My first peer reviewed article on has appeared alongside some very excellent articles in a special issue of Rethinking History. Many thanks to @npapadogian.bsky.social and Ulrike Schaper for their insights and support in the process! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can't wait to read this!!

New article on sex tourism, Spartacus International Gay Guide, and why we have to deal with the confusing, uglier sides of queer history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thank you to @npapadogian.bsky.social, Benno Gammerl, Christiane Reinecke, and Ulrike Schaper for their invaluable guidance!

Very excited that the The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe has been just published! You'll find my chapter on Italian men, Western goods and transactional sex in 1960s Hungary chilling alongside some other excellent pieces in Section 6 🤩 www.routledge.com/9781032069647

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

Niche question for historians: does anyone have literature suggestions/ recommendations on the love letter from a historical perspective (ideally in the post war period but any period is fine!) 💌

Can't believe I'm only seeing this book now, so many really insightful contributions in here! 🤩

Extremely happy to have contributed to the second handbook of our DFG Network "Queere Zeitgeschichten im deutschsprachigen Europa!" Open access! A wonderful tool to teach queer history with topic-specific chapters and examples of source analysis! www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Very excited to read Adelina Stefan's new book on international tourism during the Cold War ☀️

Ich stimme zu, unbedingt schauen!

Do you use AI translation to let students read materials that would otherwise be inaccessible (or too difficult)—if so, do you discuss the ethics of doing this (labor, inadequacy of translation, env costs, etc.) and how?

This workshop is happening today at 14:00 UK time and there is still time to register using the link below.

i am super biased here because i am an academic and would like to continue to be one *but* i do feel there comes a point where you have to ask yourself what the point of ‘the economy’ is if it doesn’t support education or healthcare or the arts or housing or food or water and utilities

Join us for this workshop/ exchange on the 6th of December, I'll be one of the 'experts' 🧐 talking about archives in Hungary

I rarely suffer from FOMO, but I so wish I was now at the #ASEEES24!

Here is the Bluesky starter pack directory. You can search by keyword. Please share with everyone. 🤗 blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

So happy about this one! ☝️

BlueSky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1) “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000” 2) Britney Spear’s “work b*tch” is the lost 4th volume of Marx’s Das Kapital.

So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd

Historians of Eastern Europe, let's do a thread below to find each other easier! Share your main country/ies of expertise and your dominant approaches! 🗃 My main contexts are state socialist Hungary and Yugoslavia (from outside the region, Vietnam and Cuba), and I do women's history. #skystorians

I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded. You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout. go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj

NEW CANARY ALBUM Dr. Eva Davidovà’s work on Slovak Roma music, language, & life includes this album of her field recordings — the first anthology of Romani songs in Czechoslovakia, made during a brief window of liberalization by the totalitarian regime. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/romane...

Very excited to read this!

Really worth a read and great for teaching!

Room for one more starter pack? Here's the (very) beginning of a list of people, journals, institutions etc, working in or adjacent to contemporary European History. Comment if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb

I spoke to two wonderful archivists at the Open Society Archives about their vast and varied (and to a large extent digitized) sources for @peripheralhist.bsky.social - take a look! I really recommend the archive for anyone working on post war Central/ Eastern/ Sotheastern Europe :)

New Transformative Podcast out! Our @jelenadj.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Peter Wright on what the life trajectories of Yugoslav experts abroad and students from the Global South in Yugoslavia tell us about its connections with the postcolonial world? recet.at/podcast

After years of basically no social media use I thought I'd give this a go, hello everyone!