EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium for Hungary and Romania

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium. Budapest, 12-13 June 2025

Budapest, Pázmány Péter stny. 1/A, 1117

Thursday 12 June

9.30-10.00

Registration

10.00-10.30

Welcome words by Béla Soltész (ELTE) and Susanne von Itter (EADI)

10.30-11.00

Round of introduction of participants

11.00-11.30

Coffee and tea break

11.30.13.00

Opening roundtable: “Fortress Europe”: migration debates and policy challenges

Speakers: Luciana Alexandra Ghica (University of Bucharest) and Attila Melegh (Corvinus University of Budapest)

Moderation: Kinga Soós (ELTE)

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.30

PhD presentations – Session 1 & 2

15.30-16.00

Coffee and tea break

16.00-17.30

PhD/Masters presentations – Session 3 & 4

 

Friday 13 June

9.00-9.30

Presentation of EADI network

9.30-11.00

Roundtable on “Emerging donors”

Speakers: Réka Balogh (HAND Association), Zsófia Elek (Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Luciana Alexandra Ghica (University of Bucharest)

Moderation: Béla Soltész (ELTE) 

11.00-11.30

Coffee and tea break

11.30-13.00

PhD presentations – Session 5 & 6

13.00-13.15

Closing words and goodbye

 

Thursday 12 June

Session 1 Politics and development (room 0.100C)

Chair: Andrew Richard Ryder (ELTE)

14.00-14.30

Adelina Brad (NSPAS): The deterioration of the rule of law and the consequences over economic development

14.30-15.00

Chwayita Mkrola (CUB): The Quality of Governance and Inclusive Economic Growth: investigating the effects of the quality of governance on inclusion of women and ethnic groups in the economy

15.00-15.30

Fedor Zolotarev (UP): Are Cities Truly Autonomous? Examining the International Contacts of Russian Cities Post-2022

Session 2 Development in Africa (room 0.100B)

Chair: Judit Kiss (IBS)

14.00-14.30

Anna Sebestyén (ELTE): The EU’s sanctioning practice towards Sub-Saharan African countries: the role of coherence in sanctions' imposition

14.30-15.00

Mária Babarik (UPS/LA): Development Policy as a Security Instrument? Great Power Influence and Stabilization in Post-Conflict Sub-Saharan Africa After 2022

15.00-15.30

Ece Yazıcı (ELTE): Whose Development? Global Actors’ Visions and Local Realities in the Horn of Africa

Session 3 Conflicts and Peace (room 0.100C)

Chair: Viktor Eszterhai (LUPS)

16.00-16.30

Júlia Gy. Molnár (CUB): Media Coverage of Ethnic Conflicts

16.30-17.00

Sathees Mohan (ELTE): Resilience building: Social Resilience and Local Peace in Post-conflict Sri Lanka

Session 4 Varieties of Capitalism (room 0.100B)

Chair: Kálmán Dezséri (ELTE)

16.00-16.30

Emese Dobos (HUN-REN, CUB): National varieties of capitalism in global value chains: What drives upgrading in Europe's peripheral textile, garment, leather, footwear, and fur sectors?

16.30-17.00

Muhammad Raynaldi (CUB): Analysis of Current and Future Policies for Carbon Emissions Reduction in the Energy Sector: A Comparative Study of Hungary and Romania

17.00-17.30

Thomas Buijnink (ELTE): Ordoliberal influences on the European Development Fund

 

Friday 13 June

Session 5 Migration and dependencies (room 0.100C)

Chair: Magdolna Sass (KRTK, Budapest)

11.30-12.00

Gabriela Roxana Irod (SNSPA): Institutional Change and Environmental Migration

12.00-12.30

Imen Khemakhem (ELTE): Migration Governance in Tunisia: Developmental Dependencies and the Role of External Actors

Session 6 Identity, development and power (room 0.100B)

Chair: Klára Fóti (ELTE)

11.30-12.00

Marta Monika Wollner (ELTE): Changin[g] Values in Contemporary Egyptian Society - Empirical analysis of changing sacred identity

12.00-12.30

Costin Adrian Cace (UB): Ruins of Progress, Rituals of Negotiation: An Anthropological Inquiry into Development Practices in Post-Socialist Romania

12.30-13.00

Patrik Pavlicsek (CUB): CNP comparative case study with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe – a comparison of the overall national strength of Hungary and Romania in the context of the European Union member states at the beginning of the 21st century

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