GWZO Events Calendar
Events calendar
GWZO Events
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Resources – Production – Trade: Economic Networks of Late Antique Hilltop Settlements
Location: Skopje
Workshop
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Still Longing for Digranagerd
Dr. Carel Bertram (San Francisco State University)Seminar Series: Armenian Lost Cities: Histories, Imageries, and Perceptions Location: online
Event series
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The Reconstruction of Hadrut City: Memory and Cultural Heritage After the 44-day Artsakh War and Forced Displacement
Dr Nzhdeh Yeranyan (History Museum of Armenia), Dr Haykuhi Muradyan (Yerevan State University), Dr Ruzanna Tsaturyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA)Seminar Series: Armenian Lost Cities: Histories, Imageries, and Perceptions Location: online
Event series
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Rethinking Medieval Power: Gender, Social Capital, and Relational History
Christina Lutter (University of Vienna) Location: Prague and online
Prague Histories Forum
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Kick-Off Roundtable GWZO Annual Lecture 2026/27
Prof. Dr. Frank Hadler (GWZO), Prof. Dr. Nadine Heé (Leipzig University, ReCentGlobe / Department of East Asian Studies), Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Kaske (Leipzig University, Department of East Asian Studies), Prof. Dr. Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University, Critical Global Studies Institute, Seoul)with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Jie-Hyun Lim
»Positivist versus Imaginative East: Displacing East and West in the Global Easts« Location: GWZO Leipzig and online
Lecture series
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Shushi – a »Ghost City«: Continuity of Loss
Dr Nona Shahnazaryan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA)Seminar Series: Armenian Lost Cities: Histories, Imageries, and Perceptions Location: online
Event series
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Fluid boundaries. Water bodies and their use in the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe
Programme Change Notice:Tue, 27 October 2026, 2–3 pm
The presentation by Joanna Kunigielis (Białowieża) has been replaced by:
Anna Pytasz-Kołodziejczyk (Olsztyn), Joanna Kunigielis (Białowieża): Mills in the Land of Swamps and Forests: Water Infrastructure as an Adaptive Strategy in Mozyr County in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Location: GWZO Leipzig
Annual conference
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Multiple Configurations of Eastern Transimperialities: Crossroads Asia, Transottomanica and Meta Area Studies
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald (Leipzig University, Historisches Seminar) 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