29/09/2026
From the Future of the Field to the Future of Researchers
What does the future hold for Central and East European Studies? And what does it mean to conduct research in times of uncertainty? At , these questions connect two sessions at the beginning and end of the congress.
🎙️ KEYNOTE | Marci Shore
“Quo vadis? Central and East European Studies after the End of History”
Historian Marci Shore (University of Toronto) asks where Central and East European Studies is heading after the “End of History”, and reflects on the changing conditions and possible futures of the field.
📅 October 8 | 10:30 am📍 Henry Ford Building, FU Berlin
🎙️ CLOSING PANEL
Risk as Resource and Commodity: Critical Perspectives on the “Scholar at Risk” Ecosystem
What happens when scholars move from a situation of acute risk into a more established - or still precarious - position?
The panel brings together perspectives on academic precarity, host institutions, inequality, resilience and what it means to conduct research amid polycrisis and insecurity.
Andrea Pető · Dina Gusejnova · Nadiya Kiss · Tania Arcimovich · Elena Trifan | Chair: Gabriele Freitag
📅 October 9 | 4:00 pm📍 Henry Ford Building, FU Berlin
🔗 Register by September 30 at www.ceecon.de and join the conversation at !