Vacancies
Currently Five Job Openings at the IOS
The Institute seeks to fill the following five positions (f, m, d) as soon as possible: Scientific Editor / Research Communicator / Postdoc, Research Data Specialist, IT Specialist, Microsoft 365 Administrator, Librarian.
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Publications
“Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropas”: Volume 3 Out Now
The hardcover edition of the seminal work on “Statehood and Politics in Southeast Europe after 1800” is now available.
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Blogs
The Return of Donald Trump and the Failure of the EU in the Western Balkans
Comment by Ulf Brunnbauer on ostBLOG.
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Blogs
Orange Revolution: Ukrainian Civil Society Moves Westwards
20 years ago, large sections of civil society in Ukraine rose up in an “Orange Revolution”. In the IOS blog on the war against Ukraine, Katrin Boeckh puts the events into historical perspective.
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Publications
"Frieden verhandeln im Krieg": New Book by Cindy Wittke and Mandy Ganske-Zapf
Cindy Wittke and co-author Mandy Ganske-Zapf on Russia's war, chances for peace and the art of negotiation.
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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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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
The most fulfilling jobs in America may not be the ones you expect
Article on how to measure the non-pecuniary benefits people get from their jobs, with statements by Olga Popova.
The Washington Post
Die Orange Revolution in der Ukraine
The program “One Hour of History” on the Orange Revolution, with explanations by Katrin Boeckh.
Deutschlandfunk Nova
Magyar fordert Orban heraus | Ungarische Wirtschaft mit Fragezeichen
ZIB Magazin reports on the upswing of the opposition TISZA in Hungary and on economic risks for Hungary after the US presidential elections, with statements by Ulf Brunnbauer.
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