Tis the season for @wirthinstitute.bsky.social "Romantic." I don't quite understand how joyful this event will be, but I have heard from students, staff, + faculty that it's insanely fun. I am bracing myself for the psychic reading part of this all. My job is proving more unexpected than I expected.

Such an amazing day of music and goodwill at this last Sunday’s “Central European Gems” concert by The Alberta Baroque Ensemble, co-sponsored by the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social. The music was inspiring, + Ethan Filner’s viola solo had many standing ovations. For more info, see: albertabaroque.com

Are you an emerging scholar excited to share info about your research? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" highlighting research by advanced grad students + early career on any aspect of European history 1914-today. Submit your work! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

Check out @conteurohistory.bsky.social's new digest: a sort of reader's guide to the latest articles + forums published by this amazing journal, with editor suggestions of their fav new articles. I so appreciate this kind of personal curation of scholarly work: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Just read Hillel Kieval's beautifully written 2025 AHY article “Was There a Habsburg Jewish Experience?” Such a pleasure! So thought-provoking! Something perfectly suited for the classroom! doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1017/S006....

Join us Jan 16 at @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for our monthly Central European Cafe, where we will be featuring the new book "Echoes of Tartini", led by @ualberta.bsky.social editors Carpenter + Tardif, as well as live violin + cello performances. It'll be amazing! www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Apply! Apply! Apply to participate in this fascinating June 25-26 conference in Vienna studying the role of Habsburg consuls in global history (especially US). Due: Jan 16; networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Music students at @ualberta.bsky.social: Don't forget to apply for the Strauss Foundation fellowships (co-sponsored by @wirthinstitute.bsky.social) to send you to Austria for a summer program! It's an amazing opportunity! Here's more info: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins... Deadline: Jan. 15

Are you in Edmonton Dec 14? Don't forget to come to the Christmas Concert sponsored by the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social to raise money for the @ualberta.bsky.social a campus food bank! Lovely music, goodies, + all for a good cause! www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Please help the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social fellows + staff who have been working so hard to supply this year's @ualberta.bsky.social Campus Food bank with resources to help support those in need. This matters. campusfoodbank.raiselysite.com/wirth-instit...

Save the date for the Feb 26 Henry Kreisel Lecture, featuring some of the best creative writers in Canada. It's the 20th anniversary of the series, so also an especially good time to donate to keep this incredible series going! More Here: mailchi.mp/006093c7174a...

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Austrian professors in the Humanities + Social Sciences: Want to come to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social + @ualberta.bsky.social a as a Visiting Professor? Apply! Here's more information: oead.at/en/news/arti... Application materials here: grants.at/en/ Please share!

Yesterday at the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social we had a double dose of feeling honored by our Austrian-Canadian community: Ambassador Rendl visited us and helped us inaugurate our newest donation by the Austrian-Canadian painter Ernestine Tahedl! What a lucky day!

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Thanks to the brilliant organizational efforts by Domale Dube, today at @ualberta.bsky.social we had the amazing treat of hearing Erika Edwards talk about her next book project on Afro-descendent women in Argentina from the 18th to the 21st centuries. FASCINATING!

couldn't agree more!

Congratulations to Lucy Riall for winning the Special Jury Prize from the Risorgimento Istitute for profoundly innovating understandings of the Italian Risorgimento in a more European and global context. She’s not just a friend; she’s a model. This is so deserved. www.risorgimento.it/2025/11/17/p...

The @ualberta.bsky.social History, Classics, + Religion Graduate student association is organizing a conference "Memory and Narrative: Navigating Connection & Contention," with a call to papers open to any field + offering travel subsidies. Apply! Share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What I love about entering a new institution: reading amazing work by my new colleagues. Having lunch with Jim Muir today. And I’m eager to admit: I like what I’m reading.

If you couldn't attend the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social 2025 Annual Toby and Saul Reichert Holocaust Lecture, then you are lucky because we recorded it and now it's online! Listen to Ari Joskowicz's superb lecture “Jews, Roma, and the Holocaust” here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjNS...

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) is doing so much to encourage Ukrainian scholars and scholarship around Ukraine and in connection with indigenous studies in Canada. Please apply for these exciting grants! cius-awards.artsrn.ualberta.ca

If you are in Edmonton Tuesday, don't miss hearing one of my favorite historians talk about how Central Europe helped frame one of the most important historical interventions of the 20th century. www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins... @emile-chabal.bsky.social

Amazing piece by Nikola Tomašegović on the Central European History Convention (CEH-C) + why incorporating more on Croatian history increases our understandings of the Habsburg Empire as a whole. I really couldn't agree more! A MUST Read! historiografija.hr?p=49637&fbcl...

Tonight (Nov 6) at 6pm the @WirthInstitute will host the 2025 Annual Toby & Saul Reichert Holocaust Lecture by Vanderbilt Prof Ari Joskowicz, "Jews, Roma, and the Holocaust." Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf (Poli Sci; Faculty of Native Studies) will introduce him. More here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Did Jews help in the Italian colonization of Ethiopia? Matteo D’Avanzo talks with Prof. Michael Ebner about his SIHS 2025 Honorable Mention article "Jews as Agents of Colonization: Italian Jewry, Carlo Alberto Viterbo and the Ethiopian Jews" www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbmo...

How did Garibaldi's ragtag army defeat so many world powers? Learn in this interview between 2025 @ital_hist_stud article-prize winner Daniel Banks + Steven Soper, on "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsI...

Were 16th-century mines a place to work or a place to learn? Gabriele Marcon answers in his 2025 SIHS Honorable Mention article “‘The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines.” Watch this interview to learn more www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytnr...

Don't miss this fascinating interview by @smithcollege.bsky.social Prof. Josh Birk + Ori Ben-Shalom discussing his 2025 SIHS prize-winning article “Public Health, Medicine, and Religious Reform in Carlo Borromeo’s Milan,” @16csociety.bsky.social. Watch + share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qef6...

I know you know this. But I TOTALLY agree with you. Again. This piece is excellent

Jana Osterkamp + Jonathan Singerton's "How Central European History Became a Vibrant Field — and Where It Might Go Next" reflects on what we can learn from the 20 CEHC blogs written by emerging scholars. I love this piece. Please share. cehc.hypotheses.org/473

Feeling so supported by my new university and institute. Thank you University of Alberta and @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for making this big transition to Canada feel so promising!: www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/...

I think being part of bringing the Central European History Convention together will be one of the things I’m most proud of doing. Thank you @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for co-sponsoring it and now for helping celebrate it. www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

It’s official! The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is grateful to receive these 2 beautiful paintings as a donation from the talented Canadian-Austrian artist Ernestine Tahedl. Stay tuned for information on a mini-vernissage to celebrate their arrival. In the meantime, so happy! ernestinetahedl.ca

The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Czech doctoral fellow Tereza Trojanová's research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Our new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Polish doctoral fellow Anna Zabraniak is showing me how translation functioned in the 19th century to help create "Two (intermingled) Enlightenments" between Polish + Jews culture makers. Learn more about what I'm learning here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

The new wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana Blažević's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow Erzsébet Árvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" émigré communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

The new @WirthInstitute Polish doctoral fellow Tereza Trojanová's research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana Blažević's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow Erzsébet Árvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" émigré communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

A little birdie told me some exciting news: Howard Louthan is stepping in as Executive Editor of the Journal of Early Modern History. Now, help welcome the new editor by sending great work his way! brill.com/view/journal...

Which ones did you especially like? (And, yes, the writing is so clear, sometimes fun, always engaging)

Check out the 20 blogs by emerging scholars in Central European history, discussing the successes, promises, + challenges experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, that featured 2 keynotes + 55 panels, among other events. cehc.hypotheses.org

In his "Overcoming Orientalism," Matthias Lehmann discussed the fascinating new research presented at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that de-centered Habsburg Europe, thereby permitting its deeper contours into center stage. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/239

In his "Whither nation, blossom state," Simon Neumaier highlighted the new trends present at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that dislodged traditional ways of understanding state-society-governance outside + alongside the national. cehc.hypotheses.org/257

In her "Empire, Environment, and the Judson Legacy: Reflections from the first Central European History Convention in Vienna," Daša Ličen discusses the most exciting work at the July Convention that reframed thinking about power, empire, + money beyond the man-nature binary. cehc.hypotheses.org/270

In "The Quest for Global History and the “Relevance” of Central Europe," @Cosminea argues the 2025 Central European History Convention showed promise of what can be gained when local Central European approaches worked together + apart from US/UK/global trends in scholarship. cehc.hypotheses.org/281

In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295

In "Echoes of a lost Empire. Central Europe through the eyes of the Río de la Plata," Alexander Dementyev talks on what experiencing the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention was like in respects to the Argentinian (Lost) Central Europes he has known. cehc.hypotheses.org/312