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WORKSHOP: Post-Cold War Transformations: Navigating Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern and Southeast Europe
Katarina Damčević, Nikola Gajić, Cindy Wittke (all IOS) will organize a two-day workshop dedicated to conflict and cooperation in Eastern and Southeast Europe.
3-7 July 2025 – 9:00 CET in Regensburg
Organisation: Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg
OPEN CALL: Visiting fellows programme (f/m/d)
The Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany, invites applications for its Visiting fellows programme (f/m/d) in the framework of the KonKoop research network. Academic and non-academic applicants are […]
VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher in Caucasus Studies
The University of Jena, Institute for Slavic languages and Caucasus Studies of the Faculty of Arts in cooperation with the Institute of Political Science seek to fill the position of […]
DataLab BLOG: Constructing ‘the People’: Strategies, Modes, Scales
What does it mean when a political actor refers to ‘the people’? Where do we locate him or her in a political discourse? Bojidar Kolov presents a model that could help answer these questions and much more.
Kick-off WORKSHOP: KoDaNetOst
Kick-off Workshop of the Collaborative Data Network with Eastern Europe
25 & 26 March 2025 – Berlin/ hybrid
Organisors: Benjamin Beuerle (CMB), Kerstin Bischl (ZOiS), Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS), Felix Schulte (ECMI)
DATA: New Catalog of Conflict and Cooperation Datasets
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
This catalog features key research platforms and public datasets on conflict and cooperation, political developments, socio-economic trends, and public opinion across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus.
Published online: March 2025
BLOG Post: Serbia’s Protests as a Cultural Explosion: Symbols, Memory, and the Struggle for Meaning
Author: Katarina Damčević (IOS)
In: Hypotheses – ostBLOG
Published online: 21 March 2025
NETWORK MEETING: International Visibility
Closed online network meeting
with: Dorota Dakowska (Sciences Po Aix), Gerard Toal (Virginia Tech) & Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)
5 March 2025
CHAPTER: Bulgaria—Protest Movements Transforming the Party System
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) and Dragomir Stoyanov
In: Crăciun, C., Rammelt, H.P. (eds.), ‘Power and Protest in Central and Eastern Europe’, Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Published online: March 2025
CHAPTER: Progressive Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) and Julia Rone
In: Alice Mattoni (Hrsg.) ‘Handbook of Progressive Politics’. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham
Published online: March 2025
DataLab BLOG: “… there is so much more we do not know” – Data Visualisation in Peace and Conflict Research
Data visualization in peace and conflict research is becoming more and more important. Josip Glaurdić reflects on the advantages and pitfalls of data visualisation with regard to his own projects with focus on South Eastern Europe.
WORKSHOP: Sustainable Water Resource Management in Sughd, Tajikistan
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)
ARTICLE: The Political and Cultural Future of Karabakh Armenians
Authors: Ivaylo Dinev & Nadja Douglas (both ZOiS)
Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 140
Published online: January 2025
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: The Student Revolt in Serbia: Vučić’s Nemesis?
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 02/2025
Published online: 29 Jan 2025
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
BOOK CHAPTER: Escalating the Populist Approach: The Case of Russia and the Significance of History
Author: Regina Elsner
in: Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter It
Published online: 31 Dec 2024
BOOK CHAPTER: Der zweite Lungenflügel?: Orthodoxie und Friedensethik in Russlands Krieg
Author: Regina Elsner
in: Friedensethik der Zukunft: Zugänge, Perspektiven und aktuelle Herausforderungen
Published online: 31 Dec 2024
DataLab BLOG: ‘Stealing’ and ‘Combining’ Time for Meaningful Contributions Beyond Academic Anthropology
How can anthropological research produced for Western markets of academic knowledge become more relevant and benefit the people and societies studied? Nikola A. Venkov-Rose’s answer is ‘stealing and combining time’ – with regard to Stolipinovo, Bulgaria.
PANEL at Marc Bloch Center: Multilateral Perspectives on the War in Ukraine
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))
WORKSHOP: Expanding Perspectives on (Para-)Military Violence in Post-Soviet Spaces: Agency, Narratives, and Power
10 December 2024 – 11:00 CET in Frankfurt
Organisation: European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
DataLabBLOG: Reflexivity, Hierarchy and Ethics in Research Encounters and Collaborations
What ethical approaches can be taken to address knowledge hierarchies in joint data collection initiatives? Veronika Pfeilschifter explores this question and elaborates on political subjectivity in research collaborations.
PARTICIPATION in CEC Consultation on Just Peace
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
DATA: New Database of Protest Event Datasets in Eastern Europe
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS), Visualisation: Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS)
Published online: 19 December 2024
WORKSHOP: Digital Humanities and Visualisation Methods in Peace and Conflict Research
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)
ARTICLE: Patron-Client Relations in Secessionist Conflict: Introducing the Special Issue
Author: Rafael Biermann (FSU)
In: Territory, Politics, Governance, 2024
Published online: 03 December 2024
PRESENTATION: Multiperspectivity as Challenge for Visualisations in Conflict Research: a Critical Work-in-progress Discussion
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
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
COMMENT: Frieden verhandeln im Krieg. Russlands Krieg, die Chancen auf Frieden und die Kunst des Verhandelns
Authors: Cindy Wittke (IOS), Mandy Ganske-Zapf
In: Ukraine-Analysen (306)
Published online: 15 November 2024
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)
In:Security REPORT: Energy Security in Eastern Europe since Decoupling from Russia: The Fragile Balance between Geopolitics, National Politics and Vernacular Perceptions
Authors: Nadja Douglas, Sophie Lambroschini, Michael LaBelle, Vineta Kleinberga, Ana Otilia Nuțu, Andrian Prokip
Published online: 7 November 2024
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)
BOOK CHAPTER: Deutsch-ukrainische Geschichten: Bruchstücke aus einer gemeinsamen Vergangenheit
Authors and editors: Marieluise Beck, Jan C. Behrends (ZZF), Gelinada Grinchenk & Oksana Mikheiva et al
Ibidem: Stuttgart, pp. 15-28
Published online: 01 November 2024
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
CHAPTER: Von der Perestroika zur Osterweiterung der EU. Jahre der Hoffnung in Europa 1985-2004
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Daxner, Michael et al( Hrsg.) ‘Gut Gegangen: Der Abzug der Sowjetischen/Russischen Streitkräfte1990-1994’, pp. 41-47
Strauss Edition: Potsdam
Published online: 1 November 2024
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.
PAPER at Aleksanteri Conference 2024: Confidence-building Processes as a Tool of Conflict Transformation between Armenia and Azerbaijan
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
SPECIAL ISSUE: The War of Maps? Spatial (Mis)Representations Of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Digital Context
Authors: Ekatarina Mikhailova, Alina Mozolevska, Mela Žuljević, Sofia Gavrilova, Sabine von Löwis, Iaroslav Boretskii, Tim Wenzel
in: Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD), Published online: September 2024
BLOG Post: For Three Years the Political Compass has Pointed Increasingly to the Right and more Conservative
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) and Stanislav Dodov
In: Dnevnik
Published online: 22 October 2024
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)
WORKSHOP: Emancipatory Dimensions of In:Security
International Expert Workshop (online)
16 October 2024, 13.00 – 15.30 CET
Convener: Dr. Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)
BOOK: Frieden verhandeln im Krieg. Russlands Krieg, Chancen auf Frieden und die Kunst des Verhandelns
Author: Cindy Wittke (IOS)
Co-Author: Mandy Ganske-Zapf
Quadriga: Berlin, 2024.
ARTICLE: What Political Status Did the Donbas Want? Survey Evidence on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
Authors: John O’Loughlin, Gwendolyn Sasse, Gerard Toal
in: Geopolitics
Published online: 07 October 2024
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
PARTICIPATION in the Conference: Human Rights in Kosovo and the Failure of Prevention
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
ARTICLE: A Map Designed to Justify the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Takes on a Life of Its Own in Media and Memes
Authors: Sabine von Löwis, Iaroslav Boretskii (both ZOiS), Tim Wenzel
In: Ukrainian Analytical Digest, pp. 22-26
Published online: September 2024
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
COMMENT: Die Ansichten russischer Migranten in Kasachstan und Kirgistan zu Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine
Authors: Félix Krawatzek, Gwendolyn Sasse (both ZOiS)
in: Central Asia Analyses No. 165
Published online: September 2024
ZOiS-REPORT: The Political Diversity Of The New Migration From Russia Since February 2022
Authors: Gwendolyn Sasse, Félix Krawatzek (both ZOiS)
ZOiS Report 4/2024
Published online: September 2024
ARTICLE: From Above and From Below: Challenging Flat Representations of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in the International Context
Author: Mela Zuljevic (IfL)
Published: September 2024
In: UkrainianAnalyticalDigest 2024 (8), pp. 14-18
ARTICLE: How to Normalize the Occupation: Russian Authoritarianism and Maps
Author: Sofia Gavrilova (IfL)
Published: September 2024
In: UkrainianAnalyticalDigest 2024 (8), pp. 19-22
ARTICLE: Maps Beyond Icons: Semiotic Analysis of Maps of Ukraine During the Russo-Ukrainian War
Author: Ekaterina Mikhailova (IOS)
in: Ukrainian Analytical Digest, pp. 2-8
Published online: September 2024
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)
WORKSHOP: Multiperspective Cartography in Conflict Visualisation
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
BLOG Posts: Ukraine in Focus
Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS) as a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe contributes regularly to Carnegie Europe’s blog. Her topics are predominantly Ukraine, Russia’s war against it, and the consequences for Europe and the world.
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: The Political and Cultural Fate of Karabakh Armenians in Armenia
Authors: Nadja Douglas & Ivaylo Dinev (both ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 16/2024
Published online: 04/09/2024
DataLabBLOG: Sources from Inside the Protest: The Euromaidan Interview Collection
How are we as academics and citizens involved in radical events shaping and impacting our future? Natalia Otrishchenko and her colleagues from the Center for Urban History in Lviv had to ponder these issues in 2013 during the protests in Ukraine.
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
PRESENTATION at RGS-IBG Conference: Peace Agreement Maps as Conflicting Visions of the Future
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)
PRESENTATION at RGS-IBG Conference: How to Justify the War: Russian Authoritarism and Maps
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)
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)
SESSION ORGANISATION at RGS-IBG Conference: Reimagining Conflict and War Cartography through Multiperspective Approaches
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)
ZOiS-REPORT: Displaced Ukrainian Youth: Displaced Futures?
Authors: Sabine von Löwis, Gwendolyn Sasse (both ZOiS) and Inna Volosevych (UNET/ ZOiS)
In collaboration with Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS, KonKoop DataLab)
ZOiS Report 3/2024
Published online: 14.08.2024
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.
BLOG Post: Paving the Way to Denial
Author: Katarina Damčević (IOS)
Blog post on OstBLOG (Blog des Leibniz-Instituts für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS))
Published: 29 July 2024
ARTICLE: Defizitärer Totalitarismus oder die Rückkehr der Diktatur: Putins Russland im Prozess fortschreitender Radikalisierung
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Totalitarianism and Democracy 2024, pp. 57-80
Published online: July 2024
ARTICLE: Osteuropa – aber wo liegt es? Zur Entmythologisierung eines Begriffs
Author: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)
in: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS)
Published online: 15 July 2024
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)
PARTICIPATION in Conference: Orthodox Christianity and Identity Politics
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
ARTICLE: Bulgaria’s Political Turbulence Continues. But is this Protest Democracy or ‘Stabilitocracy’?
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
In: The Loop ECPR’s Political Science Blog
Published online: 26 June 2024
LECTURE: Drawing the Line
Public Lecture by Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS) within the Long Night of the Sciences
22 June 2024 – Humboldt-University Berlin
DATA TRAINING: How to use Stata?
Inhouse Training by Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)/ DataLab
18 June 2024 – ZOiS
WORKSHOP: Land and Landscape in ‚Peace Cartography‘ of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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)
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)
BLOG Post: Tik-Tok Politics Breaks in Europe
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
In: Dnevnik
Published online: 10 June 2024
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: Ukraine’s Recovery and EU Accession: The Importance of Inclusive Participation
Authors: Julia Langbein & Gwendolyn Sasse (both ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 12/2024
Published online: 10/06/2024
ARTICLE: “A Country Worth Living In”: Prioritizing Ukraine’s Social Recovery
Authors: Gwendolyn Sasse, Julia Langbein (both ZOiS)
in: Internationale Politik, IP Special
Published online: 2024
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
POLICY PAPER: Multiple Missions in the Midst of War: Integrating Ukraine’s Recovery and EU Accession
Authors: Julia Langbein, Gwendolyn Sasse (both ZOiS), Julian Bergmann, Miriam Kosmehl
in: IDOS Policy Brief (11/2024)
Published online: 2024
ESSAY: Hercegovina Kalifornija: Landscape and legacies in the Neretva Valley
Author: Mela Zuljevic (IfL)
Published: 27 May 2024
In: Women* Write the Balkans
PODCAST: Faith and Fissures: The Contested Independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
ZOiS Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 48 (23.05.2024)
with: Regina Elsner (WWU/ZOiS) & Andriy Fert (UNET Fellow at ZOiS)
Host: Stefanie Orphal (ZOiS)
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
In:Security REPORT: Old Fears and New Threats: Insecurity and Societal Cohesion in Russia’s Neighbourhood
Authors: Nadja Douglas, Weronika Grzebalska, Joni Virkkunen, Yuliia Kurnyshova, Inna Șupac, Andrei Kazakevich, Kornely Kakachia, Asbed Kotchikian
Published online: 17 May 2024
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
CfA: EuroCarto 2024 – Multiperspective Cartography in Conflict Visualisation
The workshop explores approaches, potentials and limitations of visualising multiple perspectives in peace and conflict cartography.
Organisation: Mela Žuljević, Sofia Gavrilova, Jana Moser (IfL) Vincent Joshua Schober (U of Leipzig)
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
DataLabBLOG: Protest event data sets on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Whereas this type of research was rare in the 1980s and 1990s, in the last three to four years alone at least 14 data sets on protest events have been developed.
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)
PODCAST: The Future of Ukrainian Science
ZOiS Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 47 (12.04.2024)
with: Julia Langbein (ZOiS) & Tymofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics)
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
PODCAST: Ende der Sowjetunion – Der Zerfall und seine Folgen
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) Podcast: APuZ #6 (06.04.2022)
with: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS), Kristina Spohr, Katrin Rönicke
Host: Holger Klein
BLOG Post: How the Russian Orthodox Church Preserves International Sympathies for Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU/ZOiS)
Published: 28 March 2024
In: BYU Law, 2024
ARTICLE: Phantomgrenzen auf der Spur
Author: Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
In: Ost-West-Europäische Perspektiven (OWEP) 3/2024, pp. 180-186
Published online: March 2024
ZOiS-REPORT: New Arctic Realities: Between Conflicting Interests and Avenues for Cooperation – by N. Douglas et al.
with Serafima Andreeva, Klaus Dodds, Christoph Humrich, Thomas Nawrath
ZOiS-Report 1/2024
Published online: 14.03.2024
PARTICIPATION in Conference “Religion and War in Ukraine: The Political, the Public, and the Possible”
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
ARTICLE: Conceptualizing Patron-Client Relations in Secessionist Conflict. A Research Agenda – by R. Biermann
In: Territory, Politics, Governance, 2024
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
LECTURE: Divided Memories and their Impact on Current Politics in Bosnia
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
PODCAST: Ukraine Dual Challenge in the Midst of War
ZOiS Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 44 (12.03.2024)
with: Inna Pidluska (International Renaissance Foundation) & Claire Lockhart (Institute for State Effectiveness)
Host: Julia Langbein (ZOiS)
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
ARTICLE: Von erwartbaren und überraschenden Entwicklungen
Author: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)
in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ)
Published online: 6 March 2024
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)
ARTICLE: Rekonstruktion einer Annexion. Fakten, Lücken und Mythen
Author: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)
in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ)
Published online: 2 February 2024
WORKSHOP: Resource Conflicts and Ethno-Religious Diversity
Online Workshop at HNEE
30 January 2024
Organisation: Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda & Martin Welp (HNEE)
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: From War Zone to Conflict Region: Ukrainian Refugees in Transnistria
Author: Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 02/2024
Published online: 24 Jan 2024
PARTICIPATION in Panel ‘From Crisis to Opportunity: The Future Trajectory of Ukrainian Studies’
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
BLOG Post: Healing of Wounded Memories in the Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU/ZOiS)
Published: 23 January 2024
In: Pro Oriente Blog, 2024
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
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: Climate Change and Water Security in Central Asia
Author: Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda (HNEE)
ZOiS Spotlight 1/2024
Published online: 10 January 2024
CHAPTER: Sowjetische und russische Operationen nach 1945. Aufstandsbekämpfung ‘Spezialoperationen’ und exzessive Gewalt
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Aschmann, Birgit et al (Hrsg.) ‘When you catch one, kill him slowly‘: Militärische Gewaltkulturen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg, pp. 399-424
Campus: Frankfurt am Main
Published online: 1 November 2024
ARTICLE: Confidence Building in the Shadow of War: Moldova, Transdniestria, and the Uncertain Future of the 5+2 Process
Authors: Nadja Douglas (ZOiS); Stefan Wolff
In: OSCE Insights, eds. Cornelius Friesendorf and Argyro Kartsonaki, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2024
VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in the field of peace and conflict studies
Within the framework of a research network on the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in Eastern Europe (KonKoop), the IOS (Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung) recruits […]
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
PODCAST: Die Ukraine auf dem Weg in die EU
ZOiS-Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 42/2023 (07.12.2023)
With: Gwendolyn Sasse & Julia Langbein (both ZOiS)
Host: Stefanie Orphal (ZOiS)
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: Why Nagorno-Karabakh Has Been Sacrificed and Why This Could Also Be an Opportunity
Author: Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 22/2023
Published online: 29 November 2023
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)
BLOG Post: Power, Silences, and Production of Space. New Map of Russian State
Author: Sofia Gavrilova (IfL)
Published: 10 November 2023
In: ifl.blog / Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde
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”
CHAPTER: Participatory Design in the Context of Heritage-Development: Engaging with the Past in the Design Space of Historical Landscapes
Author: Mela Žuljević (IfL)
In: Harrison, Rodney; Dias, Nelia & Kristiansen, Kristian (Hrsg.): Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe, pp. 125-142
UCL Press: London, 2023
Published online: October 2023
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)
ARTICLE: Multi-scenario dynamic prediction of ecological risk assessment in an arid area of northwest China
Authors: Martin Welp (HNEE), Lu Gan, Ümüt Halik & Lei Shi
In: Ecological Indicators, 154, 110727, 2023
Published online: October 2023
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)
ARTICLE: Der russische Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Entflechtung und Neuordnung der Beziehungen zwischen Russland und der Ukraine
Author: Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
In: Geographische Rundschau 9/2023, pp. 14-19
Published online: September 2023
ARTICLE: Im Krieg Frieden (neu) denken? Orthodoxe Friedensethik in Osteuropa
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU, ZOiS)
In: Una Sancta. 78(3), 2023, pp 163-175
Published online: 7 September 2023
BOOK: Russia’s War Against Ukraine – by Gwendolyn Sasse
Originally published in German as Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Hintergründe, Ereignisse, Folgen
Copyright © Verlag C.H.Beck oHG, München 2022.
This translation © Polity Press, 2023
PODCAST: Research, Mental Health and Traumatising Contexts: How to Take Care?
ZOiS-Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 40/2023 (29.08.2023)
With: Christa Cocciole, Hanna Vakhitova (Kyiv School of Economics/ UNET @ZOiS)
Host: Kerstin Bischl (ZOiS)
WORKSHOP: Orthodoxy and Social Peace
Closed Online Workshop
29 August 2023
Organisation: Regina Elsner (WWU/ ZOiS)
ARTICLE: Diskurse über Krieg und Frieden. Die Rolle der Orthodoxie im Russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU, ZOiS)
In: Ethik und Gesellschaft, 1, 2023
Published online: 16 August 2023
PRESENTATION: Design Space in Cartography: Outlining a Design Perspective in Critical Analysis of Peace and Conflict Visualisations
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
ARTICLE: Design Space in Cartography: Outlining a Design Perspective in Critical Analysis of Peace and Conflict Visualisations
Author: Mela Žuljević (IfL)
In: Abstr. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 6, 294, 2023
Published online: 12 August 2023
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
ARTICLE: Post-reconstruction enclosures: an infrastructural perspective on the post-conflict landscape of the Old City (Mostar)
Authors: G. Carabelli, Mela Žuljević (IfL)
In: Landscape Research 2023
Published online: 26 Jul 2023
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
ARTICLE: Atlassing Sustainable Development: A Participatory and Critical Approach to Neighbourhoods in Transition
Authors: Barbara Roosen, Mela Žuljević (IfL)
In: International Journal of Cartography
Published online: 4 Jul 2023
CHAPTER: Die Grenzen der Ukraine. Koordinaten der politischen Geografie
Author: Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
In: Benz, Wolfgang. Die Ukraine. Kampf um Unabhängigkeit. Geschichte und Gegenwart, pp. 303-318
Metropol Verlag: Berlin
Published online: June 2023
CHAPTER: Nation, Revolution, Krieg. Staat und Gesellschaft in der Ukraine (1991-2022)
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Benz, Wolfgang (Hrsg.) ‘Die Ukraine. Kampf um Unabhängigkeit. Geschichte und Gegenwart’. 317-334. Metropol Verlag: Berlin, 2023
Published online: June 2023
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
DataLab Blog
The DataLab Blog aims to establish a platform for academic discussion on data and methods of conflict and cooperation in Eastern Europe from diverse research perspectives. The publications might describe intriguing research findings from an academic article/book, or discuss data collection, methods and research approaches.
ARTICLE: Rescaling the Legal Dimensions of Grey Zones: Evidence from Ukraine
Authors: B. Kormych, T. Malyarenko, Cindy Wittke (IOS)
In: Global Policy, 14 (3), 2023, pp. 516-530 (online first)
Published online: 08 June 2023
WORKSHOP: In:Security in Border Regions
Closed Workshop at ZOiS
08 June 2023
Organisation: Nadja Douglas and Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
REVIEW on „Der Angriff. Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und seine Folgen für die Welt“
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Ukraine Verstehen
Published online: 07 June 2023
ARTICLE: Orthodoxie im postsowjetischen Raum: Kampf der Zivilisationen?
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU, ZOiS)
In: Theologisch-Praktische Quartalsschrift, 171(2), 2023, pp. 147-156
Published online: 2023
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)
LECTURE: Geschichte im Jetzt. Historisierungen der Gegenwart
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
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: The Significance of the Lachin Corridor in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Author: Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 10/2023
Published online: 17 May 2023
BOOK: Making a Homeland. Roots and Routes of Transnational Armenian Engagement
Author: Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS)
Transcript: Bielefeld, 2023
Published online: 9 May 2023
BOOK: Human Rights Dissemination in Central Asia
Authors: Cindy Wittke (IOS), Anja Mihr (eds)
Human Rights Education and Capacity Building in the Post-Soviet Space
SpringerBriefs in Political Science: Springer Cham, 2023
PAPER at the Workshop “Patron-Client Relations in World Politics”
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
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)
LECTURES at the University of Bologna: ‘Reconciliation in Former Yugoslavia’ and ‘Failed Crisis Prevention in Ukraine’
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
ARTICLE: Kirchen im Krieg: Das Ende der Selbstverständlichkeit
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU, ZOiS)
In: Theologie der Gegenwart (ThG), 66 (2), 2023, pp. 103-114
Published online: 2023
KEYNOTE: Quo vadis Area Studies amidst Russia’s War against Ukraine?
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
BLOG Post: What to Expect from Sunday’s Election in Bulgaria
Authors: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS) and Petar Bankov
In: LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog
Published online: 31 March 2023
BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT: Ostblog Special – Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine
Begriffe, Hintergründe, Kommentare
German speaking blog by IOS about the Russian war against Ukraine
PODCAST: Russlands Strategie gegenüber dem „nahen Ausland“: Einblicke aus Moldau und Belarus
ZOiS-Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 31 March 2023
With: Nadja Douglas (ZOiS); Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
Moderation: Julia Langbein (ZOiS)
ARTICLE: Claiming the City: Faith-based Muslim Activism in Georgia
Author: Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS)
In: Religion, State and Society, 51(1), 2023, pp 65-82
Published online: 24 Mar 2023
ARTICLE: Introduction. Religious Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond – by T. Darieva; J. Kormina
Authors: Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS), Jeanne Kormina
In: Religion, State and Society, 51(1), 2023, pp. 2-9
Published online: 24 Mar 2023
CHAPTER: Dynamics of Bordering in the Post-Soviet Space over the Last 30 Years
Authors: Sabine von Löwis, Beate Eschment (both ZOiS) & Ketevan Kutsishvili (TSU)
In: Sabine von Löwis, Beate Eschment (ed.): Post-Soviet Borders: A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands, pp. 13-31
Routledge Borderlands Studies, London: Routledge
Published online: 2023
PRESENTATION at the Workshop “Exploring Dynamics of ’Frozen Conflicts’ through Actor-based Interactions”
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
POLICY PAPER: Creating ‘Islands of Agreement and Civility’ through Humanitarian Negotiations. A Conflict Management and Disaster-Mitigation Strategy in Russia’s War against Ukraine
Author: Cindy Wittke (IOS)
PeaceRep Report 2023
Published online: 16 March 2023
ARTICLE: Friedensethische Positionen innerhalb der orthodoxen Kirchen
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU, ZOiS)
In: IRP Impulse, 2023, pp. 22-27
Published online: 2023
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.
CHAPTER: Post-Soviet Borders: A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands: an Introduction
Author: Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS)
In: Sabine von Löwis, Beate Eschment (ed.): Post-Soviet Borders: A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands, Routledge Borderlands Studies, pp. 1-9
London: Routledge
Published online: 2023
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
POLICY PAPER: Rebuilding Ukraine: What the International Community Now Needs to Consider
Authors: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS), Jörn Grävingholt, Jörg Faust, Alexander Libman, Solveig Richter, Susan Stewart
in: IDOS Policy Brief (4/2023)
Published online: 2023
ESSAY: Wohin treibt Russland 2023?
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Russland Verstehen
Published online: 17 January 2023
PARTICIPATION IOTA Conference Orthodox Theology
Participation by Regina Elsner
11-14 January 2023 in Volos, Greece
Reading Group on Peace and Conflict in Eastern Europe
ARTICLE: Side Effects of “Phantom Pains”: How Bulgarian Historical Mythology Derails North Macedonia’s EU Accession
Author: Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS)
In: Comparative Southeast European Studies, 70 (4) 2023, pp. 722-739
Published online: 04 January 2023
ESSAY: After Ostpolitik. Perspectives for future relations between Moscow and Berlin
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: New Eastern Europe
Published online: 31 December 2022
ARTICLE: Troubled Nexuses Between International and Domestic Law in the Post-Soviet Space
Author: Cindy Wittke (IOS), Maryna Rabinovych
In: Review of Central and East European Law, 47(3-4), 2022, pp. 249-267
Published online: 22 Dec 2022
PODCAST: Orthodoxe Kirchen in Russland und der Ukraine
ZOiS-Podcast: Roundtable Osteuropa 21 December 2022
With: Kristina Stöckl (Universität Innsbruck), Regina Elsner (ZOiS)
Moderation: Kerstin Bischl (ZOiS)
ARTICLE: Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
In: East European Politics (Online first) 2022
Published online: 06 Dec 2022
WORKSHOP: Peace and Conflict Research in Eastern Europe post-2022 – Methods and Ethical Dilemmas
KonKoop Young Researchers’ Workshop, 29-30 November 2022, IOS Regensburg
ARTICLE: Chekist, Statist, Imperialist Notes on Vladimir Putin’s Self-Image
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Osteuropa 2022, pp. 111-126
Published online: November 2022
ARTICLE: Kriegstreiber oder Friedenskraft? Zur Rolle der Kirchen in Russlands Krieg in der Ukraine
Author: Regina Elsner (WWU, ZOiS)
In: Communicatio Socialis. Zeitschrift für Medienethik und Kommunikation in Religion und Gesellschaft, 55(4), 2022, pp. 479-491
Published online: 2022
NETWORK MEETING: Critical Cartography
Closed online network meeting, 4 November 2022
With: Jana Moser and Sofia Gavrilova (IfL)
ARTICLE: Ein Wiederaufbau im Schatten des Krieges ist möglich
Authors: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS), Jörn Grävingholt, Jörg Faust, Alexander Libman, Solveig Richter und Susan Stewart
in: ZEIT ONLINE
Published online: 29 October 2022
BOOK: Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine
Author: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS)
München: C.H. Beck, 2022.
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)
CHAPTER: Europäisch, aber nicht westlich. Gedanken zu Russland und Europa (1697-2020)
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Bauerkämper, Arnd; Kaelble, Hartmut (Hg.), Europa – Visionen und Praxis im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Metropol Verlag 2022, S. 143-153
Published online: 2022
BOOK CHAPTER: Protest Vote, Protest Parties and Movement Parties: Conceptualisation and Trends
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
In: Crisis, Elections, Pandemic. Veliko Tarnovo: University of St Kiril and Metodii
Published online: 27 July 2022
BOOK: Post-Soviet Borders. A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands
Authors: Sabine von Löwis, Beate Eschment (both ZOiS)
New York: Routledge, 2022
CHAPTER: Zwischen Nation und Imperium. Sowjetisierung und nation-building in Osteuroa (1945-1989)
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Pietrow-Ennker, Bianka (Hrsg.) ‘Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas’, pp. 277-292
Published online: 2022
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
ARTICLE: Unter dem deutschen Radar. Die postsowjetischen Kriege 1991 bis 2022
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. pp. 21-27
Published online: 8 July 2022
ARTICLE: Historical processes & new-left movements: exploring divergent paths of protest politics in SOE
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
In: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe Volume, 2022, 30(2): The Political Economy of Popular Music in Central and Eastern Europe, 1965–2020, pp. 237-257
Published online: 07 Jul 2022
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: Bulgaria’s New Political Crisis
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 24/2022
Published online: 22 June 2022
ARTICLE: The Dark Side of Perestroika. Authoritarian Structures, Russian Nationalism and Imperial Thought under Gorbachev and Yeltsin
Author: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF)
In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung
Published online: 2022
ARTICLE: Constructing “Russian Civilisation“: A Critical Introduction to the National Atlas of Russia (publ. 2004-2008)
Author: Sofia Gavrilova (IfL)
In: Eurasian Geography and Economics 64(5), pp. 537-560
Published online: 11 April 2022
ARTICLE: Bulgaria and Slovenia Protest Event Dataset (2009-2017): Protest Cycles and Protest Patterns in Southeast Europe
Author: Ivaylo Dinev (ZOiS)
In: Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics
Published online: 9 April 2022
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: Everyday Decisions in the War in Ukraine
Authors: Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS) and Irina Mützelburg
ZOiS Spotlight 09/2022
Published online: 09 March 2022
ZOiS SPOTLIGHT: Political and Public Reactions to Putin’s War in Post-Soviet Countries
Authors: Sabine von Löwis, Tsypylma Darieva, Beate Eschment, Diana Bogishvili (all ZOiS)
ZOiS Spotlight 08/2022
Published online: 02 March 2022
Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic, and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War (KonKoop)
In April, 2022 the research network KonKoop started work! We are looking forward to four years of research and exchange with our many partners.