People 24 April 2019

Sociologist Christian Fröhlich, guest of the EHESS

Christian Fröhlich is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. He has a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Leipzig in Germany and was a research associate at Södertörn University in Sweden. His research mainly concerns civil society development with regard to marginalized groups, as well as civic activism and protest in urban space. Recent publications have appeared in East European Politics, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, and The Sociological Quarterly. He is also one of the co-editors of a volume on Radical Left Movements in Europe.

Conferences program

10 May 2019, 11am-1pm
Urban activism and citizenship under post-Soviet conditions
Seminar Authoritarianism in question. Government and political commitment in post-Soviet societies

17 May 2019, 11am-1pm
What kind of civil society wants an authoritarian state? Evidence from governmental support for NGOs in Russia
Seminar Mouvements sociaux (Collège d’Etudes Mondiales/FMSH)

20 May 2019, 5pm-7pm
Performing Resistance: Liminality, Infrapolitics and Spatial Contestation in Contemporary Russia
Main seminar of the CERCEC