Next year, again! Please, distribute, apply, consider coming as mentor, discussant, chair! @dacretu.bsky.social @giannako.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social @zorapiskacova.bsky.social @rkpejsova.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

The making and remaking of #Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland by Cristina Florea is now available (10 Feb UK pub) Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History

Very upsetting news from my alma mater, which has decided to close both the European Studies Center and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, among others.

Peter Becker + I wrote "Forward: A Kaleidoscope of CEH-C Meanings" to explain how the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention and the collection of 20 blogs by emerging scholars on the joys, promises, + challenges of the event came into being. Read! Share! Discuss! cehc.hypotheses.org/79

Odešla Atomová lady. Čest její památce.

An honor to hear Czech President Petr Pavel speak @harvard.edu last night, and even more so to have the chance to meet him shortly after. Děkujeme za návštěvu, pane prezidente! 🇨🇿

We are getting ready to welcome President Pavel of the Czech Republic to Harvard today.

CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026 Application deadline: 30.11.2025 URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...

Very honored to be part of this great group!

Apply and join me next year! careers.historians.org/jobs/2159507...

The TV show 'Smoke' on Apple TV just had a side character explain to his teenage son why he has to leave him and move across the country: “It’s tenure-track, man. These positions come up once every five or ten years... like... I can’t. It’s like being an astronaut and getting called to the moon.”

My friend Raul Carstocea is advertising 2 PhD positions within his fabulous ERC project. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/p...

Can't believe I'll be leaving this gem of a town in two weeks. This is so well deserved!

📣Tomorrow starts our 12th #IOSConference2025 on economic continuities between the interwar period & post-1989 transformations in Central, Eastern & #SoutheastEurope. W/ keynotes by Tamás Vonyó (Bocconi University, Milan) & János Mátyás Kovács (@recetvienna.bsky.social). 📅 26–27 June | #LeibnizIOS ⬇️

"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above." ~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”

I have done it. I have found a mistake on the first page of my ProQuest-approved dissertation. #newlevelachieved 🏆

Call for participants / Summer school: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries. Prague, 23-25 October 2025, Deadline 15 August 2025. URL: www.oeaw.ac.at/ikw/v...

I "graduated" less than a week ago, and UNC Library has already cut off my access. Went to look something up and—boom—ACCESS DENIED. How do independent scholars even survive out here?

7 years ago today I testified in front of a NYC judge + jury how widespread ignorance of how academia works helped a murderer kill a promising scholar vulnerable only because he wanted a stable job. Things have only gotten scarier. Please share: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/historian-mu...

Officially Dr. Piskačová! Thank you, @unchistory.bsky.social, for everything!

I couldn't agree more! Thanks for 'walking' with me @tessmegginson.bsky.social! Here is to us—historians of the Czechoslovak borderlands!

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

What an incredible lineup! I’m so bummed to be missing it...

A stark reminder of how fragile our infrastructure networks are—and how deeply we rely on them, even when we rarely give them a second thought.

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.

Absolutely worth the read this morning: Tara Zarah on collapsing globalization and how similar developments have played out in the past www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...

Myself and my colleague Dr Raul Carstocea are inviting applications for a PhD scholarship at Maynooth University , looking at the imperial roots of the Ustasha fascist movement. If successful, the position is fully-funded for four years. Please share and feel free to contact me!

Six years and 100k words later, the “thing” is done and printed for final read-through.

It's Women's History Month. Because the offerings are so broad, I'm posting books, often about women & agender, by women in my field, HABSBURG Central Europe. Nope, not Germany! First, by Mo Healy, whose book from earlier this century has changed the field. Among the best books on World War I.

The Guggenheim might be old news, but I’m excited to share that I was recently featured in the @unchistory.bsky.social newsletter talking about my research both in and about Cieszyn/Český Těšín. Check it out!

#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!

It's October 19, 1935, and Czechoslovak censorship is at its best: "This is not how we imagined the governance of our affairs," in Moravskoslezský deník.

📢 Eastern European historians—I'm looking for an #ASEEES25 panel! My work focuses on borderlands, empire-to-nation transitions, urban history & local elites. I’m also open to organizing a panel on memorialization of post-WWI border conflicts if anyone would be interested? Let me know!

Sem: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152324 Prag, 05.05.2025-07.05.2025, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Johann Gottfried Herder-Forschungsrat, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2025

Many thanks to the Central European History Society for sponsoring our emerging scholars panel at the #AHA25 and kudos to everyone who woke up bright and early on Sunday to delve into the various ways Central Europeans navigated nationalism with pragmatism. As this photo shows, we had a blast!

If you’re at the AHA in New York and you don’t know what to do with your Sunday morning, I’d have a suggestion… (This is a totally objective advice, of course!)

Merry Christmas! Veselé Vánoce! Frohe Weihnachten! Wesołych Świąt!

CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177 Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …

CFA: Borders in Motion: Narratives of Cooperation and Conflict https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152010 Prague, 01.12.2024-15.04.2025, Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2025

In February, I’ll be giving the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies’ Emerging Scholars Talk on Zoom. Event page is linked below, but registration won’t be live until January. Mark your calendars for February 3 at 5:30pm EST if you’re interested in Jewish burial societies and funeral homes in Poland.

I wrote a little "newbie" blog post for the Global History and Culture Centre at University of Warwick. Title is self-explanatory. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

A new CfP for all those interested in the #econhist of Central & Eastern Europe in the long 20th century. To be held at IOS @leibniz-ios.de in lovely Regensburg, 26-27 June 2025. Submission deadline: 15th Dec 2024. #econsky

Proud Tar Heels!

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It’s the end of November and that means it’s time for #ASEEES24! But we’re in #Boston so before the panels start, everyone should get a cannoli… I recommend Mike’s.