Calls for Papers

4 - 8 October, Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing The International Academic Week is the Southeast Europe Association’s (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft – SOG) annual key event to bring together early-career researchers (MA/ PhD/ Post-Doc levels) and experienced scholars from all over Europe and beyond to present and discuss their research on the region. As always, it will take place in cooperation with the Akademie für Politische Bildung at the beautiful Lake Starnberg in Tutzing and in parts online from 4- 8 October 2021. The conference language will be English. This year’s conference is hosted by Prof. Dr. Christian Voss (Berlin), Dr. Sabina Ferhadbegović (Jena), and A/Prof. Dr.…

Das Seminar findet am Donnerstag, den 23.09.2021, von 09.00-16:00 Uhr statt. Es ist eine Kooperati-onsveranstaltung der KGKDS mit dem Bukowina-Institut, dem Institut für deutsche Kultur und Ge-schichte Südosteuropas und dem Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde. Geleitet wird das Seminar von Dr. Angela Ilić (München), Prof. Dr. Kurt Scharr (Innsbruck) und Prof. Dr. Harald Heppner (Graz). Es wendet sich an Studierende höherer Semester sowie Doktoranden aller Disziplinen, insbesondere aus den Bereichen Geschichtswissenschaft, Geographie, Literaturwissen-schaft und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Die Teilnahme an der sich anschließenden Tagung der KGKDS „Die Stadt als Fenster…

International interdisciplinary conference Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: past traumas, present challenges, future horizons will be held online on June 10-11, 2021. The conference is organized by the Faculty of Humanities (Department of Historical Studies) and the Faculty of Arts (Department of East European Studies) of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Deadline: 20 of May, 2021

Organized by the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg) in cooperation with the Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing (APB) and the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) Call for papers The economics of populism: Drivers and consequences Date: July 5–7, 2021 Location: Tutzing, Lake Starnberg, Germany. Should the pandemic prohibit an offline meeting, the event will be organized in an online or mixed format. We invite junior scholars (Ph.D. students and PostDocs) from economics and cognate disciplines to submit extended abstracts or full papers. Topics include, but are not limited to • Economic nationalism and the…

Today the descendants of the original Russian German settlers live on four continents: predominantly in Europe (Germany), in Asia (Russia beyond the Urals and Kazakhstan), and in North and South America. Depending on when they left Russia, their identification as "Russian German" or "German from Russia" is more or less pronounced. Some of those who left the Soviet Union in the 1990s for Germany now move again, following traditional overseas migration paths to live their Mennonite or Pentecostal faith in remote areas of Canada or Bolivia, thereby creating new global entanglements and connections. In this conference, we want to approach the global history and the global present of this…