What's shipped, what's in progress, and what's planned for this website. Each version below maps to a release on GitHub; the in-flight ones show live progress from their issue milestones.
Last updated 25 October 2026
After the conference the edition moves into the archive on its own, and the abstracts are pulled from Indico so its papers read as fully as the earlier editions. The next year's page is parked ready at the same time.
The tenth annual conference, two days of panels and roundtables at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science, run jointly with the COST Action NetSec.
The 2027 call for papers is published and announced, with the prize jury and the terms for the edition. Accepted papers become the programme for the next edition, with the keynote announced alongside it and the practical information written around what is actually arranged. The page agrees with the live programme NetSec renders from the same source. The corpus work lands in the same release: the French Anthology leaves beta on a declared scope (the interface, the seventeen theme labels and the abstracts of papers with at least one French-affiliated author), the corpus gains an analytical export with author affiliations matched to the standard registry of research organisations, the theme vocabulary is published as a citable vocabulary, the corpus is deposited in a HAL collection and listed in Recherche Data Gouv, the source code is archived in Software Heritage, and an annual French-language note on the corpus rounds it out.
Belvedere, the EISS blog, in three languages, a home page that leads with the next conference and shows the film, a paper of the day and the host cities, an accessibility statement that declares full conformance with the French RGAA standard, and the page for ESSC 2027 in Belgrade. The internal dashboard gives staff, the board and volunteers their apps, guides, dates and the state of the websites, in three languages.
The seventeen research themes the Anthology indexes by are published as a vocabulary anyone can cite and reuse, each with a permanent identifier reachable from the map. The Atlas gains a grid of every pair of themes that share papers, and the Anthology now says how the conference is changing: how many presenters are there for the first time, and how much of the work is written alone.
The Anthology Atlas maps the whole conference corpus as an interactive graph, by paper and by co-authorship. Abstract recovery reaches back into the pre-Indico editions and the Anthology now shows coverage per year. Also in this cycle: the internship page, the Global Risks 2026 survey wave, the leadership announcement, and the ESSC 2027 announcement once date and venue firm up.
The European Security Studies Anthology becomes the site's flagship at /anthology, the single home for every paper and every scholar across nine editions, carried in the main navigation and linked out to the NetSec member directory. Members' own published research gains its own page at /publications, and a round of polish runs through the navigation, the share cards, the Initiative page and the board.
The 9th Annual European Security Studies Conference at Stockholm University. The flagship gathering of the year.
The pre-conference release: site-wide search, a public roadmap and a press kit, the whole interface pulled onto one brand blue with redesigned share cards, a markedly better mobile experience, and the ESSC 2026 run-up (countdown, downloadable programmes, add-to-calendar links).
The ESSC 2026 programme grid gained co-authors and livestream pills, the printed programme was overhauled, and the conference archive filled out.
An archive disclaimer ribbon on past-event pages, a translation-ribbon fix, and post-release housekeeping.
The EISS brand identity replaced the placeholder mark across the site, and the Initiative page grew into a full founding story.
The Google Form board pipeline went live, and the People and Initiative pages were rebuilt around their data.
Blocked: this Indico build doesn't expose registration-form state on the public or authenticated API, so the status pill stays a manual override.
Reusing the live programme sync on the sister NetSec site. Waiting on coordination with the NetSec maintainers.
A few contradictory dates and narratives across the older archive pages. Needs source research before any contested fact is edited.
Ideas held back without a trigger: custom-domain board emails, a self-hosted newsletter, a multi-author CMS, analytics (the no-analytics stance is deliberate), and a multi-page member directory.
Spotted something missing, or have an idea? The roadmap is public and so is the backlog.