Staff Activities

Spyros Economides participated in a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Briefing for new UK Ambassador to Serbia, Sian MacLeod. (26 July 2019).

Spyros Economides participated at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office policy discussion on Bosnia Herzegovina with UK Ambassador to BiH, Matt Field and other officials. (13 June 2019).

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Challenge Session: ‘Emerging Thinking on the Drivers and Dynamics of Conflict and Stability in the Western Balkans', 22 May 2019, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. James Ker-Lindsay gave a presentation.

Will Bartlett gave a presentation on recent development in the Western Balkan economies at the British Embassy in Belgrade (10 April 2019).

Education Policies and Labour Markets in the Western Balkans, 9 April 2019, international conference organised by the Fredrich Ebert Stiftung, Belgrade. Will Bartlett was invited speaker.

James Ker-Lindsay gave a presentation on ‘British-Serbian Relations’ to a Delegation of Senior Serbian Military Officers at the Royal United Services Institute (4 April 2019).

The UK and EU future policy in the Western Balkans on Migration, Security and Justice, 7 December 2018, Coventry - University of Warwick. Dr Max Fras presented a paper on legal and intuitional environment for civil society in Western Balkans.

Workshop on the future of Western Balkans in Europe workshop, University of Warwick, 6-7 December, 2018. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj presented a paper.

Text Illuminations: Data, Discourses and Representation, The Exchange, King’s College London, part of the exhibition Reconciliations. 15 November 2018. Dr Denisa Kostovicova was speaker.

‘Handshake investments’ in the Western Balkans: When sultanism meets illiberalism, 13 November 2018, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Tena Prelec gave an invited talk. 

Round table discussion: Between London and Poznan: Promoting the Berlin Process in the Western Balkans 5 November 2018, London – RUSI. Dr Max Fras spoke at the round-table discussion on the upcoming Western Balkan Summit 2019 in Poland, notably its civil society and youth dimensions and priorities. 

Spatial differences in the returns to education: sorting, agglomeration and pressures of demand, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (November 2018). Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated.

Conference: Education, Labour Market and Economic Development, organised by the Kosovo Academy of Arts and Sciences, Pristina, 27-28 October 2018. Will Bartlett gave a keynote lecture on ‘The Contribution of Higher Education to Skill Formation and Economic development in the Western Balkans’.

‘Universal Basic Income and Global Social Policy’ at the University of Bremen. Global Social Dynamics in Western Balkans, 25-26 October, 2018. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj delivered the paper.

Workshop: Inequality and Social protection in South East Europe at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics, 22 October 2018. Will Bartlett co-organised the Workshop, which saw the participation, among others, of Enkeleida Tahiraj and Tena Prelec.

Workshop: Wage adjustments and wage flexibility across the Greek regions: the wage curve and beyond, VI Regional Modelling, Joint Research Centre, Seville, October 2018. Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated in the workshop.

Generation Allah: Democratizing Muslim Men and Holocaust Memory in Germany the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois, September 2018. Dr Esra Özyürek gave an invited talk.

Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans, University of Prishtina, Kosovo, 21 September 2018. Dr Denisa Kostovicova delivered a keynote speech ‘Addressing war legacy in a divided region: transitional justice evaluations and interactions’. 

Making Germans out of Turks and Arabs? Holocaust Memory and inclusion/exclusion of immigrants, Ozyegin Forum on Modern Turkey, Harvard University, September 2018. Dr Esra Özyürek participated.

EU conditionality revisited: The EU reform leverage and the costs of structural reform, 48th Annual Congress of UACES, Bath, September 2018. Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated in the Congress.

Work, employment and society - British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Belfast, UK, September 2018. Iva Tomic and Ivan Zilic presented their paper ‘Working for 200 euro? The effects of traineeship reform on labour market outcomes in Croatia’.

“Choices’ of education and labour market participation before, during and after the crisis”, and “Did the Greek crisis favour women? Occupational sorting and female wage penalties during the Greek crisis”, Work, Employment and Society Conference 2018, Belfast, September 2018. Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated in the conference. 

First European Summer School of Universal Basic Income Europe, Barcelona, 13-16 September 2018. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj delivered a talk.

The Effects of Cohesion Policy on Investment at the Extensive and Intensive Margins, 58th Annual Congress of the European Regional Science Association (with R Crescenzi and U Fratesi; Cork, August 2018). Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated in the Congress.

European Forum Alpbach, Political Symposium, Opening of the symposium - Plenary Session: "New Perspectives on EU Enlargement", Alpbach (Austria), 25 August 2018. Tena Prelec took part in the panel discussion as one of two selected 'young experts', alongside President Aleksander Vucic (Serbia), President Borut Pahor (Slovenia), President Alexander Van der Bellen (Austria), President Hashim Thaci (Kosovo), the EU Commissioner for EU Enlargement Johannes Hahn, and ESI Analyst Adi Cerimagic. 

Beyond Berlin: What Does the Next Decade Hold for the Western Balkans? Chatham House, during the London Western Balkan summit, 10 July 2018. Tena Prelec was a speaker. 

International Conference 'Why Remember?' in Sarajevo, July 2018. Professor Kenneth Morrison co-organised the Conference.

LSEE-CEFTA Academic Network Workshop Enhancing Research on Trade in the CEFTA Region, Belgrade, 20 June 2018. Will Bartlett gave a Keynote Lecture on ‘The Plan for a Regional Economic Area in the Western Balkans’.

SEESOX (St Antony's College, University of Oxford) invitation-only policy workshop on The Western Balkans and the Berlin Process. Co-organised by SEESOX and the Bank of Albania. 13 June 2018, Oxford. Tena Prelec and Will Bartlett participated.

Conference: The EU and the Balkans at the end of the First Decade of the 21^st Century, University of Peloponnese, Corinth, 4-5 June 2018. Will Bartlett gave a Keynote Lecture on “The political economy of EU assistance to the Western Balkans: complementarity, coordination and competition”.

Consultative Meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council in Brussels, 20 June 2018 (with Nermin Oruč). Will Bartlett presented a report on ‘Labour Markets in the Western Balkans: Performance, Causes and Policy Options’.

UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Baku, Azerbaijan, 27-29 June 2018. Closed door, 3-day policy workshop on Citizenship with government representatives. Tena Prelec presented her research on the Serbian diaspora: ‘Transnational citizenship in action: The changing political views of Serbia's active diaspora’. 

Vulnerability to Human Trafficking: A study of Vietnam, Albania, Nigeria and the UK. Report on Albania. University of Bedfordshire and IOM. July 2018. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj provided comments.

What is New in the New Turkey? CEVIPOL, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, June 2018. Dr Esra Özyürek gave an invited talk.

Conference: ‘The Welfare State in the Western Balkans’, Belgrade June 6-8, 2018. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj delivered a talk on the feasibility of Universal Basic Income implementation in the Balkans.

The Sustainability of External Imbalances in the European Periphery, 17th Annual Conference of the European Economics and Finance Society (with B. Tunali; London, June 2018). Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated in the Conference.

High-Level Conference on Economic and Social Cohesion in the Western Balkans co-organised by TAIEX and the European Economic and Social Committee with the support of the Bulgarian Presidency to the Council of the EU, 15 May 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria. Will Bartlett presented LSEE’s work on social cohesion.

Celebration of 20 Years of the Copenhagen Criteria, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 May 2018. Prof James Ker-Lindsay delivered a presentation on ‘The EU and Democratic Challenges in the Western Balkans’.

Roundtable: ‘Security in the Western Balkans’, Cabinet Office, 2 May 2018. Prof James Ker-Lindsay participated.

Transitions in the EU labour market: structure, crisis and recovery, 2nd workshop on Structural Reforms, LSE (May 2018). Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated.

Panel: The Continuum of Gender Violence: Networked Reflections’ at Gender Violence Across War and Peace Conference, Women, Peace, Security Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science. 18 May 2018. Dr Denisa Kostovicova was a speaker.

Location, Localisation, Agglomeration: testing the geographical dimension of FDI spillovers Over-education and underemployment in Greece’s lagging-behind regions, SIME seminar – King's College Business School, London (May 2018). Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated.

‘BREXIT’ and its implications for the UK and Europe Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, and the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence.  27th April 2018. Prof Kevin Featherstone delivered the lecture.

10th Workshop on Labour Economics 2018, Trier, Germany, April 2018. Tomic, I., & Zilic, I., presented their paper ‘Working for 200 euro? The effects of traineeship reform on labour market outcomes in Croatia’.

Round Table on Preparation of Albanian Civil Society for EU Accession Negotiations at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Tirana. 12 April 2018, Tirana – MFA. Dr Max Fras facilitated the round table involving MFA, Prime Minister’s Office, Albanian Parliament, EU Delegation in Tirana and civil society organisations.

Flucht und Integration als Herausforderung fuer Europa Koerber History Forum, Berlin, March 2018. Dr Esra Özyürek participated.

Generation Allah: Democratizing Young Muslim Men and Working Through Holocaust Memory in Germany Mary E. Johnson Lecture on Social Justice and Human Rights at Mount Holyoke College, March 2018. Dr Esra Özyürek participated.

CEPS Ideas Lab, Panel discussion: The Western Balkans: Europe’s Black Hole? Brussels, 22-23 February 2018. Tena Prelec was a speaker.

Workshop: ‘Prosperity and Security in the Western Balkans’, British Embassy Athens, SEESOX and ELIAMEP, Thessaloniki, 16 March 2018. Prof James Ker-Lindsay delivered a presentation on ‘The Drivers of Change in the Western Balkans’.

Workshop: Chatham House, two-day workshop on the war economy in comparative perspective. Dr Vesna Bojicic- Dzelilovic delivered a keynote speech on the war economy in the Balkans.

8th ifo Dresden Workshop on Labour Economics and Social Policy, Dresden, Germany, March 2018. Tomic, I., & Zilic, I., presented their paper ‘Working for 200 euro? The effects of traineeship reform on labour market outcomes in Croatia’. 

Political and Economic Reforms in the Western Balkans: Are We There Yet?, Perspectives on the Future of the Western Balkans, Chatham House. 8 March 2018. Dr Denisa Kostovicova was a speaker.

Workshop: Perspectives on the Future of the Western Balkans, Chatham House, 8 March 2018. Prof James Ker-Lindsay delivered a presentation on ‘Britain and the Balkans Post-Brexit’.

Seminar: Civil Society in Albania, 5 March 2018. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj and Dr Max Fras participated. 

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj was engaged as expert in the University of Bremen (et al) research consortium on Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) ‘Global Dynamics of Social Policy’.

Swedish Institute for Policy Studies on Quality of Government and Corruption across the EU Member States. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj delivered a talk. 

The Establishment of Social Ministries in the Western World stream, part of the Global Social Policy Dynamics research project, University of Bremen. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj delivered a research piece on Albania.

One day conference on Universal Basic Income and an evening talk, ‘Beveridge Rebooted: a basic income for every citizen?’ as part of the LSE Beveridge Festival 2.0. Event was supported by LSEE, LSE Social Policy, STICERD, LSE ID, UNDP and CBIT. 20 February 2018. Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj co-organised the events.

Round Table discussion at a conference Boosting the Social Dimension in the Western Balkans and Turkey: the Contribution of Governance to Decent Work and Life, organised by the European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Brussels, 31 January 2018. Will Bartlett was an invited participant.

RECOM Process: Institutionalisation of the Initiative for RECOM  ‘XI Forum for Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav Countries, Organised by Coalition for RECOM, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 28-29 January 2018. Dr Denisa Kostovicova was a speaker.

Conference: Serbian (Yugoslav) – British Relations from the 19th to the 21st centuries, Department of Political Science, University of Belgrade, 26-27 January 2018. Prof James Ker-Lindsay delivered a presentation on ‘British Policy towards Kosovo’.

Tena Prelec participated in the session ‘Beyond the library: activism & communicating your research’, part of the BISA South East Europe Workshop at the LSE, 1 November 2017.

Dr Peter Sanfey spoke at the 13th Annual Cyprus Summit entitled “Europe on the move – Cyprus in the fast lane?”, Nicosia, 1-2 November, 2017.

Dr Simona Guerra was an invited speaker at the Cambridge Baltic Conference 'When populism meets Euroscepticism: the European case', University of Cambridge, 28 October 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented his project titled “Between government failure and failed government: the Greek-Eurozone crisis in analytical perspective” at the CES Visiting Scholars seminar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, on 25 October 2017.

In October Dr Max Fras worked with the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Beirut on reforming the country's youth policy, notably the consultative role of young people in the policy cycle and the mandate of the Lebanese Youth Forum.

Dr Max Fras facilitated a seminar on cross-sectoral approaches to Roma inclusion in education, youth work and training in Europe, to be held in Bucharest in co-operation with the European Commission's SALTO Social Inclusion Resource Centre and the Romanian National Agency for Community Programmes in the Field of Education and Vocational Training (ANPCDEFP), October 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis will be attending the reception for the 2017 Excellence in Education and Teaching Promotion Awards at LSE, following his receipt of one of the Excellence in Education awards, 18 October 2017.

Dr Peter Sanfey was a panellist at an international conference on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, 22^nd September.

Dr Simona Guerra gave an invited keynote speech to the Conference of European Churches Conference for Church and Ecumenical Communicators in Paris, 21-22 September (on my forthcoming book on Religion and Euroscepticism in Post-Communist Europe).

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj taught  ‘Beyond the Western European Union welfare states – Social Policy Innovations and a case for Universal Basic Income’ at the LSE Executive Masters course on 'The Political Economy of Welfare State reform', a course run by Dr. Waltraud Schelkle, LSE, in September 2017.

Dr Peter Sanfey participated and made introductory remarks at a presentation of a report entitled “China’s Belt and Road Initiative - Constructing the Balkan Silk Road” by Dr. Jens Bastian, hosted by the South-East Europe & the Asian Studies Programmes of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, 14^th September.

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj was invited to a Chevening scholars event for new students hosted by the British Embassy in Tirana on September 7, 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented two papers titled ‘Regional needs, regional targeting and regional growth: an assessment for the UK regions in 1994-2003’ and ‘Speak your weight: examining the meaning of spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of spatial processes’ at the 57th Annual Congress of the European Regional Science Association in Groningen, Netherlands, 29 August-1 September 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented two papers titled ‘Spatial differences in the returns to education: sorting, agglomeration and pressures of demand’ and ‘Regional needs, regional targeting and regional growth: an assessment for the UK regions in 1994-2003’ the 46^th Annual Conference of the British and Irish Section of the Regional Science Association International in Harrogate, UK, 23-24 August.

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj became a member of the Expert Reference Group in June 2017, which will oversee a 2 years study on "Understanding impacts of human trafficking from Albania, Vietnam and Nigeria", to be carried out by the University of Bedfordshire and the International Organisation of Migration. The role entails overseeing and advising on research methods, literature review, research ethics and and overall quality of empirical work, findings and subsequent publications. The study is expected to be completed by April 2019.

Dr Max Fras  facilitated the EU Eastern Partnership Youth Forum in Warsaw, June 21-23, 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was an invited speaker in The Aspen Germany Western Balkans conference on “Improving Perspectives for the Youth: Economic Development and Job Creation in the Western Balkans”, speaking on the theme of ‘How Could Economic Development Be Better Included in the EU Enlargement Agenda’, June 19-22, 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett and Prof Milica Uvalic, University of Perugia, presented a paper on “Higher Education and the Graduate Labour Market in the Western Balkans” at the 80th Anniversary Conference of the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 16 June 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper at the Annual Joint Science Conference of the "Berlin Process", Paris, 15 June 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett participated in the conference of the International Inequalities Institute, LSE, jointly with Gorana Krstic, Jelena Zarkovic Rakic, and Nermin Oruc, presenting a paper on inequalities in the successor states of former Yugoslavia, 14 June 2017.

Dr Max Fras spoke about 'Identity and autnomy: youth policy responses in the EU and South-East Europe' at the Youth Policy Responses to the Contemporary Challenges Faced by Young People Symposium, organised by the Czech Chairmanship of the Council of Europe, Prague, June 12-14, 2017.

Dr Simona Guerra was invited to a workshop organized by the Institute for German Studies as part of the launch of C. Galpin's book, The Euro Crisis and European Identities: Political and Media Discourse in Germany, Ireland and Poland, at the University of Birmingham. She presented the paper 'Identity, Economic Rationality or Political Cues: The Case of Poland', 13 June 2017.

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj  spoke at an experts meeting on issues related to Country of Origin Information (COI), in particular, the research methodology, consistency of information, corroborating evidence, disaggregation of national statistics, finding reliable information sources and stakeholder consultations and emphasised that reliable evidence should inform policy to mitigate the risks of COIs turning into policy based evidence documents. The event on reviewing development and use  of COIs  took place at the office of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, June 12, 2017.

Tena Prelec participated as a panellist in the ‘How to Blog Your PhD/Research’ workshop at the LSE PhD Academy, 12 June 2017.

Tena Prelec co-lead, together with Artemis Photiadou, LSE Government, a workshop on research impact and academic blogging at a Summer School, University of Edinburgh, 6 June 2017. 

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj was a keynote speaker on "Research and policy considerations on Country of Origin Policy and Information Guidance (COI) and it's reliability as a reference document in asylum application cases", at the Conference on Complexities surrounding unaccompanied minors from Albania living in the UK, held at UCL, June 6, 2017.

Dr Eli Gateva attended as a key note speaker the fourth edition of the “Security in the Black Sea Region. Shared Challenges, Sustainable Future” Programme, which will take place in Romania, during May 28-June 2, 2017. The program is organized by the National Intelligence Academy “Mihai Viteazul” Romania via the National Institute for Intelligence Studies, in partnership with Harvard University (US) and with the collaboration of the National Intelligence University (NIU - US).

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was an invited speaker in a Workshop on “The role of structural funds in EU economic governance: towards increased structural reforms and macroeconomic conditionality?”, organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC), 31 May 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastitiotis  attended, as part of the Scientific Committee, a conference on “Economic development in Southern European Regions: Policies and higher education”, organised by EDULOG (Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation) in association with the Regional Science Association International at the University of Porto, 25-26 May, 2017.

Dr Simona Guerra presented apaper with Evangelos Fanoulis (Metropolitan University Prague) titled 'Crisis and emotions: citizens’ Eurosceptic perceptions and populist narrative unpacked', at the 3rd International Populism Conference in Prague, 22-23 May, 2017.

Tena Prelec presented a paper on the political attitudes of the Serbian diaspora at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network - “Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?”, Sarajevo, 19-20 May 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett attended the conference “Challenges of Europe”, organised by the University of Split, at Bol on the Island of Brac, Croatia, where he will participate as an invited speaker on a panel on "Decentralisation in Croatia”, 17-19 May 2017.

Dr Max Fras presented a paper titled ‘Ukraine’s Youth Policy and the Situation of Young People in Light of the EU Youth Policy Indicators’ in an International conference on EU-Ukraine co-operation in the field of youth policy and civil society development, organised by the European University Viadrina, Robert Bosch Foundation, Berlin, Germany, May 19, 2017.

Dr Jarosław Wiśniewski took part in a conference titled '‘Visegrad Group and the Western Balkans - what is next for the two regions?’ on Visegrad Group - Western Balkans cooperation, co-organised by the Polish Embassy in Skopje and Analytica think-tank in Skopje, Macedonia, May 17-19.

Dr Max Fras presented a paper titled ‘Challenges to Intercultural Competence Development in European Youth Work and Education’ at the Conference ‘Good Connections - Social Sciences and Divided Communities’, Zielona Gora, Poland, May 15-17, 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett  made a presentation titled “Goodbye Tito: The role of diverging welfare state trajectories on income inequality in four former Yugoslav republics”, a new project funded under the Atlantic Fellows Programme. The project will be carried out jointly with Dr Nermin Oruc (Sarajevo), Dr Jelena Zarkovic Rakic (Belgrade) and Dr  Gorana Krstic (Belgrade).

Dr Will Bartlett was appointed as a member of an Expert Panel for accreditation of PhD programmes in Croatia, by the Agency for Science and Higher Education. Dr Bartlett visited the University of Rijeka and University of Pula from May 8-11 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis completed a study for the Regional Cooperation Council (Sarajevo), led by the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN, Belgrade) on “Regional Analysis of Employment and Social Measures in the Western Balkans”, April 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated in the annual conference of FEMISE (Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Institutes of Economic Sciences) and presented results from his project titled “External and internal imbalances in South Mediterranean countries: challenges and costs”, 29-30 April 2017.

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj took part in a conference panel to launch the findings of a UN funded study on attitudes to violence and gender equality in Albania, Tirana 28 April 28, 2017.

Dr Jarosław Wiśniewski  was invited as a guest speaker on Russia and the Blakans at the Exercise Balkan Cadet 17, a gathering of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst RMAS alumni, Royal Air Force College RAFC, Britannia Royal Naval College BRNC, Berat, Albania, 21-23 April 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, in his capacity as Director of LSEE, organised an international conference in Skopje on “Social Cohesion and Economic Governance” where Dr Will Bartlett also presented a paper titled ‘Skill gaps in the Western Balkans: are they holding back economic development and growth?’ and chaired the Panel Session on Decentralisation, 6-7 April 2017.

Dr Spyros Economides attended the International Conference "The Western Balkans in the European Union: Enlargement to what, accession to what?", in cooperation with Centre International de Formation Européenne (Cife) and Centre franco-autrichiene pour le rapprochement en Europe (CFA), reflecting on the challenges facing the EU and its enlargement towards the Western Balkans.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis spoke in a policy panel at the annual conference of the National Bank of Macedonia, together with Poul Thomsen (IMF), Peter Sanfey (EBRD) and Dimitar Bogov (Governor, National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia), 5 April 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett was a panel discussant at the '1st Vienna Conference on Western Balkan Labor Markets', organised by The World Bank, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance in the World Bank Office, Vienna, 4-5 April 2017.

Dr Enkeleida Tahiraj was discussant on the session “Social Policy for Migrants” at the conference  “From Evidence to Policy” held at SOAS, London, 28-29 March, 2017.

Dr Spyros Economides attended the first Study Day devoted to improving and updating the understanding of the Balkans region, organised by the Allied Joint Force Command, at Naples, 23 February, 2017. The Study Day involved some 140 participants from across NATO, Allies, the European Union and other partner organizations, all informed by some of the leading contemporary scholars of the region.

Tena Prelec presented a paper titled 'EU Enlargement's fluctuating pull factor and its complicated relationship with FDI: An overview of Russian and UAE investments in the Balkans' at the Conference 'L’Union européenne post-Brexit et les Balkans: rétrécissement et élargissement, intégration et désintégration économique' in Paris, 20 January 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was at the ASSA Annual Meeting (LERA) in Chicago, Illinois, where he presented his paper titled “Crisis, adjustment and resilience in the Greek labour market: an unemployment decomposition approach” (with Angelo Martelli), January 2017.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis  gave a presentation of his joint paper with Dr Iva Tomic, titled “Youth unemployment and non-participation: between ‘opting’ for education and ‘coping’ with LM exclusion – evidence from Croatia”, at the Cork University Business School, University College Cork, December 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett has started work on a new research project funded by the European Commission on “Special Economic Zones in the Western Balkans and their Impact on Local Economic Development”. He will be carrying out fieldwork in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia during February and March 2017.

Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper on Employment policies in the Western Balkans at a conference titled “Employment and Social Affairs Platform”, Meeting of Ministries of Labour of the Western Balkan Economies, Podgorica, Montenegro, 13 - 14 December 2016.  

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper titled “Understanding youth unemployment and non-participation: between ‘opting’ for education and ‘coping’ with labour market exclusion – evidence from Croatia” at the research seminars series of the Department of Economics, University College Cork (Ireland), 16 December 2016.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis spoke at a workshop organised by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, on the theme “The role of human capital and innovation in territorial impact assessment”, 5 December 2016.  

Dr Denisa Kostovicova presented ‘Regional Reconciliation: Testing the RECOM initiative in the Western Balkans’, at Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network Conference to be held at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, that is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 1 December 2016.  

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis gave a webinar for the synpraksis (syn*πραξις) network titled “Depressing wages – wage reforms and adjustments in Greece and their logic”, 30 November 2016.  

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper titled “Spatial structure and distributional dynamics of regional incomes in Greece” (co-authored with Can Karahasan) at the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2016 (London), 25 November 2016.  

• Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was acting as discussant at the Workshop: Western Balkans Labour Market Research Network, Skopje, 27-28 October 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova presented ‘Interviews, Dialogue and Focus Groups’, Panel ‘Civil Society as a Research Methodology’, Methodology Workshop, Security in Transition: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Security Gap (ERC Project), The Justice Conflict and Security Research Programme, and Department of International Development, LSE,  17 October 2016.  

• Dr James Ker-Lindsay presented a paper titled ‘Managing Peace and Stability in South East Europe at a time of EU Uncertainty’, Belgrade Security Forum, Serbia, 12-14 October 2016.

• Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis gave an invited presentation at the Annual Conference, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission – “Human Capital for Territorial Growth”, Brussels, 11 October 2016.  

• Dr Will Bartlett gave a key-note address at a conference in Belgrade on "Fiscal decentralisation and local government financing in Serbia”. The conference is organised under the auspices of the RRPP Regional Research Promotion Programme and took place between 29 and 30 September 2016.  

• Dr Iva Tomić gave a presentation at the 20th EBES Conference in Vienna on “Youth Unemployment in Croatia: Who is More Exposed to the Risk of Unemployment at a Young Age?”, 28-30 September 2016.  

• Dr Eli Gateva presented a paper titled 'Ten Years On: Understanding Success and Failure of EU Post-Accession Conditionality', UACES 46th Annual Conference, London September 2016.

• Dr James Ker-Lindsay spoke at a conference on Radicalisation and Nationalism in the Western Balkans organised by the Aspen Institute, Germany, 5-8 September, 2016.  

• Dr James Ker-Lindsay presented a paper titled ‘Engagement without Recognition: Opening up Contact with Contested States’, Conference: ‘Breaking the Ice of Frozen Conflicts: Understanding Territorial Conflicts in East’ and presented at Southeast Europe, 4th Annual Conference, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany, 30 June-2 July 2016  

• Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper at the 19th Uddevalla Symposium 2016 on "Geography, Open Innovation, Diversity and Entrepreneurship" (30 June – 2 July, Birkbeck, University of London). The paper is co-authored with Dr Jacob Jordaan (Utrecht) and is titled “Drivers of Regional FDI Spillovers in Greece: an empirical examination of the effects of the technology gap and agglomeration”, 30 June 2016.  

• Dr Will Bartlett gave presentations of the findings of research study on 'Higher Education and the Graduate Labour Market in the Western Balkans' at  a Ministerial conference of the European Commission’s 'Western Balkans Platform on Education and Training', 27 June 2016.  

• Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was at the Annual Conference of the Greek Section of the European Regional Science Association (24-25 June, Panteion University, Athens), speaking as an invited panellist in a panel on ‘Recent advances in regional science research and teaching’, 24 June 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova presented ‘Deliberation in a Divided Region: Evidence from the RECOM consultations in the Balkans’, British International Studies Annual Conference (BISA), Edinburgh, UK, and co-convenor of a panel, Communicating Transitional Justice, 17 June 2016.  

• Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper titled “The Achievements of Cohesion Policy: long-period evidence on the factors conditioning success and failure from 15 selected regions” (co-authored with R Crescenzi and U Fratesi) at a policy conference in Brussels organised by the RSA Research Network on Cohesion Policy (Institut d’Etudes européennes de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB), 13 June 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova presented ‘Identity and Territory in the Global Age’, Department of Philosophy, University of Prishtina, Kosovo, 24 May 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova and Dr Aude Bicquelet presented ‘Regional Approach to Transitional Justice’ at Workshop, ‘Rethinking Transitional Justice and Reconciliation after Conflict’ Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, 17 May 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova co-organised a workshop with Jim Hughes on ‘Rethinking Transitional Justice and Reconciliation after Conflict’ Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, 17 May 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova presented “Reconciliation and Scale”, Eighth Annual OxPeace Conference: 'Studying Peace and Studying Conflict – Complementary or Competing Paradigms?' at St John’s College, Oxford, 14 May 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova presented ‘War Crimes Talk: Transitional Justice and Communication’ at ‘Reimagining Conflict-Transformation: Making Memory Meaningful’, Organised by Conflict Transformation Studies Team at the Centre for Conflict, Rule of Law and Society, Bournemouth University, 6 May 2016.  

• Dr Denisa Kostovicova and Dr Aude Bicquelet presented ‘Regional Approach to Transitional Justice: Testing the RECOM initiative in the Balkans’, at Panel WB63: Rethinking Transitional Justice: Contemporary Cases International Studies Association (ISA), Annual Convention, Atlanta, 16 March 2016. 

• Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis spoke as a panellist at the Annual Conference of the Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Institutes of Economic Sciences (FEMISE) in Athens, on the theme “The pros and cons of ‘deeper association’: conditionality leverage, intra-regional integration and economic development”, 13-14 February 2016.  

• Dr James Ker-Lindsay gave a guest lecture on current and emerging security challenges in the Western Balkans at the Royal College of Defence Studies, 3 February 2016.  

• Tena Prelec presented the outcomes of the research: 'UAE Policies towards the Western Balkans: Investment Motives and Impact' during the conference 'Europe and Asia: Economic Integration Prospects' at the Belgrade Banking Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. The paper was written by Will Bartlett, James Ker-Lindsay, Kristian Alexander (of Zayed University) and Tena Prelec - and the research project was funded by the LSE Middle East Centre, 25 January 2016.  

First World Congress of Comparative Economics 25-7 June 2015 Roma Tre University, Department of Economics, Rome Dr Will Bartlett attended the conference.

Conference: "Achievements and Challenges for the Emerging Economies of Central Europe" 22-24 June 2015 University College London Dr Will Bartlettand Ivana Prica are presenting a paper titled 'Interdependence between Core and Peripheries of the European Economy: Secular stagnation and growth in the Western Balkans'. Conference Programme

Dr Vesna Popovski was a contributor to the Johnson London Seminar 2015: The Future of Political Stability in Europe at the British Academy 12 May 2015

2nd International Conference 'Western Balkans and the European Union. Lessons from past enlargements, Challenges to further integrations'Organised in the frame of the 10th International Conference “Economic Integrations, Competition and Cooperation" Tena Prelec  delivered a presentation titled "Measuring and tackling corruption: how to go beyond perceptions?" 22-24 April 2015 - Rijeka/Opatija, Croatia Link

Seminar: The Future of the Welfare State Dr Vesna Popovski was a participant. 21st April 2015 - British Academy

European Public Choice Society Conference 2015  Dr Cigdem Borke Tunaliwill  present a joint paper with Dr Jan Fidrmuc (Senior Lecturer, Brunel University, London, UK). The title of the paper is “Happiness and Religion” and it will be presented in a special session called “Institutions and Well-Being” - LinkDr Tunali will also discuss a paper written by Daniel L. Bennett (assistant professor, Patrick Henry College), titled “Legal Origins & the Distributional Consequences of the Rule of Law Evidence of the Engerman-Sokoloff & Friedman Hypotheses". 07 April-10 April 2015 - University of Groningen, Netherlands

Dr Dimitar Bechev spoke on a panel on Regional Co-operation in the Western Balkans, taking place in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade. He also addressed the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's 88th Rose Roth Seminar, titled “Serbia, the Western Balkans, and the Euro-Atlantic Community”. The event was organised in co operation with the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. 31 March - 2 April 2015

Serbia-Kosovo: What Role for Civil Society in Normalizing Relations Balkan Trust for Democracy conference 30 March 2015 - Belgrade, Serbia Dr Joanna Hanson was moderator.

Dr Joanna Hanson presented at a round-table for Ambassador designate to Kosovo Ruiari O'Connel at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 20 March 2015

Research Project on Fiscal Decentralisation in Serbia and MontenegroFunded through the RRPP (Regional Research Promotion Programme) 23 February - 9 March 2015, Belgrade Dr Will Bartlett will be doing field work on the research project.

Dr Joanna Hanson  was in Kosovo, doing work on the normalisation process and civil society. She co-organised and co-chaired a round table with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) where civic-society participants looked at how to better formulate specific issues related to the normalisation process. 28 January - 20 February 2015, Kosovo.

Donor Coordination in the Western Balkans Organised by Regional Cooperation Council 11-13 February 2015, Sarajevo Dr Will Bartlett will give the key note lecture at the conference.

Strategic Planning Retreat by the UN Mission of Good Offices for the UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide 15-18 December  - Cyprus Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in the event. While on the island he also held a book launch for his new edited volume: 'Resolving Cyprus: New Approaches to Conflict Resolution'.

Dr Joanna Hanson will be speaking at a Foreign and Commonwealth briefing session on Kosovo-Serbian normalization process 12 December - London, UK.

Roundtable Discussion with Mrs Mimi Kodheli, Defence Minister of Albania11 December - RUSI, Whitehall, London Dr Joanna Hanson will be attending.

Policy Priorities for UK Government on Economic Governance and Reform for the Western Balkans Region Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), 8 December - London, UK Dr Will Bartlett will take part in the seminar.

International Workshop: 'Shaping the Future in Albania. Civil society’s questions and answers on current issues' Southeast Europe Association & German Federal Foreign Office 4-5 December - Munich, Germany Dr Joanna Hanson will be attending as a moderator for one of the sessions.

Critical Juncture? Bulgaria after the Snap Poll - Change and Continuity in Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Economy after the 2014 Elections University of Oxford 3 December – Oxford, UK Dr Dimitar Bechev will speak at the conference.

Lecture at the Faculty of Philosophy of the "St Cyril and Methodius" 27 November - University in Skopje, Macedonia Dr Will Bartlett was a key-note speaker at the lecture.

Public lecture: The Balkan State Tradition and the Challenges for EuropePublic lecture on the 10th Anniversary of SEERC,University of Sheffield 21 November - Sheffield, UK Professor Kevin Featherstonegave the keynote lecture.

Dr Joanna Hanson worked on developing her NGO and further researching normalization process and civil society taking part together with Dr James Ker-Lindsay in a dinner hosted by LSE Alumni 2 - 17 November - Kosovo

Conference: "Economic growth: stimuli and constraints" Economics Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 6-7 October Dr Will Bartlett  was a keynote speaker at the conference, presenting a paper on “Political Economy of Economic Crisis in South East Europe".

In September, Dr Joanna Hanson carried out research on civil society in Kosovo, as well as setting up a co-funded NGO.

International Conference on "The Economic Causes and Consequences of the First World War Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade 19-20 September  2014 – Belgrade, Serbia Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper on "The political economy of the cooperative movement before and after the First World War".

RRPP Training on "Research-led teaching" Tirana, Albania 18-19 September Dr Claire Gordon gave a workshop on research-led teaching.

26th Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists 18-20 September 2014 – Ljubljana, Slovenia Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper titled “A tale of two crises: changes in Greek public and private wages over 2009-2013”.

Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies 4-6 September – Budapest, Hungary Dr Will Bartlett will be presented a paper on "Political economy of the economic crisis in South East Europe" (with Ivana Prica and Aleksandra Nojkovic).

Strategic Planning Retreat by the UN Mission of Good Offices for the UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide 15-18 December  - Cyprus Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in the event While on the island he also held a book launch for his new edited volume: 'Resolving Cyprus: New Approaches to Conflict Resolution'.

Dr Joanna Hanson will be speaking at a Foreign and Commonwealth briefing session on Kosovo-Serbian normalization process 12 December - London, UK.

Roundtable Discussion with Mrs Mimi Kodheli, Defence Minister of Albania11 December - RUSI, Whitehall, London Dr Joanna Hanson will be attending.

Policy Priorities for UK Government on Economic Governance and Reform for the Western Balkans Region Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), 8 December - London, UK Dr Will Bartlett will take part in the seminar.

International Workshop: 'Shaping the Future in Albania. Civil society’s questions and answers on current issues' Southeast Europe Association & German Federal Foreign Office  4-5 December - Munich, Germany Dr Joanna Hanson will be attending as a moderator for one of the sessions.

Critical Juncture? Bulgaria after the Snap Poll - Change and Continuity in Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Economy after the 2014 Elections University of Oxford 3 December – Oxford, UK Dr Dimitar Bechev will speak at the conference.

Lecture at the Faculty of Philosophy of the "St Cyril and Methodius"University in Skopje, Macedonia 27 November Dr Will Bartlett was a key-note speaker at the lecture.

Public lecture: The Balkan State Tradition and the Challenges for EuropePublic lecture on the 10th Anniversary of SEERC,University of Sheffield 21 November - Sheffield, UK Professor Kevin Featherstone gave the keynote lecture.

Dr Joanna Hanson worked on developing her NGO and further researching normalization process and civil society taking part together with Dr James Ker-Lindsay in a dinner hosted by LSE Alumni 2 - 17 November - Kosovo

Conference: "Economic growth: stimuli and constraints" Economics Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 6-7 October Dr Will Bartlett was a keynote speaker at the conference, presenting a paper on “Political Economy of Economic Crisis in South East Europe".

In September, Dr Joanna Hanson carried out research on civil society in Kosovo, as well as setting up a co-funded NGO.

International Conference on "The Economic Causes and Consequences of the First World War Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade 19-20 September  2014 – Belgrade, Serbia Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper on "The political economy of the cooperative movement before and after the First World War".

RRPP Training on "Research-led teaching" Tirana, Albania 18-19 September Dr Claire Gordon gave a workshop on research-led teaching.

26th Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists 18-20 September 2014 – Ljubljana, Slovenia Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper titled “A tale of two crises: changes in Greek public and private wages over 2009-2013”.

Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies 4-6 September – Budapest, Hungary Dr Will Bartlett will be presented a paper on "Political economy of the economic crisis in South East Europe" (with Ivana Prica and Aleksandra Nojkovic).

SPERI Conference on "Perspectives on Global Growth and Development after the Crisis" 30 June 2014 - Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield, UK Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper on "International and domestic strategies to deal with the economic crisis in South East Europe".

Second IOS Annual Conference: "Labour in East and Southeast Europe Institutions and Practices Between Formality and Informality" Institute for East and Southeast European Studies 26-28 June 2014 - Regensburg, Germany Mr Angelo Martelli presented the paper "Determinants of Non-standard Employment and Paths to Informality in Serbia: ‘Coping’ versus ‘Sorting’", speaking for Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis (details).

Summer School on Nationalism, Religion and Violence 23 June-4 July 2014 - Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Dr James Ker-Lindsay presented a paper on 'Case Studies on Ethno-national Conflict in South East Europe: Kosovo and Cyprus'.

Conference: 'Economic Development in the Western Balkans: on the Road to Competitive Market Economies?' Aspen Institute 23-26 June 2014 - Alt Madlitz, Berlin Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper on 'Implementing structural reforms in the Western Balkan countries'.

First International Sarajevo Conference: 'Global Crisis and Countries in Transition' 19-22 June 2014 - International University of Sarajevo Dr Will Bartlett delivered the keynote lecture and presented a paper on 'Health System Reforms and reproductive Health in Western Balkans', co-authored with Maja Krstić and Snezana Simić (details).

CEELBAS / John Smith Trust Debate and Workshop 'Democracy is not always the best form of government' 20 June 2014 - London, UK Dr Vesna Popovski was a panellist.

First Meeting of the Policy Working Group on VET 16-17 June 2014 - Turin, Italy Dr Will Bartlett presented at this meeting (details).

Regional Studies Association European Conference Second Annual Conference 2014 15-18 June 2014 - Izmir, Turkey Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper on 'Unemployment risk and labour market adjustment in the Greek crisis: an unemployment decomposition approach', co-authored with Mr Angelo Martelli.

3rd Joint LSE-Goldsmiths-UCL PhD Symposium on South East European Studies 13 June 2014 - SEES, UCL Dr James Ker-Lindsay was chair and co-organiser of the event.

Dr Vesna Popovski was invited to discuss the present situation in Ukraine by Rt Hon Mr Martin Horwood, MP for Cheltenham. 11 June 2014. 

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Western Cyprus 10 June 2014 - House of Lords Dr James Ker-Lindsay discussed 'Current developments in the Cyprus problem'.

Greek Labour Market Research Network - Inaugural Meeting 6 June 2014 - University of West of England, Bristol, UK Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was a panellist.

Jean Monnet Conference : 'European Union Accession and the Western Balkans: The Road Travelled and the Road Ahead' 5 June 2014  - De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Dr James Ker-Lindsay and Dr Joanna Hanson presented their work at his event (details).

Dr Vesna Popovski's research was cited by Rt Hon Mr Martin Horwood, MP for Cheltenham in his question to Prime Minister David Cameron during the G7 Summit in Brussels, 4-5 June 2014 (details). 

LSEE Network on Social Cohesion Workshop 30 May 2014 - Skopje; with the support of the World Bank Office, Skopje Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper on 'Vocational education and social inclusion in the Western Balkans: evidence from a school-based survey'.

"The Study of Languages" British Academy & Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation 27 May 2014 - British Academy, London Dr Vesna Popovski took part in this seminar.

Workshop; Council of Europe 7 May 2014 - Sarajevo Dr Will Bartlettpresented a paper titled 'Inclusive Education in the Western Balkans'.

Pre-Departure briefing for Mr Charles Garrett, the incoming British Ambassador to Macedonia Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1 May 2014 Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in this policy event.

"The State of History" British Academy & Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation 13 April 2014 - British Academy, London Dr Vesna Popovski took part in this seminar.

Workshop on Conflict in the Western Balkans, Western Balkans and Enlargement Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 29 April 2014 Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in this policy event.

"When does austerity work? On the conditional link between fiscal austerity and debt sustainability" 3rd Research Conference of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia 28-29 April 2014, Skopje, Macedonia Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper.

Public Conference: 'Turkey's Regional Policy at a Crossroads'Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE 28 April 2014 - London, UK Associate Professor Rıfat Barış Tekin acted as chairman (details).

'10 Years after the 'Big Bang', what is the Future of EU Enlargement?’, UACES 15th Annual Student Forum Conference, `New Horizons in European Studies' 25 April 2014 – Aston University, Birmingham, UK Dr James Ker-Lindsay was a keynote roundtable participant.

Conference on The Greek Economy: from Crisis to Development 4 April 2014 - Volos, Greece Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis gave a lecture on "A New Industrial Policy for Greece: lessons from the BRICS" in this event jointly organised by the Greek Center for Planning and Economic Research, the South & East European Development Center, and the Hellenic Observatory.

Lecture by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Bosnia Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies 3 April 2014 - London, UK Dr James Ker-Lindsaywas invited to chair the event.

"An Economic and Social Strategy for Europe 2014" -  European Dialogue "Creating a Social Europe" European Trade Union Institute Forum 2-3 April 2014 - Brussels, Belgium Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was a panellist (details).

Attitudes of EU Member States towards Enlargement in the Western Balkans Workshop European Policy Centre (EPC) 13-14 March 2014 - Brussels, Belgium Dr James Ker-Lindsay was an invited participant at the event.

Research Seminar Series, University of West England 13 March 2014 - UWE, UK Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented the paper “Unemployment risk and regional adjustment during the crisis in Greece: evidence from micro-data”, co-authored with Angelo Martelli.

Engagement without Recognition in Secessionist Conflicts 12 March 2014 - University of Kent, UK Dr James Ker-Lindsay was a guest speaker.

Bi-annual Conference on Modern Greece: Entrepreneurship in the Context of the Greek Crisis: 'Challenges and Opportunities for the Future', 2014 9 March 2014 - Cambridge University, UK Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was the keynote speaker of this event organised by the Cambridge University Hellenic Society.

Conference on Economic Co-operation in Cyprus Peace Research Institute (PRIO) Cyprus Centre 6-7 March 2014 - Brussels, Belgium Dr James Ker-Lindsay moderated two sessions.

The State of the Balkans: Public Service, their Role and Development. Balkan Futures Workshop II 6-7 March 2014 - Athens, Greece Dr Will Bartlettpresented a paper (details 1 ; 2)

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Lecture 17 February 2014 - London, UK Associate Professor Rıfat Barış Tekin presented a paper, titled "Limits, Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Turkish Foreign Policy: A Political Economy Perspective".

European Union Enlargement in South East Europe: An OverviewDepartment of Political Science, University of Pristina 14 February 2014 – Pristina, Kosovo Dr James Ker-Lindsay gave a guest lecture.

LSE Alumni Event 14 February 2014 - Pristina, Kosovo Dr James Ker-Lindsaywas guest honour at the event.

The Role of the European Union as a Conflict Manager in South East Europe Faculty of Law, University of Saints Cyril and Methodius 10 February 2014 – Skopje, FYR Macedonia Dr James Ker-Lindsay gave a guest lecture.

Strategic Planning Meeting - Office of the European Union Special Representative/European Union Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina 23-24 January - Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in this policy event.

Growth models and development trajectories: the crisis in SEE and beyondLSESU Development Society 5 December 2013 - London, UK Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis discussed the topic (details).

LSEE-SEESOX Workshop on Belgrade-Pristina dialogue 29 November 2013 - St Antony's College, University of Oxford Dr James Ker-Lindsay was co-organiser of the event. Dr Spyros Economides chaired a session.

CEFTA (Central European Free Trade Agreement) Week 18-20 November 2013 - Sarajevo, Bosnia Dr Will Bartlett participated as a guest speaker.

Regional Studies Association North American Conference 16-18 November 2013 - Los Angeles, California Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented on ‘Regional migration and employment flexibility: substitutes or complements? Evidence from the local and regional labour markets of Britain’ (details)

Mapping of VET policies and practices for social inclusion and social cohesion in the Western Balkans, Turkey and Israel 11-13 November 2013 - Tel Aviv, Israel Dr Will Bartlett participated as a speaker (presentation)

'Taiwanisation and the Foreign Policy of Counter Secession: Preventing the Legitimisation of Contested States' Taiwan Programme, Asian Studies Centre 1 November 2013 - St Antony's College, Oxford University Dr James Ker-Lindsay gave a talk as part of the Visiting Speakers programme(details).

Vocational education and social inclusion in the Western BalkansOctober 2013 - Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zagreb, Croatia and Tirana, Albania Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper.

ERSTE Foundation Summer School 23-28 September 2013 - Torino, Italy Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis participated as a guest speaker.

Harnessing European Labour Mobility 19 September 2013 - Brussels, Belgium Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis attended the second Board Meeting and workshop of the Bertelsmann Stiftung project.

Closed discussion on security aspects of the Cyprus Problem Foreign and Commonwealth Office 16 September 2014 Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in this policy discussion.

4th GDRI-DREEM Conference 'Evaluation of Economic Policies and Institutional Changes in Mediterranean Countries' 12-13 September 2013 - Florence, Italy (details) Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented the paper 'Fairness through crisis? Testing for convergence in the returns to labour force characteristics in the regional labour markets in Greece'. 

Human Capital externalities in local labour markets: evidence from SerbiaFoundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN), University of Belgrade 10 September 2013 - Belgrade, Serbia Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis gave a lecture. 

The 53rd European Regional Science Association Congress 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy (details) Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented two papers (i) ‘FDI spillovers in the ENP countries: does European FDI have a productivity advantage?’, co-authored with Mireia Borrell; (ii) ‘Beyond rising unemployment: the distribution and determinants of unemployment risk in the Greek regions during the crisis’, co-authored with Angelo Martelli.

'Labour market adjustment in Greece during the crisis: demand/supply shifts and regional variations’ The 42nd Annual Conference of the Regional Science Association International (British and Irish Section) 20-22 August 2013 - Cambridge, UK (details) Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper.

Summer School on Nationalism, Religion, and Violence in Southeast Europe 12 July 2013 - Thessaloniki, Greece (details) Dr James Ker-Lindsaywill speak on 'The Battle for Recognition: Ethno-National Disputes and Diplomatic Conflict at the LSEE co-sponsored summer School. 

Lunch discussion on contemporary developments in FYR MacedoniaForeign and Commonwealth Office 9 July 2013 Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in this discussion.

SPERI Annual Conference Programme - Austerity vs Growth: The Future of European Political Economy 1-3 July 2013 - Sheffield, UK (details) Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper on austerity and growth in the Balkans.

Devising a Viable Future for the Area of former Yugoslavia 21-22 June 2013 - Belgrade, Serbia Dr Spyros Economides participated in this conference organized by the Luxembourg institute for European and International studies, the Anglo-Serbian society, and the Centre for Democracy at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade.

Europeanisation as an Academic Subject and as Policy: Bridging the Gap in South East Europe  20 June 2013 - Birmingham, UK (details) Dr James Ker-Lindsay will be speaking at the LSEE co-convened roundtable at the British International Studies Association (BISA) annual conference.

Harnessing European Labour Mobility  18 June 2013 - Brussels, Belgium  Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis attended the 1st Advisory Board meeting of the Bertelsmann Stiftung project.

Cyprus: Time to Think Outside the Box  17 June 2013 -  Izmir, Turkey  Dr James Ker-Lindsay spoke at the conference organized by the Cyprus Turkish Culture Foundation and Yasar University.

Croatia - the 28th EU Member Country 17 June 2013 - Vienna, Austria (details) Dr Will Bartlett presented a paper at this conference organized by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. 

11th Annual Conference of the Greek Regional Science Association   14-15 June 2013 - Patras, Greece Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis presented a paper titled 'Beyond rising unemployment: unemployment risk and its determinants across the Greek regions before/during the crisis.

The Political Economy of Welfare Reforms in the Western Balkans 14 June 2013 - Belgrade, Serbia (details) Dr Will Bartlett gave the annual Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Lecture at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade.

Jobs, Welfare and Inclusion in the Western Balkans 10-12 June 2013 - Bečići, Montenegro (details) Dr Will Bartlett was the keynote speaker at this conference organized by the World Bank (presentation).

Workshop no 2: Blurring of Sovereignty? De Facto States in the International System  5-8 June 2013 - University of Tartu, Estonia  Dr James Ker-Lindsay presented a paper entitled 'Diplomatic Engagement without Recognition: Examining the Limits of Official Communication with Contested States'. at the first European workshop in International studies at the University of Tartu.

10 Years After Thessaloniki: An Appraisal of the EU Perspective and Challenges in the Western Balkans Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Irish Institute for European Studies (Organised as a Part of the Irish EU Presidency in Conjunction with the DG Enlargement) 24 May 2013 - Dublin, Ireland (details)  Dr James Ker-Lindsay was an invited academic participant.

Bridging the Balkans: Celebrating a Centenary of Diplomatic Relations since the London Conference 16-17 May 2013 - King's College, UK (details) Dr James Ker-Lindsay spoke on 'The EU as a Factor of Stability in the Western Balkans'.

Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Can it Facilitate Dispute Resolution?Centre for Economics & Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung  13 May 2013 - Istanbul, Turkey  Dr James Ker-Lindsay was an invited participant.

Roundtable discussion on the European Union sponsored dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo Foreign and Commonwealth Office 23 April 2013 Dr James Ker-Lindsay took part in the discussion.

Regional Economics Laboratory 8-12 April 2013 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (details) Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis visited the Regional Economics Laboratory.

European Union Center and Hellenic Studies Programme 10 April 2013 - University of Illinois, USA Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis gave a lecture on the Greek/Eurozone crisis.

Development Assistance in South Eastern Europe, Conference 22-23 February 2013 - Athens, Greece Dr Will Bartlett spoke about international assistance programmes and education reform in the Western Balkans.

European Training Foundation, Conference 18-19 February 2013 - Torino, Italy (details) Dr Will Bartlett, spoke on the project's progress and will sum up comparisons between country cases.

The Balkan Forum on Regional Cooperation 7-9 February 2013 - Thessaloniki, Greece (details) Dr Will Bartlett, spoke about human capital and labor markets.

FP7-Search Project Conference 4-5 February 2013 - Brussels, Belgium  Dr Will Bartlett gave a presentation on the institutional environment.

'EU Balance of Competences Review: Foreign Policy’ Foreign and Commonwealth Office 16 January 2013 Dr James Ker-Lindsay was an invited participant at this policy event.

Turkey's Relations with the Balkans 3 December 2012 - PRIO-Cyprus Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus Dr James Ker-Lindsay participated in the event.

Moving the Balkans and Bosnia Forward: A Post-Dayton Road Map  13-14 November 2012 - Atlantic Council, Washington DC, USA (details) Dr Will Bartlett gave a presentation on the effects of the global economic crisis on the Balkan economies.

Social Sector Workshop  23 October 2012 - European Commission/IFI Coordination Unit, Brussels, Belgium (details) Dr Will Bartlett has attended the workshop and held a meeting of the Research Network on Social Cohesion's Advisory Board.

 Economic Development and Political Transition in Kosovo 12-13 October 2012 - American University of Kosovo (details) Dr Will Bartlett gave a lecture entitled ' The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the Western Balkans'. 

'Turkey's Neighbourhood Policy in the Balkans' Conference 4 October 2012 - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the European Council on Foreign Relations, Skopje, FYR Macedonia Dr James Ker-Lindsay gave a presentation entitled 'Turkey's Relations with Greece'.

2nd Belgrade Security Forum: Panel on Frozen Conflicts and Frozen Lives 20-22 September 2012 - Belgrade, Serbia  Dr James Ker-Lindsay gave a presentation entitled 'Learning the Lessons from Cyprus'.

The 12th Biannual Conference of the European Association of Economic Studies  6-8 September 2012 - University of West England, UK (details) Dr Will Bartlett and Dr Ivana Prica (Faculty of Economics, Belgrade) presented a conference paper on the' Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on the Western Balkans'.