Research Cooperation with University of Graz, Center for Southeast European Studies (CSEES)
27 March 2025
To foster further academic cooperation, after a competitive selection process, Dr. Seim was invited to attend the 2024/25 winter semester as Visiting Fellow at the Dimensions of Europe Research Program and Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES) at the University of Graz. This was a good opportunity for academic networking and exchange of ideas to pursue new research paths about the fall of Yugoslavia and the war in Bosnia, as well as Bosnia’s challenging post-war reintegration, memory battles, and institutional-political dysfunctionality.
University of Graz: Øyvind Seim - Dimensions of Europe
As part of the cooperation with the Center for Southeast European Studies (CSEES), on 26 November 2024, Seim offered a 1-hour university presentation for staff and postgraduate students of the 376-page doctoral dissertation "The Road to War in the Bosnian Municipality of Kotor Varoš in 1992: A Microhistory" – which will be prepared for publication at an internationally prestigious academic publishing house. The lecture discussed the methodological foundations, source material, research challenges, results, and preliminary conclusions of this fresh doctoral dissertation from 2023 about the road to war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Its abstract (ENG/DE): utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/64820
Center of Southeast European Studies (CSEES) at the University of Graz is a leading institution in its specialized area study field
University of Graz: Øyvind Seim - Dimensions of Europe
From this seminar series, of fellow visiting researchers, SEIM Analytics would in particular like to highlight the following interesting events and promising/talented researchers:
- Kristijan Fidanovski (University of Oxford): Population Aging in Europe: Discourse, Policy Responses and Outcomes (with Special Emphasis on Southeast Europe)
- Neha Jain (Northwestern University): Redrawing Europe’s Map-of-Logo
- Zorana Radovanvić (University of Thübingen): Media Framing and Public Opinion on European Integration in Serbia and Montenegro
- Jovana Marović (BiEPAG): EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Western Balkans - in Search of (Lost) European Unity
This academic cooperation and engagement included participation at numerous other lectures and public academic events at the University of Graz, among other:
Karl Kaser Weiterdenken. Vortrag und Buchpresentation zum 70. Geburtstag. In Memoriam. (5 November 2024)
European Cultural Memory and its Digitalization: Inventing Cultural Memory in the 21st Century (International conference, Graz University, 6-7 November 2024).
Unpacking Inequalities: Aging, Care, and Gender in Southeast Europe. Workshop of the research cluster “In/equality in the Context of Social Transformation Processes” (7 November 2024).
If We Burn. The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. Book Presentation by Vincent Bevins. Discussing with Lura Pollozhani and Derya Özkaya from CSEES-Graz (12 December 2024).
Croatia After the Super Election Year 2024 – Three Time’s a Vote but More of the Same? (CSEES, Graz, 21 January 2025).
