The symposium ‘Visualising Chornobyl: Ukraine and Beyond’ will take place on 18 September 2026, from 9am to 5:30pm (UK time), ArtsOne Building, G.19 (Hitchcock Cinema) at @qmul.bsky.social Queen Mary University of London. Please follow the link to reserve a place: www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-...

The July 2026 issue (#47) of the BASEES Newsletter is now available to download and read: basees.org/newsletter/2...

📢 Call for Papers: #BASEES2027 Annual Conference BASEES invites proposals for panels, roundtables, papers, book discussion roundtables, and thematic colloquia. 📍 Robinson College, University of Cambridge (9–11 April 2027) 🗓️ Proposal deadline: 5 Oct 2026 Details & submission: baseesconference.org

Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe Study Group "Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era" 14 July (5-6.30 pm, UK Time) teams.microsoft.com/meet/3723886... Meeting ID: 372 388 605 804 711 Passcode: LT9MB9CQ

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'Polish Studies: Today and Tomorrow' - 8th Annual Conference of the BASEES Polish Studies Group and SSEES Polish Studies Research Group (3-4 September, Zoom) Please send your title and an abstract of up to 250 words to anne.white@ucl.ac.uk by 10 July. basees.org/study-group-...

Call for Submissions, BASEES Newsletter No.47 Submissions are now open for the next issue of the 2026 BASEES Newsletter. Please submit your news, comments, or letters to the editor to the BASEES Information Officer, Samuel Foster (Samuel.Foster@uea.ac.uk), by Friday, 3 July.

Come by our stand at at the BASEES conference to learn about our books & series! A recent publication by one of our authors featured here: @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social

As much a cultural and political history as a technological one— illustrating how collective dreams can challenge geopolitical ambitions and inspire world-changing technologies. 📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/uRDRKNX @uwiscpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

I’ve had a wonderful time representing @routledgebooks.bsky.social at the @basees.bsky.social BASEES conference at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social with Madeleine Markey! #publishing #books

Going beyond the limits of national frameworks, this book transforms our understanding of Balkan history, national modernization, and the role of fantasy in capitalist societies. 📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/uRDRKNX @stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

Drawing novel conclusions about the development of the genre in its adopted Ukrainian context, this book depicts how the Gothic became a powerful tool of resistance and decolonization. 📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/ya82lq8 @uoftpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

In the year the United States will be one of the hosts of the football World Cup, this extract from 'The Return of Russia' looks at the time Putin passed the ball to Trump. It was published by @yalebooks.bsky.social on the day I was speaking at #BASEES2026. Thanks to everyone who came along

Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In The Return of Russia, @jmacrodgers.bsky.social charts Russia’s return to prominence on the world stage. This extract explores one of the most visible expressions of that ambition: the use of the World Cup, as a platform for power, prestige, and political messaging. yalebooks.co.uk/how-putin-us...

This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party. 📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/uRDRKNX @stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

#BASEES2026 is well underway in Birmingham, UK. As a conference exclusive, we’re offering 30% off 'Soviet Materialities'. Use code EVENT30 at checkout, only on the MUP website: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182128/

Hugely popular in its day, The Wanderer is a remarkable tale that depicts the extraordinary places and peoples that met along the fault lines of once-great empires. 📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/RtOO0M3 @nupress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

Stephen White Prize For The Best First Book In Slavonic And East European Studies Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement, revealing the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. 📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/... @basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Discussions about changing of the field continue at @basees.bsky.social Now, about teaching approaches

Winner: George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu presents a bona fide reader's guide to Eastern Europe's ongoing archival revolution. 📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/... @basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Brings together a group of scholars, half of them Jewish, half of them ethnic Poles and enlists their diverse perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond reductive positions. 📚 Browse the MNGUP BASEES exhibit: buff.ly/zeVoeaN @ohiounivpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book. 👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...

Few pictures of the beautiful campus of @unibirmingham.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book. 👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...

Shortlisted for the EHS First Monograph Prize. Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor. 📚Browse the full MNGUP EHS virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/5akxmhK @stanfordpress.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social

Traces the practices, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals, showing how they function as key figures in the tense environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia 📚 Browse the MNGUP BASEES exhibit: buff.ly/zeVoeaN @dukepress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social

If you are at #BASEES2026 today @jmacrodgers.bsky.social will be discussing The Return of Russia with @stefwolff.bsky.social and Bettina Renz. 4.45pm Muirhead Tower 112: www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In The Return of Russia, @jmacrodgers.bsky.social charts Russia’s return to prominence on the world stage. This extract explores one of the most visible expressions of that ambition: the use of the World Cup, as a platform for power, prestige, and political messaging. yalebooks.co.uk/how-putin-us...

Investigates the political project of "Europe" as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disintegration. 📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/U1cCh0B @basees.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

Hello #BASEES2026 I’m officially registered, and I’m gonna be chairing 2 panels today. My papers about Duke Skirgaila I’ll present on Sunday morning. Wish me luck 🤞🏼

Many more ZOiS researchers will present their research at #BASEES2026 over the weekend – meet us there!

BASEES Annual Conference 26

10 - 12 April 2026, Birmingham, UK

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