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Call for Applications – International Visiting Research Fellowship Programme in Regensburg for 2024/2025

The call is opened especially to early career scholars from South-Eastern Europe, historians, anthropologists, linguists, and scholars of cognate disciplines. Fellows are expected to conduct research that resonates with the project’s intellectual profile, particularly developing comparative and trans-regional research perspectives. The deadline for application is 30 September 2024.

Call for Applications – Outgoing fellowships for scholars at UR and IOS

The Outgoing Visiting Fellowships are open to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, colleagues with a habilitation, and professors working at University Regensburg or IOS. Deadline for applications is 30 September 2024.

Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft vergibt Förderpreise für Masterarbeiten und Dissertationen

Die Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft vergibt einmal jährlich einen Förderpreis für herausragende Masterarbeiten und einen Förderpreis für herausragende Dissertationen im Bereich der Südosteuropaforschung. Bewerbungen sind bis 01.07. bzw. 01.09.2024 einzureichen.

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Call for Applications – Seed funding for junior post-doctoral scholars

The programme is designed for early-career postdoctoral scholars and aims to provide financial support to kick-start new, innovative research projects. The funds can be used locally, there is no need to come to Regensburg to be eligible for this grant. The deadline for application is 19 July 2024.

Albanian Studies Symposium: Exploring the Future of Research and Scholarship

Come down to the Vielberth Building on 7 June and to hear about all the latest developments, along with some predictions for the future, from the field of Albanian Studies at the University of Regensburg!

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“Uni goes Downtown”: Ger Duijzings präsentiert die Verkehrswende im postsozialistischen Osteuropa

seeFField Project Lead und Sozialanthropologe Ger Duijzings verleiht einen Einblick in eines seiner aktuellsten Forschugsfelder und präsentiert zum Thema Automobilität und Verkehrswende: Osteuropäische Städte als erhellendes Beispiel bei dem wohl gemütlichsten Event des Uni-Sommerkalenders, "Uni goes Downtown"!

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Call for Papers: Living (and Dying) Together: Urban Housing & Health in East-Central and Southeastern Europe (18th – 20th centuries)

Submit your abstract now for an upcoming workshop organised by our seed funding fellow, the Centre for Population Studies at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca!

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Steering-Board-Mitglied Ulf Brunnbauer und Doktorandin Sara Žerić schreiben im “Standard” über Gastarbeitermigration

Sara Žerić (Doktorandin am Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, IOS) hat zusammen mit Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer (Akademischer Direktor des IOS und seeFField Steering-Board-Mitglied) einen faszinierenden Beitrag für den Balkanblog der renommierten österreichischen Zeitung Der Standard geschrieben.

seeFField im Rahmen der NACHT.SCHAFFT.WISSEN

Am Freitag, den 19. April 2024, von 17:00 bis 22:00 Uhr im Alten Finanzamt (ALFI), Landshuter Straße 4, lädt seeFField gemeinsam mit dem Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus und unseren Partnern an der Universität und dem IOS zu einem unterhaltsamen und informativen Abend in Kooperation mit der Stadt Regensburg ein.

seeFField team members at Intersectionality 2024! A conference of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš

On 27th April 2024, seeFField Project Leader Ger Duijzings and Project Coordinator Aleksandra Salamurović head to Niš for Language, Literature, Intersectionality 2024!

„Albanisch ist für die Areallinguistik eine sehr wichtige Sprache“. Prof. Björn Hansen und Lektor Ledio Hala im Interview bei Shqip auf Dritare TV

Am 5. März 2024 sprachen Slawist Prof. Dr. Björn Hansen und Lektor für die albanische Sprache Ledio Hala im Interview mit Rodina Xhunga auf Dritare TV über die Relevanz und den Stellenwert des Albanischen im Rahmen des seeFField Projektes an der Universität Regensburg.

Get ready for the “seeFFriends Road Movie”!

Join the seeFField team members Aleksandra Salamurović, Ger Duijzings, and Klaus Buchenau and student and filmmaker Moritz Mauderer on a captivating journey to southeastern Europe visiting six countries and ten universities, to present the seeFField project and find new partners for the project.

Albanian Studies in Global context – an event of seeFField and PROlang SSEES UCL

In cooperation with SSEES PROLang, seeFField cordially invites you to the discussion of Albanian studies in the global context on 30 January 2024. Several academics from around the world will discuss the challenges facing the teaching of Albanian as a foreign or heritage language and, more generally, Albanian studies abroad.

Holiday Greetings

“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” - T.S. Eliot

Festvortrag des Botschafters der Republik Kosovo am 23.11.2023 um 18h

Zum Auftakt von Albanischen Studien an der Universität Regensburg findet am 23.11.2023 ab 18h ein Festvortrag statt.

Call for Applications Pre-doctoral fellowship in Regensburg for 2024

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for our 2024 pre-doctoral fellowship to start on 1 April 2024, with maximum...

Lesung mit Ilija Trojanow: “Tausend und ein Morgen”

Erleben Sie eine faszinierende literarische Reise durch Raum und Zeit mit "Tausend und ein Morgen" von Ilija Trojanow. Die Veranstaltung findet am 7. November 2023 um 19:30 Uhr bei Bücher Pustet in der Gesandtenstraße 6 - 8 statt.

Journalist Talks : Putins zweite Front? – Der Balkan als Konfliktzone zwischen West und Ost

Dr. Gregor Mayer, Südosteuropa-Korrespondent der Deutschen Presse-Agentur (dpa) spricht über die aktuelle realpolitische Stellung des Balkans vor dem Hintergrund des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine. Stillstand bei der EU-Annäherung einerseits, Destabilisierung der Region durch Russland...

Shqipëria po vjen! Regensburger Delegation auf Netzwerkreise nach Albanien

Vom 2. bis zum 7. Oktober 2023 befand sich eine Delegation unter der Leitung von Professor Björn Hansen auf einer akademischen Mission in Albanien. Mit dabei waren der Lektor für Albanisch Ledio Hala und der wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter Roman Fisun.

Let’s SEE! – Want to write for the seeFField blog in the new Winter Semester?

Did you know that seeFField also has a blog? Let's SEE! is the student-led blog of the seeFField project, and gives you the chance to share your insights, research and knowledge on any Southeast European topic!

Journalist Talks SERBIA: Media and the Past. War Crimes in Contemporary Serbian Media

Based in Belgrade, Milica Stojanović works on stories related to transitional justice in Serbia. Before joining BIRN, Milica worked, for five years, at the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS), where she covered topics such as the judiciary, energy and public spending.

Albanisch-Intensivkurs ab dem 15. September

Möchtest du blitzschnell Albanisch lernen, aber dir fehlt die Zeit für einen herkömmlichen Kurs während des Semesters? Dann haben wir die perfekte Lösung für dich!

Excursion to Bucharest

Over the last week-and-a-half (7-16 August 2023), students from the universities of Regensburg and Jena explored the Romanian capital Bucharest, with almost 3 million inhabitants one of the largest cities in the European Union. The excursion was led by Valeska Bopp-Filimonov (U of Jena, Romance Studies) and Ger Duijzings (U of Regensburg, Social Anthropology).

New publication: From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption. The battle over the possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in interwar Yugoslavia (Brill, 2023)

Between the two world wars, a struggle between the new state of Yugoslavia and noble landowners who still possessed vast parts of its territory emerged, in which corruption played a key role. This book looks at this struggle through the lens of the so-called Afera Turn Taksis (‘Thurn and Taxis Affair’), focusing on the noble dynasty Thurn and Taxis, who was the largest private owner of forests in the new kingdom.

Call for Applications – International Visiting Research Fellowship Programme in Regensburg for 2023/2024

The call is opened especially to early career scholars from South-Eastern Europe, historians, anthropologists, linguists, and scholars of cognate disciplines. Fellows are expected to conduct research that resonates with the project’s intellectual profile, particularly developing comparative and trans-regional research perspectives. The deadline for application is 16 September 2023.

OSCE Report “History Teaching Materials on 1992-1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Building Trust or Deepening Divides?” written by Heike Karge

Teaching and learning history in post-conflict societies can be especially challenging since history is closely tied to emotions and to particular collective identities. Heike Karge has analysed the content of history books in Bosnia and Herzegovina related to the 1992-1995 period.

New publication: If Cars Could Walk. Postsocialist Streets in Transformation (Berghahn, 2023)

The edited volume "If Cars Could Walk" uses ethnographic case studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, manoeuvrability, and cultural and symbolic values.

„Den Balkan in Bildern neu denken“ vom 25.5. bis zum 23.06. in der Universitätsbibliothek

Die Ausstellung „Den Balkan in Bildern neu denken“, die vom 25.5. bis zum 23.06. in der Universitätsbibliothek zu sehen ist, wurde von den Studierenden der Südosteuropastudien kuratiert.

Call for Applications – Seed funding for junior post-doctoral scholars

The programme is designed for early-career postdoctoral scholars and aims to provide financial support to kick-start new, innovative research projects. The funds can be used locally, there is no need to come to Regensburg to be eligible for this grant. The deadline for application is 16 July 2023.

Journalist Talks SERBIA: Freedom of media and freedom of expression

Jelena Jorgačević-Kisić, a long-time religion journalist for the government-critical weekly Vreme in Belgrade, will talk about the status of freedom of media and freedom of expression in a country that currently can be described as an electoral autocracy. The media landscape is characterized by soft-censorship, threats and violence toward journalists, and forms of hate speech, all of which threaten the freedom of expression.

Meet seeFField visiting scholars from Southeastern Europe for 2023

Visiting Professor Daniela Koleva, and Visiting Fellows Katarina Damčević and Hikmet Karčić, as well as Predoc Fellow Silvana Farruku are currently teaching and researching together with our students and colleagues in Area Studies in Regensburg. In doing so, they actively contribute to the dialogue between the different academic settings in Germany and Southeastern Europe.

Journalist Talks ALBANIEN: Zwischen Abwanderung und Tourismus-Hype

Franziska Tschinderle, Südosteuropa-Korrespondentin aus Tirana wird über das einst isolierte, heutzutage sich dynamisch entwickelnde Albanien sprechen. In der neuesten Zeit steht vor allem die wirtschaftlich bedingte Abwanderung im Mittelpunkt. In diesem Zusammenhang kann auch die neulich gestartete Initiative des bayrischen Staates für das Anwerben der Fachkräfte aus der Region, und besonders aus Albanien, betrachtet werden.

CfP International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo, August 2023

The International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture was first held in 1974 at the University of Prishtina.

A mëson shqip?

From the coming Summer Term 2023 onwards, you can learn Albanian at beginner and advanced level at the University of Regensburg.

Holiday Greetings

“A good beginning is the recipe for success" The seeFField team wishes you a happy, prosperous and healthy New Year! We will be back in the office on 11 January 2023.

Call for Applications Pre-doctoral fellowship in Regensburg for 2023

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for our 2022/2023 pre-doctoral fellowship to start on 1 April 2023, with maximum...

Project’s website goes online: How do we look at Southeastern Europe?

Public engagement is amongst seeFField’s key priorities. This includes diverse knowledge transfer activities, through various new communication channels, of which the website...

Opening event at the University Regensburg: About the region with the region

"This project is the only one in Area Studies that was successful -- because of the compelling integration of three crucial components:...

Online project launch with international partners

seeFField’s success will depend for a large part on international and domestic cooperation with institutions crucially engaged in the advancement of Southeast...

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