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13/05/2026

Svět knihy Praha 2026 - CEEOL and CEEOLPress. Visit us at stand KB200! Svět knihy Praha. See 📅 Event Details ↓

🌍 CEEOLPress: Giving the European Region a Global Voice

Do you know the true face of our region? CEEOLPress transforms local gems of research and fiction into international titles. Building on 25 years of tradition, it connects authors with the world. Visit us and discover how we help European voices become part of the global dialogue.

Join us for an insightful session on how we bring these "local gems" into the global dialogue!

📅 Event Details
When: Thursday, May 14 | 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

Where: Jaroslav Seifert Hall (Room 40/42)

Languages: Czech & English 🇨🇿 🇬🇧

👥 Featured Speakers
Hear from our distinguished panel:

Andrea Petö

Jaroslav Kříž

Bea Klotz

Zsuszanna Balázs

Krisztina Kós

Stop by to discover how we help European voices resonate worldwide. See you there!

09/03/2026

📣 Friday, 20 March 2026, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM. 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨. 𝘼 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙯𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙆𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙫𝙤. (TRADUKI Kafana, Hall 4, D403)

Moderator: Dr. Gudrun Wirtz
Contributors: Blerina Rogova Gaxha, Selma Bajraktarević and Vahidin Preljević

Co-organisers: 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗗𝗨𝗞𝗜, 𝗔𝗕𝗗𝗢𝗦, 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝗼𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗼 “𝗣𝗷𝗲𝘁ë𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗴𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗶”

National libraries are, as is reflected in the name, somehow always political. This is particularly evident in Southeast European countries, where national issues were and are contested. This discussion focuses on the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the National Library of Kosovo “Pjetër Bogdani”. Both were founded at the end of the Second World War and were severely affected in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The post-war period brought numerous new challenges. What function do libraries fulfill today and what future prospects do they have? What is at stake when a national library has to close – as the Bosnian one had to do several times in recent years? How can libraries in these conflict-ridden states contribute to reconciliation and the strengthening of civil society?

Further information can be found on the Leipzig Book Fair website.

Südosteuropäische Bibliotheken im Kreuzfeuer der Politik (geändert: Mitwirkende) (aktualisiert): Ein Gespräch über die Nationalbibliotheken des Kosovos und Bosnien und Herzegowinas

25/02/2026

The “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Bibliotheken und Dokumentationsstellen der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaforschung (ABDOS) e.V.” (Working Group of Libraries and Documentation Centers for Research on Eastern, East Central, and Southeastern Europe) has expressed grave concern and published a statement regarding the increasingly precarious situation of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NUBBiH).

Read the ABDOS statement (Feb 2026), available in German, English and Bosnian.
https://www.abdos.de/stellungnahme-nubihh/


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