@mybisa.bsky.social

The Workshop is co-organised with LSEE – Research on South East Europe (LSE) and King’s College London.

Llimited funding to support early-career scholars via BISA funding and with the additional funding from LSEE - Research on South East Europe at the Hellenic Observatory Centre, LSE.

About South East Europe (SEE) The South East Europe working group was established in 2002. We provide a space for debate and research on issues related to the political, economic, and social transformations of the region, broadly ...

📢 Call for Papers: “Imagining the future of research on South East Europe”

The BISA South East Europe Working Group invites paper proposals for its upcoming workshop on the future of research on South East Europe.

📍 London | 🗓 01 April
⏰ CfP Deadline: 15 February

🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉

‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍

Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY

Alexandra Karppi | King's College London PhD candidate

You can read more about Alexandra here: www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alexa...

📢 Update from BISA SEE

We’re delighted to welcome Alexandra Karppi as our new Postgraduate Convenor, replacing Nina Djukanović, who made outstanding contributions to the Working Group.

Our sincere thanks to Nina for her brilliant work, and we look forward to working with Alexandra in her new role

Reminder: Deadline approaching for New Postgraduate Convenor applications. More details in original post 👇

If you’re wondering whether this role is right for you, feel free to reach out — we’re here to help and happy to share more.

This role supports postgraduate researchers by:

- Coordinating BISA Annual Conference submissions (panels + abstracts);
- Leading SEE WG events (online & in-person), often with partners;
- Expanding our membership & supporting the PGR community;
- Managing communications and reporting to BISA;

South-East Europe Working Group - Call for new postgraduate convener- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA - South East Europe (SEE) Working Group

📢We are looking for a Postgraduate Convenor to join the South East Europe Working Group (SEE WG) team alongside @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Stavrevska and @matesuba.bsky.social

📩 Apply by: 1 December 2025
✉️ Send your expression of interest to: seewg.group@bisa.ac.uk

More info: tinyurl.com/37czc6pr

📢 BISA 2025 Call for Papers is open!

The proposals submission deadline is 3 November.

Got an idea for a panel but need a few more contributors?
Not sure whether your research fits this year’s theme?

💡 Get in touch — we may be able to support the development of ideas and connect you with others.

Now it’s on to #BISA2026 — see you in Brighton?

Yesterday’s Annual Workshop 2025 was a real highlight!

Great discussions, new ideas, and voices from across South East Europe & the UK. We’re pleased to be engaging with multiple research communities and inviting them to help shape the work of our Working Group and BISA.

📢 BISA 2025 Call for Papers is open!

The proposals submission deadline is 3 November.

Got an idea for a panel but need a few more contributors?
Not sure whether your research fits this year’s theme?

💡 Get in touch — we may be able to support the development of ideas and connect you with others.

A year in working groups - 2024/25 Find out what each of our working groups achieved in 2024/2025 academic year.

A year in working groups - 2024/25 with BISA 🌟

Come and read our article describing what all of our amazing working groups have been up to in the last academic year - we are extremely grateful to the conveners who are all volunteers 🎉

👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/year-wo...

One of the most rewarding aspects of the academic environment is the chance to bring our community together—sharing ideas, learning from one another, and being inspired by the incredible work of colleagues across BISA and beyond 👇👇

Check our Call for Papers for 4th Annual (and virtual) Workshop 👇👇

On 16 October, we are organising an online workshop, intended as a supportive space where colleagues get to present ideas and/or research in progress and receive feedback on how to take the work forward. You have an idea/research you would like to workshop? Please see the details above.

📢Attention please: for the fourth year in a row, the BISA South East Europe Working Group is bringing together people working on International Relations (in the absolute broadest sense possible!) and/from/in South-East Europe for an explorative online workshop

Conference social media card with the BISA logo, #BISA2026, Brighton, UK, 3-5 June, submission deadline: 3 November, conference.bisa.ac.uk

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉

'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎

Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM

@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

As we reach the end of #BISA2025 we would like to say a huge thank you to every delegate that took part in #BISA2025!

To help make this conference even better next year we would be grateful if you could check your emails to complete our short conference survey! 🎉

Exploring Kosovo's and Albanian relations with the region too and emergence of the Balkan Solidarity Network.

How does official Turkey responding to genocide? Why SEE academia remains silent about? How Slovenia exercise solidarity via EBU and Eurovision? The roundtable engages with these questions with evidence, compassion and analytical clarity.

Panelist introduced their insight by reading poetry by palestinian authors.

🔴 Roundtable: (Counter)solidarities in Times of Genocide
Exploring historical & contemporary ties between SEE societies, Palestine & Israel.

📍Amsterdam, Europa Hotel

#BISA2025 #SEE #SolidarityPolitics

Happening now at #BISA2025:

📍Panel – Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Traces and Haunting
Organised by the South East Europe Working Group

Exploring the spectral, material & embodied geographies of migration across the Balkan Route.

#BorderViolence #MigrationStudies #Balkans #SouthEastEurope

📚Introduction to book publishing! 📚
w/ @julietdryden.bsky.social Isobel Cowper-Coles,
Fiona Richman, Don Jacobs, John Haslam & @atifajiwa.bsky.social

#BISA2025

📍 South East Europe Working Group rountable at #BISASA2025:

"Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵

How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move?

#Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute

Check what else BISA SEE has for you

🚨 #BISA2025 is live!

We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe:

🔋 Lithium mining
🌱 Green activism
⚖️ Transitional justice
🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction
#InternationalRelations #Balkans