What does football tell us about Ukraine's political and economic transformations after the collapse of the Soviet Union? In this episode of our Transformative Podcast, Kateryna Chernii (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) tells @jelenadj.bsky.social (RECET) about football in the Soviet Union and Ukraine, …

The last day of my first research trip to Algeria is already there and I can’t wait to be back in a few months!

In Prague for this conference, presenting about the disability care concerning combatants and veterans in socialist Yugoslavia in the context of transnational circulations of knowledge between the West, East and South.

#jobopportunity Ph.D. position – Junior Researcher (Serbian Case, MEMCRIS Project) #Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz www.universitas.cz/nabidka-prac...

Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂 iupress.org/978025307522...

Excited to see The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation hit the web www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... It should be out at the end of 2025.

In #Gaza breitet sich eine Massenhungersnot aus und unsere Kolleg*innen und die Menschen, denen wir helfen, siechen dahin - Ein offener Brief von 100 Hilfsorganisationen u.a. von medico Oxfam, Amnesty und der Welthungerhilfe www.medico.de/presse/2025/...

So many great articles on socialist medicine and health in this issue, with a very broad geographical scope!

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

#ECAS2025, where @alilacandonga.bsky.social and I had wonderful two panels on medical socialist entanglements between Eastern Europe and Africa, including, among others, @severyandyakonov.bsky.social. Also heard some excellent talks on veterans, memory of anti-colonial wars and public health!

Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue brill.com/view/journal...

Gaza and the Sociology of War, open access, with @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social in Journal of Genocide Research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue. brill.com/view/journal...

My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi. #USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM

Research at @rutgershsl.bsky.social in Newark this week, working with papers of Henry H. Kessler, a leading expert in rehabilitation who worked in postwar Yugoslavia and trained Yugoslav experts at his institute in New Jersey, who would later establish the field of veterans’ disability care at home

This Wednesday! 👇

Just arrived to Reggio Emilia excited about the 3 days of discussions about antifascism and actors, practices and meanings after 1989 (and curious about “international turbo folk” band playing on the main square tonight) #Liberazione80 www.istitutocervi.it/convegno-ant...

Call for application 2025/26 The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program. The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025. The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025. For more information visit: www.inz.si/en/VF/

So great to meet up with so many colleagues from the Military Welfare History Network at #esshc #esshc2025

Participants today include our own @profalisonsfell.bsky.social @sdanisimova.bsky.social @hbuxton.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social, soon-to-be member @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and of course @donalh.bsky.social #milwelfhist #veteran

The People’s Liberation War, as the symbol of Yugoslavia, became in the 1990s the subject of radical revision in the often-parallel processes of erasure, demonisation, inversion and appropriation. Read @jelenadj.bsky.social new essay in The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/01/e...

Our Researcher Dr. Jelena Ðureinović (@jelenadj.bsky.social) will be giving a keynote at the New Directions in Veteran History workshop at Maynooth University (@maynoothuniversity.ie) this Wednesday, April 2. You can join online or in person! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Looking forward to our panel on actors and spaces of entanglements between Eastern Europe and anti-colonial wars tomorrow at #esshc

If you are in Vienna tomorrow – Come and drop by for Prof. Jill Massino's (UNC Charlotte) #TransformativeSeminar on "History Doesn't Travel in One Direction: Real Existing Postsocialism in Eastern Europe", 13:00-14:30 www.recet.at/event-news/e...

DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM

Very excited to announce our first COLVET workshop on April 02. The theme is New Directions in Veteran History and our keynote will be the brilliant Jelena Ɖureinović. This is a hybrid event and all are welcome to attend. Registration required. Please share widely.

Exporting Medical Expertise During the Cold War: Medical Humanitarianism, Ideological Expansion or Pragmatism? A Conversation with Bogdan Iacob revdem.ceu.edu/2025/02/10/e...

✨GIVEAWAY✨ Smokes has taken over my CUP delivery box so it’s time for a giveaway of 2 paperback copies of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats! UK and EU addresses only pls (soz global pals!). RT & like for entry. Will randomly select the winners next Sat. 🩵💙🩵

Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!

I reviewed Shaping Revolutionary Memory by Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc for @euromemories.bsky.social. An excellent antidote against the fetishisation of Yugoslav ‘Spomeniks’ and a vital read for understanding monuments as living signs of historical struggle europeanmemories.net/magazine/sha...

Come to Berlin for the EAHMH in August! See the CFP here, along with a link for the submission site: socialistmedicine.com/cfp-eahmh-20... #histmed #eahmh #histsci

This has been my favorite conference since the first year of my PhD and next year will be my 10th! A few hours left to apply, hope to see many of you there in May!

Join @alilacandonga.bsky.social and me on the panel “Medical Socialist Entanglements: Health Connections between Eastern Europe and Africa in the Global Cold War" in the History stream at #ECAS2025 conference. Deadline for abstracts: 15.12. Details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Only a few days left to submit your proposal for the @asn-org.bsky.social 2025 conference and join us in NYC in May: www.asnconvention.com/call-for-pro...

@jelenadj.bsky.social and I welcome submissons to our Panel: "Medical Socialist Entanglements: Health Connections between Eastern Europe and Africa in the Global Cold War" for the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), in Prague, June 25-28 2025. Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#vASN: How does education shape durable national loyalties? What impact do educational systems have on national cohesion and political behavior? 🌍📚 #Education #Research #NationalLoyalties. Keith Darden, Emmy Lindstam, and Agustina Paglayan on WEDN, 12/04 at 2:30pm ET tinyurl.com/3nxzah4f

These are great scholarships - please spread the word. I'm very happy to chat to students about potential projects in histories of sustainability, global justice, human rights, and humanitarianism.

Srušili su Jugoslaviju, što ne bi i hotel?! Sledeća je Farkaševa Ž. stanica u NS. Gledaćemo jugoslovensku arhitekturu na starim fotkama i u MoMA u NY.

The Association for the Studies of Nationalities (ASN) is now in BlueSky! bsky.app/profile/asno...

I really enjoyed talking to @katkusic.bsky.social for @recetvienna.bsky.social podcast about her work on land as more than an object of policy. www.recet.at/podcast/deta...

Our former Leibniz-Fellow @jelenadj.bsky.social on the entanglements between Algerian #anticolonialism and the experiences of Yugoslavian #antifascism 👇 valuepast.hypotheses.org/1583

There’s a monument to the victims of fascism put up by a government that was opposed to fascism about as much as it was opposed to roasted lamb.

What role did the memory and legacies of WW2 play in Yugoslav exchanges with anti-colonial liberation movements? In this new article in International Review of Social History, I am looking at the agency of war veterans in anti-colonial solidarity, focusing on Algeria. doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Who were the Yugoslav Casanovas of mass tourism? Anita Buhin tells @jelenadj.bsky.social about the "galebovi" (seagulls) in socialist Yugoslavia and various aspects of this phenomenon, typical for the broader Mediterranean region and the development of mass tourism. 🎧 Listen via recet.at/podcast

CFP: The Business of Worldmaking: New Perspectives on Liminal Actors in Postcolonial Development Cooperation http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-141814 Koper, 19.09.2024-21.09.2024, University of Vienna – Research Platform for the Study of Transformations and Eastern Europe and Science and …

Next week, we’re hosting @anaantic.bsky.social at @recetvienna.bsky.social for a talk on the development of socialist psychiatry in Yugoslavia in the context of non-alignment and Yugoslavia’s multiple globalizations. 🗓️ 18.1. 1 PM CET @univie.ac.at & Zoom www.recet.at/event-news/e...

At #ASEEES23 we’re organizing 4 panels on Yugoslav non-alignment, with excellent papers on different perspectives on Yugoslavia’s relationship with the Global South, including actors, development policies, networks, institutions and subjectivities. Tomorrow and on Sunday!

Send us your paper, panel, book panel and roundtable proposals and see you in NYC next year!

Super excited about giving an opening keynote at the conference dedicated to the WW2 memory in postwar Europe in Zaragoza tomorrow, and about the opportunity to hear all these papers: ifc.dpz.es/noticias/wp-...