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 30 September 2025.
find out moreThe call is open, 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 the application is 30 September 2025.
find out moreOn the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, our project leader Ger Duijzings is sharing some of his thoughts in a blogpost reflecting on the responsibilities of ‘bystanders’, such as the Dutch UN troops that were in Srebrenica on 11 July 1995.
find out moreThis semester, the Southeast European Studies program welcomed Prof. Dr. Danijela Majstorović from the University of Banja Luka, who taught the seminar “Feminist Epistemologies: Situating Knowledge in Context”.
find out moreOn 18 March 2025, the Albanian translation of the book "Religion and Politics of Identity in Kosovo" —"Religjioni dhe politikat e identitetit në Kosovë"—by our project leader, Ger Duijzings, was launched in Prishtina.
find out moreAm 25. November 2024 nahmen die Regensburger Linguisten Björn Hansen und Ledio Hala an der internationalen Konferenz der Abteilung für Linguistik der Universität Tirana teil, die renommierte Wissenschaftler aus aller Welt zusammenbrachte. Ziel der Veranstaltung war die Gründung eines internationalen Netzwerks zur Förderung der albanischen Sprach- und Kulturstudien.
find out moreDid 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!
find out moreIn der aktuellen Ausgabe der Studierendenzeitschrift „Lautschrift“ [ˈlaʊ̯tʃʀɪft] kann man zwei Beiträge lesen, die bereits auf dem seeFField Blog Let´s SEE veröffentlicht wurden. Moritz Mauderer schrieb über die Beteiligung rumänischer Firmen am Bau unserer Universität, Michael Schütz über politischen Einsatz von Graffiti in Belgrad.
find out moreThe 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.
find out moreThe 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.
find out moreDie 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.
find out moreThe 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.
find out moreseeFField 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"!
find out moreSubmit 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!
find out moreSara 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.
find out moreAm 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.
find out moreAm 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.
find out moreJoin 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.
find out moreIn 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.
find out moreDr. 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...
find out moreVom 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.
find out moreDid 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!
find out moreBased 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.
find out moreOver 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).
find out moreBetween 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.
find out moreThe 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.
find out moreTeaching 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.
find out moreThe 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.
find out moreThe 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.
find out moreJelena 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.
find out moreVisiting 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.
find out moreFranziska 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.
find out more
