We're closing this season in style. Join us on Monday for a discussion of Eugene Rogan's book on the dramatic events that transformed the Ottoman Levant and its eastern-rite Catholic communities. For more info or to register, email [email protected].

We are back with some serious stuff! Join us on Monday at 17:30 CET / 11:30 ET for a conversation on HISTORY & LITURGY with Daniel Galadza, Nadieszda Kizenko and Michael Shami. For more info or to register, email [email protected].

Join us on Monday at 17:30 CET / 11:30 ET for a conversation on GLOBAL EASTERN CATHOLIC DIASPORAS with Natalie Kononenko (U of Alberta) and Sonja Thomas (Colby College). For more info or to register, email [email protected].

Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social is out in the world! ✨

Join us today at 5:30 pm (CET) to discuss recent attempts to apply the concept of confessionalization to early modern Eastern Christian communities!

The Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History is back! To register please email [email protected].

Now that I’m back from this year's ASEEES, where I got my hard copy from Marko R. Stech, I’m sure that it’s for real. Excited to see my thoughts published along the contributions from so many leaders of our field.

This is Lunia Treter “playing bureaucracy.” Lunia is checking whether the content of my newly published essay matches its keywords: Austrian Monarchy, autonomy, empire, federation, Galicia, Rechtsstaat, Ukraine, unitary state. Link in the first comment.

Was Ukraine a colony of Poland-Lithuania? Well, not really, but also kinda yesish: trafo.hypotheses.org/53314

Off social media till the end of July.

Assemani Seminar 2024 Monday, 13 May, 5:30 pm CET / 11:30 pm Eastern Early Modern Visual Cultures at the Crossroads of Religions and Communities with Alice Sullivan (Tufts U) and Charbel Nassif (Romanian Academy)

ERC "Challenges of Secularism and Nation Building in Central Eastern Europe since 1780" (HUN-REN BTK in Budapest) is pleased to announce its first open seminar taking place on 24 April in the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw: ihpan.edu.pl/en/open-semi...

Assemani Seminar 2024 Monday, 8 April, 5:30 pm CET / 11:30 pm Eastern A round table on “Livres et confessions chrétiennes orientales Une histoire connectée entre l’Empire ottoman, le monde slave et l’Occident (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)” (Brepols, 2023)

My longish articolino on the new Galician Ruthenian elites redefining their sense of belonging at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries has appeared in Austrian History Yearbook. #Nationalism #Ukraine #Poland #Galicia #Enlightenment bit.ly/4cANtfV

Assemani Seminar 2024 Monday, 11 March, 5:30 pm CET / 12:30 pm Eastern Febe Armanios (Middlebury College), “Télé Lumière: Christian Television in Postwar Lebanon” Bohdan Shumylovych (Ukrainian Catholic U), “The song of songs: Ukrainian Greek Catholics and popular culture”

This might be the most nerdy thing I wrote in a long time. Only for hardcore fans of Catholic church history! In any case, it feels great to be part of a research group that encourages such extravangzas.

A message from our leader 🙂: sovereignty.abtk.hu/2023/11/17/i...

On this day in 1917, the Ukrainian People's Republic was born. The document that proclaimed it - ensuring the rights of minorities as well as freedom of speech, press, faith, assembly - appeared as a broadsheet in the Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Yiddish languages. www.meits.org/blog/post/a-...

Józef Hen turns 100 today. A real Zeugenberg, he is the last Polish Jewish writer of his generation still with us. He’s also my grandpa and my children’s great grandpa. Thank you, gods, for this most precious gift!

Some good news in these dark times. Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina is here! sup.org/books/title/... menasky 🗃️

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... 🗃️

Nobel peace prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk today at our #UkraineWarPeaceBielefeld Conference: „As a lawyer I have been applying law to defend human rights and human dignity for years. Now I am in a situation where the law does not work.” (what follow is my summary of her words) 1/n