GWZO Events Calendar
Events calendar
GWZO Events
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A City of the Curly-Haired Boy: The Imagination and Loss of Soviet Charentsavan
Dr Yulia Antonyan (Yerevan State University)Seminar Series: Armenian Lost Cities: Histories, Imageries, and Perceptions
Location: online
Event series
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The Economy of the Sino-Soviet Alliance and its Afterlives
Dr. Karina Khasnulina (GWZO), Dr. Jan Zofka (GWZO) Location: GWZO and online
Lecture series
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Losing a City That Was Never Gone: The Problem of "Loss" in the Armenian Town in Transylvania (Armenopolis)
Lilit Mnatsakanyan (Pázmány Péter Catholic University / GWZO)Seminar Series: Armenian Lost Cities: Histories, Imageries, and Perceptions Location: online
Event series
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Sexual Dissidence in the Soviet Union
Dan Healey (University of Oxford) Location: Prague/online
Prague Histories Forum
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Ani's Protean Gestalt in Spatiotemporal Transition
Prof. Peter Cowe (University of California, Los Angeles)Seminar Series: Armenian Lost Cities: Histories, Imageries, and Perceptions Location: online
Event series
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Queer Histories and Affective Architectures in Hungary
Hadley Z. Renkin (Central European University, Vienna) Location: Prague/online
Prague Histories Forum
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The Two Traditions of China Studies in Hungary
Dr. Péter Vámos (ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History) Location: GWZO and online
Lecture series
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Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and early »Reform and Opening« in China (1978–1989): A Transnational History of Intellectual Exchanges
(University of Cologne, Institute of East Asian Studies) Location: GWZO and online
Lecture series
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Call for Articles
WALKING MATTERS: Kinaesthetic Modes of Memory, Belonging and Research
Český lid Special Issue 1/2028
Please email an abstract (max. 500 words) and a brief biography to sabine.stach@leibniz-gwzo.de and noskova@eu.cas.cz.
Deadline: 15 November 2026
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Call for Papers
Sixth annual meeting of the Research Network Premodern East Slavic Europe: »War and Environment in Early Modern Eastern Europe and Eurasia«
Conference, Mainz, GermanyDate: 11.–12. März 2027
Location: Mainz
Organiser: Julia Herzberg (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Jan Kusber (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), and the Premodern East Slavic Europe Network
Please submit a proposal including a title, an abstract of approximately 300–500 words, and a brief biographical and institutional note.
Deadline: 15. Oktober 2026
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Call for Applications
9th Forum on Animals and History: »Globalizing Animal History«
Datum: 3–4 September 2026
Venue: Leipzig
Organiser: Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
Those interested should please send an informal expression of interest, including a short biographical note and details of current projects or research interests, to Timm Schönfelder (timm.schoenfelder@leibniz-gwzo.de).
Deadline: 15 Juni 2026