The conference “Balkan Express 2021: Neighbors and neighborhood in the Balkans” took place on November 12-13, 2021 in the new building of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. There were altogether 9 thematic panels with 22 academic presentations (30 minutes per presentation) prepared by 25 participants from the Czech Republic, USA, Slovenia, Poland, Kosovo, Serbia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom, Croatia and Montenegro.

Final conference report to be downloaded here

Conference program to be downloaded here

The presenters included distinguished senior scholars and noted junior scholars as well as students presenting their latest research results. The conference was organized as a hybrid event. In addition to participants and conference guests present in Prague in person, several dozen scholars, students and other online participants from Europe and North America followed the conference program on Zoom and took active part in discussions.

The conference was supported by Strategy AV 21 – Top Research in Public Interest, research program of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Photo: Klára Smitková (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)