Conference reports

Rethinking Politics, Society and Identity in Belarus: A CBEES Workshop for an Upcoming Edited Volume

The workshop served as an intermediate stage in the preparation of the volume and provided an opportunity for contributors to present and discuss draft chapters before the final revision process.

By Victoria Leukavets May 22, 2026

IN SEARCH OF SOLIDARITY BETWEEN THE GLOBAL EAST AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH

The CEEShub’s (Central and Eastern European Security Hub) inaugural conference: "Between Peripheries: Critical- Relational Security from CEE and the Global South" took place in January 22–25, 2026, Tallinn University, Estonia.

By Birgit Poopuu and Benjamin Klasche April 23, 2026

Russia Through the Eyes of Its Neighbours: The Ongoing War and Regional Security

The international conference “Russia Through the Eyes of Its Neighbours: The Ongoing War and Regional Security” which was held in Stockholm on September 18–19, 2025, brought together leading scholars and policy experts from across Europe, providing a platform to assess how Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine continues to reshape the geopolitical and security landscape of the region.

By Victoria Leukavets and Joakim Ekman December 9, 2025

The concerns of historians

Network of Concerned Historians Annual Report 2025, contains news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, in particular about the censorship of history and the persecution of historians.

By Ninna Mörner September 23, 2025

NARRATING THE CHILD Childhood and the Baltic Sea

arrating the Child and the Baltic Sea, the 2nd International Conference of The Graphic World of Children Date and location: May 19–21, 2025, Södertörn Univeristy, Stockholm, Sweden. Organizer: Lisa Källström (Södertörn University). Advisory board: Maheen Ahmed (Ghent University), Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen), Birgitte Beck Pristed (Aarhus University)/ The Graphic World of Children).

By Lisa Källström September 23, 2025

SOLIDARITY ISLANDS IN A SEA OF VIOLENCE Reflections on memory, genocide, and the summer of 2025

The interdisciplinary research centre Places, Identities and Memories’ (PIMs) Annual Conference “Spaces of Victimhood in Eastern Europe” Date and location: June 18–19, 2025, the University College London (UCL). Organizer: Jessie Barton Hronešov. and Paweł Bukowski, School of Slavonic & East European Studies (SSEES) UCL. Memory Studies Association’s (MSA)Annual Conference “Beyond Crises:Resilience and (In)Stability” Date: July 14–18, 2025. Organizers: Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.

By Cagla Demirel September 23, 2025

ADDRESSING THE ENERGY TRILEMMA IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION AND EASTERN EUROPE

Conference name: Stocktaking of Research on Energy Security, Justice and Sustainability in The Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe: What Is Missing? Date and location: October 24–25, 2024, Södertörn University. Organizer: The Energy and Climate Hub at Södertörn University . Funding: Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University.

By Sara Persson et al April 16, 2025

THE INTERTWINING OF INFORMATION WARFARE AND PEACE

Conference name: Secure Horizons: Ukraine’s Peace & Infosecurity Confluence Date and location: Symposium arranged February 6, 2024, at Södertörn University/hybrid […]

By Anastasiia Chupis and Alyona Hurkivska April 16, 2025

THE TIME & TEMPORALITIES OF NUCLEAR WASTE

This paper focuses on the notions of “time” and “temporality” of nuclear waste, as well as the different time horizons implied by practitioners of nuclear waste storage. In doing so, the paper develops understandings of a key problem defining nuclear waste storage in C21: namely, how to communicate information and memory over the 100,000 years that highly radioactive nuclear matter remains a threat to organic life. This question is notable not least because it involves the proposition of communicating with “deep time” future scenarios in which contemporary representational systems are ineffectual, and even the existence of the “human” is in doubt.

By Thomas Keating et al April 7, 2025

The Future of Work from a Macro-Regional Perspective Paper prepared for the InGRID-2 Winter School

This paper takes the 2018 InGRID input note as the point of departure for an elaboration on an additional layer of governance less known among some domain-specific scholarly circles but no less relevant for their overall exploratory work of the diversity of steering and consultation mechanisms put in place by the European Union (EU) to promote integrationist dynamics and certain goals enshrined in the EU policies.

By Zane Šime January 20, 2025