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Southeast European studies at the School for Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Follow for events, publications, news.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In connection with the performances of the works of the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić on 8 October, UCL SSEES is also hosting a symposium on Renaissance Drama in Translation. 🗓️ 7 October at 2pm ➡️ Free and open to all www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social
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Symposium on Marin Držić and Renaissance Drama in Translation
Organised as part of the performances of the works of the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić taking place on 8 October 2026
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with the award-winning translator of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, Ellen Elias-Bursać. Chair: @ericgordy.bsky.social 🗓️ 16 October at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'Translating War: Damir Karakaš' Celebration and Blue Moon' with images of the book covers.
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What was Southeastern Europe’s role in modern military history? Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jovo Miladinović to find out more. 🗓️ 7 October at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @routledgebooks.bsky.social
Event poster for 'Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors in the Imperial Borderlands' with an image of the book cover.
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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You know that you want to learn Slovenian. No time like now. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Slovene Short Courses
Information on Slovene Short Courses.
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📢We are hiring! SSEES is looking for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Politics. The postholder will contribute to teaching & assessment in Politics, with a focus on governance or political economy. 📍 London (hybrid) 💼 Full time, permanent 🗓️ Closing date: 9 April 💬 Interviews: 8 May Apply: bit.ly/4bxVySK
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Join us for the next @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar to hear more about @sanjavico.bsky.social's book 'Doing Nation in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments'. 🗓️ 4 February at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Join us next week for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jakup Azemi and @aidanhehir.bsky.social to hear more about Dr Azemi's book 'The Making of Modern Kosovo' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Chaired by @ericgordy.bsky.social. 🗓️ 14 January at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/hyroD5U
Event poster for 'The Making of Kosovo' with an image of the book cover.
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Tell your grandchildren that you were at the first SSEES film festival!!!!!! www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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SSEES Film Festival Vol 1: "Resistance"
Please join us for this film festival sponsored by the SSEES Southeast European studies seminar series and Places, Identities and Memories (PIMs)
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Spyros Tsoutsoumpis arguing that the national state is built by an alliance between metropolitan elites and local practitioners of violence, not necessarily of the same ethnicity.
Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Please join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Aleksandra Andrejevic, who will explore war trauma among the 1990s Serbian emigrants to the United Kingdom using creative writing as research. 🗓️ 12 November at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'A Home Less Friendly: Exploring War Trauma Among the 1990s Serbian Emigrants to the United Kingdom'.
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We are pleased to invite you to the Annual Celia Hawkesworth Lecture, co-organised by @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social and the British Scholarship Trust. This year's speaker, Dr Ruža Fotiadis, will look at donkeys and mules as indispensable draft animals in the Balkans. 🗓️ 4 Nov at 6pm ➡️ buff.ly/vb8aQpN
Event poster for 'On Donkey Trails into the Modern Age' with a photo of an old woman with a donkey.
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Academics from SSEES coordinated a three-year project with partners from 9 countries asking what informal practices and informal networks mean in social, political and economic life in the region. Download the results for free from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Captured Societies in Southeast Europe
In Southeast Europe, there is a growing disjunction between “the way the world is” and the world that is described by law. The informal practices that address problems when formal institutions fail ca...
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Join us next week for this #PROLang seminar with Mojca M. Hočevar, who will discuss the challenges of compiling, editing, and publishing English-Slovenian dictionaries. 🗓️ 21 October at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'English-Slovenian Dictionaries: From Print Volumes to Digital Platforms' with an image of English-Slovenian dictionaries.
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
SUPPORT FOR PhD STUDENTS! The link leads to a variety of programmes to support people wanting to do doctoral research at SSEES including the NEW (!!!!!) Nash programme offering 3 YEARS of support for doctoral RESEARCH IN ALBANIAN STUDIES!!!!! Applications by 16 January www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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UCL SSEES PhD Funding Opportunities
View our current PhD Funding Opportunities at SSEES.
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🔊 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
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Submissions 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 / opportunities at SSEES
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🔊 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...
Event poster for '“Like My Own”: Adopting Displaced Children after the Great War' with a collage of photos from the Bulgarian state archives
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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...
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Pop Culture and Memory Politics in the Former Yugoslavia
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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
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The Fate of Regional Studies under Patrimonial Rule | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
This crisis is qualitatively different from any we have faced as scholars since the invention of modern area studies associations in the aftermath of World War II...
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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...
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Current calls – RECAS
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🎉 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
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Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová wins the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Article Prize
The prize was awarded for an outstanding English-language research article in the social sciences by a junior scholar published in a peer-reviewed journal
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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...
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“Like My Own”: Adopting Displaced Children after the Great War
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Prof. Theodora Dragostinova
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Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung @leibniz-ios.de · 17/09/2025
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 ⬇️
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Curriculum-Writing Fellowship: The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe
Explore the overlooked history of the Holocaust in Croatia through a free online curriculum-writing fellowship for K-14.
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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
An exhibit on the history of workers' self-management, for people who are around (Bg, Zg, NS). fabrikeradnicima.com
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Istorija jugoslovenskog radničkog samoupravljanja
Izložba posvećena istoriji jugoslovenskog radničkog samoupravljanja povodom 75 godina od njegovog uvođenja. Arhivska građa i kritički uvidi otkrivaju složenost ovog sistema i njegovo nasleđe.
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
👏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
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Coming up at SSEES -- free and open to the public, registration (at the link) is required. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events....
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PIMs Annual Research Conference: Spaces of Victimhood in Eastern Europe
The conference Spaces of Victimhood explores how memories of oppression, dislocation, marginalisation, economic exploitation and trauma shape identities and a sense of belonging to a place in Central,...
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Project launch 10 June at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Centre in Derby: “Connecting Solidarities” bosniancentre.org/2785-2/
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CONNECTING SOLIDARITIES – New Research Project
The Derby Bosnia-Herzegovina Community Association (DBHCA) is glad to announce its partnership with the University of Derby on an exciting new research project: “CONNECTING SOLIDARITIES – An explorati...
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A special issue of “Balkanologie” -- “The taste of the Balkans,” history, anthropology, and sociology of Balkan cuisines. journals.openedition.org/balkanologie...
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Balkanologie - Revue d'études pluridisciplinaires
Revue française d'études pluridisciplinaires sur les Balkans couvrant la période du Moyen Âge à nos jours. A French journal dedicated to the Balkans from the Middle Ages to the present, in a multid...
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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...
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Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Adelina Stefan
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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...
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Revolution Won't Be Reported: Student Protests in Serbia
Panel discussion about the current, anti-government, student-led protest in Serbia and why the UK media are not reporting the event
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Let's welcome our colleagues at Maastricht to Blueski! Give a follow to @umceehub.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Ramona Gonczol (PROLang) @ramonagonczol.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
@ioe.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social @ciol-linguists.bsky.social
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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Platform for Linguistic and Epistemic Justice (PLEJ) Project Grant
The PLEJ grant is funded by the PLEJ research centre of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
CfP for May conference in Cluj. Abstracts by 15 January. capitalist-transformations.com
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Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December, 2024Conference Dates: 19 - 23 May, 2025 This is the third edition of the ‘Capitalist Transformations’ conference, an academic event that aims to create a...
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
📢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
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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...
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NEW Language Short Course: Albanian for heritage speakers
A new Albanian level for heritage speakers has been added to the SSEES language short courses for January 2025.
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📖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...
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Feminist encounters in statebuilding: The role of women in making the state in Kosovo- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA
- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
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...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Book talk: Bosnian Hajj Literature. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature (written texts about the experience of the Hajj) and Hajj practices of Bosnian Muslims. It redefines the ways...
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
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?
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
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...
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Food Supply and Political Legitimacy of the New Yugoslav State
Please join us for this talk with Rok Stergar (University of Ljubljana)
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
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...
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Book talk: Ingredients of Change
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Prof Mary Neuburger
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
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...
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Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
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Rinë @rinel.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
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...
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B A L K A N I S M on Instagram: "🚨 SHARE FAR AND WIDE 🚨 For over four years now, we have worked tirelessly to produce consistent content that was/is reflective of the diversity, beauty, and incredib...
balkanism__ on April 26, 2024: "🚨 SHARE FAR AND WIDE 🚨 For over four years now, we have worked tirelessly to produce consistent content that was/is reflective of...".
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
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...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: IAS Quirk Postdoctoral Fellowships: Languages of the
The Institute of Advanced Studies is seeking to appoint two one-year Postdoctoral Fellows to work on interdisciplinary projects relevant to the theme Languages of the Future on an appointment of 12
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Tanja Petrović soaking up the praise for her book “Utopia of the uniform” www.dukeupress.edu/utopia-of-th...
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
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...
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Book launch: Utopia of the Uniform
Please join Dr Tanja Petrović and a panel of distinguished scholars for the launch of the hot off the press 'Utopia of the Uniform' (Duke University Press, 2024).
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
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...
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Book launch: A Concise History of Serbia
A SSEES Southeast European studies book launch
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Fully funded PhD studentships in Coventry! Apply by 31 March www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFN199/p...
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PhD Studentship: Contentious Civil Societies and Democratisation in Southeastern Europe at Coventry University
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Contentious Civil Societies and Democratisation in Southeastern Europe Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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Southeast Europe @ UCL SSEES @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
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/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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