Sara Žerić Đulović

❗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

Onlinebanner Foto. Das Bild vom Oktober 2023 zeigt die damalige Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock bei einem am Treffen der Au?enminister*innen des Berliner Prozesses zum Westlichen Balkan in Tirana, Albanien, im Gespraech mit dem Außenminister von Bosnien und Herzegowina, Elmedin Konakovic. Beide gehen auf einer Straße, auf der ein Markierungspfeil in die Gegenrichtung weist. Zum Bild steht der Text: Westbalkan. Für immer im Wartezimmer der EU? Buchvorstellung mit Franziska Tschinderle und und Krsto Lazarević, Moderation: Konrad Clewing (IOS). 7.11.2025, 16:00 Uhr. Hybrid: IOS (Raum 017), Landshuter Str. 4, Regensburg, und online via Zoom.

🎉 Deutschlandpremiere am IOS 📕

Am 7.11., 16 Uhr, stellen @tschinderle.bsky.social und @krstorevic.bsky.social ihr neues Buch "Westbalkan – Im Wartezimmer der EU" vor (mit @danijelmajic.bsky.social geschrieben). Zuhören & mitdiskutieren – bei uns oder online.

🔗 Mehr: leibniz-ios.de/veranstaltun...

We are seeking a PhD candidate with an interest in East–West European relations (1970s–1990s) to work with me and Aline Sierp. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 September.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle?

A similar opinion piece today in the Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

IOS Annual Conference: "Continuity and Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century" IOS Annual Conference 2025

#SaveTheDate: The program of our 12th Annual Conference on "Continuity & Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century" is out now. With keynotes by Tamás Vonyó and János Mátyás Kovács.
📆 26–27 June 2025 | #Regensburg ⬇️

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Today, at the Symposion of the Scientific Advisory Board of sogde.org, @juznaslavenka.bsky.social, member of our TraFFF project, presented research on remittance factories in former Yugoslavia

You can watch this powerful (and Oscar-nominated) short for free. When I watched it, I had a horrible feeling of it being particularly relevant today.

"The Tyres of Change – Remittances as a Wheel of Development in Pirot, Serbia": Article by Sara Žerić Đulović Article published in Migration and Development.

How did migrant workers' remittances contribute to Yugoslavia's industrialization? @juznaslavenka.bsky.social (#LeibnizIOS) examines in Migration and Development how the #Gastarbeiter shaped local development, using the "Tigar" tire factory (Pirot) as a case study. 🔽

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Just published my new article in journal "Migration and Development" on Gastarbeiter investments in the "Tigar" factory in Pirot! 🚀
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6CXB...

Croatia's "Mercedes" Town: How Imotski Honours its Gastarbeiter Heritage - seeFField At the beginning of June, Croatian and German flags flew over Imotski, a town in southern Croatia, as citizens gathered for a two-day celebration. They celebrated the unveiling of the “Mercedes” monum...

Did you know that there is a #Mercedes town in Croatia? 🚗The background story you can read in the essay I wrote for #seeffield (A small but fertile field:
Strengthening Southeast European Studies in Regensburg)
seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/croatias-mer...

Peter Lang Verlag - Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 60th International Academic Week organized by the Southeast Europe Association in October 2022. ...

I am happy to share that my paper "Factories Built on the Deutsche Mark. Yugoslav Gastarbeiter Investments in Creating Jobs in the Homeland" is part of a special edition by Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch entitled "Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe" 🤓

www.peterlang.com/document/144...

"'The #Gastarbeiter|s Built Everything for Us.' #Migration|s, Memories, and Emptiness in the #Dalmatia|n Hinterland"

New essay by #LeibnizIOS director Ulf Brunnbauer and @juznaslavenka.bsky.social in Contemporary Southeastern Europe.
In #OpenAccess ➡️ contemporarysee.org/the-gastarbe...

Migration und Entwicklung im sozialistischen Jugoslawien Schuf Migration aus dem sozialistischen Jugoslawien wirtschaftliche Impulse für die Herkunftsregionen?

Kann Abwanderung auch positive Impulse für die Wirtschaft der Herkunftsländer haben? Diese für #Südosteuropa bis heute enorm wichtige Frage diskutieren #LeibnizIOS -Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer und @juznaslavenka.bsky.social am Beispiel des sozialistischen #Jugoslawien im @derstandardat.bsky.social. ⬇️

My dear blue ☁️ community, if you know some young scholars who are dealing with history of migration and development processes in Latin and South America, North Africa and Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey - please let me know about them! I'm working on an exciting panel 🤩

#CFP IOS Annual Conference!

Helping the Homeland: Yugoslavia’s [Almost] Forgotten Gastarbeiter Factories Yugoslav ‘guest-workers’ in Western Europe were responsible for an influx of Western-made goods and cash. They also bankrolled the creation of dozens of factories, some that employed the wives lef...

Remittances from YU-Gastarbeiters in Western Europe played an important role in Yugoslavia's economic development, argues @leibniz-ios.de research associate @juznaslavenka.bsky.social. More on this by Milica Stojanović (former IOS fellow) for Balkan Insight.
balkaninsight.com/2023/11/29/h...