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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · 20d

📢 Join us for a one-day workshop "Russia’s Right-Wing and the War"

🗓️ 26.09.25
📍 Edwin-Redslob-Str. 29

🖋️Please sign up at [email protected]!
ℹ️ shorturl.at/YTWM6

Co-organizer @scripts-berlin.eu
Funded by @dfg.de

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jul 21

📑 Check out a new journal article by OEI's Mihai Varga and Aron Buzogány @buzogany.bsky.social of the Universität für Bodenkultur on agricultural policy and rural development in contemporary Ukraine 🇺🇦.

The article is available to the public free of charge🔓

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine

This article examines the lessons that the European Union’s Eastern Enlargement and the rural transitions it encouraged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) hold for an enlarging EU and for Ukraine....

www.tandfonline.com

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣 A new article on the Russian "anti-woke visas" by DW with an interview by OEI's professor of sociology Katharina Bluhm

Russia's 'anti-woke visa' woos Western expatriates – DW – 07/09/2025

Moscow's "Shared Values Visa" welcomes conservative migrants who are against LGBTQ+ rights or globalism in general. Russia, meanwhile, uses the newcomers for propaganda.

www.dw.com

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jul 14

📑 A new publication by OEI's Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga on the intricacies of Russia’s current political landscape.

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 11

📚 #PublicationFriday | "Russia’s Right and the Putin regime"

📌 Can there be a political right inside a regime often labeled fascist?

🔍 In their new article Katharina Bluhm & Mihai Varga argue that differences in Russia’s political landscape are still discernible and important.

buff.ly/37WvIJE

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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · Jun 23

From June 23 to June 29, 2025, Freie Universität Berlin will be cutting out the letter e from its communication.
Why? Because the university itself is facing cuts: around 37 million euros this year alone. Additional cuts are also planned for 2026 and 2027. (1/3)

Green Text on black ground. The letter "e" is missing. R s arch and ducation? Som cuts just don´t mak s ns .

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jun 15

We are happy to announce that OEI will take part in Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025 🌃🌘

Our theme is protests camps in authoritarian regimes, their organization and resistance.✊

🔗 tinyurl.com/LNDWOEI25

📍Rostlaube, room K31/102, FU Berlin
📅28.6.25
🕙5pm-9pm

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 4

On Thursday, 12 June at 5 pm Ilya Gerasimov and Marina Mogilner will present their book A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1918: From Russian to Global History.
The event takes place at ZMO in cooperation with @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social and will be followed by a reception.

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · May 27

📣 Join us for the annual Richard Löwenthal Lecture on
"Return and Return Intentions of Ukrainian Refugees" by Prof. Panu Poutvaara. 🇺🇦

📅 11.06.2025, 4 PM
📍 Hörsaal A, OEI, Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin

🔗 tinyurl.com/LOE25

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · May 19

🚨CfP | Interdisciplinary Student Conference "BEYOND EMPIRES – Fokus Osteuropa"

👩‍🎓For students of Eastern Europe
📄/🎨 Submit either a conference paper or a creative project

🏁Apply by 30.06.25 ❗
♾️ tinyurl.com/BE0625

@dgoberlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · May 2

📢 Transcribing Violence: Art, Nature, Politics

📅 24.05.2025
🕘 16.00
📍 taz Kantine, Friedrichstraße 21, 10969 Berlin
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/VIO2405

Organised by @bpb.de and EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Apr 27

Join us for the workshop “Ukraine's Resilience and Recovery: Social Dimension”🇺🇦

📅 05.05.25
🕘 09.00 - 17.45
📍 Seminarzentrum, FU Berlin, Room L115, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, 14195 Berlin

ℹ️ tinyurl.com/UA0525

@kiu-network.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
@viadrina.bsky.social

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KIU - Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies @kiu-network.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Ukraine Lecture Series starts on 14 April, takes place every Monday, 6 P.M.

@daadworldwide.bsky.social
@viadrina.bsky.social @vcpu.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social @bbaw.bsky.social @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social @wiko-berlin.bsky.social

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Mar 6

🎉 We are happy to announce that the course catalog for the upcoming summer term is now available!

OEI's five departments — 👥 Sociology, 🌍 Politics, 🎨 Culture, 📜 History, 📈 Economics — will once again offer a diverse range of seminars.

We wish you a restful break and an inspiring semester ahead! 🌷

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Feb 10

Last week OEI was happy welcome @manuelaboatca.bsky.social with a lecture on Transylvania, coloniality and interimperiality. It is now available on our YT 📺: youtu.be/Bjhh23YGWjA?....

📣Join us this Wednesday for the closing panel on Eastern Europe and Postcolonial Studies: tinyurl.com/OEICONCL

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jan 31

Congratulations to Anna Abalkina, a research fellow in the Department of Politics at OEI, a long-standing fighter for academic and research integrity, and one of the Nature's 10 in 2024, and her colleagues on their recent publication! We thank Anna and her colleagues for their most important work.

Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · Jan 27

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research

A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

www.nature.com

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jan 31

Excellent post-doc opportunity!⬇️

Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · Jan 31

I'm hiring a post-doc working on 🇦🇿🇰🇬🇹🇷🇮🇷🇷🇺 for our new @dfg.de-AHRC project at @uniregensburg.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social "Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics." More information here: www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

0,5 Wiss. Mitarb. (m/w/d) "Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics“ (Univ. Regensburg)

Eine Stelle als wiss. Mitarbeiter:in (m/w/d) (Postdoc) im von der DFG und AHRC geförderten Projekt "Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics" am Department ...

www.hsozkult.de

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jan 24

🎞️Tune in for this week's lecture by Rano Turaeva on decolonising Central Asian Studies and please 🔔 subscribe❗

Next week: Galyna Sukhomud with "Russian Occupation and Ukrainian Resistance through City Planning and Spatial Practice". tinyurl.com/OEIGS
📅 29.01.2025
🕰️ 14:15 - 15:45
🗺️ OEI, Hörsaal A

Double Colonial Heritage and the Question of Decolonising Central Asian Studies | Rano Turaeva

YouTube video by Osteuropa-Institut

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Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) @viadrina.eu · Jan 17

💸Fully funded PhD Scholarship at @kiu-network.bsky.social

🎓Be part of the first Ukrainian Studies doctoral school in Germany.

📅More information per online consultation on the 23. January, 3 p.m.

@zois.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

KIU - Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies @kiu-network.bsky.social · Jan 15

The application deadline for our PhD Call has been extended to 9 February 2025.
We invite everybody interested in the programme to our next online consultation on 23 January 2025 at 3 p.m. (CET).
The zoom link will be published on our website.

www.kiu.europa-uni.de

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jan 15

Der heutige Vortrag von Franziska Davies "Sowjetische Geschichte dekolonial erzählen? Polen, die Ukraine in den 1980er Jahren und das Ende von Moskaus Vorherrschaft in Osteuropa" muss leider entfallen.

Wir entschuldigen uns für die Unannehmlichkeiten.

www.oei.fu-berlin.de/institut/ter...

ENTFÄLLT | Franziska Davies | Sowjetische Geschichte dekolonial erzählen? Polen, die Ukraine in den 1980er Jahren und das Ende von Moskaus Vorherrschaft in Osteuropa

www.oei.fu-berlin.de

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Jan 13

📢 Applications now open!
📅 15–26.09.2025
🗺️ Kazakh-German University, Almaty, KZ
🌐 Working languages: DE & EN
👩🏽‍🎓 Who can apply? Students of DE & KZ universities
🏁 Apply by: 31.03.2025 (grants) & 30.04.2025 (summer school)
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/DKUKZ25
The funding is provided by @daadworldwide.bsky.social

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Robert Kindler @robertkindler.bsky.social · Jan 10

Heute kehrt auch das OEI @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social X-twitter endgültig den Rücken.

#eXit & auf zu neuen Ufern!

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KIU - Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies @kiu-network.bsky.social · Jan 7

Any questions left about the KIU Graduate Program @viadrina.bsky.social ?
Join us tomorrow for an online consultation, 8 January, 3 p.m CET.

More information and link here: bit.ly/4ivaHqU
The application deadline ends 25 January.

#KIU #UkrainianStudies

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Dec 18

Bis morgen!

Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · Dec 18

➡️ Wie die Freie Universität auf die Kürzungen des Berliner Senats reagiert: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/hausha...

➡️ Aufruf zur Kundgebung am 19.12.2024 ab 8.30 Uhr vor dem Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus
www.lkrp-berlin.de/aktuelles/24...

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Osteuropa-Institut @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social · Dec 12

A new lecture by Viktor Vakhstein in the "Osteuropa: Postkolonial/Dekolonial?" series is now available on our YT channel.

We struggled with the sound quality for the first half of the semester, for which we apologize. Now the problem has finally been solved!

Morphology of Post-Colonial Antizionism: Narratives & Collective Representations | Viktor Vakhstein

YouTube video by Osteuropa-Institut

www.youtube.com

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KIU - Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies @kiu-network.bsky.social · Dec 10

The KIU Graduate Programme is the first structured doctoral programme in Germany for Ukrainian Studies.
Apply now! Deadline: 25 January 2025

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @wiko-berlin.bsky.social @bbaw.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social
#UkrainianStudies #Viadrina

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