Events Archive
Post-Cold War Transformations: Navigating Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern and Southeast Europe
6th Annual Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the…
03 - 04 July 2025
Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood
Volha Bartash (Regensburg), Tomasz Kamusella (St. Andrews)
01 July 2025
Stalinist Repressions against Ukraine’s Yiddish Writers: Reasons and Legends
Gennady Estraikhs (New York University)
24 June 2025
Gender and Transitional Temporalities in Kosovo
Vjollca Krasniqi (Prishtina)
05 June 2025
BOOK LAUNCH | Sovereignty through Practice: Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity
Elia Bescotti (Regensburg), Jon-Wyatt Matlack (Berlin)
27 May 2025
Restorations of Architectural Monuments and the Politics of Heritage in Romania and Serbia in the Late 19th Century
Cosmin Minea (Bukarest)
22 May 2025
The Power in White: Women’s Protest in Belarus
Maryia Schasnaya (Regensburg)
21 May 2025
The Polish-Ukrainian Reconcilitation Process and Beyond
Magdalena Nowak (Gdańsk)
08 May 2025
2025 Cohort
Welcome Event for New Doctoral and Pre-Doctoral Researchers at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
08 May 2025
In Afghanistan, cats have more rights than women”: Feminine Protests and Passive Resistance under the Taliban Regime
Mélanie Sadozaϊ (Regensburg)
07 May 2025
BOOK LAUNCH | In the Storms of Transformation - Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU
In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free…
17 March 2025
CfP: Post-Cold War Transformations: Navigating Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern and Southeast Europe
On 3rd and 4th July 2025, the 6th Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES at the University of Regensburg will take place in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World…
13 February - 04 July 2025
Speaking Hebrew in the Russian Empire: Uri Nissan Gnessin's Poetics of Literary Dubbing
Natasha Gordinsky (Haifa)
06 February 2025
BOOK LAUNCH | Remembering, Suffering and Resistance. Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church
Karin Roginer Hofmeister (Prague)
05 February 2025
Socialist Modernist Worldmaking: Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s
Čarna Brković (Mainz)
30 January 2025
BOOK LAUNCH | Frieden verhandeln im Krieg
Cindy Wittke (Regensburg) und Helmut Aust (Berlin), moderiert von Rike Krämer-Hoppe
16 January 2025
FORUM | Ukraine: Menschenrechte in Zeiten des Krieges
Yevgenija Belorusets (Kyjiv/Berlin)
10 December 2024
Intersectional Critique
Jennifer Ramme (Graz)
26 November 2024
Approaching Southeastern Europe from Brussels: Migration Policies as Security and Stability Instruments for the EU
Ruth Ferrero-Turrión (Madrid)
21 November 2024
BOOK LAUNCH | Refugee Support and Moral Practice in Slovakia
Eva-Maria Walther (Fulda)
11 November 2024
Spitting on the Streets of Grosny. Culturedness and Social Distinction in a Multinational Soviet City
Walter Sperling (Bonn/Berlin)
17 October 2024
State "Responsibilization" as a Tool of US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: The Case of Small States
Jan Hornát (Prague)
04 July 2024
WORKSHOP | When Border Studies Meet Social Sciences and the Humanities
Mélanie Sadozaϊ (Regensburg)
01 July 2024
Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival
Geneviève Zubrzycki (Ann Arbor)
06 June 2024
WORKSHOP | Digital Text Mining in the Humanities: Theoretical Considerations and Hands-On Methods
Roman Birke (Regensburg)
03 June 2024
Change from Below: Mobility, Transformation and Exchange across Europe
5th Annual Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the…
23 - 25 May 2024
Yugoslav Albanian Labour Migration as a Microcosm of (In)visible Mobilities
Rory Archer (Graz)
23 May 2024
WORKSHOP | Archival Ethnography
Volha Bartash (Regensburg)
13 - 14 May 2024
The Restless Generation: Soviet Retirees and the Meanings of Active Old Age, 1950s-1970s
Alissa Klots (Pittsburgh)
25 April 2024
NACHT.SCHAFFT.WISSEN.
Regensburg Global - Wissenswertes und Spannendes aus Osteuropa und dem Rest der Welt Зроблено в Регенсбурзі. Знання про Україну та світ
19 April 2024
WORKSHOP | Let’s talk. Open Workshop about the Methodological and Theoretical Challenges in Doing Interdisciplinary Area Studies Research
Anna Steigemann (Regensburg)
18 - 19 April 2024
DAAD Scholarship Meeting
The GSOSESUR was invited to present its PhD training programme at the DAAD Scholarship Holder meeting which took place at the University of Regensburg on April 12th and 13th 2024.
12 April 2024
BOOK LAUNCH | Back to the USSR. Russlands sowjetische Vergangenheit
Katrin Boeckh (Regensburg)
21 February 2024
BOOK LAUNCH | From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in Interwar Yugoslavia
Klaus Buchenau (Regensburg)
31 January 2024
Anti-Gender Movements and Regional Contestations of LGBTQ+ Rights and Gender Equality in the Context of Russia's War in Ukraine
Maryna Shevtsova (Leuven)
18 January 2024
Getting 'away from Moscow': Another 'Zelensky effect'
Valeria Korablyová (Praha)
14 December 2023
Can the subaltern Roma speak? Restoring agency of the Polish-Romani poet, Bronisława Wajs (Papusza)
Emilia Kledzik (Poznan)
23 November 2023
Tausend und ein Morgen
Ilija Trojanow (Wien)
07 November 2023
CfP: Change from Below: Mobility, Transformation, and Exchange across Europe
5th Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES at the University Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World
25 October 2023 - 25 May 2024
Historische Reenactments in der DDR. Lebendige Geschichte zwischen eigensinniger Freizeitgestaltung und Geschichtspolitik
Juliane Tomann (Regensburg)
19 October 2023
A Liminal Identity? Borders Narratives in Trieste, Past and Present
Programme for Public Lecture Series in Trieste
24 - 30 September 2023
Jiří Gruša. Metaphors of Postnational Writing in Central Europe
Dalibor Dobiáš (Prague)
20 July 2023
Forum | Odes(s)a – Blicke auf die Regensburger Partnerstadt
Eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Stadt Regensburg in Kooperation mit der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien der Universität Regensburg
04 July 2023
Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context
Efraim Sicher (Be'er-Sheva, Negev)
29 June 2023
BOOK LAUNCH | Kindheit als Privileg
Katharina Kucher (Regensburg)
28 June 2023
Creating a Resilient Network to Fight Russian Propaganda. Psychology, a Chat Bot, and Values-Based Methods to Challenge Social Polarization
Maya Stravinsky
27 June 2023
Colonization and Decolonization in Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe and Eurasia
Timothy Nunan (Regensburg)
22 - 23 June 2023
Logic(s) of Historical Persistence
Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley)
15 June 2023
EU Strategic Autonomy: Views and Stances of the Visegrad Countries
Song Lilei (Shanghai)
13 June 2023
Zwischen Liebe und Zwang. Nachdenken über eine Biografie aus der queeren Holocaustgeschichte
Anna Hájková (Warwick)
06 June 2023
Waste in the East. Consumerism and Trash in Communist Eastern Europe
Viktor Pál (Helsinki)
25 May 2023
Environmental Discourse and Practice in Eastern and Southeastern Europe: Facing Challenges and Opportunities
4th Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern…
25 - 27 May 2023
Digital Ethnography. Methodological Approaches and Research Ethics
Volha Bartash (GS OSES)
16 - 17 May 2023
Multiperspectivity and Multi-Scalarity in Writing Your Area Studies Thesis. Spatial and Social Science Theories and Methods
Anna Steigemann (Regensburg)
11 - 12 May 2023
Where Research Begins. Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You (and the World)
Christopher Rea (Vancouver)
05 May 2023
Area Studies in the 21st Century: A Sum of Areal Knowledges, or a Field of Theoretical Innovation and Experimentation?
Zoran Milutinović (London)
20 April 2023
Welcoming Event
On Thursday, 20 April 2023, we will welcome our 11th cohort of PhD candidates and Pre-doctoral fellows.
20 April 2023
Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Wie er Gesellschaft und Politik verändert
Diskussionsrunde
22 February 2023
Summer Term 2023
The programme for the next semester is now available!
13 February - 16 April 2023
Heteroglossia in the Pale of Settlement: Uri Nissan Gnessin’s Creation of Hebrew Prosaics
Natasha Gordinsky (Haifa)
09 February 2023
Jüdinnen - Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im 20. Jahrhundert
Anna-Dorothea Ludewig (Potsdam)
06 February 2023
Die Revolution hat ein weibliches Gesicht. Der Fall Belarus
Olga Shparaga (Wien)
02 February 2023
Where to, Open Scholarship?
in Discussion with Björn Brembs (Regensburg) and Tony Ross-Hellauer (Graz)
23 January 2023
Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
Author reading with Randal Maurice Jelks (Kansas)
19 January 2023
Introduction into Interdisciplinary Memory Studies
Volha Bartash (GS OSES)
11 - 12 January 2023
Left Feminism in Russia 2010-2022: Between Gender Studies and Activism
Maria Rakhmaninova (Tbilisi)
08 December 2022
Frauenrollen im Sozialismus und danach
Filmreihe
05 - 12 December 2022
Multiperspectivity and Multi-Scalarity in Writing Your Area Studies Thesis. Spatial and Social Science Theories and Methods
Anna Steigemann (Regensburg)
24 - 25 November 2022
Chinas Kapitalexport nach Südosteuropa. Wie die Neue Seidenstraße expandiert
Jens Bastian (Berlin)
22 November 2022
Narratives and Practices of Sovereignty in Area Studies: Merging Multidisciplinary Findings under a Unified Approach
Workshop
18 - 19 November 2022
The Politics of Regret Revisited
Jeffrey Olick (Virginia)
10 November 2022
New Perspectives on Literary Censorship in Communist Poland (1944-1990)
Kamila Budrowska (Białystok)
20 October 2022
BOOK LAUNCH - Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930
Christina Koulouri (Athens)
04 October 2022
Summer School 2022 in Prague
This year's Summer School "Contested Memoryscapes: Central Europe and its Fractured Pasts" by the GS OSES will take place in Prague from September 26th until October 1st.
26 September - 01 October 2022
From 'Early Access' and 'Open Worlds' to Game-Cons and Clans: The Production of Spatiality and Community in Contemporary Gaming
3rd Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern…
14 - 16 September 2022
Let Communism Live Forever: Nostalgia and the Soviet Hare Krishnas
Joseph Kellner (Georgia)
27 July 2022
Die metaphorische Konzeptualisierung von Moral im Deutschen und Ungarischen
Ilona Lechner (Berehowe)
20 July 2022
Cultures and Politics of Translation in Postcolonial and Postsocialist Contexts
Anne Brüske (CITAS)
20 - 21 July 2022
THE POST-SOVIET AS POST-COLONIAL. A New Paradigm for Understanding Constitutional Dynamics in the Former Soviet Empire
Herbert Küpper (Institute for East European Law, Regensburg)
19 July 2022
Poland-Lithuania in the Age of the Atlantic Revolution
Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (SSEES UCL, London)
07 July 2022
Transformation Back and Forth: Feminism, Gender, and what else?
Roundtable Discussion
24 June 2022
Travels across Language: Cosmopolitanism Made/Unmade
Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University of London)
09 June 2022
Academic Writing Skills for Advanced Writers - Reflecting Upon One's Writing Process
Eva-Maria Walther (Fulda)
03 June 2022
BOOK LAUNCH - In den Stürmen der Transformation. Zwei Werften zwischen Sozialismus und EU
Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg) & Philipp Ther (Wien)
18 May 2022
Prosa und Lyrik
Lesung Maria Stepanova (Autorin) & Olga Radetzkaja (Übersetzerin)
17 May 2022
Multiple times of planning: European and Soviet models of job motivation in the 1920s-60s
Alexander Bikbov (Paris)
12 May 2022
Types of Language Conflicts - with a Focus on Russia and Ukraine
Monika Wingender (Universität Gießen/GiZo)
12 May 2022
“Cold War Instruments”? Exiles from East Central Europe in U.S. political warfare
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
28 April 2022
Welcoming Event
On Thursday, April 28th, we welcome our new PhD candidates and Pre-doctoral researchers at the Graduate School of Eastern And Southeastern European Studies.
28 April 2022
Program: Summer Term 2022
We are looking forward to meeting you at our events!
You can find the full program here.
25 April - 29 July 2022
RUSSIA'S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE.
IOS Panel #3: The Ukrainian Diaspora: From the Cold War to Putin's War
17 March 2022
Online-Diskussionsrunde „Moldova – Putin’s next Target?“
Die Veranstaltung diskutiert die Situation in und mögliche Gefahren für die Republik Moldau angesichts des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine.
08 March 2022
Doctoral Workshop (Block Seminar)
Joanna Moszczyńska (U Regensburg)
10 - 11 February 2022
Consumerism, Cheap Nature, and State Socialism: A Transnational Waste Regime Perspective
Zsuzsa Gille (Illinois)
20 January 2022
State Descriptions Revisited: Historical Forms of Territorial Representations, 18th - 21st Centuries
In Cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus, Universität Regensburg, and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. Organizers: Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (Centre…
20 - 21 January 2022
WINTER BREAK
from 24.12.2021 to 09.01.2022
20 December 2021
Writing the Translocal History of an Arab City: Methodological and conceptual considerations
Ulrike Freitag (ZMO Berlin)
16 December 2021
Women’s Marches in Belarus: The Discourse of Resistance
Prof. Olena Nikolayenko (New York) is going to discuss her research on the discourse of resistance in an authoritarian regime. The event is going to be moderated by Fabian Burkhardt (IOS).
14 December 2021
A Genealogy of Corruption: Administrative Malpractice and Political Modernization in Eighteenth Century Wallachia
Mihai Olaru (U Regensburg)
09 December 2021
Film „Такси-блюз“ [„Taxi Blues“] - (OmU, Regie: Pavel Lungin, UdSSR, 1990)
Kino im Ostentor, Regensburg. Einführung: Katharina Kucher (IOS Regensburg/GS OSES, UR)
08 December 2021
Competing Sovereignties: Intertwinement, Contestation, Evolution
2nd Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern…
02 - 04 December 2021
Das Ende der Sowjetunion und der Neubeginn der Geschichte
Historiker*innen als Zeitzeug*innen
01 December 2021
Rijeka-Regensburg Lectures
"New Trends in Southeast European Studies" Fall Term 2021
16 November - 14 December 2021
Doctoral Workshop (Block Seminar)
Anna Steigemann (U Regensburg)
28 - 29 October 2021
Крах [krach] 1991. Der Zerfall der Sowjetunion und seine Folgen
Veranstaltungen in Berlin, Bremen, Regensburg und online – Auftakt am 24.10. mit Wladimir Kaminer
24 October - 16 December 2021
Muralization of War Memories. Croatia in Comparative Perspectives
Vjeran Pavlaković (U Rijeka)
22 October 2021
Stabilisierung und Selbstzerstörung einer Diktatur. Polizeibrutalität, Staat und Gesellschaft in der Volksrepublik Polen
Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena)
21 October 2021
Between the Unredeemed Brothers and the Tenth Banovina: The Julian March Emigrants and Nation-Building in the Interwar Yugoslavia
Miha Zobec (Slovenian Migration Institute)
20 October 2021
Citizens without Borders: Yugoslavia and its Migrant Workers in Western Europe (Hybrid)
Book launch by Brigitte LeNormand (Maastricht)
20 October 2021
Southeast European Studies Compared: Questions, Methods, Challenges (Hybrid)
Roundtable with Ger Duijzings (GS OSES), Nadège Ragaru (Center for Inter- national Studies, Science Po Paris), Diana Mishkova (Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia), Christina Koulouri (Panteion…
15 October 2021
Making Sense of Refugees: Historiography of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
Francesca Rolandi & Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
14 October 2021
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Protected Children, Regulated Mothers
Eszter Varsa (Vienna)
15 July 2021
Die Nordostpassage. Russlands langer Weg in die Globalisierung
Andreas Renner (LMU München)
13 July 2021
Decolonizing space and knowledge. Theories, concepts and approaches in Cultural Studies
Anne Brüske (U Regensburg)
05 - 06 July 2021
The Cognitive Empire and Coloniality of Knowledge in Africa
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (U Bayreuth)
01 July 2021
Regensburg & Rijeka Lectures 2021
Frederik Lange (GS OSES) & Nikola Petković (Rijeka)
23 June 2021
Warum tolerieren Autokraten kritische Medien?
Florian Töpfl (U Passau)
17 June 2021
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
Book presentation and discussion with the John Connelly (Berkeley)
10 June 2021
The postcolonial and the postsocialist revisited, or a decolonial view of the post-soviet human condition
Madina Tlostanova (U Linköping)
06 May 2021
Spatial Studies and Sociology – Concepts, Methods and Approaches
Anna Steigemann (U Regensburg)
06 - 07 May 2021
Programme: Summer Semester 2021
We are looking forward to meeting you online at our events!
21 April - 16 July 2021
Negotiating Non-Territorial Citizenship: The Polish Consulate in Harbin during the Second World War
Kathryn Ciancia (U Wisconsin, Madison)
15 April 2021
Begrüßung und Vorstellung der neuen Promovierenden des Jahrgangs 2021
Die Graduiertenschule heißt unsere neuen Promovierenden offiziell willkommen!
15 April 2021
HOT OFF THE PRESS - Book Launch
Annina Gagyiova (Prag) und Visar Nonaj (Frankfurt a.M.)
13 April 2021
Transformation Back and Forth: What about Women?
Natali Stegmann (Regensburg) & Renata Mieńkowska-Norkiene (Warschau)
09 March 2021
Die Wahrheit der Anderen. Transnationale Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Post-Jugoslawien am Beispiel der REKOM Initiative
Jacqueline Nießer (Regensburg)
10 February 2021
Transatlantic and Comparative Perspectives on Financial Crises in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Catherine Davies (Zürich)
04 February 2021
Von der Arbeitsteilung zur Entwicklungskonkurrenz: die Grosse Krise 1927-1934 als Globaler Wendepunkt
Stefan Link (Dartmouth)
14 January 2021
Tito: Der ewige Partisan
Marie-Janine Calic (München)
15 December 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History
John R. Lampe (Maryland) and Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)
10 December 2020
Spatial Studies and Sociology – Concepts, Methods and Approaches
Theory and Methods Seminar Regensburg
10 - 11 December 2020
Vorbei mit dem sonnigen Georgien! Kolonialität in Romanen über Georgien nach 1991
Mirja Lecke (Regensburg)
03 December 2020
Unbuilding Binaries: Exploring affective and analytical responses to binary divisions as encountered in the field
1st Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES (UR)
26 - 27 November 2020
Die Unendliche Geschichte: Europäische Integration im westlichen Balkan
Florian Bieber (Graz)
10 November 2020
Protest und Alltag in Belarus – Eine Gesellschaft im Wandel
Volha Bartash (Regensburg), Nina Weller (Frankfurt/O.) und Andrey Vozyanov (Minsk)
10 November 2020
Literaturland ›Jiddisch‹
Efrat Gal-Ed (Düsseldorf)
05 November -
27 October 2020
Location: Online via ZOOM
Gasstreit im Mittelmeer: Eskalation oder Entspannung?
Heinz-Jürgen Axt (Universität Düsseldorf)
28 October 2020
Bosnien-Herzegowina: 25 Jahre nach dem Völkermord und dem Friedensvertrag
Peter Hurrelbrink, Tanja Topić, Merima Ejubović (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, BiH)
26 October 2020
Location: Online via ZOOM
Die Protestwelle in Bulgarien: Hintergründe und Zukunftsszenarien
Alexander Andreev (Deutsche Welle, Bulgarische Redaktion)
21 October 2020
Location: Online via ZOOM
Flüchtlingskrise in Griechenland – wie geht es weiter?
Jutta Lauth-Bacas (Malta)
14 October 2020
Location: Online via ZOOM