A scholarly journal from the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Södertörn University, Stockholm.
Issue 2026, 1: Download.
These three authors held a seminar on Pussy Riot in November 2012. Afterwards they jointly wrote down their contributions and thoughts – and also commented each other texts.
The CEEShub’s (Central and Eastern European Security Hub) inaugural conference: "Between Peripheries: Critical- Relational Security from CEE and the Global South" took place in January 22–25, 2026, Tallinn University, Estonia.
I have been monitoring academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the region for the past few decades. Hungary stood out […]
Abstract [en] This dissertation, Care to Live, offers an in-depth ethnographic study of well-educated single mothers navigating everyday life in Kaunas, […]
Places of Remembrance examines the cultural functions served by the Hungarian (1909–), Polish (1932–), and Czech-Slovak (1926–) pavilions in the Venice […]
Abstract [en] This thesis breaks with tradition by reading Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte as a work of philosophy. Rather than the mere re-telling […]
Abstract [en] This thesis investigates contemporary practices focused on facilitating the integration of those who, for various reasons, are perceived […]
Kristian Gerner (b. 1942), esteemed historian and emeritus professor of history at Lund University, passed away on April 2, 2026, in Lund, Sweden, at the age of 83. His voice in Sweden’s public and academic life will be greatly missed.
An important goal for the new series is to create a space where scholars from different disciplines can engage with one another. Research on Belarus is often dispersed across various fields — political science, history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies — and the series aims to bring these perspectives into dialogue.
Why is it so easy to remember war and so hard to remember peace? In order to bring forth memories of peace we need to reconceptualize what we mean by peace. I propose the term wild peace as a conceptual and potentially radical move that engage our imagination and capture the lived, embodied and agential dimensions of peace. Memories of wild peace are unruly as they hold the power to unsettle hegemonic narratives and point to alternative futures. I argue that unruly memories of wild peace are important at the present time, when the very idea of peace is contested and undermined.
Postcolonial scholarship has made a significant contribution by highlighting and critically assessing the liminal, inbetween positionality of Eastern Europe, which has contributed to the neglect of voices and experiences from the region. Discourses that construct and reproduce the notion of Eastern Europe “catching up” have been examined in historical, anthropological, and sociological contexts, as well as across various fields, including international relations, memory studies, democratization, and European integration. This theme section explores some of these intricacies through the case studies of Poland, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia.