CFP for a special journal issue to be submitted to History of European Ideas Subverting Hierarchies through Women’s Intellectual History in Eastern Europe in the Long Twentieth Century Editors: Isidora Grubački, Zsófia Lóránd, Emily Steinhauer More: inz.si/wp-content/up...

entering the proofs stage with @ivanamihaela.bsky.social!

Check out Growing Pains, a new essay in our Bodies of the Balkans winter special. Iva Jelušić explores parental expectations that eschewed words, living instead in bodies, gestures, and things. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/growi...

Please chip in for winter warmth for the students at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv Uni! gofund.me/eba202aac

can’t help it, but my bsky experience feels like drowning at a house party hosted by an acquaintance I barely know, watching conversations roll by while struggling to join in myself 😶‍🌫️

The third essay of our winter special Bodies of the Balkans is now on the website! @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social writes about bodies—national and personal—and costs of classification. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/on-cl...

Hochschulaktionstag in Jena! Took 10 min in class this week to talk about studying & working conditions and answer any questions students might have. Especially interesting to hear from student assistants!

zimski problemi, 1896.

In the second part of our winter special, Bodies of The Balkans, Magdalena Crăciun guides us through the river crossing between socialist Romania and Bulgaria, exploring the shadow economy and the delicious pleasures on the other side with a touch of life-changing suspense. tinyurl.com/3v24vamk

za promjenu jedna druga bivša država 😆 www.tiktok.com/@becka_skola...

In den frühen 1970er Jahren begann der jugoslawische Fotograf und Reporter Jovan Ritopečki, das Leben der Gastarbeiter:innen aus #Jugoslawien mit seiner Kamera festzuhalten. Eine neue Bilddatenbank gilbt Einblicke in deren Lebenswelten. #VisualStudies #BalkanStudies ⬇️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/back-to...

Except for one kid (who moved away), all the kids at my child’s birthday party had a Migrationshintergrund (mostly Ukraine and Syria). The kids are awesome and I mean this not in a “so many foreigners!” way, but in a “Berlin is segregated once you look at schools” way.

Amid all the ups and downs, one constant in 2025 was the support from friends. My last big task was a guest lecture in @leahorvat.bsky.social's course on cultural history. My first Vorlesung was stressful, but went well, and we even had time to relax in Jena. Hope for more vibes like this in 2026!

race to finish e-mails before my winter vacation and not to have the response ball on my workdesk

Diese Geschichte von #Schimanek, #Rade und der kroatischen Insel Šipan, die aufgekauft und womöglich für Wehrsportübungen von Rechtsextremen genutzt wird, ist komplett irre. Im Oktober ist sie an mir vorbeigegangen. #Rechtsextremismus www.derstandard.at/story/310000...

putting the final touches on a paper that has to be in British English and questioning everything at this point

My teaching countdown just moved past December ❄️ love my analog semester overview sheet with most important teaching, research and writing obligations

Mein Lebensgefährte studiert gartenbauliche Phytotechnologie und hat für eines seiner Projekte eine Umfrage erstellt. Wenn ihr in Berlin lebt / arbeitet nimmt euch bitte 5-10 Minuten Zeit, um die Umfrage zu beantworten. 🌲🌳🍃Es würde ihm helfen 🤗

Late to the party, but just found out you can donate train "miles" to different organizations. Such a nice way to let go of a few pieces of my commute: bahnbonus-praemienwelt.de/category/spe...

After an exhausting late fall, I’m focusing hard on recovery. This week I’ve done sauna, swimming, back excercises, dentist appointment, slow cooking, quality time with friends and my kid, walks, reading, and plenty of naps: it’s working!

Finally got an advanced swimming class spot for my kid at a Berlin public pool! Proper pool, better class, cheaper than private options. Always happy when public institutions outshine private ones, like when I studied in 🇭🇷 and public universities were clearly superior to private ones at the time.

Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.

10 min before my very first job interview for a permanent uni position - no matter what the outcome will be, good to know that I can do this without crumbling under stress!

’tis the season ❄️ 🚂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfRG...

A reminder to tackle the task you’re pointlessly putting off: avoided getting my glass frame adjusted for months b/c of social anxiety (What if they won’t do it since I bought them in another store?). Today I finally went (after my partner heard about my worry&my kid offered to join): renaissance!

Verdi meldet, dass ein Amazon-Beschäftigter während seiner Schicht im Amazon Fulfilment-Centers in Erfurt-Stotternheim gestorben ist - und fordert Aufklärung. Berichten zufolge soll er vorher vergeblich versucht haben, sich bei seinem Vorgesetzen krank zu melden. sat.verdi.de/presse/press...

Put ‘water colleague’s plants’ in my calendar for the next two weeks: a bit of green lining among the appointments

The awards will be presented this Friday at ASEEES; if you're in Washington, consider stopping by. Just one committee member is attending the conference (not me) - a notable withdrawal in my bubble.

I am so excited to share the news that after many years of research & writing the collaborative monograph of the project #ZARAH #Women'sLabourActivism is out today with @uclpress.bsky.social ! It is available in print and online (open access). uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Wichtiger Artikel, der auch eindrücklich zeigt, wie verwundbar Befristungen das dt. Wissenschaftssystem machen: Befristetes Personal kann man ohne Kündigungsschutz loswerden & so Wissenschaft empfindlich schwächen. Für Resilienz braucht’s dringend mehr unbefristete Stellen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Yesterday I forgot my notes for the Vorlesung in the office, panicked a bit, and decided not to go back and risk being late. In the end, there was almost no difference from the usual session (mentioned it in the beginning, in case I miss a detail here or there). Very restorative experience!

We started Essay Camp today. It's five days, flexible, and free to join. All are welcome www.awritersnotebook.org/p/essay-camp...

Last week I enjoyed a much-needed research trip at the Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Württemberg, exploring promising avenues for my second book. As I work through the material and write, it is exciting to see its contours more clearly.

I recently saw a list of the first members of the Croatian Mountaineering Association:a group of prominent men (scientists, politicians, artists) who used the outdoors as a space to develop their relationships and networks. www.matica.hr/media/upload...

I’ve been reading about Rosalind Franklin and came across a fascinating piece on her visits to Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Impressive historiography from a chemist — precise and well-grounded. It’s in Slovenian, but DeepL handles it quite OK, native speaker here. acsi-journal.eu/index.php/AC...

"Arbeiten Sie ohne Gehalt und ohne soziale Absicherung? Pendeln Sie jahrelang an einen Arbeitsplatz ohne jeglichen Arbeitsvertrag, ohne Büro und ohne dauerhafte E-Mail-Adresse und bezahlen Fahrt und Unterkunft aus eigener Tasche?"

Forgot to self-promote here (distracted by my catastrophic DB trip), but I was in Ljubljana last week, talking about chicory - my first contact with business history! www.wbhcee.org

... and the winners are: Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond” Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”

This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.

This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.

A thread on this experiment, connected to my seminar on sitting. I started with a brief introduction about why I believe reading is important and shared an example of the reading load I experienced as a student, esp in Belgrade, where it was common for entire books to be assigned for exams.

Behold! The new season of the History on the Edge lectures begins! 💪

A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia