New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast with Buryat architect, activist and artist Seseg Jigjitova. We’ve been conversing for a while, from Berlin to Mediterranean. Then we sat down in a small bedroom and poured our hearts out. This is a special episode. Take a listen.

Stephen M. Bland will appear on the Spotlight on Central Asia podcast with @pannierb.bsky.social to discuss how the Iran war is affecting the region’s trade routes and diplomacy alongside Alex Vatanka https://ow.ly/eUOA50YpHwo #CentralAsia #IranWar #Podcast #Geopolitics #TradeRoutes #MiddleEast

My forthcoming co-edited volume. Already in pre-order with publication date in July 2026! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Call for Self-Nominations for the Board of Directors Deadline: April 15 ASEEES is currently accepting self-nominations for the 2027 ASEEES Board of Directors. All Board positions are for three-year terms, except the Graduate Student Representative, which is for a two-year term. buff.ly/cGQFEa7

12 March, 13:00 | Online Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has changed general & self-perceptions of ‘Russianness’ abroad. At an event by the #ERDAM network, reserchers discuss what findings from interviews with Russians living in #Latvia & #Finland imply for diaspora & identity studies.

'Gorshkov provides powerful evidence, especially from areas affected by famines and collectivization, of the ubiquity of child vagrancy and the increasingly coercive means used to address it.' Slavic Review Discover the book 📗 https://bit.ly/48lVqWr

Alen Lee is a cool artistic writer to watch rn: www.tate.org.uk/research/res...

Announcing our Keynote Speaker for the CESS Regional Conference 2026! For more details, see our recent post on the CESS website: tinyurl.com/4hebpdc8

Join us for an evening talk with bestselling author and EU Prize for Literature winner Tatiana Țîbuleac, who will discuss how #Moldovan, #Romanian and diasporic history and identities reflect throughout her writing. 🗓️ 13 March at 5pm 📍 In-person & online ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Aziza Kadyri talk at UCL SSEES Friday, 6 March 5 pm to 7.30 pm (wine reception and nibbles) Address: 16 Taviton Road, SSEES, 4th Floor, Masaryk Room. Register below 👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... And before that, attend her superb exhibition "Play Nice" at Somerset House!

Call for Proposals! Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia University of Szczecin, Poland October 28-29, 2026

CfP: Asynchronous Histories Summer School (second edition) We would like to kindly invite you to the 2nd edition of Asynchronous Histories Summer School which will be held in Warsaw 31 August - 4 September 2026: ihpan.edu.pl/en/cfp-...

Just under a month left to submit proposals for the CESS Regional Conference 2026 in Astana, Kazakhstan! The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15, 2026. Submit through CESS's intake platform: tinyurl.com/3vck92mn For more information: tinyurl.com/3h4wnjwz

Before the Red Army closed the curtain in 1945, Harbin was the unexpected epicenter of Russian exile culture in East Asia. East View's new collection, the Rubezh Digital Archive, is a unique window into the cultural life of “Russian Manchuria.” Learn more here www.eastview.com/resources/jo...

New in Advance Articles: The Way Home, or the Way to Prison? Gender Legacies and Anti-War Protest in Russia by Alexandra Novitskaya, Janet Elise Johnson, Valerie Sperling, & Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

Call for Nominations: ASEEES is now accepting nominations for its annual awards and prizes, which will be presented during the 2026 ASEEES Annual Convention. buff.ly/K5QYQfy #ASEEESPrizes

🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES. 📍 Location: London (hybrid) 🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026 🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026 ➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Analyzing Russian population trends? East View’s Global Census Archive provides academic libraries with online access to official census data from 1897 to 2020. Covers comprehensive historical and modern results from the Russian Empire and USSR. Details: www.eastview.com/resources/e-...

Call for Proposals Central Eurasian Studies Society Regional Conference 2026 "(Re)thinking Central Eurasia: Spaces, Societies, and Power" Date: June 16 – 19, 2026 Location: Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. Proposal Deadline: March 15, 2026 For more information: tinyurl.com/3h4wnjwz

🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Czech and Comparative Literature The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature. 🗓️ Deadline: 26 February ➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj

Save the Date! CESS Regional Conference 2026 June 16 - 19, 2026 Nazarbayev University Astana, Kazakhstan Stay tuned for further updates, registration details, and an upcoming call for papers. We look forward to seeing you in June!

Call for Papers CESS Graduate and Early-Career Interdisciplinary Workshop 2026 - “Memory and Memorial Culture Across Central Eurasia” University of Michigan October 2026 (exact date TBD) For more details - tinyurl.com/hvvwwdba

In 1996, journalist Irena Brežná travelled to #Chechnya to write a report on the activities of Chechen women under Russian bombs and missiles. In this talk, she will share her experience in this forgotten war without rules. This event will be delivered in Russian. 🗓️ 4 February ➡️ buff.ly/Q1gY6XJ

Hybid event: Anna Nakai, “Sporadic Trajectory of Eastern European Thought: Postwar Japanese Intellectuals and Their Source of Alternative Ideas”, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, Wednesday 28 January, 15:00 CET ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/j/85...

Available through open access in the latest #SlavicReview, "Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland" by Łukasz Zaremba and Maciej Duklewski. buff.ly/l3UOFDh A part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies

🔊 Yugo Queer Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. 🗓️ 19 February ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🔊 Due to high demand, this event will now be livestreamed online Join us for an exploration of how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging. 🗓️ 3 February at 5pm ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Civil Society, Accountability, and Growth in Resource-Rich Countries: Myth or Reality? New article (with A. Dosmaganbetov) in Politics & Policy: EITI boosts growth mainly via investor signalling, not accountability. Evidence from Central Asia and beyond onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're so excited about the breadth and quality of proposals received so far. Don't miss this opportunity! The deadline has been extended to January 25th. Submit an abstract here: bit.ly/reecasnw

We've just rolled out the CfP for our 4th Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia. The central theme is "Environment, Society, and Power in Central Asia" in honor of late Maya K. Peterson. daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/insights/cal...

'Eurasian exchanges: Central Asian nomadic pastoralists, mountain ecosystems, and market economies in the early twentieth century', by Jennifer Keating UCD [open access] www.cambridge.org/core/service...

A PhD opportunity at Malmö University, 'with a focus on administrative law reform and authoritarian legitimation in Central Asia'. Deadline 31st Jan. If anyone's interested I can put you in touch with people at Malmö. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/101...

NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention. See tips and guidelines or register for a networking session: buff.ly/ILgiGgN #ASEEES26 Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern

Yearbook of the Institute of East-Central Europe vol. 23 no. 4,. Thematic issue Intellectual history, historical narratives,and applied history. Open access, English OA: ies.lublin.pl/roczni...

The latest issue of The Current Digest of the Russian Press is out. Learn more and subscribe here www.eastviewpress.com/cdrp-toc-48-...

FEATURED JOB: MIT AKPIA 2026-2027 POSTDOCTORAL/POST-PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH IN ISLAMIC ART, ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, DESIGN, AND PRESERVATION - Massachusetts Institute of Technology networks.h-net.org/jobs/69703/m... #job #edusky #academicsky #postdoctoral #highered #fellowship

Recently published: Dear Compatriots: New Year Speeches as Sites for Post-Soviet Political Communication Available by Adam Lenton & Akbota Karibayeva Free to access for one week! 👇 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

The December issue is out! With research articles on: 🔸New Year speeches as post-Soviet political communication 🔸populism & conspiracy theory in Serbia 🔸China's history in Russian textbooks 🔸WWII memorials & electoral geography in Croatia 🔸civic activism in Bosnia & Poland [1/2]

📣 New publication! The latest special issue of Mobilities, 'Connectivity and Disconnectivity in the South #Caucasus', edited by ZOiS social anthropologist Tsypylma Darieva, Susanne Fehlings (Frobenius Institute), & Franziska Smolnik (@swp-berlin.org) is out now: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmob20/20/6

The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!

📖 New article online! 'Decadents and Saboteurs: Homosexuals on Trial in Post-War Socialist Yugoslavia', by Franko Dota www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Diskussion: Die Zerstörung des Hochschulsystems in Georgien 📆 20. Januar 2026, 12:30 Uhr 📍 Online via Zoom Mit Michael Harms, Angelika Nußberger und Giga Zedania Anmeldung: https://dgo-online.org/kalender/berlin/2026/die-zerstoerung-des-hochschulsystems-in-georgien/ In Kooperation mit @dgap.org

Analyst job at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) in the The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social @nordicukraine.bsky.social jobb.ui.se/jobs/6546945...

I was also asked to share this: CFP for Central Asian Studies Conference in Spring at the University of Chicago on April 17-18 on Arts and Culture! Deadline 1st of February Send all inquiries and abstracts to [email protected] One of the keynotes is amazing artist Gulnur Mukazhanova

On November 20, Dr. Cythia Werner (Texas AMU) led a CESS 2025 Post-Conference Workshop. Dr. Werner provided participants with a detailed overview of career progression for instructors in US Higher Education Institutions. Thank you, Dr. Werner and workshop participants for your fruitful dialogue.

Marianne Kamp was awarded a CESS Book Award for "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan." Dr. Kamp spoke about the recent book in an interview with Nicholas Seay, graduate student board member of CESS. Read the piece here: tinyurl.com/42u9zdf5

We are happy to share this conference opportunity from our partners at the UIUC's Slavic Reference Service and the American University of Central Asia! Please see the post below for more details on submitting proposals. tinyurl.com/r39jekww

New in Advance Articles (🔆Open Access🔆): Finding Space for Activism: Understanding Youth Activists in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine by Bakhytzhan Kurmanov, Brian Smith, and Caress Schenk doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Call for Proposals 2026 ASEEES Annual Convention - Submission Site Now Open Theme: States and Empires Spotlight on Balkan Studies Deadline: March 1 buff.ly/7eZO4lX #ASEEES26

Join us for one or more of our virtual networking sessions for organizing panels. These meetings will give potential convention participants an opportunity to meet colleagues with overlapping research interests and ask questions about organizing panels for the Convention. buff.ly/3bib4lT #ASEEES26