Join me at ASEEES on Dec 1, 10 AM, Room 414 (4th Floor). I'll talk about queer domesticities in interwar Poland, asking how looking at the homes of queer people can transform our understanding of Eastern European history.

Three lesbian “utopias” within one Eastern European nationalism - in today’s lecture, I’ll take the University of British Columbia students on a journey through 100 years of queer women’s history in Poland.

Tuesday Nov. 14 Paulina Kewes (Jesus College @ Oxford) will deliver her lecture 'Towards a History of Parliamentary Culture in the Early Modern World' @ my Dept www.eksoc.uni.lodz.pl/en/news/deta... @queerkamil.bsky.social @obyrska.bsky.social @avielroshwald.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

Worth a read. In my book Queer Roma, I also talk about an earlier “anti-vagrancy” law from the 1920s, modelled after similar laws across Europe 65 years ago, Czechoslovakia banned life on the road: Did the communists destroy Roma culture and engineer their social exclusion? romea.cz/en/czech-rep...

Sunburst over Florence from the Badia Fiesolana

Transphobes who get mad about pronouns are weak. I speak Vietnamese. The pronoun I use for myself and the person I’m talking to or about depends on how old I am, how old they are, whether they’re a relative, whether they’re related to my mom or my dad, gender, and more. There are over 20 of them.

I once dreamed of being a professor and reading and writing and having big thoughts. I have instead become an email machine.

Hi skystorians, my colleagues are organizing this exciting event at Bielefeld Uni on subjectivities, networks, and cultural encounters during the Cold War. Looking forward to the presentations! 🗃️

33K, to be precise. Thank God, never again

I wrote a shorter article about my book for the conversation. Check it out darlings. ❤️🌈 theconversation.com/the-enduring...

Florence in the foliage

Only 300 new doctoral students per year in all the Arts and Humanities disciplines in a country of 67 million and over 160 universities. The UK no longer pretends to expertise in these disciplines

We are HIRING in German Studies! Black German Studies or Environmental Humanities preferred. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/131927

New Article, Open access too: "How a Factual Error became a Historical Fact: The 1182 ‘ritual murder’ in Zaragoza in Antisemitic Propaganda and Modern Scholarship", Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, 24 (2022-2023), pp. 31-57. ISSN: 1645-1910. www.researchgate.net/publication/...