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We are a community of scholars focused on South East Europe, broadly conceptualised, and the role region plays in contributing, shaping and inspiring International Relations.

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Nov 26

BISA SEE has joined @bsky.app, and we hope to reach out to the academic and non-academic communities across and beyond the region. Follow us to learn more about us, @mybisa.bsky.social, SEE, and the events we organise to bring researchers into conversation and create spaces for insightful exchange.

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 6d

One of the most rewarding aspects of the academic environment is the chance to bring our community together—sharing ideas, learning from one another, and being inspired by the incredible work of colleagues across BISA and beyond 👇👇

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 7d

A year in working groups - 2024/25 with BISA 🌟

Come and read our article describing what all of our amazing working groups have been up to in the last academic year - we are extremely grateful to the conveners who are all volunteers 🎉

👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/year-wo...

A year in working groups - 2024/25

Find out what each of our working groups achieved in 2024/2025 academic year.

www.bisa.ac.uk

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 6d

Check our Call for Papers for 4th Annual (and virtual) Workshop 👇👇

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 7d

Call for papers ‼️
BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉

'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆

Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8

Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić

Call for papers: Worlding from South East Europe, remaking international relations- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA

- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 12d

On 16 October, we are organising an online workshop, intended as a supportive space where colleagues get to present ideas and/or research in progress and receive feedback on how to take the work forward. You have an idea/research you would like to workshop? Please see the details above.

BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 12d

📢Attention please: for the fourth year in a row, the BISA South East Europe Working Group is bringing together people working on International Relations (in the absolute broadest sense possible!) and/from/in South-East Europe for an explorative online workshop

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 13d

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉

'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎

Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM

@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jun 20

As we reach the end of #BISA2025 we would like to say a huge thank you to every delegate that took part in #BISA2025!

To help make this conference even better next year we would be grateful if you could check your emails to complete our short conference survey! 🎉

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 19

Exploring Kosovo's and Albanian relations with the region too and emergence of the Balkan Solidarity Network.

BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 19

How does official Turkey responding to genocide? Why SEE academia remains silent about? How Slovenia exercise solidarity via EBU and Eurovision? The roundtable engages with these questions with evidence, compassion and analytical clarity.

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 19

Panelist introduced their insight by reading poetry by palestinian authors.

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 19

🔴 Roundtable: (Counter)solidarities in Times of Genocide
Exploring historical & contemporary ties between SEE societies, Palestine & Israel.

📍Amsterdam, Europa Hotel

#BISA2025 #SEE #SolidarityPolitics

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happening now at #BISA2025:

📍Panel – Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Traces and Haunting
Organised by the South East Europe Working Group

Exploring the spectral, material & embodied geographies of migration across the Balkan Route.

#BorderViolence #MigrationStudies #Balkans #SouthEastEurope

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jun 18

📚Introduction to book publishing! 📚
w/ @julietdryden.bsky.social Isobel Cowper-Coles,
Fiona Richman, Don Jacobs, John Haslam & @atifajiwa.bsky.social

#BISA2025

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 18

📍 South East Europe Working Group rountable at #BISASA2025:

"Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵

How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move?

#Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 18

Check what else BISA SEE has for you

BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨 #BISA2025 is live!

We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe:

🔋 Lithium mining
🌱 Green activism
⚖️ Transitional justice
🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction
#InternationalRelations #Balkans

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 17

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 17

🎓 Are you heading to #BISA2025?
Don't miss what the South East Europe Working Group has in store!

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Jun 16

##BISA2025 is just around the corner. See you all on in Belfast.

Check the panels and rountables sponsored by us 🔽🔽

BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · May 19

#BISA2025 starts in less than a month (though a busy month) and we are looking forward to 25 BISA SEE speakers represented across 3 panels and 4 round tables 👇

@mybisa.bsky.social

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social‬ podcast, is recording at #BISA2025 🎙️

Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social‬ @faloulah.bsky.social‬ & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉

Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jun 11

🌟We are still open for papers for our BISA-ISA Joint International Conference 2025! 🌟

'Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities'

Submit now 👉 buff.ly/hVecwF2

@eeeswg.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · May 21

🎉 New @bisasee.bsky.social article 🎉

'Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle' w/ @anavilenica.bsky.social reflecting on the book 'Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: A Lexicon of Reorientation'

Read now - www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA

- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · May 19

#BISA2025 starts in less than a month (though a busy month) and we are looking forward to 25 BISA SEE speakers represented across 3 panels and 4 round tables 👇

@mybisa.bsky.social

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · May 16

@anavilenica.bsky.social introduces the edited book, emphasising key tensions and the potential of reorienting decolonial thought in Eastern Europe (EE).

BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · May 16

📘 New blog post alert! 🚨

Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle

What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war?

Read more on our blog.

🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA

- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · Apr 1

For those among you and your networks interested in just energy transitions and gender in the Balkans who might be considering doing a PhD, this call might be of interest (Deadline: 7 April)

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Gender and Energy: Developing Social and Political Engagement at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Gender and Energy: Developing Social and Political Engagement at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com