ICCEES 2025

Our team member Sophia Winkler will be participating in the XI ICCEES World Congress 2025 (International Council for Central and East European Studies) in London from 21 to 25 July 2025. On Thursday, 24 July, from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m., she will be part of the panel ‘Borders, Belonging, and Bots: Russian Transnational Identity Between Kremlin Propaganda and Defiance’.

There she will present the paper ‘When Histories Collide: How Migrants Navigate Transnational Belonging Online and Offline’, co-authored with Félix Krawatzek.

The ICCEES Conference 2025 at University College London (UCL) is dedicated to the theme of ‘Disruption’ and reflects on current upheavals in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and neighbouring regions. Organised by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), the conference offers an interdisciplinary platform for innovative perspectives and exchange between established and young scholars.