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With just two weeks to go until our Annual Conference begins, we are honored to present our first keynote: Iryna Marchuk (Univ. of Copenhagen) will explore the topic „Regionalization of International Law, Great Powers and the Global Order“. More about the conference: leibniz-ios.de/en/events/de...

„Für Viktor #Orbán und seine Regierung geht es um mehr als nur den Verlust der Macht – hier geht es wirklich um existenzielle Fragen.“ IOS-Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer im Deutschlandfunk zur Wahl in #Ungarn am Sonntag und ihren Folgen für die #EU. Zum Nachhören ➡️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-wahrsche...

✨We are excited to spring into the new summer semester with you! April and May are packed with events, collaborations and visiting researchers. Find out more: europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

Am 12. April wählt #Ungarn – und es könnte das Ende von 16 Jahren Viktor #Orbán bedeuten. In der @zeit.de erklärt IOS-Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer, was auf dem Spiel steht: für Ungarn, für die EU und warum Russland und die USA den Wahlkampf mitbestimmen. ➡️ www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

! SAVE THE DATE ! 🎓 GS OSES Welcome Event & Colloquium Lecture | April 16 We are pleased to welcome our new cohort of predoctoral and doctoral researchers at GS OSES at the University of Regensburg and invite you to the first GS OSES & Leibniz ScienceCampus Colloquium Lecture of the semester.

Our new programme for the summer term 2026 is ready! We’ve designed it to inspire curiosity, encourage collaboration, and open doors to exciting academic opportunities across the disciplines. We’re excited to explore new ideas together and create an inspiring semester ahead!

"From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures": At the 2026 IOS Conference, we will examine the profound political upheavals underway in Eastern Europe and introduce our new Department of Politics. Keynotes by Iryna Marchuk and Maria Mälksoo. 🔗 Program is now online: leibniz-ios.de/veranstaltun...

+++ Call for Applications +++ Deadline: 22 April 2026

#Neuerscheinung Der Band „Vertreibung und Erinnerung“, herausgegeben von Katrin Boeckh (IOS), bietet 80 Jahre nach der #Vertreibung der Deutschen aus Mittel- und Osteuropa erstmals eine umfassende Synthese des Forschungsstands aus internationaler Perspektive vor. 🔗 leibniz-ios.de/wissen-vermi...

Dear Marie-Janine Calic, the GS OSES would like to congratulate you wholeheartedly on this fantastic achievement! www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

Wir gratulieren unserer Münchner PI Marie-Janine Calic sehr herzlich für den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse für ihre "Balkan-Odyssee"! 🥳

Viktor Orbán gilt Rechten als Leitstern. Doch oft bestimmt nicht Nationalismus seine Politik, sondern Korruption. Für die EU macht ihn das gefährlich, vor der Wahl in Ungarn gefährdet er damit jedoch auch sich selbst. Kommentar von Ulf Brunnbauer, auf unserem Blog. 🔗 ostblog.hypotheses.org/8908

🇬🇪 Georgiens Regierung zerstört systematisch die demokratische Ordnung. Mit einer Hochschulreform greift sie nun auch nach umfassender Kontrolle über die Universitäten – und nimmt mutwillig das Ende von Spitzenforschung in Kauf. Kommentar von Ulf Brunnbauer und Guido Hausmann auf unserem Blog. ⬇️

At our Annual Graduate Workshop “Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies“, the participants examined the ways in which material objects and natural elements shape our recollections of the past. The organizers gave an interview about their findings. blog.uni-regensburg.de/corals-and-c...

Wir gratulieren Frau Marie-Janine Calic sehr herzlich zu ihrer Shortlist-Nominierung für den Deutschen Buchpreis in der Kategorie Sachbuch/Essayistik!📕 Mit ihrem Buch "Balkan-Odysee, 1933-1941. Auf der Flucht vor Hitler durch Südosteuropa" überzeugte sie die Jury! Wir drücken ihr die Daumen 😊!

❗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. 🌍📚