The Visiting Speaker Programme attracts researchers and specialists from the UK, Europe and South Eastern Europe, covering a broad range of topics. Listen to the event podcasts below.
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PAST EVENTS
Michaelmas Term
Political Climate and Regional Well-being in Turkey: how much does ideology matter?
Thursday 28 November 2019
Speaker: Burhan Can Karahasan, Associate Professor in Economics at the Piri Reis University, Turkey
Discussant: Orkun Saka, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance at the University of Sussex
Chair: Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in the Political Economy of South Eastern Europe at the LSE, Director of LSEE
Venue: Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building
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Summer Term
The Effect of Habsburg Military Colonialism on Institutions in Post-transition Europe
Thursday, 23 May 2019
COW 1.11, European Institute
Speaker: Marina Tkalec
Lent Term
Post-War Community Dynamics in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
COW1.11, European Institute
Speaker: Dr Marika Djolai
Economic Effects of Europeanization of (Excise) Taxes in the Western Balkans
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
COW1.11, European Institute
Speaker: Dr Saša Ranđelović, Associate professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics & LSEE Visiting Fellow
Montenegro's NATO Accession: The Domestic Political Context
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
COW1.11, European Institute
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Morrison
Michaelmas Term
Slowing Down by Speeding Up? Recent Developments in the EU’s Pre-Accession Policy
Monday, 3 December 2018
COW1.11, First Floor, European Institute
Professor Adam Lazowski
Identity and Nationalism in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Graham Wallis Room, 5th Floor, Old Building,
Dr Elisa Randazzo
Detecting Online Extremism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
COW1.11, First Floor, European Institute
Dr Jessie Hronesova
Lent Term 2017
A job for the unemployed:Challenges for activation policies in the Western Balkans
Date: Tuesday, 14 March 2017
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Speaker: Maja Gerovska Mitev, Professor of Social Policy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia
For the individual, the demos, or the group? Evaluating the prospect for a liberal Bosnia and Herzegovina in light of ideological alternatives
Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2017
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Speaker: Dr Adis Merdzanovic, Postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow at South East European Studies at the University of Oxford (SEESOX)
The Role of EU Integration in Accelerating Credible Structural Reforms in the Western Balkans
Date: Tuesday, 24 January 2017
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Speaker: Dr Fatmir Besimi, Senior Visiting Fellow, LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe
Michaelmas Term
Social Welfare Effects of Progressive Income Taxation in the Balkans: Evidence from Serbia
Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2016
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Speaker: Dr Saša Ranđelović, Assistant Professor of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade
Politicisation of energy security in South Eastern Europe
Date: Tuesday, 15 November 2016
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Speaker: Dr Jaroslaw Wisniewski, LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe
Croatia’s Lost Generation? Youth unemployment, education and training in Croatia since the crisis
Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2016
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Speaker: Dr Iva Tomic, Institute of Economics, Zagreb
Lent term
Pension Reforms in the Balkans and their Neighbours
Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2016
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Speaker: Dr Bernard Casey, Personal Social Services Research Unit, LSE
Fiscal decentralisation and local government financing in Serbia and Montenegro
Date: Tuesday, 16 February 2016
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Speakers: Sanja Kmezić and Jadranka Kaluđerović, EURAK Belgrade - Regional Research Promotion Programme
Evaluating the EU’s ‘new approach’ to judicial reform in the Western Balkans: unintended consequences or unrealised goals?
Date: Tuesday, 19 January 2016
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Speaker: Professor Adam Fagan, Queen Mary University of London
Michaelmas term
Constructive Incoherence: Contesting Kosovo's Status in the European Union
Date: Wednesday, 2 December 2015
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Speaker: Dr Lorinc Redei, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Imposing local neoliberalism in South East Europe: How to destroy an economic space without really trying
Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2015
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Speaker: Dr Milford Bateman, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (Croatia) and St Mary's University in Halifax (Canada)
From Education to Underemployment: How to Fill the Skills Gap in the Western Balkans
Date: Wednesday, 21 October 2015
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Speaker: Dr Will Bartlett, LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, LSE
Lent term
Understanding Roma Nomadism Today: the case of Romanian Roma - CANCELLED
Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Speaker: Dr Anca Pusca, Goldsmiths, University of London
The Politics of Europeanisation and Economic Nationalisms in Estonia and Slovenia
Date: Tuesday, 24 February 2015
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Speaker: Dr Nicole Lindstrom, University of York
Bulgarians in Macedonia and Macedonians in Bulgaria - Do They Exist?
Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2015
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Speaker: Kyril Drezov, Keele University
The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans. The interrelationship between Europeanisation and the New Authoritarian Temptation
Date: Tuesday, 27 January 2015
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Speaker: Dr Florian Bieber, Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz
Varieties of Bureaucracy in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans
Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2015
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Speaker: Dr Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, University of Nottingham
Michaelmas term
Normative-power Europe in the Western Balkans: enlargement 'fatigue' and the multiple challenges of maintaining momentum in the accession process - CANCELLED
Date: Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Speaker: Dr John O'Brennan, NUI Maynooth
The 2013 Belgrade-Pristina Normalization Agreement - What has it delivered
Date: Tuesday, 18 November 2014
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Speaker: Dr Joanna Hanson, LSE
Political Economy of Unemployment in the Western Balkans
Date: Tuesday, 04 November 2014
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Speaker: Dr Mihail Arandarenko, Belgrade/LSE
Political Orientations and Internal Power-Struggles within the Nationalist Movement in Kosovo, 1968-2008
Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2014
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Speaker: Gëzim Krasniqi, SSEES-University College London
Cultures of Democracy in Serbia & Bulgaria - How Ideas Shape Politics
Date: Tuesday, 07 October 2014
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Speaker: Dr James Dawson, University College London
Lent term
Kosovo-Slovakia Relations Six Years after the Declaration of Independence: Continuity or Change
Date: Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Speaker: Dr Katarina Lezova, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London
De Facto States and Conflict Resolution in the Balkans
Date: Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Speaker: Dr Nina Caspersen, York University
Power-Sharing's Diminishing Returns: Ethnic Accommodation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia
Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Speaker: Dr Cvete Koneska, former Weidenfeld Scholar at Oxford University
Hard Life, ‘Decent’ Husbands and ‘Good’ Wives: Serbian-Albanian Mixed Marriages in Post-'Kosovo' Times
Date: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
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Speaker: Dr Armanda Hysa, SSEES, University College London
The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: ‘Precariat’ or ‘Projectariat’?
Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2014
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Speaker: Dr Catherine Baker, Hull University
Michaelmas term
The Culture of Ilegalja: Albanian Militant Self-Organisations in Late Socialist Yugoslavia
Date: Tuesday, 10 December 2013
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Speaker: Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, University of Bournemouth
Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States: Variaties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Kosovo
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Speaker presentation
Speaker: Dr Maria Koinova, Warwick University
Divided Truths, Elusive Reconciliation: Narrating the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s
Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Speaker: Dr Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lent term
Post-Communist Metamorphoses of the "nomenklatura neighbourhood" Privatization and Political Elites in Romania
Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Presentation
Speaker: Dr Damiana Otoiu, LSEE Visiting Fellow; Lecturer, Political Science Department, University of Bucharest
Southeast Europe in the Wake of the Euro Crisis
Date: Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Presentation
Speaker: Dr Max Watson, Visiting Fellow, St. Antony's College; Co-ordinator Political Economy at SEESOX Programme Event Info
Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: What went wrong?
Date: Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Speaker: Dr Gemma Collantes Celador, Lecturer in International Security, City University & Tobias Flessenkemper, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Between Law & Politics: International Courts and the Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia
Date: Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Speaker: Dr Marko Milanovic, Lecturer in Law, University of Nottingham
Michaelmas term
Territorial Autonomy as a Form of Conflict Management in Southeastern Europe
Date: Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Presentation
Speaker: Dr Soeren Keil, Lecturer in Politics, Canterbury Christ Church University
The Balkans Beyond the European Union: The Case of Serbian Foreign Policy
Date: Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Speaker: Dr Philip Cunliffe, Lecturer in International Conflict, University of Kent
Modelling Public Secotor Wage-Employment Behaviour: Evidence From Transitioning Economies
Date: Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Presentation
Speaker: Dr Jelena Lausev, LSEE Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor in Economics, Belgrade University
The Crisis of Croatian Veteran Politics
Date: Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Presentation
Speaker: Dr Vanessa Pupavac, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Nottingham
Beyond the Formal Constitution: Clan Culture and the Tyranny of Albania's Ancient Laws
Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Presentation
Speaker: Professor Steven Blockmans, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and University of Leuven
Lent term
Decentralization in Kosovo: Creating a 'Multi-Ethnic' or an 'Ethnically Divided Society?
Date: Tuesday, 6 March 2012
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Speaker: Aidan Hehir, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Westminster
Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe: Foreign Policy in Post-Communist Bulgaria
Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2012
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Speaker: Stefanos Katsikas, Goldsmiths University of London
Economic Liberalization of the Western Balkans
Date: Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Speaker: Fikret Causevic, University of Sarajevo / St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford
Resolving a Frozen Conflict: Prospects of a Settlement for Transnistria
Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Speaker: Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Michaelmas Term
Socialisation and the Inclusion/Exclusion of Romanian Migrants in Britain
Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Speaker: Radu Cinpoes, Senior Lecturer, Kingston University London
The Political Economy of Statebuilding in Kosovo
Date: Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Speaker: Dominik Zaum, Professor of Governance, Conflict and Security, University of Reading
What does 'Coming to Terms with the Past Mean? The Serbian Public and War Crimer
Date: Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Speaker: Jelena Obradović-Wochnik, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Aston Univeristy
Exit Strategies and Lessons Learned: From the Balkans to Afghanistan
Date: Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Speaker: Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations and Official Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford University
Lent term
Montenegro: Assessing Five Years of Independence
Date: Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Speaker: Kenneth Morrison, Reader in Modern Southeast European History, De Montfort University
The pull of Brussels: Ownership and Political Conditionalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Speaker: Giulio Venneri, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome; DG Enlargement, European Commission
Remittance dependency: The case of Kosovo
Date: Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Speaker: James Korovilas, Lecturer, University of the West of England
Michaelmas term
Industrial Upgrading in the Western Balkans: Policy Issues
Date: Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Speaker: Slavo Radošević, Professor of Industry and Innovation Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
Europe's Balkan Dilemma: Paths to Civil Society or State-Building?
Date: Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Speaker: Adam Fagan, Professor of European Politics, Queen Mary - University of London
Entrepreneurship and SME Growth: Evidence from CEE and SEE Transition Economies
Date: Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Speaker presentation
Speaker: Iraj Hashi, Professor of Economics & Director, Centre for Research on Emerging Economies (CREE), Staffordshire University
Kosovo as an EU 'Free Territory: Thinking a Way Out of Stalemate?
Date: Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Speaker: James Gow, Professor of International Peace and Security, King's College London