Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES
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Southeast European studies at the School for Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Follow for events, publications, news.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.
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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
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🗓️ 12 November at 6pm
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October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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
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🗓️ 12 November at 6pm
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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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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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October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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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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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...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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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
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🗓️ 21 October at 6pm
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October 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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
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🗓️ 21 October at 6pm
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➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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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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
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
UCL SSEES PhD Funding Opportunities
View our current PhD Funding Opportunities at SSEES.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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🔊 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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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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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
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October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🔊 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.
buff.ly/vH9y5Tc
@seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social
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.
buff.ly/vH9y5Tc
@seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social
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🔊 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
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Co-sponsored by @criticalchildhood.bsky.social
🗓️6 October at 5pm
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➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
September 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🔊 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
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Co-sponsored by @criticalchildhood.bsky.social
🗓️6 October at 5pm
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➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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.
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Pop Culture and Memory Politics in the Former Yugoslavia
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković
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September 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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...
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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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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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...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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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#NewsNet
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#NewsNet
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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Current calls – RECAS
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September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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🎉 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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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
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September 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🎉 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".
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@artshumsucl.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@artshumsucl.bsky.social
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.'
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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.'
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“Like My Own”: Adopting Displaced Children after the Great War
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Prof. Theodora Dragostinova
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September 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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...
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...
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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 ⬇️
📅 Start: 27 Sep ⬇️
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.
daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
September 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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 ⬇️
📅 Start: 27 Sep ⬇️
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An exhibit on the history of workers' self-management, for people who are around (Bg, Zg, NS).
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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.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
An exhibit on the history of workers' self-management, for people who are around (Bg, Zg, NS).
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fabrikeradnicima.com
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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
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
July 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
👏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
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
Coming up at SSEES -- free and open to the public, registration (at the link) is required.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events....
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events....
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,...
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June 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Coming up at SSEES -- free and open to the public, registration (at the link) is required.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events....
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events....
Project launch 10 June at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Centre in Derby: “Connecting Solidarities”
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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...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Project launch 10 June at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Centre in Derby: “Connecting Solidarities”
bosniancentre.org/2785-2/
bosniancentre.org/2785-2/
A special issue of “Balkanologie” -- “The taste of the Balkans,” history, anthropology, and sociology of Balkan cuisines. journals.openedition.org/balkanologie...
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...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
A special issue of “Balkanologie” -- “The taste of the Balkans,” history, anthropology, and sociology of Balkan cuisines. journals.openedition.org/balkanologie...
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...
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...
Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Adelina Stefan
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May 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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...
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...
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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:
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)
www.southampton.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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:
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...
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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
www.gold.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...
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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January 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Let's welcome our colleagues at Maastricht to Blueski! Give a follow to @umceehub.bsky.social
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We are pleased to invite you to the next #PROLang event on researching Albanology.
🗓️ 21 January at 4pm
📍 In-person and online
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🗓️ 21 January at 4pm
📍 In-person and online
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January 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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...
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.
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December 18, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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...