📢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
Thank you, BISA team. Please note, though, that this is a closed workshop and for those already accepted to participate only.
Call for papers ‼️
BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉
'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆
Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8
Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić
Leave it to me to be nearly three months late in responding on BlueSky 🙈 This is really really kind, Jana! Thank you very much.
As it happens, I only get to read more expansively/deeply during the summer/buyout, so late to this excellent contribution to theorising peace by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social
& @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hahaha, that might be a tough boundary to cross 😆 But I echo Vjosa - this is way too kind! And let's keep these connections growing. Hope it's not too long before we meet again in person.
📍 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
🚨 #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
🎓 Are you heading to #BISA2025?
Don't miss what the South East Europe Working Group has in store!
“Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 250 people since Thursday morning, local health authorities said on Friday, one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in March” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
📘 New blog post alert! 🚨
Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle
What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war?
Read more on our blog.
🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Book cover of Alana Lentin's book The New Racial Regime (Pluto, 2025)
Table of Contents of the book
Screenshot of Prologue and Acknowledgements with the citation from Bassel al-Araj 'You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless.'
Screenshot of the first page of Introduction from the book.
Making notes
The New Racial Regime, Alana Lentin (2025).
Opening citation from Bassel el-Araj is lit:
"You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless."
You can register to join the virtual conversation about our SI on decolonial and feminist approaches to peace this Thursday here zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us this Thursday as my co-editor @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I chat with four of our 9 contributors to the SI. Joining us this time are Mahdis Azarmandi, Garrett FitzGerrald, Yasin Sunca, & Isabela Munoz Gomez
Roundtable of past convenors discussing 20 years of the working group.
@danielalai.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social @richmondbridge.bsky.social @katkusic.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social Lydia Cole and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik
We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia.
ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...
A photograph of the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge on the Drina River, Višegrad
The @BISA_SEE_WG workshop with @LivUni Europe and the World Centre is coming up (27 Mar)
Focusing on the theme of different types of violences and resistances in SEE
View the programme & register now!
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
@ebstavrevska.bsky.social @matesuba.bsky.social
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
This is the start to my working year (even though it came out on Dec 30) — I was a part of a great Forum organised by Birte Vogel and Nemanja Džuverović.
I wrote about the Global East, and the difficulty of speaking to very different audiences in our research. Wishing us all a more global 2025 🌱
"Nowadays when we know that progress didn’t so much enhance as it delegitimized and eventually erased entire worlds of human existence, we tend to look for redemption in the vanished ways of life. We seek wisdom in former hardships and discomfort."
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...
Reminder: today is the last day to apply for our Between continuities and ruptures: exploring violence and resistance in South East Europe workshop
