Out of 27 essays submitted for competition in 2023, the ESAANZ committee have selected four winners.
Best two essays by an undergraduate student:
- Georgina Lyes from the University of Canterbury essay titled: “The Role of the European Union in Third-country Immigrant Integration”.
- Freya Smart from the University of Melbourne, essay titled: “What can the 1985 Soviet film The Most Charming and Attractive tell us about attitudes toward the consumer culture of the late Soviet era?”
Best two essays by a postgraduate student:
- Anton Aslund from the University of Otago essay titled: “To be or not to be a State? The alignment behaviours of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with Russia”
- Grace Vanderkolk from the University of Melbourne, essay titled: “In the shadow of famine: Russian relations between Kazakhstan and Ukraine: How do Russo-Ukrainian and Russo-Kazakh relations impact memorialisation of the Holodomor and Kazakh famine?”
Congratulations to the winning essays.
Thank you to all competition entrants.