Elizaveta Matveeva
Current position: Associate professor, Department of World History and International Relations, Irkutsk State University, Jean Monnet Chair
Contact information:
Department of World History and International Relations
Irkutsk State University
Karl Marx st., 1, Irkutsk, Russia , 664003
Phone/fax: +7(3952) 24-19-74
E-mail: elizmatv@yandex.ru, elizaveta.a.matveeva@gmail.com
Education:
2013 – 2016: Habilitation (Doctor of sciences in History), in progress
Title of dissertation: European Union involvement in Italian domestic politics at the turn of 21st century: Europeanization of political sphere, politicization of integration processes in Italy
2009: PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in History, Irkutsk State University,
Title of dissertation: “European integration in ideology and strategies of Italian political parties, 1994-2006”
2003: University Diploma with honours, History, Irkutsk State University,
Work experience:
September 2015 – present: Jean Monnet Chair
January 2013 – present: Associate professor, Department of World History and International Relations, Irkutsk State University
October 2010 – present: Oxford Russia Fund programs coordinator at the History Faculty of ISU
October 2010 – present: Undergraduate/Graduate Students Research Coordinator at the History Faculty of ISU
January 2011 – December 2014: Academic advisory board member, EU Centre in Siberia
December 2006 – December 2012: Senior lecturer, Department of World History and International Relations, Irkutsk State University
Honors, Awards & Fellowships:
Research Fellowship, University of Siena, The Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), October-November 2016
Research Fellowship, University of Siena, The Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), December 2014
Research Fellowship, University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, November – December 2013
Research Fellowship, University of Bologna, Departimento Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, October – November 2012
Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Triple I Project, Doctoral Fellowship, University of Bologna, February – August 2009
TEMPUS / TACIS MP-JEP “Siberian Network of EU Studies Centers”, Trainee, 2003-2006, including:
Participation in 5 workshops (summer methodological schools) on EU studies, 2004-2006
Study trip to the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and Free University of Brussels (Belgium), October – November 2005
Research interests:
Italy and the EU, Italian politics; European integration; “Europe”, European integration and European identity in Italian public discourses
Courses taught (academic year 2016/2017):
EU Social policy: Evolution of social citizenship and integration in Europe (BA in International Relations)
Italy in European politics (Master’s programs in IR and in History)
History and theory of European integration (BA in International Relations)
History of the integration process in Europe (Master’s programs in IR and in History)
IR theories (BA in International Relations and in Regional Studies)
World history (Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe), introductory course, BA in International Relations
History of Central and South-Eastern Europe (BA in History)
Selected Publications
Books
Other publications
Matveeva E. Review of European Identity: What the Media Say by Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams (eds), Siberian Historical Research, 2016, №3: 152-157 (rus)
Matveeva E. Migration as a threat – Common identity as a solution? Italian online public discourses on European identity // Anthropology in search of a new language of description : abstracts. – Tomsk : Tomsk University Publishing House, 2016. – p. 70-71 (en)
Matveeva E.A. Political transformations in Italy at the turn of 21st century: transition period or vicious circle? // Humanities research and education in 21st century. Sociocultural and political transformations in Europe and Eurasia in modern and contemporary periods: International Conference Abstracts. Kemerovo, 2012. – P. 123-127 (ru)
Matveeva E.A. Typology of international regionalism in historical perspective // Herald of Altai State University. – 2012. – n. 4-2(76) (ru)
Modernisation Italian style: European integration as a coercion to development // The EU and Russia: Paths of Modernization: International Conference Abstracts. Tomsk: TSU Publishing House. 2011. P. 150-155 (ru)
Christian Democratic party dissolution and the ‘diaspora’ of Cristian Democrats in Italy // East-West in the Context of World History: View from Siberia. - Irkutsk: Irkutsk State University, 2011. – P. 175-186. (ru)
Italian Left and European Integration: ideology and reality / in Aleksey Timoshenko and Sergey Yun(eds.) EU and Russia in XXI century. Materials of an International conference. – Tomsk, “Veter” publishing house, 2008. – pp. 68-76 (ru)
Europeanism in the international strategy of Italian communists: before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall // Vestnik of Tomsk State University. - 2008. – № 316. – С. 84-87 (ru)
European integration in political culture and strategies of the Italian Right / in Siberian international yearbook: Collection of papers of TSU World politics department. - Tomsk: Tomsk State University, 2007. – pp. 81-104 (ru)
Italian public opinion and European integration: from ‘europtimism’ to ‘eurorealism’ / Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Political and religious studies series. – Irkutsk: Ottisk publishing house, 2007. – Issue 1. – pp. 75-82 (ru)
The discourse of European integration in Italian party competition: the case of the national election campaign of 2006 / in Larisa Deriglazova, Anselm Skuhra, Stefan Fritch (eds.) EU and Russia: Face to face. Materials of an International conference. – Tomsk, Tomsk state university publishing house, 2007. – pp. 319-334 (en)
European integration and national political parties: theoretical aspects of interaction // Herald of Irkutsk State University. Special issue: The materials of annual scientific conference of young scholars. – Irkutsk, 2006. – P. 71-73 (rus)
EU Eastern enlargement and the social dimension of the European integration: challenge or new opportunities? // Towards Europe. - Tomsk: Tomsk State University Publishing House, 2005. – pp. 71-76 (rus)
Debates on European integration issues in Italian party elites (2001-2003) // European Etudes: Collection of PhD students’ works. – Irkutsk, 2004. – pp. 62-79 (rus)
Invited Papers, Seminars and Lectures (since 2011):
“Framing European Identity: The Case of Italian Online Public Discourses”, Jean Blondel Tuesday Seminar in Political Science, The Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena, October 25, 2016
“Migration as a threat – Common identity as a solution? Italian online public discourses on European identity”, paper presented at the First Tomsk Anthropological Forum, Tomsk State University, September 15-17, 2016
“European identity frames in Italian online public discourse: Too diverse to be categorized?” paper presented at the 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, Trento SGEU Conference, University of Trento, June 15-18, 2016
“Touareg generation”: what does it mean to be young in the “oldest” country of the European Union?, expert lecture, Summer School "Youth of Europe: Education, Job and Leisure" organized by the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence and Research Center for International Organizations and Network Structures, Tomsk State University, June 22-26, 2016
“European identity construction in Italian public space: a variety of forms and actors”, paper presented at the International conference “Integration and Disintegration Processes in the World Economy and Politics", Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS, Moscow, November 11–12, 2015
“Identity games”: who is trying to construct a European identity in Italian public space? What kinds of European identity are being constructed?”, paper presented at the Italian Political Science Association Annual Conference (XXIX Convegno SISP), University of Calabria, Cosenza, September 10-12, 2015
“European Parliament Elections: who wins, who loses?”, expert lecture within the framework of the “EU Study Weeks” summer seminar organized by the Delegation of the EU to Russia, Irkutsk region, Listvyanka, July 4-6, 2014
“Eurasian Security in Italian public and political discourse in 1990-2000s”, paper presented at the International conference “EU and Russia in the Eurasian space”, Tomsk State University, May 20-21, 2014
Elokhina Yu., Dr. Matveeva E., Oleinikov I., “Combining 'Vertical of Power' With 'Modernisation Breakthrough': A New Revival for the International Contacts of Russian Regions? (The Cases of Irkutsk Region and Republic of Buryatia)”, paper presented at the 7th ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) General Conference, Science Po, Bordeaux, September 4–7, 2013
“Being Italian and European: methods of analysis”, expert lecture, EUCES Summer school and international conference for young scholars “Europe and the EU: evolution of identities”, Altai State University, June 25, 2013
“Political transformations in Italy at the turn of 21st century: transition period or vicious circle?”, paper presented at the International conference Sociocultural and political transformations in Europe and Eurasia in modern and contemporary periods, Kemerovo State University, September 26 – October 1, 2012.
“Solving sovereign debt crisis in Europe: the case of Italy”, expert lecture, Summer school on EU studies ‘European Union: crisis resolution experience’, Tyumen State University, May 2, 2012
“European Union and the challenges of sovereign debt crisis”, public lecture at the State Regional Universal Scientific Library in Irkutsk, April, 5, 2012;
“Modernisation Italian style: European integration as coercion to development”, International conference ‘The EU and Russia: Paths of Modernization’, Tomsk State University, October 24-25, 2011;
“Europeanism in the political discourse of the ‘Second Republic’ in Italy”, paper presented at the International scientific conference ‘United Italy: 150 years of experience’, Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculties of Philosophy and History, October 19, 2011;
“The Italian political parties’ EU discourse after Lisbon”, expert lecture, EUCES Summer school “The European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: preliminary results and perspectives”, Tomsk State University, July 3-8, 2011
“Does Italy exist?”: Italian intellectuals in search for national identity from Rinascimento till our days”, paper presented at the research conference ‘East-West in the Context of World History: View from Siberia’, Irkutsk State University, April 28, 2011.
Languages:
Italian – fluent; English – fluent; French – basic