CIEES 2025
CONGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES VII
“Social and Economic Life”
October 23–25, 2025 | ELAZIĞ
In Memory of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Öztürk
Important Dates:
Congress Dates: October 23–24–25, 2025
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: May 10, 2025
Announcement of Accepted Papers: May 15, 2025
Announcement of the Scientific Program: September 14, 2025
In line with its established objectives, PIEES regularly organizes workshops, talks, seminars, symposiums, and congresses; publishes the scientific data obtained from these events; and makes them available to the academic world. The first congress was held in Kamianets, the second in Kyiv (CIEES 2018) in collaboration with Taras Shevchenko University, and the third in Skopje (CIEES 2019) in collaboration with the Turkish-Balkan University. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the congress themed “The Role of the Church in Eastern European History” was held online. The fifth congress was conducted in a hybrid format in cooperation with İzmir Democracy University. The sixth congress in this periodic and ongoing series, CIEES 2023, was held in collaboration with Sinop University on May 4–6 in Sinop.
The topics of each PIEES congress are determined within specific main themes, confined to Eastern Europe and approached from a historical perspective. Within this framework, the main theme of CIEES 2025, to be organized in cooperation with Fırat University in Elazığ in memory of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Öztürk, has been determined as “Social and Economic Life.”
The platform invites researchers who wish to contribute to the event under the main theme and within the thematic framework outlined below. Papers presented at the congress, which will be held in person, are expected to align with the main theme. Papers proposed outside this theme will not be considered for evaluation.
Congress Themes:
Economy:
- Land System / Administration
- Production / Taxes
- Timar System
- Trade / Commercial Spaces
- Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
- Provisioning
- Adulteration and Inflation
- Industry
- Change, Transformation, and Continuity
- Business History / Companies
- Transportation / Logistics
- Price Movements
Social Life:
- Population / Demographic Movements
- Settlement and Migration
- Rebellions and Banditry
- Reaya / Rural Life
- Urban Life
- Ethnicity
- Folk Culture and Cultural Interaction
- Theology
- Religion and Beliefs
- Intellectual Movements
- Education and Training
- Foundations
- Art
HONORARY COMMITTEE
• Numan Hatipoğlu, Governor of Elazığ
• Şahin Şerifoğulları, Mayor of Elazığ
• Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Göktaş, Rector of Fırat University
• Prof. Dr. Yüksel Özgen, President of the Turkish Historical Society
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Prof. Dr. Ahmet Aksın (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Prof. Dr. Alper Başer (Türkiye, Afyon Kocatepe University)
• Prof. Dr. Azmi Özcan (Türkiye, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University)
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet İnbaşı (Türkiye, Erciyes University)
• Prof. Dr. Mualla Uydu Yücel (Türkiye, Istanbul University)
• Prof. Dr. Nuri Kavak (Türkiye, Sinop University)
• Prof. Dr. Orhan Kılıç (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Prof. Dr. Serkan Yazıcı (Türkiye, Sinop University)
• Prof. Dr. Yücel Öztürk (Türkiye, Sakarya University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihan Yemişçi (Türkiye, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Öztürk (Türkiye, İnönü University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tufan Turan (Türkiye, Sakarya University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Turgay Murat (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yavuz Kısa (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Dr. Sema Aktaş Sarı (Türkiye, Sinop University)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
• Prof. Dr. Ahmet Aksın (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Prof. Dr. Alper Başer (Türkiye, Afyon Kocatepe University)
• Prof. Dr. Azmi Özcan (Türkiye, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University)
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet İnbaşı (Türkiye, Erciyes University)
• Prof. Dr. Mualla Uydu Yücel (Türkiye, Istanbul University)
• Prof. Dr. Nuri Kavak (Türkiye, Sinop University)
• Prof. Dr. Orhan Kılıç (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Prof. Dr. Serkan Yazıcı (Türkiye, Sinop University)
• Prof. Dr. Yücel Öztürk (Türkiye, Sakarya University)
• Prof. Dr. Ayşe Kayapınar (Turkey, National Defense University)
• Prof. Dr. Dragi Georgiev (North Macedonia, Institute of National History)
• Prof. Dr. Emine Erdoğan Özünlü (Turkey, Gazi University)
• Prof. Dr. Enis Şahin (Turkey, Sakarya University)
• Prof. Dr. Enver Çakar (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Prof. Dr. Erhan Afyoncu (Turkey, National Defense University)
• Prof. Dr. Ferhat Turanlı (Ukraine, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
• Prof. Dr. Geza David (Hungary, ELTE University)
• Prof. Dr. Giray Saynur Derman (Turkey, Marmara University)
• Prof. Dr. Guranda Tchelidze (Caucasus University, Tbilisi)
• Prof. Dr. Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner (Turkey, Istanbul University)
• Prof. Dr. Haluk Selvi (Turkey, Sakarya University)
• Prof. Dr. Hatice Oruç (Turkey, Ankara University)
• Prof. Dr. İbrahim Tellioğlu (Turkey, Ondokuz Mayıs University)
• Prof. Dr. İbrahim Yılmazçelik
• Prof. Dr. İlhan Şahin (Turkey, Istanbul Aydın University)
• Prof. Dr. Levent Kayapınar (Turkey, Ankara University)
• Prof. Dr. M. Bilal Çelik (Turkey, Sakarya University)
• Prof. Dr. Mária Ivanics (Hungary, Department of Altaic Studies University)
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Öz (Turkey, Hacettepe University)
• Prof. Dr. Olena Bachynska (Ukraine, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University)
• Prof. Dr. Osman Karatay (Turkey, Ege University)
• Prof. Dr. Pál Fodor (Hungary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History)
• Prof. Dr. Ümit Ekin (Turkey, Sakarya University)
• Prof. Dr. Vasil Luçık (Ukraine, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
• Prof. Dr. Viktor Kiryukov (Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National University of Lugansk)
• Prof. Dr. Volodımir Komar (Ukraine, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University)
• Prof. Dr. Yaroslav Kalakura (Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
• Prof. Dr. Yuriy Koçubey (Ukraine, A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
• Prof. Dr. Zübeyde Güneş Yağcı (Turkey, Balıkesir University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cihan Yemişçi (Türkiye, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Galina Miskiniené (Lithuania, Vilnius University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Öztürk (Türkiye, İnönü University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Sarı (Turkey, Sakarya University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serkan Acar (Turkey, Ege University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Svitlana Kaiuk (Ukraine, Dnipro Oles Honchar University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tufan Turan (Türkiye, Sakarya University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Turgay Murat (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. V’yaçeslav Stanislavskiy (Ukraine, Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yavuz Kısa (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep İskefiyeli (Turkey, Sakarya University)
• Dr. Entela Muço
• Dr. Fatma Koçak (Turkey, Sinop University)
• Dr. Natalia Królikowska (Poland, Institute of History, University of Warsaw)
• Dr. Sema Aktaş Sarı (Türkiye, Sinop University)
• Dr. Vera Konstantin (Italy, University of Venice)
CONGRESS COORDINATORS / SECRETARIAT
• Erim Vatansever (Türkiye, Eskişehir Osmangazi University)
• Research Assistant Dr. Berkay Yekta Özer (Türkiye, Fırat University)
• Research Assistant Mehmet Kerim (Türkiye, Sakarya University)