Join us for a book panel discussion to mark the publication of Jasmin Mujanović's monograph Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Hurst Publishers). Participants: Kiran Auerbach (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UNC), Dimitar Bechev (CSEEES Fellow), Besir Ceka (Assistant Professor, Davidson … Read more
Until the mid-twentieth century, studies of ethnicity and race were a source of an epistemological and political competition between scientific schools in Europe and the United States. As a result, ubiquitous notions developed in the post-World War I period about ethnic … Read more
What are the origins of the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine? What are Russia's strategic objectives, and why did the Minsk Accords fail? Based on his experience and observations as a Fulbright Scholar in Odessa, Dr. Nicolai Petro will address these and … Read more
In this talk, Dr. Katya Pertsova (Linguistics, UNC) will discuss corpus linguistics and specifically focus on the Russian National Corpus (RNC). Corpora (large collections of texts, often annotated with additional information) have become ubiquitous in social sciences and humanities because … Read more
The politics of history has been one of the constitutive elements of the new democracies in East Central Europe after 1989. ‘Coming to terms with the communist past’ was especially important as a means of securing the legitimacy of new … Read more
In 1929, the Czechoslovak Republic leased a territory at the free port of Hamburg that would become the “gateway to the world” and a central hub for Czechoslovak international trade for the following sixty years. After 1948, this prominent location … Read more
An increasingly vibrant Russian movement has developed over the last two decades to delegitimize, restrict, and criminalize abortion, even as rates of pregnancy termination decreased 5.5 times from 1989 to 2015. Contraceptive use is replacing abortion for routine fertility control, … Read more
This presentation focuses on Prague’s first Czech-language guidebook and its author, Karel Vladislav Zap, to explore various forms of belonging in early nineteenth-century Prague. It asks how writing helped Zap to establish a place among the city’s emerging Czech-speaking elites. … Read more
Over fifty years ago, Asa Briggs encouraged scholars to consider the history of cholera and how it might contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between state and society. The first cholera pandemic originated in Bengal in 1817, with … Read more
Drawing on his forthcoming book entitled Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe (Yale University Press), CSEEES Fellow Dimitar Bechev will explore the complex political, security, and economic ties between Russia and Turkey. Starting from the early 1990s, the two former imperial rivals … Read more
