🔊 Submissions now open: South-East European Studies Fellowship! The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes at SSEES. buff.ly/vH9y5Tc @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social

🔊 One week until this event with Prof. Theodora Dragostinova, who will examine the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands. Co-sponsored by @criticalchildhood.bsky.social 🗓️6 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

10 October at 16h, Prof Vjeran Pavlaković (U of Rijeka), "Pop Culture and Memory Politics in the Former Yugoslavia." The event is free and open to everyone, please register at the link. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Stephen E. Hanson writes, "The Fate of Regional Studies under Patrimonial Rule" assessing the impact of recent political changes on regional studies for the September Issue of NewsNet. buff.ly/vvHnwpq #NewsNet

Fellowships up to 6 months, “Youth agency in the Balkans: New political imaginaries and eco-digital futures.” Application deadline 3 October. recas.info/news/fellows...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová, who has won the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Article Prize for her article “The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe". www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @artshumsucl.bsky.social

Our first event of the new season! 6 October, 1700h, Prof Theodora Dragostinova 'examines the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands to unpack what treating a child “like my own” meant during the fluid transition from war to peace.' www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Exploring overlooked Holocaust history in #Croatia: The Davis Center at Harvard offers a 6-part webinar series on "The #Holocaust in Southeastern Europe". With @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social (IOS) & other experts, examining regional complexities missing from broader narratives. 📅 Start: 27 Sep ⬇️

An exhibit on the history of workers' self-management, for people who are around (Bg, Zg, NS). fabrikeradnicima.com

👏Thrilled to share the news about successful academic promotions for 2024-25! Please join us in congratulating our colleagues: ▪️Prof. Bojan Aleksov ▪️Prof. Randolph Luca Bruno ▪️Prof. Elodie Douarin ▪️Prof. Peter Zusi ▪️Prof. Svetlana McMillin ▪️Dr Idil Uz Akdogan ➡️See the full list: bit.ly/4kiO5th

Coming up at SSEES -- free and open to the public, registration (at the link) is required. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events....

Project launch 10 June at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Centre in Derby: “Connecting Solidarities” bosniancentre.org/2785-2/

A special issue of “Balkanologie” -- “The taste of the Balkans,” history, anthropology, and sociology of Balkan cuisines. journals.openedition.org/balkanologie...

This Weds at 5:00 @ SSEES, Adelina Stefan, "Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain." All are welcome, register at the link. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

First post here to share an exiting event happening tomorrow! Ways of Commoning: The case of Lumbardhi Cinema in Prizren, Kosovo, with invited speaker Ares Shporta, will examine community organising and bottom-up approaches to cultural policy & institution building. Sign up using the link below:

Our friends at Goldsmiths are hosting a discussion on the student protests in Serbia: Monday at 5:30, reserve your place at the link. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Let's welcome our colleagues at Maastricht to Blueski! Give a follow to @umceehub.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

@ioe.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

The SSEES-led Platform for Linguistic and Epistemic Justice (PLEJ) has available project grants to award current UCL students for fieldwork or project costs. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/resear...

CfP for May conference in Cluj. Abstracts by 15 January. capitalist-transformations.com

📢Applications are open: bit.ly/4iuMRM2 We invite current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at SSEES to apply for the Bracewell Scholarship. The award will cover the tuition fee costs for one term, plus a living cost stipend. Deadline: 31 March 2025

We're excited to announce a new short language course aimed at Albanian heritage speakers; available for January 2025. But hurry, enrolment closes 31 December! www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2...

📖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...

Online (Zoom) seminar at SSEES, 6 November at 1800h (BST): Dženita Karić, Bosnian Hajj Literature. Free and open to all, register at the link. ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are a unit of UCL that has moved to Blueski from that other site that has become an outlet for racist propaganda. The rest of the units of UCL should do the same. Why haven’t they?

In 1918, a new state was supposed to demonstrate its ability to address a crisis. How it responded would shape the legitimacy of the state. Come hear historian Rok Stergar explain what was at stake. 12 November at SSEES, register at the link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-suppl...

Our next book launch "Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding. The role of women in making the state in Kosovo" is with @mybisa.bsky.social & @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social (December 5). Info: bit.ly/4gSO5zz Very much looking fwd to the conversation w/ @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & Piro Rexhepi.

17 October at 1800h (BST): Come hear Prof Mary Neuburger (U Texas) explain the development and meaning of modern Bulgarian cuisine! It's free and everyone is welcome, register at the link. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

Online seminar 2 October at 1600h BST: refugees from the Caucasus in the Ottoman Empire. Featuring Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UCSB). All are welcome and it is free, but registration is necessary. More info and registration at the link. mailchi.mp/8352a2452725...

crowdfunder! @balkanism__, one of the richest balkan instagram pages, is publishing its first zine. instagram.com/p/C6OgrvfoXd... curated by arbër gashi, ‘diversity as strength’ collates balkan histories from ‘home’ to the diaspora. get your copy: kickstarter.com/projects/bal...

Come to UCL as a postdoctoral scholar on "Languages of the future" -- details at the link, deadline 14 April. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Tanja Petrović soaking up the praise for her book “Utopia of the uniform” www.dukeupress.edu/utopia-of-th...

20 March at SSEES: Tanja Petrović and a panel of experts discuss her new book "Utopia of the Uniform." Register now! Or register later, but register. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

7 March at SSEES: Dejan Djokić presenting his new history of Serbia, with responses from Cathie Carmichael and Bojan Aleksov. Register at the link. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

Fully funded PhD studentships in Coventry! Apply by 31 March www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFN199/p...

We are hiring! Lecturer in Central Asian Politics and Society. Why not spend your career hanging out with us? We are all right. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We are hiring! Lecturer in Ukrainian history. We are pretty decent people to work with and the city is, for all its problems, an interesting and enjoyable place to live. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Deadline for applications 15 March!

Wednesday 31 January at 6: screening of Eleonora Veninova's film, "Things unsaid." Followed by a Q&A with the director. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

2 February at 11:30: An afternoon of experimental ethnographic film hosted by UCL's Meghanne Barker and KinoKlub Zagreb!!!! Registration (at link) is required, space is limited. www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...

See below this call for articles for the SEEU special issue "Beyond macro politics: contemporary developments and frictions in Kosovo", edited by me and Gëzim Krasniqi and don't hesitate to reach out to us with your ideas. Abstract deadline: 28 February 2024. 👇

Peter Wright (Univ Illinois), "The Market for Yugoslav Healthcare: Commodifying International Public Health in Non-Aligned Networks During Late Socialism," Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 1 p.m. (CET) Zoom link us06web.zoom.us/j/8970340329...

Our past events are available in the archive, many of them with video recordings (most of the pandemic and post-pandemic events are available on video). www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/resear...

All afternoon 30 January, Albanian Studies in the Global Context. Registration is free, open to all, and obligatory (at the link). www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

Southeast European studies at SSEES / University College London is now on Blueski! Follow us for events, news, publications, announcements, that sort of thing.