Wir gratulieren Frau Marie-Janine Calic sehr herzlich zu ihrer Shortlist-Nominierung für den Deutschen Buchpreis in der Kategorie Sachbuch/Essayistik!📕
Mit ihrem Buch "Balkan-Odysee, 1933-1941. Auf der Flucht vor Hitler durch Südosteuropa" überzeugte sie die Jury!
Wir drücken ihr die Daumen 😊!
❗Call for Papers ❗
This workshop is being organised by one of our former PIs, Heike Karge, together with two of our doctoral students, Nikola Gajić and Oleksandr Nadtoka. We would appreciate your support in sharing this Call widely. 🫶
Deadline: 31 March 2026
The online banner shows a Call for Papers: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order". Conference dates: December 9-11, 2026 in Regensburg. Application deadline: March 1, 2026.
📣 #CfP: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order"
Conference at #LeibnizIOS Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026. We welcome proposals on the Yugoslav Wars & their impact on European & international politics.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026
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Congratulations, Vita🎓
We warmly congratulate Vita and wish her every success for the exciting path ahead — both professionally and personally.
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#PhD #doctorate #AcademicSuccess #research #graduation
The picture shows Vita and her two supervisors: Ger Duijzings and Anna Carastathis.
The online banner shows the new issue of Comparative Southeast European Studies 73, no. 4 now available in open access, featuring articles by Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, Nikolaos Tzifakis & Eleni Vasdoka, Giovanni Parente, Mehmed Ganić, and Anna Calori.
📚 Our journal, #COMPSEES 73/4 available in #OpenAccess!
Articles on anti-gender mobilisation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, EU accession dynamics in the Western Balkans, Greece's role in maritime security, finance-driven poverty reduction & a film review of J. Žbanić's "Blum".
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❗Tomorrow is finally the day ❗
Join us for the keynote lecture at the 7th Annual Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES (UR) in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus on this year's theme, ‘Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies.’
More details see here 👉 www.gsoses-ur.de/.../Final_Wo...
The online banner shows an economics seminar announcement: "Ready, Set, Unify: The Uneven Race between Trabants and BMWs" by Matthias Mertens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), January 27, 13:30 CET, online.
Why did East Germany's efforts to catch up economically stall after reunification? Matthias Mertens (MIT) shows how tech gaps reduced firms' incentives to compete & invest, perpetuating existing disparities. More in our economics talk.
📅 27 Jan | 13:30 CET | Online
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👇 SAVE THE DATE 👇
We are pleased to invite you to this year’s Graduate Workshop “Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies”, taking place on 5–6 February in Regensburg
More information see here: www.gsoses-ur.de/events-and-n...
❗Save the Date for our final colloquium of the Winter Semester ❗
This talk will examine how food chemistry addressed postwar food shortages in the Soviet Union through experiments with synthetic food produced from non-edible materials.
We are delighted to welcome the third speaker in our Margins of Memory series. In this talk, Eve Rosenhaft offers insights on her book project “Ronald Roberts, the Lad Who Outwitted The Nazis: From Weimar Germany to Windrush Britain”. (1/2)
#memory #resistance #research #untoldstories #regensburg
The online banner shows an economics seminar announcement: "Combinatorics of Failure: Industrial Giants and Workers' Struggles within Transformation Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1989-2020" by Anđela Pepić (University of Banja Luka), December 16, 13:30 CET, online.
How did privatization affect workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Anđela Pepić (U Banja Luka) examines industrial decline & labor struggles, exploring how ethnonational frameworks undermined worker solidarity. More in our economics talk.
📅 16 Dec | 13:30 CET | Online
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✨ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS AND SEE YOU BACK AGAIN ON 7 JANUARY 2026✨
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We are delighted to share fantastic news from the GS OSES community: 🏅 Volha Bartash and 🏅 Čarna Brković, two of our former postdoctoral researchers have just been awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants!
Congratulations to both awardees, we look so much forward to our continued collaboration!
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PhD position at the Department of Historical Studies, CEU (Vienna) in collaboration with the ProletGard ERC Starting Grant project, Kassák Foundation (Budapest, Hungary).
❗Deadline pre-application: 5 January 2026❗
❗Deadline application: 4 Februrary 2026❗
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We are delighted to invite you to our second career talk on 9 December 2025, at 16:15 (ZOOM). Where four former doctoral researchers of the GS OSES will share insights into their professional journeys both within and beyond academia.
www.gsoses-ur.de/.../career-t....
Vampirglaube verbreitet nicht nur Furcht unter Sterblichen – sondern kann auch eine ganze Staatsverwaltung aufschrecken. Bei @spektrum.de erklärt #LeibnizIOS-Historiker Peter Mario Kreuter, wie erste Meldungen über Vampire vor 300 Jahren Beamte des Habsburgerreichs auf Trab hielten (Paywall) ⬇️
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Leitung (m, w, d) für das Informationszentrum in Kyjiw in Vollzeit
Bewerbungsende: 31.12.2025
Tablet displaying the IOS Leibniz Institute website with "Call for papers" announcement and "SUBMIT NOW" button on a wooden surface.
📣 #CallForPapers: "Homecomings" & Internal Migrations in Central & Southeast Europe.
Conference at the University of Primorska, Koper, June 11–12, 2026. Exploring return migration, remittances, internal mobility & diaspora connections.
📅 Deadline: 31 Dec 2025
Details ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...
On 30 November 2025, around 2,000 people gathered in #Rijeka for an #antifascist protest, while masked men performed fascist salutes & intimidated participants. On our #ostBLOG, @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social (IOS) argues that the mayor’s refusal to take a stand creates space for the far right. ⬇️
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Cover des rezensierten Buches
Gulnar T. Kendirbai: Russian Practices of Governance in Eurasia. Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century. Rezension von Ricarda Vulpius #OpenAccess in Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO:
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#CfP #DeadlineExtended 7 Jan! To broaden the regional + temporal balance. work on the Americas (incl. the US) in relation to independence + post/colonial dependencies, papers on contemporary debates about sovereignty, dependence, and infrastructures esp. welcome. europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...
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📣 Reminder: The deadline for our 13th #LeibnizIOS Annual Conference "From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures" is approaching! Keynote: Maria Mälksoo (U of Copenhagen). Submit your proposals on democratic erosion, security, digital politics & more in East & #SoutheastEurope.
📆 Deadline: 15 Dec ⬇️
In unserer #Bibliothek lagert NS-Raubgut. Wie entdeckt man es? Welche Geschichten verbergen sich dahinter? Daniela Mathuber mit einer Serie auf unserem #ostBLOG über Fundstücke & #Provenienzforschung am #LeibnizIOS.
Teil XIV: wie über 100 Judaica zurück nach Budapest gelangten. ⬇️
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The Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies is offering two part-time positions (50 %) to be filled by 1 April 2026 as a Pre-Doctoral Researcher.
More information see here: www.gsoses-ur.de/.../detail/c...
❗ Deadline: 6 January 2026 ❗
🔎 Come and join us for the first talk in the speaker series organised by the Margins of Memory network! Martin Fotta agreed to share his research on Romani Presence and the Making of a Pilgrimage Site in Piaui, Brazil.
Abstract: lnkd.in/dVJedspT
#memory #research #exchange #romani #regensburg
📣 #CfP
Join our 13th Annual Conference on "From Contested Pasts to (In)Secure Futures – Politics in East and #SoutheastEurope". Keynote: Maria Mälksoo (U of Copenhagen). We welcome proposals from various social sciences on democratic erosion, security, digital politics & more.
📆 Deadline: 15 Dec ⬇️
+++Save the date for our upcoming colloquium next week+++
This talk focuses on Jewish economic life in postwar West Germany. The speaker, Anna Holian, is currently a visiting researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Regensburg as part of the fellowship programme.
www.gsoses-ur.de/events-and-n...
NEUERSCHEINUNG!
Die Biografie "Tito Der ewige Partisan" von Professorin Dr. Marie-Janine Calic aus dem Jahr 2020 wurde nun von Ksenija Chochkova ins Makedonische übersetzt und ist im ili-ili Verlag erschienen. Wir gratulieren!
An exciting winter semester awaits at the Leibniz ScienceCampus! New visiting researchers, calls for papers & prizes and a rich line-up of events across disciplines.
Explore the full programme, calls and deadlines here: www.europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...
@leibniz-ios.de @uniregensburg.bsky.social
Photo of a broken window at a building of the National Technical University Kharkiv damaged by missile attacks of Russian forces. Behind the window are stacked books and boxes.
🇺🇦 From “rupture” to “resistance”
In our blog, Yulia Kiselyova and Viktoriia Ivashchenko explore how displaced Ukrainian academics use metaphorical language to process trauma, reclaim agency, and redefine their professional mission.
🔗 Read the essay: ostblog.hypotheses.org/8151
#Ukraine
