Imperial Urbanism in Northeastern Europe. Spaces, Infrastructures and Transimperial Entanglements in the Long Nineteenth Century 📅 October 29-30, 2026 📍 Vilnius, Lithuania 📅 Submission deadline: August 15, 2026 📋️ See a full Call for Papers here: buff.ly/kkQxP1Z 👉️ More details: buff.ly/m8CFrqD

💥 CESS Regional Conference 2026 Highlight 💥 Interview with Abel Polese We were glad to catch Abel Polese for a brief interview on his experience at the CESS Regional Conference 2026. Watch the interview here: buff.ly/fc2ToRt #cess2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #nazarbayevuniversity

Interview with Abel Polese - CESS 2026

We were glad to catch Abel Polese for a brief interview on his experience at the CESS Regional Conference 2026. 👥 Polese's research focuses on politics and governance in the Caucasus, Central Asia,…

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📣 Fellowship Opening 📣 Herder Fellowship Program 📍 Herder-Institut for Historical Research on East Central Europe Marburg, Germany 📅 Application deadline: August 15, 2026 👉️ For more details and a link to apply, see the fellowship listing on the Herder-Institut's website: buff.ly/gb2olpa

📣 Open PhD Position 📣 Literacy across fluid boundaries: Human capital and education in Central and Eastern Europe in the first half of the 19th century 📍 Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland 👉️ For more details, see this link: buff.ly/ArJHEHh

📣 Upcoming Conference 📣 Recentring the Humanities: Ukraine and the World 📅 October 28-30, 2026 📍 Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta Alberta, Canada 👉️ For more details on the conference and registration, see the following link: buff.ly/B6O4dDv #centraleurasia

📣 Upcoming Lecture 📣 Soviet to Post-Karabakh Times: Sociolinguistic Studies of Armenian 📅 August 12, 2026 (14:00 EST) 📍 Online 👉️ For more information and a link to register for this online event, see the event listing here: buff.ly/ab4VQU6 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #southcaucasus

📣 Call for Proposals 📣 Spaces of Profit: Contesting Borderland Economies in the Late Russian Empire/Soviet Union 📅 Apr 8-9, 2027 📍 Freie Universität Berlin 📅 Application deadline: November 1, 2026 👉️ See the full call for papers for more details: buff.ly/aIRgG2U #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies

📣 Sponsor Spotlight 📣 Central Eurasian Studies Society extends its gratitude to our 2026 Silver Sponsor, the El Umiti Corporate Fund. 👉️ To become an Institutional Member, see our membership page: buff.ly/KRoYJBi #CESS2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #NazarbayevUniversity #astana

📣 Four Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowships 📣 📅 April 2027 🏫 Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz 📍 Konstanz, Germany 🔍️ About the Fellowship: buff.ly/v95ZZlZ 👉️ For more details and eligibility: buff.ly/fvrPCrR . 📅 Application deadline: October 12, 2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies

📣 Paid Internship 📣 Central Asia Program for Regional Cooperation & Connectivity 📍 Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan On-site student/graduate training, research, and professional development. 📅 Application deadline: August 15, 2026 👉️ Apply with a CV via this form: buff.ly/o9IgeSN

💥 We are happy to share more highlights from CESS 2026! 💥 📹️ See our recent montage on YouTube: buff.ly/imOmX2O What was your favorite part of last month's conference? 💬 Let us know in the comments below! #CESS2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #NazarbayevUniversity #astana

CESS 2026 Merey Otan Photo Montage

💥 We are happy to share more highlights from CESS 2026! 💥 What was your favorite part of last month's conference? 💬 Let us know in the comments below! 🎵 Music credits: Temeki (Cigarette) by…

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📣 Call for Chapters 📣 Social Capital, Resilience, and Governance in Central Asia and the Caucasus - Edited Volume 📅 Abstract Submission Deadline: August 15, 2026 👉️ For more details, please visit a full call for chapters in our recent post to the CESS website: buff.ly/yVpUHUD #centraleurasia

📣 Upcoming Hybrid Event 📣 Chornobyl Cinema: From Atomohrad Utopia to Contaminated Ruin (A lecture by Stanislav Menzelevskyi) 📅 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 @ 17:00EST 👉️ For more details on the event, see the recent post on the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute website: buff.ly/9NfVi85

📣 Upcoming Workshop Deadline 📣 Entangled Transformations: Temporalities, Experiences, and Critical Histories of Postsocialist Change in Europe 📅 December 9-11, 2026 📍 University of Warsaw Submission deadline: July 31, 2026 👉️ For more details, see the following link: buff.ly/YdVkvS9

👥 Central Eurasian Studies Society Online Community Forum 👥 ❓️ Hoping to connect withwith a wider network of scholars, students, and professionals in the field? 👉️ Visit our Online Community Forum here: buff.ly/hKqZc6n #CESS #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #communityforum #networking

📣 Upcoming Hybrid Seminar 📣 The manuscript legacy of Bakhytzhan Karataev (1860–1934) as a historical source on the 1905–1907 revolution and the Civil War in Western Kazakhstan 📅 Monday, July 27, 2026, 02:00–03:00 👉️ For online registration: buff.ly/VbsRKpQ 📷️ Event poster courtesy of SRC

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Sexuality and Regimes of Expertise: Bodies, Gender and Sexual Health in Southern and Eastern Europe (1940s-1990s) 📅 January 21-22, 2027 📍 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 👉️ For more info, see our recent Facebook post about the workshop: buff.ly/dWJ99SM #centraleurasia

📣 Resource Spotlight 📣 📚️ Online Archive - Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) The CIUS's online archive features an array of historical materials, including oral histories, academic interviews, recordings, performances, and broadcasts. 👉️ Access the archive here: buff.ly/TXgWySj

📣 Sponsor Spotlight 📣 The Central Eurasian Studies Society extends its gratitude to our 2026 Gold Sponsor, the MacMillan Center's Central Asia Initiative at Yale University. 👉️ To become an Institutional Member, see our membership page: buff.ly/KRoYJBi #CESS2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Off the Radar: Moving Images, Exhibition and Distribution Practices 📅 December 4–5, 2026 📍 National Film School KIMO, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Vilnius, Lithuania 👉️ For more information, see the conference webpage: buff.ly/NPb7Cqy #centraleurasia #eurasia

📣 Open Position 📣 Head of Department - Entanglements and Reordering 📍 Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe 👉️ For more information on the position, associated responsibilities, and instructions on applying, see the listing on the GWZO website: buff.ly/ibByptg

📣 Job Opportunity 📣 Kyrgyz Translation Project 📍 Motion Picture Solutions MPS seeks US-based Kyrgyz linguists to support a translation project, including: - Kyrgyz language instructors - Grad students - Researchers - Translators and interpreters Interested? Contact: julian.lorenzo@withmps.com.

📣 Hybrid Event Tomorrow 📣 The Carpathians: Periphery or Center? (A lecture by Patrice M. Dabrowski) 📅 July 22, 2026 @ 17:00EST 📍 Harvard University and Online 👉️ For more details and a link to register, see the recent post on the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute website: buff.ly/098lgDj

📣 New Graduate Program 📣 📖 Transnational History MA 📍 Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic 👉️ Further program details and a link to the application interface can be found here: buff.ly/j2Qf5le 📅 Application deadline: August 31, 2026 #TransnationalHistory

📣 Sponsor Spotlight 📣 Central Eurasian Studies Society extends its gratitude to our 2026 Gold Sponsor, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Harvard University. 👉️ To become an Institutional Member, see our membership page: buff.ly/KRoYJBi #CESS2026 #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies

📣 Resource Spotlight 📣 Collaborative Data Network with Eastern Europe The Research Network Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe (KonKoop) presents a new database, Collaborative Data Network with Eastern Europe (KoDaNetOst). 👉️ Explore the KoDaNetOst datasets using this link: buff.ly/kxbUUfx

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Fishing Communities and Livelihoods in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia 📅 Mar 10-11, 2027 📍 Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient 👉️ For more details on the workshop's scope and abstract submission, see the link below: buff.ly/LD07bQ8 📅 Submission deadline: August 1, 2026

Join us at #ceecon26 - the largest academic congress in Germany focusing on East Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.  📅October 8-9, 2026 📍@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 🔗Register here: https://ceecon.de/ @zois.bsky.social @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social

📢 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

‘This is a deeply informed, jam-packed book.’ The Russian Review Discover How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History by Paul W. Werth 👉 https://bit.ly/4ei6XaT