South East Europe as a site of theory, method and political imagination

Please note that this event is open only to those who have been accepted onto the programme.

Organised by the South East Europe Working Group, this annual workshop brings together scholars from across the region and beyond to explore contemporary developments in South East Europe. It foregrounds diverse theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches that challenge dominant modes of knowledge production in international relations. The workshop engages with extended abstracts and provides dedicated support for researchers in developing their work towards submission to the BISA annual conference and eventual scholarly publication.

Programme

11 – 11.15am

Welcome and Introductions

11.15am – 12.30pm

Authoritarianism, Resistance, and the Politics of Belonging

Facilitator: Alexandra Karppi (King’s College London)

• Tara Tepavac (University of Belgrade/University of Graz)
  Beyond Institutional Erosion: The Repurposing of Democratic Institutions from Serbia
• Filip Balunović (University of Belgrade)
  The Right to Do What One Wants? Anti-Authoritarian Movements in the Global War Regime
• Ayşenaz Fındık (Bilkent University)
  Exploring Femonationalism beyond Western Europe: Gender, Migration and National Belonging in Turkey

12.30 – 12.44pm

Break

12.45 – 2pm

South East Europe in Europe’s Strategic Political Economy: Extraction, Dependency, and Autonomy

Facilitator: Elena B. Stavrevska (University of Bristol)

• Victor Jimenez (Tallinn University)
  Green Extractivism and the Coloniality of Knowledge: Serbia, the Global East, and the Epistemic Dimensions of Sacrifice Zones
• Barbara Frey (University of Rijeka)
  From Energy Periphery to Green Extractive Frontier: The Western Balkans and Europe's New Resource Geographies
• Omid Hedayati (University of Szeged)
  Beyond Brussels: South East Europe as a Frontier for Theorizing Strategic Autonomy Amidst U.S. Extraterritorial Sanctions on Iran

2 – 2.30pm

Break

14.30 – 3.45pm

Contested European Futures: Integration, Agency and Political Possibility

Facilitator: Mate Subašić (Liverpool John Moores University)

• Elira Luli (Armed Forces Academy of Albania)
  Deconstructing Value-Based Realism from a Southeast European Len
• Mehdi Sejdiu (Heidelberg University)
  Europeanisation Under Contested Statehood in Kosovo
• Vanja Ashkapova (Independent researcher)
  Migration Futures: Youth, Political Expectations and Foresight in North Macedonia, and 
  South-East Europe

3.45 – 4pm 

Concluding remark

Registration will close two hours before the event begins.