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The Undergraduate Research Symposium is designed to provide undergraduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities in the region with opportunities to develop advanced research and presentation skills. This year, which marks the 6 th annual Symposium, brought together 24 students from the The event is sponsored by the Center for West European Studies/European Union Center of Excellence (CWES/EUCE) and the Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES), with support from the School of Arts and Sciences.

2022

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the ensuing war, is bringing about far reaching consequences for the entire region and beyond. The subject of East European area studies is currently undergoing a process of critical reassessment. For the past 30 years, as an area, Eastern Europe and post-Soviet states have been defined as post-communist, and the space belonging to the former Soviet Union as post-Soviet. “Post” has marked a transition through a process of continuation and negation. The war may end this condition of “post”, implying the collapse of the post-Soviet geopolitical consensus. The conference invites critical discussion about the potentials, limitations and (mis)uses of methodologies that challenge hegemonic approaches in East European Studies/area studies. What is happening to area studies? Where are we now, as a consequence of the war? What new theoretical and methodological instruments do we need in this new situation? The transformation of the region also poses serious challenges to scholars. Continual redefinition of the “areas” of study reproduces the hierarchies of geopolitical entities, languages and cultures reflected in the distribution of resources, academic interests and practices. Knowledge production always risks becoming ensnared in hegemonic structures (imperial, patriarchal, authoritarian) and non-academic interests and discourses (e.g., policy- and profit-making). This conference seeks to critically examine the area's current conditions for knowledge production. How is knowledge produced, and by whom? How can we work in and with the area today? The conference aims to cover the following aspects, among others: • War and its impact on area studies. • What will happen to the dominance of Russia in area studies? • How the “area” is currently defined. • Challenges to knowledge production in the region in the face of the war. • Critical perspectives on knowledge production, knowledge regimes, politics and academic freedom. • New imperialism, anticolonialism, decolonisation and other perspectives on area studies. • Training for specialists in area studies – problems and the future. • Language(s) in area studies. • Loci of knowledge production: hierarchies and precarity. • Academia and professional ethics. • The politics of funding and its impact on the state of knowledge in the region. • Interrelationships between history and memory. • Teaching and cooperation with/in Eastern European Studies. • Knowledge production, policymaking and activism.

In honour of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia, the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs will hold a two-day conference to honour this event. The founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918 inscribes itself within a series of events that marked the end of World War One and that influenced the history of the world, Europe, and particularly of Central and Southeastern Europe. As we approach the centenary of these events, an opportunity arises to reflect on the meaning, impact, and legacy that they had, and continue to have, on the region. This conference aims to contribute to the discussion on these topics by exploring the following questions:

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2015

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies, 2018

As a new chapter of an ongoing, long-term, and vivid institutional relationship between Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (SHUT) and the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (RIRNM), the abovementioned international conference (a.k.a. '#Challenges100 Conference') took place in the period of 15-17 November 2018. The hosting venue of the Conference was the main building of the Faculty of Science and Arts (SHUT), Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár. This international scientific event was organized to present some important ongoing investigations, research, and theoretic models dealing with the social, political, historical, financial, or legal aspects of state-and nation-building in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) of the past 100 years. The concepts of state-and nationhood, the dilemmas of the social integration, unification or even disintegration in the multiethnic countries of the debated territory were the main topics of this international conference. Besides the presentation of the latest research domains in this area of science, another important goal of this conference was scientific network building for researchers from all over the world dealing with social sciences. The Conference had six thematic panels within which more than 30 presentations were held. At the Challenges100 International Conference, in order for all willing researchers to be able to participate and discuss each other's research, there were no parallel panels. After a short opening plenary held by representatives of the two main organizing institutions -Mr Tibor Toró (SHUT) and Mr István Székely (RIRNM) -, the first panel's main topics were language rights and minorities. Here a number of five presenters (researchers, academics, and even young PhD fellows) took the floor and presented their research/papers for the numerous crowd. Besides the 'big picture' type of papers, the audience could hear a couple of presentations of researches where the main methodology was linguistic landscape. The second panel on the first day of the Conference

2002

Colloquia Humanistica, 2015

11th Congress of South-East European Studies. Sofia 2015The 11th Congress of South-East European Studies took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, between 31 August and 4 September 2015. It was organised by the International Association for Southeast European Studies (orig. in French: AIESEE – Associacion Internationale d’ Études du Sud-Est Européen).South-Eastern Europe is an area looked upon by world powers with a large amount of ambivalence. As the region’s states are not considered to be key global players, the events that occur in this part of the continent draw interest that is cyclical in nature and that is usually triggered by cyclical issues, too. Though relatively small, the area has been a point of interest for many researchers for over 100 years due to its ethnic diversity and the related inherent multi-nationality the scale of which is not encountered anywhere else in Europe. The cultural, linguistic, and religious pluralism of this region often produces specific social amalgams. ...

2021

"From Southeast Europe to Southeast Asia: The Value of Area Studies for Aid Workers" As Eastern Europe experts we happen to ask ourselves whether we have committed to a too narrow field of specialization which may cut us out from some opportunities, e. g. those related to other world regions. In this lesson we will see how, on the very contrary, a multidisciplinary area studies background can play a key role also when approaching brand new contexts, since it strongly prepares, intellectually and morally, to deal with diversity and the traps of flattening the complexity in search of oversimplifications.

European Journal of Engineering Education, 1993

Central and Eastern Europe: Geopolitics and Security Issues , 2020

The conference on «EU-Russia Relations» was held in Salzburg, Austria, on 15–16 July 2006. It was the last major activity to be made within the TEMPUS-TACIS project MP-JEP 23068-2002. Representatives of nine partner-universities as well as other European universities participated in the conference. During two days more than two dozens of papers were presented, which addressed various aspects of European integration history, the functioning of European Union institutions, EU-Russia relations, EU policy towards various countries and regions, and actual security problems in Europe. The collection of the conference papers presents a broad set of original researches and might be useful for students, university teachers, researchers of history and international relations and all those interested in European integration processes as well as in world politics issues.

Warsaw East European Review, 2019

held its fifteenth annual Warsaw East European Conference. The topic was Independence and the meeting was part of the celebrations surrounding Poland's one hundred-year anniversary of rebirth following one hundred and twenty-three years under foreign rule. Neighboring states were celebrating the gift of full sovereignty similarly and scholars were looking back at the achievements and missed opportunities of countries in the region. Our meeting brought some 75 scholars from 13 countries together to share their research and exchange ideas at conference facilities of the Old Library of Warsaw University. Several roundtables organized together with partner institutions provided broad views of the challenges that faced the region following independence.

2018

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UR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016

The reported conference has been organized by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (Brunswick, Germany) and the Association of Teachers of History and Civic Education "Nova Doba" (Ukraine). Throughout two days, teachers, academics and representatives of the civic organizations from Germany, Poland, Russia and the Eastern Partnership countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) discussed the content of history textbooks with respect to images of Europe presented there. Seven national cases were presented. Subsequent intense debates, sometimes marked by emotions, proved the deep engagement of the participants in the discussions. "National" presentations were grouped into four panels, to a certain extent subordinated to geography, but definitely not to the commonality of experience. National panels were closed out by a separate presentation devoted to the image of Europe in the Russian textbooks. Panels were included in the framework of theoretical introduction and conclusions. The conference proceeded in German, Russian and English with simultaneous translation to all three languages. After the welcome by prof. Polina Verbytska (

Journal of Democracy, 2000

The democratic revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe have been described as the culmination of the "third wave" of global democratization that began in Spain and Portugal in the mid-1970s. It is indeed tempting to see the disintegration of the Soviet empire as part of a worldwide crumbling of dictatorships. This view certainly influenced how the democratic transition in East-Central Europe has been perceived in the West (as the "end of history") as well as by some of its protagonists. Ten years later, however, despite extensive Western efforts at democracy promotion, the democratic tide has somewhat retreated, leaving a picture of successes in Central Europe (as well as in Latin America and parts of Asia) offset by setbacks in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans (but also in China and most of Africa). In no other region of the world has the impact of international factors on democratization been as apparent as in Central and Eastern Europe. The revolutions of 1989 were characterized by two important features: First, they were made possible by the lifting of the Soviet imperial constraint. The Soviet bloc imploded, rapidly and peacefully. The falling dominoes of Soviet hegemony in East-Central Europe seemed to complete the triumph of the periphery over the center of the empire. To be sure, the roots of the ideological, political, and economic decay of Jacques Rupnik, senior fellow and professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris, is author of The Other Europe: The Rise and Fall of Communism in East-Central Europe (1989) and Le Déchirement des nations (1995) and editor of International Perspectives on the Balkans (forthcoming).

PLURAL. History, Culture, Society, 2014

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