Welcome to my customary and super-random report from my hometown’s biannual antique market. It’s that time of the year various old and less-old objects almost come alive and swarm the city in a symphony of idiosyncrasies. Let’s see what was there this year. 🧵

MAGA: “Pretend sex trafficking bad! Comet Ping Pong!” Also MAGA: “Free Andrew Tate! Matt Gaetz is innocent!”

Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...

Commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Warsaw, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz

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: …

Great review by @davidsmrcek.bsky.social of Claire Morelon’s book on Prague. Excited to see the book now! ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...

Leipzig lights by night

Are you working on a project about revolution or the revolutionary experience? Consider submitting a proposal to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/

🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️

Snowy day in Warsaw.

After some important sleuthing on Wikipedia I learned that Matt Gaetz’s father lives in the house that was used for the Truman Show.

Cemetery for troops from Celje (🇸🇮) tucked into the mountains, designed by Dušan Jurkovič

This week I’m attending a workshop to help the town of Gorlice plan a new museum of the First World War.

Touring First World War cemeteries around Gorlice.

I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :) go.bsky.app/QMHzmog

Even in the cold rain, Krakow looks lovely.

Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room? Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic. open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services) #Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy 1/2

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

Not sure how this works, but if you want to be added, let me know (lots of people have different usernames over here and it's confusing me 😂) go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv

Hi friends! I've been trying really hard to keep this list diverse. Recommendations welcome, especially of BIPOC & queer (etc.) public historians whose voices you'd like to see elevated here! go.bsky.app/53FhZd1

I'm putting together a history of medicine (broadly defined) starter pack. Please let me know if I missed you. And please share and make suggestions for people to include And remember - "medicine" is a lot bigger than orthodox medicine/biomedical science, despite what they say go.bsky.app/KzT74Ai

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

Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) at night. Oh, just kidding it’s mid afternoon.

Good morning Toronto! Headed to New York after a very successful event at Beth Tzedec Synagogue. Over 400 people in attendance and very engaged in the history of EE Jewry.

Georgetown today!

Welcome to Florida!

Shout out to all the people who remember this thing. (Don’t try to guess my weight!)

Today I’m starting a three-week lecture tour, speaking about Jewish history and bringing a bit of what POLIN Museum has to offer to the US and Canada. You can check the details here:

Just checking out what the city museum in Žacler (Czechia) has to offer…

Introducing myself here with my article that has been quite popular “Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Local Democracies in East Central Europe” Open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️

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

Polish neighborhood bodega… that Żywiec box is a dead giveaway

I can’t be the first to think of this, but how about a western civ course called “From Plato to NATO”?

Some key terms here! #emo

Can humanities scholars create a website where I can find the “state of the field” for anything? Figuring out where the debates are is sooooo time consuming

Legendär!

In the Forestry Museum in Gołuchów: “We have Zygmunt Berling’s desk, but we aren’t very proud of it…” (Gen. Berling led a Polish unit in the Soviet army during WWII, hero of communist Poland, later Minister of Agriculture and Forestry)