❗Call for Papers ❗ This workshop is being organised by one of our former PIs, Heike Karge, together with two of our doctoral students, Nikola Gajić and Oleksandr Nadtoka. We would appreciate your support in sharing this Call widely. 🫶 Deadline: 31 March 2026

📣 #CfP: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order" Conference at #LeibnizIOS Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026. We welcome proposals on the Yugoslav Wars & their impact on European & international politics. 📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026 ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

Congratulations, Vita🎓 We warmly congratulate Vita and wish her every success for the exciting path ahead — both professionally and personally. 🌟 #PhD #doctorate #AcademicSuccess #research #graduation The picture shows Vita and her two supervisors: Ger Duijzings and Anna Carastathis.

📚 Our journal, #COMPSEES 73/4 available in #OpenAccess! Articles on anti-gender mobilisation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, EU accession dynamics in the Western Balkans, Greece's role in maritime security, finance-driven poverty reduction & a film review of J. Žbanić's "Blum". leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

❗Tomorrow is finally the day ❗ Join us for the keynote lecture at the 7th Annual Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES (UR) in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus on this year's theme, ‘Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies.’ More details see here 👉 www.gsoses-ur.de/.../Final_Wo...

Why did East Germany's efforts to catch up economically stall after reunification? Matthias Mertens (MIT) shows how tech gaps reduced firms' incentives to compete & invest, perpetuating existing disparities. More in our economics talk. 📅 27 Jan | 13:30 CET | Online ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/events/de...

👇 SAVE THE DATE 👇 We are pleased to invite you to this year’s Graduate Workshop “Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies”, taking place on 5–6 February in Regensburg More information see here: www.gsoses-ur.de/events-and-n...

❗Save the Date for our final colloquium of the Winter Semester ❗ This talk will examine how food chemistry addressed postwar food shortages in the Soviet Union through experiments with synthetic food produced from non-edible materials.

We are delighted to welcome the third speaker in our Margins of Memory series. In this talk, Eve Rosenhaft offers insights on her book project “Ronald Roberts, the Lad Who Outwitted The Nazis: From Weimar Germany to Windrush Britain”. (1/2) #memory #resistance #research #untoldstories #regensburg

How did privatization affect workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Anđela Pepić (U Banja Luka) examines industrial decline & labor struggles, exploring how ethnonational frameworks undermined worker solidarity. More in our economics talk. 📅 16 Dec | 13:30 CET | Online ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/events/de...

✨ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS AND SEE YOU BACK AGAIN ON 7 JANUARY 2026✨

We are delighted to share fantastic news from the GS OSES community: 🏅 Volha Bartash and 🏅 Čarna Brković, two of our former postdoctoral researchers have just been awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants! Congratulations to both awardees, we look so much forward to our continued collaboration!

+++ Call for Applications +++ PhD position at the Department of Historical Studies, CEU (Vienna) in collaboration with the ProletGard ERC Starting Grant project, Kassák Foundation (Budapest, Hungary). ❗Deadline pre-application: 5 January 2026❗ ❗Deadline application: 4 Februrary 2026❗

+++ SAVE THE DATE +++ We are delighted to invite you to our second career talk on 9 December 2025, at 16:15 (ZOOM). Where four former doctoral researchers of the GS OSES will share insights into their professional journeys both within and beyond academia. www.gsoses-ur.de/.../career-t....

Vampirglaube verbreitet nicht nur Furcht unter Sterblichen – sondern kann auch eine ganze Staatsverwaltung aufschrecken. Bei @spektrum.de erklärt #LeibnizIOS​-Historiker Peter Mario Kreuter, wie erste Meldungen über Vampire vor 300 Jahren Beamte des Habsburgerreichs auf Trab hielten (Paywall) ⬇️

+++ Stellenausschreibung +++ Leitung (m, w, d) für das Informationszentrum in Kyjiw in Vollzeit Bewerbungsende: 31.12.2025

📣 #CallForPapers: "Homecomings" & Internal Migrations in Central & Southeast Europe. Conference at the University of Primorska, Koper, June 11–12, 2026. Exploring return migration, remittances, internal mobility & diaspora connections. 📅 Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 Details ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

On 30 November 2025, around 2,000 people gathered in #Rijeka for an #antifascist protest, while masked men performed fascist salutes & intimidated participants. On our #ostBLOG, @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social (IOS) argues that the mayor’s refusal to take a stand creates space for the far right. ⬇️

Gulnar T. Kendirbai: Russian Practices of Governance in Eurasia. Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century. Rezension von Ricarda Vulpius #OpenAccess in Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO: biblioscout.net/article/99.1...

#CfP #DeadlineExtended 7 Jan! To broaden the regional + temporal balance. work on the Americas (incl. the US) in relation to independence + post/colonial dependencies, papers on contemporary debates about sovereignty, dependence, and infrastructures esp. welcome. europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

📣 Reminder: The deadline for our 13th #LeibnizIOS Annual Conference "From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures" is approaching! Keynote: Maria Mälksoo (U of Copenhagen). Submit your proposals on democratic erosion, security, digital politics & more in East & #SoutheastEurope. 📆 Deadline: 15 Dec ⬇️

In unserer #Bibliothek lagert NS-Raubgut. Wie entdeckt man es? Welche Geschichten verbergen sich dahinter? Daniela Mathuber mit einer Serie auf unserem #ostBLOG über Fundstücke & #Provenienzforschung am #LeibnizIOS. Teil XIV: wie über 100 Judaica zurück nach Budapest gelangten. ⬇️

+++ Call for Applications +++ The Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies is offering two part-time positions (50 %) to be filled by 1 April 2026 as a Pre-Doctoral Researcher. More information see here: www.gsoses-ur.de/.../detail/c... ❗ Deadline: 6 January 2026 ❗

🔎 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

📣 #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 ⬇️

+++Save the date for our upcoming colloquium next week+++ This talk focuses on Jewish economic life in postwar West Germany. The speaker, Anna Holian, is currently a visiting researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Regensburg as part of the fellowship programme. www.gsoses-ur.de/events-and-n...

NEUERSCHEINUNG! Die Biografie "Tito Der ewige Partisan" von Professorin Dr. Marie-Janine Calic aus dem Jahr 2020 wurde nun von Ksenija Chochkova ins Makedonische übersetzt und ist im ili-ili Verlag erschienen. Wir gratulieren!

An exciting winter semester awaits at the Leibniz ScienceCampus! New visiting researchers, calls for papers & prizes and a rich line-up of events across disciplines. Explore the full programme, calls and deadlines here: www.europeamerica.de/news-and-eve... @leibniz-ios.de @uniregensburg.bsky.social

🇺🇦 From “rupture” to “resistance” In our blog, Yulia Kiselyova and Viktoriia Ivashchenko explore how displaced Ukrainian academics use metaphorical language to process trauma, reclaim agency, and redefine their professional mission. 🔗 Read the essay: ostblog.hypotheses.org/8151 #Ukraine

+++ Call for Applications +++ Deadline: 20 October 2025 retlami-see.fpn.unibl.org/eng/cfa-onli...

+++ Call for Applications +++ ❗Deadline: 31 October 2025❗ www.academics.de/jobs/postdoc...

📚 Jetzt auch auf Kroatisch: "In den Stürmen der Transformation". Studie zu Werften in #Gdynia & #Pula, die den Übergang vom Staatssozialismus zur Marktwirtschaft neu bewertet. Hrsg. von u.a. #LeibnizIOS​-Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer. Vorgestellt in Pula von Andrea Matošević & Magdalena Najbar-Agičić. ⬇️

💼 #JoinUs in beautiful #Regensburg as a #ResearchCoordinator (f/m/d, 75%, up to TV-L 13) for an Early Career Lab in Peace and #ConflictStudies in Eastern & Southeastern Europe. The lab is part of the research network #KonKoop. 📅 Application deadline: 9 Nov 2025 ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/vacancies...

📣 Our new semester programme is out now!📣 Join us for a diverse range of events – including lectures, book launches, guest talks, and workshops – all dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Eastern and Southeastern Europe and beyond. 🌍📚

+++ VERANSTALTUNGSHINWEIS +++ Komplettes Programm siehe hier: 👇 www.adbk.de/images/stori...

Congratulations on your more than successful disertation defense, Tereza Juhászová! 👏 We wish you all the best for your future career and beyond. 🩵 ims.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/succ...

Students of the ESG take on the past: Visit the exhibitions in Regensburg and Munich and explore how East European studies reckoned with its roots in the Nazi era and beyond. Read also Tanja Wagensohn's review of the exhibition here 👇 blog.uni-regensburg.de/unbelastet

+++ Stellenausschreibung +++ PostDoc im Bereich "Zeitgeschichte" karriere.plus.ac.at/de/jobs/aabe... ❗Bewerbungsfrist: 17.09.2025❗

+++ Call for Applications +++ 7th Annual Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES at the University Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Regensburg - Europe and America in the Modern World ❗ Deadline: 1 October 2025 ❗ More information see here: www.gsoses-ur.de/events-and-n...

Sarah Grandke, Visiting Doctoral Fellow at GS OSES (UR) talked about her research on "Displaced Persons" with the Deutschlandfunk. See more here: www.deutschlandfunk.de/befreit-und-...

Yesterday the long awaited 6th Annual Graduate Workshop was keenly opened by Katarina Damčević and Nikola Gajić. Besides known faces the workshop also attracted international guests.

Congratulations to Sarah Grandke on her latest publication in the Journal Memory Studies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... If you are interested in diving deeper into Sarah’s topic on DPs, please also check her recent publications at copernico: www.copernico.eu/.../displace....

📌 We are pleased to support the 6th Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East- and Southeast European Studies at the @uniregensburg.bsky.social. Organized by: @cindywittke.bsky.social, Nikola Gajić, @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social 🔗 lnkd.in/d7PsXfpe #ScienceCampus #KonKoop @leibniz-ios.de

"Moldova – (k)ein Land am Rand?" Interdisziplinäre Tagung zur Republik #Moldau zwischen historischen Zugehörigkeiten, sprachlichen Identitäten und aktuellen europäischen Herausforderungen. 📅 3. Juni | 9:00 CET | #Regensburg ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/veranstaltun...

📷 #Job: Interesse an digitaler Bildgeschichte & historischen Fotografien? Wir suchen eine*n wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in für das @dfg.de-Projekt #ImagOst zur Digitalisierung von Osteuropa-Sammlungen (50%, TV-L E13). Studium der Geschichte oder verwandter Fächer erforderlich. 📆 30. Juni ⬇️

How much can reducing border #bureaucracy boost trade? Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan (#LeibnizIOS) examines the Eurasian Customs Union's abolition of customs controls & its impact on trade diversification. More in our next economics talk. 📅 10 June | 13:30 CET | Hybrid ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/events/de...

Von Arbeitsmigrant*innen bis zu politischen Emigrant*innen: Drei Belgrader Historiker beleuchten in ihren Vorträgen 100 Jahre serbisch-deutsche Migrationsgeschichte. Im Anschluss: Verleihung des Andrej-Mitrović-Preises. 📅 12. Juni | 14:00 | #LeibnizIOS ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/veranstaltun...

Join our #JournalistTalks: Adina Marincea (Eli Wiesel Institute #Romania) on the rise of neo-fascism in Romanian politics, focusing on Călin Georgescu's electoral success, the role of social media, and the build-up of far-right infrastructure since 1989. 📅 17 June | 18:30 CET | vhs #Regensburg ⬇️

+++ Call for Applications +++ !!! Last chance, go for it !!! 👇👇👇 www.denkraum-ukraine.de/en/opportuni...

Von Arbeitsmigrant*innen bis zu politischen Emigrant*innen: Drei Belgrader Historiker beleuchten in ihren Vorträgen 100 Jahre serbisch-deutsche Migrationsgeschichte. Im Anschluss: Verleihung des Andrej-Mitrović-Preises. 📅 12. Juni | 14:00 | #Regensburg @leibniz-ios.de @gsoses.bsky.social