Michael Spies and Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda, organized a participatory workshop focused on the systemic analysis of resource management in the context of environmental change. The event specifically addressed water-related challenges in the Konibodom and Jabbor Rasulov districts of the Sughd region, Tajikistan.

18-20 February 2025 – 9:00 CET online

Organisation: Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE)

Panel at Marc Bloch Center dedicated to multilateral perspectives on the war in Ukraine

13 December – 9:00 CET in Berlin

Organisation: Centre Marc Bloch

With: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS), Sophie Lambroschini (Centre Marc Bloch), Nadja Douglas (ZOiS), Sofia Gavrilova (IfL), Gaëlle Le Pavic (Ghent University – United Nations University (CRIS))

10 December 2024 – 11:00 CET in Frankfurt

Organisation: European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)

Regina Elsner will participate in European Consultation on just peace, giving a presentation on instrumentalisation and weaponisation of religion during war. 

9-11 December 2024 – 9:00 CET in Warsaw

Organisation: Conference of European Churches (CEC), Polish Ecumenical Council

KonKoop Methods Workshop

4-6 December 2024 – 9:00 CET in Leipzig

Organisation: Katarina Damčević (IOS), Nikola Gajić (IOS), Sofia Gavrilova (IfL), Jana Moser (IfL), Mela Žuljević (IfL) 

Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS), Mela Žuljević, Jana Moser (both IfL) will participate in the discussion ‘Visual geography – approaches, methods, questions’.

28-29 November 2024 – 12:00 CET in Leipzig

Organisation: IfL, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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

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)

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

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

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)

Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda participated in the symposium

1 November 2024 – 10:15 CET in Berlin

Organisation: Berlin Science Week, TU Berlin

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)

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

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.

Nadja Douglas (ZOiS) will present her paper “Confidence-building processes as a tool of conflict transformation between Armenia and Azerbaijan” at Aleksanteri Conference 2024. 

23-25 October 2024 – 9:00 CET in Helsinki

Organisation: University of Helsinki

Workshop at the Centre for East European and international Studies (ZOiS)

18 October 2024 – 10.30 CET in Berlin

Organisation: ZOiS, Humboldt University Berlin

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)

Rafael Biermann (FSU) will participate in the international conference ‘Migration – a progressive formula’ and give a presentation on human rights in Kosovo and the failure of prevention. 

24-25 September 2024 – 9:00 CET in Berlin

Organisation: Friedrich Ebert Foundation

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

Mela Zuljevic, Sofia Gavrilova, Jana Moser (all IfL) will jojn EuroCarto Conference 2024, organising a workshop on multiperspective cartography in conflict visualisation. 

8 September 2024 – 13:00 CET in Wien

Organisation: International Cartographic Association, TU Wien, British Cartographic Society

Mela Zuljevic (IfL) will participate in the conference of Royal Geographical Society with the paper on peace agreement maps as conflicting visions of the future.

27-30 August 2024 – 9:00 CET in London/online

Organisation: Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Institute of British Geographers (IBG)

Sofia Gavrilova (IfL) will participate in the annual international conference of Royal Geographical Society.

27-30 August 2024 – 9:00 CET in London/online

Organisation: Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Institute of British Geographers (IBG)

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)

Sofia Gavrilova, Jana Moser (both IfL) will organise a session ‘Reimagining Conflict and War Cartography through Multiperspective Approaches’ in the annual international conference of Royal Geographical Society.

27-30 August 2024 – 9:00 CET in London/online

Organisation: Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Institute of British Geographers (IBG)

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)

Regina Elsner (WWU/ ZOiS) will participate in the conference on Orthodox Christianity and identity politics, giving a presentation ‘“Not like them!” The Harm of Othering and the Quest for a New Orthodox Paradigm in Ukraine’.

28 June-1 July 2024 – 9:00 CET in Münster

Organisation: Chair of Orthodox Theology, Center for Religious Studies, University of Münster

Public Lecture by Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS) within the Long Night of the Sciences

22 June 2024 – Humboldt-University Berlin

Mela Zuljevic (IfL) will join CEEISA-ISA international conference dedicated to the land question in international politics.

16 June 2024 – 8:00 CET in Rijeka/online

Organisation: Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA), University of Rijeka, International Studies Association (ISA)

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

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

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)

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

Regina Elsner (WWU/ ZOiS) will participate in the conference on religion and war in Ukraine, giving a presentation on theological (im)possibilities for reconciliation in Ukraine.

14-16 March 2024 – 9:00 (GMT-7) in Edmonton/online

Organisation: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta/Canada

Rafael Biermann (FSU) will give a lecture in the Summer School of Friedrich Schiller University Jena offered within the Coimbra group universities on “Divided memories and their impact on current politics in Bosnia”.

13 March 2024 – Online

Alyona Bidenko (ZZF)  will join the panel organised by Humboldt Universität in Berlin ‘From Crisis to Opportunity: The Future Trajectory of Ukrainian Studies’. 

24 January 2024 – 8:00 CET in Berlin

Organisation: Humboldt Universität, Berlin

Cindy Wittke participated at The New Global Fragmentation Special Issue Workshop
13-14 December 2023 at LSE London

Conference by ProOriente Vienna
9-11 November 2023 in Vienna
Co-organized by Regina Elsner (WWU/ ZOiS)

Closed Workshop at ZOiS
17-18 October 2023
Organisation: Lena Pieber, Sabine von Löwis & Julia Langbein (ZOiS)

Closed Online Workshop
29 August 2023
Organisation: Regina Elsner (WWU/ ZOiS)

Mela Zuljevic (IfL) will take part in 31st International Cartographic Conference ‘Smart Cartography For Sustainable Development’.

13-18 August 2023 – 9:00 CET in Cape Town

Organisation: International Cartographic Association, National Research Foundation 

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

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 

Rafael Biermann (FSU) will give series of lectures in Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Lectures will be on the added value of a historical classification of current crises: the Russian war against Ukraine, the authoritarian turn in Moscow and its roots in the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

17 May 2023 – in Jena

KonKoop-member Rafael Biermann (FSU) will participate in joint sessions of workshops of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), presenting the introductory paper ‘Patron-Client Relations in World Politics. State of the Art.’

25-28 April 2023 – 9:00 CET in Toulouse/online

Organisation: European Consortium of Political Research

ECPR Workshop in Toulouse, France
25-28 April 2023
Organisation: Rafael Biermann and Géza Tasner (FSU Jena)

Professor Rafael Biermann (FSU) will give two lectures at the University of Bologna, titled “Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia” and “Failed Crisis Prevention in Ukraine.” Additionally, he explored the possibility of establishing an Erasmus exchange agreement for students and staff with the Institute of International Relations at the University of Bologna. 

14 April 2023 in Bologna

Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS) will participate in the annual BASEES conference, giving a presentation ‘Quo vadis Area Studies amidst Russia’s War against Ukraine?’

31 March 2023 – 11:00 CET in Glasgow/online

Organisation: BASEES

KonKoop-member Rafael Biermann (FSU) will participate in the workshop “Exploring Dynamics of ‘Frozen Conflicts’ through Actor-based Interactions”, giving a presentation on Patron-Client Relations in ‘Frozen Conflicts’. 

18 March 2023 – 9:00 CET in Estonia

Organisation: De Facto States Research Unit of Prof. Eiki Berg

Participation by Regina Elsner
11-14 January 2023 in Volos, Greece