Not only was your contribution so honest and invaluable, working with you has been one of the highlights of my year. If your ears have been ringing... know it's because I've been singing your praises loud + often (even more than before this forum). Thank you for ALL you do and how you do it!

lease share far and wide this amazing opportunity for a 1-month residency in Koper, Slovenia for Mediterranean studies (especially Renaissance). I would snap this up in a second. I love Koper (and its many brilliant scholars). www.zrs-kp.si/en/santorio-...

Check out another forum that I am in. It was a pleasure!

I just got this video from my much-missed colleagues at IMERA (the Institute of Advanced Studies in Marseille). What nostalgia! So many wonderful people. Such beauty. The building featured behind the interview is my old home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMo...

We did it! Sonja Dolinsek, Tiffany Florvil, Anita Kurimay, Jill Massino, Alisha Rankin, Michał Wilczewski, + I just submitted the final revisions to our CEHS presidential forum: "Gender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe," soon out with "Central European History."

1 of my favorite professional activities is my work with @conteurohistory.bsky.social. First time I've missed the yearly meeting: sorry for it. Look at these brilliant, caring scholars, hosted by Mary Hilson + @au.dk. So sad not to be there that for some reason in zoom meeting there were two of me!

So proud our newly minted Dr. Adelina Tratarou, who just defended her dissertation ""Learning Experiences: A Study of Ghana's 1957-1964 Mass Education Campaigns" at UMiami. She will make the world a better, smarter, more caring place. Hurray for the future! We need moments of hope like this.

Congratulations to my UAlberta colleague Crystal Gail Fraser for winning the 2026 PIERRE SAVARD BOOK AWARD for "By Strength We are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories" Inspiring work, and inspiring that's seen. crystalfraser.com

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!

Don't miss our last @wirthinstitute.bsky.social 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!

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...

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...

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)!

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...

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...

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...

Just a week to apply for our @wirthinstitute.bsky.social 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...

This year UAlberta design students Alyssa Li + Jasmine Chan, + their prof. Ehsan Baha have been helping the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social rebuild our web presence. April 2 at 7pm we will celebrate them at their Grad Exhibi. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/bdes-grad-...

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...

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...

@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

Come to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social 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?

What a marvelous day: learning with former @wirthinstitute.bsky.social 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...

The AMAZING @wirthinstitute.bsky.social 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

March 27, 1-2pm: @arv-er.bsky.social will give her @wirthinstitute.bsky.social 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...

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...

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...

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!

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.

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...

Join us 1-2pm, March 6 at University of Alberta's Senate Chamber to learn more about the current research of the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian Fellow, Adriana Blažević, in her talk "Regulating Migration in Europe: A Discursive Problem." + Don't forget our Central European Cafe after!

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...

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

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.

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!