📢Attention please: for the fourth year in a row, the BISA South East Europe Working Group is bringing together people working on International Relations (in the absolute broadest sense possible!) and/from/in South-East Europe for an explorative online workshop

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM @visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

As we reach the end of #BISA2025 we would like to say a huge thank you to every delegate that took part in #BISA2025! To help make this conference even better next year we would be grateful if you could check your emails to complete our short conference survey! 🎉

🔴 Roundtable: (Counter)solidarities in Times of Genocide Exploring historical & contemporary ties between SEE societies, Palestine & Israel. 📍Amsterdam, Europa Hotel #BISA2025 #SEE #SolidarityPolitics

Happening now at #BISA2025: 📍Panel – Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Traces and Haunting Organised by the South East Europe Working Group Exploring the spectral, material & embodied geographies of migration across the Balkan Route. #BorderViolence #MigrationStudies #Balkans #SouthEastEurope

📚Introduction to book publishing! 📚 w/ @julietdryden.bsky.social Isobel Cowper-Coles, Fiona Richman, Don Jacobs, John Haslam & @atifajiwa.bsky.social #BISA2025

📍 South East Europe Working Group rountable at #BISASA2025: "Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵 How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move? #Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute

🚨 #BISA2025 is live! We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe: 🔋 Lithium mining 🌱 Green activism ⚖️ Transitional justice 🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction #InternationalRelations #Balkans

🎓 Are you heading to #BISA2025? Don't miss what the South East Europe Working Group has in store!

##BISA2025 is just around the corner. See you all on in Belfast. Check the panels and rountables sponsored by us 🔽🔽

Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social‬ podcast, is recording at #BISA2025 🎙️ Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social‬ @faloulah.bsky.social‬ & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉 Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl @bisasee.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social

🌟We are still open for papers for our BISA-ISA Joint International Conference 2025! 🌟 'Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities' Submit now 👉 buff.ly/hVecwF2 @eeeswg.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social

🎉 New @bisasee.bsky.social article 🎉 'Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle' w/ @anavilenica.bsky.social reflecting on the book 'Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: A Lexicon of Reorientation' Read now - www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

#BISA2025 starts in less than a month (though a busy month) and we are looking forward to 25 BISA SEE speakers represented across 3 panels and 4 round tables 👇 @mybisa.bsky.social

📘 New blog post alert! 🚨 Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war? Read more on our blog. 🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

For those among you and your networks interested in just energy transitions and gender in the Balkans who might be considering doing a PhD, this call might be of interest (Deadline: 7 April) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Rounding up the BISA SEE Liverpool Workshop with few photo highlights. Massive thanks goes to all contributors and audiences. Special thanks go to @mybisa.bsky.social and @livunipol.bsky.social for supporting us (and ensuring such an inspiring working space in @sotauol.bsky.social libray)

Panel 2: @saricjo.bsky.social, Islam Jusufi and Filip Balunovic engage with 'klećavci,' 'land' and 'disapora.'

📢The first panel of the day features Danilo Burzanović (@unibarcelonathe.bsky.social ), Nina Djukanović ( @ox.ac.uk) and Vanessa Pupavac ( @uniofnottingham.bsky.social ).

And we are starting! Great papers and wonderful hosts @matesuba.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social

📢We are now kicking off a roundtable celebrating 20 Years of the BISA South East Europe Working Group. 👉We are joined by seven past convenors of the Working Group to discuss how the Working Group has changed since its origins as well as their experiences with BISA alongside.

Such a pleasure to welcome @bisasee.bsky.social to @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

Roundtable of past convenors discussing 20 years of the working group. @danielalai.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social @richmondbridge.bsky.social @katkusic.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social Lydia Cole and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik

Exhibition among the book shelves! A pleasure to be joining the @bisasee.bsky.social 20 year celebration workshop at @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social today with our exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos.

BISA SEE WG Liverpool workshop in full swing. Inspiring encounters and great community!

So pleased to invite and feature exhibition created by @gemmabird.bsky.social and the team! Thank you! Such an emancipating story.

We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop. The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.

NEW VOICES IN CULTURAL RELATIONS PRIZE🌟 We are once again running our joint prize for masters students with the British Council! The nomination DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to 24 Feb Nominate here: bisa.ac.uk/members/awar... @ipegbisa.bsky.social @bisawarstudies.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social

🌟REFERRAL SCHEME 🌟 When our members refer a new member to #BISA, they get 3 MONTHS FREE MEMBERSHIP Tell your friends & colleagues to join us & make sure they put your name in the referrals box! Find out more: ow.ly/7UMT50BGJHJ T&Cs apply @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social

Come and explore what we have on this week... - Engaging with academic journals event TODAY!🎉 - @bisasee.bsky.social and @livunipol.bsky.social 20th anniversary workshop 🌟 - BISA PGN academic writing workshop📝 to register 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/events #internationalrelations #academicworkshops

ANNUAL PRIZES - DEADLINE EXTENDED! 🌟 New deadline 24 Feb Our annual prizes recognise excellence & achievement through research & teaching in International Studies! Nominate: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes @risjnl.bsky.social @bisawarstudies.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social

‘Photography and Branding in Romanian Fascism’ PhD opportunity at University of Liverpool ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

📣 Call for applications 📣 @audreygagnon.bsky.social & Nicola Mathieson are collaborating with @crexuio.bsky.social and VOX-Pol to organize a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism, to be held in Oslo from 9-13 June 2025! For more info: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Would you like to share your research with our community? Our CFP is open until tomorrow. Check the details and apply ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Are you joining us today, 5pm UK time? Virtual book launch for "Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding: The Role of Women in Making the State in Kosovo"

On Thursday, @bisasee.bsky.social, @uclssees.bsky.social, Piro Rexhepi & I will be hosting the virtual book launch of Feminist encounters in statebuilding: The role of women in making the state in Kosovo, edited by the feminist powerhouses @vjosamusliu.bsky.social & Itziar Mujika Chao. Zoom sign-up👇

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS ⏱️Deadline 10 December Together with @livunipol.bsky.social, we are marking the 20th anniversary of the BISA #SouthEastEurope working group. We are seeking two panels of papers/scholars to join us in Liverpool. Read more and apply on our website: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

It's the last few days to apply for our early-career and learning and teaching funding programmes! Deadline Mon 25 Nov. Find out more at: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/fund... #funding @risjnl.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social @irss-bisa.bsky.social @bleddb.bsky.social

📖Virtual BOOK LAUNCH 🕑05 December 5 pm (UK time) Together with @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social we co-host a virtual launch, 'Feminist Encounters in Making the State of Kosovo' co-edited by @vjosamusliu.bsky.social and Itziar Mujika Chao. More info and registration: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

BISA SEE has joined @bsky.app, and we hope to reach out to the academic and non-academic communities across and beyond the region. Follow us to learn more about us, @mybisa.bsky.social, SEE, and the events we organise to bring researchers into conversation and create spaces for insightful exchange.