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📢 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
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
The symposium ‘Visualising Chornobyl: Ukraine and Beyond’ will take place on 18 September 2026, from 9am to 5:30pm (UK time), ArtsOne Building, G.19 (Hitchcock Cinema) at @qmul.bsky.social Queen Mary University of London.
Please follow the link to reserve a place:
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Please follow the link to reserve a place:
www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-...
July 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The symposium ‘Visualising Chornobyl: Ukraine and Beyond’ will take place on 18 September 2026, from 9am to 5:30pm (UK time), ArtsOne Building, G.19 (Hitchcock Cinema) at @qmul.bsky.social Queen Mary University of London.
Please follow the link to reserve a place:
www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-...
Please follow the link to reserve a place:
www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-...
The July 2026 issue (#47) of the BASEES Newsletter is now available to download and read:
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BASEES Newsletter 47: July 2026 — Basees
The July 2026 issue (#47) of the BASEES Newsletter is now available here , and contains: President’s Editorial (Rajendra Chitnis) BASEES 2027 Annual Conference Spotlight on Teaching in Slav...
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July 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The July 2026 issue (#47) of the BASEES Newsletter is now available to download and read:
basees.org/newsletter/2...
basees.org/newsletter/2...
📢 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
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
July 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
📢 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
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
Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe Study Group
"Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era"
14 July (5-6.30 pm, UK Time)
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Meeting ID: 372 388 605 804 711
Passcode: LT9MB9CQ
"Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era"
14 July (5-6.30 pm, UK Time)
teams.microsoft.com/meet/3723886...
Meeting ID: 372 388 605 804 711
Passcode: LT9MB9CQ
Join meeting on Teams
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July 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe Study Group
"Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era"
14 July (5-6.30 pm, UK Time)
teams.microsoft.com/meet/3723886...
Meeting ID: 372 388 605 804 711
Passcode: LT9MB9CQ
"Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era"
14 July (5-6.30 pm, UK Time)
teams.microsoft.com/meet/3723886...
Meeting ID: 372 388 605 804 711
Passcode: LT9MB9CQ
'Polish Studies: Today and Tomorrow' - 8th Annual Conference of the BASEES Polish Studies Group and
SSEES Polish Studies Research Group (3-4 September, Zoom)
Please send your title and an abstract of up to 250 words to [email protected] by 10 July.
basees.org/study-group-...
SSEES Polish Studies Research Group (3-4 September, Zoom)
Please send your title and an abstract of up to 250 words to [email protected] by 10 July.
basees.org/study-group-...
SD Study Group Polish — Basees
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June 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
'Polish Studies: Today and Tomorrow' - 8th Annual Conference of the BASEES Polish Studies Group and
SSEES Polish Studies Research Group (3-4 September, Zoom)
Please send your title and an abstract of up to 250 words to [email protected] by 10 July.
basees.org/study-group-...
SSEES Polish Studies Research Group (3-4 September, Zoom)
Please send your title and an abstract of up to 250 words to [email protected] by 10 July.
basees.org/study-group-...
Call for Submissions, BASEES Newsletter No.47
Submissions are now open for the next issue of the 2026 BASEES Newsletter.
Please submit your news, comments, or letters to the editor to the BASEES Information Officer, Samuel Foster ([email protected]), by Friday, 3 July.
Submissions are now open for the next issue of the 2026 BASEES Newsletter.
Please submit your news, comments, or letters to the editor to the BASEES Information Officer, Samuel Foster ([email protected]), by Friday, 3 July.
June 23, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Call for Submissions, BASEES Newsletter No.47
Submissions are now open for the next issue of the 2026 BASEES Newsletter.
Please submit your news, comments, or letters to the editor to the BASEES Information Officer, Samuel Foster ([email protected]), by Friday, 3 July.
Submissions are now open for the next issue of the 2026 BASEES Newsletter.
Please submit your news, comments, or letters to the editor to the BASEES Information Officer, Samuel Foster ([email protected]), by Friday, 3 July.
April 22, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Come by our stand at at the BASEES conference to learn about our books & series! A recent publication by one of our authors featured here: @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social
April 12, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Come by our stand at at the BASEES conference to learn about our books & series! A recent publication by one of our authors featured here: @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social
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As much a cultural and political history as a technological one— illustrating how collective dreams can challenge geopolitical ambitions and inspire world-changing technologies.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
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@uwiscpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@uwiscpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
April 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
As much a cultural and political history as a technological one— illustrating how collective dreams can challenge geopolitical ambitions and inspire world-changing technologies.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@uwiscpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@uwiscpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
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I’ve had a wonderful time representing @routledgebooks.bsky.social at the @basees.bsky.social BASEES conference at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social with Madeleine Markey! #publishing #books
April 12, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I’ve had a wonderful time representing @routledgebooks.bsky.social at the @basees.bsky.social BASEES conference at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social with Madeleine Markey! #publishing #books
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Going beyond the limits of national frameworks, this book transforms our understanding of Balkan history, national modernization, and the role of fantasy in capitalist societies.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
April 12, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Going beyond the limits of national frameworks, this book transforms our understanding of Balkan history, national modernization, and the role of fantasy in capitalist societies.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
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Drawing novel conclusions about the development of the genre in its adopted Ukrainian context, this book depicts how the Gothic became a powerful tool of resistance and decolonization.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
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@uoftpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/ya82lq8
@uoftpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
April 12, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Drawing novel conclusions about the development of the genre in its adopted Ukrainian context, this book depicts how the Gothic became a powerful tool of resistance and decolonization.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/ya82lq8
@uoftpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/ya82lq8
@uoftpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
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In the year the United States will be one of the hosts of the football World Cup, this extract from 'The Return of Russia' looks at the time Putin passed the ball to Trump. It was published by @yalebooks.bsky.social on the day I was speaking at #BASEES2026. Thanks to everyone who came along
In The Return of Russia, @jmacrodgers.bsky.social charts Russia’s return to prominence on the world stage. This extract explores one of the most visible expressions of that ambition: the use of the World Cup, as a platform for power, prestige, and political messaging.
yalebooks.co.uk/how-putin-us...
yalebooks.co.uk/how-putin-us...
How Putin Used the World Cup for Propaganda
This extract from The Return of Russia explores Putin's use of the 2018 World Cup, as a platform for power, prestige, and political messaging.
yalebooks.co.uk
April 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
In the year the United States will be one of the hosts of the football World Cup, this extract from 'The Return of Russia' looks at the time Putin passed the ball to Trump. It was published by @yalebooks.bsky.social on the day I was speaking at #BASEES2026. Thanks to everyone who came along
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This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
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@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
April 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/uRDRKNX
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
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#BASEES2026 is well underway in Birmingham, UK.
As a conference exclusive, we’re offering 30% off 'Soviet Materialities'.
Use code EVENT30 at checkout, only on the MUP website:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182128/
As a conference exclusive, we’re offering 30% off 'Soviet Materialities'.
Use code EVENT30 at checkout, only on the MUP website:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182128/
April 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
#BASEES2026 is well underway in Birmingham, UK.
As a conference exclusive, we’re offering 30% off 'Soviet Materialities'.
Use code EVENT30 at checkout, only on the MUP website:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182128/
As a conference exclusive, we’re offering 30% off 'Soviet Materialities'.
Use code EVENT30 at checkout, only on the MUP website:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182128/
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Hugely popular in its day, The Wanderer is a remarkable tale that depicts the extraordinary places and peoples that met along the fault lines of once-great empires.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/RtOO0M3
@nupress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/RtOO0M3
@nupress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
April 11, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Hugely popular in its day, The Wanderer is a remarkable tale that depicts the extraordinary places and peoples that met along the fault lines of once-great empires.
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/RtOO0M3
@nupress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/RtOO0M3
@nupress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
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Stephen White Prize For The Best First Book In Slavonic And East European Studies
Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement, revealing the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement, revealing the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
April 11, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Stephen White Prize For The Best First Book In Slavonic And East European Studies
Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement, revealing the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement, revealing the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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Discussions about changing of the field continue at @basees.bsky.social
Now, about teaching approaches
Now, about teaching approaches
April 11, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Discussions about changing of the field continue at @basees.bsky.social
Now, about teaching approaches
Now, about teaching approaches
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Winner: George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies
With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu presents a bona fide reader's guide to Eastern Europe's ongoing archival revolution.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu presents a bona fide reader's guide to Eastern Europe's ongoing archival revolution.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
April 11, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Winner: George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies
With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu presents a bona fide reader's guide to Eastern Europe's ongoing archival revolution.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu presents a bona fide reader's guide to Eastern Europe's ongoing archival revolution.
📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
@basees.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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Brings together a group of scholars, half of them Jewish, half of them ethnic Poles and enlists their diverse perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond reductive positions.
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@ohiounivpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚 Browse the MNGUP BASEES exhibit: buff.ly/zeVoeaN
@ohiounivpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
April 11, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Brings together a group of scholars, half of them Jewish, half of them ethnic Poles and enlists their diverse perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond reductive positions.
📚 Browse the MNGUP BASEES exhibit: buff.ly/zeVoeaN
@ohiounivpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
📚 Browse the MNGUP BASEES exhibit: buff.ly/zeVoeaN
@ohiounivpress.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social
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Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book.
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
April 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book.
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
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April 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book.
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
April 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book.
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: www.routledge.com/BASEESRoutle...
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Shortlisted for the EHS First Monograph Prize. Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor.
📚Browse the full MNGUP EHS virtual exhibit here:
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@stanfordpress.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP EHS virtual exhibit here:
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@stanfordpress.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social
April 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Shortlisted for the EHS First Monograph Prize. Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor.
📚Browse the full MNGUP EHS virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/5akxmhK
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social
📚Browse the full MNGUP EHS virtual exhibit here:
buff.ly/5akxmhK
@stanfordpress.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social