🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu

Congratulations to Stefan Lacny on winning the BASEES Prize for Best Scholarly Article for “Creating the Polish Enemy on the Soviet Screen, 1925–1939.” Also to Dr Natalia V. Parker, awarded the BASEES Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Well deserved!👏

I'll be talking about the movement away from/towards regimes of belonging as an everyday security practice tomorrow at #iccees2025. Come say hi if you're around! www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

"It is too easy, more than three years into this terrible war, to call to mind dinner parties, academic conferences, weddings, where memory folds and unfolds to admit a shadow, because someone who was there, and who should still be with us, has been killed." snyder.substack.com/p/guest-host...

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

Please join us for this PLEJ centre event with author Irena Brežná to hear more about her latest book 'The Thankless Foreigner' - an incisive novel on immigration and the search for integration and resistance. 🗓️ 11 June at 6.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

My brother Adam Hájek who is a Czech journalist came back on Wednesday from a ten day trip to Eastern Ukraine. In the podcast below for their paper (Idnes), they speak about what they learned beyond the articles. I summarize key parts that were new to me - I learned lots. tv.idnes.cz/rozstrel/pet...

📚 Literatura — UIL’s most popular course — is back! Dive into the world of Ukrainian literature and culture with this year’s exciting programme. Enrol by 27 May to take advantage of our early bird discount! 👉 buytickets.at/ukrainianins...

New Ukraine Shelf is out! Yuliya Musakovska and Maria Tumarkin joined us in front of a live audience in Lviv to discuss writing war and trauma, and the conversation was superb, don’t miss it! Find on youtube etc here: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

This Weds at 5:00 @ SSEES, Adelina Stefan, "Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain." All are welcome, register at the link. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

If you are around on Tuesday we are having a chat about the protests.

Last week @okhromeychuk.bsky.social & I recorded our first Ukraine Shelf episode in Ukraine! Julia Musakovska & Maria Tumarkin joined us in Lviv to discuss war poetry, silence, the meaning of place, survival & more. Soon on youtube, soundcloud etc! Thanks @dovzhyk.bsky.social for the invitation!

Over the last 22 months, @oksanadudko.bsky.social and I have been plotting this forum in @historyworkshop.org.uk It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Looking for something to listen to this long weekend? Tune into the latest Ukraine Shelf episode—this time on Eastern Ukraine, a region still too often misunderstood. @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and I speak with brilliant authors Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan. Link below.

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan 🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/NjoJ40hapDc Produced in collaboration with @ukrinstitute.bsky.social, @uclssees.bsky.social, @uclei.bsky.social and @britishacademy.bsky.social.

Catch up with our new podcast on the best books on Ukraine! New episode on Ukraine’s east coming soon!

“Lilacs Blooming in the Botanical Garden” — a gorgeous painting by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Sydoruk, 1984, Kyiv. See more paintings of spring by Ukrainian artists in this article: daryazorka.substack.com/p/defiant-sp...

I’ll be speaking at Yale on 23 April and at Harvard on 24 April. If you’re in the area, it’d be lovely to see you in person. If not, the Harvard talk will be live-streamed. Details: www.huri.harvard.edu/event/olesya...

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

@uclhjs.bsky.social offers training in a variety of ancient and modern Jewish languages (for both students in our degree programs and continuing education students). www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/overloo...

The Curriculum and Assessment review led by @beckyfrancis.bsky.social with IOE academics has published an interim report pinpointing the need for a more inclusive curriculum attuned to social and technological change, with supportive pathways to employment or further study. bit.ly/4iMc83K

Overjoyed & beyond excited to share our new @jldhe.bsky.social Special Issue: Liberating Learning 🎉 Congrats to Martin Compton, Rebecca Lindner & team. Hope, empathy & joy in #HigherEd Just what we need right now. #UKHE #LTHEchat #AcademicSky #loveLD journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...

Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...

@ucflangs.bsky.social @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

Episode 2 of The Ukraine Shelf is out now — listen to @uilleamblacker.bsky.social @okhromeychuk.bsky.social and @efinkel.bsky.social @dovzhyk.bsky.social discuss threats to Ukrainian culture and identity 🔗 Listen to it here and find out more about book recommendations: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

Research Fellow, Collective Violence,Holocaust & Genocide Studs UCL - Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH993/r...

I reviewed Artem Chekh's Rock, Paper, Grenade for the @financialtimes.com: a disarming, honest, grotesque, beautiful book about coming of age in tough circumstances, a sort of 400 Blows for Ukraine in the 1990s. Great transl. by Olena Jennings & Oksana Rosenblum. www.ft.com/content/15c0...

Lecturer/Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain, c.1650-1900: a permanent post in UCL's History of Art Department. Includes British art and material culture in its global and colonial contexts. Standard teaching & research contract. 22 April. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Research Fellow, Collective Violence,Holocaust & Genocide Studs UCL - Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH993/r...

Lecturer in Middle Eastern History  UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ128/l...

Very excited to share the full programme of the 11th Baltic Symposium 2025: Standing Strong 31/3/25, 9:30–17:00. The keynote speech will be delivered by H.E. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Former President of Estonia (2006-16). Info & booking: www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events... @uclssees.bsky.social

We've had more than 500 listens of our first Ukraine Shelf podcast! Check out episode one, on Crimea, and watch out for more episodes coming soon! (Now also on spotify.) @okhromeychuk.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @uclei.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

This is interesting. Nothing inevitable about consequences of using AI - depends on design of both the AI and the use-context. Imagine an AI as a Socratic partner, something like Lyra’s Pan in Philip Pullman’s novels

A great event, and a packed out room to hear tales from the Ukrainian east.

Full house @uclssees.bsky.social for Victoria Donovan’s talk about her new book ‘Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East’. Expertly hosted by @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and Volodymyr Kulikov, with moving responses from the audience to the beautiful images that were shown.

Join our KINO course to explore the wonders of Ukrainian cinema with top experts. Student discount available! The course starts tomorrow!

Sunday Read / Olesya Khromeychuk: We Are Brave Because We Have No Choice. In this interview with Chytomo, @okhromeychuk.bsky.social reflects on her life journey, courage and the Ukrainian Institute London. 🔗 Full article (in Ukrainian): chytomo.com/olesia-khrom...

How can we rethink traditional area studies to better understand the world? This book uses a variety of genres from travel guides and historical maps to data visualisations to encourage critical thinking. Read it Free. #OpenAccess #AreaStudies bit.ly/41GHinh

With eastern Ukraine again at the centre of world events, it's never been more important to listen to those who come from there. This is what Victoria Donovan does in her new book. Join our discussion @uclssees.bsky.social next Friday! @dauntbookspub.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

Uilleam Blacker and I are delighted to launch The Ukraine Shelf, a podcast where we speak with leading authors, intellectuals, scholars, and journalists about Ukraine and its place in the world. 📚Time to make space for a new bookshelf—you’ll need it! 🎧 Link below.

This is going to be good. 👇

State Duma committee comes out *against* Patriarch Kirill’s proposal to ban abortion in private clinics nationwide. Looks like Putin’s comments last week, where he poured (some) cold water on Russia’s current anti-abortion trend, have had their effect. t.me/tass_agency/...

I was privileged to speak to @biannagolodryga.bsky.social for the Amanpour show on CNN on why maintaining and increasing support for Ukraine as it fights against ru genocidal invasion is crucial. Grateful for the opportunity to spread awareness of our existential battle. t.co/RWBAr1nYYw

Друзі, we are on the front page of the New York Times! 💙💛 @newyorktimes.bsky.social