When? Thursday, 11 December. 16:15.

Where? Room 017, Landshuter Str. 4 (IOS / Graduate School)

Lilia Topouzova (Toronto) will discuss Unsilencing, her new book on the history of the Bulgarian Gulag, a work that appeared with Cornell University Press in summer 2025. She will be in conversation with Volha Bartash, Roumen Daskalov, Tatiana Klepikova and Jörg Skriebeleit.

Contribute to the debates on the impact of the US disruptive foreign policy and the transformations it could engender in the international order and relations. We also welcome pieces offering historical reflections on phenomena inspired by the Trumpian turn. Frictions welcomes contributions in multiple formats. The editors will seek to publish ideas quickly, given the pressing nature of ongoing developments.

Apply by 30 November for our fellowship (visiting researcher) programmes as an incoming researcher from our international partners or as a member of UR or IOS who would like to travel abroad to one of our collaborators across Europe and the Americas.

Find out what is happening at the ScienceCampus this autumn, apply for our fellowship programmes or 2026 annual conference. Find the programme for download on this page