Registration for the BISA webinar 'Paganism in the Russo-Ukraine War' is now open. To register, please follow the QR code or visit: bisa.ac.uk/members/working-g…

Next East Centre talk is going to be a real treat! Andrey Kurkov will be discussing his latest book, The Lost Soldiers, and reflecting on what it means to be a writer in times of war. 📅 Wednesday 29 April, 2pm 📍 Council Chamber, University of East Anglia @UEA_History @uealdc

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: mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @UWiscPress @BASEES

صباح الخير! ☀️ أشارك اليوم بتقديم بحثي في مؤتمر رابطة الدراسات السلافية والشرقية الأوروبية البريطانية (BASEES) والمقام في جامعة برمنجهام.

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: mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @utpress @BASEES

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: mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @stanfordpress @BASEES

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: mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @stanfordpress @BASEES

#BASEES2026 is well underway in Birmingham, UK. Bringing together a vibrant international community of scholars, researchers, postgraduate students and policy‑makers, BASEES is the leading conference for the study of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. As a conference exclusive, we’re offering 30% off 'Soviet Materialities', a brand‑new book exploring how material culture reshapes our understanding of the Soviet world. It ranges from the exploration of textures in 1960s domestic space to Gulag labour on the Moscow Canal, and from avant‑garde literary theory to conceptual art under perestroika. Use code EVENT30 at checkout, available only on the MUP website: manchesteruniversitypress.co…

Book stands at @BASEES

pride of place for @MarkGaleotti at BASEES 2026 at Bham uni this year.

Looking for where to publish the paper you're presenting at #BASEES2026? Try out the @tandfonline journal suggester tool to find the perfect home for your research within the T&F Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies journals. ✍️ bit.ly/TFjournalsuggester

Few pictures of the beautiful campus of @unibirmingham @BASEES

Brings together a group of scholars, half of them Jewish, half of them ethnic Poles and enlists their diverse methodological and generational perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond entrenched and reductive positions 📚mngbookshop.co.uk/9780821426… @BASEES

Winner: The Stephen White Prize For The Best First Book In Slavonic And East European Studies 2026 Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. 📚mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @BASEES @stanfordpress

Discussions about changing of the field continue at @BASEES. Now, about teaching approaches

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: mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @northwesternup @BASEES

Winner: George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the archival revolution. Vatulescu identifies and takes on the challenges of reading in these archives. 📚mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @BASEES @stanfordpress

Meet the Routledge Books Editor @LouiseIngham at #BASEES2026 to talk about publishing your book. 👉 Find out more about recent @routledgebooks publications: routledge.com/BASEESRoutledg…

Traces the practices, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals, showing how they function as key figures in the tense environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia 📚 Browse the MNGUP BASEES exhibit: mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-202… @DukePress @BASEES