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GITS January Newsletter [UPDATED]
Mittwoch, 22. Jänner 2025
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January 2026
Hello!
We had a few unexpected changes and additions for January which is why we are sending an updated version of our newsletter. Please find the updated list of upcoming events and calls below!
Best wishes from the team!
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Call for Papers - Let's Talk About Gender
“Let's Talk About Gender: Critical Pedagogies and Intersectional Knowledge Transfer in the English and American Studies Classroom”
18th European Conference for English Studies
August 31-September 4, 2026
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
If you wish to present a paper, you are invited to submit 200-250 word abstracts directly to the convenors by January 31, 2026.
more info here
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Call for Papers - EcoAssemblages
“EcoAssemblages: New Perspectives on Environmental Humanities”
March 5-6, 2026
Málaga, Spain (Faculty of Humanities, Teatinos Campus)
Abstracts of, approximately, 300 words, accompanied by a short biographical note, should be submitted by February 5, 2026 to ecoassemblages(at)gmail.com
more info here
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Call for Papers - American Carnage
“American Carnage”
Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS)
October 23-25, 2026
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Please email 250-word proposals and brief bios by April 15, 2026 to caasconference26(at)gmail.com and please include the subject line: CAAS 2026 CFP Submission.
more info here
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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 …
more info here
1.00-2.00 PM
SR 111.41 (Beethovenstraße 8/4th floor)
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Wednesday, 28.02.2026
Lunch Lecture
Nemanja Ćurčić
"Emanation of Essence through Word and Melody: A Comparative Analysis of Momčilo Nastasijević and Gerard Manley Hopkins"
The talk explores how experimental form becomes a method for approaching the “essence” and how it becomes an attempt to unearth the universal spiritual denominator not clearly expressed in ordinary language …
more info here
12.00-13.00 PM
C.IAS (Schubertstraße 21/ground floor)
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Friday, 30.01.2026
Online talk
Eva Bauer
“An Ecolinguistic Crisis of Climate in the Caribbean: Deconstructing Ecological Media Discourse in English-Speaking Small Island Developing States”
The climate crisis is one of the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century, with small island developing states (SIDS), such as those in the Caribbean, being among the most vulnerable to its impacts. Rising sea levels, intensifying hurricanes, and biodiversity loss endanger their environments, economies, and cultural identities, despite these nations contributing minimally to global greenhouse gas emissions (cf. Thomas et al., 2020) …
more info here
2.00-3.30 PM
Université de Lille and online
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Monday-Tuesday, 02.-03.02.2026
Event Series
Continuity and Change after Authoritarian Rule
What happens when autocrats lose power?
The fall of autocratic governments usually raises high expectations of democratic transformation. Yet political ruptures often produce ambiguous political trajectories. This event series explores why democratisation remains so difficult after regime change.
more info here
Welcome & Keynote: “Mass protests and regime dynamics: Why have revolutionary movements achieved so little over the last two decades?” by Gianni Del Panta
Friday, 02.02.2026
6.30 PM
SZ 15.21 (RESOWI, Section A, 2nd floor, Universitätsstraße 15)
Roundtable Discussion: “Inside the Transition: Insider Perspectives on Obstacles and Opportunities of Regime Change”
Saturday, 03.02.2026
5.00-6.30 PM
SZ 15.21 (RESOWI, Section A, 2nd floor, Universitätsstraße 15)
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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
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Call for Applications - Arqus Joint Master's Programme in European Studies
The Arqus Joint Master’s Programme in European Studies is a jointly offered programme by four participating universities: University of Graz, University of Granada, Leipzig University and Vilnius University. The programme was developed under the umbrella of Arqus, an alliance of nine European universities.
The application deadline is March 31, 2026.
more info here
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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
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Call for Applications - PhD Law and Politics
The PhD Program in Law and Politics is an interdisciplinary doctoral program that will enable PhD researchers to broaden and deepen their theoretical, methodological and empirical knowledge and academic skills in the field of Political Science and Law.
The application deadline is April 30, 2026.
more infos here
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Contact
Graz School of Interdisciplinary Transnational Studies (GITS)
University of Graz, Austria
Schubertstraße 21 Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS)
+43 (0)316 380 8213
centeramericas@uni-graz.at
Follow us on instagram @c.ias_graz!
Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES)
+43 (0)316 380 6823
suedosteuropa@uni-graz.at
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Universitätsplatz 3
8010 Graz
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