In her habilitation project, the social scientist is focussing on the identity models of young adults in Belarus. In her candidate dissertation, she analysed the transformation of basic values among young adults in Belarus. Her research focus is on axiology.

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Eva Meyer studied philosophy and Slavic studies, specialising in literary studies, at the University of Oldenburg and the University of Bremen. Her Master's thesis "The Function of Literary Criticism in the Polish Literary Field of the Interwar Period. Exemplary analysis of Gombrowicz's reception in the Polish press of the 1930s" analysed the reception history of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz on the basis of Pierre Bourdieu's literary field theory. As a member of the Helene Lange Kolleg, she has been studying the reading behaviour of young adults in post-socialist Belarus since 2013. In her doctoral project, literature is analysed in terms of its identity-forming function. Her interests lie in the fields of contemporary Belarusian literature, 19th and 20th century Russian and Polish literature and the sociology of literature.

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Agnes Reiter studied "Cultural and Social Anthropology" at the University of Vienna, specialising in Russia and material culture. In 2009/10 she studied at Krasnodar State University/RF and at the same time conducted field research on clothing and consumption among young adults with higher education. Her Diplom thesis was written on this topic (article based on this: Reiter 2012). She is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Material Culture and specialises in clothing and consumption at the Helene Lange College.

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Anastasia Wakengut lived in Kazakhstan until 2005, where she studied English-Russian translation. From 2007 to 2012, she studied English Studies with a specialisation in Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg. In her master's thesis entitled "Rastafari: Cultural Resistance in Global and Local Contexts", she presented the results of her ethnographic study on the Rastafari movement in Germany, among other things. As part of the Helene Lange Kolleg, she is researching the role of popular forms of music in the formation of identity among young people in Belarus.

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