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Die Zeitschrift Südosteuropa Mitteilungen wird ab der aktuellen Ausgabe in komplett überarbeitetem Design veröffentlicht. Im neuen Heft finden Sie Beiträge zur Corona-Krise auf dem Westbalkan, der EU-Unterstützung für die Region, den jüngsten Parlamentswahlen in Serbien, der Situation von Geflüchteten auf den griechischen Inseln, dem Streit um Energie-Ressourcen im östlichen Mittelmeer, das griechische Referendum von 2015 und die letzten Monate des „Instituts der Rumänischen Revolution vom Dezember 1989“ von unseren AutorInnen Heinz-Jürgen Axt, Valeska Bopp-Filimonov, Max Brändle, Andrea Lorenzo Capussela, Vedran Dzihic, Jutta Lauth Bacas und Korinna Schönhärl.

In the project „Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital ‚Post-Truth‘ European Society“ (CHAPTER) (project leaders: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither and Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, http://www.carmah.berlin/chapter/), the position of an academic staff member (Post-Doc, 100% TVL E13, 48 months) is to be filled. The position is integrated into the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and will play a leading role within an international team of researchers at the HU Berlin, the University College London (UCL) and the…

In 2016, the Serbian government announced that it was initiating a programme of restitution for Jewish victims of the Holocaust in wartime Serbia. The “heirless property restitution law,” the first of its kind in Eastern Europe, proposed that thousands of buildings confiscated from Jews during the occupation would be handed to the country’s Association of Jewish Communities. The government also undertook to offer financial support to the community in the form of an annual sum of 950,000 Euros for the next twenty-five years. In the wake of this announcement, a number of governments in the region adopted similar restitution programs. These restitution measures have coincided with and in some…

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce that we are inviting applications for two PhD-Positions in the SNSF-Project "Europe's Un/Deserving: Moralizations of Inequality in Comparative Perspective" (1.1.2021-31.12.2024) at the School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The 4-year project is headed by Prof. Dr. Jelena Tosic and co-coordinated by Dr. Andreas Streinzer and is based on a cooperation with Prof. Dr. Violetta Zentai (Center for Policy Studies, CEU, Budapest).

The protection of minority rights is central to the realisation of the three pillars of the United Nations: Human Rights, Peace and Security, and Development. Across the globe, there are long-standing situations of minority rights violations, and more recent crisis and challenges that result from these injustices. The UN has created two principal mechanisms with a specific mandate to review these situations: the Special Rapporteur on minority issues and the UN Forum on Minority Issues. This webinar series aims to support the work of both of these mechanisms by debating recent and future thematic priorities and discussing relevant country case studies.