Oleg Korneev

Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2020)

“Migration Governance in the post-Soviet Space”, summer school “Global and Regional Migration Governance” for scholars and practitioners, Global Studies Institute and Department of Political Science, University of Geneva (Switzerland),  24 June 2019.

“Frames and Actors in Global Migration Governance”, Faculty of International Relations, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 28 February 2019.

“Global Migration Governance” (in Russian), international seminar “Migration and Society in the European Union and Russia: Discourses, Practices and Narratives”, Higher School of Economics – Nizhny Novgorod campus, 8 August 2018.

“Migration Regimes in the European Union” (in Russian), international seminar “Migration and Society in the European Union and Russia: Discourses, Practices and Narratives”, Higher School of Economics – Nizhny Novgorod campus, 6 August 2018.

“Migration Governance in the post-Soviet Space”, summer school «Global and Regional Migration Governance» for scholars and practitioners, Global Studies Institute and Department of Political Science, University of Geneva (Switzerland), 25 June 2018.

“The European Union and Internationalisation of Migration Policy-Making in the Post-Soviet Space”, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Brussels, 6 March 2018.

“Migration Governance in the post-Soviet Space”, summer school «Global and Regional Migration Governance» for scholars and practitioners, University of Geneva (Switzerland), 22 June 2017.

“International Organizations and Migration Governance: Developing Migration Policies in Eurasia”, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), 13 October 2016.

“Expert Knowledge in Politics and International Relations”, Laboratory for Socio-anthropological Research, Tomsk State University, Tomsk (Russia), 12-15 May 2014.

"EU Readmission Cooperation in the Wider Neighbourhood", 3rd Thematic Workshop in the Pilot Project 1 “Illegal Migration” of the Prague Process Targeted Initiative (organised by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development), Bucharest, 4-5 March 2014. 

“EU-Russia Cooperation on Migration and Visa Issues”, EU Study Weekend co-organised by the European Union Delegation in Russia and German-Russian Exchange, Volgograd, 8 February 2013.

“Application of EU policies on migration to the Eastern Neighbourhood and Russian Federation”, Executive Training “Migration in the EU and its Neighbourhood” co-organised by the Migration Policy Centre, the Global Governance Programme (EUI) and International Centre for Migration Policy Development, European University Institute, Florence, 21-23 January 2013.

“The External Dimension of EU Migration Policy: Focus on the Post-Soviet Space”, the Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship (RUDN), Moscow, 12 November 2012.

“EU-Russia Cooperation on Migration Management”, Institute for International and European Politics, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL, Belgium), 16 October 2012.

“Migrations in the Commonwealth of Independent States: Policies of Russia and the EU”, the working group EUFRAC (Europe, Fédération de Russie, Asie Centrale) of the international NGO “Médecins du Monde” [Doctors of the World], Paris, 17 September 2011.   

Member of the editorial college of Migration Politics

Guest editor, Central Asian Survey (2022)

Awarding Body: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR/French National Research Agency, France)
Title of Research: Contested Global Governance, Transformed Global Governors? International Organisations and “Weak” States (GLOBALCONTEST) 
Years funded for: June 2016 – November 2019
Amount: € 360,000

Awarding Body: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (European Commission)
Title of Research:  'Knowledgeable' Governors of Uncertainty? International Organizations in the Absence of a Global Migration Regime (MIGGOV)
Years funded for: 2 years (September 2013 – August 2015)
Amount: c. € 220,000

Awarding Body: European University Institute
Title of Research: The EU, Russia and Shifting Patterns of Migration Management in the Eurasian Migration System

Years funded for: 2 years (September 2011 – August 2013) 

Amount: € 50,600

Awarding Body: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI)/European Commission
Title of Research: International initiatives and projects against human trafficking and smuggling in Russia and Central Asia (part of MIGMEDCIS project) 

Years funded for: 2 months (November – December 2012)
Amount: € 3,800

Awarding Body: City of Paris Research Council
Title of Research: Pushing the Burden to the East and Even Further? Co-opting Russia for the EU Migration Management Strategy and Its Consequences for Central Asia
Years funded for: 1 year (September 2010 – August 2011)
Amount: € 30,000

“Contesting Global Governance in “Weak” States: a New Research Agenda on “Post-Soviet” Central Asia: The Case of the European Union” (with Karolina Kluczewska), The 11^th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden, 15-19 July 2019.

“Policies and Practices of (Non)involvement: Tajikistan and its Labour Migrants” (with Karolina Kluczewska), 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden, 15-19 July 2019.

“Learning from your students? Knowledge production and a feedback effect in the European Union’s interactions with Central Asia” (with Karolina Kluczewska), GLOBALCONTEST-ENC Academic Workshop: Transformations of EU Approaches towards Central Asia, Brussels, 10 July 2019.

“Learning from your student? Case study of the EU governance strategies and practices in Tajikistan” (with Karolina Kluczewska), The 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), University of Exeter, 27-29 June 2019.

“Contested Priorities and Hidden Agendas: International Action against HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan” (with Karolina Kluczewska), interdisciplinary workshop “Peace, order and securitisation in post-imperial Central Asia”, Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 138 “Dynamics of Security. Types of Securitisation from a Historical Perspective”, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany, 24-25 January 2019.

“Trans-regional migration governance initiatives in the Eurasian migration system” (with Andrey Leonov), conference “Migration bridges in Eurasia: migration as a resource for socio-economic and demographic development”, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), Moscow, 11-12 December 2018.

“Visa(free) Regime in EU-Russia Relations: a Research Retrospective”, workshop “EU governance of migration in times of crises: visa regimes in the European neighbourhood”, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal), 22-23 November 2018.

Plenary invited paper “Contestations of (trans)regional migration governance in  the post-Soviet space” (with Andrey Leonov), conference “Kazakhstan as a migration hub of Eurasia: the contribution of migration to sustainable development”, Kazakh National University, Almaty, 16 October 2018.

“International Organizations and Contested Knowledge in Global Migration Governance”, Second Tomsk Anthropological Forum (TAF), National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, 11-13 October 2018.

Participant, round table “Migration and Development: Ongoing Field Contestations and Anthropological Critique”, Second Tomsk Anthropological Forum (TAF), National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, 11-13 October 2018.

“Home-grown” Regionalism versus Trans-regionalism? Overlapping Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance in the Eurasian Migration System”, workshop “Regional and Local Migration Governance: Building Block of Global Initiatives”, University of Geneva, 22-23 June 2018.

Discussant, PhD Graduate Workshop, Conference “Approaches of the European Union and Russia to Transnational Security Challenges”, Jean Monnet Project Conference, Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 24-26 May 2018.

Co-chair, panel “Russia and the European Union: Interaction and Policy Learning in the Field of Countering Transnational Security Threats”, Jean Monnet Project Conference “Approaches of the European Union and Russia to Transnational Security Challenges”, Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 24-26 May 2018.

Co-chair, round table “Research in and Teaching of European and International Law: Problems, Prospects and Development of Interdisciplinary Cooperation”, Jean Monnet Project Conference “Approaches of the European Union and Russia to Transnational Security Challenges”, Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 24-26 May 2018.

Discussant, panel “Re-defining security in the changing livelihoods in Central Asia”, conference “Non-traditional risks and challenges to Central Asian security”, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Academy, Bishkek, 17-18 May 2018.

Discussion participant, conference “Conflict and compromise: Between Law and Politics in EU Migration and Asylum Policies”, Odysseus Network Annual Conference, ULB, Brussels, 1 February 2018.

“Communities of practice in migration governance: Central Asia and beyond”, the IX International Forum "Migration bridges in Eurasia: models of effective migration management in the context of the development of the Eurasian integration project", Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Moscow, 28-29 November 2017.

“Practicing what They Preach: International Organizations and Communities of Practice in Central Asian Migration Governance Field”, Joint ESCAS-CESS Conference, American University of Central Asia Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), June 29-July 2, 2017.

“International Organizations and Emergence of Communities of Practice in Central Asian Migration Governance”, research workshop “Regional Approaches in Migration/Asylum Governance: Advancing the International Agenda”, University of Geneva, 23-24 June 2017.

“International organisations and emergence of communities of practice in Central Asian migration governance field”, conference “The dynamics of regional migration governance”, European University Institute, 25-26 May 2017.

Invited talk “International Organizations as Migration Governors in Central Asia”, Migration and mobility research group, CERI/Sciences Po (Paris, France), 18 May 2017.

"Crisis" and "Conflict" Narratives in (Global) Migration Governance, International round table “Migration and conflict: the experience of the EU and Russia”, Kazan Federal University, 28-29 April 2017.

“Contesting Global Governance in ‘Weak’ States: International Organizations in Post-Soviet Central Asia”, conference “Post-Communism 25+: Reflections on Social, Economic & Political Transitions”, OSCE Academy, Issyk Kul (Kyrgyzstan), 6-8 October 2016.

Panel discussant, “Academic migration and mobility”, 1^st Tomsk Anthropological Forum, Tomsk State University, Tomsk (Russia), 15-17 September 2016.

Participant, roundtable “Studies of Cooperation in the Area of Visas, Immigration, Justice and Home Affairs”, conference “Studying EU-Russian Relations: Research Agenda in Russia and in the West”, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia), 28-29 June 2016.

“Policies and Practices of (Non)involvement: Tajikistan and Its Labour Emigrants” (co-authored by Karolina Kluczewska), Central Eurasian Studies Society Regional Conference Kazan Federal University Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation June 2-4, 2016.

Participant, roundtable “Challenges and prospects of Russian migration policy and opportunities of cooperation with the European Union in this field”, conference “Migration problems and possible solutions in wider Europe”, Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad (Russia), 26-28 May 2016.

“Policies and Practices of (Non)involvement: Tajikistan, its Labour Emigrants and “Diaspora(s)”, European Research Council project seminar “Overseas Citizens”, University of Amsterdam, 21-22 September 2015.

“Migration Policy Transfer to ‘Disobliging’ Neighbours: Understanding EU Relations with Libya and Russia”, Council for European Studies (CES Columbia) annual conference, Paris, 8-10 July 2015.

Paper “Unequal Governors: States, International Organisations and NGOs as Governors of Migration in Central Asia and Beyond”, British International Studies Association Annual Conference 2015, London, 17-19 June 2015.

“A Reluctant Governor? The EU and Migration Governance in Central Asia”, Jean Monnet Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union conference “Security in the European Union and its Neighbourhood: Challenges and Policy Responses”, University of Dundee, UK, 15-16 June 2015.

Panel discussant, “Critical investigations into sites of migration management”, conference “Producing Knowledge on Migration: Methodology, Epistemology, Ethics”, University of Paris 13 – CNRS, Paris, 28-29 May 2015.

“Self-Legitimation through Knowledge Production and Partnerships: International Organizations as Migration Governors in Central Asia”, workshop “The Quest for Legitimacy in World Politics – International Organizations’ Self-Legitimations”, the 43rd ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 29 March - 2 April 2015.

“The Role of External Actors in the Development of European and Eurasian Migration Governance Systems”, conference European and Eurasian Migration Systems: similarities and differences of legal regulation, Kazan Federal University, Russia, 11-12 December 2014.

“International Organisations as Global Migration Governors: Governing Migration in Central Asia”, OSCE cross-border research conference “Border Security: Globalization and the Challenges of Migration”, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Border Management Staff College, Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 17-21 November 2014.

Invited presentation “A vicious triangle: visa and readmission issues in EU-Russia-Central Asia relations”, MIGRINTER/CNRS conference “Politiques européennes des visas: des frontières intelligentes ?”, University of Poitiers, France, 12-14 November 2014.

“Migration Policy Transfer to “Disobliging” Neighbours: Understanding EU Relations with Libya and Russia” (co-authored by Emanuela Paoletti), METROPOLIS conference, Milan, 3-7 November 2014.

“Reinvention of migration governance by international organisations: the case of Central Asia”, conference “Social mobilisations and geopolitics in Central Asia”, co-organised by the French Institute for Central Asian Studies and Sciences Po, Paris, 14-15 October 2014.

“International Organisations in the Absence of a Global Migration Regime: Towards Governor-Centred Research on Global Migration Governance”, European Consortium for Political Research 8th General Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3-6 September 2014.

“The role of international organisations”, workshop “The Global Governance of Irregular Migration and Asylum: Universal Norms, Transnational Challenges, Regional Actors”, Global Governance Programme, European University Institute, Florence, 30 June 2014.

“International Organisations and Migration Governance in Central Asia”, ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference, Nazarbayev University, Astana, 22-24 May 2014.       

“International Organizations in the Absence of a Global Migration Regime: Towards Governor-Centred Research on Global Migration Governance”, XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 1-4 April 2014.

“Migration Governance in the Post-Soviet Space: International Organisations and the Use of Knowledge”, Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, Albuquerque (USA), 18-22 March, 2014. 

“The role of knowledge and partnerships in the EU action against human trafficking in the post-Soviet space” (co-authored by Andrey Leonov), Council for European Studies annual conference, Washington D.C. (USA), 14-16 March, 2014.

“The EU and Internationalisation of Migration Policy-Making in the Post-Soviet Region”, Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group Launch – International Symposium “Patterns and Pathways in European Union Migration and Mobility since 2004”, University of Sheffield, 31 January 2014.

The high level public event “European Union and Central Asia: Around the New Strategy”, co-organized by the European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) and the research project GLOBALCONTEST with the support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Brussels, 10 July 2019.

Academic Workshop “Transformations of EU Approaches towards Central Asia”, co-organized by the European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) and the research project GLOBALCONTEST/University of Paris 13 with the support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Brussels, 10 July 2019.

Workshop “Competing powers and legal orders in European/Eurasian spaces”, co-organized by Lobachevsky University, the research project GLOBALCONTEST/University of Paris 13 and Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Nizhny Novgorod, 22-23 May 2019.

Workshop “Contesting global health governance in the post-Soviet region: International actors and “the field””, co-organized by the GLOBALCONTEST/University of Paris-13 and INALCO, Paris, 10 May 2019.

Round table “Health, Gender and Migration in International Development Initiatives: Connecting the Dots in a Triangle?”, co-organized by the GLOBALCONTEST research project, Sorbonne-Kazakhstan Institute/ Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University and the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), Almaty, 16 April 2019.

Central Asian Studies Day 2018: conference showcasing research on Central Asia in France, Paris, 27 November 2018. Co-organized with the IPAC (Multidisciplinary Initiative on Central Asia) research network, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Iranian and Indian worlds (CNRS, University of Paris 3, EPHE, INALCO) and the University Paris-Sud.

Second Tomsk Anthropological Forum (TAF-2), National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, 11-13 October 2018. Member of the Programme Committee and co-organizer of the Migration Symposium.

International seminar “Migration and Society in the European Union and Russia: Discourses, Practices and Narratives”, Higher School of Economics – Nizhny Novgorod, 6-10 August 2018. Member of the Programme Committee, discussant of students’ presentations, lecturer. 

Jean Monnet Project Conference “Approaches of the European Union and Russia to Transnational Security Challenges”, Lobachevsky University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), 24-26 May, 2018 (within the framework of Jean Monnet Project “EU Approaches to Transnational Security Challenges: Focus on Policy Learning” (EUSECU-POLE, 2016-2018) and Jean Monnet Module “The European Union as a Global Human Rights Actor” (EUGLOBE, 2015-2018). Member of the Programme Committee, panel chair and discussant of PhD students’ papers.

Executive Training ‘The European Union against Transnational Security Challenges: Legal Framework, Policies and Practices’, 16-19 October 2017, University of Strasbourg (co-organized by Lobachevsky University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Co-organizer and round table chair.

GlobalContest workshop “Contested Global Governance, Transformed Global Governors?”, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Academy, 3-4 July 2017. Main organizer, in cooperation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, the American University of Central Asia (AUCA, Bishkek) and the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC, Bishkek).

First Tomsk Anthropological Forum (TAF), National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk (Russia), 15-17 September 2016: Member of the Organizing and Programme Committees.

November 2023 - ongoing: Academic Supervisor, International Programme 'International Relations and Global Studies' (English-taught BA programme), Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics (Russia)

September 2023 - ongoing: Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics (Russia)

September 2019 – August 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (Russia)

September 2020 – December 2021: Academic Supervisor, MA Programme “Comparative Politics of Eurasia”, St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg (Russia)

February 2020 – August 2020: Deputy Academic Supervisor, MA Programme “Comparative Politics of Eurasia”, St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (Russia)

September 2016 – October 2019: Project Coordinator – Principal Investigator, project "Contested Global Governance, Transformed Global Governors? International Organisations and “Weak” States (GLOBALCONTEST – ANR) / Research Fellow (research centre CERAL), Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences, University of Paris 13 (Sorbonne-Paris-Nord, France)

April 2016 – December 2018: Associate Leading Research Fellow (part-time), Laboratory for Social Anthropological Research, Tomsk State University (Russia)

September 2010 – March 2016: Assistant / Associate Professor (part-time), Department of World Politics, Faculty of History, Tomsk State University (Russia)

September 2013 – August 2015: Marie Curie Senior Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield (UK)

September 2011 – August 2013: Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Florence, Italy)

September 2011 – August 2013: Associate Fellow, CARIM-East (Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration), European University Institute (Florence, Italy)

September 2010 – August 2011: City of Paris Postdoctoral Fellow, CERI/Sciences Po (Paris, France)

September 2007 – August 2010: Senior Specialist, Consultant (full-time civil service position), Department for International and Interregional Cooperation, Tomsk Region Administration (Tomsk, Russia)

October 2006 – June 2007: InBev-Baillet Latour Visiting Researcher, Institute for International and European Policy, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)