Extended Call for Papers - Camps Conference 2026

Following the conferences from 2022 and 2024, the 3rd Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human Rights is entitled "Camps, Belonging, and Abolition Democracy" and will be held in June 2026 at the University of Graz, organized by the Center of Inter-American Studies (University of Graz, Austria) and the Institute of Caribbean Studies together with the Department of English (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico).

The deadline for the CfP is on January 19, 2026! Please send applications to camps2026(at)uni-graz.at

All infos on the conference and the CfP can be found through the Camps Conference website.

Friday, 16.01.2026

Traditional International Potluck Dinner

End-of-Semester Happy Hour for MASEES and Arqus students

Our goal is to enrich the student experience in Graz and celebrate cultural diversity by giving everyone the chance to share a piece of their culinary heritage with fellow students.

Please make sure to register for the event here and contact sanja.kmezic@uni-graz.at for more infos.

SZ 15.11 (RESOWI, Section G, 1st floor)

Tuesday, 20.01.2026

Brown Bag Lecture

Nikos Psochios

“Enduring Borders: Refugees' Tactics of Living Sideways in Contemporary Greece”

Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and narrative inquiry with people navigating the Greek asylum system, this talk explores how refugees endure and tactically navigate bureaucratic time and space. Moving beyond frameworks that centre delay and suffering, I utilise the concept of endurance work to describe how refugees repurpose minimalist systems of care and control …

more info here

1.00-2.00 PM
SR 111.41 (Beethovenstraße 8/4th floor)

Tuesday, 27.01.2026

Brown Bag Lecture

Ana Kladnik

“Volunteering and Democracy in Socialist Yugoslavia”

Conventionally, volunteering and voluntary associations are understood to have non-governmental nature and non-profit-orientations. These kinds of operative borders have proven to be quite porous in historical practice. Within the state-socialist contexts, voluntary organisations have often been dismissed as fronts, existing solely to mobilise populations or serving as disseminators of propaganda …

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1.00-2.00 PM
SR 111.41 (Beethovenstraße 8/4th floor)

Call for Applications - GUSEGG 2026

Graz International Summer School Seggau 2026

“Curiosity, Concern, and Commitment in Europe and the Americas:State – Society – Religion”
July 5-18, 2026
Seggau Castle, Leibnitz, Austria

The Graz International Summer School Seggau is designed for internationally oriented, highly motivated students from all disciplines, who wish to deepen their understanding of current European and international affairs by studying and discussing global developments and challenges within the context of transformation processes and demographic change reflecting aspects of individual, social, political, religious, cultural, literary, regional, economic, cohort and national identities.

The application deadline is on January 31, 2026.

more info here

Call for Applications - Master's Programme Southeast European Studies

The English-taught Master's Programme in Southeast European Studies is a full-time master's programme. The mission of the Joint Master Programme in Southeast European Studies is to provide an international and interdisciplinary master programme in social sciences and humanities of highest quality, which enables participants to effectively understand the interrelationship between history, law, politics, economics and culture with strong emphasis on the region of Southeastern Europe.

The application deadline is March 25, 2026.

more info here