Events

This European lecture series explores politics, society, economics, history, culture, and media in Russia during the transformative decade of the 1990s.

Op 7 november wijdt het Gronings Instituut voor Midden en Oost-Europa (GIMOES) een conferentie aan de geschiedenis van de betrekkingen tussen Oekraïne, Nederland en België.

Europe and Central Asia are linked by decades of commodity trade, but also by developing climate cooperation. Yet Central Asia plays a limited role in the European public debate on global climate change and energy transition.

This paper offers a rebuttal to the long-standing narrative about a prohibition on the development of cotton mills in Tsarist Central Asia.

On Friday 16 June 2023, the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies (IvOC) celebrates the first anniversary of the Platform Oosters Christendom. There is a uniquely interactive programme designed around the theme “Orthodoxy on the move”, complete with short seminars and a panel discussion with renowned speakers.

Prof. David R. Marples will speak about Ukraine's modern history. The lecture covers the various manifestations of Ukrainian self-assertion and aspirations toward independence and democracy from the end of WW2.

Challenges and prospects in research & innovation for the Green Deal

Volodymyr Ishchenko will discuss the concepts of caesarist rule, passive and Jacobin revolutions and hegemony crisis in relation to the post-Soviet condition.

The consequences of climate change are increasingly felt across the world, and Russia is no exception.

For Russia, history is an ideological tool to justify political decisions, both internal and external.

Wit-Rusland geldt als Europa’s ‘laatste dictatuur’ en valt momenteel niet weg te denken uit het nieuws.

Cursus over de geschiedenis van Wit Rusland