By Roxana Coman. Between 14 and 21 September 2021, I was fortunate to attend the Forum Transregionale Studien’s Transregional Academy, “Shadows of Empires: Imperial Legacies and Mythologies in East Central Europe”, held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Historically nested within Europe’s open steppe’s Eastern frontier amidst multi-vectored cultural transfers, but also numerous fault lines of nomadic invasions and competing hegemonic interests, Donbas encompasses a Russo-Ukrainian borderland…
This paper examines the struggles over land and labor in Dersim during the age of high reform (1856-1870) in the Ottoman Empire…
After WWI, Lithuania declared independence and created national military forces. Despite the declaration to create army of independent and democratic...
The First World War led to radical geopolitical transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, a historical region of Russo-German rivalries....
My research focuses on the Western Ukrainian Peoples Republic as an example of an ephemeral (short-lived) state in Central Eastern...
My PhD dissertation is about the particular legacy of the Russian empire through imperial imagery in the lives of the...
How did the world’s first officially atheist state use religion in its project of state building? My project examines how...
The goal of this project is to map and assess identity work in the communities affected by the war in...
This project deals with the socio-political transformations that took place in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria from 1772, the...
My book project, The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water Management and Urban Space inSofia, 1380s-1910s, examines the natural ecology...
The subject of Ottoman architecture in the Balkans has produced a vast body of research, either on regional, local or...
The development of the concept of the “Russian world” (“Russkiy mir”) during the 19th to 21st centuries is investigated in...
The Ottoman legacy is often perceived as something that gives specificity to the Balkans and characterizes their demographic and cultural...
