Events
Upcoming Events
PARTICIPATION in NIAM Conference: Visualisierung von Konflikten in Osteuropa
Iaroslav Boretskii, Mela Žuljević, Jana Moser will participate in the NIAM conference, giving a presentation on visualisation of conflicts in Eastern Europe
16 January 2025 – 9:00 CET in Berlin/online
Organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie e. V.
WORKSHOP: Vision(s) of Post-war European Security
International Expert Workshop (online)
22 January 2025 – 15:00 CET
Organisation: ZOiS, KonKoop
Past Events
PARTICIPATION in CEC Consultation on Just Peace
Regina Elsner will participate in European Consultation on just peace organised by The Conference of European Churches (CEC), giving a presentation on instrumentalisation and weaponisation of religion during war.
9-11 December 2024 – 9:00 CET in Warsaw
Organisation: The Conference of European Churches (CEC), the Polish Ecumenical Council.
PRESENTATION: Mapping the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia: Presenting a Major Digital Resource for Researching, Learning about, and Teaching on the Holocaust in the NDH
Online presentation by Lovro Kralj and Danijel Matijevic (CHGRSE)
27 November 2024 – 15.00 CET Online
Organisation: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe
BOOK PREMIERE: Frieden verhandeln im Krieg. Russlands Krieg, Chancen auf Frieden und die Kunst des Verhandelns
Cindy Wittke (IOS) will present her new book “Frieden verhandeln im Krieg”
25 November 2025 – 18.00 CET in Berlin
Haus der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
WEBINAR: “How Can You Explain the Political Instability in Bulgaria? What New Political Cleavages Are in Birth?”
International webinar (online)
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 16:00–18:00 CET
PARTICIPATION in CASNiG Conference ‘Human-Environment Relations in Central Asia: Flows, Frictions, and Frontiers’
Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda will participate in the conference ‘’Human-Environment Relations in Central Asia: Flows, Frictions, and Frontiers”
12-13 November 2024 – 9:00 CET in Berlin
Organisation: The Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and the Central Asian Studies Network in Germany (CASNiG)
CONFERENCE: Building Confidence and Fostering Societal Dialogue: Insights from Armenia and Azerbaijan
Building Confidence and Fostering Societal Dialogue: Insights from Armenia and Azerbaijan
6 November 2024 – 18:30 CET in Berlin and online
Organisation: Berghof Foundation, ZOIS, and KonKoop
PARTICIPATION in Adventure of Science Symposium: The Downstream System of Central Asia Glaciers
Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda will participate in the symposium ‘The downstream system of Central Asia Glaciers’
5 November 2024 – 17:00 CET (online)
Organisation: Adventure of science, Women and glaciers in Central Asia. The program is organized with the support and the cooperation of UNESCO and Inspiring Girls Expeditions
WORKSHOP: Using Digital Tools and Generative AI for Writing
Katarina Damčević (IOS) with Djuddah A.J. Leijen (Tartu University) will organise the workshop ‘Using Digital Tools and Generative AI for Writing’.
5-7 November 2024 in Regensburg
Organisation: Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, the University of Regensburg (UR)
PARTICIPATION at Berlin Science Week Symposium: Climate Resilience in Central Asia – Tradition Meets Innovation
Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda participated in the symposium
1 November 2024 – 10:15 CET in Berlin
Organisation: Berlin Science Week, TU Berlin
PARTICIPATION at EISA Exploratory Symposia: Patron-Client Relations in World Politics
Prof. Rafael Biermann and Geza Tasner will participate in the European International Studies Association’s (EISA) 11th Exploratory Symposia
27-30 Oct 2024 in Rapallo, Italy
Organisation: The European International Studies Association (EISA)
WORKSHOP: Monuments, Murals, and Minefields: A Workshop on Researching Post-Conflict Sites of Memory
Katarina Damčević (IOS) with Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka) will organise the workshop for doctoral students ‘Monuments, Murals, and Minefields: A Workshop on Researching Post-Conflict Sites of Memory’.
25 October 2024 – 10:00 CET in Regensburg
Organisation: Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, the University of Regensburg
PRESENTATION of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe
Co-founders Katarina Damčević (IOS, KonKoop) and Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka) will present the members, goals, and current activities of the Center, highlighting dynamic research projects and opportunities for affiliation.
24 October 2024 – 17:00 CET in Regensburg
Organisation: Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, the Center for Commemorative Culture and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe at the University of Rijeka.
WORKSHOP: Other Visions, Other Voices: Muslim Minorities and Cultural Negotiations in Ukraine, Russia and Georgia
Workshop at the Centre for East European and international Studies (ZOiS)
18 October 2024 – 10.30 CET in Berlin
Organisation: ZOiS, Humboldt University Berlin
PRESENTATION at the Workshop ‘Unfrozen Conflicts: Polymorph Aspects of Contested Sovereignty and Multi-dimensional Borders in Europe and beyond’
Katarina Damčević (IOS) and Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS) will participate in the workshop and give a presentation on mapping peace and conflict studies in Eastern Europe
17 October 2024 – 9:00 CET in Regensburg
Organised by: Dr. Cindy Wittke (IOS), Mélanie Sadozaï (U Regensburg)
Individual Papers at ceecon24
KonKoop members present individual papers at the Congress of Central and East European Studies (ceecon)
7-8 October 2024 at Freie Universität Berlin
WORKSHOP: Emancipatory Dimensions of In:Security
International Expert Workshop (online)
16 October 2024, 13.00 – 15.30 CET
Convener: Dr. Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)
WORKSHOP: Orthodox Resources of Social Peace
Workshop ‘Orthodox Resources of Social Peace’
19-21 September 2024 in Berlin
Organisation: Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) and University of Muenster
STUDY VISIT at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana
Katarina Damčević (IOS) will have 2-week study visit (from 16 to 30 September 2024) at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana.
TRAINING: Mixed Methods Workshop at Viadrinicum
Research workshops by Ivaylo Dinev, Kostiantyn Fedorenko, and Oksana Mikheieva (all ZOiS)
28 August 2024, X. Viadrinicum Summer School
Organisation: European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) in cooperation with ZOiS
PARTICIPATION in International Workshop ‘Easternisation of International Law: Regionalisation of International Law and Global Reordering’
Cindy Wittke (IOS) will participate in international workshop ‘Easternisation of International Law: Regionalisation of International Law and Global Reordering’.
30-31 August 2024 in Copenhagen
Organisation: University of Copenhagen, Centre for European, Comparative, and Constitutional Legal Studies (CECS)
PAPER at the 30th International Conference of Europeanists
The DataLab coordinator Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) presented his paper “Historical Processes and Movement Strategies: Tracing the Divergent Paths of the New Left in Southeast Europe” at the Thirtieth International Conference of Europeanists on 3-5 July in Lyon, France.
PRESENTATION at the Peace Institute International Symposium ‘Hate Speech Intersections with Nationalism, Racism, Gender and Migration’
Project presentation by Katarina Damčević (IOS) at the Peace Institute International Symposium
4-5 July 2024 – 12:00 CET in Ljubljana
Organisation: the Peace Institute, The Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS)
PANEL at PECSRL 2024: Borderscape Legacies: Tracing Afterlives of Conflict Demarcation Lines in the Landscape
Panel at PECSRL (Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscapes) 2024 “BORDERSCAPES – PAST AND FUTURE”
9-15 September 2024 in Lublin and Zamość, Poland
Organised by Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS), and Mela Žuljević (IfL)
DATA TRAINING: How to use Stata?
Inhouse Training by Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)/ DataLab
18 June 2024 – ZOiS
LECTURE: Drawing the Line
Public Lecture by Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS) within the Long Night of the Sciences
22 June 2024 – Humboldt-University Berlin
LECTURE: Global Security Shifts: from the Post-Soviet Ppace to the Middle East and East Asia. A Political-Military Perspective
Public Lecture by Gen. Heinrich Brauß (Former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning)
13 June 2024 – 18.30 in Jena
Organisation: Géza Tasner & Rafael Biermann (both FSU)
WORKSHOP: Authors’ Workshop on Patron-Client Relationships in World Politics
Workshop at FSU Jena
13-16 June 2024
Organisation: Géza Tasner & Rafael Biermann (both FSU)
EEGA Science Lounge “Visualising War: Shifts in Proximity, Technology and Care”
Panel Discussion with: Monica Rüthers (Universität Hamburg), Bohdan Shumylovych (Ukrainian Catholic University, Center for Urban History) and Petra Bopp (independent art historian)
Chair: Mela Žuljević (IfL)
6 June 2024 -17.00 Tagungslounge Leipzig
WORKSHOP: (Para-)Military Violence, War Crimes in Post-Soviet Conflicts and Narratives of the Russo- Ukrainian War
Public Workshop
21-13 May in Berlin & Potsdam
Organisation: Alyona Bidenko & Jan C. Behrends (both ZZF)
PRESENTATION: Educational Platform REESOURCES: Rethinking Eastern Europe
The project presentation organised by Katarina Damčević (IOS)
17 May 2024 – 14:00 CET in Regensburg
Organisation: KonKoop, IOS, Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World
PAPERs at ASN: Nikola Gajić & Gwendolyn Sasse
Individual papers by Nikola Gajić (IOS) & Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS) at ASN Convention
16-18 May 2024 – New York, US
Gwendolyn Sasse: Identity, War Trauma, and Political Attitudes
Nikola Gajić: “I Solemnly Declare that I will Speak the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth” : The Afterlife of ICTY Victims’ Testimonies
PANEL at ASN: Post-Soviet Conflict Landscapes: Unpacking Security, Agency and Social Responses
Panel at ASN Convention in New York
16.05.2024 -10.00 (local time)
with: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF), Alyona Bidenko (ZZF), Lena Pieber (ZOiS), Géza Tasner (FSU), Sofia Gavrilova (IfL)
PANEL on Historical Revisionism and Genocides Denial
The panel ‘Different approaches on interpretations of history The Holocaust, Genocide and other wars crimes of the Second World War’ will be organised by Katarina Damčević (IOS).
29 April 2024 – 19:00 CET in Rijeka
Organisation: Documenta – Center for Dealing with the Past, The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe, The Alliance of Anti-Fascists and Anti-Fascist Fighters of Primorsko-goranska County
PRESENTATION at Workshop “Neue Ansätze kritischer Geovisualisierung”
Project Presentation by Mela Žuljević (IfL) and Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS)
25-27 April 2024 – Halle/ Saale
PARTICIPATION in the ASEN Conference ‘Nationalism and Memory’
Nicola Gajić will participate in the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) conference
9-11 April 2024 – 9:00 CET in Edinburgh
Organisation: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
PAPER at 6th Annual IHE Water and Peace Seminar: Cross Border Resentment or Peaceful Cohabitation?
Beate Eschment (ZOiS) presented her paper “Cross Border Resentment or Peaceful Cohabitation? The Example of the Sardoba Dam Break for Understanding the Dynamics of Water (non-) Conflict” at the 6th Annual IHE Water and Peace Seminar “Damned and Doomed? Conflict and Cooperation Dynamics around large Infrastructure in Transboundary Bains”
17/18 April 2024 – Almaty
PAPER at Conference “The Left in Southeast Europe: Identities and Discourses”
The DataLab coordinator Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) presented his paper “The Political Left in Moments of Crisis” at the Conference “The Left in Southeast Europe: Identities and Discourses” on 4-5 April in Tirana, Albania. (Link to program)
PAPER at Fourth Emerging Scholars Workshop on De Facto States
Project presentation by Lena Pieper at the Fourth Emerging Scholars Workshop on De Facto States, organized by the De Facto States Research Unit at Tartu University
11-12 April 2024 – online
Panel at Pollen24: Resistance and Transformation
Panel at the Pollen24-conference ‘Resistance and Transformation’ organised by Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda (HNEE)
Her individual paper is titled ‘Irrigation and environmental change’.
11 March 2024 – Lund, Sweden
WORKSHOP: Researching Living with/in Difference Creatively
Closed Workshop at ZOiS
19 – 20 March 2024
Convenors: Tsypylma Darieva & Piotr Goldstein (ZOiS)
WORKSHOP: The Risks of Decoupling: Post-Soviet Critical Infrastructure Legacies, New Challenges and the Societal Dimension
Closed online Workshop at ZOiS
29 February 2024
Organisation: Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)
WORKSHOP: From a Centralised Energy Supply to Decentralised Sustainability
Online Workshop
28 February 2024 – 12.30
Organisation: Beril Ocaklı (ZOiS), Martin Welp (HNEE), Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS), Kerstin Bischl (ZOiS)
WORKSHOP: Resource Conflicts and Ethno-Religious Diversity
Online Workshop at HNEE
30 January 2024
Organisation: Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda & Martin Welp (HNEE)
NETWORK MEETING: Varieties of Conflict and Cooperation – and its Visualisation
Closed online network meeting
With: Jenniver Sehring (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education), Josip Glaurdić (U of Luxembourg) and Georg Gartner (TU Wien)
22 January 2024
PARTICIPATION at The New Global Fragmentation Special Issue Workshop
Cindy Wittke participated at The New Global Fragmentation Special Issue Workshop
13-14 December 2023 at LSE London
LECTURE: Climate, Water – Conflict and Cooperation
Public Lecture by Prof. Dr Fred Hattermann at HNEE
30 November 2023 – 14.00
Hybrid
PARTICIPATION at ProOriente Conference “Healing of Wounded Memories”
Conference by ProOriente Vienna
9-11 November 2023 in Vienna
Co-organized by Regina Elsner (WWU/ ZOiS)
PAPER at SISP: Data Collection of Protest Politics in Eastern Europe: a Meta-Analysis
Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) presented an individual paper at the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) Conference on 14-16 September 2023 in Genoa.
Ivaylo Dinev: “Data collection of protest politics in Eastern Europe: a meta-analysis”
WORKSHOP: Conflict and (Re-)Ordering in Eastern Europe
Closed Workshop at IOS Regensburg
11 October 2023
Organisation: Ekaterina Mikhailova (IOS)
WORKSHOP: The Political Economy of Unrecognised Statehood
Closed Workshop at ZOiS
17-18 October 2023
Organisation: Lena Pieber, Sabine von Löwis & Julia Langbein (ZOiS)
PAPERs at ECPR: Géza Tasner & Ivaylo Dinev
Geza Tasner (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena) & Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) presented individual papers at the ECPR Conference on 4-8 September 2023 in Prague.
Ivaylo Dinev: “Protest parties and movement parties: comparing four protest cycles in Bulgaria”
Geza Tasner: “Secessionist Conflicts as Arenas of Strategic Competition for External Patrons: Case Studies from post-Cold War Europe”
WORKSHOP: Ethnic Minorities in Border Regions – Potential for Conflict or Cooperation?
Closed Workshop at ZOiS
28 September 2023
Organisation: Beate Eschment and Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS), Ekaterina Mikhailova (IOS)
WORKSHOP: Orthodoxy and Social Peace
Closed Online Workshop
29 August 2023
Organisation: Regina Elsner (WWU/ ZOiS)
PAPER at ICC 2023: Design Space in Cartography
Outlining a Design Perspective in Critical Analysis of Peace and Conflict Visualisations
By Mela Žuljević at the 31st International Cartographic Conference “Smart Cartography for Sustainable Development”
17 August 2023 – Cape Town, South Africa
LECTURE: Orthodoxy and the complexities of religious nationalism in Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
Lecture by Regina Elsner at the 2023 ICJS Faculty Seminar “America’s Unexceptional Christian Nationalism: Democratic Lessons from Other Contexts”
25 July 2023 at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, Baltimore
PAPER at “Ukraine’s Place in a Fragmented World Order”: Ekaterina Mikhailova & Cindy Wittke
Ekaterina Mikhailova and Cindy Wittke (both IOS) presented individual papers at “Ukraine’s Place in a Fragmented World Order” organised by PeaceRep-Ukraine on 10-11 July 2023 in Vienna
Cindy Wittke: Unpacking the Domestic and International Contexts of Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan New Allied Relations: View from the Borderlands
Ekaterina Mikhailova: Untying the Caucasian Knot – How Democracy and Security Interact in Ukraine’s Southeastern Neighbourhood
WORKSHOP: The South Caucasus as a Place of Refuge? Migration and Insecurity
Online Workshop at ZOiS
06 July 2023 – 14:00
Organisation: Nadja Douglas and Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS)
LECTURE: “Gott auf dem Maidan« – Die Rolle der Kirchen in den gesellschaftlichen Aufbrüchen der Ukraine seit 1991
Public Lecture by Regina Elsner within the lecture series “REVOLUTION – REAKTION – RELIGION. 1848 IN PERSPEKTIVE”
5 July 2023 – 18.15 at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
LECTURE: Forschen in Zeiten des Krieges – geht das?
Public lecture (in German) by Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS) within the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
17 June 2023 – 19.30 at the Naturkundemuseum Berlin
Since Russia’s attack on the whole of Ukraine from February 2022, the question of the possibilities of social science research on Eastern Europe has taken on a new urgency. How can social science research help in understanding the developments, what kind of research is possible in war at all and what roles do scientists take on in times of war? Gwendolyn Sasse gives a brief insight into the relevance and challenges of social science research on Eastern Europe before and since 24 February 2022.
LECTURE: Un:Sicherheit: Wie hat sich die Wahrnehmung von Sicherheit in Osteuropa verändert?
Public Lecture (in German) by Nadja Douglas within the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Saturday 17 June 2023 – 20.00 at ZOiS
The Russian war of aggression has changed many things. The understanding, perception, demands and needs of and for security have also changed in the states of Eastern Europe. This is especially true for Russia’s neighbouring countries. Together we will question the classic concept of security and look at the results of an expert workshop held at ZOiS, which sought new approaches.
LECTURE: Orthodoxie und der Diskurs über den Krieg in Russland und der Ukraine
Lecture by Regina Elsner at the IB Sektionstagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft
16 June 2023 in Friedrichshafen
WORKSHOP: Crossing Borders – Migration, Generational Change and Historical Narratives
Closed Workshop at ZOiS
12-13 June 2023
Organisation: Félix Krawatzek (ZOiS)
PAPER at 7th Annual Tartu Conference “War and Peace: What’s Next for Eastern Europe and Eurasia?”
Paper by Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda at the 7th Annual Tartu Conference “War and Peace: What’s Next for Eastern Europe and Eurasia?”: “Russia’s war in Ukraine: a postcolonial moment for Central Asia?”
11–13 June 2023 in Tartu, Estonia
WORKSHOP: In:Security in Border Regions
Closed Workshop at ZOiS
08 June 2023
Organisation: Nadja Douglas and Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
WORKSHOP: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Changing Arctic Realities – between Cooperation and Conflicting Interests
Online Workshop at ZOiS
24 May 2023
Organisation: Nadja Douglas and Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
PAPER at conference “Lost in Transition: Social Sciences, Scenarios of Transformation, and Cognitive Dissonances in East Central Europe after 1989”
Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) presented an individual paper at the conference “Lost in Transition” on 3-4 March in Budapest.
Ivaylo Dinev: “Framing of civil society in Bulgarian protests since 1989”.
WORKSHOP: Patron-Client Relationships in World Politics
ECPR Workshop in Toulouse, France
25-28 April 2023
Organisation: Rafael Biermann and Géza Tasner (FSU Jena)
Kick-off CONFERENCE
2-3 March 2023 at ZOiS
With this conference, we are presenting the research network to the public for the first time. We will discuss our research approaches and exchange ideas with many partners from research and practice about how to integrate them into the network.
NETWORK MEETING: New Data? Possibilities and Limits of ‚Unusual‘ Data for Research on Conflict and Cooperation
Closed online network meeting, 15 February 2023
With: Florian Töpfl (Cair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region, U of Passau)
WORKSHOP: Methods Training by DataLab and VisLab
KonKoop Young Researchers’ Workshop, 2-3 February 2023 at ZOiS Berlin
PARTICIPATION IOTA Conference Orthodox Theology
Participation by Regina Elsner
11-14 January 2023 in Volos, Greece
WORKSHOP: Peace and Conflict Research in Eastern Europe post-2022 – Methods and Ethical Dilemmas
KonKoop Young Researchers’ Workshop, 29-30 November 2022, IOS Regensburg
NETWORK MEETING: Critical Cartography
Closed online network meeting, 4 November 2022
With: Jana Moser and Sofia Gavrilova (IfL)
NETWORK MEETING: Doing Research on Eastern Europe
Closed online network meeting, 23 September 2022
With: Sophie Lambroschini (CMB) and KonKoop PIs (Ulf Brunnbauer – IOS, Sabine von Löwis – ZOiS, Gwendolyn Sasse – ZOiS, Martin Welp – HNEE)
NETWORK MEETING: PhD-Presentations
Closed online network meeting, 11 June 2022
With: Lena Pieber (ZOiS) and Géza Tasner (FSU Jena); Alyona Bidenko (ZZF), Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda (HNEE) and Nikola Gajić (IOS); Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) / Data Lab