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Ashlynn Galligher, Anna Melberg, and Ieva Juska at their panel, which also included Miami professors Neringa Klumbyte and Scott Kenworthy.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Stephen Norris<\/p>\n

For three Miami students, research papers written in one of their classes and work from a summer internship provided the opportunity to participate in an international conference held in Lithuania. \u00a0This June, the three students, Ashlynn Galligher, Ieva Juska, and Anna Melberg, presented their research at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies\u2019 annual Young Researcher\u2019s Conference.\u00a0 The Conference was held at Vilnius University\u2019s Institute of International Relations and Political Science.\u00a0 For Galligher, Juska, and Melberg, it represented a chance to talk about their ongoing projects in front of an audience of international faculty and graduate students.<\/p>\n

The topics presented by Galligher and Melberg, both Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies majors, originated in Dr. Scott Kenworthy\u2019s spring 2016 colloquium on religion and identity in Russia and Ukraine.\u00a0 Galligher spoke about her ongoing interest in the Crimean Tatars, particularly the ways that they have experienced historical persecutions from the imperial Russian government to the Soviet government to the present-day government of Russia. \u00a0The Crimean Tatar community, Galligher noted, has developed particular strategies for coping with these recurring attempts to reign them in.\u00a0 Melberg focused in on another strategy for dealing with traumatic events in her presentation on religion and revolution.\u00a0 Her talk concentrated on the recent Euromaidan movement in Ukraine, particularly the religious elements to it and how participants used the concept of \u201cdignity\u201d to reinvent their protests in order to provide a spiritual legitimacy to their participation.\u00a0 Finally, Juska, a Biology Major, drew on her field work conducted in the summer of 2014 in Lithuania while working for a regional doctor.\u00a0 She presented a paper on the material relationships between doctors and patients in postsocialist Lithuania.\u00a0 As Juska argued, many patients find themselves unable to pay for their care and instead bring gifts to their doctors, creating a particular sense of \u201cmutual sympathy\u201d between them.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on her presentation, Galligher commented that it was \u201ca nerve-wracking experience to present in front of your professors and an international community of scholars,\u201d but was one \u201cthat I wish for everyone.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIt was a phenomenal opportunity,\u201d she added, and \u201cI felt it gave me a lot more confidence in my writing and presenting skills as I realized that my own professors did not tear apart my paper and were interested in my knowledge on the topic,\u201d concluding that \u201cit was a wonderful, eye-opening experience.\u201d \u00a0Juska concurred, noting that the presentation was \u201can unforgettable experience.\u201d \u201cIt was a bit daunting at first,\u201d she commented, \u201cbut afterwards I felt so great about all of the feedback I got on my research and I am really glad I had the opportunity to participate in the conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Galligher\u2019s, Melberg\u2019s, and Juska\u2019s research papers were part of the larger conference, which was a joint initiative between the Havighurst Center and the Institute for International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University.\u00a0 The conference focused on the theme of \u201cStatehood and Its Discontents\u201d and included twenty-one other presentations. Topics ranged from Estonia\u2019s ongoing e-governance initiatives to the dilemmas faced by Russian journalists working in Ukraine today to the status of so-called \u201cde facto states\u201d such as South Ossetia and Abkhazia.\u00a0 As part of these deliberations, the three Miami students all focused on how postcommunist states interact with their citizens and how ordinary people\u2014whether Tatars in Crimea, Ukrainians in Kyiv, or patients in rural\u00a0Ukraine\u2014shape these encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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