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Through this seminar series, we promote the study of Balkan politics and societies through an interdisciplinary lens
Our activities are supported by the , whose holdings on South-East Europe comprise some 50,000 volumes including, notably, the Moses Gaster collection of old Romanian books, the , the , and the wartime archive of King Zog of Albania.
We also play host to the Alexander Nash Albanian Studies Programme.听
Day/Time: Wednesday, 18:00-19:30
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(unless otherwise specified)
- Upcoming events
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Recent Events
- Spring 2024 Term听
- 31 January 2024:听Things Unsaid by Eleonora Veninova
- 07 March 2024:听Book launch: A Concise History of Serbia
- 11 March 2024:听Does the Past have an Expiry Date? A conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel
- 20 March 2024:听Book launch: Utopia of the Uniform
- Autumn Term 2023
- 11 October 2023:听Colours and Rhythms of Unrest
- 25 October 2023:听An Evening in Memory of Dubravka Uge拧i膰
- 29 November 2023:听Kaymak by Milcho Manchevski
- 06 December 2023:听IAS Book launch: Jewish Refugees in the Balkans,1933-1945
- 13 December 2023:听A brief history of Albanian migration in the UK - a roundtable discussion
- Spring Term 2023
- Autumn Term 2022
19 October 2022 "Special" relations between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina
26 October 2022 
- Spring Term 2022
12 January 2022 Archives and Memory in Southeast Europe
2 February 2022 The Cold War from the Margins: Bulgaria on the Global Cultural Scene
23 February 2022 Emotions in Bosnia and Herzegovina
04 May 2022 World Literature and the Limits of Theory: A Conversation with Professor Galin Tihanov
- Autumn Term 2021
20 October 2021 Rethinking 1821: Greek Independence and its Transnational Contexts
17 November 2021 Art and Politics in Southeast Europe
- Spring Term 2021
听 听 26 May 2021, 4:00pm Language policy and linguistic activism: who meddles in matters of language in Croatia?
- Autumn Term 2020听
14 October, 1600h: Six-Decades looking for Justice: Nationalised Jewish property in Slovenia
Dr Hannah Starman
21 October, 1600h The rise of left politics and solidarity in SEE.
Danijela Dolenec (University of Zagreb)
Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina)
Dragan Popovi膰 (Policy Center)听
18 November, 1600h Chelsi West Ohueri (University of Texas)
Adnan 膯erimagi膰 (European Stability Initiative)
- Spring Term 2020
Date Event 5 February, 2020, 6pm Andi Hoxhaj (University of Warwick)
Book Launch: 鈥淭he EU Anti-Corruption Report: A Reflexive Governance Approach鈥�26 February, 2020, 6pm CANCELLED Natasha Wunsch (SciencesPo, Paris, France) 4 March, 2020, 6pm 18 March, 2020, 6pm CANCELLED
Raul Carstocea (University of Leicester)
Corruption and colonial anxieties: Anti-Semitism in interwar Romania- Autumn Term 2019
Date Event 1 November 2019 CANCELLED
Kapka Kassabova (Independent fiction writer, based in Scotland)
19 November 2019
Anna Calori (Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Konstanz, Germany)
鈥楲osing the global? Corporate cultures, contested development and de-globalisation in a (post)Yugoslav enterprise'
听4 December 2019
(Room 347)
CANCELLED
Orlanda Obad (post-doctoral researcher, sociology), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb
"The Legacy of the Workers'听 State: Class Compromise versus Class Struggle in Croatia?鈥�
- Spring Term 2019
Date Event 16 January 2019 6 February 2019, 3pm
LG11, Bentham House
Jelena Obradovi膰-Wochnik (Birmingham):
鈥淯rban geographies of the refugee crisis: biopolitics, neoliberalism and contestation over public space in Belgrade鈥�
听20 February 2019
听25 February 2019 Renata J. Kirin (the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore )
Women Professional Revolutionaries between Party's Fears and Leftist Forgetfulness
6 March 2019
Anatomy G04 Gavin de Beer LT
鈥淲hat about the Workers? Precarity in post-conflict Yugoslavia.鈥�
11 March 2019 Jill Massino (UNC Charlotte): 鈥淭o fight for their rights, against U.S. aggression鈥�: Romania and the Vietnam War
15 March 2019 Klarita G毛rxhani (European University Institute):
鈥淔ormal and informal institutions in the Western Balkans: who does what and why鈥�24 April 2019 CANCELLED CANCELLED Justin Elliott (University of Prishtina):
"Socialist in form, national in content: nation-building and Albanian language politics in Kosovo"
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