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The Conference page of the Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe (PECOB) presents information on upcoming academic conferences. These conferences take place or deal with Central Eastern and Balkan Europe in a variety of disciplines: political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, language and literature. PECOB provides infromation on the program, participants and location of a conference to scholars, students and every one who is interested in participating.
Upcoming conferences, whose details are provided in the links below, will be discussing issues such as the condition of minorities, romanian studies, anthropology. Moreover, a PhD symposium on Southeast Europe is organized by some of the most important British research centers in London. Many conferences will focus on post-communist studies.
The "Need to Know" conferences were founded in 2011 and since then they have taken place annually. In 2014, the "Need to Know VI" conference will take place in Leuven - Belgium.
International conference, taking place in Durham on 19-21 September 2014 at the Institute of Advanced Study. Sponsors include Durham University's Faculty of Arts & Humanities and its School of Modern Languages and Cultures, as well as the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES).
A symposium and workshop, to be held in Gdansk in September 2014, will assemble senior and junior European and American scholars working on Western policy toward Eastern Europe during the Cold War, individual Free Europe Committee projects, and reactions and countermeasures of the Communist regimes.
International conference, taking place in Durham on 19-21 September 2014 at the Institute of Advanced Study. Sponsors include Durham University's Faculty of Arts & Humanities and its School of Modern Languages and Cultures, as well as the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES).
Inter-Disciplinary.Net invites presenations on a special strain of “weird notions of play” in such areas as global events and the concept of play: gaming, manipulation for winning, taking sides, strategies and “power plays.”
The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative in collaboration with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies (University of Toronto) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a graduate student symposium entitled “Ukrainians, Jews, and the Euromaidan” held on the 24 September 2014 at the University of Toronto.