RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation

Annual Conference

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12–15 July 2026
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change
Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine

News

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RUTA Election Results
In July 2025, two members of the RUTA Board of Representatives — Assel...
23 Jul 2025
Featured panel 3, Looking at Russian Society in Wartime: Complicity, Opposition and Responsibility
Featured panel 3, Looking at Russian Society in Wartime: Complicity, Opposition and Responsibility 28/06/2025;...
27 Jun 2025
RUTA Board of Representatives Elections: Call for Nominees!
Are you a scholar interested reclaiming and promoting Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European,...
1 Jun 2025
Call for Volunteers: RUTA Annual Conference 2025 “Imagination: New Visions and Connections”
Dates: June 26–29, 2025 Location: Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine (exact location to be shared...
23 May 2025
Invitation to join The Ruta Association
The RUTA Association is pleased to introduce the Institutional Partnership Program, a framework...
14 May 2025
The First Featured Panel “Romani Visions for the Future”
Romani Visions for the Future The RUTA region(s) carry difficult legacies of violence...
30 Apr 2025

Events

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BOOK TALK: Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth, edited by Adrian Ivakhiv. Ukrainian artists and humanists respond to the identity-defining war
Organized by RUTA Environmental Initiative & Tallinn University Presenters: Adrian Ivakhiv, Kateryna Botanova,...
December 8, 17:00 – 18:30 EET
Round table “Ask your grandma. Reflecting on family stories through art, literature, and decolonial thinking”
Through this conversation, we will discuss our approaches to understanding family history, its...
October 31, 11:00 EST / 18:00 EEST
The Second “Featured panel Phone chats, election booths and barricades: what can we learn about strategies of resistance?”
While the world is shattered in so many places, active dissent and resistance...
June 27, 2025
The First Featured Panel “Romani Visions for the Future”
Romani Visions for the Future The RUTA region(s) carry difficult legacies of violence...
June 27, 2025
Indigenous liberation struggles and sovereignty
In this image, you see Lidia Zhigunova at a single-person protest in Nalchik,...
May 16, 16:00 CET / 17:00 (GMT +3) Kyiv time
Destabilizing the Balkans: the Russian Disinformation Campaign
As the European officials debate whether the Serbian government used sonic weapons against...
April 25, 2025, 17:00 EET (GMT +3) / Kyiv time