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#LeibnizIOS Regensburg • Research institute in Germany – Creating, preserving, and communicating knowledge on Eastern and Southeast Europe • Posts in English and German • https://leibniz-ios.de/

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Join our 13th Annual Conference on "From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and #SoutheastEurope". Keynote: Maria Mälksoo (U of Copenhagen). We welcome proposals from various social sciences on democratic erosion, security, digital politics & more.
📆 Deadline: 15 Dec ⬇️
IOS Annual Conference 2026: From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and Southeast Europe
Call for Papers für the 13th IOS Annual Conference from 22 to 24 April in Regensburg. Submission deadline: 15 December 2025.
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Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine verändert auch die Kunst- und Kulturpolitik. Die neuen Russland-Analysen stellen mit großem Bilderteil Kunstausstellungen über den Krieg vor und ordnen die russische Außenkulturpolitik im Iran ein.
Redaktion: @leibniz-ios.de.

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Cover der Russland-Analysen 472 vom 18.11.2025. Inhalt: Kunstausstellungen über den Krieg / Außenkulturpolitik im Iran Analyse Kunstausstellungen in russischen Museen über den Krieg gegen die Ukraine Anastasia Serikova Dokumentation Bilderteil zur Analyse »Kunstausstellungen in russischen Museen über den Krieg gegen die Ukraine« Analyse Russische Bildungs- und Kulturpolitik im Iran Zaur Gasimov Umfragen Die Einstellung der russischen Bevölkerung zum Iran Chronologie
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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📚 #OutNow: New edited volume on "Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands".
Petru Negură (Regensburg), Andrei Cușco (Iasi) and Svetlana Suveica (IOS) present contributions analyzing perspectives of local populations on state-building projects in the early 20th century. ⬇️
Out Now: Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands. Popular Responses to Nation-Building, 1900–1940
This anthology, edited by Petru Negură (Regensburg), Andrei Cușco (Iasi) and Svetlana Suveica (IOS), explores nation-building in Eastern Europe. The contributors analyze the everyday perspectives and ...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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💡Wie wirken sich Proteste in einem autoritären, patriarchalen System aus, wenn sie von einer Gruppe getragen werden, in der laut UNESCO 32% mehr Frauen als Männer studieren?

❗Mehr können Sie in unserem Blogbeitrag lesen - seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/proteste-sin...

#proteste #serbien #gender
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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”One thing we’ve learned from the western Balkans is that setting up hopes too high and then not coming through breeds frustration and encourages the far right”: Our Director Ulf Brunnbauer spoke with @foreignpolicy.com about the uncertain prospects for Ukraine’s accession to the EU. ⬇️
Europe Is Selling Ukraine a Pipe Dream
The EU’s promises of future membership have a very uncertain outcome.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Military power once enforced oil contracts – until it didn't. Elena Paltseva (@sitestockholm.bsky.social) shows how countries turned to "backloading", delaying production to reshape billions in revenues. More in our economics talk.
📅 25 Nov | 13:30 CET | Online
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The online banner shows an economics seminar announcement: "The Geoeconomics of Contract Enforcement: Coercion or Backloading" by Elena Paltseva (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics), November 25, 13:30 CET, online.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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📣 #CfP
Join our 13th Annual Conference on "From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and #SoutheastEurope". Keynote: Maria Mälksoo (U of Copenhagen). We welcome proposals from various social sciences on democratic erosion, security, digital politics & more.
📆 Deadline: 15 Dec ⬇️
IOS Annual Conference 2026: From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and Southeast Europe
Call for Papers für the 13th IOS Annual Conference from 22 to 24 April in Regensburg. Submission deadline: 15 December 2025.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Care workers from #SoutheastEurope are essential to Regensburg's healthcare – yet their perspectives often remain invisible. Our discussion "Who cares for #Regensburg?" brought their stories to light. Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de.
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Regensburg Outreach Event - Transforming Anxieties of Ageing
21 October 2025 | Regensburg
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November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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📑 #OutNow: How did demographers contribute to the rise of #nationalism in #Serbia in the 1980s? #LeibnizIOS director Ulf Brunnbauer examines how population experts fueled nationalist narratives – with far-reaching consequences for the Yugoslav Wars. #OpenAccess
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The banner shows a new open access publication by Ulf Brunnbauer: "Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia's Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter" published in Contemporary European History.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Page Herrlinger: Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia. A Faith Healer and His Followers. Rezension von Victoria Frede #OpenAccess in Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO:

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Cover des rezensierten Buches
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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🔎 Come and join us for the first talk in the speaker series organised by the Margins of Memory network! Martin Fotta agreed to share his research on Romani Presence and the Making of a Pilgrimage Site in Piaui, Brazil.
Abstract: lnkd.in/dVJedspT
#memory #research #exchange #romani #regensburg
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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📚 Our journal #COMPSEES 73/3 available in #OpenAccess!
Continuing the annual theme "The Yugoslav Wars & 1995" w/ articles on Serbia's instrumentalization of NATO bombing vs. Kosovo's statehood, postwar transformation processes, plus research on working conditions, social policy & urban migration. ⬇
COMPSEES 73/3 Out Now
Comparative Southeast European Studies is available in open access.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Conservatives vs left-liberals, urbanites vs the provinces: Hungary’s society is deeply divided, not least when it comes to the war in Ukraine. National holidays in 2025 have underscored the tensions & fragility of 🇭🇺 sovereignty.

By Chris Hann, on our blog: ukraine2022.ios-regensburg.de/hungary01/
Crowd listening to a speech by Viktor Orbán on 1848 Revolution Memorial Day, March 15th, 2025.
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I enjoyed reading and reviewing Chelsi West Ohueri's book "Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" @leibniz-ios.de

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Chelsi West Ohueri: Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife
Article Chelsi West Ohueri: Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 73,...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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How has #immigration shaped US political polarization?
Johannes Matzat (U of Lucerne) examined American data and found that areas with more immigrants experienced increasingly polarized elections. More in our next economics talk.
📅 18 Nov | 13:30 CET | Hybrid
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Economics seminar announcement: "Immigration, Political Ideologies and the Polarization of American Politics" by Johannes Matzat (University of Lucerne), November 18, 13:30 CET, hybrid format.
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#Südosteuropa hat ein Demografie-Problem. Politischer Aktionismus verschlimmert es nur noch, schreibt IOS-Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer in einem Beitrag für DW. Zur Lösung identifiziert er andere Ansatzpunkte, auch wenn manche für die Mehrheit noch ein Tabu sind, etwa Zuwanderung.

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Das Onlinebanner zeigt ein Porträtfoto von Ulf Brunnbauer, dazu als Text ein Zitat: "Für Einwanderung fehlt in Südosteuropa die 'gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz. (...) Die Frage ist, wie lange das noch durchzuhalten ist (...). Ohne einen Politik- und Einstellungswechsel wird sich der demografische Teufelskreis nicht aufbrechen lassen: Je stärker die Bevölkerung zurückgeht, desto größer sind die Zukunftsängste. Dabei bräuchte es doch gerade Zuversicht, um Menschen zum Dableiben zu bewegen und sie Einwanderer begrüßen zu lassen.'" Quelle: Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer Gastbeitrag für DW.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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26 November, 18:00 | ZOiS

In the South Caucasus, a scramble for influence by external powers is reshaping politics, alliances and societies. What is the #EU's capacity to act as a stabilising force and mediator in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia?

Join the discussion at our upcoming roundtable 👇
Geopolitical Shifts and Domestic Reconfigurations in the South Caucasus
Public Roundtable
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Neue Ausgabe der Polen-Analysen:

Die junge Generation über Demokratie, öffentliche Angelegenheiten und zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement

Mit Ergebnissen von Meinungsumfragen in 12 Grafiken

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November 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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💡 Save the Date! This winter, our research network Margins of Memory is organizing a speaker series highlighting people and research in the frame of cultures and politics of non-hegemonic remembrance. (1/2)
#memory #resistance #research #marginalization #regensburg
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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While the Berlin Wall divided Europe, borders in the Alps-Adriatic region told a different story. The online exhibition "Never Mind the Borders" shows how people crossed borders for shopping or smuggling, holidays & everyday life during the Cold War. (1/2)
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Exhibition poster "never mind The Borders" showing people, places and cross-border practices between the Alps and the Adriatic. Historical photograph of two women walking past a demarcation line sign. Exhibition runs May 23 - December 28, 2025 at Nova Gorica railway station underpass.
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🧵 In #Croatia, there is currently another public and legal debate about the #Ustaša salute. Among other things, this has been triggered by concerts by singer Marko Perković, known as #Thompson, during which the salute was chanted en masse.
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The screenshot shows the inscription „Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe“
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Welcome Anna Holian! Join us for her talk on Jewish communities rebuilding their lives in Germany after WWII. And learn more about exchange opportunities with @arizonastateuni.bsky.social from 13:15 on 13 Nov at @leibniz-ios.de.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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📚 #Buchvorstellung
Marie-Janine Calic (LMU) spricht über die vergessene erste Balkanroute, auf der mindestens 55.000 Menschen vor den Nationalsozialisten flohen. Moderation: #LeibnizIOS​-Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer.
🗓️ 12.11. | 19:30 | Bücher Pustet #Regensburg
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Ein Plakat für eine Buchvorstellung zeigt den Titel des Buches 'Balkan-Odyssee 1933-1941 Auf der Flucht vor Hitler durch Südosteuropa' von Marie-Janine Calic. Das Buchcover zeigt eine Luftaufnahme einer Küstenstadt mit dicht gedrängten Häusern und einem Hafen. Unter dem Buchcover steht der Name der Autorin Marie-Janine Calic in orangefarbener Schrift, darunter in weißer Schrift der Hinweis auf die Moderation durch Ulf Brunnbauer. Weiter unten sind Datum und Uhrzeit der Veranstaltung angegeben: '12.11.2025 | 19:30 Uhr'. Der Veranstaltungsort ist 'Bücher Pustet, Gesandtenstr. 6-8, Regensburg'. Der Eintrittspreis ist mit '11 € (ermäßigt 7 €)' angegeben. Im unteren Bereich des Plakats sind Logos von vier Organisationen oder Sponsoren zu sehen, darunter 'Bücher Pustet' und 'Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft'. Im Hintergrund des Plakats ist ein helles, geometrisches Muster mit Linien und Kreisen zu erkennen.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🎙️ New episode of the @seeffield.bsky.social podcast "Balkans Calling" is out!
@katarina-damcevic.bsky.social (#LeibnizIOS) talks with Djuddah Leijen (U of Tartu) about #ScienceCommunication, #AI in academic writing & the power of social writing practices.
Recorded in November 2024. To the episode ⬇️
Ep. 21 - What Makes Academic Writing Effective – and Why You Should Try Social Writing
YouTube video by seeFField
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November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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EVENT: "Networks of Privilege? #Wealth and Human Capital Effects of Communist Party Connections", a talk by Olga Popova (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies @leibniz-ios.de), 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 (UK Time). Register to receive a zoom link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Networks of Privilege? Wealth and Human Capital Effects of Communist Party Connections
3rd Seminar Series on Governance, Institutions and Sustainability
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November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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📢 CFA: Online workshop “From a Great Idea to a Great Publication” — Mon 10 Nov, 13:00–14:30 CET.
Apply by 10 Nov, 11:00 CET.
Join us for an exchange on publishing strategies—what worked, why, and how you can adapt it.
Details & form: retlami-see.fpn.unibl.org/eng/cfa-onli...
#HorizonEU
CFA: Online Workshop "From a Great Idea to a Great Publication"
As part of the activities of the project RETLAMI-SEE at the University of Banja Luka, the project consortium invites interested researchers to participate in an online workshop dedicated to horizontal...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM