Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
25.-26. August 2025 (online), 1.-10. September 2025
Bremen und Paris; Prag und Paris
Margherita Gobbat
PhD candidate
Innovative Training Network "Markets" (EU-MSCA grant)
E-mail: mgobbat@uni-bremen.de
Current Research Project:
"Are EU Regulations able to Influence Formal and Informal Practices in the Post-Soviet World? Evidence from the Moldovan and Georgian Wine Sector"
Fields of Research
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Informality
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Europeanization
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EU's external perception
- Citizenship in the facto post-Soviet states
Short CV
Education
2021 Iº level Master in International Business Relations: Italy–Russian Federation, University of Bologna
2020 M.A. in International Comparative Relations, curriculum Eastern Europe Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
2017 B.A. in Political Science, curriculum History and International Politics, University of Padua
Professional Employment
Since 2022 PhD Candidate at Bremen University
Since 2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early-Stage Researcher at the Center for Social Sciences, Georgia
Research Grants
2020-2021 European Solidarity Corps in Sumy, Ukraine
2020 Erasmus ICM+ at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
2019 Internship at the Italian Embassy in Chisinau, Moldova
2019 Visiting Student at Peter the Great Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018-2019 Erasmus+ at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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