I'm sure everyone's heard about the Bosnian tattoos by now. I explored the story for the @newlinesmag.bsky.social, and if you’re curious about Ottoman Bosnia, Catholic women, and the stakes of turning complicated histories into myths, take a look: newlinesmag.com/essays/the-o...

"Brothers with Baggage: Eight Chapters on the Austro-Hungarian Civilizing Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina" is out, including an essay of mine (in Czech) on "Colonial ambivalence: On foreigners and expertise in Habsburg Bosnia" — plus many more interesting essays here: avu.cz/publikace/br...

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

bosnian curses. bringing them back in 2026: may you be remembered only by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Yrs ago I met Slezekin as a grad student, told him I'm from Sarajevo, he said "I was just near there, at Pale" (former HQ of Radovan Karadzic).. I asked why, he said it's important to see for yourself (but not Sarajevo). When I told him my family was shelled for 4 yrs from Pale, he just walked away.

Fortunate is he who went insane early — Džej Ramadanovski, 1992

the live stock ticker in these 3 sentences is a marvel of narrative communication. stanislaw lem, eat your heart out www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

In response to neverending Berlinale-gate, I have decided to publish this recent little meatspace-only piece after all. The Meaning of Learning from the Past or: How Theodor W. Adorno heroically set out to reeducate and debarbarize the most genocidal nation in modern history.

time to repost this banger — the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper, 1899

Andras Riedlmayer, art historian at Harvard's Aga Khan program, has passed away. A great loss for Ottoman Balkan history. 🖤 Among many feats, Andras testified about the deliberate destruction of religious and cultural sites in the 1990s wars in Bosnia and Kosovo humanrights.uconn.edu/icty-digital...

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” tries to be at once a memoir, a philosophy tract, a historical novel, and “Candide” for the twenty-first century—but it doesn’t do any of them successfully.

your day needs romica of course, but the accordionist (guessnig victor gore?) is 🔥🔥🔥 youtu.be/9CvrVDByzdc?...

3 min selfcare tip: youtu.be/xozc7KJdJVw?...

hej ljudi šta je s vama asks a timeless question that still resonates today youtu.be/s1ZJ3CsU3sc?...

odnio vrag šalu was the zeitgeist of the early 21st century

*Chicago ppl* — come see Damir Imamović talk about music, research, incredible old records, fantastic new songs and more, this Wednesday (October 8) at Northwestern! Please share widely ✨👇

Colleagues in Eurasian and Slavic studies (broadly defined) — Hokkaido University's Slavic-Eurasian Research Center is accepting applications for its Foreign Visitors Fellowship for 2026—27. Highly recommend this excellent program! Please circulate: src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/fvfp/index1....

PSA—Do not review books for the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. They asked me to review a book, I spent quite a bit of my time reading and writing it up, only for IJCS book review editor Lucas Lopez Arrastia to tell me that editors couldn't contact me, so they pulled my review. AVOID

so here's the bsky starter pack that you didn't know you needed. wondering what grift kushner & ivanka tr*mp are pulling buying up property in the balkans? sarajevo on your mind? or just want some wholesome stories about an ottoman-era donkey? we have you covered! go.bsky.app/AcUhygT