SEESA Harrison Travel Grants 2026

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 24TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON BALKAN AND SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE & FOLKLORE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS To support graduate student scholarship and international participation in the field of Southeast European Studies, the Southeast European Studies Association (SEESA) has established the SEESA Travel Grants to subsidize travel costs for the presentation of papers at international, national, regional, or state conferences. In 2026, the grants will be awarded to graduate and undergraduate students for attendance and presentation at the 24th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, which will take place at the University of Newcastle, in Newcastle, Australia, on May 20th -23rd 2026. SEESA plans to fund, on a competitive basis, 2 awards of $1000 each. Applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students in Southeast European Studies or a related field. Students may only receive one SEESA Graduate Student Travel Grant over the course of their undergraduate or graduate studies. Applicants should submit their conference paper abstract of no fewer than 500 words, proof that the abstract has been accepted, a C.V., a short bibliography of their paper and proof of student status as an email attachment to Dr. Bavjola Shatro [seesa.travel.grants@gmail.com]. Author name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information should be written below the title of the paper. The applications will be evaluated by SEESA’s Committee for Travel Grants. The quality of writing of the abstract as well as its content will be considered. Questions about the conference may be directed to Dr. Bavjola Shatro. Application Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2026. Acceptance Notification Date: February 15, 2026.

SEESA Harrison Travel Grants 2025, Awardee

The committe for the SEESA Harrison Travel Grans is happy to announce that this year's awardee is Aytac Yurukcu, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus. The awardee will present in the ‘XIIIth Congress of South-East European Studies Communication and Exchange: South-Eastern Europe within Global Social, Political and Cultural Processes’ XIII th AIESEE Congress, Skopje-Macedonia, 2025. Congratulations to our awardee!