Hi ,

We are proud to announce the winners of the ESAANZ essay competition for 2023 for the best undergraduate and postgraduate essay in both Australia and New Zealand. We had 27 brilliant entries to the 2023 competition, and have selected four well-deserved 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?”

For those keen to reading the winning entries, the essays will be published in the next issue of the ANZJES, which is coming soon.

And for those who may have missed out on the 2023 competition, don't worry, the essay competition will be back again at the end of 2024 academic year!

Warmest,

Anna
Membership Officer