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Newsletter 1/2021
Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2021

Dear reader

The academic year 2020-21 has been a difficult year for academia, including the Centre for Southeast European Studies. With only one month of in person events and teaching, we missed informal and fruitful exchanges. At the same time, online teaching and events have allowed us of the past year to reach out to colleagues who might have not been able to join our classes and events in person in Graz.

In brief, it has been an active year and we are looking forward to welcoming new students to the Master and PhD programs in person in fall, while continuing some events online.

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Best regards,

Florian Bieber

 

Activities of the CSEES

In the summer term 2021 we organized numerous online events.

Brownbag seminars are organized by the Centre for Southeast European Studies together with the Centre for Southeast European History regularly since 2011. The seminars provide a forum for scholars at the university and visiting fellows to present their current research projects and discuss them with others in an informal setting.

Online Brownbag seminars in summer term 2021

Florian Bieber hosted, in the framework of the Jean Monnet Chair on the Europeanisation in Southeastern Europe at the Centre for Southeast European Studies of the University of Graz, an online lecture series about Europeanisation Processes in Southeastern Europe.  All lectures were recorded and made available through the YouTube channel of the Centre.

Bilgin Ayata and her team invited to the lecture series “Intersectional Perspectives on Turkey” that was held online and open to the public.

Armina Galijaš and Hrvoje Paić hosted the online lecture series Religion and Politics in Southeastern Europe.

Due to pandemic reason we had to reorganize our visiting fellowship program and we welcomed two virtual fellows, Martina Plantak and Dimitra Mareta.

For further information about our activities please visit our website.

News from the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europeanization”

The Field of Excellence (FoE) and Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES) will be joined by four Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows, who won the prestigious fellowship in February 2021. At the CSEES, Nejra Nuna Čengić will investigate “Female Paid Domestic Care Work: A Node of Changing Social Relationships in Bosnia and Herzegovina” and Ana Pajvančić Cizelj “Spatialities of Europeanization in Western Balkans (EURoWEB)” with Florian Bieber serving as mentor. At the Institute of Slavic Studies, Yvonne Zivković will conduct research on “Migrant Authors from Southeastern Europe and the Transfer of Intangible Heritage (MASETIH)” with Renate Hansen-Kokoruš as mentor. At the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Bernhard Bauer will investigate “Early Medieval Glosses And The Question Of Their Genesis: A Case Study On The Vienna Bede” with the mentor Georg Vogeler. Over the past years, the CSEES and the FoE had been able to secure seven Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships.

Additionally, the fellowship program of the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europeanization” focuses each academic year on a different topic and supports four junior fellows (post-doc and early career) and two senior fellows (tenured professors and equivalent). Fellows spend one semester in Graz to conduct and present research and collaborate with other researchers. The CfA for the academic year 2021/22 focuses on the theme “Localization and Regionalization as Parallel Processes to Europeanization”. In the current academic year, the FoE has been hosting five visiting fellows: Dilek Özkan, Andrew Vidali, Suzana Vuljevic, and Marta Zorko. You can find their research profiles here. In summer semester 2021, Tamara Banjeglav spent her fellowship mainly virtually at the University of Graz.

Call for Papers

The Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europeanization” of the University of Graz organizes the ARQUS Research Focus Forum „Changing Societies – Dimensions of Europeanization” on November 26-28, 2021 in collaboration with the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Career Development, the ARQUS team and the Center for Southeast European Studies (CSEES).

Call for Papers "Changing Socities - Dimensions of Europeanization"

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