Elena B. Stavrevska
@ebstavrevska.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Relations at Uni of Bristol | Feminist peace scholar | Member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective | she/таа
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📢We are looking for a Postgraduate Convenor to join the South East Europe Working Group (SEE WG) team alongside @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Stavrevska and @matesuba.bsky.social
📩 Apply by: 1 December 2025
✉️ Send your expression of interest to: seewg.group@bisa.ac.uk
More info: tinyurl.com/37czc6pr
📩 Apply by: 1 December 2025
✉️ Send your expression of interest to: seewg.group@bisa.ac.uk
More info: tinyurl.com/37czc6pr
South-East Europe Working Group - Call for new postgraduate convener- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA
- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group
www.bisa.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📢We are looking for a Postgraduate Convenor to join the South East Europe Working Group (SEE WG) team alongside @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Stavrevska and @matesuba.bsky.social
📩 Apply by: 1 December 2025
✉️ Send your expression of interest to: seewg.group@bisa.ac.uk
More info: tinyurl.com/37czc6pr
📩 Apply by: 1 December 2025
✉️ Send your expression of interest to: seewg.group@bisa.ac.uk
More info: tinyurl.com/37czc6pr
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Full weekend in London with our Yugoslawomen+ Collective thinking and plotting about new works.
Loved seeing together 'Palestine 36' movie as part of the London Palestine Film Festival.
Loved seeing together 'Palestine 36' movie as part of the London Palestine Film Festival.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Full weekend in London with our Yugoslawomen+ Collective thinking and plotting about new works.
Loved seeing together 'Palestine 36' movie as part of the London Palestine Film Festival.
Loved seeing together 'Palestine 36' movie as part of the London Palestine Film Festival.
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Call for papers ‼️
BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉
'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆
Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8
Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić
BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉
'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆
Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8
Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić
Call for papers: Worlding from South East Europe, remaking international relations- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA
- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group
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September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Call for papers ‼️
BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉
'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆
Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8
Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić
BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉
'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆
Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8
Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić
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I encountered Joy’s writing, a 23-year-old Palestinian writer & student who wrote her book from tents lnkd.in/eZc-kyZs
You can access her book "By My Pen" for free: lnkd.in/e3ZC6fwP
Please consider making a donation lnkd.in/eaKpKhk7 to help Joy evacuate from Gaza and pursue her studies elsewhere.
You can access her book "By My Pen" for free: lnkd.in/e3ZC6fwP
Please consider making a donation lnkd.in/eaKpKhk7 to help Joy evacuate from Gaza and pursue her studies elsewhere.
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I encountered Joy’s writing, a 23-year-old Palestinian writer & student who wrote her book from tents lnkd.in/eZc-kyZs
You can access her book "By My Pen" for free: lnkd.in/e3ZC6fwP
Please consider making a donation lnkd.in/eaKpKhk7 to help Joy evacuate from Gaza and pursue her studies elsewhere.
You can access her book "By My Pen" for free: lnkd.in/e3ZC6fwP
Please consider making a donation lnkd.in/eaKpKhk7 to help Joy evacuate from Gaza and pursue her studies elsewhere.
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As it happens, I only get to read more expansively/deeply during the summer/buyout, so late to this excellent contribution to theorising peace by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social
& @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
& @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace
This Special Issue delves into the concept of peace beyond traditional definitions, engaging with decolonial and feminist perspectives to emphasize peace not merely as the absence of war or conflic...
www.tandfonline.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As it happens, I only get to read more expansively/deeply during the summer/buyout, so late to this excellent contribution to theorising peace by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social
& @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
& @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📍 South East Europe Working Group rountable at #BISASA2025:
"Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵
How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move?
#Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute
"Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵
How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move?
#Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute
June 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📍 South East Europe Working Group rountable at #BISASA2025:
"Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵
How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move?
#Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute
"Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵
How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move?
#Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute
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🚨 #BISA2025 is live!
We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe:
🔋 Lithium mining
🌱 Green activism
⚖️ Transitional justice
🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction
#InternationalRelations #Balkans
We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe:
🔋 Lithium mining
🌱 Green activism
⚖️ Transitional justice
🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction
#InternationalRelations #Balkans
June 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨 #BISA2025 is live!
We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe:
🔋 Lithium mining
🌱 Green activism
⚖️ Transitional justice
🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction
#InternationalRelations #Balkans
We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe:
🔋 Lithium mining
🌱 Green activism
⚖️ Transitional justice
🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction
#InternationalRelations #Balkans
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In June 2024, we—the YugoslaWomen+ Collective—held actions at CEE-ISA in Rijeka to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.
A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced.
Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9
A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced.
Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9
May 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In June 2024, we—the YugoslaWomen+ Collective—held actions at CEE-ISA in Rijeka to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.
A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced.
Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9
A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced.
Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9
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“Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 250 people since Thursday morning, local health authorities said on Friday, one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in March” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Deadly Israeli strikes pound Gaza as Trump says 'people are starving'
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 250 people since Thursday morning, local health authorities said, one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in March and with a new ground offensive expected soon.
www.reuters.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
“Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 250 people since Thursday morning, local health authorities said on Friday, one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in March” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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📘 New blog post alert! 🚨
Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle
What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war?
Read more on our blog.
🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle
What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war?
Read more on our blog.
🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA
- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group
www.bisa.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📘 New blog post alert! 🚨
Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle
What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war?
Read more on our blog.
🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle
What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war?
Read more on our blog.
🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
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Making notes
The New Racial Regime, Alana Lentin (2025).
Opening citation from Bassel el-Araj is lit:
"You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless."
The New Racial Regime, Alana Lentin (2025).
Opening citation from Bassel el-Araj is lit:
"You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless."
April 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Making notes
The New Racial Regime, Alana Lentin (2025).
Opening citation from Bassel el-Araj is lit:
"You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless."
The New Racial Regime, Alana Lentin (2025).
Opening citation from Bassel el-Araj is lit:
"You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless."
You can register to join the virtual conversation about our SI on decolonial and feminist approaches to peace this Thursday here zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
You can register to join the virtual conversation about our SI on decolonial and feminist approaches to peace this Thursday here zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Join us this Thursday as my co-editor @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I chat with four of our 9 contributors to the SI. Joining us this time are Mahdis Azarmandi, Garrett FitzGerrald, Yasin Sunca, & Isabela Munoz Gomez
You're Invited!
📅 Date: 10th of April 2025
🕒 Time: 5pm - 6:30pm
📍 Online – Link upon registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
👉 We look forward to seeing you there!
📅 Date: 10th of April 2025
🕒 Time: 5pm - 6:30pm
📍 Online – Link upon registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
👉 We look forward to seeing you there!
April 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Join us this Thursday as my co-editor @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I chat with four of our 9 contributors to the SI. Joining us this time are Mahdis Azarmandi, Garrett FitzGerrald, Yasin Sunca, & Isabela Munoz Gomez
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Re-reading this fantastic special issue edited by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - "Peace in plural: towards decolonial and feminist approaches to peace" - packed with knowledge, courage and timely critique on peace vs. war dichotomies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace
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March 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Re-reading this fantastic special issue edited by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - "Peace in plural: towards decolonial and feminist approaches to peace" - packed with knowledge, courage and timely critique on peace vs. war dichotomies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Roundtable of past convenors discussing 20 years of the working group.
@danielalai.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social @richmondbridge.bsky.social @katkusic.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social Lydia Cole and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik
@danielalai.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social @richmondbridge.bsky.social @katkusic.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social Lydia Cole and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Roundtable of past convenors discussing 20 years of the working group.
@danielalai.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social @richmondbridge.bsky.social @katkusic.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social Lydia Cole and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik
@danielalai.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social @richmondbridge.bsky.social @katkusic.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social Lydia Cole and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik
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We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
March 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
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No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
March 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
March 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
No conferencing as usual during genocide!
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
#EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia.
ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...
ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...
Condemnation of the Attack on Filip Ejdus
The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory fully supports the response of the Faculty of Political Sciences, which we hereby transmit in full.
ifdt.bg.ac.rs
February 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia.
ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...
ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...
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The @BISA_SEE_WG workshop with @LivUni Europe and the World Centre is coming up (27 Mar)
Focusing on the theme of different types of violences and resistances in SEE
View the programme & register now!
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
@ebstavrevska.bsky.social @matesuba.bsky.social
Focusing on the theme of different types of violences and resistances in SEE
View the programme & register now!
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
@ebstavrevska.bsky.social @matesuba.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The @BISA_SEE_WG workshop with @LivUni Europe and the World Centre is coming up (27 Mar)
Focusing on the theme of different types of violences and resistances in SEE
View the programme & register now!
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
@ebstavrevska.bsky.social @matesuba.bsky.social
Focusing on the theme of different types of violences and resistances in SEE
View the programme & register now!
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
@ebstavrevska.bsky.social @matesuba.bsky.social
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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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A statement of solidarity with student protests in Serbia, from all of us in the Yugoslawomen+ Collective. ✊
We have also made a list of suggestions for those in diaspora who want to support the protests.
#SerbiaProtests
tinyurl.com/4macbrsd
We have also made a list of suggestions for those in diaspora who want to support the protests.
#SerbiaProtests
tinyurl.com/4macbrsd
February 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A statement of solidarity with student protests in Serbia, from all of us in the Yugoslawomen+ Collective. ✊
We have also made a list of suggestions for those in diaspora who want to support the protests.
#SerbiaProtests
tinyurl.com/4macbrsd
We have also made a list of suggestions for those in diaspora who want to support the protests.
#SerbiaProtests
tinyurl.com/4macbrsd
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Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
CALL FOR ARTICLES 📣
Special issue of Southeastern Europe
"Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe: Legacies, Transformations, and Futures"
Guest editors: Dženeta Hodžić, Ognjen Kojanić, and @katkusic.bsky.social
Abstracts and bios submission: by 2025/01/31
bit.ly/CFPPolEcoSEE
Share widely!
Special issue of Southeastern Europe
"Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe: Legacies, Transformations, and Futures"
Guest editors: Dženeta Hodžić, Ognjen Kojanić, and @katkusic.bsky.social
Abstracts and bios submission: by 2025/01/31
bit.ly/CFPPolEcoSEE
Share widely!
December 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
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This is the start to my working year (even though it came out on Dec 30) — I was a part of a great Forum organised by Birte Vogel and Nemanja Džuverović.
I wrote about the Global East, and the difficulty of speaking to very different audiences in our research. Wishing us all a more global 2025 🌱
I wrote about the Global East, and the difficulty of speaking to very different audiences in our research. Wishing us all a more global 2025 🌱
Online First at ISP: "Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations" from Birte Vogel and others academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations
Abstract. Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Glo
academic.oup.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This is the start to my working year (even though it came out on Dec 30) — I was a part of a great Forum organised by Birte Vogel and Nemanja Džuverović.
I wrote about the Global East, and the difficulty of speaking to very different audiences in our research. Wishing us all a more global 2025 🌱
I wrote about the Global East, and the difficulty of speaking to very different audiences in our research. Wishing us all a more global 2025 🌱