Blogs
Si vis pacem – Attack your Neighbors?
A blog post by Katrin Boeckh on the 85th anniversary of the conclusion of the Hitler-Stalin Pact analyzes the political handling of the responsibility for the pact in the Soviet Union and Russia.
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About the Institute
The IOS
The IOS is one of the largest non-university research institutions of its kind in Germany. Through its work, the Institute contributes to a better understanding of the society and history of Eastern and Southeast Europe.
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Blogs
Paving the Way to Denial
Hate speech against Serbis is on the rise in Croatia. On ostBLOG, Katarina Damčević analyzes how political elites also contribute to this by trivializing the Ustaša regime.
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Blogs
Can Memory Europeanize Us?
Article by Nikola Gajić on ostBLOG about how Serbia's policy of remembering the conflicts of the 1990s clashes with EU views and hinders reconciliation and EU integration.
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Library
The Institute’s Library
The IOS library is one of the largest of its kind, collecting and providing access to literature on Eastern Europe. It also maintains a wide range of electronic resources to support research.
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Knowledge Transfer
How the IOS imparts knowledge
Through events, teaching, or by supporting journalists in their research, the IOS conveys knowledge on Eastern and Southeast Europe not only to experts but also to the general public.
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Understanding Eastern and Southeast Europe—creating, preserving, and communicating knowledge. This is the goal of the Regensburg-based Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS). The IOS is one of the largest non-university research institutions of its kind in Germany. Our staff include historians, economists, and political scientists with a particular interest in the former Soviet Union and Southeast Europe. In addition, the IOS provides important infrastructure services for research.
On ostBLOG
Blog Series "Provenance Research at the IOS"
In the course of a current project, the Institute’s library is checked for books, journals and maps that were looted under Nazi rule. In a series on ostBLOG, Daniela Mathuber explains provenance research at the IOS and presents several objects.
Events
The IOS in the Media
Der Deal mit den Nazis, den Putin für "keine schlechte Idee" hält
Guest article by Katrin Boeckh on the 85th anniversary of the conclusion of the Hitler-Stalin Pact on the political handling of the responsibility for the pact in the Soviet Union and Russia.
DER SPIEGEL
Repression über Grenzen hinweg
Russia has listed the German Association for East European Studies as an “extremist organization”. The article describes the background and consequences, with explanations by Fabian Burkhardt.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Südosteuropa: Ein blinder Fleck in der deutschen Berichterstattung?
The program @mediasres discusses German media coverage of Southeastern Europe with Ulf Brunnbauer, among others.
Deutschlandfunk
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