South-East European Studies Seminar Series

Through this seminar series, we promote the study of Balkan politics and societies through an interdisciplinary lens

Our activities are supported by the SSEES Library, whose holdings on South-East Europe comprise some 50,000 volumes including, notably, the Moses Gaster collection of old Romanian books, the collection bequeathed by Sir Arthur Evans, the Seton-Watson archive, and the wartime archive of King Zog of Albania.

We also play host to the Alexander Nash Albanian Studies Programme. 

Day/Time: Wednesday, 18:00-19:30
Venue: In-person

(unless otherwise specified)

Upcoming events

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Event Videos

Recent Events

Spring 2024 Term 

• 31 January 2024: Things Unsaid by Eleonora Veninova
• 07 March 2024: Book launch: A Concise History of Serbia
• 11 March 2024: Does the Past have an Expiry Date? A conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel
• 20 March 2024: Book launch: Utopia of the Uniform

Autumn Term 2023

• 11 October 2023: Colours and Rhythms of Unrest
• 25 October 2023: An Evening in Memory of Dubravka Ugešić
• 29 November 2023: Kaymak by Milcho Manchevski
• 06 December 2023: IAS Book launch: Jewish Refugees in the Balkans,1933-1945
• 13 December 2023: A brief history of Albanian migration in the UK - a roundtable discussion

Spring Term 2023

25 January 2023	White enclosures: Racial capitalism and coloniality along the Balkan route
10 March 2023	Socialist Yugoslavia & the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political & Economic Imaginaries
26 June 2023	Albania revisited: Xan Smiley reports on Albania

Autumn Term 2022

19 October 2022	"Special" relations between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina
26 October 2022	Srebrenica Calling

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

26 May 2021, 4:00pm	Language policy and linguistic activism: who meddles in matters of language in Croatia?

Autumn Term 2020 

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 Popović (Policy Center)
18 November, 1600h	Covid-19 in the Balkans Chelsi West Ohueri (University of Texas) Adnan Ćerimagić (European Stability Initiative)

Spring Term 2020

Date	Event
5 February, 2020, 6pm	Andi Hoxhaj (University of Warwick) Book Launch: “The EU Anti-Corruption Report: A Reflexive Governance Approach”
26 February, 2020, 6pm	CANCELLED Natasha Wunsch (SciencesPo, Paris, France) Democratic Backsliding and the Authoritarian Challenge
4 March, 2020, 6pm	CANCELLED Aleksandar Bošković (City University of New York, US) Šišmiš radio: Underground radio art in 1990s’ Belgrade, Serbia
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)  “Borders and Lives”
19 November 2019	Anna Calori (Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Konstanz, Germany) ‘Losing the global? Corporate cultures, contested development and de-globalisation in a (post)Yugoslav enterprise'
4 December 2019 (Room 347)	CANCELLED Orlanda Obad (post-doctoral researcher, sociology), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb "The Legacy of the Workers'  State: Class Compromise versus Class Struggle in Croatia?”

Spring Term 2019

Date	Event
16 January 2019	Geoffrey Pugh (Staffordshire) : “The effects of ethnic diversity on income: an empirical investigation using survey data from Bosnia-Herzegovina”
6 February 2019, 3pm LG11, Bentham House	Jelena Obradović-Wochnik (Birmingham): “Urban geographies of the refugee crisis: biopolitics, neoliberalism and contestation over public space in Belgrade”
20 February 2019	Roman Kuhar (University of Ljubljana): “Stop Gender! Anti-gender movements in Europe”
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	Michael Pugh (Bradford): “What about the Workers? Precarity in post-conflict Yugoslavia.”
11 March 2019	Jill Massino (UNC Charlotte): “To fight for their rights, against U.S. aggression”: Romania and the Vietnam War
15 March 2019	Klarita Gërxhani (European University Institute): “Formal and informal institutions in the Western Balkans: who does what and why”
24 April 2019 CANCELLED	CANCELLED Justin Elliott (University of Prishtina): "Socialist in form, national in content: nation-building and Albanian language politics in Kosovo"

Past Events:

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