American Institute for Southeast European Studies

AISEES is delighted to announce the awardees of our 2026 Travel Grant competition: Nevena Manic (Serbia), Andrea Pambuku (Albania), and Strahil Panayotov (Bulgaria)!

2026 AISEES Travel Grant Awardees – American Institute For Southeast European Studies Posted on May 9, 2026 by Cynthia Lintz2026 AISEES Travel Grant Awardees AISEES is delighted to announce the awardees of our 2026 Travel Grant competition. This grant allows southeast European scholars of the Humanities and Social Sciences who reside in SE Europe to present their work at internationa...

Congratulations to Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia for qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup!

Reminder: Upcoming AISEES Lecture, March 13, 2026!

The Lighting of Sacred Spaces and Imperial Ambitions in Post-Byzantine Moldavia – American Institute For Southeast European Studies Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan, examine the economy of artificial light in medieval churches across Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the broader medieval spheres.

The cruel, relentless war against Ukraine began four years ago. Slava Ukraini!

AISEES is thrilled to announce our 2026 Fellows!

Lynn Roller Fellows:

Dr. Michael L. Galaty (University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (USA Fellow) – for archaeological research in Kosovo
Dr. Edlira Andoni (Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Science in Albania – (SE European Fellow) – for archaeological research in Albania

Graduate and Early Postdoc Fellows:

Amber Kearns (University of Texas, Austin) – for archaeological research in Serbia
Bakir Ovcina (Vanderbilt University) – for historical and ethnographic research in Bosnia & Herzegovina
Olivia Pape (University of California, Irvine) – for research in Serbia and Kosovo on early 20th century Socialist movements

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🇷🇴 Learn Romanian Online with RCI – Registration Now Open!

📚 Ready to start learning Romanian or take your skills to the next level? The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York is opening registration for its online Romanian language courses for adults, taught live via Zoom by an experienced university professor.

✨ Available levels this spring:
🔹 A1 – Beginners (no prior knowledge required)
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🗓️ Deadline: February 23

🔹 A2.2 – Intermediate
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🗓️ Deadline: February 24

🗓️ Course format:
• 40-hour module
• 2 hours, twice a week
• Live online classes via Zoom
• Focus on real-life communication, culture, and everyday Romanian

👩‍🏫 Instructor:
Dr. Julieta Paulesc, Teaching Professor of Romanian & French Studies at Arizona State University

📩 Registration is now open!
Please complete the appropriate registration form and email it to [email protected]

⚠️ Please note: These courses do not provide internationally accredited language certificates for citizenship purposes.

📧 For full details, schedules, and enrollment information, contact:
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CALL FOR PAPERS. For the 2026 Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies.

Theme: States and Empires in the Balkans

The theme of the 2026 Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is States and Empires with a Spotlight on the Balkans. In an effort to take advantage of this opportunity, Dan Weiss from the University of Virginia is organizing a panel along this theme. If you would like to participate and are planning to attend ASEEES 2026 (Chicago) please email him ([email protected]) with a short (approx. 200-300 words) synopsis of your topic. Papers in any discipline are welcome as long as they deal, even tangentially, with the theme of States and Empires in the Balkans: Romans, Thracian, Dacian, Ottoman, Turkish, Austro-Hungarian, et al. We are keeping it general for now until we see who all is interested. Ideally, we would like to have a good spread across geography and time, but we are flexible.

The panel proposal is due March 1st, so please have your synopsis in to Dan by Friday, Feb 20th.

If you have any questions, contact Dan directly.

Panels entail presentation of prepared papers (distributed in advance to a discussant) on a related topic or theme, followed by structured discussion of those papers. Panels must have: 1 chair; a minimum of 3 to maximum of 4 papers; and at least 1 discussant, with a maximum of 2. If the panel includes a fourth paper, the length of the session does not change. While one role per participant is strongly preferred, the chair may serve also as a discussant or a paper presenter, if necessary. A paper presenter cannot be a discussant for the same panel on which they are presenting.

As you know, late last year we received the fantastic news that AISEES was voted unanimously to be a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). CAORC validates the mission, value, and accomplishments of its members, and membership will clearly help AISEES grow in the coming years.

This is an achievement to which we owe a lot to you, the AISEES community! Without your support, we would not be able to offer such a robust program of fellowships, a lecture series, and other opportunities.

AISEES is a grassroots organization. We began with a Board of Trustees and a small number of members (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Texas at Austin) who believed in our Mission. Our membership now consists of 15 institutions and nearly 50 scholars and students. Most of our community members joined AISEES through a connection of theirs.

In this spirit, we are asking you to spread the word about AISEES to three of your colleagues. Ask them to join our FB page and/or to support us through membership. Even a small number of new members in 2026 will allow us to enhance our programs.

Dan Weiss (Chair, AISEES Board of Trustees)
Eric De Sena (Director, AISEES)

American Institute For Southeast European Studies – Connecting Intellectual Leaders AISEES Welcome to the American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES). Incorporated in 2016, AISEES is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting scholarly contacts and cultural exchanges between North America and southeastern Europe. AISEES was developed to promot...