linkTransitional Justice, Societal Resilience and the European Union’s Role in Armenia (2018-2022)', Caucasus Analytical Digest, No. 127, pp.3-9.

Editorship

Kamilsoy, Najmin; Pfeilschifter, Veronika. 2024. Georgia's Civic Sphere in Times of Fundamental Rupture.External link Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) No. 139.

Book Reviews

2024. Left-wing agency and the question of social morality in Russia.External link [Book review of Ilya Budraitskis'Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia, Verso Books, 2022]. CEU Review of Books.

Other publications

2024. DataLabBLOG: Reflexivity, Hierarchy and Ethics in Research Encounters and CollaborationsExternal link, KonKoop Blog.

2024. Protest Attitudes and Protest Behaviour in GeorgiaExternal link, Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) No. 139, with Tamar Khoshtaria.

2023. State Dominance and its Discontents among Azerbaijani YouthExternal link. with Cesare Figari Barberis. ZOiS Spotlight 23/2023. [in GermanExternal link]

2022. Exploring the Diversity of Georgia’s Post-Soviet LeftExternal link. ZOiS Spotlight 31/2022. [in GermanExternal link]

2022. Discussing the contemporary left in Georgia: a conversation with Bakar BerekashviliExternal link, New Eastern Europe, Issue 5.

2022. Russia’s war in Ukraine. Perspectives from the South CaucasusExternal link, New Eastern Europe, Issue 3, with Bidzina Lebanidze and Irena Gonashvili.

28 February 2025, Exploring Left-Wing Voices in the South Caucasus: Towards a Critical Theory in Area Studies, University of Freiburg, DGfP (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft), Young researchers conference

15 January 2025, Young Leftist Women in Armenia: Exploring Political Subjectivity through Interpretative Phenomenolgical Analysis (IPA), Colloquium, Institute for Caucasus Studies, Jena

4 November 2024, Visions of Hope and Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, SSES Postgraduate Conference, University College London, London, virtual participation.

23-26 July 2024, Memorializing and prefiguring (in-)justices: Perspectives from the 90s leftist generation in Georgia, 16th EASA Biennal Conference, Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, European Association of Social Anthropologists, virtual participation  

25 June 2024, Mountain Utopia, Tuesday Colloquium at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (Germany), with Alisa Ganieva

20 June 2024, Young Left-Wing Women and Emotions in Post-War Armenia, Eighth Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, Tartu (Estonia)

5 February 2024, Youth & Generationality in the South Caucasus: Preliminary Thoughts, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Historisches Oberseminar, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany)

25 January 2024, Youth & Generationality in the South Caucasus: preliminary thoughts, Online colloquium, Institute for Social and Cultural Research, Ilia State University Tbilisi (Georgia)

30 November 2023, Panjara - ein feministischer Blick auf den Südkaukasus, Diskussion mit Rovshana Orujova, ZOiS Kaukasus-Netzwerk, Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS) Berlin (Germany)

21 September 2023, Re-inventing youthful futures in times of multiple crises: The socio-political landscapes in the South Caucasus through the lens of young people, RN-Mid term conference, Youth section, European Sociological Association, Sardinia (Italy)

29 June 2023, Political Ideologies, Socio-political Memories and Imaginaries of (In-)justice: Critical Perspectives from the 90s Leftist Generation in Georgia, Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists (CES), University of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)

27 June 2023, Bringing the Lyrical to the Political: The Socio-political Landscape in the South Caucasus through the Lens of Young People, with Dr. Félix Krawatzek (ZOiS Berlin), Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists (CES), University of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)

23 June 2023, Socio-political memories and imaginaries of (in-)justice: Critical perspectives from the 90s leftist generation in Georgia, British International Studies Association (BISA), Glasgow (United Kingdom)

12 June 2023, Political ideologies, socio-political memories and imaginaries of (in-)justice: Critical perspectives from the 90s leftist generation in Georgia (PhD project), Crossing Borders Workshop, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, Berlin (Germany)

2 April 2023, Bringing the Lyrical to the Political: Reinterpreting political landscapes through the lens of post-Soviet youth in the South Caucasus, with Dr. Félix Krawatzek (ZOiS Berlin), British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference, Glasgow (United Kingdom)

6 September 2022, New Horizons of Expectation: Researching Left-Wing Youth in the South Caucasus, 5+ Years of ZOiS Research: Looking Back and Looking Ahead, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, Berlin (Germany)

18 February 2022, Comment on study Dual Vulnerability and Security: A case study of Azerbaijani and Armenian Ethnic Minority Women in GeorgiaExternal link (Eva Modebadze), invited by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) South Caucasus

30 September 2021, Ideology, utopia and decolonial resilience: On the new post-Soviet left in the South Caucasus, 28th JOE Tagung, Young German Association for Eastern Europe (Junge DGO), Zürich, Switzerland

6 August 2021, Presentation of PhD project, Applying Discourse Theory - Politics, Ideology, Populism, Digital Summer School, University of Essex

6 August 2021, Political logics and disruptions of transitional justice in Georgia and Armenia, Digital Summer School, Transitional justice in Central and Eastern Europe - Coping with the Communist past, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung

15 June 2021, Ideology, utopia and resilience - The new post-Soviet left in the South Caucasus, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Graduate Seminar 

25 March 2021 Neighbourhood Ambiguity - On Inclusion and Exclusion of the EU's Foreign Policy Resilience Approach in the South Caucasus (with Prof. Dr. Diana Forker and Dr. Bidzina Lebanidze), ZOiS Caucasus Network, Center for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, Germany 

8 January 2021 Transitional justice in post-2012 Georgia and post-2018 Armenia, Caucasus Colloquium, Institute for Caucasus Studies Jena, Germany

• Scholarship to complete doctoral degree, awarded by Graduate Academy, University of Jena ( 2024)
• Funding for the organization of the 29. JOE-Tagung (Tagung junger Osteuropaexpert:innen), de together with Dr. Immo Rebitschek, awarded by Graduate Academy, University of Jena (2022)
• Grant ‘Black Sea Region in the Times of Crises: New Theoretical Approaches and Research Methodologies’, awarded by Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (2021)
• Multiple award and triple distinction for Master’s Degree, awarded by University of Glasgow, University of Tartu and Ilia State University (2021)
• Full scholarships for undergraduate and graduate studies, awarded by German Academic Scholarship Foundation and Max-Weber-Programm Bavaria (2015-2021)
• Full Scholarship for IMCEERES graduate program, awarded by the European Commission (2018-2021)
• Scholarships for short-term studies at Bard College New York, USA and at American University of Central Asia Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan