The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
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Opportunity for early-career international law scholars!
ESIL's Early Career Network is seeking new Co-ordinating Committee members.
Apply by 22 June.
esil-sedi.eu/ecr-2026-cal...
CFP: The History of Romani Women’s Activisms in Eastern Europe, 1945–1990s.
Workshop in Prague, 29–30 Oct 2026.
Abstracts due 21 June.
www.romanihistories.org/events/the-h...
Support RUTA member Halyna Herasym's fundraiser for ambulances in Ukraine.
The campaign closes on 17 June and will help emergency responders save lives in frontline communities.
www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/h...
The flamingo has become an unlikely mascot of intensifying protests in Albania against a proposed resort backed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, which would encroach on the birds’ breeding ground.
Lengthy, detailed reporting from The Insider re: Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik’s sharp uptick in contacts with Russia - twice visiting Moscow in May - and the increasingly incomprehensible US decision to lift sanctions vs. him and his regime. theins.press/en/politics/...
If in Budapest and keen on critical debates on European and global knowledge hierarchies, join us at OSA for my talk on the persistent patterns of epistemic injustice, and the urgent need to recenter and reconnect dissent knowledges and scholarship from Europe’s East in debates about Europe’s East
An invitation to co-sign a statement by researchers of Eastern Europe
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RUTA founder @terezahendl.bsky.social will be based in Budapest until the end of June 2026 as a Visegrad Scholar at the Blinken OSA Archivum.
Her OSA seminar presentation on Nothing About Us Without Us takes place on 10 June.
“The perception of RU in Kyrgyzstan has changed significantly since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Intellectuals in Bishkek no longer debate whether Russia’s occupation of the region was colonialism. Today’s decolonial discourse in CA focuses on exposing the atrocities committed under RU rule”
Why on earth are russian scholars reviewing Kyrgyz textbooks to begin with?! At a meeting in Moscow, no less. The decolonization road is long. Read @ericamarat.bsky.social ‘s timely oped.
The American investor and son-in-law of Donald Trump has sparked a major backlash in Tirana thanks to his proposed mega building project.
www.politico.eu
Contacts between Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and the Kremlin have intensified of late, raising concerns about the potential for trouble in the region. At…
RUTA founder @terezahendl.bsky.social will be based in Budapest until the end of June 2026 as a Visegrad Scholar at the Blinken OSA Archivum.
Her OSA seminar presentation on Nothing About Us Without Us takes place on 10 June.
#OpEd Russia likes to believe that its colonization of Central Asia civilized and modernized the region. But a row over high school history textbooks shows that local scholars no longer accept that narrative, writes Erica Marat.
“Russian scholars reviewing Kyrgyz secondary school textbooks reprimanded their Kyrgyz counterparts for describing the periods of Tsarist and Soviet rule as "colonialism." The Kyrgyz historians who authored the textbooks refused to bend to Moscow.” www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/26/c...
Opinion | At a meeting of the Kyrgyz-Russian Expert Council on History in Moscow, Russian scholars reviewing Kyrgyz secondary school textbooks reprimanded their Kyrgyz counterparts for describing the ...
Opinion | At a meeting of the Kyrgyz-Russian Expert Council on History in Moscow, Russian scholars reviewing Kyrgyz secondary school textbooks reprimanded their Kyrgyz counterparts for describing the ...
