The Department of Sociology at OEI invites you to this semester's colloquium. No registration required! www.oei.fu-berlin.de/soziologie/F...

Herzliche Einladung zum Kolloquium zur Geschichte Osteuropas @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

It's #ceecon time again! You can now apply for ceecon26 (October 8/9 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) Theme of 2026 is "(Un)Certainties" For more information see: https://ceecon.de/en/ceecon-26-call-for-papers-cfp-congress-dgo-east-european-studies/ @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social

We congratulate @abalkina.bsky.social, a research fellow in the Department of Politics at the Osteuropa-Institut, on being recognized by @tagesspiegel.de for her most important and truly inspiring research on scientific and academic misconduct!

📣 We are happy to announce this semester's OEI Lectures on "Mobility and Order: Models, Actors and Contestations in Eurasia" 📅 Wednesdays, 2–4 p.m. 📍 OEI, Garystr. 55, Hörsaal A 🗓️ Full programme available here: tinyurl.com/OEILec26 📹 Lecture recordings: www.youtube.com/@osteuropain...

📢 Join us for a one-day workshop "Russia’s Right-Wing and the War" 🗓️ 26.09.25 📍 Edwin-Redslob-Str. 29 🖋️Please sign up at [email protected]! ℹ️ shorturl.at/YTWM6 Co-organizer @scripts-berlin.eu Funded by @dfg.de

📑 Check out a new journal article by OEI's Mihai Varga and Aron Buzogány @buzogany.bsky.social of the Universität für Bodenkultur on agricultural policy and rural development in contemporary Ukraine 🇺🇦. The article is available to the public free of charge🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 A new article on the Russian "anti-woke visas" by DW with an interview by OEI's professor of sociology Katharina Bluhm

📑 A new publication by OEI's Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga on the intricacies of Russia’s current political landscape.

From June 23 to June 29, 2025, Freie Universität Berlin will be cutting out the letter e from its communication. Why? Because the university itself is facing cuts: around 37 million euros this year alone. Additional cuts are also planned for 2026 and 2027. (1/3)

We are happy to announce that OEI will take part in Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025 🌃🌘 Our theme is protests camps in authoritarian regimes, their organization and resistance.✊ 🔗 tinyurl.com/LNDWOEI25 📍Rostlaube, room K31/102, FU Berlin 📅28.6.25 🕙5pm-9pm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

On Thursday, 12 June at 5 pm Ilya Gerasimov and Marina Mogilner will present their book A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1918: From Russian to Global History. The event takes place at ZMO in cooperation with @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social and will be followed by a reception.

📣 Join us for the annual Richard Löwenthal Lecture on "Return and Return Intentions of Ukrainian Refugees" by Prof. Panu Poutvaara. 🇺🇦 📅 11.06.2025, 4 PM 📍 Hörsaal A, OEI, Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin 🔗 tinyurl.com/LOE25 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

🚨CfP | Interdisciplinary Student Conference "BEYOND EMPIRES – Fokus Osteuropa" 👩‍🎓For students of Eastern Europe 📄/🎨 Submit either a conference paper or a creative project 🏁Apply by 30.06.25 ❗ ♾️ tinyurl.com/BE0625 @dgoberlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

📢 Transcribing Violence: Art, Nature, Politics 📅 24.05.2025 🕘 16.00 📍 taz Kantine, Friedrichstraße 21, 10969 Berlin ℹ️ tinyurl.com/VIO2405 Organised by @bpb.de and EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Join us for the workshop “Ukraine's Resilience and Recovery: Social Dimension”🇺🇦 📅 05.05.25 🕘 09.00 - 17.45 📍 Seminarzentrum, FU Berlin, Room L115, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, 14195 Berlin ℹ️ tinyurl.com/UA0525 @kiu-network.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @viadrina.bsky.social

The Ukraine Lecture Series starts on 14 April, takes place every Monday, 6 P.M. @daadworldwide.bsky.social @viadrina.bsky.social @vcpu.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social @bbaw.bsky.social @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social @wiko-berlin.bsky.social

🎉 We are happy to announce that the course catalog for the upcoming summer term is now available! OEI's five departments — 👥 Sociology, 🌍 Politics, 🎨 Culture, 📜 History, 📈 Economics — will once again offer a diverse range of seminars. We wish you a restful break and an inspiring semester ahead! 🌷

Last week OEI was happy welcome @manuelaboatca.bsky.social with a lecture on Transylvania, coloniality and interimperiality. It is now available on our YT 📺: youtu.be/Bjhh23YGWjA?.... 📣Join us this Wednesday for the closing panel on Eastern Europe and Postcolonial Studies: tinyurl.com/OEICONCL

Congratulations to Anna Abalkina, a research fellow in the Department of Politics at OEI, a long-standing fighter for academic and research integrity, and one of the Nature's 10 in 2024, and her colleagues on their recent publication! We thank Anna and her colleagues for their most important work.

Excellent post-doc opportunity!⬇️

🎞️Tune in for this week's lecture by Rano Turaeva on decolonising Central Asian Studies and please 🔔 subscribe❗ Next week: Galyna Sukhomud with "Russian Occupation and Ukrainian Resistance through City Planning and Spatial Practice". tinyurl.com/OEIGS 📅 29.01.2025 🕰️ 14:15 - 15:45 🗺️ OEI, Hörsaal A

💸Fully funded PhD Scholarship at @kiu-network.bsky.social 🎓Be part of the first Ukrainian Studies doctoral school in Germany. 📅More information per online consultation on the 23. January, 3 p.m. @zois.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Der heutige Vortrag von Franziska Davies "Sowjetische Geschichte dekolonial erzählen? Polen, die Ukraine in den 1980er Jahren und das Ende von Moskaus Vorherrschaft in Osteuropa" muss leider entfallen. Wir entschuldigen uns für die Unannehmlichkeiten. www.oei.fu-berlin.de/institut/ter...

📢 Applications now open! 📅 15–26.09.2025 🗺️ Kazakh-German University, Almaty, KZ 🌐 Working languages: DE & EN 👩🏽‍🎓 Who can apply? Students of DE & KZ universities 🏁 Apply by: 31.03.2025 (grants) & 30.04.2025 (summer school) ℹ️ tinyurl.com/DKUKZ25 The funding is provided by @daadworldwide.bsky.social

Heute kehrt auch das OEI @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social X-twitter endgültig den Rücken. #eXit & auf zu neuen Ufern!

Any questions left about the KIU Graduate Program @viadrina.bsky.social ? Join us tomorrow for an online consultation, 8 January, 3 p.m CET. More information and link here: bit.ly/4ivaHqU The application deadline ends 25 January. #KIU #UkrainianStudies

Bis morgen!

A new lecture by Viktor Vakhstein in the "Osteuropa: Postkolonial/Dekolonial?" series is now available on our YT channel. We struggled with the sound quality for the first half of the semester, for which we apologize. Now the problem has finally been solved!

The KIU Graduate Programme is the first structured doctoral programme in Germany for Ukrainian Studies. Apply now! Deadline: 25 January 2025 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @wiko-berlin.bsky.social @bbaw.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social #UkrainianStudies #Viadrina

We are proud to congratulate our colleague @abalkina.bsky.social with being recognized for her fight against scientific misconduct and plagiarism by Nature!

🚨There was a last-minute room change to Room 301a. We apologize for the inconvenience.

OVD-Info 2000€ Prize for MA and PhD Research on Repression, Surveillance and Censorship in Contemporary Russia. 🚨 Application deadline: December 31, 2024

This Wednesday, the Department of Culture of OEI is hosting Prof. Roman Dubasevych with the talk titled "From Zero to Hero, vom Loser zum Führer: Männlichkeit und Krieg in der Ukraine". 📍 Room 302, OEI, Garystr. 55 📅 11.12.2024 🕔 16.00