Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide

In under 14 days, we’ll welcome academics, students, and practitioners to Liverpool for the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025.

Last year in Trento was packed full of sharing research, exchanging ideas and community building.

Which of these are you most looking forward to again this year? 💭

“In his provocative and enjoyable new book, Luka Ivan Jukic argues that Central Europe should be understood less as a specific place than as a specific time, one that was irreversibly lost in the cataclysms of the 20th century…

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

We are looking for 1–2 postdoctoral researchers to join the project “Political Violence in Democracies”, led by @hannefjelde.bsky.social

📌 Full-time, 2-year postdoctoral position
📆 Start Date: Dec 1, (or by agreement)
📍 Location: Uppsala
⏳ Apply by: Oct 1

Read more: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

YouTube video by The Harriman Institute at Columbia University A Global History of Hungary: Concept, Implementation, Reflection

My recent lecture on our A Global History of Hungary project at the Harriman Institute m.youtube.com/watch?v=GlgB...

BISCA PhD Studentships - University of Birmingham PhD opportunities in Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) at the University of Birmingham.

Know a potential PhD student interested in #democraticresilience, environmental politics & the Baltics? If so pls encourage them to check out this funded studentship & chance to work with my wonderful colleagues Licia Cianetti and Fiona Nunan. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

Big bang enlargement series - EUROPP This series was put together by Dr Eli Gateva (University of Oxford). You can cite the series using the following citation: Gateva, E (ed) (2024/2025) Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide – 20 Years s...

Looking for background reading on EU10 or just interested in European politics and European integration? Explore 'Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide – 20 Years since the Big Bang Enlargement' Blog Series: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/b... at @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

Less than a week left to register for the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025⏲️

Join us in Liverpool for stimulating panels, networking events and standout plenaries.

Register via our website: www.uaces.org/liverpool

Registration closes this Sunday 27 July. Don’t miss out.

#UACES2025

Working with @lotemhalevy.bsky.social was super fun and super inspiring! I learned a lot from her about ugly times, my favorite kind of times to contemplate these days … to new scholarship on liberalism 🤩🥂📚

Up to  three PhD Research Fellowships in Political Science  (283360) | University of Agder Job title: Up to  three PhD Research Fellowships in Political Science  (283360), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Job Opportunity: The Department of Political Science and Management at the University of Agder is hiring up to three fully funded Ph.D. candidates (three-year positions) in political science/public administration.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Deadline: October 1, 2025.

Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists!

Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂

Dates: 22-26 September
Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
llmsforsocialscience.net

Why Clarity Feels Dangerous (Especially If You’re an Academic) The Hardest Work in Writing Is Saying What You Really Mean

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking.

Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.

But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?

🧵

New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

very happy to be part of this report by the fantastic Critical Infrastructure Lab & REDE.
The title of my short essay is
"We have never been sovereign? EU’s Digital transition from a CEE perspective"
www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/u...
It's not a bad read for an academic text :)

“Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.

First International Conference of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub 'Between Peripheries: Critical-Relational Security from CEE and the Global South' securityhub.ee/news/between... Today is the final day to submit proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, or audio/visual contributions

For Uriah Heep Fans In Former Soviet Bloc, One 'July Morning' Has Lasted 40 Years Only a few Western rock bands were able to penetrate the Soviet bloc in the 1970s, but those who did went on to enjoy cultlike status that endures until today. One such group was Britain's Uriah Heep,...

Read here about the July 1 holiday spawned by Uriah Heep’s “July morning” song. www.rferl.org/a/For_Uriah_...

Battling the Backlash: The Future of Gender Equality in the Western Balkans Anti-gender movements across the Western Balkans have gained momentum, challenging hard-won human rights and undermining fragile democratic norms. These movements, often backed by religious and far-ri...

Anti-gender movements are gaining momentum across Western societies, including in the Western Balkans.
Join our great #ReThinkCEE fellow Angel Dimitrievski, Adriana Zaharijevic, Irena Cvetkovic & yours truly to
discuss the impact.
📅June 26, 3:00 pm CET
RSVP⤵️
www.gmfus.org/event/battli...

Ahead of the planned Pride 🏳️‍🌈 parade on June 28, let’s look at the situation in Hungary. It’s confusing: the LGBT+ Pride is banned but also, it’s going ahead. Here’s an explainer on the background and what we can expect 🧵

European integration and state capture: insights from the EU’s earlier Eastern enlargement The EU’s enlargement policy has successfully strengthened state institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), while failing to do so in the Western Balkans (WB). This is often attributed to dom...

Why was the EU enlargement policy successful in countering state capture in Central and Eastern Europe but not in the Western Balkans? In my new article I argue this has a lot to do with how the EU managed their economic integration 🇪🇺🛒 Open access👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Poland’s presidential election – the end of re-democratisation? Poland’s 2025 presidential election – the end of re-democratisation?

💥 New: Poland’s presidential election – the end of re-democratisation?

✍️ Adam Holesch

🤩 Out and #openaccess, thanks to @tandfresearch.bsky.social @esrciaasurrey.bsky.social, why it is important to learn about these women’s role in the early years of European integration, where my study identifies distinct career trajectories @cbesurrey.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How to write even when the words won’t come Books, articles and grant proposals do not arrive in a single stroke. They are created, like sculptures, through a thousand small movements. Here, Catherine De Vries explains how to develop ‘skill pow...

Happy to share my thoughts on writing in Times Higher Education!

“Books, articles and grant proposals do not arrive in a single stroke. They are created, like sculptures, through a thousand small movements.”

This is what I call skillpower.

1/2

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-w...

Poster detailing the book proposals call for Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies Book Series. Inviting early career and experienced academics to submit expressions of interest to publish monographs and edited volumes to its editorial team. Particularly encouraging scholars working on feminist perspectives, post-colonial and decolonising approaches, non-European perspectives on the EU, critical security studies, practice theory, and critical international political economy. Contact details for the editors are: Monika Brusenbauch Meislová brusenbauch.meislova@email.cz Helena Farrand Carrapico helena.farrand-carrapico@northumbria.ac.uk Benjamin Farrand ben.farrand@newcastle.ac.uk Benjamin Martill benjamin.martill@ed.ac.uk

@uaces.bsky.social‬ call🚨

@uaces.bsky.social has put out an expression of interest to publish monographs & edited volumes to its editorial team. 🎉

Welcoming expressions in all areas of EU research - see the flyer attached🌟

More info 👉 buff.ly/OXOAEFp

@monikameislova.bsky.social‬

Interested in studying Europe and European integration? Ana Bojinović Fenko explores how Slovenia has changed after two decades of EU membership, part of series on Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide - 20 Years since the Big Bang Enlargement @eastwestdivide.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social

✍️ In the first part of his article, @danielhegedus.bsky.social recounts the background of the termination of US Government Assistance and its immediate financial consequences for the CSO sector in Central and Eastern Europe.

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4zfkzvfj

Thinking of joining us in Liverpool for the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025?

Find out what to expect, and how to register on our website: www.uaces.org/liverpool.

Registration is open now until 27 July – but register before 1 June to take advantage of early bird rates!

#UACES2025

Heute begrüßen wir Dr. Manès Weisskircher um 16:00 Uhr in unserer Forschungswerkstatt (Raum: P3 | Philosophicum)!
Er spricht zum Thema "Rechtsaußen-Klimaobstruktion" und stellt die zentralen Erkenntnisse der Forschung der BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe REXKLIMA vor.
Alle sind herzlich eingeladen!