Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie

2026-2027 (DFG: VO 884/30): ‘Reterritorialisation’ of a myth: Inscribing the Kosovo myth among the Kosovo Albanians and Serbs after 2008 (with Dr. Piotr Mirocha/Krakow)

2025-2029 (AvH-Stiftung): Humboldt MemoNet. International Network of Memory Centres (Speaker: Prof. Kateřina Králová/Prague)

2023-2027 (DFG: VO 884/29): The 'Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia' (1955-1990) between Yugoslav and Sub-Yugoslav Nation-building (with Dr. Dino Mujadžević/Zagreb)

 

Completed projects

Other third-party funded projects

21. 2021-2024/2024-2025 (AvH-Stiftung): Remigrations from Germany to Croatia, North Macedonia and Kosovo (Institutional partnership program with Prof. Dr. Jasna Čapo/Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb) 

20. 2024 (OFAJ/DFJW): Youth European Dialogue Bulgaria - France - Germany - North Macedonia: A Touring European Summer School (with Lukáš Macek, Sciences Po/Campus Dijon)

19. 2019-2023 (BMBF "Small Disciplines - Great Potentials"): Migration and cultural transfer between Germany and the Albanian-speaking Western Balkans, PD Dr. Lumnije Jusufi

18. 2021-2023 Team Teaching (funded by Graduate School of SLF): Co-teaching with PhD students: Daria Almeskirchen, Sara Marenčić, Arban Mehmeti and Arta Sopaj

17. 2021-2023 (DAAD/Erasmus+ KeyAction 226): Digitalizing Mobility and international network with open education (with Dr. Philipp Wasserscheidt and CircleU Partner Universities Belgrade etc.)

16. 2019-2020 (Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung): Transmigrant Albanian Communities in Berlin. Homeland Loyalties and Narratives of Albanian Past and Migrant Identities (Research fellowship Dr. Agata Rogoś)

15. 2019 (DAAD East-West Dialogue): Multiperspectivity in the Balkans: The Sandžak in the Bosnian-Montenegrin-Serbian prism (with Dr. Philipp Wasserscheidt)

14. 2019 (Stiftung Deutsch-Israelisches Zukunftsforum): Russian-speaking communities in Germany and Israel (Sylke-Tempel-fellowship Dr. Jonna Rock)

13. 2019-2020 (bologna.lab): Ambivalence of shared sacred places in Post-Socialist Southeast Europe. Case studies from North Macedonia (Q-Kolleg by Evelyn Reuter)

12. 2018 (DAAD East-West Dialogue): Discursive inclusion and exclusion of Muslims and Jews in Southeastern Europe. Contributions of transdisciplinary linguistics (with Dr. Philipp Wasserscheidt)

11. 2018 (AvH-Stiftung): Humboldt Bridge Builder 2018: Crossing Borders - Transnational border research in Central and Southeastern Europe. Academic guidance of the AvH researcher alumni meeting in Prag, 29.-30.11.2018 (with Prof. Kralova/Prag)

10. 2018-2020 (Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung): Shared places of Cult of Muslims and Christians in Macedonia in everyday praxis and Islamic jurisprudence Research fellowship Dr. Olimpia Dragouni)

9. 2017–2018 (DAAD East-West Dialogue): Demarcations and crossings of borders in and with South Eastern Europe (with Dr. Philipp Wasserscheidt und Prof. Ljiljana Glišović/Belgrad) 

8. 2017–2018 (Seed Money Federal Country of Brandenburg): Research group Borders & Boundaries at Viadrina-Center B/Orders in Motion, Frankfurt/O. (with Dr. Hannes Krämer)

7. 2016–2019/2019-2022 (HU): Interdisciplinary Centre For Transnational Border Research "Crossing Borders" (coordinator: PD Dr. Nenad Stefanov)

6. 2015–2018/2019-2020 (DAAD): Strategic partnership CENTRAL, subproject: Institutionalization of Memory in Post-Conflict Societies. Berlin - Prague - Warsaw - Budapest

5. 2015–2016 (DAAD PPP-Serbien): Constructing narratives: A social construction grammar (with Dr. Philipp Wasserscheidt and Dr. Marija Mandić/Belgrad)

4. 2014–2015 (ExIn): KOSMOS Summer University 2015 Phantom borders - real boundaries. European experiences after 1989 from a global perspective (with Prof. Hannes Grandits and Dr. Nenad Stefanov)

3. 2010–2011/2012–2013 (Gerda-Henkel-Foundation): South Balkans Muslims in the 21st century: Between transnationalism and reethnicising”; contributors: Dr. Christoph Giesel, Ruža Tokić

2. 2007-2008/2009-2010/2011-2012 (DAAD): Go East: Belgrad (Student mobilities)

1. 2007-2008/2008-2009/2011-2012/2012-2013 (DAAD): Go East: Zagreb (Student mobilities)

 

Alexander von Humboldt fellows at the Department

1. Prof. Dr. Jasna Čapo (Zagreb): 2007-2008

2. Prof. Dr. Dušan Glišović (Belgrad): 2014

3. Prof. Dr. Kateřina Králová (Prag): 2021-2022

4. Dr. Marija Mandić (Belgrad): 2016-2018

5. Prof. Dr. Olga Mladenova (Calgary): 2010

6. Dr. Dino Mujadžević (Zagreb): 2019, 2021

7. Prof. Dr. Lora Taseva (Sofia): 2015-2016

8. Prof. Dr. Vittorio Tomelleri (Cagliari): 2019, 2025

9. Prof. Dr. Tsvetomira Venkova (Sofia): 2021

10. Prof. Dr. Giorgio Ziffer (Udine): 2007, 2008, 2016

 

Dissertations (supervisor and/or first reviewer)

23. Linda Kelmendi: Designing and Testing Strategic Communication Strategies to Counter Anti-Gender Narratives in Albania via Social Media

22. Nadine Vollstädt: Sign language(s) in the former Yugoslavia

21. Michal Piasek: Zwischen Opfer, Heimat und Nation - der Zweite Weltkrieg und der Kroatienkrieg im Spiegel kroatischer Denkmäler nach 1990

20. Riza Ziberi: Albanian-Macedonian code-switching and gender discrimination among Albanians in North Macedonia

19. Diellzë Hoxha: Sexual diversity in Albania and Kosovo from Ottoman to post-communist times

18. Tea Lozi: Künstlerische Emigration und transnationale Identitäten. Eine Untersuchung der Diaspora junger albanischer und kosovarischer Künstler:innen in Berlin (scholarship holder of Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung)

17. Çliresa Suka: "Ich Balkan, Du Europa". Interkulturelle und identitäre Verortung in Kosovo und Albanien im 21. Jahrhundert (scholarship holder of Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung)

16. Matilda Bako: Narratives of the New Cold War: A Comparative Study of Image Building and Public Discourses of Russia(phobia) in Germany, the Western Balkans and the UK (scholarship holder of Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung)

15. Arban Mehmeti: Serbisch-albanische Kulturdiplomatie in Kosovo im 21. Jahrhundert

14. Sara Marenčić: Chinese in the Balkans: A Look into the social and linguistic situation of the Chinese in Zagreb and Belgrade

13. Arta Sopaj: Language Loyalty in a pluricentric Diaspora: Albanians and Kosovars in Germany

12. Kunyang Wu: Genderismus in chinesischen Sprachhandlungen. Komparative und empirische Untersuchungen sowie eine Zusammenstellung antigenderdiskriminierender chinesischer Sprachpraktiken (completed in 2024)

11. Delina Binaj: Linguistic Manifestations of Gender Conceptualisations in Albanian (completed in 2024)

10. Daria Almeskirchen: Gender Mainstreaming and Subversive Language Use in Today's Russia (scholarship holder of Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, completed in 2023)

9. Aldina Ćemernica: Identity Constructions of Young People of Bosniak Origin in Germany (scholarship holder of Konsul Karl und Dr. Gabriele Sandmann Foundation; completed in 2022)

8. Valentina Dróżdż: Die Ent_Erwähnung von Frauen* in androgendernden maskulinen personalen Appellationen als diskriminierende Sprachhandlung. Eine interdependente Analyse von Genderismus, Rassismus und Klassismus am Beispiel zweier unterschiedlicher Diskurse: Berufsbezeichnungen für Frauen* in der polnischen Sprache und Migratisierungsbezeichnungen für Frauen* in der deutschen Sprache (completed 2020)

7. Snežana Stanković: Worldness behind the Cemetery. Stories of Absent Germans and Jews in the Former Habsburg Borderland (scholarship holder of Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung; completed in 2020)

6. Simone Rajilić: Conceptualisations of Femininity in Serbian. Female Gender Specifications between Violence and Resistance (completed in 2019)

5. Jonna Rock: Intergenerational Memory, Language and Jewish Identification of the Sarajevo Sephardim. Reflections on Belonging in Bosnia-Hercegovina/Yugoslavia, Israel and Spain (scholarship holder of Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk; completed in 2019)

4. Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić: Die Macht von Sprachnormen. Perzeption, Produktion und Dekonstruktion von personaler Appellation im Kroatischen, Berlin, 2017. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/19314 (completed in 2016)

3. Vladimir Neumann: Polish Chants in Moscow at the End of the 17th Century (completed in 2015)

2. Miriam Lormes: 'Among good musicians there has never been an ethnical divide'. Interkulturalität und politisches Engagement in Musikerdiskursen im postjugoslawischen Makedonien (scholarship holder  of Cusanuswerk; completed in 2015)

1. Katharina Tyran: Identity-related Positioning Along the Border: Negotiations of Language and Belonging among the Burgenland Croats (completed in 2014)

 

Habilitations (first reviewer)

1. Dieter Stern: Taimyr Pidgin Russian in the context of the colonization of Siberia (2010)

2. Lumnije Jusufi: The Albanian Wall. An interdisciplinary microstudy on drawing and overcoming of the border in the Dibra region (2022)

 

Organised international conferences and workshops

45. Heroism and Victimhood in the Post-Yugoslav context. Mediatization and political culture. Jagiellonian University Krakow, 23.-24.4.2027 (with Dr. Piotr Mirocha; DFG)

44. The "Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia" and Knowledge Production during the Socialist Regime (1950-1990). Leksikografski Zavod Zagreb, 18.-19.9.2025 (with Dr. Filip Hameršak/Dr. Dino Mujadžević; DFG)

43. Return Migration. Temporalities, Projects, Impacts. Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research Zagreb, 6.-7.5.2025 (with Jasna Čapo/Zagreb, AvH-Stiftung)

42. Fünfzig Jahre ‚Μεταπολίτευση‘. Die Wiederherstellung der Demokratie in Griechenland. HU Berlin, 14.11.2024 (CeMoG der FU Berlin, SOG)

41. Bălgaristikata v poleto na săvremennata humanitaristika (Bulgarian Studies and Contemporary Humanities). Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut und HU Berlin, 27.-28.10.2024 (NNP Bălgaristika, Sofia)

40. Wahrnehmungen und Positionierungen zum Nahost-Konflikt. Südosteuropa und Deutschland im Vergleich. Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 2.-4.9.2024 (SOG)

39. Bulgarian-Macedonian-French-German Summer School. HU Berlin, 26.-29.6.2024 (OFAJ/DFJW)

38. Russland und Südosteuropa: Wahrnehmungen und Kulturdiplomatie. Symposium des Wissenschaftliches Beirats der SOG, Hamburg, 24.2.2023

37. Border studies at intersections of subject boundaries. Doctoral School with the Centre Marc Bloch. Berlin, 8.-9.12.2021

36. Innovative paths of Albanology. International Online Conference for Young Researchers. Berlin, 14.-15.10.2021

35. 59th International University Week of the South East Europe Association: "1945-2020: Memory Culture as German-Southeast European Entangled History" (with Dr. Katerina Kralova und Dr. Sabina Ferhadbegović). Tutzing, 4.-8.10.2021

34. Reconsidering Yugoslav Kosova. HU Berlin, 17.6.2021

33. Srebrenica. Podium discussion/Junge Berlin_erinnen aus Bosnien. Berlin Science Week@HU Berlin. 3.11.2020

32. Discourses and practices of space sharing: Christians and Muslims in the Balkans. HU Berlin, 5.-7.12.2019 (Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung, Dr. Olimpia Dragouni)

31. Transgressing Boundaries in North Macedonia. Historical narratives, identity constructs, and political interventions in times of change. HU Berlin, 27.6.2019 (with PD Nr. Nenad Stefanov)

30. Bordering Performances of identity and violence of Slavic and Non-Slavic communities in the Balkans. HU Berlin, 5.-7.3.2019 (KOSMOS Workshop by Dr. Agata Rogos)

29. Humboldt Bridge Builder #2: Crossing Borders. Transnational Border Studies in Central Europe. Prag, 29.-30.11.2018

28. Discursive inclusion and exclusion of Jews and Muslims in the Balkans (DAAD), Podgorica, 9.-11.7.2018; Sarajevo 3.-5.9.2018

27. Student workshop: presentation of fieldwork results of the international excursion to Macedonia and Albania 2017 (DAAD). Berlin, 16.2.2018; Belgrade, 26.2.2018

26. South East European Film Festival, 26.-29.5.2017 (with Jordan Plevneš/Paris and Skopje and Harald Siebler/moviemembers Berlin)

25. 55th International University Week of the South East Europe Association: "Islam and Muslims in Southeast Europe" (with PD Dr. Jordanka Telbizova-Sack). Tutzing, 26.-30.9.2016

24. South East European Film Festival, 26.-29.6.2016 (with Jordan Plevneš/Paris and Skopje and Harald Siebler/moviemembers Berlin)

23. Panel "On the Fringes of the Slavic World: Neoliberal cross-border practices of daily market exchange" (with Prof. Dr. Victor Friedman, Prof. Dr. Rozita Dimova and Prof. Dr. Dieter Stern); ASEEES Convention Philadelphia, 19.-22.11.2015

22. South East European Film Festival, 10.-13.6.2015 (with Jordan Plevneš/Paris and Skopje)

21. Interdisciplinary Slavic Language Contact. Workshop of Strategische Initiativförderung (ExIn), HU Berlin, 21.-23.05.2015 (with Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus/Jena)

20. Concepts of Slavic. Humboldt-Kolleg in Prague, 14.-16.3.2013 (with PD Dr. T. Glanc; AvH-Stiftung)

19. Closing Conference of the COST Network Remaking Eastern Borders in Europe. A network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe's Eastern peripheries (with Prof. S. Green, Dr. R. Dimova u.a.), HU Berlin, 11.-13.1.2013

18. 51st International University Week of the Southeast Europe Association: "Babel Balkan? Political and Sociocultural Contexts of Language in Southeast Europe" (with Prof. Wolfgang Dahmen/Jena). Tutzing, 1.-5.10.2012

17. Mainstream and Dissident Scientific Networks between Southeastern Europe and Germany, HU Berlin, 20.-22.9.2012 (with Prof. Sevasti Trubeta)

16. The Church Slavonic Apostolos, Workshop, HU Berlin, 8.-9.12.2011

15. Doing Gender - Doing the Balkans, HU Berlin, 12.-13.5.2011

14. COST-EastBordNet "Remaking Eastern Borders in Europe", Work Group 1: "Borders, Materiality, Significations", HU Berlin, 8.-9.4.2010

13. 8th Altslawistentreffen. HU Berlin, 18.-19.2.2010

12. 48th International University Week of the Southeast Europe Association: “Migrations from, in and to Southeast Europe: Current and Historical Perspectives” (with Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer /Regensburg). Tutzing, 5.-9.10.2009

11. Incorporating coethnic migration. A comparative perspective (with Prof. Jasna Čapo Žmegač/Zagreb, Prof. Klaus Roth/München), IBZ München, 11.-13.6.2009

10. Serbian linguistics: Setting the Agenda (with Dr. Biljana Golubović/Tübingen), HU Berlin, 11.-13.12.2008

9. Colloquium for PhD Students of Dr. Fritz Exner-Stiftung “Southeast European Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies” (with Prof. Gabriella Schubert), Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel, 27.-29.11.2008

8. Islam and Muslims in (Southeast) Europe. Continuity and Change in the Context of Transformation and EU-Enlargement (with Dr. Jordanka Telbizova-Sack), HU Berlin, 7.-8.11.2008

7. EU-Bulgarian Studies: Perspectives and Potentials (with the Bulgarian Embassy, Berlin), HU Berlin, 16.-17.5.2008

6. Europe’s Slavicity or the Slavia’s Europeanness: A Contribution of Cultural Relativist Linguistics (with Prof. Alicja Nagórko/HU Berlin), HU Berlin, 31.5.-2.6.2007

5. Slavic Studies after the EU-enlargement: Challenges and prospects. First Interdisciplinary Slavic Studies Conference. Thessaloniki, 29.9.-1.10.2006

4. 45th International University Week of the Southeast Europe Association: “Inclusion and Exclusion in the Western Balkans” (with Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer/Regensburg). Tutzing, 9.-13.10.2006

3. The Pomaks in Greece and Bulgaria – a model case for borderland minorities in the Balkans (with Prof. Klaus Steinke/Erlangen), Erlangen, 22.-23.7.2005

2. Language Birth and Language Death on the Edge of the “Slavic World” (with Dr. Dieter Stern/HU Berlin), HU Berlin, 24.-26.2.2005

1. Minorities in Greece – Historical Issues and New Perspectives (with Dr. Sevasti Trubeta/FU Berlin), FU Berlin, 30.1.-1.2.2003

 

Co-organized CENTRAL events of the project "Institutionalized memories in Central and Southeast Europe"

Workshop Vienna 8.-10.12.2016: „Memory in Post-conflict societies“ (DAAD)

Workshop Prague 11.-12.12.2017: „Memory in Post-conflict societies“ (DAAD)

Workshop HU Berlin 23.-25.10.2018: „Memory in Post-conflict societies“ (DAAD)

Workshop Vienna 7.-9.12.2019: „Memory in Post-conflict societies" (DAAD)

Workshop Vienna February 8.-10.2.2023: „Memory and Victimhood“ (CENTRAL)

Workshop HU Berlin February 28.2.-1.3.2024: "Transformation of Memory Cultures and Politics" (CENTRAL)

Workshop Warsaw September 11.-13.9.2025: "“Materialities of memory in Central, East and South-East Europe” (CENTRAL)

 

Events organised in the Berlin branch of Southeast European Association (SOG) and the Department for South Slavic Studies at HU Berlin since 2013 (cf. https://www.sogde.org/de/veranstaltungen/archiv/)

05.05.2026 Film und Gespräch “Lepota poroka / The Beauty of Vice” Kurzvortrag und Gespräch mit Borjana Gaković und Dr. Jacqueline Nießer

05.02.2026 Spotlight Serbia #5: “Language Against the Machine: The Analysis of the Language of Protests in Serbia 2024/2025” with Nastasja Deretić, University of Novi Sad

22.01.2026 Lesung und Diskussion „Tirana. Ein kurzer Traum“ mit Stefan Çapaliku. Diskussion mit Dr. Zuzana Finger, Prof. Viola Isufaj

27.11.2025 Spotlight Serbia #4: Presentation & Discussion “Love and Solidarity against Fear. Legitimation Strategies of the Student Movement in Serbia” mit Dr. Jelena Lončar, Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade

14.11.2025 Filmvorführung “Gurbetçars — The non Migrants” (Linda Paganelli, PD Dr. Lumnije Jusufi)

06.11.2025 Lecture “Poetics of Borders in the Literature of Gazmend Kapllani” Discussion with Prof. Dr. Christian Voss, Assoc. Prof. Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Dr. Paola del Zoppo and Dr. Belfjore Qose

23.10.2025 Spotlight Serbia #3: Film and Discussion “Wake up, Serbia! Pumpaj: The Student Uprising.” Mod.: Prof. Dr. Christian Voß and Sara Marenčić

23.09.2025 Kosova in Berlin #9: Meliza Krasniqi: Book presentation “Albanian Women Writers 1954-1990"

22.07.2025 Kosova in Berlin #8: “Kosovo in Berlin: Second Edition – 2025: Post-War Cinema in Kosovo” mit Dr. Jeta Abazi-Gashi, University of Prishtina

15.07.2025 Spotlight Serbia #2: “Ethnicity, Language, and Cultural Memory in the Balkans” with Dr. Marija Mandić, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

08.07.2025 Podiumsdiskussion „Politik mit Herkunft: Deutsche Politiker*innen mit albanischen Wurzeln – zwischen Herkunft und Verantwortung“ mit Aferdita Suka (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) Muhamet Idrizi (CDU)

01.07.2025 Spotlight Serbia #1: “Students' Media Practices during Serbia's Anti-Corruption Protests 2024-25” with Igor Išpanović, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

18.06.2025 Präsentation „Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropas Band 3: Staatlichkeit und Politik in Südosteuropa nach 1800“ Herausgeber: Dr. Konrad Clewing und Prof. Dr. Hannes Grandits

18.06. 2025 „Bürokratisierung der Sprache und sprachliche Manipulation im serbischen öffentlichen Diskurs“ von Jovana Stojanović, Universität Belgrad

17.06.2025 Kosova in Berlin #7: “Holidays, Family, and Homeland in the Practices of Kosovo Albanian Diaspora” by Prof. Dr. Lumnije Kadriu, Prishtina

11.06.2025 Gastvortrag „Siebdruck und Subkultur: Künstlerische Kollektive auf dem Balkan“ von Sofija Pašalić, Künstler*innenkollektiv Matrijaršija, Belgrad

28.05.2025 Buchdiskussion “The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border. Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I” mit Prof. Dr. Hannes Grandits, Prof. Katharina Tyran, Universität Helsinki und Prof. Gábor Egry, Institut für politische Geschichte in Budapest

06.05.2025 Kosova in Berlin #6: “Poetry and Discussion on the Topic of Kosovar ‘Guest-Workers’ in Germany” with Elona Beqiraj

06.02.2025 Lecture “A Personal Approach to the History of South Slavic Area: between Ottoman and (Post)Socialist Studies” with Dr. Dino Mujadžević, Zagreb

28.01.2025 Kosova in berlin #5: “Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding: The Role of Women in Making the State in Kosovo” with Prof. Vjosa Musliu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Mod.: Arban Mehmeti

24.01.2025 Lesung und Gespräch „Herkunft. Heimat. Diebe. Migration und Literatur“: Alem Grabovac im Gespräch mit Christian Voß

3.12.2024: Kosova in Berlin #4 Presentation of Elona Gjata‘s book “Kosova in 100 pictures”

29.11.2024 Vortrag „Perzeptionen und Rezeptionen des Osmanischen Reichs in Südosteuropa bis heute“ von Dr. Zora Hesová, Karls-Universität Prag

21.11.2024 Vortrag „Straßennamen als postjugoslawische Linguistic Landscapes” von Dr. Piotr Mirocha, Jagiellonen-Universität Krakau

19.11.2024: Kosova in Berlin #3 Presentation by prof. Izer Maksuti (Prizren University): The status of the Albanian language in the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Kosova”

28.10.2024 „Weniger Erinnerung - mehr Vergangenheit? Schreiben gegen das Defizit an Zukunft“: Prof. Christian Voß im Gespräch mit mit Georgi Gospodinov

22.10.2024: Kosova in Berlin #2 Presentation of Gëzim Aliu’s new novel „Illness and God”

18.10.2024 Buchvorstellung „Berliner Forschungskolloquium Südosteuropa“ mit Marta Verginella, University of Ljubljana und Milan Ristović, University of Belgrade

23.09.2024 Kosova in Berlin #1: Book Presentation “Memory and Trauma: The Memory of the 1998-1999 war in Albanian Literature in Kosova (2023)” with Blerina Rogova-Gaxha and Dr. Zuzana Finger

16.02.2024 Lesung und Diskussion “The Facets of Pluralism: Intellectual Histories of Yugoslav and Polish Exchanges (1950s-1960s)” mit Dr. Naum Trajanovski

06.02.2024 Buchpräsentation und Podiumsdiskussion „Beziehungsgeschichte Deutschland–Albanien–Kosovo“ mit Dipl.-Pol. Enrico Seewald (FU Berlin)

01.02.2024 Lesung und Diskussion „Tesla oder Die Vollendung der Kreise“ mit Alida Bremer

11.01.2024 Buchvorstellung und Gespräch „An den Rändern der Literatur“ von Prof. Dr. Svetlana Efimova (LMU), Prof. Dr. Christian Voß. Im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Milka Car (Universität Zagreb), Prof. Dr. Csongor Lőrincz (HU) und Dr. Danijela Lugarić (Universität Zagreb)

15.12.2023 Vortrag und Diskussion „‚Verspätete Verwestlichung‘ oder die ‚Wiederkehr der Götter‘: Religion und Säkularität im orthodoxen Südosteuropa“ von Prof. Wolfgang Höpken, Universität Leipzig

24.11.2023 Book Discussion “Translocal Care across Kosovo's Borders. Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines (Berghahn 2023)” by Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

09.11.2023 Lecture “Female Voices from Albanian Literature” by Dr. Belfjore Zifla, University of Tirana

09.11.2023 Lecture “Albanian Literature as World Literature” by Prof. Anila Mullahi, University of Tirana

26.06.2023 Lesung “Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame: a documentary novel” by Ag Apolloni

09.06.2023 Lesung „Kurze Geschichten für einen langen Tag. Eine ungewöhnliche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts“ von Enver Robelli

02.06.2023 Book Presentation “A Concise History of Serbia” by Prof. Dejan Djokić. Moderation: John Connely, organized by Prof. Dr. Hannes Grandits.

04.05.2023: Lesung „Mit dem Doppeladler im Ruhrpott: Ein Albaner erzählt seine Geschichte“ von Driton Gashi. Mod.: PD Dr. Lumnije Jusufi

20.04.2023 Buchvorstellung und Podiumsdiskussion (Hybrid) „Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Bulgarien“ von Rayna Breuer. Mod.: Marinela Lipčeva

16.03.2023-18.03.2023 Workshop “Roads to Happiness. Traffic Infrastructure in Southeast Europe, Hegemonic Discourse, and its Challenges”

02.02.2023 Lecture “Post-Yugoslav Literary Possibilities – Narratives about the Danube and the Danube Swabians” Speaker: Dr. Danica Trifunjagić, IDGL, Tübingen

26.01.2023 Diskussion „Die orthodoxen Kirchen in Südosteuropa“ mit Klaus Buchenau, Karin Hofmeisterová, Vasilios Makrides und Marinela Liptcheva

13.12.2022 Discussion “Dystopias of Albanianness. Science-Fiction from Kosovo in the 2020s” Artrit Bytyçi, storylab, Prishtina

08.12.-09.12.2022 Szenische Lesung „Hinko Gottlieb. Unveröffentlichte deutschsprachige Texte. “ Eine Welt-Uraufführungmit Franziska Machens, Michael Goldberg. Regie: Anita Vulesica. Moderation: Ruža Fotiadis, Marija Vulesica.

10.11.2022 Lecture “The Alphabet of Discord. The Ideologization of Writing Systems on the Balkans” Dr. Giustina Selvelli, Ca’Foscari University, Venezia

27.10.2022 Lesung und Gesprächn„Albanien: Bereit für die EU?“ mit Franziska Tschinderle, Südosteuropa-Korrespondentin, Tirana Mod.: Blerta Lazebeu, Vorstandsvorsitzende OASA

16.06.2022 Podiumsdiskussion “Soft Power Literature? The image of Russia in Albania” with Dr. Zuzana Finger, Prof. Viola Isufaj and Dr. Belfjore Qose

12.05.2022 Podiumsdiskussion „Soft Power Literatur? Das Russlandbild auf dem Balkan“ mit Prof. Dr. Alexandra Ioannidou, Prof. Dr. Svetlana Kazakova und PD Dr. Tatjana Petzer. Mod.: Prof. Dr. Christian Voß 

20.01.2022 Online Diskussion „Hat Europa weggeschaut? Solidarität mit Bosnien-Herzegowina 1992-1995“ Mod.: Dr. Thomas Schad, Dr. Kathrin Jurkat

14.12.2021 Panel Discussion „Martin Camaj between modernity and tradition“ Speaker: Dr. Belfjore Qose, University of Tirana, Dr. Zuzana Finger, Dr. Blerina Rogova Gaxha

15.11.2021 Vortrag “‘Vaxinistas’ and ‘anti-vaxxers’: modernity, the pandemic and vaccination in Greece” Speaker: Prof. Dr. Georgios Angelopoulos, Aristotle University Thessaloniki

17.06.2021 Project Presentation and Discussion “Reconsidering Yugoslav Kosova” Speaker: Ervina Halili, Atdhe Hetemi and Arban Mehmeti

14.04.2021 Online-Lecture and Discussion “From Londongrad with Love“ with Prof. Vesna Goldsworthy, University of Exeter

16.02.2021 Online-Diskussion “Projekte albanologjike në Universitetin e Humboldtit në Berlin” mit Dr. Lumnije Jusufi, Dr. Agata Rogoś und Delina Binaj, M.A.

19.01.2021 Online-Roundtable “Holocaust, War Crimes and Memory Wars: WWII and the Balkans” with Prof. Dr. Kateřina Králová, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute/ Charles University Prague, Prof. Dr. Nadège Ragaru, Sciences Po, Paris, and Tobias Blümel, M.A., FU Berlin

13.01.2021 Online-Diskussion “Writing on borders and Albanian migration” Prof. Dr. Gazmend Kapllani (DePaul University, Chicago). Mod.: Dr. Agata Rogoś (HU Berlin)

21.07.2020 Vortrag “Macedonian State and Nation and the Rival Projects Between 1991 and 2018” by Prof. Ljupčo Risteski, Skopje

12.11.2019 Buchpräsentation/Diskussion „Im Brand der Welten: Ivo Andrić. Ein europäisches Leben“ von Michael Martens (DGAP)

25.01.2019 Vortrag “Je mehr sich die Italiener erinnerten, desto mehr wollten die Deutschen vergessen". Das Massaker auf Kephalonia 1943 als kontroverser Erinnerungsort in Nachkriegsdeutschland und Italien” von Dr. Soňa Mikulová (MPI für Bildungsforschung, Berlin)

22.06.2018 Vortrag „Feindbilder und Propagandasprache im Ersten Weltkrieg: Österreich-Ungarn und Königreich Serbien“ von Dr. Gordana Ilić Marković

04.06.2018 Vortrag “Types and possible usages of corpora in South Slavic languages” by Prof. Maja Miličević Petrović

29.05.2018 Buchpräsentation „Quecke“ von Petre Andreevski. Vortragende: Sebastian Guggolz, Benjamin Langer

22.05.2018 Diskussion „Systemfehler? Das politische System Bosnien und Herzegowinas“ Vortragende: Tobias Flessenkemper, Dr. Nicolas Moll. Mod.: Hana Stojić (Traduki)

26.02.2018 Buchpräsentation „Das Deutsche Reich und das Königreich Montenegro in den Akten des Politischen Archivs des Auswärtigen Amts“

01.12.2017 Vortrag „Tribunale - Kriegsverbrecherprozesse im sozialistischen Jugoslawien von Dr. Sabina Ferhadbegović (Universität Jena)

15.06.2017 Vortrag “Aktuelle Forschungs- und Editionsprojekte zum rumänischen Holocaust“ von PD Dr. Mariana Hausleitner

26.05.2017 „Intermediale Perspektiven auf Erinnerungskulturen und Eigen- und Fremdbilder in Südosteuropa“ Vortragende: Ana Bilankov (Berlin/Zagreb), Borjana Gaković (Berlin), Prof. Ljiljana Glišović (Belgrad), Iga Nowicz, M.A. (London/Berlin), Dr. Nenad Stefanov (Berlin), Prof. Christian Voß (Berlin)

03.05.2017 Vortrag “Hrvatska poezija u 20. stoljeću: Antun Branko Šimić, Tin Ujević i Nikola Šop” von Prof. Dr. Krešimir Nemec (Zagreb)

08.02.2017 Diskussion/Vortrag „Verbrechen an den rumänischen Roma im 2. Weltkrieg“ von PD Dr. Mariana Hausleitner (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Viorel Achim (Bukarest)

08.12.2016 Vortrag “Još jednom o periodizaciji srpske književnosti” von Prof. Dr. Sava Damjanov (Universität Novi Sad/Serbien)

17.11.2016 Vortrag „Aktuelle Islamdebatten in Europa und Südosteuropa“ von Prof. Dr. Jordanka Telbizova-Sack (Wien/Berlin)

10.12.2015 Vortrag “Serbian Language Narration among Children living in Mainland and Diaspora” von Dr. Ivana Vučina Simović (Universität Kragujevac)

02.12.2015: Podium „Literatur der Grenze – Grenzen der Literatur“: Vorträge „Die albanisch-südslawische Staatsgrenze in Dibra“ von Dr. Lumnije Jusufi (HU Berlin) und “The novel Varrë of Eqrem Basha” von Prof. Dr. Bardh Rugova (Universität Prishtina); Lesung mit Eqrem Basha aus seinem Roman "Varrë" (dt.: Linie), Diskussion und Moderation von Dr. Pandeli Pani

26.11.2015 Podiumsdiskussion „Flüchtlinge aus, in und durch Südosteuropa. Fluchtrouten im marginalen Europa“ Vortragende: Karl Kopp (Stiftung PRO ASYL), Harald Glode (borderline-europe. Menschenrechte ohne Grenzen e.V.), Mod.: Prof. Dr. Sevasti Trubeta (University of the Aegean, Lesbos)

29.10.2015 Vortrag „Mehr Demokratie wagen? Das bulgarische Wahlrechtsreferendum und seine Folgen“ von Dr. Michael Hein (HU Berlin)

11.11.2014-10.02.2025 Reihe von 5 Lesungen „Die Unzufriedenen. Literatur des Protests aus Südosteuropa“ (11.11.2014 „Edo Popović: Der Aufstand der Ungenießbaren“, 02.12.2014 „Alek Popov: Schneeweißchen und Partisanenrot“, 13.01.2015 „Andrej Nikolaidis: Die Ankunft“, 10.02.2015 „Saša Ilić: Pad Kolumbije“, 26.01.2015 Diskussion “Unbribable Bosnia and Herzegovina?”, initiated and organised by Prof. Miranda Jakiša)

20.-21.01.2015 Workshop “Inside and Outside Southeastern Europe: Perspectives from Greece and Germany on the Region” (mit CeMoG der FU, DAAD, AA)

10.07.2013 Vortrag “National border-crossing in the former Yugoslavia: Are 'multiple identities' possible?” by S.E. Dr. Ivo Visković, Botschafter der Republik Serbien in Berlin

20.06.2013 Vortrag „Bulgarische Staatsjugendorganisationen. Politik der Nationsbildung vor und nach 1944“ von Prof. Markus Wien (Amerikanische Universität Blagoevgrad)

30.04.2013 Tagung „Faschismus und Antisemitismus in Griechenland: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart“ (Topographie des Terrors, mit Prof. Miltos Pechlivanos

 

Student excursions (for documentation see http://humboldt-balkan-cosmos.net/)

Slawenburg Raddusch (27.6.2015)

North Macedonia and Albania (7.-17.9.2017)

Sandžak (Montenegro and Serbia, 11.-22.9.2019)

Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and North Macedonia (10.-16.6.2024)

Sofia and Skopje (30.10.-7.11.2024)

Field work in Bautzen and the Sorbian-speaking villages in Lusatia (20.-21.1.2012, 18.-19.1.2013, 12.-13.12.2014, 1.-2.6.2016, 8.7.2017, 8.-9.7.2022, 30.6.-1.7.2023)

 

Invited Lectures and conference presentations (since 2022)

28.4.2022: “Decolonize Church Slavonic”. Ringvorlesung “Ukraine”, HU Berlin

3.5.2022: "The Albanian Poetics of Borders and Boundaries". Workshop "Kosovo's B/Orders and Beyond: Crossing Borders, Challenging Social Orders", Viadrida-University Frankfurt/O.

10.5.2022: "Religionsgrenzen und Transnationalität in neuerer Literatur aus Südosteuropa". Conference "Islam auf dem Balkan". Evangelische Akademie Loccum

9.6.2022: “Linguistic self-empowerment of New Speakers: Slavic ethnic revival in Greece since the 1980s". Conference “Learning the Language of the Neighbors: Education Policies, Ideologies and Practices in East Central Europe”. Universität Oslo

20.6.2022:  “Kosovarische Literatur im 20. Jh. Jugoslawisches Bratstvo und/oder albanisches Jedinstvo?“ Universität Graz

2.7.2022: „Inter- und Transdisziplinarität in den sogenannten Kleinen Fächern nach der deutschen Exzellenz-Initiative. Beispiele aus der Slawistik.“ Humboldt-Kolleg „Wissenschaft in Dialog und Monolog“, Arbanasi (BG)

19.7.2022: “Between Yugoslav brotherhood and Albanian unity. Albanian literature in Kosovo in 20th century”. Prishtina International Summer University

20.7.2022: “Kosovar and Balkan transnational literature today“.  Prishtina International Summer University

27.7.2022: „Hybridität auf dem Balkan: Identitätsbildung, Minderheiten und Literatur“. OASA-Workshop “Wir erinnern 3.0. Die dritte Generation erzählt”, HU Berlin

8.9.2022: “Transnational literature from Kosovo and the Balkans”. Conference “Java e Bibliotekës në Kosovë”, National Library of Kosovo, Prishtina

28.10.2022: “Letërsia shqipe në Jugosllavinë e Titos: Ndërmjet angazhimit ndaj Jugosllavisë, hermetizmit dhe refuzimit” (with Belfjore Qose). Conference “101. Godišnjica Katedre za Albanologiju na Beogradskom univerzitetu. Međunarodna naučna konferencija”, University of Belgrade

26.10.2022/2.11.2022: “The Russian Invasion in the Ukraine: The perspective from Berlin and from the Balkans”. DePaul University, Chicago (Co-Teaching with Dr. Gazmend Kapllani)

17.11.2022: “Krahasim midis pluricentrizmit të shqipes dhe të sllavishtes së jugut 30 vjet pas shpërbërjes së Jugosllavisë.” Conference “Shqipja standarde sot”, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina

23.11.2022: “Memory wars and ethnic stereotypes in textbooks and literature from the Balkans.” Conference “Role of Education in the Overcoming of the Legacy of the Past and in Reinforcing Democratic Institutions”. Prague, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

5.12.2022: “Dominant vs. non-dominant varieties: Contributions from the Balkans to the conceptualization of pluricentrism.”  Serija lingvističkih predavanja “Čovjek – Jezik – Svijet” 5, University of Sarajevo

12.12.2022: “Linguistic self-empowerment of New Speakers: Slavic ethnic revival in Greece since the 1980s". MELMUB-Conference “Minority and Endangered Languages in the Multilingual Context of the Balkans”, Ca’Foscari University, Venedig

2023:

9.2.2023: “Victim or loser? War trauma and antinationalism in transnational literature from the Balkans”. CENTRAL-Workshop “Notion and construction of victimhood in Central, East and Southeast Europe”, University Vienna

23.2.2023: „Albanian Literature in Kosovo in the 1930-1980s in the Yugoslav literary field”. Conference “Słowiańszczyzna dawniej i dziś – język, literatura, kultura”. University Wrocław

24.2.2023: Opening of the SOG Symposium “Russland und Südosteuropa: Wahrnehmungen und Kulturdiplomatie“, Katholische Akademie Hamburg

8.3.2023: “Towards a Cultural History of the Yugoslav Albanians”, Institut za etnologiju I folkloristiku, Zagreb

14.4.2023: “Ulyssee 2.0? Return to the Balkans in today’s transnational literature” (with Belfjore Qose). The Hidai “Eddie” Bregu Annual Public Lecture, DePaul University Chicago

28.4.2023: „Hybride (Sprach)Identität in postmigrantischer Literatur aus Deutschland und vom Balkan“. Conference „Interkulturalität, Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprach(en)politik im europäischen Zusammenhang", University Tirana

29.4.2023: Input lecture "Interdisciplinarity in Southeast European Studies". 1st Southeast European Studies Forum in Regensburg

29.5.2023: "The gaze of the colonized? Kosovar narratives in the (Post-)Yugoslav cultural field". Conference "Discourses of war(s) in 1990s in the (ex-) Yugoslav area". University of Warsaw (Prop)

7.6.2023: "Divergence and re-convergence across the German and the Albanian Wall in literature and film." Conference "Borderworlds. Temporal, Geographical and Psychosocial Exploration of Symbolic Borders", Charles University Prague

13.7.2023: "The potential of Slavic revivals in northern Greece (Macedonia and Western Thrace)". Conference "The future of Slavic languages and Slavic studies: Sociolinguistics, multilingualism, scenarios, prognostic methods", Justus Liebig University Giessen

24.8.2023: "Qëndrimet pluricentrike gjuhësore: Kufijtë gjuhësorë dhe gruporë të migrantëve shqiptarë dhe kosovarë në Berlin" (with Arta Sopaj). The XLI International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, Prishtinë

4.-5.9.2023: "Scenarios of Reversing Language Shift among minoritized languages in Greece". Conference "Survival of the Arbëresh language in the 21st century". Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Tirana

2.-3.10.2023: Workshop "Balkan Talks on War and Peace", Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju and S. Fischer-Stiftung, Belgrade (Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju)

25.10.2023: Roundtable "Reshaping the Field: Postcoloniality and Slavic Studies". Conference "Decolonizing Space in the Gobal East", University of Helsinki

26.10.2023: "'Arvanites are not Albanians'? Sociolinguistics and Balkan minorities since Peter Trudgill and the 1970s". Conference "Studimet për shqiptarët në Britaninë e Madhe dhe në vendet e Europës Veriore". Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina

21.11.2023: “Towards a Cultural History of the Yugoslav Albanians”. SEELECTS Lecture, Ghent University

13.12.2023: "Georgi Gospodinov and the end of the transnational paradigm". Workshop "Time Shelter" by Georgi Gospodinov. https://culturecenter-su.org/time-shelter-public-discussion/

2024:

29.2.2024: "Decolonize Yugoslavia? Kosovo-Albanian memories of Brotherhood and Unity". CENTRAL-Workshop "Transformation of Memory and Cultures and Politics", HU Berlin, 29.2.-1.3.2024

23.3.2024: Podium discussion with Alida Bremer: "Tesla oder Die Vollendung der Kreise". Leipziger Buchmesse 2024

26.6.2024: "The Macedonian Question(s)". OFAJ/DFJW Touring European Summer School, HU Berlin, 26.-29.6.2024

11.7.2024: "Towards a Cultural History of Albanians in Tito's Yugoslavia". CAS SSE Seminar, University Rijeka

29.8.2024: "Cultural Defectors? Towards a Cultural History of Yugoslav Albanians". 42. International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, Prishtina, 19.-30.8.2024

2.9.2024: "Muslime und Juden in Südosteuropa: Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte der Exklusion". Konferenz "Wahrnehmungen und Positionierungen zum Nahost-Konflikt. Südosteuropa und Deutschland im Vergleich". Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 2.-4.9.2024

24.10.2024: Podiumsdiskussion mit Alida Bremer und Elke Schmitter. Botschaft der Republik Kroatien in Berlin

27.10.2024: Moderation des Panels "Small philologies and AI". Conference "Bulgarian Studies and Contemporary Humanities". Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut Berlin

28.10.2024: Podiumsdiskussion mit Georgi Gospodinov: "Weniger Erinnerung - mehr Vergangenheit? Schreiben gegen das Defizit an Zukunft". HU Berlin

2025:

7.5.2025: "Challenging the Transnational Paradigm: The Motif of Return in Southeast European Literatures Today". Conference "Return Migration. Temporalities, Projects, Impacts", IEF Zagreb, 6.-7.5.2025

28.5.2025: "Nordmazedonien: Sprachpolitik und Identität zwischen Jugoslawien und der Europäischen Union". Ringvorlesung Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

23.7.2025: "Kann Literatur die Geographie und Diplomatie verändern?" Westbalkan-Salon/Internationaler Club des Auswärtigen Amts, Berlin

12.9.2025: "Yugoslav or Sub-Yugoslav Nation-Building? Contentious Knowledge Production in the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia between 1955 and 1990. CENTRAL-Workshop, University of Warsaw

18.9.2025: "Unique selling points of the Albanian version of the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia". Conference "Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia and the production of knowledge during the Socialist Regime", Zagreb, 18.-19.9.2025

28.10.2025: "The Yugoslav Field of Albanian Studies". Conference "Albanian Studies among the South Slavs", Kosovar Academy of Sciences and Arts, Prishtina, 27.-28.10.2025

6.11.2025: "Gazmend Kapllani: The early bird of transnational Balkan literature". Online conference "Poetics of borders in the literature of Gazmend Kapllani"

2026:

27.5.2026: "Zwischen Konflikt und Kitsch. Fernsehserien aus Südosteuropa seit 2000". Universität Heidelberg

2.10.2026: "Die Serialisierung Ex-Jugoslawiens. Film und Fernsehen auf dem Westbalkan heute". 15. Deutscher Slavistiktag, Universität Jena

26.-28.11.2026: Комерсиализиране на балканизма? Конструиране на Другия в романите „Улица без име“, „Граница“, „Към езерото“, „Еликсир“ и „Анима“ от Капка Касабова. Sofia: Международния научен форум "Българистиката в съвременния свят – проблеми и предизвикателства

 

 

First Supervisor for final theses (BA, MA, Magister, Diplom, since 2007)

a) South Slavic Studies

Antić: Graffiti als Teil von Erinnerungskultur? Vergangenheit und Heldenfiguren in der Linguistic Landscape der zentralserbischen Stadt Kragujevac (2020)

Arifović: Media Analysis in Dayton-Bosnia on the Basis of Sporting Reports (2011)

Atanasov: Türkische Entlehnungen im Bulgarischen (2021)

Bajić: Translatability of Language Varieties in Croatian Children and Youth Culture (2014)

Bock: Yugosphere on the Dalmation Holiday Island? An Empirical Study on Post-Yugoslav Identity among Young People from Serbia and Croatia (2014)

Bukovec: "Die Geschichte meiner Generation muss erzählt werden". Kinder zwischen Trauma und Hoffnung in der Gegenwartsliteratur zum Bosnien-Kireg (2025)

Bulić: The Ethnic Joke Using the Example of “Mujo and Haso” Jokes (2010)

Ćosić: Hot-blooded Croats and Cold-hearted Germans? A Cultural and Language Relativist Examination of Croatian and German Keywords (2008)

Ćejvanović: Gender-sensitive Language Use at Universities: A Comparison of France and Former Yugoslavia (2014)

Ćejvanović: Arebica. Diskurs und Praxis in Bosnien und Herzegowina (2021)

Ćemernica: Language and Nationalism among the Former-Yugoslav Diaspora in Germany (2009)

Ćemernica: Serbia between Euphoric Mood and Stagnation: The Detentions of Milošević (2001) and Mladić (2011) as a Media Event (2012)

Derinyar: Croatia’s Long Way into the EU - Accession Negotiations in Selected Daily Newspapers (2010)

Dimitrova: Gender and Language in South Slavic School Books for First Grade (2011)

Giese: The Puristic Handling of Anglicisms in Croatian - Represented Using the Example of Computer Terminology (2007)

Goršić: The Ideological Functions of Serbocroatian in Present-day Slovenia (2008)

Guth: Zwischen Mythen, Nationalismus und einer Sprache by proxy: Ethnonationale Identitätskonstruktionen im postjugoslawischen Bosnien und Serbien als Stellvertreter interethnischer Konflikte (2025)

Haye: Bosniak, Muslim or Bosnian? Ethnic, religious and national ascriptions in Bosnia-Hercegovina in 20th and 21st Century (2020)

Hermfisse: Slobodan Praljak’s Suicide in The Hague as a Media Event. An analysis of Representational Patterns of ICTY’s Activities in the Bosnian Media Landscape (2018)

Hoffmann: Tourism and Sociocultural Identity: The Example of Croatia (1960-2008) (2008)

Ivanov: Sänger, Stars, Diplomaten: Die Rolle von Balkan Pop Folk-Künstlern als transnationale Akteure (2025)

Jenß: The Politisation of Popular Culture: Former Yugoslav Performances at the Eurovision Song Contest as an Act of Reconciliation or Intensification of the Conflict? (2018)

Jolić: The “Declaration of the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language” 1967: On Yugoslavia’s Language Politics and its Impact on National Constructions of Identity in the Socialist Republic of Croatia (2018)

Jovičić: Youth Culture in Former Yugoslavia: Pop Music between Nationalism and Yugo-nostalgia (2008) 

Just: A Finall 'Never Again'. The 'Failure' of the UNO at the Genocide in Srebrenica as 'Organized Hypocrisy' (2023)

Katovčić: The Language Political Debate in Croatia since 1991. An Empirical Study of the Magazine “Jezik” (2012)

Kirschina: Saying Hello and Goodbye in German, Russian and Bulgarian Chat (2016)

Kraus: Muse als feministischer Inspirationsmythos: Vergleichende Analyse des Motivs der Muse in der heutigen postjugoslawischen Literatur (2023)

Kuljanin: Hybridität und Transnationalität in Migrationskulturen. Bosniaken in Deutschland (2023)

Ljevar: Croatian and Serbian - Debates on Belongingness in the 19th Century (2014)

Ligata: Curse or Blessing - The Dayton Agreement. Bosnia 24 Years Later (2019)

Maltarić: Temporal Adverbial Clauses in German and Croatian (2011)

Milutinović: Postjugoslawische Sprachelemente im Kiezdeutschen und in deutscher Rapmusik. Eine interdisziplinäre Untersuchung von Sprache, Kultur und Identität (2024)

Müssig: Discussion on War Criminals in present-day Croatian and Serbian Media (2011)

Musić: Alhamijado Literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the 16th and 20th Centuries: Sociolinguistic and Historical Literary Aspects (2016)

Musić: Jugoslawische und postjugoslawische Plurizentrikdebatten. Sprache und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert (2020)

Muslić: Die vergessenen Stimmen aus der altkroatischen Republik Poljica. Frauen im Zentrum von Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur (2025)

Nabhan: Dialectal dynamics in the Bulgarian-Serbian contact zone: Convergence and Divergence (2025)

Nagel: Zwischen Brüderlichkeit und Einheit? Eine sprachliche Analyse der Belgrader und Zagreber Ausgabe der Parteizeitung "Borba" 1965-1985 (2021)

Nagel: Attitudes of Montenegrin Students Towards the National Language Policy (2023)

Osvald: Stereotypes of Croats, Serbs and Bosnians in German TV (2020)

Paschke: Welches Bild vermitteln die deutschen Medien der Öffentlichkeit vom Balkan (insbesondere von Serbien und Kosovo)? (2020)

Piasek: Cartographies of a Present Past: On Cohabitation in Multiethnic Regions along the Historical Slavonian Military Frontier (2018)

Peter: Gender and Socialism. Continuities and Discontinuities in Yugoslavia/Serbia and Bulgaria (2012)

Peter: East and Westeuropean Perspectives on the European Migrant Crisis 2015: Between Right-wing Populism and Islamophobia ( 2016)

Poy: Konsensfabrik auf Serbisch. Eine aktuelle linguistische Analyse von Interviews mit der serbischen politischen Opposition (2025)

Projić: The Croatian čovjek - Rather Human or Man? The Difficulty of Ambivalent Generalisation (2009)

Rizova: Sacred and Secularised Terms in Slavia Latina and Slavia Orthodoxa. The Terms Angel and Devil in Polish and Bulgarian (2013)

Rothert: “Love me like Derrida loved Ghosts.” Art as means for visibility, deconstruction, and re-imagination of intersectional positioning as a woman, Romni and Bosnian in the case of Selma Selman (2023)

Schade: Minority Rights Protection in Serbia Using the Example of Bosniaks in Sandžak (2013)

Schmid: Gender, Language and Politics in Former Yugoslav Croatia. An Empirical Study in Social Networks (2019)

Shamsutdinova: Myth and Reality of Language Policy: A Comparative Analysis of European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages Implementation in Poland and Serbia (2024)

Senderović: Societal and Individual Multilingualism: On Perspectives of Support and Challenges in the Frame of EU Language Politics (2017)

Skotović: Multiethnicity and Interculturality of Minorities Using the Example of Ethnic Hungarians and Danube Swabians in Vojvodina in the 20th and 21st Centuries (2018)

Smigielski: Balkan Stereotypes and Antiziganism. An Empirical Study of present German Press (2015)

Spasić-Neumann: The Prizren-Timok-Dialect Using the Example of Vranje. On the Difficulty of Transitional Dialects in the Former Yugoslav Space (2007)

Šošo: Bilingualism and Identity of Croats Living in Germany in the Second Generation (2008)

Slodička: German-Bulgarian Language Alternation on Facebook: Code-Switching or Language-Mixing? (2012)

Slodička: South Slavic Hate Speech: Myths and Expressivity in the Denomination of “the Other” in a Extreme Right Wing TV Show (2017)

Stoyanova: Language Contact and Language Death in Southern Europe: Southslavic Minority Languages in Italy, Romania and Greece (2012)

Telebuh: How Culture-specific is Advertising? An Analysis of a Current Croatian Corpus (2019)

Tokić: Greek National Ideology in Ottoman Macedonia. Two Text Witnesses in their Historical and Cultural Context (2008)

Tokić: Debates on Croatian as a Language of its Own from the 19th to the 21st Century (2013)

Türk: Yugoslav Identities Then and Now: The Nationalisation of Former Gastarbeiter in Berlin (2018) 

Van den Berghe: “Croatian through Russian?” Intercomprehension and Foreign Language Didactics among Slavic L2/L3 Languages (2014)

Vidaković: Lexik des Klosters in zwei slawischen Paraenesen Ephraim des Syrers: Begriffe des Mönchslebens in der russischen und der südslawischen Tradition (2024)

Vlaeva: Erinnerung als literarischer Gegenstand. Ausgewählte Werke von Miljenko Jergović und Lejla Kalamujić zu den Jugoslawienkriegen der 1990er Jahre. (2021)

Volk: Turbofolk in Former Yugoslavia. Between Identitarian Regression and Demarcation (2010)

Vollstädt: Preservation of Language and Tradition in Val Resia - A Critical Evaluation of Strategies and Results (2016)

Vrhovac: The Position of Women in the Traditional and Socialist Society in Former Yugoslavia (2010)

Wasserscheidt: Multilingualism and Language Change among Hungarian Speakers in the Serbian Banat (2007)

Wasserscheidt: Cognitive Modeling of Language Mixing (2010)

 

b) East Slavic Studies

Bilchenko: Arabisms in Russian and Spanish (2009)

Boyko: Ukrainian-Polish-Russian Language Contact: Basis for Cultural and Political Contradictions? (2012)

Causov: German-Russian Language Contact in the Public. Lexical Transferences and Code-Switching (2013)

Dorjsuren: A Comparative Analysis of the Form of Address in Russian and Mongolian Language Use (2009)

Falk: Impact of Cultural Clichés and Stereotypes in Advertising Language in Russian Relating to Russian Identity and the Perception of Women (2018)

Fechner: Transference and Code-Switching. An Empirical Study on Russian-German Language Use among Two Generations of Late Emigrants (2015)

Friedrich: Das russinische Dialektkontinuum auf der Schwelle zwischen West- und Ostslavia (2023)

Gribchenko: Denomination and Toponyms in 20th Century Russian Literature. The Novels “Leto Gospodne” and “Bogomol’e” by  I.S. Šmelev (2017)

Gröpler: Language, Politics and Identity in Slavic CIS States: A Comparison of the Ukraine and Belarus (2012)

Hahn: Factors for Language Maintenance in the Second Generation of Russian Speaking Emigrants in Berlin (2012)

Jamowitsch: Language Action Patterns of Politeness in the Context of Multilingualism. An Empirical Study with Russian-German Students (2011)

Jamowitsch: Expressive Language as a Means of Emotional Communication. An Empirical Analysis of German and Russian Love Declarations in an Intermedia Comparison (2013)

Jochem: “Ja Rusyn byl, jesm’ i budu”. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Eastern Slavic Minority in Central Europe (2017)

Jouravel: Translation Techniques of Early Slavic Translations of Patristic Texts. A Study on De resurrectioneby Methodius of Olympus (2010)

Klester: A Comparison of Current Language Use of Russian Speaking Migrants in Germany in the USA (2013)

Koch: Intercultural Misunderstandings in German-Russian Communication (2008)

Kondratenko: Misogynistic Hate Speech (in Russian-Slovak Comparison) (2017)

Kriesel: Gender-specific Communication - A Phenomenon of Intercultural Communication? A Contrastive Analysis of German and Russian Culture

Kryemadhi: Der Mythos vom Brudervolk. Eine korpusbasierte Metaphernanalyse von Reden zur Ukraine in der russischen Staatsduma im 21. Jh. (2025)

Lytovka: Language Contact in Ukrainian: Discourses of Threat or Enrichment (2013)

Matz: Corporate Communications and Intercultural Language Behaviour Using the Example of the German-Russian Company GAZPROM Germania GmbH (2012)

Mechtcheriakova: Language as a Battle for Symbolic Dominance - Use of Anglicisms vs. Language Purism in Russia since Perestroika (2008)

Mosconi: The UdSSR’s Language Politics in the 1920s-1940s. Prestige, Power and Propaganda (2010)

Mustafabejli: A Global Comparison of the Language of Russian Hip Hop (2011)

Oserowksi: Text-Picture Relations in Russian Car Advertisement (2011)

Pardelli: Shards of a Broken Empire. Russian Language and National Identity in Post-Soviet Transcaucasia (2013)

Patzke: On the Genesis of Suržyk. Political and Linguistic Aspects (2017)

Paschke: Die Mischsprache Surzhyk und die nationale Identität der Ukrainer (2023)

Scharf: The Continuation of Church Slavonic Noun Stems in Russian. A Contrastive Study (2014)

Schmalz: On the Media Integration of German-Russians after the Lisa Case in 2016 (2017)

Schmidt: Phenomena of Transference in Russian-German Language Contact in Germany (2014)

Schottstädt: Language Loyalty of Multilingual Adolescents. A Russian-German Empirical Study (2011)

Schrempf: The Generic Masculine in German and Russian - A Study of Production and Perception (2013)

Semjakina: Anglicisms in Russian Youth Language in Internet Forums (2009)

Sliusarenko: Language Behaviour and Attitude among Russian Jews and German-Russians in Germany (2009)

Takacs: The Myth of Russian Berlin. Language Loyalty among Russian-Jewish, Russian-German and Russian Speaking Communities in Berlin (2012)

Turtsova: Translation Technique and Lexis in Two Old Church Slavonic Translations of the Martyrium of Codratus. A Dating Attempt (2012)

Ufnal: “Demokratija” as flag or stigma word? Critical Discourse Analysis of the Official Press in Today’s Russia (2012)

Ugorets: Aspects Creating Identity in Experiences of Migration. A Comparison of German-Russians and Gastarbeiter from Italy (2013)

Wacker: “German-Russian or “Aussiedlerisch”? Cultural Identities of Coethnic Migrants (2011)

Wenzek: Phrasemes as Translation Units Using the Example of Figures of Speech with Toponyms (2010)

Yukecheva: Language Change in Russian Social Media. A Text Linguistic Analysis of Hashtags (2017)

 

c) West Slavic Studies

Dziedzic: Contact-induced Language Change among Bilingual Speakers in Poland and Germany (2017)

Fehr: Bohemisms in Slovakian in Spontaneous Language (2017) 

Jagoda: Linguistic Landscapes: How Visible is German-Polish Multilingualism in Berlin? (2014)

Krasa: Between East and West - Lacunas in the Russian and German Translation of Wyspianski’s “Wesele” (2015)

Malecki: Polish-German Code-Switching of Migrants: Analysis and Motivation (2011)

Neufeld: Poles? Germans? Silesians? An Empirical Study of Identity and Belonging among Residents of Zawazdkie in Upper Silesia (2014)

Nitzsche: Bilingual Lusatia - Pipe Dream or Reality? Linguistic Landscapes in Sorbian Villages (2012)

Nitzsche: "Horjekach je wotcny kraj!" Culture of Remembrance in Bilingual Lusatia after the First World War (2018) 

Nowak: Czech as a Minority Language in the Multiethnic Banat (2009)

Pulčeska: Die Gefährung und Revitalisierung von Minderheitensprachen. Die Fallbeispiele Niedersorbisch und Friaulisch (2023)

Wasileswki: Interference Errors of Polish Native Speakers in Russian Language Acquisition (2010)

Wilde: Xenophobie in Polen. Eine Untersuchung der Berichterstattung über den Islam (2023)