It was a great pleasure to host this exciting discussion that crossed the boundaries between social sciences and the arts with the creators of the new West End musical! We talked about co-creation, positionality and epistemic humility and also listened to great songs from the show!

LSE European Institute@lse-ei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We were honoured to host the team behind the new musical “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”. Part of our Beyond Eurocentrism programme, the event built bridges between the social sciences and the arts. Thank you @denisakost.bsky.social for chairing. 🎭Full event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfwC...

Very excited about welcoming to the LSE the creators of the new West End musical Tim Sutton, George Harrison and Richy Hughes and discussing creativity, resilience, and inter-cultural translation www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins... @lse-ei.bsky.social

About "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind": Roundtable on creativity, resilience, and inter-cultural translation

6.30pm Wednesday 27 May | Registration required | Free hybrid public event at LSE

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Launching ’Open Science Book’ with @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social Tim Monteath and Hannah Boroudjou aimed at researchers across all disciplines. I’ll be talking about my contribution on Citizens’ Open Sciene @lse-ei.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social

Register to next Wednesday's CIVICA Open Science conference for the book launch of "Doing Open Social Science", along with authors Professor @denisakost.bsky.social, Patrick Dunleavy, Tim Monteath and Hannah Boroudjou. 📆Wed, 20 May 📍CKK Building, LSE www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/civica-ope...

CIVICA Open Science Conference

A full-day conference open to the CIVICA network and beyond, featuring keynotes, panels, lightning talks and networking opportunities.

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Delighted to collaborate with @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social & Tim Monteath and contribute to shaping discussions about Open Social Science: its significance, forms and challenges drawing on JUSTINT @erc.europa.eu research @lse-ei.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

Looking forward to leading the on-line discussion with Koen Slotmaeckers, Vjollca Krasniqi & Indraneel Sircar on "Open Research, Gender, and Ethics" at the London Festival of Open Science and Scholarship 20 April, 4pm. Check out: tinyurl.com/m29t3za7 @lse-ei.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social

Open Research, Gender, and Ethics

Discover how open research can shake up gender norms and ethics in this online event.

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Delighted for the LSEE Programme on South East Europe at @ho-centre.bsky.social at LSE to team up with @mybisa.bsky.social South East Europe Working Group and King’s College London to sponsor this exciting workshop on the emerging research from the region. @lse-ei.bsky.social

Our Professor @denisakost.bsky.social has co-authored a chapter in the newly-published book, "War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital," which provides a structural explanation of post-conflict gender-based violence against women. Discover it below👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

The material basis of gender-based violence and its circuits

Our Professor in Global Politics Denisa Kostovicova, together with Dr Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Research Fellow in Civil Society and Conflict Research Group in the LSE Department of International…

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👇 NEW ARTICLE: With Myriam Denov, we analyse how children born of war time rape in Rwanda disclose harms in social interaction to find agency in the self through novel analysis of discourse in transitional justice pioneered by JUSTINT @erc.europa.eu @lse-ei.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4z6e5pkx

Speaking Up: Social Interaction, Disclosure, and Meaning-Making by Youth Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Rwanda

Abstract. Children born of wartime rape have long been invisible, ostracized, and silenced. This predicament explains blind spots in transitional justice d

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👇NEW BOOK CHAPTER: Delighted to coauthor with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic & Marsha Henry @mghacademic.bsky.social on the circuits of gender-based violence in Bosnia: part of a timely & important collaboration led by Aida @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True @lse-ei.bsky.social tinyurl.com/43af54ta

War Economy | Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital | Aida A Hozić

War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened

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📣 #CfP: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order" Conference at #LeibnizIOS Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026. We welcome proposals on the Yugoslav Wars & their impact on European & international politics. 📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026 ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

Interested in the study of conflict in Europe and beyond? If so, join us today! 👇

LSE European Institute@lse-ei.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⏰ FINAL DAY! Book your place now for our last two panels! MSc International Migration and Public Policy 🕐 1.00-2.00pm GMT 🎟️ Register: lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi... MSc Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe with @denisakost.bsky.social 🕐 3.00-4.00pm GMT 🎟️ Register: lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Delighted to contribute to this discussion together with @lanabi.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social

East European Politics@eepolitics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

☀️The new issue - incl. #FREE content - is out now! 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4... cc @adamfagan.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @filipejdus.bsky.social @angeltorresadan.bsky.social @karin-kvr-slyms.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social @lanabi.bsky.social 👇👇⚡

Grateful for the opportunity to present @erc.europa.eu JUSTINT research and engage with practitioners, HR activists, victims and scholars at a critical time for postconflict justice in ex-YU @lse-ei.bsky.social

Curious how AI + data-driven tools are already reshaping TJ? My colleague Saide Vega Mobayed mapped 40+ use cases worldwide with Impunity Watch — from OSINT to reparations design, including our work with @denisakost.bsky.social et al. at JustInt. Report link: www.impunitywatch.org/wp-content/u...

💡New & #FREE article 'Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in #Serbia for and against #Ukraine' by @denisakost.bsky.social ( @lse-ei.bsky.social ) & @lanabi.bsky.social ( @lsemethodology.bsky.social ) 🇷🇸🇺🇦 @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine

Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

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The video of last night’s powerful event with Steve Crawshaw is now available. Reflecting on his book, “Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice”, Crawshaw joined Prof @denisakost.bsky.social for a thought-provoking conversation. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-D6...

👇 Looking forward to contributing to this important discussion! @lse-ei.bsky.social

Our article, "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia", co-authored w @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy William Waters, is now available in Serbian 🇷🇸. Published by Forum za bezbednost i demokratiju (FBD) in its “Vidici i Putokazi” series: fbd.org.rs/images/pdfs/...

👇We’ll be on-line soon! 1pm UK time, 2pm CET.

Hellenic Observatory@ho-centre.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join our online event on Thursday (30/10): 'Identity Battles on Social Media: Trending in the Western Balkans and Beyond' 🌐 Co-hosted by the Hellenic Observatory - Centre & LSEE - the LSE's Research on South Eastern Europe 🤝 lnkd.in/emcDCzHA

Looking forward to presenting our paper on deliberation and anti-deliberation in Western Baljans with Ivor Sokolic and Irena Fiket at the Serbian Political Science Association Conference @lse-ei.bsky.social

tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

Lanabi@lanabi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Next Friday (24 Oct) at 2pm I’ll present work from my PhD + new research at LSE’s Department of Methodology — in person 📍 Interested in using text-as-data to study media (and beyond)? I’ll focus on research design. 🎟️ Few tickets left

Check out the upcoming event by LSEE Research on South-East Europe👇

Hellenic Observatory@ho-centre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join us on 30 October for our online event! 'Identity Battles on Social Media: Trending in the Western Balkans and Beyond' 🌐 Speakers: Dr Natasha Dimitrovska Dr Ivana Stepanovic Dr Sanja Vico (@sanjavico.bsky.social) Professor Denisa Kostovicova (@denisakost.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/379vk4eb

🇷🇸🇺🇦 @denisakost.bsky.social and @lanabi.bsky.social have published a new JUSTINT paper in East European Politics, which analyses cross border dynamics of war crimes denial between Serbia and Ukraine. Discover it below👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine

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👇 NEW ARTICLE with @Lanabi_la_Lova: We analyse cross border dynamics of war crimes denial. Attitudes to in-group's past wars & accountability explain selective solidarity with victims of distant conflicts. @lse-ei.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @eepolitics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/b4sum24y

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine

Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

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I was honoured to give a key note lecture on ‘Digital Interactions: Political Communication and Mass Atrocity Crimes in the Western Balkans’ in Germany. Great to connect with colleagues, make new connections and learn about emerging research! @lse-ei.bsky.social @sudosteuropa.bsky.social

New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and…

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date.

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If you’re at #APSA2025 and interested in Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and/or the Balkans, I’m presenting two chapters from our book project with @denisakost.bsky.social and Ivor Sokolic. Come by! @apsa.bsky.social #APSA2025

Great to see this paper out. Whatever sensitive topic one might tackle - whether it is war crimes, corruption or others - the phenomenon of secrecy in closed institutions is one that raises imp questions, esp. in (semi)authoritarian contexts. Congrats @lanabi.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social

Lanabi@lanabi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨⚖️🔍 New paper in Journal of Genocide Research with @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy Waters we studied secrecy in Serbia’s war crimes trials. 📑Corpus of 164 judgements (1999–2019). Tried OCR+quant methods, but chaotic redactions made it impossible. So we wrote a descriptive, mixed-methods paper