Submissions are invited for an edited book provisionally entitled BALKANS: Foreign Affairs, Politics and Socio-cultures. The book will be published by Epoka University Press as a first English book in the Balkan area in terms of encompassing three main issues of the Balkan countries and foreign affairs of the global actors toward Balkans. The book aims to be a main reference and primary source by bringing together selective academicians, scholars and experts from the world. The planned book is a collaborative project initiated by a working group dedicated to these themes located within the Epoka University, Tirana, Albania.

Contributions are invited from scholars in various areas of humanities and social sciences whose work utilizes the oral historical method and directly speaks to the main focus of the proposed collection - Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Scholarship. The editors are seeking submissions that reflect on, deal with, and respond to this changing paradigm of scholarship from a variety of perspectives and standpoints.Deadline for submissions of abstracts: February 15, 2010.

Das Institut für die Wissenschaften von Menschen (IWM) lädt zu unterschiedlichen Veranstaltungen zum Thema Osteuropa am 26. Januar und am 9. sowie am 12. Februar ein. Gäste u.a.: Ivan Krastev, Muriel Blaive, Thomas Lindenberger, Berthold Molden, Oliver Rathkolb und Lajos Bokros.

Die Sammlungen der Medizinischen Universität Wien laden zum Vortrag Der Salon Zuckerkandl - Ein peripherer/zentraler Wissensraum im Wien des Fin-de-siècle!? von Markus Oppenauer ein. Ort: Lesesaal des Josephinum (Währinger Straße 25, A-1090 Wien),
Zeit: 25. Jänner 2010, 16.00 c.t.

Die wissenschaftliche Tagung Kulturelle Transfers - Mythen der Erneuerung. Wien um 1930 wird am 28.-29. Jänner 2010 begleitend zur Themenausstellung des Wien Museums Kampf um die Stadt. Politik, Kunst und Alltag um 1930 vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien organisiert.