CEECON 2026

From 8 to 9 October 2026, CEECON – the Congress of Central and East European Studies organised by the German Society for Eastern European Studies – will take place at Freie Universität Berlin. As in previous years, the Institute for Eastern European Studies (OEI) at Freie Universität Berlin and the Centre for Eastern European and International Studies are co-organisers.

This year’s conference is dedicated to the theme of (Un)Certainties. The full programme can be found here.

The MoveMeRU team will also be there to present our research:

8 October | 12:00-13:30

• Roundtable: Publishing on Eastern Europe and Eurasia in (Un)Certain Times: An Editors’ Roundtable with Félix Krawatzek
• Paper Session: Russian Wartime Migrants Uncertainties: Between Integration and Isolation mit Hakob Matevosyan as discussant

8 October | 15:00-16:30 | OEI 121
Paper Session: Security and Memory in the Baltics

• “Estinguished Fire? Estonia’s Fractures Mnemonic Landscape” with Félix Krawatzek
• “Who’s Welcome? Security, Soviet Memories, and the Estonian Refugee Dilemma” with Hakob Matevosyan

9 October | 14:00-15:30 | OEI 302B
Paper Session: Russian Political Technology and Foreign Interference

• “Being ”Russian” Abroad in the Midst of a Geopolitical Rupture: Transnational Senses of Belonging among Migrant Generations” with Sophia Winkler and Félix Krawatzek