Call for papers ‼️ BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉 'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎 Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆 Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8 Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić

I encountered Joy’s writing, a 23-year-old Palestinian writer & student who wrote her book from tents lnkd.in/eZc-kyZs You can access her book "By My Pen" for free: lnkd.in/e3ZC6fwP Please consider making a donation lnkd.in/eaKpKhk7 to help Joy evacuate from Gaza and pursue her studies elsewhere.

As it happens, I only get to read more expansively/deeply during the summer/buyout, so late to this excellent contribution to theorising peace by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📍 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!

In June 2024, we—the YugoslaWomen+ Collective—held actions at CEE-ISA in Rijeka to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced. Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9

“Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 250 people since Thursday morning, local health authorities said on Friday, one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in March” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

📘 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...

Making notes The New Racial Regime, Alana Lentin (2025). Opening citation from Bassel el-Araj is lit: "You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless."

You can register to join the virtual conversation about our SI on decolonial and feminist approaches to peace this Thursday here zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us this Thursday as my co-editor @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I chat with four of our 9 contributors to the SI. Joining us this time are Mahdis Azarmandi, Garrett FitzGerrald, Yasin Sunca, & Isabela Munoz Gomez

Re-reading this fantastic special issue edited by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - "Peace in plural: towards decolonial and feminist approaches to peace" - packed with knowledge, courage and timely critique on peace vs. war dichotomies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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

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.

No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia. ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...

The @BISA_SEE_WG workshop with @LivUni Europe and the World Centre is coming up (27 Mar) Focusing on the theme of different types of violences and resistances in SEE View the programme & register now! www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @matesuba.bsky.social

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

A statement of solidarity with student protests in Serbia, from all of us in the Yugoslawomen+ Collective. ✊ We have also made a list of suggestions for those in diaspora who want to support the protests. #SerbiaProtests tinyurl.com/4macbrsd

Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱 Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures? Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!

This is the start to my working year (even though it came out on Dec 30) — I was a part of a great Forum organised by Birte Vogel and Nemanja Džuverović. I wrote about the Global East, and the difficulty of speaking to very different audiences in our research. Wishing us all a more global 2025 🌱

"Nowadays when we know that progress didn’t so much enhance as it delegitimized and eventually erased entire worlds of human existence, we tend to look for redemption in the vanished ways of life. We seek wisdom in former hardships and discomfort." www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...

Reminder: today is the last day to apply for our Between continuities and ruptures: exploring violence and resistance in South East Europe workshop

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

Hopefully this makes things harder for the genocide deniers. May justice follow www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The @jisb.bsky.social special issue, Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial & Feminist Approaches to Peace, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I co-edited, with a lot of care, comradery & grief, has been out for a little while, so finally getting around to sharing it here www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/1...

We are incredibly excited to announce that this wonderful Special Issue is out with Issue 4 of 2024! Edited by Sladjana Lazic and Elena B Stravrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace Read the intro👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our book on Syria (2022) 👇 for those interested in the background of recent events. Most importantly it contains multiple chapters by Syrian scholars & chapters on the oft-neglected human impact of the conflict. TOC: www.routledge.com/Actors-and-D...

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👇

anyone who claims the uk has "open borders" has a) not had to deal with the home office and b) is wrong, lying, or both. ask a student, a work visa holder, any spouse, any refugee what kind of fun old open borders time they had of things upon first contact with the home office

If you are in Rijeka for CEEISA-ISA this week, join us in standing in solidarirty with Palestine. Details 👇

The Guardian compiled a map of Gaza attempting to show every building that has been damaged or destroyed by Israel since October 7, 2023. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Of the 8 countries who slapped UNRWA with a pause in their funding on the very day the UN court ICJ ruled that Israel act immediately to prevent genocide in Gaza -- US, UK, Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands -- only Finland isn't currently supplying arms to Israel.

Join me & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & @sidtrip.bsky.social for our #EWIS2024 workshop "Thinking, Knowing, & Doing Peace Otherwise" in wonderful Istanbul, from 3rd-5th July 2024! See info here eisa-net.org/wp-content/u..., & apply here eisa-net.org/ewis-2024/ab.... Deadline 5th February. Come :)

@sidtrip.bsky.social, @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I are looking for expressions of interest to participate in our workshop proposal "Thinking, Knowing, & Doing Peace Otherwise" for @europeanisa's EWIS 2024, that is to be held 3-5 July 2024 in beautiful Istanbul. drive.google.com/file/d/1qPRo...

Borders are violences "[Dr. Kiguru] is now in a position where she must re-apply for the visa not just for her daughter but for her husband as well, who is now forced to relocate to the UK in order for the family to remain together." Please contribute if you can and share either way:

Our statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people in full here yugoslawomenplus.net/2023/10/27/s.... @vjosamusliu.bsky.social @sladjanalazic.bsky.social @dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social

Statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people by Yugoslawomen+ Collective yugoslawomenplus.net/2023/10/27/s... “The silence of many academic institutions is hypocritical at best and complicit in an unfolding genocide at worst.”

"Being Palestinian in this country...is a numbing exercise in gauging where pockets of safety are, sussing out which friends, co-workers or acquaintances will be allies, which will stay silent. Who will speak." www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/o...

a bosnian friend who’s an author doing a residency in germany posted this this morning. and every bosnian person I know has shared it. because we all feel it. (sharing with her permission, and I asked if she wanted me to remove her name because she’s been getting threats for days & she said no)

Scholars, students, activists, please sign this statement in support of Palestinians: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...