Are you in Koper 🇸🇮 this week? Join our conference “Homecomings” and Internal Migrations in Central & Southeastern Europe—exploring return migration, remittances, and knowledge transfer. 📅 11–12 June Co-organised w/ Univ. of Primorska, ZRC SAZU, ZRS Koper. ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/events/de...

❗Call for Papers ❗ This workshop is being organised by one of our former PIs, Heike Karge, together with two of our doctoral students, Nikola Gajić and Oleksandr Nadtoka. We would appreciate your support in sharing this Call widely. 🫶 Deadline: 31 March 2026

Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung@leibniz-ios.de · 8mo ago

📣 #CfP: "New Approaches to the Study of the ICTY Archives" Workshop @uni-graz.at, Oct 15–16, 2026. We welcome proposals on tribunal truths, digital infrastructure & memory politics. Exploring digital coloniality & computational methods. 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2026 ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

🎉 Deutschlandpremiere am IOS 📕 Am 7.11., 16 Uhr, stellen @tschinderle.bsky.social und @krstorevic.bsky.social ihr neues Buch "Westbalkan – Im Wartezimmer der EU" vor (mit @danijelmajic.bsky.social geschrieben). Zuhören & mitdiskutieren – bei uns oder online. 🔗 Mehr: leibniz-ios.de/veranstaltun...

We are seeking a PhD candidate with an interest in East–West European relations (1970s–1990s) to work with me and Aline Sierp. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 September. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

A similar opinion piece today in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic

When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle?

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#SaveTheDate: The program of our 12th Annual Conference on "Continuity & Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century" is out now. With keynotes by Tamás Vonyó and János Mátyás Kovács. 📆 26–27 June 2025 | #Regensburg ⬇️

IOS Annual Conference: "Continuity and Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century"

IOS Annual Conference 2025

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You can watch this powerful (and Oscar-nominated) short for free. When I watched it, I had a horrible feeling of it being particularly relevant today.

Iva Vukušić@vukusiciva.bsky.social · 2y ago

Watch this. It's based on a true story of what Tomo Buzov did. In time of lawlessness, he tried to fight against it. I write about this event in my book. Now this short film is the Croatian candidate for an Oscar. Watch it: #Film #Oscars www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

How did migrant workers' remittances contribute to Yugoslavia's industrialization? @juznaslavenka.bsky.social (#LeibnizIOS) examines in Migration and Development how the #Gastarbeiter shaped local development, using the "Tigar" tire factory (Pirot) as a case study. 🔽

"The Tyres of Change – Remittances as a Wheel of Development in Pirot, Serbia": Article by Sara Žerić Đulović

Article published in Migration and Development.

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Just published my new article in journal "Migration and Development" on Gastarbeiter investments in the "Tigar" factory in Pirot! 🚀 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6CXB...

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Did you know that there is a #Mercedes town in Croatia? 🚗The background story you can read in the essay I wrote for #seeffield (A small but fertile field: Strengthening Southeast European Studies in Regensburg) seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/croatias-mer...

Croatia's "Mercedes" Town: How Imotski Honours its Gastarbeiter Heritage - seeFField

At the beginning of June, Croatian and German flags flew over Imotski, a town in southern Croatia, as citizens gathered for a two-day celebration. They celebrated the unveiling of the “Mercedes” monum...

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I am happy to share that my paper "Factories Built on the Deutsche Mark. Yugoslav Gastarbeiter Investments in Creating Jobs in the Homeland" is part of a special edition by Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch entitled "Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe" 🤓 www.peterlang.com/document/144...

Peter Lang Verlag - Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 60th International Academic Week organized by the Southeast Europe Association in October 2022. ...

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"'The #Gastarbeiter|s Built Everything for Us.' #Migration|s, Memories, and Emptiness in the #Dalmatia|n Hinterland" New essay by #LeibnizIOS director Ulf Brunnbauer and @juznaslavenka.bsky.social in Contemporary Southeastern Europe. In #OpenAccess ➡️ contemporarysee.org/the-gastarbe...

Kann Abwanderung auch positive Impulse für die Wirtschaft der Herkunftsländer haben? Diese für #Südosteuropa bis heute enorm wichtige Frage diskutieren #LeibnizIOS -Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer und @juznaslavenka.bsky.social am Beispiel des sozialistischen #Jugoslawien im @derstandardat.bsky.social. ⬇️

Migration und Entwicklung im sozialistischen Jugoslawien

Schuf Migration aus dem sozialistischen Jugoslawien wirtschaftliche Impulse für die Herkunftsregionen?

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My dear blue ☁️ community, if you know some young scholars who are dealing with history of migration and development processes in Latin and South America, North Africa and Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey - please let me know about them! I'm working on an exciting panel 🤩

#CFP IOS Annual Conference!

Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung@leibniz-ios.de · 3y ago

Reminder | 🗓️ Deadline: February 15th CfP for our annual conference on "Getting Old in Eastern Europe. Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of Ageing in the Past and Present". We welcome proposals from various social sciences. Details ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/wissen-vermi...

Remittances from YU-Gastarbeiters in Western Europe played an important role in Yugoslavia's economic development, argues @leibniz-ios.de research associate @juznaslavenka.bsky.social. More on this by Milica Stojanović (former IOS fellow) for Balkan Insight. balkaninsight.com/2023/11/29/h...

Helping the Homeland: Yugoslavia’s [Almost] Forgotten Gastarbeiter Factories

Yugoslav ‘guest-workers’ in Western Europe were responsible for an influx of Western-made goods and cash. They also bankrolled the creation of dozens of factories, some that employed the wives lef...

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