(1) 📚 Presentation & discussion, @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social, Ljubljana — Wed, 1 Oct 2025, 11:00. Two recent volumes: • East Central European Crisis Discourses (Routledge, 2024) • Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics (OUP, 2025) inz.si/en/2025/09/0...

So it turns out that immigrants and wind farms make you better at golf. Maybe they should get some wind farms near the Trump courses in USA as well?

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Chapeau, Tadej Pogačar! This was another masterclass by @tamaupogi and the entire Slovene team.

We’re very excited to share that First World War Studies Volume 16, Issue 2 was recently published and is now available from Taylor & Francis (tag). This new issue brings together fresh perspectives and critical reviews that push forward the study of the Great War. 📝Articles include: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The Program for our 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025, is now available! firstworldwarstudies.org/wp-content/u...

Max Weber Fellowships European University Institute #skysstorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM363/m...

Jean Monnet Fellowships European University Institute – Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM362/j...

[SAVE THE DATE] We are organising a conference on neutrality and humanitarianism (1914–1920s), taking place April 15–17, 2026. Deadline for proposals: December 1 > www.casadevelazquez.org/news/the-com... Thanks to @casadevelazquez.bsky.social, FIES, @fwwsoc.bsky.social, @uc3m.es for your support !

NATIONALE VIELFALT IN DER GESCHICHTE - Börries Kuzmany hat ein super spannendes Ringsvorlesungsprogramm für das WS zusammengestellt am IOG @univie.ac.at - danke für die Einladung auch mein neues Forschungsprojekt vorzustellen :-) iog.univie.ac.at/newsevents/e...

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule. Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is now available in #paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #History #Habsburg

Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.

New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Heute findet in Linz die 60. ITH ( @ithvienna.bsky.social) Konferenz statt. in den nächsten 2,5 Tagen dreht sich alles um "Workers and Worldmaking: Labor in the Era of Decolonization”. Morgen Abend gibt es eine öffentliche Veranstaltung: Podiumsdiskussion mit Lucile Dreidemy und Emma Wyschata.

Jemand, der mit Heimatfilmen aufgewachsen ist, muss sich nun die Frage stellen: Gehören die Trapp-Familie und die Nonnen im Kloster, die sie vor den Nazis verstecken, auch zu einer "terroristischen Organisation" (USA & Niederlande 2025)?

Article out!

GRIMSLEY FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT SMH seeks a doctoral student in military history to fill its Mark Grimsley SMH Fellowship in Social Media. 2-year term beginning Jan. 2026 ($2,000/yr stipend). Applications (CV, statement) due October 15, 2025 to [email protected]

Doing a Q & A on the German job market for postdocs/ECRs for @fwwsoc.bsky.social - it starts at 6 pm (Berlin/Paris time) if you are interested www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phdecr-eve...

Petru Negura, Andrei Cusco, Svetlana Suveica (eds.): Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands. Popular Responses to Nation-Building, 1900-1940. London: Bloomsbury 2025. ISBN 9781350443747 URL: www.bloomsbury.com/u...

📖 Read our two latest special issues online: The first, 'Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949', connects civil conflict across Europe to the evolution of humanitarian practices. (eds. @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwath) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

I've been wearing glasses for most of my life, and I just don't get why anyone would wear them voluntarily. Especially huge, monstrous glasses like these. Just seeing their picture makes my nose hurt.

ICYMI: @umutozkirimli.bsky.social is working on a fourth edition of his seminal Theories of Nationalism and is crowdsourcing publications that should be covered in it. Do you know of any? Head to asen.ac.uk/theorieso... to submit them!

Amazing opportunity for historians of Eastern Europe with a PhD: work for Dietmar Neutatz’s chair in Freiburg! www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

CFA: After the Wall: The Development of Far-Right Cultures in Northern and Central-Eastern Europe https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157472 Triest, 30.09.2025, Qualestoria, rivista di storia contemporanea, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

1,454 games, 440 goals and 838 assists for 1,278 points. Two Stanley Cups, two Selkes, three Lady Byngs, a Mark Messier award, and so much more. We get to watch him for one more season before he hangs up his skates.

How is the debate about whether or not it's really fascism going?

If you have not left academia. edu yet, now would be a good time. PS: the last post in this thread explains how you can delete everything and leave without agreeing to this horrible new ToS first.

Since so many people in my timeline seem to be considering deleting academia.edu, here's a thing I wrote ages ago that is still mostly up to date info about good ways to share your academic work green open access: blog.seej.org/index.php/20...

New #OpenAccess issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... keep reading, keep citing! @asn-org.bsky.social #APSA2025 #polisky #nationalisky

Do you know of any publications, including forthcoming publications, that would be relevant to an updated Theories of Nationalism? If you have any you would like to share, head on over to asen.ac.uk/theorieso...! 5/5

Exploring overlooked Holocaust history in #Croatia: The Davis Center at Harvard offers a 6-part webinar series on "The #Holocaust in Southeastern Europe". With @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social (IOS) & other experts, examining regional complexities missing from broader narratives. 📅 Start: 27 Sep ⬇️

Until a few minutes ago, I did not even know that @zotero kept track of retraction notices, but this is good feature to have.

2016 Washington Post - “Democracy dies in darkness” 2025 Jeff Bezos “Turn that light out!”

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

There is still some time left to apply for our amazing Balkan course at the Invisible University for Ukraine. It's always a great place for mutual exchange (and aid), and exploring (un)expected connections. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/09/call...

Are you an #earlycareer historian looking for a postdoctoral opportunity? 📣 You still have 1 month to apply for the EUI Max Weber Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 🔤 All information and link to the application form 👉 loom.ly/6IQLilY 🗓️ Apply by 15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST 🚨 #postdoc

🚨Call for Papers🚨Delighted to share the CfP for next year's meeting of @frenchcolonial.bsky.social which we will be hosting in Maynooth June 25-27. The theme is "Après la tempête: Afterlives of Colonial Crisis and Conflict". Deadline for submissions is November 14 frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

You can download and read my new edited book The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkish History from the link below www.researchgate.net/publication/...

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

‼️ Zunaj je naša knjiga o zg. samomora v SLO. Vodja projekta in izvrstna socialna zgodovinarka Meta Remec je prispevala družbeni kontekst in pregled, Ivan Smiljanić je analiziral partizanski samomor, jaz pa sem pisal o samomoru kot metafori v soc. Sloveniji. Prost dostop: omp.inz.si/zalozba/cata...

The deadline for the CEH Prize is tomorrow⌛ Polish those abstracts and get uploading!

The next event designed for our PhD/ECR members will take place on Sept 23rd at 5pm GMT. It will focus on the academic German Job Market with members Dr. Elisabeth Piller, Allison Bennett, and Dr. Nina Régis. Register at the following link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phdecr-eve...

The deadline for the Call for Papers for this fascinating conference on 'Women in War: France, Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century' has been extended until October 18th. It should be a fascinating conference. Come to beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/

Dear Ms Wang, I would be pleased to discuss the specifics of our future collaboration with you. Please get back to me once you have determined whether my area of expertise is computers, sports, education or management. Sincerely, Dr./Prof.

A lot of talk about copyright at the moment because of the Anthropic stuff so just a quick reminder that Taylor & Francis journals will ask you to relinquish copyright by default but if you just click 'no' their system automatically goes "oh okay then".

‼️Bourse Ernest Labrousse 📞Appel à candidatures pour 2 bourses Ernest-Labrousse, attribuées par l'Association Française d'Histoire Economique (AFHé) ▶️ afhe.hypotheses.org/bourses-prix... 📆 date de dépôt des dossiers fixée au 15/10/25

Suddenly occurred to me that sinking civilian vessels on the high seas with no warning-killing passengers and crew(rather than stopping them to search for contraband) was the principle reason the USA declared war on Imperial Germany in 1917.

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

The BLOCKADE project (blockades.eu) continues recruiting! We are looking for a PhD student at the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) in Trondheim, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Hamburg.