BHA Webinar Series (Zoom)“Echoes of War: Muslims and the Balkans between Ukraine and Palestine”Francesco Trupia, PhD (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)Date & Hour: June 24th (Tuesday), 14:30 CET timeModerator: Timothy French (BHA)Contact: timothymfrench@yahoo.com This webinar explores the history and memories Read More
Our member, Ioana Apostol, PhD, researcher at the “G. Oprescu” Institute of Art History in Bucharest (Romanian Academy), participated in the international conference “Voices and Silences: 50 Years of the Society for Romanian Studies“, held in Cluj-Napoca on May 29–31, Read More
This volume investigates how Central Asia functioned as a zone of contact, exchange, and transformation between major imperial powers across Eurasia between roughly 500 and 1500 CE. Long portrayed as either a periphery or a conduit, Central Asia is increasingly Read More
The Balkan History Association was represented by its president, Mihai Dragnea, at the international conference “Political, Cultural, Religious and Economic Transformations in the 15th-16th Centuries“, which took place in Debrecen on 27-28 February 2025. The conference was organized by the Read More
More than a decade has passed since the onset of numerous Ukraine-centered crises (with global geopolitical relevance), marked by the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, Euromaidan, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, flirtation with a greater physical NATO presence inside of Ukrainian territory and Read More
The Balkan History Association in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut – Mediterraneo (Paphos, Cyprus) and the School of Law of the University of Nicosia are preparing a volume on cultural, historical, Read More
We are pleased to inform you that the latest issue of Hiperboreea, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2024) has been released and is available online through the Scholarly Publishing Collective (managed by Duke University Press). Hiperboreea is published by the Penn Read More
Call for Papers for the thematic issue of Hiperboreea: Makers of their history: Collective subjects in historical narratives of the Balkans Guest Editor: Milan Vukašinović (Uppsala University) The figure of a hero – an individual, male, elite character – stands Read More
In the 1920s the Soviet authorities undertook a Latinization campaign for the Turkic languages used in the USSR. By 1940, Moscow ensured those languages were written in the Cyrillic script. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early Read More
The Carpathian Mountains embrace the cultures of Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The historical relations and mobility along the Carpathian arc have left diverse imprints on the ethnographic character of the local communities and over Read More
