SOME KIND OF LIBERATING EFFECT
Are we free to study religion in Central and Eastern Europe today? 20 scholars from 8 countries, across 12 cities and 3 generations, answered the question. 30 years after the era of Scientific Atheism and underground churches, a collection of life-lesson portraits intertwines personal stories with the history of science. The first-ever film documentary on the Academic Study of Religion. Directed by Valerio...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
Shakir M. Pashov, History of Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma, Brill, 2022 The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian Roma activist whose name continues to be surrounded by rumours and myths. The volume includes the original manuscript of Shakir Pashov...
Inside the OSCE
Stefano Baldi This publication is based on selected interventions from a cycle of seminars titled: “The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a model for multilateral regional diplomacy of the 21st century”, organised in 2022 by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the OSCE with some Italian Universities. The initiative took place from March to May 2022 in virtual format, with the aim to promote the knowledge and...
CfP: Populism and Illiberalism in East, Central and Southeast Europe
2022 Annual Conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies 15-17 September 2022, Maynooth, National University of Ireland Maynooth Writing about what defines illiberal democracy, A. Applebaum (2021) observes “illiberal oneparty state is not a philosophy. It is a mechanism for holding power, and it functions happily alongside many ideologies. It works because it clearly defines who gets to be the...
