CfP - Experiencing Borders. The Long 1940's and their legacies in (Eastern) Europe International conference, Lviv, Ukraine Sep. 16-18, 2026 @ehess.fr with Center for urban history in Lviv, Charles University, Lviv office of the @maxweberstiftung.de Apply by April 20, 2026!

Putin proposes to take over the "temporary administration of Ukraine" under "UN supervision" in order to "enable democratic elections". This is a remarkable repetition of the promises Stalin made in 1945 with respect to Poland, which led to democratic politicians ending up dead, in prison or in

in another entirely illegal move, the nihilistic totalitarianism of the Georgian Dream continues its rampage, here against #Georgia's most successful research university. Yes, it is a regime, and yes, this is illegal and totally illegitimate. open.substack.com/pub/ganatleb...

The journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is on Bluesky now. Follow here: @kritikajournal.bsky.social #academicsky #skystorians

Outside of Global North scholars working in European archives nobody has easy access to archives. I was lucky as an Indian national to experience the extraordinary democratization and transparency of Brazilian archives after the dictatorship. It gave me a horizon of hope not a standard.

Nouvel épisode en ligne: les restitutions artistiques de 1815, avec Bénédicte Savoy. Un moment passionnant de fin d'empire, où le Louvre doit rendre des milliers d’œuvres issues des conquêtes françaises, préfigurant les débats actuels sur l'art africain notamment. parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

Happy that my review essay on Russian-Ottoman history in the Annales has been published in English - reviewing amazing books by @will-smiley.bsky.social @vhtroyansky.bsky.social and @lalehjoon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

[#Infuse] Mars Imperium portail web en libre accès dédié à l’histoire impériale et post-coloniale de Marseille. Il est le fruit d’un projet collectif rassemblant des laboratoires de recherche d’Aix Marseille Université, des institutions culturelles et des partenaires socio-culturels. ⤵️

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...

📚 #OutNow In the summer of 1940, many Romanian Jews fled to the USSR to escape persecution and protest antisemitism. In this book chapter, Svetlana Suveica (IOS) examines this largely overlooked migration & the fate of the refugees. Published by Bloomsbury Academic. ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Moscou déclenche une spoliation massive des Ukrainiens dans les zones occupées

The way to actual tech sovereignty from the US? Extremely interesting talk by Cory Doctorow. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

🚨 Le dernier numéro des #Annales est disponible sur @universitypress.cambridge.org Au programme : #évergétisme #migrations #mercenaires #valeur #géographie Avec plusieurs articles en #openaccess Bonne lecture ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So Putin is clearly laying out that he wants to "reintegrate" Ukraine in Russia. Get a puppet government, buy it off with cheap gas, neutralize its military, get rid of the "fascists" aka supporters of Ukrainian independence, reclaim RU cultural and economic hegemony. Peace through conquest.

J'ai essentiellement travaillé dans les archives de l'empire russe et de l'URSS. Leurs transformations en archives nationales depuis les indépendances reflètent la diversité des trajectoires politiques et économiques des pays concernés.

War doesn’t just destroy buildings—it erases places where children learn, play, and grow. Bellingcat and journalists from @afp.com bureaus in Paris and Kyiv take a look at the lost spaces of youth in Ukraine. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Félicitations à Louison Bernard, lauréate du prix franco-allemand d'histoire attribué aux mémoires de Master pour son travail : « ‹ À l’est, le silence. À l’ouest, l’oubli. › Les déportations de civil·es allemand·es vers l’URSS après la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1945-1956) ».

Russia promises not to attack any EU country. It also claims that it never attacked Ukraine. It claims that it never attacked anyone, only ever defended itself. Warsaw and Vladivostok just happened to become parts of a Russian empire defending itself.

📣 Latest content in English 'Two Protestant Assemblies in #Tianjin: In Search of Markers of Certainty' by Isabelle Thireau (@ehess.fr) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Bulle de l'IA : 70 % du cloud est contrôlé par trois entreprises américaines Le gouvernement américain et le secteur privé en sont profondément conscients. C’est un avantage géopolitique extraordinaire.

Evaluating grant proposals in the AI age has turned a tedious service task into a truly soul sucking experience. Grant givers should require proposals to focus on scientific substance with little formal guidance and let someone else deal with the BS. The system was always broken, now it's dead.

AI misrepresents news 45% of the time. Hasn't stopped every major search provider enthusiastically adopting it www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

A week before the invasion, my friend asked me: - I don't believe there will be an invasion, but I have a question: maybe that's because I have my own house, car, and business, and I can't believe it could all end in one day? You don't have any of this - how do you assess the situation?". 1/9

A very good article on Russian colonialism. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-h...

Aujourd'hui dans le podcast, la Fabrique des Annales n°4, l'émission qui accompagne les numéros de la revue (79/4) et propose aussi une visite en "coulisses" et en "archives". Un sommaire pointu, dépaysant et (AMHA) passionnant. Bonne écoute et bonne semaine ! parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.

La destruction du dépôt archéologique de l’École biblique et archéologique française à Gaza par l'armée israélienne est planifiée pour cette nuit (10 sept.) Qques heures de répit ont été obtenues pour sauver 180 m3 d'artefacts représentant 25 ans de travail, il faudrait des jours. #Gazahistoire

La destruction du dépôt archéologique de l’École biblique et archéologique française à Gaza par l'armée israélienne est planifiée pour cette nuit. Qqs heures de répit pour sauver 180 m3 d'artefacts qui représentent 25 années de travail @campuscondorcet.bsky.social @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social

The Hamburg team (Professor Alan Kramer) of our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant BLOCKADE is looking for a FOUR YEAR PostDoc to work on blockade as 'slow violence' in the Great War-era Middle East. Please share! www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

so if I understand it correctly, the Trump administration insists that the Iranian nuclear program has been completely destroyed, while also being worried that said nuclear program is no longer being effectively monitored?

The formal notification to the United Nations sets into motion a nearly unstoppable train that will end with the return, in a little over a month, of a half-dozen prior U.N. sanctions on Iran.

Ich durfte im Politikteil darüber sprechen, was es bedeutet, unter 🇷🇺 Besatzung zu leben Es ist nur meine Stimme zu hören, aber die Recherche war ein Gemeinschaftswerk. Ich habe mich entschieden, auch explizite Gewaltszenen zu schildern, die jeweils angekündigt werden www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

Colleagues in Eurasian and Slavic studies (broadly defined) — Hokkaido University's Slavic-Eurasian Research Center is accepting applications for its Foreign Visitors Fellowship for 2026—27. Highly recommend this excellent program! Please circulate: src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/fvfp/index1....

Nice news -- Katarzyna Person's much anticipated book is out! @uoftpress.bsky.social utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Cette tendance est une putain de catastrophe. On légitime ce qui devrait être un tabou absolu en vulga historique : la fabrication d'un faux indiscernable du vrai. On fera quoi, quand n'importe quel négationniste utilisera la même technologie pour affirmer n'importe quoi ?

One year teaching fellow post at Warwick University in Modern Eastern European History. I will be on academic leave next year and the Histoty Department looks for someone to teach my two modules on Ukrainian History and on Stalinism. Look here warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

Dans cette exposition, la cartographie des sites bombardés est issue du travail de l’équipe Gazahistoire, née des laboratoires @geographie-cites.bsky.social @ihtpcnrs.bsky.social &Sirice sur le @campuscondorcet.bsky.social Retrouver le projet sur son site: gazahistoire.hypotheses.org

About (public) history, one thing I genuinely never understood is why so many people in so lany countries seem to believe that we could easily switch back to an idealized, romantical, heroical national narrative

Mort de Pierre Nora, historien de la mémoire, à l’âge de 93 ans

Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales Forum à propos du livre de Maurizio Isabella, 'Southern #Europe in the Age of #Revolutions' 'Au centre, la périphérie. Repenser l’Europe révolutionnaire du xixe siècle' par Pieter M. Judson (@eui-eu.bsky.social) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

The Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine -- the most exciting academic gathering in Ukrainian studies, will be back on 25-27 September! Call for Proposals (26 June deadline). Open to doctoral students, scholars, films, book panels. International. www.danyliwseminar.com/call-for-pro...

Le Monde has gotten precise data on all losses of two Russian divisions since Feb. 22 and on all wounded in Russia for the same timeframe. Interesting data not just for evaluating losses, but for analyzing how the R army functions.

Le 9 mai 2025 la Russie célébrait le 80e anniversaire de la victoire de l'Union soviétique sur l'Allemagne nazie. Emilia Koustova revient sur l’histoire de cette commémoration et sur la mémoire russe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. www.lhistoire.fr/entretien/9-...