BHA officers visited the Museum of the Moravian Wallachia region

A delegation of the Balkan History Association met for the second time with representatives of the Museum of Moravian Wallachia in Vsetín, Czech Republic. The association was represented by its President, Mihai Dragnea, and the Vice-President, Dorina Dragnea. The Museum Read More

Visit at the Center of Traditional Technologies in Příbor

The President of the Balkan History Association, Mihai Dragnea, and its Vice-President, Dorina Dragnea, visited the Center of Traditional Technologies in Příbor, a branch of the Museum of the Nový Jičín District, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic. Discussions for Read More

Collaboration with the Department of Archeology and Cultural Anthropology, Comenius University in Bratislava

The President of the Balkan History Association, Mihai Dragnea, and Vice-President, Dorina Dragnea, recently met with Tatiana Bužeková, Professor and Head of the the Department of Archeology and Cultural Anthropology, Comenius University in Bratislava, and Marta Botiková, Professor at the Read More

International conference: “Common past—divided memories”, Thessaloniki, 29.11-1.12. 2024

On 29.11-1.12, the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, the Department of History, Faculty of Law and History, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, the History Laboratory of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, Read More

International Conference “Old Cities, Former Capitals and the Nation-State Building in Europe (18th-20th Centuries): Regional and National Identities”, Iași, November 19-21, 2024

On November 19-21, the Center for the History of International Relations (CIRI), within the Faculty of History from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Universidad Salamanca and Balkan History Association, organized the international conference “Old cities, former capitals and the Read More

Call for Papers: Makers of their history: Collective subjects in historical narratives of the Balkans

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

New Cooperation Agreement (Faculty of History and Social Science, ASPU, Yerevan)

The Balkan History Association has signed a cooperation agreement with the Faculty of History and Social Science, Armenian State Pedagogical University in Yerevan, who is organizing teaching and research on the history of Armenia, world history, law and civil education, Read More

Football in the Balkans II: A Social and Political Phenomenon, eds. Dariusz Wojtaszyn, Teodor Borisov, Maros Melicharek (Peter Lang, 2024)

“Football in the Balkans II: A Social and Political Phenomenon” is the 9th volume in the series South-East European History, edited by Mihai Dragnea and published by Peter Lang on behalf of the Balkan History Association (BHA). Two of the Read More

Call for Papers: The Latinization of the Turkic languages after the breakup of the Soviet Union

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