Don’t miss the upcoming international workshop, taking place in Prague on 27–28 August 2026!
The event brings together scholars exploring the Black Sea region as a dynamic space of local agency, mobility, and cross-cultural interaction, with discussions focusing on transcultural contact zones, migration and displacement, borders and imperial governance, interethnic and interreligious coexistence, trade and informal networks, and inter-imperial entanglements.
The workshop will conclude with a special “Oriental Prague" walking tour, exploring the city’s historical encounters with the East - from medieval curiosity and Rudolfine diplomacy to the Baroque imagination of the Orient and the emergence of Oriental studies in Prague.
Organised by the BridgeBSR Working Group:
Vladyslav Hrybovs’kyi (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Svitlana Kaiuk (Dnipro National University)
Julia Malitska (Södertörn University)
Volodymyr Poltorak (Orientální ústav Akademie věd České republiky)
Nataliya Sureva (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
