Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES

Event poster for 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.

Join us for the next @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar to hear more about @sanjavico.bsky.social's book 'Doing Nation in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments'.

🗓️ 4 February at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Event poster for 'The Making of Kosovo' with an image of the book cover.

Join us next week for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jakup Azemi and @aidanhehir.bsky.social to hear more about Dr Azemi's book 'The Making of Modern Kosovo' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.

Chaired by @ericgordy.bsky.social.

🗓️ 14 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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SSEES Film Festival Vol 1: "Resistance" Please join us for this film festival sponsored by the SSEES Southeast European studies seminar series and Places, Identities and Memories (PIMs)

Tell your grandchildren that you were at the first SSEES film festival!!!!!!
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Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis

Spyros Tsoutsoumpis arguing that the national state is built by an alliance between metropolitan elites and local practitioners of violence, not necessarily of the same ethnicity.

Event poster for 'A Home Less Friendly: Exploring War Trauma Among the 1990s Serbian Emigrants to the United Kingdom'.

Please join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Aleksandra Andrejevic, who will explore war trauma among the 1990s Serbian emigrants to the United Kingdom using creative writing as research.

🗓️ 12 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Event poster for 'On Donkey Trails into the Modern Age' with a photo of an old woman with a donkey.

We are pleased to invite you to the Annual Celia Hawkesworth Lecture, co-organised by @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social and the British Scholarship Trust.

This year's speaker, Dr Ruža Fotiadis, will look at donkeys and mules as indispensable draft animals in the Balkans.

🗓️ 4 Nov at 6pm
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Captured Societies in Southeast Europe In Southeast Europe, there is a growing disjunction between “the way the world is” and the world that is described by law. The informal practices that address problems when formal institutions fail ca...

Academics from SSEES coordinated a three-year project with partners from 9 countries asking what informal practices and informal networks mean in social, political and economic life in the region. Download the results for free from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Event poster for 'English-Slovenian Dictionaries: From Print Volumes to Digital Platforms' with an image of English-Slovenian dictionaries.

Join us next week for this #PROLang seminar with Mojca M. Hočevar, who will discuss the challenges of compiling, editing, and publishing English-Slovenian dictionaries.

🗓️ 21 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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UCL SSEES PhD Funding Opportunities View our current PhD Funding Opportunities at SSEES.

SUPPORT FOR PhD STUDENTS!
The link leads to a variety of programmes to support people wanting to do doctoral research at SSEES including the NEW (!!!!!) Nash programme offering 3 YEARS of support for doctoral RESEARCH IN ALBANIAN STUDIES!!!!!
Applications by 16 January

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Submissions Open: South-East European Studies Fellowship The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes / opportunities at SSEES

🔊 Submissions now open: South-East European Studies Fellowship!

The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes at SSEES.

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Event poster for '“Like My Own”: Adopting Displaced Children after the Great War' with a collage of photos from the Bulgarian state archives

🔊 One week until this event with Prof. Theodora Dragostinova, who will examine the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands.

Co-sponsored by @criticalchildhood.bsky.social

🗓️6 October at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Pop Culture and Memory Politics in the Former Yugoslavia A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković

10 October at 16h, Prof Vjeran Pavlaković (U of Rijeka), "Pop Culture and Memory Politics in the Former Yugoslavia." The event is free and open to everyone, please register at the link.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

The Fate of Regional Studies under Patrimonial Rule | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies This crisis is qualitatively different from any we have faced as scholars since the invention of modern area studies associations in the aftermath of World War II...

Stephen E. Hanson writes, "The Fate of Regional Studies under Patrimonial Rule" assessing the impact of recent political changes on regional studies for the September Issue of NewsNet.
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Fellowships up to 6 months, “Youth agency in the Balkans: New political imaginaries and eco-digital futures.” Application deadline 3 October.
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Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová wins the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Article Prize The prize was awarded for an outstanding English-language research article in the social sciences by a junior scholar published in a peer-reviewed journal

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová, who has won the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Article Prize for her article “The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe".

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@artshumsucl.bsky.social

“Like My Own”: Adopting Displaced Children after the Great War A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Prof. Theodora Dragostinova

Our first event of the new season!
6 October, 1700h, Prof Theodora Dragostinova 'examines the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands to unpack what treating a child “like my own” meant during the fluid transition from war to peace.'

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Curriculum-Writing Fellowship: The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe Explore the overlooked history of the Holocaust in Croatia through a free online curriculum-writing fellowship for K-14.

Exploring overlooked Holocaust history in #Croatia: The Davis Center at Harvard offers a 6-part webinar series on "The #Holocaust in Southeastern Europe". With @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social (IOS) & other experts, examining regional complexities missing from broader narratives.
📅 Start: 27 Sep ⬇️

Istorija jugoslovenskog radničkog samoupravljanja Izložba posvećena istoriji jugoslovenskog radničkog samoupravljanja povodom 75 godina od njegovog uvođenja. Arhivska građa i kritički uvidi otkrivaju složenost ovog sistema i njegovo nasleđe.

An exhibit on the history of workers' self-management, for people who are around (Bg, Zg, NS).
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👏Thrilled to share the news about successful academic promotions for 2024-25!

Please join us in congratulating our colleagues:
▪️Prof. Bojan Aleksov
▪️Prof. Randolph Luca Bruno
▪️Prof. Elodie Douarin
▪️Prof. Peter Zusi
▪️Prof. Svetlana McMillin
▪️Dr Idil Uz Akdogan

➡️See the full list: bit.ly/4kiO5th

PIMs Annual Research Conference: Spaces of Victimhood in Eastern Europe The conference Spaces of Victimhood explores how memories of oppression, dislocation, marginalisation, economic exploitation and trauma shape identities and a sense of belonging to a place in Central,...

Coming up at SSEES -- free and open to the public, registration (at the link) is required.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events....

CONNECTING SOLIDARITIES – New Research Project The Derby Bosnia-Herzegovina Community Association (DBHCA) is glad to announce its partnership with the University of Derby on an exciting new research project: “CONNECTING SOLIDARITIES – An explorati...

Project launch 10 June at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Centre in Derby: “Connecting Solidarities”
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Balkanologie - Revue d'études pluridisciplinaires Revue française d'études pluridisciplinaires sur les Balkans couvrant la période du Moyen Âge à nos jours. A French journal dedicated to the Balkans from the Middle Ages to the present, in a multid...

A special issue of “Balkanologie” -- “The taste of the Balkans,” history, anthropology, and sociology of Balkan cuisines. journals.openedition.org/balkanologie...

Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Adelina Stefan

This Weds at 5:00 @ SSEES, Adelina Stefan, "Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain." All are welcome, register at the link.

www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

Material Interests Ways of Commoning The Case of Lumbardhi Cinema in Prizren | Winchester School of Art | University of Southampton Speakers: Ares Shporta (cultural worker & co-founding director of Lumbardhi Foundation) and Dr Dimitra Gkitsa (Lecturer in Curating & Cultural Leadership at the Department of Art & Media Technology, Winchester School of Art)

First post here to share an exiting event happening tomorrow! Ways of Commoning: The case of Lumbardhi Cinema in Prizren, Kosovo, with invited speaker Ares Shporta, will examine community organising and bottom-up approaches to cultural policy & institution building. Sign up using the link below:

Revolution Won't Be Reported: Student Protests in Serbia Panel discussion about the current, anti-government, student-led protest in Serbia and why the UK media are not reporting the event

Our friends at Goldsmiths are hosting a discussion on the student protests in Serbia: Monday at 5:30, reserve your place at the link.
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Let's welcome our colleagues at Maastricht to Blueski! Give a follow to @umceehub.bsky.social
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@ioe.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

Platform for Linguistic and Epistemic Justice (PLEJ) Project Grant The PLEJ grant is funded by the PLEJ research centre of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

The SSEES-led Platform for Linguistic and Epistemic Justice (PLEJ) has available project grants to award current UCL students for fieldwork or project costs. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/resear...

Home Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December, 2024Conference Dates: 19 - 23 May, 2025 This is the third edition of the ‘Capitalist Transformations’ conference, an academic event that aims to create a...

CfP for May conference in Cluj. Abstracts by 15 January.
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📢Applications are open: bit.ly/4iuMRM2

We invite current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at SSEES to apply for the Bracewell Scholarship. The award will cover the tuition fee costs for one term, plus a living cost stipend.

Deadline: 31 March 2025