EHRI #CallForPapers | Transnational Workshop of @ehri-cz.bsky.social and EHRI-AT: Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches 18-19 May 2026 | Venue: Prague, Czech Republic | Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026, submissions in English only. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-call-fo...

So many important and ground-breaking books on this list! Lots of good reading for the coming months...

Final night of Hanukkah candles in my Dublin window. 🌙

The (almost) full moon having a big day yesterday at @maynoothuniversity.ie 🌙

📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more ➡️ bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/u...

Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

More to the point: this and a couple of other recent news stories illustrate just how relevant degrees in art history and visual analysis are

I'm a historian of architecture and would like to confirm that these renderings are hideously tacky.

Having a productive time at the @genocidescholars.bsky.social conference in Johannesburg this week! Hearing experts' ideas and approaches is fundamental to forming my own projects as they continue to develop. Thank you to @researchireland.ie for making it possible!

Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here: events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...

SHERA is currently seeking self-nominations and nominations for the President-Elect (Jan 2026–Jan 2029). For more information, visit www.shera-art.org/about-shera/.... To apply, please email a bio and a statement to [email protected] by Nov 28. Voting will take place in early Dec.

I'm usually not one to post too many personal updates on social media, but you only run your first marathon once, so... #MaratonWarszawski

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th century European History or Holocaust studies? On 17 November 2025, the Wiener Holocaust Library are hosting an online digital skills workshop for MA and PhD Students Find out more here: bit.ly/4naClvi

I'm very excited to be presenting my work at the Wiener Holocaust Library's PhD and a Cup of Tea series next month! 🫖 Looking forward to sharing and discussing my current project.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

🏺: Paestan Red-Figure Fish Plate, third quarter of 4th century B.C., attributed to the Binningen Painter. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

"... 174,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged, accounting for up to 70 percent of all structures in the Strip... more than 58,000 people have been killed...More than 2,000 families have been wiped out...5,600 families now count only one survivor."

Thank you to @biajs.bsky.social for organising an amazing conference in Glasgow this week! It was wonderful to share my work and hear the innovative research of other scholars in Jewish Studies in beautiful Glasgow.

Greatly appreciated the chance to present at the @biahs1.bsky.social conference at the University of Kent in beautiful Canterbury last week! It was a great chance to engage with new pedagogical and research approaches to the field of Holocaust Studies.

Great day for the Chapelizod Community Festival-- would be wonderful to have more closures of Main Street through the village, especially with the lovely summer weather and long evenings.

Spotted in Warsaw's Stary Mokotów neighbourhood on 22 June, 2025: a balcony flying the EU and LGBT pride flags above one with a banner hanging for the defunct presidential campaign of Grzegorz Braun, known for his pro-Russian, anti-LGBT, and antisemitic views.

More than 130 people showed up for the first members' meeting of the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network! Amazing energy and great ideas for the development of the group. Check us out and if you find yourself in agreement with our perspective, sign up and join us! www.ghscn.org/home

The world needs more brave elected officials like this. Budapest's mayor says the city will organize Hungary's Pride march as a municipal event celebrating freedom in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. www.reuters.com/world/budape...

"Fabricating faces with AI does not preserve memory. It reshapes it, distorts it, and risks turning tragedy into aestheticized fiction. The tragedy of Auschwitz does not need to be made more visual, more “emotional,” or more “shareable.” It needs to be remembered truthfully." 👏

Very glad to see this from Rhode Island, the state that was my home for seven years. Hopefully the bill passes the state senate this time! 🤞

Updated intro time: ✍ Book #1 about Polish-Jewish architects (in peer review), book #2 about architectural labour at Auschwitz (in progress) 📚European history, architecture, Jewish studies, Holocaust studies 🏙️ Dublin, Ireland 💗 🏃 (training for Warsaw Marathon), 🎥, 🏈, 📚, 🍺, 🚲

Excellent opportunity at Maynooth for a historian of Early Modern Ireland!

Shameful actions taken by NYU, my alma mater, against a student who earned and deserves his diploma. Why do we teach our students the history of genocide in the first place? So they can turn away and stay silent?

Finally had a chance to see this harrowing but essential film in New York. Absolutely deserving of all of the accolades it received, 'No Other Land' provides essential context to the relationship between dwelling and identity in Palestine.

Beautiful article about end-of-life connection and agency that I will be thinking about for some time. Highly worth a read.

It was a pleasure to share my work at the conference 'The Role of Auschwitz in Holocaust Narratives,' organised by @azrielimemoirs.bsky.social, in Toronto over the weekend. It was a great chance to meet other scholars and discuss their thoughts and work on this topic. @researchireland.ie

"So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement."

Google automatically showed me Walter Goggins when I tried to look up Walter Gropius and now I can't unsee it.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

The European Network of Sites Where the Holocaust Happened would like 15 min. of your time to help with a #survey to map and document Holocaust-related projects and sites across Europe; both well-established institutions and lesser-known, grassroots initiatives. www.ehri-project.eu/invitation-s...

I tell all my friends that my postdoc has been so productive and I'm writing everyday like a monk in a tower, but they don't know that this is the monk I have in mind.

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

Calling all organisations and projects working on a digital Holocaust memory project! We want to hear from you. Please fill in our survey and inform our mapping and research work on understanding the global digital Holocaust memory landscape: www.digitalmemorylab...

I'm no longer at a U.S. institution, so not sure if I'm eligible to sign, but I wanted to share this important petition nonetheless.

This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.

In these times, it's crucial to have a consistent point of view on the changing threat to democracy and the rule of law. My consistent point of view is that nobody should be kidnapped and detained illegally, under any circumstances. Khalil's arrest is a scary reminder of how much worse it can get.

The independent film ‘Flow’ wins the best animated feature film Oscar, securing the first Academy Award for Latvia and its Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis reut.rs/3DdOtd7 #Oscars2025

Annual guilty pleasure: watching (almost) all the #Oscars movies with my wife and then watching the ceremony. Only 1am here in Ireland! Still hoping for some recognition for my favourite film of the year, #TheBrutalist.

First EHRI Webinar on this Wednesday 19 February 2025: "Placing the Holocaust" with Anne Knowles from the Uni of Maine. Knowles leads the first digital humanities project to directly link GIS data to oral histories. Join our free webinar on Zoom at 3 PM CET: www.ehri-project.eu/next-ehri-we...

Had a great time exploring Belfast on Saturday, including a most welcome surprise encounter from an old North American friend...

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...

Question for historians: has anyone come across stories of people successfully smuggling books into Auschwitz? I've encountered an interesting rumour and want to add context. Person in question was Jewish (although not registered as such in the camp) and allowed to send and receive mail.

"One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection... the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Register for the upcoming conference 'International and Transdisciplinary Conference on Collecting the Holocaust: Ethics, Memory, and Materiality' and hear the joint keynote from Becky Jinks @royalholloway.bsky.social and Christine Schmidt @wienerlibrary.bsky.social