BISA East Europe & Eurasian Security WG

📢Submissions open to our East European and Eurasian Security working group for BISA 2026! 📚Deadline: 3 November. What: Submit single papers, panels or rountables. When and where: Brighton, 3-5 June 2026. Info: eeesg.group@bisa.ac.uk.

@Akborum February IR career starters is out & almost 200 out of the 300 opportunities this month are internships! 🎉 inc: @CFR_org @BrookingsInst @CSIS @DCAF_Geneva @CrisisGroup @aseforg @EBRD @BiedSociety @SEEDMadagascar & more! 🌟 Get applying! 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

A great opportunity for Slavonic, East European and Eurasian studies teachers! Deadline 27 February.

Do you inspire students in Slavonic, East European & Eurasian Studies? The BASEES Teaching Excellence Prizes celebrate innovative, engaging and impactful teaching and nominations are open now. Apply by 27 February. Link in the comments

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!! Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk Participant registration deadline: 2 March See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️ @SimonRushton8 @JulietDryden @CUP_PoliSci @Love_Brighton

Great news: the BASEES teaching prizes are open for nominations! Link to full details in the comment

🎉 Our Working Group team is growing! @MYBISA We're pleased to welcome back our founder, @NKuhrt, alongside new co-conveners @BohdanaKurylo and @Frank_Ouh. 🚀 And… we’ve officially launched our LinkedIn page - follow us for updates and upcoming events: linkedin.com/posts/bisa-eas…

This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨 Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉 Submit now 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0 @SimonRushton8 @JulietDryden @IRSussex @BrightonCentre @Love_Brighton

📢 Our latest issue is now available online! tandfonline.com/toc/ccas20/cur… Topics featured include the feminization of migration and political stability in authoritarian regimes, plus two new research notes on approaches to fieldwork and five new book reviews📚 @GlobalSouthsHub

🚨 #BISA2026 bursaries! 🚨 Both Postgrad bursaries & ECR bursaries available: up to 10 postgrad (PhD) for those based in UK & Ireland, up to 9 bursaries for postgrad (PhD) anywhere else globally & 10 for ECR's w @uniofbrighton 🎉 Apply now 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk/about-conferen… @BISAPGN

May the Universe Be Your Home! — Official Trailer English - Graphic Novel youtu.be/aeYuJrAx3xY?si… via @YouTube We made a book trailer for my graphic novel: May The Universe Be Your Home! Music: Gustav Holst – Venus, the Bringer of Peace. Also a German from Russia via Latvia.

Last week to apply! Deadline 3 November!

Would you like to become a Book Review Editor for Central Asian Survey? 📚 Applications are open until the 31st of March 2026. For more information or to apply, see: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit… @GlobalSouthsHub

My thanks to @OxusSociety & @thetimesoca for sponsoring the Spotlight on Central Asia podcast. Thanks also to @peterfrankopan for being our first guest on the podcast. Good to be back behind a microphone. open.spotify.com/episode/6gb0is…

THE ARMED FORCES OF CENTRAL ASIA - CHAPTER IV: UZBEKISTAN 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿 …is being launched with a @RUSI_org hosted webinar this Thursday (links below) 170+ pages of detailed information covering everything from Uzbekistan’s command structures to its military capabilities and budgets.

The new normal is reglobalisation! In @Diplomat_APAC, I argue that the Global South is redrawing the world economy while the West struggles with moral crisis and protectionism. 🔗Read here: thediplomat.com/reglobalisatio… 🎓Based on: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @GlobalizationsJ #CentralAsia

🎉 We are delighted to announce that Erica Marat has been appointed Editor of Central Asian Survey 🎉 Please join us in welcoming Erica to the team! @GlobalSouthsHub @tandfhss @EricaMarat

🔔 Excited to share @thirdworldq's new Special Issue (SI), "Confronting Epistemic Erasures: Decolonising Knowledge, Fostering Resistance and Building Alternatives", bringing together voices from across geographies and disciplines - refugees, Indigenous groups, queer artists, racialised filmmakers, and grassroots movements - all sharing stories of knowledge systems under threat, and the creative strategies of resistance they employ. From autoethnography to body mapping, the issue features voices from the margins reshaping how we think about knowledge, power, and justice. Guest Editor: Yafa El Masri, Palestinian refugee and academic, currently Lecturer in Geography and Global Development @uniofeastanglia. Read more about the SI here ⬇️ buff.ly/iNvtrDi

🚨 Out now - our #BISAISA2025 conference video!🚨 'Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities' 👉 spot yourself down below! 🌟 youtube.com/watch?v=4WPi1H… @Moriel_Ram @mattspikedavies @JulietDryden @ChrisFeatherst4 @AudieKlotz

Meet our new @cawpbisa working group convenors! 🎉 6 November Leah de Haan, @DrUBaspehlivan @NatalieJester and @chenchenzh will be live on zoom to answer questions and take suggestions to guide them as they continue to establish the WG! 🌟 Register! 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

Event recording - Public engagement in research: tools and reflections on reaching new audiences 🌟 Last week @BISA_Peacekeep held a fascinating event with @Dr_A_Gallagher @michaelinja and Elly Harrowell and you can watch it down below! 🎉 Recording 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…