Osteuropa-Institut Berlin

For this year's LNDWBerlin, OEI is organising the workshop "Human Energy and the Sense of Movement" with Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith.

⌚️ 06.06.2026 | 17:00 - 19:30

🚞 Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Rostlaube, Raum 32/102.

Workshop | Human Energy and the Sense of Movement | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften at OEI

📣 We are hiring!

Join the research group “Energy Entanglements” funded by DFG at OEI (Freie Universität Berlin)

We are looking for a Research Assistant (Praedoc) (f/m/d) for the sub-project “Communicating Pipes.”

This project investigates how major pipelines (like "Soyuz," "Urengoy-Uzhgorod," and "Nord Stream") function as media and fulfill symbolic purposes through a discourse-historical and media-theoretical lens. The hired candidate will complete a doctoral thesis on the project’s topic.

Requirements 📌

— A completed academic degree (MA, diploma, etc) in East European Studies, Slavic Studies, General and Comparative Literature, Media Theory, Cultural Studies or a related subject.

Desirable 🖤
— C1 in English
— C1 in Ukrainian or Russian
— B1 in Belarusian, Czech, or Polish are a plus
— basic knowledge of German or a willingness to learn some German within the first year...

Details ✒️

— 65% part-time job, limited to 4 years
— Salary grade 13 TV-L FU

Application Deadline 🏁: 08.06.2026

🔗 https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/en/institut/ankuendigungen/2026_05_12_Stellenausschreibung_Wiss_Mit_Praedoc.html

New publication!
The book edited by Mihai Varga (OEI, FU Berlin), Mateusz Karolak and Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wrocław) will soon be published by Bristol University Press.

In Global Workers and Entangled Crises: Biographical and Relational Approaches to Resilience, we bring together chapters that document a variety of biographical methods to studying the role of biographical and relational resources in managing global polycrisis at work.

This unique volume includes chapters analysing the life histories and experiences of essential, precarious and migrant workers during the social reproduction crises and the pandemic in Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey and the USA.

The most important news is that the entire book will be available via open access. It is part of the BUP book series Advances in Biographical Research. The book includes the results of a transatlantic research project ENDURE "Inequalities, Community Resillience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World" led by Mihai Varga and at the University of Wrocław by Mateusz Karolak.

Global Workers and Entangled Crises Global Workers and Entangled Crises - Biographical and Relational Approaches to Resilience; The early 2020s brought a cascade of disruptions – COVID-19, war-amplified inflation and migration blockages – that reshaped global labour in uneven and deeply unequal ways. This edited collection offers ...

The Culture Department at OEI is looking for a student assistant (SHK) to join their team! 📚

🏁 Apply by 30.03.

SHK-Stelle (AB Kultur) | Bewerbungsfrist 30.03.2026 In der Abteilung Kultur des Osteuropa-Instituts werden künstlerische, wissens- und mediengeschichtliche Aspekte der osteuropäischen Kulturen erforscht und gelehrt. Wir untersuchen in unseren Seminaren und Forschungsprojekten, wie Kulturen die politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Herausforderung...

SAVE THE DATE | International Conference

📍 Berlin | Henry Ford Building (FU Berlin)
📅 4 December 2025 | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Rebuilding Ukraine: Security, Recovery & the Future of Europe brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to reflect on post-war reconstruction, security challenges, governance, humanitarian recovery, and Ukraine’s role in the future of Europe.

The conference will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, and a roundtable with international experts working on Ukraine, European security, and post-conflict transformation.

Organised by: KIU / European University Viadrina, Freie Universität Berlin, Kyiv School of Economics & The Ukraine Foundation

✉️ Registration is required.
To register, please email: [email protected]

More details & the full speaker lineup coming soon.

Supported by DAAD with funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA).

Europa-Universität Viadrina Freie Universität Berlin Kyiv School of Economics Susann Worschech ZOiS - Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies VCPU Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

From 14 to 16 November 2025, around 25 OEI students and two OEI lecturers visited Poznań as part of the annual 'Projektseminar' to explore issues related to social mobility and migration. We would like to thank all our friends and partners in Poznań who made this trip possible by meeting our students and presenting their research and experiences, including Wydział Socjologii UAM, Centrum Integracji Cudzoziemców w Poznaniu and the student associations at the UAM's Sociology Department and the Eastern Studies Programme Studenckie Koło Naukowe Wschodoznawców UAM Koło Naukowe Osób Studiujących Socjologię. Special thanks go to Przemysław Pluciński at UAM and Agnieszka Szczepanik at CIC for helping us organise the visit! The talks during our visit were held by Agnieszka Szczepanik, Agnieszka Ziółkowska (CIC), on “The Foreigners’ Integration Centre in Poznań”, Marek Nowak (UAM) on the “Integration of Foreigners in Secondary Cities in Central Europe and in Poznań: The Case of War Refugees from Ukraine”, Jakub Isański (UAM) on “Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Poland: The Case of the Healthcare System”, Piotr Cichocki (UAM) on “Framing Urban Mobility: cross-national differences in academic discourse”. Local historian and guide Michał Hirsch offered us a thematic city tour titled “On the Trails of Historical Migration to Poznań”.

The Department of Sociology at OEI invites you to this semester's colloquium. No registration required!
https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/soziologie/Forschungskolloquium/index.html

📣 We are happy to announce this semester's OEI Lectures on
"Mobility and Order: Models, Actors and Contestations in Eurasia"

📅 Wednesdays, 2–4 p.m.
📍 OEI, Garystr. 55, Hörsaal A

🗓️ Full programme available here: tinyurl.com/OEILec26
📹 The lectures will be recorded and posted on our YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/