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IR and political ecology katarinakusic.com
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How are youth in SE Europe moving from "Margins to Makers"? RECAS Fellow Aleksandra Bajde's project examines youth-led ecological imaginaries in Belgrade & Ljubljana. Her work shows how art & music reclaim democratic agency under precarity.
recas.info/fellows/
#RECAS_SEE
#YouthAgency
#AcademicSky
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First day as an Assoc. Prof. at
@cas-see-uniri.bsky.social
— complete with Bura, the most adorable office puppy. It feels a bit surreal to end my long chain of post-docs, but I'm happy and excited to work where I live and contribute to something more permanent. Also, have I mentioned the dog? 🤩
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Jan Daniel
about 1 month ago
Postdoc position focusing on the visions of political change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Charles University, Prague We are looking for candidates who either hold PhD degree or are finishing their doctoral studies to join the project’s team, starting between spring and fall 2026
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Tena Prelec
3 months ago
Enrolment is open for the new English-taught Minor in Political Transformations at Uni Rijeka. We explore political change through the rule of law, IR, social theory, and engaged democracy, with a hands-on Challenge module. Apply by 31/01. Feel free to get in touch!
uniri.hr/en/vijesti/e...
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Enrollment for Two New Minors is Open! | UNIRI
Minor in Political Transformations (30 ECTS) War, migration, disinformation, climate collapse, and democratic erosion are reshaping politics worldwide. The Minor in Political Transformations explores…
https://uniri.hr/en/vijesti/enrollment-for-two-new-minors-is-open/
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Marcus Nicolson
4 months ago
📣 Anyone working on creative methods in political research and attending
@mybisa.bsky.social
#BISA2026
next year? We are looking for another participant in our roundtable on zine-making and creative methods as part of
@cawpbisa.bsky.social
if it sounds like you - please get in touch ASAP!
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Bram Büscher
4 months ago
CfP
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
2026: Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories. Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher More info:
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!
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Programme - POLLEN
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https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/programme/?utm_source=conference&coms_medium=sendy_Pollen2026_convenors_october#17420
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network
4 months ago
🗓️ 14 Nov | 15:00–17:00 CET - Upcoming Pathways Forum, Far-right ecologies: what challenges for sustainability science? The webinar explores how far-right ecologisms are reshaping sustainability science.
www.tickettailor.com/events/futur...
#FutureEarth
#PathwaysForum
#SustainabilityScience
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Register now! – Far right ecologies: what challenges for sustainability science? Pathways Deep Dive – Zoom
Far right ecologies: what challenges for sustainability science? Pathways Deep Dive – Zoom, Fri 14 Nov 2025 - As far-right movements gain influence across the Global North and South, their approach to...
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/futureearth/1892081
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Dominique Reill
4 months ago
In her "Empire, Environment, and the Judson Legacy: Reflections from the first Central European History Convention in Vienna," Daša Ličen discusses the most exciting work at the July Convention that reframed thinking about power, empire, + money beyond the man-nature binary.
cehc.hypotheses.org/270
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I'm taking a wee break from work, but this article that I really enjoyed working on is published. It will be part of a great SI edited by Ivan Rajković and Jelena Vasiljević. I hope it contributes to the growing interest in human-nature politics in Yugoslavia.
4 months ago
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Ioanna Chatzikonstantinou
4 months ago
We are very excited to share the CfP for the Pollen26 conference in Barcelona (29 June-3 July) and invite submissions to our panel: Political ecologies of wildfires in Mediterranean Climate Zones: Beyond the Firefighting Trap
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
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P051: Political ecologies of wildfires in Mediterranean Climate Zones: Beyond the Fire-Fighting Trap
Panel
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/pollen2026/p/17464
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Center for Advanced Studies - South East Europe
5 months ago
Burnout, inequality, digital overload, and climate precarity are reshaping how we live and work. Are we better workers when we're burned out, or has that become the "new normal"? Explore these and many other real-world challenges in our new UNIRI & YUFE Minor: Work and Wellbeing.
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Vjosa Musliu
6 months ago
"Girlhood At War" made it home! Unlike anything I’ve written before, this book is a personal story about growing up during Serbia's war against Kosovo and about finding myself, at 14, translating for US NATO troops in its aftermath. (Yes, the young girl in these pictures is me.)
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My article finally has an issue! A lot has changed in Serbia since I submitted this in 2021, but my point remains: young people are capable political actors who have their own ideas of what the future should look like.
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6 months ago
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Women* Write the Balkans
6 months ago
We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials
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Iva Vukušić
7 months ago
#Slovenia
doesn't fuck around <3
#Croatia
? Hello?! Anybody home?
#ForeignPolicy
#InternationalLaw
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Mariam Salehi
7 months ago
🔥🏟️ New article out: I am very happy that
@felixanderl.bsky.social
and my paper ”Dangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions“ has just been published in
@jird-jour.bsky.social
and that it’s open access!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Dangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions - Journal of International Relations and Development
Emancipatory activism is often channelled into institutions. While this can be interpreted as a success, it may also demobilize activism. The growing literature on the co-optation of emancipatory stru...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41268-025-00353-w
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Apparently talking about embassies burning in the 1960s is far more triggering to some people than watching tens of thousands die on livestream (for almost two years) today. Please read the long version, someone actually emailed Milorad Dodik — I guess comic relief in a horrible situation? SFSN
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7 months ago
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️🌈 🟥
7 months ago
Working on
#EnvironmentalJustice
topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026). Participation is free of charge!
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International Conference: The Greyzone of the Green Transition – ecoJust home
https://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/greyzone-of-the-green-transition/
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ESEH NEXTGATe
7 months ago
Dear folks, Check out this list of books up for review, sign up and claim one! 📚🌿 It’s a brilliant way to read something great and get your name out there.
#envhist
#envhum
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Rosaleen Duffy
8 months ago
🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕🦺 🐄🐎🐦⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵)
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
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Historical Materialism Journal
10 months ago
Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms. We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.
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Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms - A Special Issue of Historical Materialism - Historical Materialism
Guest editors: Anna Beria (Kingston University, London), Isabel Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London), Giorgi Kobakhidze (Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), Jiří Růžička (The Institute of Philoso...
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/call-for-papers-eastern-marxisms-a-special-issue-of-historical-materialism/
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Hannes Baumann
8 months ago
Interested in a British Academy post-doc in politics? Consider applying with us
@livunipol.bsky.social
. Deadline 16 July. Get in touch with me for all things Middle East and/or IPE. For other topics please check out...
www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool instagramblueskyThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on Inst...
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship application support.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/training-and-support/postdoc-fellowship/ba-postdoc-fellowship/
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Jana Bacevic
8 months ago
Israeli forces have boarded Madleen - the volunteer-crewed ship trying to break siege to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza - and abducted the crew. If you are a citizen of any country whose citizens are on board (France/Germany/Brazil/Sweden), please watch this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMd...
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Volunteers Aboard the Freedom Flotilla’s ‘Madleen’ Issue SOS Call
YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMdY-r55g8
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Philipp Lottholz
9 months ago
#Academicfreedom
&
#freedomofspech
are more important than ever in times of
#genocide
Statement on "Academic Freedom as a Prerequisite for Peace and Conflict Studies" by Working Group Critical Peace Research of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK)
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I was interviewed by Miranda Melcher about my book for the
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
. You can listen to the podcast in the link, and the book is available Open Access from
@uofmpress.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-inter...
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Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-international-intervention
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Catherine Munro
9 months ago
Colours of a summer storm
#Shetland
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CEEShub
9 months ago
📢We have an exciting offer for early-careers from CEE and scholars from the Global South. 👉We are able to offer 10 travel bursaries (5 × €500 for early-career scholars from CEE; 5 × €750 for scholars from the Global South) for our conference. See👇for information on how to apply and the conditions.
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Wednesday, 16:45, Vienna and online!
9 months ago
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna
9 months ago
#MSCA
Postdoctoral
#Fellowships
2025 – Call now open! 🚨 Are you a
#postdoc
looking to take the next big step in your
#academic
journey? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is officially open - and we'd love to welcome you to the University of Vienna! 🏛️ More here: ⤵️
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MSCA-PF
Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Vienna
https://forschungsservice.univie.ac.at/foerdermoeglichkeiten/msca-pf/
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Yes, university expense systems are difficult to navigate. But have you tried submitting receipts from Serbia to UniWien? Good luck to me and our Serbian workshop participants I guess 😅
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CEEShub
9 months ago
👉A gentle reminder (or a rough nudge?) for you to apply for our Call for Papers: due July 1st 2025. We are organizing a fabulous conference in January 2026 and want you to come!
www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...
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Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub… | CEEShub at Tallinn University
❗It's the time of the week for us to remind you about this exciting Call for Papers! We are organizing a fantastic conference in January 2026 and want you to contribute. 📢Deadline for the CfP: Jul...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshub-at-tallinn-university-069518324_announcing-between-peripheries-ceeshub-activity-7333025972104986624-sfwR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAFHyQ1EBWq32AwgEuNncND72OZg8Xdp-WQ8
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Lea Horvat
9 months ago
With Father's Day approaching, I'd like to make space for complicated feelings unsuitable for best-dad school crafts. Last Halloween, I wrote about my father and how sometimes no relationship is the best one in given circumstances:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/kinde...
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Kinder Surprise — Women* Write the Balkans
He acted as though we saw each other every day. After that, I didn’t see him for years. My father ghosted me.
https://www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/kinder-surprise
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I'm a huge fan of The Pitt and now re-watching ER to find many similar teaching moments. Thank you for this piece!
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9 months ago
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Andreas Streinzer
9 months ago
This week at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna - MA student skillshare 💥💪
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I usually don’t support working weekends, but this is day 2 of our writeshop on political ecologies of SEE and…. I’m loving it 🌱 With hard copies of graphic novels on BiH environmental struggles, thanks to Damir Arsenijević.
9 months ago
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Center for Advanced Studies - South East Europe
9 months ago
Join us May 15 at 12:00 PM (CET) for a CAS SEE Seminar with Balša Lubarda & RECAS Fellow Slađana Kavarić Mandić: “Exclusionary Environmentalisms – Coping with the Microfascist Predicament?” Zoom info:
cas.uniri.hr/cas-see-semi...
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If you like to hold/look/smell/read/display/annotate physical books, both paperback and hardcover copies of my book are now 50% off at
@uofmpress.bsky.social
. Of course, the electronic version is still free to read and download 🌱
press.umich.edu/Books/B/Beyo...
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9 months ago
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Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and
@ecodiya.bsky.social
on updating the
#LandMatrix
database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here:
landmatrix.org/map/
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10 months ago
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My plan for this year was to post more about readings that help me think. I was a bit slow, but here goes. This week, a great article by
@asantonova.bsky.social
and Arvid van Dam on the environment and EU integration (in ES & BG) is helping me think through politics of land and landscape. Link 👇
10 months ago
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CEEShub
10 months ago
🙌Our team is overjoyed to announce the 1st International Conference of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub, titled "Between Peripheries: Critical-Relational Security from CEE and the Global South." Call for papers out May 6th. More info:
securityhub.ee/news/announc...
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Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub
Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.
https://securityhub.ee/news/announcing-between-peripheries-ceeshubs-inaugural-conference/
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Carna Brkovic
10 months ago
Fascinating photographs of everyday life in Montenegro in 1920, taken by the American Red Cross. Humanitarian spectacularism at its finest. Source:
www.loc.gov/search/?in=&...
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Christine Andrä
11 months ago
We are looking for a PhD student who wants to rethink Historical International Relations/the History of the Social Sciences from Latin America! Fully funded position with an interdisciplinary supervisory team (Ian Merkel, Konstantin Mierau and myself):
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...
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PhD position Latin America as an Alternative Starting Point
This fully-funded,
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/350558/phd-position-latin-america-as-an-alternative-starting-point/
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And we are starting! Great papers and wonderful hosts
@matesuba.bsky.social
@livunipol.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social
@bisasee.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Big day on Thursday! I'm very excited to see such a diverse list of paper topics, very much looking forward to the discussion.
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11 months ago
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Eric Gordy
11 months ago
If you are an academic wanting to support academics under attack in Serbia, this is the place to sign.
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