The 21st Century Hybrid War: Reactions from the European Periphery on Russian-Ukrainian crises

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

Cyprus and the Balkans: Cultural, Historical and Religious Connections

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

New Cooperation Agreement (Bukovina Society of Librarians in Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

The Balkan History Association signed a cooperative agreement with the Bukovina Society of Librarians in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, who supports rural education in the Romanian communities of northern Bukovina by providing books for school libraries and additional library equipment. The aim Read More

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 the Moravian Wallachia Region in Vsetín, Czech Republic. The association was represented by its President, Mihai Dragnea, and the Vice-President, Dorina Dragnea. 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: 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

Deportation in East Central Europe in the 20th Century: Snapshots of Invisible Incarceration, eds. Mihaela Martin, Dallas Michelbacher, Michael D. Sagatis (Peter Lang, 2024)

“Deportation in East Central Europe in the 20th Century: Snapshots of Invisible Incarceration” is the 13th 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). Read More