Dominique Reill
@dominiquereill.bsky.social
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Historian. Loves the Adriatic.
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.
about 8 hours ago
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Such an amazing day of music and goodwill at this last Sundayâs âCentral European Gemsâ concert by The Alberta Baroque Ensemble, co-sponsored by the
@wirthinstitute.bsky.social
. The music was inspiring, + Ethan Filnerâs viola solo had many standing ovations. For more info, see:
albertabaroque.com
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7 days 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/
7 days 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/
7 days ago
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Just read Hillel Kieval's beautifully written 2025 AHY article âWas There a Habsburg Jewish Experience?â 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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29 days 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...
29 days 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
about 1 month ago
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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
about 2 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
2 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
https://campusfoodbank.raiselysite.com/wirth-institute-university-of-alberta
2 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
2 months ago
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Dominique Reill
Nancy Wingfield
2 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 UnterstĂŒtzung der ForschungstĂ€tigkeit des Ăsterreich-Zentrums in Alberta/Edmonton wird fĂŒr hervorragende Postdocs einer österreichischen UniversitĂ€t eine Gastprofessur ausgeschrieben. Einreichfris...
https://oead.at/en/news/article/2025/11/gastprofessur-an-der-university-of-alberta-1
2 months ago
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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!
2 months ago
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Dominique Reill
Nancy Wingfield
3 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!
3 months ago
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reposted by
Dominique Reill
Daniel Banks
3 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. Sheâs not just a friend; sheâs a model. This is so deserved.
www.risorgimento.it/2025/11/17/p...
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Premio Nazionale Risorgimento â 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/
3 months ago
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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...
3 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 Iâm eager to admit: I like what Iâm reading.
3 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 âJews, Roma, and the Holocaustâ here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjNS...
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Annual Toby and Saul Reichert Holocaust Lecture: âJews, Roma, and the Holocaustâ
YouTube video by WirthInstitute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjNSO88LGwQ
3 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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https://cius-awards.artsrn.ualberta.ca/
3 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
3 months ago
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Amazing piece by Nikola TomaĆĄegoviÄ 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 TomaĆĄegoviÄ â 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 BeÄu se okupilo viĆĄe od 300 povjesniÄarki i povjesniÄara SrâŠ
https://historiografija.hr/?p=49637&fbclid=IwY2xjawOFFy5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyCGNhbGxzaXRlAjMwAAEe2gV_N9ZbJLhiRaPPxtEtXvHvduxKpgJC_3MomhbV0ojX7HlZx5-995vd78w_aem_lEjpQjGHoAAtrIC7qWnsug
3 months ago
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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...
3 months ago
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Did Jews help in the Italian colonization of Ethiopia? Matteo DâAvanzo 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...
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2025 Modern Article Prize Honorable Mention: Matteo DâAvanzo
YouTube video by Society for Italian Historical Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbmoj6tfLOg
3 months ago
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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 Garibaldiâs Campaign of 1860"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsI...
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2025 Modern Article Prize Award Winner interview: Daniel Banks
YouTube video by Society for Italian Historical Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsIeQdAXlY
3 months ago
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Were 16th-century mines a place to work or a place to learn? Gabriele Marcon answers in his 2025 SIHS Honorable Mention article ââThe Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines.â Watch this interview to learn more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytnr...
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2025 Medieval/Early Modern Article Prize Honorable Mention: Gabriele Marcon
YouTube video by Society for Italian Historical Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytnrk940mgs&t=1s
3 months ago
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Don't miss this fascinating interview by
@smithcollege.bsky.social
Prof. Josh Birk + Ori Ben-Shalom discussing his 2025 SIHS prize-winning article âPublic Health, Medicine, and Religious Reform in Carlo Borromeoâs Milan,â
@16csociety.bsky.social
. Watch + share!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qef6...
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2025 Medieval/Early Modern Article Prize winner interview: Ori Ben Shalom
YouTube video by Society for Italian Historical Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qef6OLUQyEw&t=1s
3 months ago
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I know you know this. But I TOTALLY agree with you. Again. This piece is excellent
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3 months ago
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Jana Osterkamp + Jonathan Singerton's "How Central European History Became a Vibrant Field â 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
3 months ago
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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/...
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Have You Met Dominique Kirchner Reill?
Meet Dominique Kirchner Reill, Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies and Professor of History.
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/2025/10/have-you-met-dominique-kirchner-reill.html
3 months ago
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I think being part of bringing the Central European History Convention together will be one of the things Iâm 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...
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CEHC 2025: a Milestone Gathering for Central European Historians
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/wirth-institute-news/2025/cehc-2025.html
3 months ago
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Itâs 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
3 months ago
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The new
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Czech doctoral fellow Tereza TrojanovĂĄ'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...
4 months ago
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Our new
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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...
4 months ago
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The new
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Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana BlaĆŸeviÄ'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...
4 months ago
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The
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is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow ErzsĂ©bet Ărvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" Ă©migrĂ© communities. Learn more about her project here:
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
4 months ago
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The new @WirthInstitute Polish doctoral fellow Tereza TrojanovĂĄ'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...
4 months ago
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The new
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Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana BlaĆŸeviÄ'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...
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Adriana BlaĆŸeviÄ
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/people/doctoral-research-fellows/2025-2026/adriana-blazevic.html
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The
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is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow ErzsĂ©bet Ărvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" Ă©migrĂ© communities. Learn more about her project here:
www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
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ErzsĂ©bet Ărvay
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-institute/people/doctoral-research-fellows/2025-2026/erzsebet-arvay.html
4 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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Which ones did you especially like? (And, yes, the writing is so clear, sometimes fun, always engaging)
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4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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
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In her "Empire, Environment, and the Judson Legacy: Reflections from the first Central European History Convention in Vienna," DaĆĄa LiÄen 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
4 months ago
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In "The Quest for Global History and the âRelevanceâ 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
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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
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In "Echoes of a lost Empire. Central Europe through the eyes of the RĂo 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
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