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. *** Please note that in the USA we reset clocks to daylight saving time on March 8. Check your local time.*** Time: 13 mar 2026 12:30 PM  (EST) Zoom link: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/98180682551?pwd=nT9LApuM0b3qHRxsgOhS1WHil3E3S6.1 Meeting

The American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES) announces the availability of 3 travel grants per year of up to $2,500 for southeast European scholars affiliated with an institution in their home country and traveling from southeastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia) in support

Zala Pavsic (AISEES Travel Grant Awardee) presents her current research evolving around the narratives of friendship in the disintegration of Yugoslavia. She traces how the motif of multiethnicity echoing the policy of brotherhood and unity policy is gradually transformed into narrative of ethnic tension, how these narratives often turned into enmity in order to mobilize public emotions in wartime, and how after the