Dominique Reill
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Historian. Loves the Adriatic.
So proud to have joined a department so dedicated to teaching! Congrations University of Alberta History, Classics, + Religion teachers Tristan Ellenberger, KD Burton, Margriet Haagsma, Craig Harvey, Tulika Singh, + Patrick Erickson!
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Don't miss our last
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Central European Talk of the year on April 17 at 1pm featuring our wonderful Czech Doctoral Fellow, Tereza Trojanová, who asks the BIG question "Is Internationalism More Than a Buzzword? Navigating the Global from Central Europe." Join us!
about 1 month ago
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If you missed the wonderful Pro Coro Canada Good Friday concert last Saturday, you probably also missed
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
founder and former Director, Franz Szabo's wonderful contextualization of Dvořák's Stabat Mater. No worries! You can hear it here:
soundcloud.com/pro-coro-can...
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Dr. Franz Szabo - Introduction to Stabat Mater by Dvorak
Listen to Dr. Franz Szabo - Introduction to Stabat Mater by Dvorak by Pro Coro Canada #np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/pro-coro-canada/dr-franz-szabo-introduction-to
about 1 month ago
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PhD students everywhere! Respond to this call for papers to participate in the doctoral workshop "Socialism and the Sea," Aug 26-29 in Pula, Croatia and spearheaded by the always fascinating Prof. Igor Duda.
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/doc...
about 2 months ago
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The new partnership between
@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
+ the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
to house the CUP journal "Central European History" at the Wirth is the product of countless hours of emails/zooms. Thank you Jared Poley, Ben Marschke, + Anthony Steinhoff for all the hours (+passion)!
about 2 months ago
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Polish PhD candidates in humanities/social sciences: Apply for our 8-month fellowship to the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
/ University of Alberta . Please share! Here is the link to the new info about the fellowship:
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
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Poland
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/opportunities/students/doctoral-research-fellowships/poland.html
about 2 months ago
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Hungarian PhD candidates in the humanities/social sciences: apply for the 8 month fellowship to come to the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
/ University of Alberta. Our team has been working tirelessly to find ways to clarify how exciting this opportunity is. Share!
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
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Hungary
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/opportunities/students/doctoral-research-fellowships/hungary.html
about 2 months ago
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One more week to apply for the 8 month doctoral fellowship to bring a PhD candidate in the humanities/social sciences from the Czech Republic to the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
/ University of Alberta. Please share!
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
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Czechia
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/opportunities/students/doctoral-research-fellowships/czech-republic.html
about 2 months ago
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Just a week to apply for our
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doctoral fellowship to bring a PhD candidate in the humanities/social sciences from Croatia to the Wirth Institute/University of Alberta for 8 months. Here is the link to the new info about the fellowship:
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
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Croatia
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/opportunities/students/doctoral-research-fellowships/croatia.html
about 2 months ago
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This year UAlberta design students Alyssa Li + Jasmine Chan, + their prof. Ehsan Baha have been helping the
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rebuild our web presence. April 2 at 7pm we will celebrate them at their Grad Exhibi. Join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/bdes-grad-...
about 2 months ago
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It's day 2 since the announcement was made about the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
collaboration with the
@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
to house the
@universitypress.cambridge.org
journal "Central European History." I'm still celebrating!
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
about 2 months ago
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I'm not going to lie: I'm so excited that the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
will be housing the
@universitypress.cambridge.org
journal "Central European History" as of April 1. This partnership with the
@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
promises much!
centraleuropeanhistory.org/announce-ceh...
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New CEHS Partnership with the Wirth Institute – Central European History Society
https://centraleuropeanhistory.org/announce-cehs-wirth-partnership/
about 2 months ago
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Dominique Reill
Central European History Society/Central European History
about 2 months ago
@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social
is excited to announce its new 5-year partnership with the Wirth Institute at the
@ualberta.bsky.social
. A shout out to
@dominiquereill.bsky.social
, the Wirth's director and former CEHS president, for this initiative! More details at:
tinyurl.com/3439bm8m
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New CEHS Partnership with the Wirth Institute – Central European History Society
https://tinyurl.com/3439bm8m
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Come to the
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Central European Cafe this Thursday, April 2 at 2pm to hear Pro Coro Canada director Michael Zaugg perform + discuss Dvořák's Stabat Mater (which Pro Coro Canada will be performing on Good Friday). + free tickets for Friday's performance! What's not to love?
about 2 months ago
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What a marvelous day: learning with former
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Director Franz Szabo and hearing the rehearsal of the Pro Coro Canada for this performance next Friday of Dvorak’s Sabat Mater.
www.tickettailor.com/events/proco...
about 2 months ago
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The AMAZING
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fellows are helping us revise our message on why you should apply for a Wirth doctoral fellowship. Luna (my very discerning cat) is helping guide them
about 2 months ago
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March 27, 1-2pm:
@arv-er.bsky.social
will give her
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yearly talk: “Harnessing the Diaspora: State Instrumentalization of Hungarians Abroad” at University of Alberta in the Senate Chamber (3rd floor; Old Arts) Please come and spread the word!
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
about 2 months ago
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Please read Jan Rybak's article in "East Central Europe" on the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, where over 500 historians participated. I particularly enjoyed his discussion of the elephant traveling across Europe + the need for kindness in our profession.
brill.com/view/journal...
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https://brill.com/view/journals/eceu/aop/article-10.30965-18763308-20262008/article-10.30965-18763308-20262008.xml
2 months ago
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Woke up at 5am to finish talk for today's HCR Grad Student Conference "Memory and Narrative." Life lesson: we never stop being the grad students we once were. Join Yigal Bronner, Alex Marcus, Mckelvey Kelly, + me for the Methodologies roundtable in Bus. 2-09 Mar 7 4pm?
www.hcrgsa.ca/_files/ugd/0...
2 months ago
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Join us April 23 at 7pm to hear Victoria de Grazia talk about her smash book "The Perfect Fascist" at the much beloved Edmonton institution Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Ave). Please come! Please share! This is a book I couldn't put down for all the right reasons!
2 months ago
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Come one + all tomorrow, March 5 at 2:30-4:00 p.m at University of Alberta's Tory 2-58 to hear the fascinating panel "Diasporic Memories and Narratives", chaired by Aya Fujiwara and featuring Eduardo Lactaoen,
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
fellow Erzebet Arvay, + Mariia Burtseva.
3 months ago
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I hate hearing myself in foreign languages, but I swallowed my pride for this one: An ORF broadcast on the inauguration of University Klagenfurt's new Centre for Canadian Studies, with special focus on potential links with UAlberta,
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
+ Quebec).
on.orf.at/video/143137...
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Klagenfurter Studenten können in Kanada studieren - Kärnten heute vom 03.03.2026
2.500 österreichische Urlauber im Nahen Osten gestrandet | Monat der Darmkrebsvorsorge beginnt | Kurzmeldungen | Klagenfurter Studenten können in Kanada studieren | Paralympics-Athlet Thomas Grochar i...
https://on.orf.at/video/14313776/16047556/klagenfurter-studenten-koennen-in-kanada-studieren
3 months ago
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Join us 1-2pm, March 6 at University of Alberta's Senate Chamber to learn more about the current research of the
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Croatian Fellow, Adriana Blažević, in her talk "Regulating Migration in Europe: A Discursive Problem." + Don't forget our Central European Cafe after!
3 months ago
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Yesterday representatives from the Canadian embassy, the Quebec government, + the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies to celebrate the inauguration of the new Klagenfurt Centre for Canadian Studies. Listen! I bet you enjoy it, too.
open.spotify.com/episode/31WE...
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#033: Ă” Canada, O Klagenfurt! Inauguration of the Klagenfurt Centre for Canadian Studies
https://open.spotify.com/episode/31WEzWInvZxfshRQF9s6Db?si=bbXNWrsCR7yvmym_NziZog
3 months ago
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Come March 5-7 to see our PhD students in Canada in action! Organized by the ever-inspiring merry core at the University of Alberta, and co-sponsored by the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Are you in Austria Feb. 23 + interested in learning more about studying and research opportunities in Canada? Come to Klagenfurt! Representatives from the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
at the University of Alberta and the CANADIAN EMBASSY will be there + eager to share info.
3 months ago
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Tis the season for
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"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.
3 months ago
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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
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3 months ago
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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...
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New Voices « Cambridge Core Blog
https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/tag/New-Voices/
3 months ago
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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...
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Contemporary European History digest, no. 2, August to December 2025 « News# « Cambridge Core Blog
As we - like many other journals - transition towards digital-only publication, we have become acutely aware of how difficult it can be to find out what is happening with Contemporary European History...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2026/02/02/contemporary-european-history-digest-no-2-august-to-december-2025/
3 months ago
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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...
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4 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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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...
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Habsburg International: Austrian Consuls and Consulates in the United States and Around the World | H-Net
Consuls have long occupied an ambiguous place in the historiography of international relations. Ubiquitous in imperial infrastructures, yet largely overshadowed by ambassadors and high diplomacy, the ...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134557/habsburg-international-austrian-consuls-and-consulates-united-states
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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
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Music Scholarships
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/opportunities/students/music-scholarships/index.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Johann%20Strauss%20Award&utm_content=Johann%20Strauss%20Award+CID_5e8e27bcf8d01370eab72858ae6ba6fd&utm_source=cm_wirthinstitute&utm_term=APPLY%20NOW
5 months ago
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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...
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Silent Night Annual Christmas Concert
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/events/silent-night.html
5 months ago
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Please help the
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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...
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Support the Campus Food Bank : Make a donation today to support Support the Campus Food Bank
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6 months ago
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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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A 2026 Kreisel Lecture Announcement
https://mailchi.mp/006093c7174a/poetrycontestwinners-13896120?e=77a20cddac
6 months ago
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Nancy Wingfield
6 months ago
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Austrian professors in the Humanities + Social Sciences: Want to come to the
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+
@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!
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Gastprofessur an der University of Alberta
Zur Unterstützung der Forschungstätigkeit des Österreich-Zentrums in Alberta/Edmonton wird für hervorragende Postdocs einer österreichischen Universität eine Gastprofessur ausgeschrieben. Einreichfris...
https://oead.at/en/news/article/2025/11/gastprofessur-an-der-university-of-alberta-1
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Yesterday at the
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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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Nancy Wingfield
6 months ago
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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!
6 months ago
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Daniel Banks
6 months ago
couldn't agree more!
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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...
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Premio Nazionale Risorgimento – Edizione 2025 Annunciati i vincitori - Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano
https://www.risorgimento.it/2025/11/17/premio-nazionale-risorgimento-edizione-2025-annunciati-i-vincitori/
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The
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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...
6 months ago
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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.
6 months ago
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If you couldn't attend the
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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...
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Annual Toby and Saul Reichert Holocaust Lecture: “Jews, Roma, and the Holocaust”
YouTube video by WirthInstitute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjNSO88LGwQ
6 months ago
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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
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6 months ago
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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
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Mitteleuropa Man: Eric Hobsbawm and Austria
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/events/chabal-lecture.html
6 months ago
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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...
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Nikola Tomašegović – Hrvatska historiografija u dijalogu sa srednjoeuropskim studijima: Central European History Convention 2025.
Hrvatska historiografija u dijalogu sa srednjoeuropskim studijima: Central European History Convention 2025. Sredinom srpnja ove godine u Beču se okupilo više od 300 povjesničarki i povjesničara Sr…
https://historiografija.hr/?p=49637&fbclid=IwY2xjawOFFy5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyCGNhbGxzaXRlAjMwAAEe2gV_N9ZbJLhiRaPPxtEtXvHvduxKpgJC_3MomhbV0ojX7HlZx5-995vd78w_aem_lEjpQjGHoAAtrIC7qWnsug
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