American Institute For Southeast European Studies
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Balkan Journeys. AISEES Lectures in Cultural Heritage
The American Institute for Southeast European Studies is pleased to announce a public online lecture on March 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. (EST).
Sarah Craycraft (Ohio State University and AISEES Fellow)
“Young in the Village: Place, generation, and the project of rural revival in Bulgaria”
The Zoom link will be distributed through our mailing list and social media groups.
Balkan Journeys. AISEES Lectures in Cultural Heritage
AISEES is pleased to announce a public lecture on February 10, 2021, 4:00 p.m. (EST).
Anna Adashinskaya (New Europe College, Bucharest).
“Discovering History or Spying for the Country? Russian Imperial Research Expeditions by P.N. Milyukov and N.P. Kondakov to Macedonia.”
Zoom link will be sent via our mailing list and on our FB group (facebook.com/AISEESorg). To join the email list, please email us at [email protected]
Balkan Journeys. AISEES Lectures in Cultural Heritage
We are pleased to inaugurate our online lecture series
January 20, 2021, 6:00 p.m. (EST)
Cameron Mailhot (Cornell University and 2020-21 AISEES Fellow).
“Public Attitudes Towards International Missions and their Effect on State-Society Relations: A Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Archives in Early Post-Conflict Kosovo”
Zoom link will be sent to our mailing list. To join the list, please email us at [email protected]
We are pleased to inaugurate an online lecture series in Spring 2021: Balkan Journeys! Links to the meetings will be posted on FB (www.facebook.com/AISEESorg) and through our mailing list.
Balkan Journeys. AISEES Lectures in Cultural Heritage
Spring 2021 Schedule
January 20, 2021, 6:00 p.m. (EST)
Cameron Mailhot (Cornell University and 2020-21 AISEES Fellow). “Public Attitudes Towards International Missions and their Effect on State-Society Relations: A Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Archives in Early Post-Conflict Kosovo”
February 10, 2021, 4:00 p.m. (EST)
Anna Adashinskaya (New Europe College, Bucharest). “Discovering History or Spying for the Country? Russian Imperial Research Expeditions by P.N. Milyukov and N.P. Kondakov to Macedonia”
March 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. (EST).
Sarah Craycraft (Ohio State University and 2019-20 AISEES Fellow). “Young in the village: Place, generation, and the project of rural revival in Bulgaria”
March 17, 2021, 2:00 p.m. (EST)
Sterling Wright (Penn State University), “The Integrity of Biomolecules Across the Oral Matrix from Histria, Romania”
March 31, 2021, 1:00 p.m. (EST)
Cengiz Haksoz (University of Pittsburgh and Middle East Technical University, Ankara). “Politics of (In)visibilities in a Peripheral Bulgarian Town.”
April 21, 2021, 3:00 p.m. (EST)
Dhurata Osmani (University of California, Berkeley and 2019-20 AISEES Fellow). “Stronger women, stronger nations: Feminist organizations and international state-building in Kosovo”
May 12, 2021, 2:00 p.m. (EST)
Stefan Peychev (Boston College). “Water Management and Urban Space in Early Modern Ottoman Sofia”
AISEES is pleased to announce the publication of its second newsletter!
The Fall 2020 presents news from two of our Trustees, Lynn Roller and Victor Petrov as well as our 2020-21 Fellows. We also provide information about AISEES membership and upcoming fellowship and scholarship deadlines.
Enjoy!
AISEES NEWSLETTER Fall 2020AISEES is delighted to announce this year’s Fellows! The AISEES Fellowship supports graduate students and scholars based at American institutions whose research in the Humanities and Social Sciences is geographically set in Southeast Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia). Each fellow will receive an award of $3000 for their projects.
Cameron Mailhot (PhD candidate, Dept. of Government, Cornell University). Topic: “The International Determinants of Political Trust in Contemporary Kosovo”
Marina Mandrikova (PhD candidate , Dept. of Art History, Temple University). Topic: “Crime and Punishment: Images of Sinners and the Power of the Visual in Byzantine and Slavic Monumental Painting”
Suzana Vuljevic (PhD candidate, Dept. of History, Columbia University). Topic: “Modernism on the Margins: A Transnational Fellowship of Southeast Europe’s Women Intellectuals, 1923-1939”
Please support AISEES so we can offer more to scholars such as Cameron, Marina and Suzana and to develop additional programs: https://istros-ro.org/website_b27a3206/membership/
AISEES is pleased to announce the publication of its first newsletter!
The February 2020 newsletter contains introductions to Trustees Lynn Roller and Cynthia Lintz and U.S. Administrator Eric De Sena. Two of our 2019 Fellows have provided summaries of their research projects. We also provide information about AISEES membership and upcoming fellowship and scholarship deadlines.
Enjoy!
AISEES NEWSLETTER Feb 2020
The AISEES is pleased to announce its first three Fellows, who will conduct research in areas of southeastern Europe during the 2019-2020 academic year. Congratulations!
Sarah Craycraft (PhD candidate in Comparative Studies – Folklore; Ohio State University) will conduct research in Bulgaria: “Reinventing the Village: Youth, Traditional Culture and Rural Revival in Contemporary Bulgaria”
Dhurata Osmani (PhD candidate in Sociology; University of California, Berkeley) will conduct research in Kosovo: “Fighting for Western Feminism in a Weak State: Feminist-based NGOs in Post-War Kosovo and International State-building”
Dr. Claire Weiss (PhD 2018 in Classical Archaeology; University of Virginia) will conduct research at Butrint, Albania and Pompeii, Italy: “Roman Colonial Urbanism Project: a Cross-Mediterranean Archaeological Comparison”
The American Institute for Southeast European Studies, Inc. was established as an independent, not-for-profit organization in New York State by a small group of American scholars who have dedicated their careers to the study of aspects of history and society of countries situated in southeastern Europe. Two of the founders, Prof. Lynn Roller (Professor Emerita, of University of California, Davis) and Dr. Cynthia Lintz (PhD from Virginia Tech; Installation Program Integrator at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) serve as Chair and Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees. The other Board members, Dr. Ioana Muresan (Gavrila Simeon Eco-Museum Research Institute, Tulcea, Romania), Prof. Victor Plamenov Petrov (PhD Columbia University), Amy Ramm (), and Richard Record (Peace Corps) as well as AISEES Administrator, Prof. Eric C. De Sena, all have deep connections with the region.
The Mission of AISEES is to facilitate research and discussion of subjects in the humanities and social sciences in the context of Southeast Europe for the period between antiquity and the present. We accomplish our mission by offering fellowships and grants as well as by organizing public outreach events.
The AISEES Blog presents reflections, historical summaries, events, travel information and other news about the culture and history of southeastern Europe.