MWNO - Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa

19/10/2026

📢 ARCHIVES / WEBINAR - Check out the the next webinar of the informative series UKRAINE’S ARCHIVAL LANDSCAPE on the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv

🔎 In the last couple of weeks, Nataliia Zalietok has been organizing very informative webinars on the holdings and digitization efforts of Ukrainian archives. Join her, Stefanyk and Griffin for the next webinar on the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Lviv) on

📅 Friday 23 October 2026
⏱️ 16:00 Kyiv / 15:00 Berlin / 09:00 Bloomington
📍 ZOOM - Every session runs with simultaneous Ukrainian–English interpretation and ends with an open Q&A. Register for Webinar 5: https://fb.me/e/krZpqochF

📌 In this session, Olesia Stefanyk, Head of the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv, introduces one of the oldest and most historically layered archival repositories in Eastern Europe. The archives hold records spanning eight centuries. The session is moderated by Dr. Clare Griffin.
The archives were founded in 1784 as the Imperial-Royal Office of Ancient Galician Castle and Land Acts and Corroboration of Documents. They have long been known as the Bernardine Archives, after their home in the Bernardine Monastery, an architectural monument within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Lviv. A further part of the holdings is kept in the Royal Arsenal. Today the archives preserve more than 1,120,000 files from the early twelfth to the twenty-first century, among them 331 documents designated as unique.

16/10/2026

📢 WORKSHOP / VILNIUS - Come and join us in two weeks at the workshop ‚Imperial Urbanism in Northeastern Europe: Spaces, Infrastructures and Transimperial Entanglements in the Long Nineteenth Century‘, organized by our MWNO Fellow Kai Willms.

📅 Oct. 30th, 2026
📍Lithuanian Institute of History (Lietuvos istorijos institutas) and on zoom

📌 Paradigms of research in the urban history of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe have shifted significantly in recent decades. Drawing on the recent paradigmatic shifts, this MWNO Fellow Workshop situates the history of urban development in Northeastern Europe during the ‘long’ nineteenth century in the broader context of how cities in imperial peripheries became spaces for representation of the social and cultural hierarchies of the empire and for imperial projects of modernisation. To this end, it brings presentations on urban spaces and urban biopolitics in Northeastern Europe into dialogue with research on “imperial urbanism” in other borderlands of the Russian imperial space.

🔗 Check out the program and register for zoom here: https://mwseasteurope.hypotheses.org/14701

14/10/2026

📢 KNOWLEDGE / INSTRUMENTALIZATION - Join us next week in at the Aleksanteri-instituutti - Aleksanteri Institute for its annual conference.

Our MWNO colleague Matthias Uhl, long-term MWNO fellow Walter Sperling and Autio-Sarasmo will discuss with Miklóssy how trophy files, modenization and the Western technology figured in Soviet knowledge production.

📅 October 21st, 2026
📍 Hall 2 (2nd floor)
🕒 3:15 pm

12/10/2026

📣 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS at Max Weber Stiftung – Georgia Branch Office

📍 1–3-Month Research Scholarships in Germany – 2027.1
📅 Period: 1 January – 31 July 2027
🏁 Application deadline: 15 November 2026

The MWS-Georgia Branch Office of the MWNO - Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa promotes the development of academic exchange and academic cooperation between the research landscapes of the South Caucasus and Germany in the field of history and its neighboring disciplines.

▪️ For PhD-students or holders of a PhD who are affiliated to an institution in the South Caucasian countries who work on a topic that corresponds to the research profile of the Max Weber Stiftung – Georgia Branch Office.

📩 Apply here: https://mwsgeorgia.hypotheses.org/15582

09/10/2026

📢📢📢 CfA: MWNO Mobility funding 2027.1

Want to go to an international conference or present at workshop in the first half of 2027?

Twice a year, the Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa (MWNO) offers travel subsidies for highly qualified internationally oriented scholars in the humanities and social sciences (doctoral candidates, postdocs, experienced researchers) working on topics that correspond to the research profile of the network and its branch offices.

🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 funding is intended for scholars from post-Soviet states (excluding Russia and Belarus) and scholars in exile who do not hold a position or multi-year grant with a university in Germany, Europe or internationally
📆 01 January - 31 July 2027
🏁 November 15th, 2026

🔗 Learn more about the terms and conditions here:

1 January – 31 July 2027 | Application deadline: 15 November 2026  The Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa | Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (MWNO) invites applications for mobility funding for participation in conferences, workshops and colloquia. The program is aimed at highly qualified internationa...

08/10/2026

MWNO at CEECON26 - come and visit me in the foyer of the Osteuropa-Institut Berlin ! I have all the 'tea'about funding opportunities, the Decentered Archive-blog, MWNO publications, our three branch offices in Helsinki, Vilnius .....and Finish chocolates to go with the coffee and (actual) tea provided next door by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde

07/10/2026

📢 📢📢 The MWNO is now also on Instagram! Follow us on 📢 📢📢 https://www.instagram.com/mwnosteuropa/

06/10/2026

WORKSHOP / IMPRESSIONS - Last week, colleagues came together in Helsinki at the Tieteiden Talo (The House of Sciences and Letters) for the workshop ‘(PRO)CREATING A SOCIALIST FUTURE: KNOWLEDGE, POLITICS, AND PRACTICES OF REPRODUCTION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE (POST)SOVIET SPACE’, organized by our MWNO colleague Birte Kohtz in Helsinki.

There were lively discussions about contraception, shame and pain; agency and nostalgia; mothers, doctors, children and adolescents; marginalization and violence; architecture and maternity wards while covering different countries and regions.



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03/10/2026

MWNO FEE WAIVERS / BASEES CONVENTION 2027 - On 5 October 2026, submissions for panel and paper contributions to next year’s BASEES conference are due. The MWNO is pleased to provide a limited number of fee waivers for the conference.

🏁 Thursday, 30 November 2026
👩‍🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 scholars and postgraduate research students who permanently reside in Ukraine, Georgia, or Armenia. Ukrainian scholars who have been displaced as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine are also eligible to apply.

📌 Applicants must be scheduled to deliver a paper in a standard panel session. Please note that individuals participating solely as panel chairs, discussants, or roundtable participants are not eligible for these grants.

❗ Please, note that the selection will be made by BASEES, NOT the MWNO. Applications will be assessed based on the intellectual quality of the paper proposal, with additional consideration given to maintaining a balance across academic disciplines and regional representation.

🔗 To apply go to https://baseesconference.org/max-weber-network-eastern-europe-mwno-fee-waiver-scheme/

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Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (MWNO) Fee Waiver Scheme for Ukraine, Georgia, for Armenia scholars and postgraduate research students The BASEES Organising Committee is pleased to announce t…