The recordings of our Aleksanteri Conference 2025 keynote plenaries are now published online! Find the keynote addresses with subtitles on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
For more photos from the conference, see the gallery on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/AleksanteriI...

Thank you for the #Aleksanteri2025! Stay tuned for the #Aleksanteri2026 Conference, “Mapping Security in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Fault Lines and Frontlines,” organized in collaboration with the @centrepeace.bsky.social project 21-23 October 2026!

Tomorrow at the #Aleksanteri2025 Conference opening ceremony, we have the great honour of giving the floor to Leena Malkki, the Director of the Centre for European Studies, UH and the RADIA Knowledge Centre!
You can stream the opening ceremony 10:00-10:30 here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live...

In her keynote plenary at #Aleksanteri2025 23 Oct 13:30-14:45 historian and writer @okhromeychuk.bsky.social explores how we decide what to carry into an uncertain future, and how we can carry it together.
Find the abstract and the link to the livestream here: tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6...

Highlights from the Aleksanteri Conference 22.-24.10.2025: panels with a focus on media and information. See the whole programme: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
The media accreditation for the conference is now open, see the details here: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Highlights from the Aleksanteri Conference 22.-24.10.2025: roundtables and panels discussing law and justice perspectives. Link to the full programme: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Highlights from the Aleksanteri Conference 22.-24.10.2025: roundtables and panels focusing on gender perspectives. Link to the full programme: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

The Aleksanteri Conference 2025 is just around the corner, taking place 22–24 October. Register by 13 October as an attendee to gain insights not only from the keynote plenaries but also from a variety of roundtable and panel discussions! www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

As one of the keynotes, we're excited to welcome Dmitry Dubrovsky, Russian historian and sociologist, a lecturer in the Boris Nemtsov Russian Studies program at Charles University (Prague), and a professor at the Free University (Riga). Among other topics, he focuses on academic freedom in Russia.

We have the honour to welcome Dr Olesya Khromeychuk
as a keynote speaker for the #Aleksanteri2025 Conference. Dr Khromeychuk is a writer and historian who has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.
Registration: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Join us for a @centrepeace.bsky.social public lecture: “No War, No Peace? Rethinking Power, Violence, and the Prospects for Peace in the South Caucasus” by Dr. Zinaida Bechná, 12 August in Metsätalo and online, at 15:00. Please register by 10 August here: elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Excited to announce that Prof. Daunis Auers will be one of the keynote speakers at the #Aleksanteri2025 Conference! He is a Professor of European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Latvia, and Director of the LaSER think tank.
Please register here: helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

We are honored to welcome Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University @weareceu.bsky.social Andrea Pető @petoandrea.bsky.social as a keynote speaker for the #Aleksanteri2025 conference! Please register for the conference here: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

We're excited to welcome Dina Sharipova, Associate Professor and Vice-Dean for Research at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, as on of the keynotes for the #Aleksanteri2025 conference! Register for the conference here: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Registration for the Aleksanteri Conference 2025 is now open! To register as a presenting or non-presenting participant, please follow the instructions on the conference website: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Welcome to the book launch event of Prof. Vladimir Gel'man, "Russia's Gamble: The Domestic Origins of Russia's Attack on Ukraine" on Monday 26 May, 17:15-18:15 in Metsätalo hall 2, @helsinki.fi. Read more about the book published by @politybooks.bsky.social: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

You are welcome to submit your paper, panel, and roundtable proposals for the Aleksanteri Conference of 2025, "Extremisms: Ambiguities, Ideologies, Agency" by 16 May! Please review the Call for Papers and submit your proposal here: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

We’re happy to join Bluesky! As the Finnish Centre specializing on Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European studies at the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi, we’ll be sharing our latest research. Stay tuned also for study opportunities and upcoming events, like the annual Aleksanteri Conference!