Career Talk 2: Opportunities Within and Beyond Academia - International Perspectives
Frances Jackson (München), Anton Liavitski (St. Gallen), Andrei Vazyanau (Vilnius), Dóra Vuk (Budapest)
- Beginning:
- Tuesday, 09 December 2025 16:15
On 9 December 2025 we will welcome Frances Jackson, Anton Liavitski, Andrei Vazyanau and Dóra Vuk. They are former members of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies and will share their career paths in the academic and non-academic profession. This talk will be held in English.
Planning your next step? International PhD researchers face unique challenges on the european job market. In this session, speakers with international backgrounds share how they built careers in Germany and abroad – in academia and beyond.
Frances Jackson:
She is deputy director of the Czech Centre Munich. She studied German, Czech and East European Studies in Oxford, Munich and Brno. Her PhD thesis, defended in 2020, examined the poetic reverberations of the Munich Agreement. Prior to joining the Czech Centre, she worked in public relations and also wrote for and co-edited the online magazine Europe & Me.
Anton Liavitski:
He is a historian specializing in the intellectual and political history of Eastern Central Europe, particularly during the post-socialist transformation. From 2016 to 2022, he was a member of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies and earned his PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2022. Since then, he has held research fellowships at institutions such as the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, the Central European University in Budapest, and the University of St. Gallen. He is currently a junior fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Andrei Vazyanau:
He is an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2018 he received his doctorate from GSOSES with a thesis on urban public transport and Europeanization. After his PhD study, Andrei continued collaboration with Belarusian and Ukrainian civic initiatives in the domain of urban planning. He is also an editor of an online-journal dedicated to transformation of urban life in post-Soviet space and beyond (Minsk Urban Journal). Andrei's current research focuses on bureaucracy, intimacy, and pop culture in Eastern Europe.
Dóra Vuk:
She earned her degrees in Croatian Language and Literature and in German Studies from the University of Zagreb. Between 2014 and 2019, she was a member of GSOSES in Regensburg and completed her PhD in Slavic Linguistics with a dissertation on Gender Agreement in Croatian Heritage Language. Since 2021, she has been working at a global organizational consulting and leadership advisory firm, where she leads executive search projects for clients in the financial services sector.