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

In "Navigating t(hr)o(ugh) Gender Studies Perspectives at CEH-C," @KorbelSusanne discussed how at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention scholars showed that gender studies no longer is an ignored lens: it's an anchor in a field of brilliant emerging scholars. cehc.hypotheses.org/344

In his "Central European Convention: An Isle of Humanity in a Competitive Academic World," David Smrček discussed how Pieter Judson's influence in connecting scholars from different generations + geographies came to life at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. cehc.hypotheses.org/125

In her probing "Is it worthwhile for a medievalist to participate in the CEH-C?," Sonja Lessacher confronted a tough question: do these interdisciplinary, cross-chronology big events like the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention work? Read here to learn her answer! cehc.hypotheses.org/145

In her "A New Economic History of Central Eastern Europe," Bianca Centrone talks about how economic history of Habsburg lands had been overshadowed + what new scholars at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention promise to reveal of how much we still have to learn. cehc.hypotheses.org/156

In "Networks then and now…," Mária Lengyel shared what she found to be the most inspiring work at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, a place where new networks were made but most importantly new light was shed of how power functioned in Habsburg Europe. cehc.hypotheses.org/166

In his "“New Conference, Familiar Community, New Challenges,” Henry Blood reflected on what it was like to conference it up with authors you've spent a career reading. Learn more from him what happened at the 2025 Central European History Convention. cehc.hypotheses.org/193

In "Imperial Afterlives," Cristina Florea discusses what has come back to life in studying the lands + peoples of the "dead" Habsburg Empire. Learn more about the exciting new work she heard at the 2025 Vienna Central European Convention that excited her: cehc.hypotheses.org/201

In his “'How Delightful It Is When Friends Come from Afar:' Reflections on the CEH-C 2025 in Vienna," Taisei Yamashita reflects on the impact of Pieter Judson's work in Japan + how the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention represented a new model for history-making. cehc.hypotheses.org/225

In her "The State of Habsburg Studies and the Study of Habsburg State(s)," Rachel Trode talks about how at the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention a new wave of "putting the state + its bureaucrats" back in is changing the field. Learn more here cehc.hypotheses.org/351

In her "Dispatches from the CEH-C: What the Future of History Might Look Like?," Liubov Stepanova shares the intellectual catalysts experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here cehc.hypotheses.org/363

In his "Paths towards a more-than-human Central European history?" Corentin Gruffat thinks about what tools Habsburg scholars are using differently by bringing animals into the mix to understand empire at the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention. cehc.hypotheses.org/383

Read Anna Molnar's piece "From Continuity to Cooperation: What CEHC 2025 Taught Medievalists and Early Modernists" to see how bringing 500 historians together at the Vienna July 2025 Central European History Convention fared at breaking down chronologies. cehc.hypotheses.org/391

Lisa Kolb reflected on new trends in how animals, nature, + human history are treated in Habsburg studies based on what she heard at the July 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Check out her "Resourceful research into human-nature-relations." cehc.hypotheses.org/409

@aschacht.bsky.social wrote a fascinating blog reflecting on her impressions from the July 2025 CEH-Convention on Habsburg studies' role in the new trend of international history. Check out "On Dinosaurs and Empires." cehc.hypotheses.org/424

Peter Becker + I wrote "Forward: A Kaleidoscope of CEH-C Meanings" to explain how the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention and the collection of 20 blogs by emerging scholars on the joys, promises, + challenges of the event came into being. Read! Share! Discuss! cehc.hypotheses.org/79

Twenty participants of the July 2025 Central European History Convention in Vienna wrote blogs about what they thought about the event: what it gave, what it promises, what it didn’t. Read what they think! (There’s a little intro to the forum by Peter Becker + myself). cehc.hypotheses.org

Congrats to Jean-Michel Johnston + Anna Ross for their @conteurohistory.bsky.social special issue "Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War." I just read the intro: what an amazing resource! I forsee it becomes required reading for the field! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tomorrow I'm giving a mini talk to my new UAlberta community. In thinking how my LaGuardia book has progressed over the years, I can't help feeling grateful I still have a chance of finishing it at all. These times make it ever more necessary to think what could be. www.ualberta.ca/en/events/co...

Our newly arrived Wirth doctoral fellows from Poland, Czechia, Hungary, + Croatia celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving with complimentary passes provided by Metro Cinema to celebrate their arrival. A wonderful way to celebrate community at Edmonton's cherished independent cinema! metrocinema.org/series/

So glad that the American Academy of Arts and Sciences had the good sense of inviting my dear friend and cherished colleague Pieter Judson membership. He really is a treasure to be treasured. www.amacad.org/new-members-...

I'm also incredibly excited (and feel quite humbled) about this prize! Thanks so much Dominique for sharing. For those who are interested, P&P's very kind editors have made the article open access for the next three months: academic.oup.com/past/article...

Absolutely amazing book presentation on "IT TAKES THREE TO TANGO: The true story of a fictitious romance in the correspondence of Ivan Ostafiichuk and Natalka Husar,” with Husar, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen and Oleksandr Pankieiev. BUY THIS BOOK! Fascinating, fun, vibrant, and beautiful to look at.

Compelling talk by Alessio Ponzio - new director of MacEwan University’s Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity - on “Queering History: Silences, Whispers and Screams.” I loved his point of letting the past have the space to let us hear its whispers instead of imposing our loud needs of today.

Castor and I have decided that our new family member’s name is Luna (for obvious reasons). I think she’s a little spooked that we figured out she reigns the seas and the skies. She hides her power in her tiny frame. But her abundance of toes betrays her.