New book series “East Central and Eastern European Studies” (Routledge)

This series provides an opportunity for scholars to publish high-quality studies of East Central and Eastern Europe. It gives a comprehensive understanding of the history, culture, society, and politics of this vast area. The series welcomes monographs and edited volumes, Read More

BHA Webinar “Bulgarian Merchants and Their Networks between Ottoman Bulgaria and the Danubian Principalities (Romania) in the Mid- and Late Nineteenth Century”

BHA Webinar Series (Zoom)Speaker: Ivaylo Naydenov (Institute for Historical Studies, BAS, Sofia)Date & Hour: July 10 (Friday), 14:00 EET / 13:00 CETModerator: Timothy French (BHA)Technical assistance: Timothy French, contact: timothymfrench@yahoo.com Webinar linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81165850298Webinar ID 811 6585 0298 The aim of this Read More

BHA Webinar “The symbolism of signifiers in historiography and publicist writings: the use of the terms ‘Slavi’ and ‘Talijanaši’ in the Italian and Croatian examples”

BHA Webinar Series (Zoom)Speaker: Ante Bralić (University of Zadar)Date & Hour: June 11 (Thursday), 12:00 CET / 13:00 EETModerator: Timothy FrenchTechnical assistance: Timothy French, contact: timothymfrench@yahoo.com Webinar linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85440365125Webinar ID 854 4036 5125 How to name an ethnicity, and in later Read More

Online Book Launch “Parks in the Balkan Capitals: Leisure, Urban Impact, Monuments, Stories, and Significance”, eds. A. Milanova, A. Lepăr (Peter Lang, 2026)

Online Book Launch (Zoom)Speakers: Alexandra Milanova (Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology, BAS, Sofia) and Ana-Maria Lepăr (Balkan History Association, Bucharest)Date & Hour: May 26 (Tuesday), 18:00 EET / 17:00 CETModerator: Timothy FrenchTechnical assistance: Timothy French, contact: timothymfrench@yahoo.com Read More

BHA at the International Conference “Digitizing the Past and Nourishing the Present: Cultural Heritage Documentation & Performance in Central Asia,” Dushanbe (23 May 2026)

The Balkan History Association was represented by its vice-president, Dorina Dragnea, at the International Conference “Digitizing the Past and Nourishing the Present: Cultural Heritage Documentation & Performance in Central Asia,” which was organized in hybrid mode on 23 May 2026 Read More

BHA Webinar “From the January Uprising to the War in Ukraine: Andrej Potebnia and His Legacy”

BHA Webinar Series (Zoom)Speakers: Mateusz Kamionka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) and Maksym Potapenko (Nizhyn Gogol State University, Ukraine)Date & Hour: May 19 (Tuesday), 19:00 CET / 20:00 EETModerator: Timothy FrenchTechnical assistance: Timothy French, contact: timothymfrench@yahoo.com Webinar linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84075196535Webinar ID 840 7519 6535 Read More

Parks in the Balkan Capitals: Leisure, Urban Impact, Monuments, Stories, and Significance, eds. A. Milanova, A. Lepăr (Peter Lang, 2026)

The volume “Parks in the Balkan Capitals: Leisure, Urban Impact, Monuments, Stories, and Significance“, edited by Alexandra Milanova and Ana-Maria Lepăr and published by Peter Lang in the series in the series “South-East European History”, investigates parks as places of Read More