Series of events

Brownbag seminars have been regularly organised by the Centre for Southeast European Studies together with Southeast European History and Anthropology since 2011. The seminars offer academics from the university and guest lecturers a forum to present their current research projects and discuss them with others in an informal setting.

Our discussion forum offers a platform for exchanging ideas and perspectives on current topics and developments in Southeast Europe. Experts, students, and interested parties are invited to discuss, share knowledge, and gain new insights. The aim is to promote intercultural dialogue and create a deeper understanding of the region's challenges and opportunities.

We have been organizing at least one lecture series per academic year, focusing on social changes and transformation in Southeastern Europe.

So far, we have organized the following lecture series 

2012/2013 

Sport and Dissolution of Yugoslavia

2013/2014

Film and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

2014/2015

Music and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia 

Political Violence and National Identity: the Armenian Genocide and its Legacies

2015/2016

Politics and Architecture in Southeast Europe

2016/2017

Theatre and Society in Southeast Europe

2017/2018

Design and Society in Southeast Europe

Europeanisation processes in South Eastern Europe

2018/2019

Education and Politics in Southeast Europe

2019/2020

Migration and Displacement in Southeastern Europe

2020/2021

Religion and Politics in Southeastern Europe

2021/2022

Gender and Politics in Southeastern Europe

2022/2023

Ecology and Politics in Southeastern Europe

2023/24

Concepts of Europe from the Early Modern Period up to the Present

 

Since 2011, we have been organizing Southeast European Dialogue – SEED conferences:

 

2011 - Southeast European Dialogues: Debating the End of Yugoslavia. Aula. 03.11.2011.

2012 - Leaving Europe’s Waiting Room. Overcoming the Crisis of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans. 09.11.2012 - 11.11.2012

2013 - Southeast European Dialogues: REBELLION AND PROTEST FROM MARIBOR TO TAKSIM. Social Movements in the Balkans. 12.12.2013 - 14.12.2013.

2014 - Histories of 1914. Debates and Use of the Origins of World War One in Southeastern Europe. Graz. 20.11.2014 - 22.11.2014.

2015 - INAUGURAL EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON TURKEY: Populism, majoritarianism and crises of liberal democracy: Modes of illiberal governance in comparative perspective. Uni Graz. 01.10.2015 - 03.10.2015.

2016 - (Re)Thinking Yugoslav Internationalism – Cold War Global Entanglements and their Legacies. Meerscheinschlössl/Festsaal, Mozartgasse 3, Graz. 29.09.2016 - 01.10.2016.

2018 -  ASN European Conference: Nationalism in Times of Uncertainty

2022 - ARQUS Research Focus Forums "Changing Societies – Dimensions of Europeanization." ARQUS Research Focus Forum, organisiert vom Exzellenzbereich Dimensionen der Europäisierung, zum Graz (hybrid). Universität Graz. 13.05.2022 - 15.05.2022.

2014 – 2020, we organized summer school for our master’s students on the island of Hvar.

The summer school aimed to train the students in research, writing, project development, and management. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the following topics were discussed: state formation and nation-building in Europe: two opposing concepts; liberalism, nationalism, and socialism: identity formation and the fate of “others”; constitutionalism and democracy: challenges of institution-building; transformation from communism to democracy; and the transformative power of the EU. 

During the pandemic, we organized two online summer schools.

 

In 2023, we renamed our summer school into the winter school and moved it to Thessaloniki

The Centre for Southeast European Studies of the University of Graz coordinates the Doctoral Program "Europeanization Processes in Southeastern Europe". It offers regular doctoral colloquia and events for students and researchers at the University of Graz working on Southeastern Europe.