Dr Mariya Ivancheva BA University of Sofia'04, MA UCL'05 CEU'07, PhD CEU'13
Lecturer in Higher Education Studies School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
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Summary
Professional Affiliations
European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), President elect (2021-2023)
International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences, IUAES
International Sociological Association (ISA)
Editing experience
Since 2019 member of the editorial board of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale journal
Since 2013 founding member of the editorial board of LeftEast: comment & analysis, East Europe
Public engagement, community service and impact
Since 2021 President & Anthropology of Labour Network co-convenor, EASA
Since 2020 University of Liverpool: faculty BAME group & Decolonising Research webinar convenor
2019-2021 EASA executive board: precarity, lobbying & emerging issues representative
2017-2018 School committee Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; Athena Swan, University of Leeds
2015-2017 Research Staff Association member, Equality, Diversity Inclusion committee, UCD
Selected talks & conference presentations
Keynote lectures
2020 Academic solidarity at a breaking point? EDEN conference, NUIGalway, Ireland
2020 Platform academic labour: new divisions in global higher education, MSSES Moscow
2018 Pasts & futures of social(ist) higher education, Ephemera Journal conference, Budapest
Invited academic talks (selection)
2020 Digital higher education after COVID-19: old divisions, new vulnerabilities, Augsburg U
2020 Platform Academic Labour: Digitalisation & Outsourcing in UK HE, CERIC, Leeds U
2019 Digital higher education and gender (in Spanish), COES, University of Chile, Santiago
2019 Conflicting logics of online higher education, Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL
2019 Digital education in the marketised university, FSS, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2015 Women’s Movements in Post-socialist Bulgaria, Gender & Transformation in Europe, NYU
2015 The Bolivarian Higher Edu Reform, Anthropology Seminar, Maynooth Unversity, Dublin
2013 The Bulgarian Protest Wave 2012-2013, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
2012 A Tale of Two Socialisms: Eastern Europe and Venezuela (with A.Gagyi), UPenn
2010 Venezuela’s higher education reform, Department of Education, Oxford University
Invited plenary session participations
2020 Sustainability, Accessibility & Digital Future of Professional Meetings, AAA, Rising our Voices
2019 Young Scholars Forum, International Union of Anthro. & Ethnological Sciences, IUAES
2017 The Role of Academics at Times of Crisis, UACES conference, Krakow
2016 Academic Freedom & Commercialisation, Critical European Studies conference, Greenwich
2014 Theory and discourse in post-socialism, 20 years of SOYUZ network AAA, Washington DC
2014 What should be the model for higher education reform in Ukraine? Kyiv Polytechnic
2014 Crisis and resistance in Eastern and Central Europe, conference Debatte Journal, Warsaw
Most recent conference presentations
2021 Promises & perils of digital disruption, Understanding digital higher ed in Nordic countries,UiA
2021 Re-defining essential work: high-skilled migrants in Argentina’s gig economy, ISA, Porto Alegre
2020 Platform Academic Labour: Digitalisation & Outsourcing in UK HE EASA Lisbon
2019 La (matri)socialidad del ‘estado benevolente’, VI Jornadas Problemas LATAM, Valparaiso
2019 Unbundling: a new gendered frontier of inequality in higher ed, Precarity & Gender, UC Cork
2018 Unbundling and/or widening participation in South African HE, BSA Newcastle
2017 Histories of transition: Latin America and Eastern Europe compared, ENIUGH, Budapest
2016 Precarity, Gender, Care: a View from the Neoliberal University (with K.Lynch) ISA, Vienna
Most recant participation in public & policy debates
2021 EU funding: finding solutions to systematic challenges, Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE)
2016 European Parliament – working group on regional development, European Left, Brussels
2016 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – Europe, what’s left? Berlin
2012 European Social Forum – delegate with European Alternatives, Florence
2012 European Parliament – speaker, The Road for Europe
Most recent conference & panels co-organising
2021 conference Politics & Ethics of Platform Labour, Cambridge CRASSH, EASA AnthroLabour
2020 plenary panel Colonial Legacies & Decolonial Struggles, EASA, Lisbon
2019 conference Anthropology of labour in the context of flexible capitalism, UvA Amsterdam
2019 conference Europe, knowledge politics & bureaucracy, EASA policy event, ULB, Brussels
2018 panel Beyond precarity: the politics of hope, care & solidarity, EASA Stockholm (D.Hirslund)
2017 panel The Beginnings and the Ends of Revolution (with S.Gokariksel) AAA, Washington DC
2016 panel Transnational hierarchies of higher education (with I.Syndicus) EASA, Milano