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Appel à contributions – Revue Études Balkaniques – Cahiers Pierre Belon

La revue Études Balkaniques – Cahiers Pierre Belon est une publication scientifique annuelle à comité de lecture, fondée en 1994, consacrée à l’étude des transformations culturelles, sociales, religieuses, juridiques et politiques dans l’espace du Sud-Est européen.

Résolument pluridisciplinaire, la revue accueille des travaux issus de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie, de la sociologie, des études religieuses, du droit, de la philologie, de la linguistique, des sciences politiques, ainsi que des études littéraires ou visuelles. Elle publie des articles scientifiques originaux, des études de cas, des entretiens, des éditions critiques de sources et des hommages.

Chaque volume comprend un dossier thématique coordonné par un ou plusieurs chercheurs, ainsi qu’une section Varia ouverte à des contributions indépendantes. Nous souhaitons ainsi encourager à la fois les projets collectifs autour d’un thème structurant, et la diffusion continue de recherches originales en lien avec le Sud-Est européen.

Si la revue est centrée sur l’aire balkanique, elle accorde également une attention particulière à la communication entre les espaces, en accueillant des travaux portant sur les liens entre les Balkans et les autres régions d’Europe du Sud, du Centre et de l’Est.

Les langues de publication sont le français et l’anglais. Tous les articles font l’objet d’une double évaluation scientifique en double aveugle par des experts externes. La revue est diffusée en version imprimée (print-on-demand) et numérique via Cairn.info (partenariat avec SoBook).

Nous lançons actuellement un appel à propositions pour :

– des projets de dossiers thématiques ;

– des articles individuels, qu’ils soient liés à une thématique ou proposés pour la section Varia.

Le délai entre acceptation et publication est de deux ans maximum. Chaque volume regroupe 11 à 13 contributions, pour un total d’environ 330 pages.

Pour toute question, proposition ou échange informel, vous pouvez nous contacter directement à l’adresse suivante :

Call for articles: For the Special Issue: “Southeastern Europe in Comparison: Beyond the Region and Back” | Deadline: October 15, 2025

CALL FOR ARTICLES

for the Special Issue of Southeastern Europe 

Southeastern Europe in Comparison: Beyond the Region and Back 

Guest editors: Diana Mishkova (CAS Sofia), Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS Regensburg) 

The question of how Southeastern Europe is discursively imagined and the practices that contribute to region making continue to attract scholarly interest. Despite the deconstructivist critiques of regional concepts— particularly the idea of “the Balkans”—many researchers still treat Southeastern Europe as a useful analytical  unit. At the very least, the region often serves as a productive starting point for framing and situating research  questions, including such that, implicitly or overtly, grapple with the processes and mediums producing  regions  

This special issue takes the latter observation as its point of departure. Its central aim is to explore how our  spatial units of analysis shift when we compare phenomena located in Southeastern Europe with similar  developments elsewhere. What are the relevant geographies for different phenomena, especially when we  reconstruct the spaces of communication and interaction that give rise to them? We invite contributions that  pursue consistently comparative approaches—moving beyond Southeastern Europe to propose new  geographies of comparison. Only through such comparisons can we identify what is truly specific or unique  about a region—and, by extension, what constitutes a region in the first place. 

We welcome contributions that compare Southeastern Europe with both neighboring, or other European,  regions and seemingly unrelated parts of the world. This approach, which we term a transcomparative  perspective, brings together comparative analysis and entangled histories. To paraphrase Lara Putnam, we are  interested not only in connections but also in what is connected: how do transnational entanglements and  global forces manifest differently—or similarly—across specific regions and localities? 

A genuinely comparative approach is essential for understanding the paradox of an increasingly  interconnected yet persistently heterogeneous world. Cultures, institutions, and individuals interact within  place-specific conditions and histories, which shape their capacity to engage with, adapt to, or resist global  dynamics. By comparing such constellations across diverse spaces, we can better understand regional and  local variations of globality—and relate Southeast European experiences to those of other regions. Perhaps  what we perceive as regional specificity is, in part, a reflection of our limited knowledge of other places.  Comparison can help us find out. 

We invite submissions from a range of disciplines, addressing historical or contemporary questions. We do  not privilege any particular analytical scale; on the contrary, we seek to assemble a special issue that moves  fluidly between local contexts and the broader scale of globality. Authors should clearly articulate the  geographies – subnational, national or regional – relevant to their subject matter and explain the added value  of their chosen comparative framework. What do we learn, for instance, by reading a phenomenon in the  Balkans alongside a similar one in Africa? What is the spatial logic of the zones of interaction and  communication that shape the issue at hand? 

We do not prescribe a fixed set of themes, but encourage contributions that engage with pressing debates and  draw on knowledge from Southeastern Europe and beyond. Topics of particular but not exclusive relevance  might include:  

post-imperial legacies and decolonization;  

space-making and spatial imageries;  

economic development and environmental change;  

institution-building and legitimacy;  

struggles for equality and dynamics of inequality.  

Along these lines, examples of comparison-geared questions might include: How do nineteenth-century  nationalizing projects in Southeastern Europe compare to those in South America? Why was the postwar  developmental state more successful in Taiwan and South Korea than in Romania and Bulgaria? How do  Southeastern European contact zones compare to those in other world regions? What are the conditions for  successful supranational regional integration in Europe and Southeast Asia? How does Balkan migrant  transnationalism in the U.S. differ from that in Europe? 

These examples are meant to inspire, not limit, the scope of contributions. We also welcome methodological  reflections on the challenges and benefits of comparison, including discussions of concepts such as  “similarity,” “difference,” and “family resemblance.” By heuristically connecting Southeastern Europe with  other regions, we aim to decenter dominant narratives while placing the region at the heart of new comparative  inquiries. 

Be bold. Ask big questions. 

The Journal Southeastern Europe is abstracted/indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and several other  data bases. It was rewarded the highest listing, A, by Italy’s Research Quality Committee, Valutazione della  Qualitat della Ricerca. In 2024 Brill entered a new stage as DeGruyterBrill. 

Contacts: 

– For conceptual issues – Prof. Diana Mishkova (mishkova@cas.bg) and Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer  (ulf.brunnbauer@ur.de

– For submission issues – Dr. Marco Zoppi (marcozoppi@hotmail.it

Timeline: 

– October 15, 2025 – abstract (300 words) and bio (150 words) to be sent to guest editors  (mishkova@cas.bg and ulf.brunnbauer@ur.de

– November 15, 2025 – feedback on the approval of the abstracts 

– March 15, 2026 – submission of articles (7,500 – 10,000 words) to editors  

– Spring 2026 – Authors workshop (most likely online) and editors’ feedback 

– May 31, 2026 – submission of articles to SEEU Download Author Instructions

Appel à articles Varia / Call for Varia articles – Balkanologie

Appel à articles Varia / Call for Varia articles – Balkanologie

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Fondée en 1997, la revue Balkanologie est éditée par l’Association française d’études sur les Balkans et accessible sur OpenEdition Journals. Elle publie deux fois par an des travaux de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales portant sur l’Europe du Sud-Est, espace entendu au sens large comme s’étendant de la Hongrie à la Turquie, depuis l’époque
ottomane jusqu’à nos jours.
Balkanologie lance aujourd’hui un appel à articles Varia. D’une longueur de 50 000 à 80 000 signes (résumés, notes et annexes compris), ces articles écrits en français ou en anglais devront être envoyés au format Word (.docx). Ils ne doivent pas avoir fait l’objet d’une publication antérieure. Ils seront évalués en double aveugle par des spécialistes du domaine travaillant en France ou ailleurs. 
Les consignes relatives à la mise en forme des articles sont consultables ici :
https://journals.openedition.org/balkanologie/309 

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Founded in 1997, Balkanologie is an academic journal published by the Association française d’études sur les Balkans. It is available on OpenEdition Journals. Twice a year, it publishes social sciences and humanities research on Southeast Europe, an area understood in the broadest sense as stretching from Hungary to Turkey, from the Ottoman
era to the present day.
Balkanologie is launching a call for Varia articles. Articles in French or English should be between 50,000 and 80,000 characters in length (including abstracts, notes and appendices) and submitted in Word (.docx) format. They must not have been previously published. They
will be evaluated through a double-blind peer-review by specialists in the field based in France or elsewhere.
Format guidelines for authors can be found here: https://journals.openedition.org/balkanologie/309

Call for papers, Revue Connexe, “What humanities and social sciences have made of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Analysis of ambivalent epistemological phenomena”

What humanities and social sciences have made of Bosnia andHerzegovina: Analysis of ambivalent epistemological phenomena
 
Coordination: Sophie Gueudet and Aline Cateux
Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2025.
 
Thirty years after the end of the war and the genocide of Bosniak Muslims inBosnia and Herzegovina, what is the state of knowledge production about this country?
This call for papers stems from an observation repeatedly made by the editors ofthis special issue: research on Bosnia and Herzegovina is largely dominated by themes, research fields, and epistemological paradigms that, for thirty years,have reproduced scientific biases, often compromising the validity of this body of work and hindering the understanding of the country’s social, political, andeconomic dynamics.
Our hypothesis is as follows: these biases originate from structural flaws in the academic production and dissemination of knowledge on Bosnia andHerzegovina. We aim to identify, connect, and analyze them in order to question the research practices of Global North institutions on states arising from Yugoslav disintegration, a region that has become a precarious scientific object. We also aim to question area studies as a whole, which seem to be themselves a source of the particularisms they intend to combat.
Various avenues of reflection are to be explored to create a nuanced assessment of how humanities and social sciences have studied on Bosnia and Herzegovina,but also what they have done to the country. First, we need to question the conditions of scientific production: the productivity demand imposed by the economic model that now governs global academia conditions and considerably reduces research time, thus preventing long- term archival and fieldwork, which are essential for conducting in-depth studies on the structuring phenomena of Bosnia and Herzegovina before, during, and after the war.
The issue of funding sources is also integral to our reflection, as funders’ expectations shape not only the formats of funded research projects but also the nature of the knowledge produced. For instance, the view of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a “post-conflict” state, thirty years after the Dayton Accords, in a post-Yugoslav space constantly in need of securing and Europeanizing, is the result of a funding policy, both national and European, aiming at a researchproduction operationalized to assist political decision-making. However, this“post- conflict” analytical category is obsolete and does not reflect local representations of the contemporary social environment in which Bosnians struggle. This transformation of research into expertise has had tangible consequences on the country and its inhabitants, which should be questioned.
Consequently, the range of thematic, theoretical, and methodological possibilities is dramatically reduced, confining Bosnia and Herzegovina (and the post-Yugoslav space) within a representational system that casts it as a territory and system in perpetual crisis, obscuring long-term political and socialprocesses. This is reflected in the numerous scientific analyses, later picked up by political and media discourses, on the supposed political apathy of Bosnians, which is said to be a key factor in the country’s stalemate. However, ethnographic data paint a different picture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as shownby emerging studies on social and environmental mobilizations, for instance. The perspectives of anthropologists and sociologists have brought forth the voices and actions of Bosnians, long absent from research in favor of an overproduction of studies on institutions and political circles supposed to represent ethnic groups often considered homogenous. While the entrenched image of Bosnia and Herzegovina as entirely at the mercy of “tensions” and trapped in eternal identity divides begins to crack, there remains a significant amount of work to unpack the social and economic realities of a country thatremains largely unknown despite substantial academic production.
We also wish to question the sources used, which too often seem limited to transcripts from ICTY sessions—valuable sources with much still to explore. However, we believe that these documents represent only a small part of the conflict’s history, which should be supplemented by more extensive datacollection. Few historians have accessed these archives and showcased them, thus paving the way for a historiographical renewal on contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina. The issue of archives in Bosnia and Herzegovina is complex, with collections often poorly preserved, unindexed, and at risk of destruction. Detecting the content of any given collection is often challenging, let alone trying to trace them. Knowledge of the Serbo-Croatian language remains acrucial aspect for archival work.
Moreover, the intensive exploration of certain topics repeatedly has led to some rejection of so-called “Western” research, perceived as fixated on subjects with little relevance to the daily lives of Bosnians. This mistrust often reveals a glaring epistemic violence and a sense of the futility of research that is rarelyshared locally, with participants unable to engage with it.
It also seems essential to place Bosnia and Herzegovina within a broaderframework than that of area studies and highlight the transnational dynamics in which it is embedded. Introducing a global and transnational perspective in Bosnia and Herzegovina studies, besides generating new research synergies, will help to dismantle the “Bosnian” or post-Yugoslav particularism often conveyed by dominant scientific approaches and to connect Bosnia and Herzegovina, through the humanities and social sciences, with other territories, actors, and phenomena beyond Balkan studies.
Finally, as this call for papers is being drafted, the thirtieth anniversary commemorations of the genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda are coming to a close.Numerous books, exhibitions, and documentaries have accompanied this 30th anniversary, and many academic events have demonstrated the vibrancy of Rwanda studies and the circulation of knowledge about this genocide in other spheres than, for example, African studies. In comparison, the post- Yugoslav space, the wars of the 1990s, and the genocide of Muslims in Srebrenica have not received the same attention and interest. Srebrenica is more often referred to as a “massacre” rather than a “genocide” despite its qualification by the ICTY, and many politicians or journalists have described Ukraine as the “first conflict on European soil since 1945.” What does this erasure from European history reveal about the production of knowledge on Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past thirty years?
 
To address these issues, we particularly welcome article proposals aimed at thefollowing themes:
Renewal of thematic, methodological, and theoretical approaches toBosnia and Herzegovina studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Examination of academic practices conditioning BiH withinrepresentations of the “failed East.”
Articulation of Bosnia and Herzegovina studies with global studiesthrough a connected or transnational approach (moving beyond area studies).
“Balkanism” and “Eurocentrism,” questioning the positionality of researchers.
Over-research and invisibilization.
Highlighting the work of Bosnian researchers, with a focus on critiquing Northern/European academic logics, positionalityissues, and mechanisms of invisibilization and expertise confiscation.
 
Bibliography :
 
Balcells Laia, Sullivan Christopher M., 2018. “New findings from conflict archives: An introduction and methodological framework,” Journal of Peace Research 55(2): 137-146.
Bergholz Max, 2025. “Uncomfortable evidence: On the challenge of telling new stories about Srebrenica,” Journal of Genocide Research 1-21. 
Golubović Jelena, 2019. “‘One day I will tell this to my daughter’: Serb women, silence, and the politics of victimhood in Sarajevo,” Anthropological Quarterly 92(4): 1173-1199.
Golubović Jelena, 2022. “Beyond agency as good: Complicity and displacement after the siege of Sarajevo,” Journal of Refugee Studies 35(3): 1344-1363.
Hromadžić Azra, 2015Citizens of an empty nation, youth and state-making in Postwar Bosnia-HerzegovinaPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Jansen Stef, 2013. “If reconciliation is the answer, are we asking the right question,” Studies in social justice 7(2): 229-243.
Kurtović Larisa, 2016. “‘Who sows hunger, reaps rage’: On protest, indignation and redistributive justice in post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 15(4): 639-659. 
Kurtović Larisa, 2018. “Conjuring ‘the people’: The 2013 Babylution protests and desire for political transformation in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Focaal80: 43-62.
Lai Daniela, 2016. “Transitional justice and its discontents: Socioeconomic justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the limits of international intervention,” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 10(3): 361-381.
Lai Daniela, 2020. “A different form of intervention? Revisiting the role of researchers in post-war contexts,” in Bliesemann de Guevara Berit, Bøås Morten (ed.), Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 171-184.
Nielsen Christian Axboe, 2013. “Can we salvage a history of the former Yugoslav conflicts from the Milošević trial?,” in Waters Timothy W. (ed.), The Milošević trial: An autopsy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 347-381.
Petrović Vladimir, 2016. The emergence of historical forensic expertise: Clio takes the stand, London: Routledge.
Petrovic Vladimir, 2018. “The ICTY library: War criminals as authors, their works as sources,” International Criminal Justice Review 28(4) 333-348.
Subotić Jelana, 2021. “Ethics of archival research on political violence,” Journal of Peace Research 58(3): 342-354.
Sukarieh Mayssoun, Tannock Stuart, 2012. “On the problem of Over-research communities: the case of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon,”Sociology 47(3): 494-508.
Sukarieh Mayssoun, Tannock Stuart, 2018. “Subcontracting academia: Alienation, exploitation and disillusionment in the UK overseas Syrian refugee research industry,” Antipod 51(2): 664-680.
Todorova Maria, 2009. Imagining the Balkans, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Appel à contributions « Travail et Balkans », spécial issue de la revue Études Balkaniques | Limite : 18/04/2025

(FRANÇAIS)

Le volume Travail et Balkans est prévu pour publication au second semestre de l’année 2026.

La revue n’est désormais disponible qu’en impression à la demande et est référencée sur la plateforme « CAIRN ». https://shs.cairn.info/revue-etudes-balkaniques-cahiers-pierre-belon?lang=fr&tab=apercu.

De plus, la revue est évaluée par un comité de lecture (peer review). Les directeurs de ce volume sont et Antonis Nasis, doctorant en histoire au CETOBaC (antonios.nasis[at]gmail.com) et Christos Andrianopoulos, docteur en histoire et membre du CRH de l’EHESS (andriano.paris10[at]gmail.com).

Les articles seront publiés en français, bien qu’un nombre limité de contributions en anglais soit accepté.

La longueur moyenne des articles est fixée à 40 000 signes. Les abstracts, accompagnés des fiches de participation dûment remplies, sont attendus jusqu’au 18 avril.

Pour toute soumission d’abstract ou demande de renseignements, veuillez écrire à l’adresse suivante : workandthebalkans@gmail.com

(ENGLISH)

The Travail et Balkans volume, scheduled for publication in the second half of 2026, is a peer-reviewed journal available on demand and indexed on the CAIRN platform, ensuring the highest academic standards.

https://shs.cairn.info/revue-etudes-balkaniques-cahiers-pierre-belon?lang=fr&tab=apercu.

The editors of this volume are Antonis Nasis, PhD candidate in history at EHESS/CETOBaC – University of Crete (antonios.nasis[at]ehess.fr), and Christos Andrianopoulos, PhD in History and member of the CRH at EHESS (andriano.paris10[at]gmail.com).

Articles will be published in French, although a limited number of contributions in English will also be accepted. The average length of articles is 40,000 characters. Abstracts, along with completed participation forms, are expected by April 18, and full articles must be submitted by September 26, 2025. For abstract submissions or further inquiries, please contact workandthebalkans@gmail.com

Plus d’informations ici.

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Kosova Anthropologica requests articles, editorials, reviews for its 2nd issue

The Kosova Anthropologica journal editors are requesting contributions by 31 August 2024 for the journal’s 2nd issue. Kosova Anthropologica publishes:
• Original (scientific) papers (6000-8000 words) containing previously unpublished original research;
• Editorials (introductions of up to 3000 words);
• Reviews (original, concise and critical reviews of books, films, documentaries and other medial forms associated with anthropology – from 1000 up to 1500 words).
Kosova Anthropologica is a diamond open access double blind peer-reviewed annual academic journal of the Department of Anthropology Faculty of Philosophy, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Prishtina, Republic of Kosova. The aim of the journal is to advance anthropological knowledge of Kosova and the region. The journal is an open forum for scholars, mainly in the field of cultural/social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology.

How is EU integration reshaping work in Southeastern Europe?

Le journal COMPSEES attend des propositions d’articles en anglais d’ici le 1er juillet 2024 sur les thèmes suivants:

How is EU integration reshaping work in Southeastern Europe? We are looking for papers on labor market reforms, skills & education, labor mobility & technology transfer for a special issue of our open access journal COMPSEES.

Plus de détails ici.

Mémoires divisées et imaginaires politico-culturels en Europe après la guerre froide

Appel à contributions pour le premier numéro de la revue EUrope : cultures, mémoires, identités, à paraître en 2025

Les soumissions sont attendues, en français ou en anglais, d’ici le 18 juin 2024. Pour plus de détails, voir ici.

Thèmes proposés:

We invite scholars based in multiple disciplinary domains – cultural memory studies, the political sociology of memory, cultural and literary studies, comparative political studies, geopolitics, historiography, mnemohistory, European studies, international relations etc. – to contribute with articles to the first issue of the journal Europe: cultures, mémoires, identités, in approaching, for example, the following topics (without limiting at them):

  • Legacies of Cold War and “regions of memory” in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Political memory games in the Central- and Eastern-European space after the end of Cold War
  • The Revolutions of 1989 and the fragmented memories (political, cultural, social, and autobiographical) of the former Eastern bloc
  • Lieux de mémoire, politics of history and cultural texts in the memory cultures of Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of 1989/ 1991
  • “Painful pasts”, contested histories, and nostalgic memories in Central and Eastern Europe during the democratic transitions
  • Competing traumatic memories in the context of European integration: Holocaust vs. Gulag
  • “Faces” and metamorphoses of nostalgia in the Europe of divided memories: from the 90s to the present days
  • Fragmented memories and mnemohistories of democratic transitions in the Central- and Eastern-European space
  • Nationalism and transnationalism in the political and cultural memories of “Europe’s Europes” in the aftermath of 1989/ 1991
  • Populism, neo-nationalism, and fragmented memories in the context of the enlargement of European Union
  • Conflicting cultural memories, “time maps”, and symbolic geographies in “Europe’s Europes” in the aftermath of 1989/ 1991
  • Memory wars after 1989/ 1991: national(ist) and transnational mobilizations
  • The memory wars in the post-Yugoslav space: from the 90s to present contexts. Competitive memory vs. multidirectional memory. The Yugonostalgic counter-memory. Damnatio memoriae Yugonostalgia. Restorative nostalgia vs. Yugonostalgia. Retrotopias vs. retrospective utopias.
  • “From EUphoria to EU-goslavia”
    Fragmented memories, forms of Euroscepticism, and perspectives on the European common heritage
  • The European integration and the geopolitics of memory
    Instances of the “memory diplomacy” in “Europe’s Europes” after the end of Cold War
  • Fragmented memories and social cohesion in national, regional, and European contexts etc.