🎙️ Jeroen van den Bosch on Encyclopedia Tyrannica — a research guide to totalitarianism. With Ria Laenen (KU Leuven), on authoritarianism, Central Asia, and academic blind spots.
podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/s...
📖 Free: www.ibidem.eu/out/media/vl...
#StudioCEE #EncyclopediaTyrannica #Geopolitics

Breaking news: a second edition of the Eastern European Film Weeks of KU Leuven will follow next fall! See you in 11 months at @Cinema ZED

Two exceptional screenings in Leuven! fcee.substack.com/p/eastern-eu... : avant-premiere of the Ukrainian documentary Timestamp and a rare screening of The Hourglass Sanatorium, a seminal work of Polish surrealist cinema by the singular W. Has. Tickets: www.cinemazed.be/nl/nieuws/on...

Polsslag Comes to Antwerp: Book Presentation by Peter Vermeersch
📍UCSIA en Pax Christi-gebouw, Koningstraat 2, 2000 Antwerpen
📅 Doors open at 19:00 More: www.paxchristi.be/agenda/boekv...

Join us tonight at 5 PM at Cinema ZED to watch a film based on the work of the freshly announced Nobel Prize winner in Literature. Eastern European Film Weeks: www.cinemazed.be/nl/film/werc...
#nobel #hungary #kuleuven

One week to go!
Our Eastern European Film Weeks start on 8 October with a selection of 8 films from across the region introduced by academic experts.

Don’t miss the opening event, featuring Polish film director Zofia Kowalewska in person.

Language: English
Tickets www.cinemazed.be/nl/nieuws/on...

30 years since Srebrenica. How do we remember and rebuild? Join a roundtable at UAntwerp on June 30, 17:00–19:00, with survivors, scholars & artists. Open to all. Info: marnix.beyen@uantwerpen.be #Srebrenica30 #NeverAgain

Now online: The lecture by Prof. Dr. Taras Dobko, Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, delivered at the Forum on Central and Eastern Europe in Leuven (3 June).: fcee.be
#ukraine
#HigherEducation
#AcademicExcellence
#UniversityLeadership
#easterneurope
#socialresilience
#universityoflviv

You are warmly invited to this important lecture on #university #education in #urkaine:

📅 Date: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
🕕 Time: 18:00
📍 Location: Kleine Aula 00.15, Sint-Michielsstraat 6, 3000 Leuven

Registration is now open!
Scan the QR code on the poster or use this link: lnkd.in/eHujaUGKhttp...

We nodigen u graag uit voor de boekvoorstelling van Polsslag, het nieuwe boek van Peter Vermeersch.

22 Mei 2025, 19:30 (deuren),
Campus Corso, Diestestraat 253, Leuven

R.S.V.P soc.kuleuven.be/lines/fcee/n...

Voor meer informatie over het boek, bezoek www.petervermeersch.net
#Belarus #kuleuven

The Art of Resistance: Belarus Five Years On
📅 22 May 2025, 13:30
📍 Campus Corso, Diestestraat 253, Leuven
We warmly invite you to our symposium on the role of art in exile and protest in Belarus. Full program and registration:
soc.kuleuven.be/lines/fcee/n...
#Belarus #Resistance #kuLeuven #FCEE

In the following weeks, Cinema ZED in Leuven is set to showcase two compelling films from Eastern Europe, each offering a peak in the societies and politics of the region. www.cinemazed.be/film/new-yea...
www.cinemazed.be/film/explana...

If you've missed the great ceremony where KU Leuven’s Rector Luc Sels awarded the Honorary Medal to Belarusian-Belgian writer Alexandr Skorobogatov, here (fcee.be) you can find two remarkable speeches that explain the choice.
#Kuleuven #Belarus #Skorobogatov #literature #award

📅 22 May 2025, Leuven
The Art of Resistance: Belarus Five Years On | 13:00
Join artists, activists, and researchers reflecting on the power of art in resistance.
Book Launch: Polsslag | 19:30
Peter Vermeersch discusses music as resistance.
📍 Campus Corso, Diestsestraat 253
Details soon!
#Belarus

📷 Traces of War, Faces of Hope | The exhibition features images of Sarajevo in the 1990s under siege by photographer Mario Bocca.
🗓 2 April – 1 October 2025
📍 Brantijser, Antwerp
🎉 Opening event w/ the photographer: 2 April, 17:30 - Register: www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uan...
#Photography #Sarajevo

Attend the special screening of Wielka Droga (The Great Way), a recently restored Polish film and a significant historical document. The screening will be followed by a lecture by Dr. Dorota Lekka from the Polish Film Archive.
R.S.V.P.:
soc.kuleuven.be/lines/fcee/e...
#polishfilm

Book a place for the award ceremony and conversation with Belaus-born and Belgium-based writer Alexandr Skorobogatov!

12 March 2025, 5:30 at the Opera Campus in Antwerp.

Reserve here before 2 March: www.arts.kuleuven.be/formulieren/... Details: mailing.kuleuven.be/r-6e632b98ad...

Join us for our discussion on Snitching, Denunciation, Collaboration: How and Why Citizens Choose to Support Dictators! - 11 February 5 pm Hollands College, Leuven - see details here: mailing.kuleuven.be/r-26918ef8fe... and book your seat here: soc.kuleuven.be/lines/fcee/e...
#collaborators #Russia