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The Calls section of PECOB collects information about calls that deal with Central Eastern and Balkan Europe. Each link below displays information on calls for applications, calls for conferences and calls for papers that fall within PECOB's sphere of activity. Browse the calls below to find out more about deadlines, requirements and other useful information.
Calls are listed according to their deadline. Those currently displayed on this page include a call for papers for a 2013 Congress on European crisis, calls for applications for various summer schools and master courses, a call for papers on the intersection of identities in Central Eastern Europe and a prize for the translation of russian poetry.
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Over the last 15 years, waves of protest movements have swept over Western and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. This themed issue explores the reasons for their emergence, their character, local impact and implications for wider regional developments. The most visible are the Salafi-jihadi movement, right-wing groups, anti-globalisation movements and social-political protests.
The Leibniz Institute of European History is inviting international PhD students to a workshop on European history in November 2015.
Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review welcomes original contributions in English, French, Italian or Romanian in political science, political theory, political sociology, comparative politics, European studies or international relations.
New Perspectives provides a new forum for interdisciplinary insight into Central and East European (CEE) politics & international relations (broadly understood).
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Institute for Security, Defense and Peace, at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, organizes an international scientific conference entitled Contemporary Security Paradigms and Challenges: Theory and Practice. The event will be held on 18-19th September 2015 in Skopje.
This interdisciplinary conference will ask who seeks revenge and why, how it is done, how it is justified, how it is represented, how it feels to get revenge or be on the receiving end.
The Russian and later Soviet conceptualisation of the term Vostokovedenie (Orientology, Oriental Studies) traces its origins back to a 18th/19th century European model of an Orient which included not only the Islamicate countries of the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and North Africa but encompassed South and South East Asia, Japan, China and Africa.
In Holocaust and Memory Studies the assumption prevails that in the socialist states of Eastern Europe the Shoah was either not an object of historical research and public memory at all or that is has been falsified, politically exploited or rendered taboo.