Published today: The Private Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam by Jessica den Oudsten and Ramona Negrón This book first appeared in Dutch, and is now also available in English through the Slavery & Emancipation book series at Routledge. www.routledge.com/The-Private-...

At long last! The official publication date for my book is here. I can’t wait to hear back from readers and get these important histories out in the world.

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

Book review in The Polish Review 71.1: 📕 @rkpejsova.bsky.social discusses "Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the “Ethnic Revolution” in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936–1946" by @sarahacramsey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

🚨 Academic job alert! We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe. Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!

Just learned that Veronika Tuckerová's long expected book on the afterlives of Kafka's readership in Czechoslovakia is out, with Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-k...

We have an interesting #JOBopening for an EHRI-ERIC Research and Content Officer who will work at the EHRI Central Hub located at @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. Come and join our nice team! Apply before 15 July! www.ehri-project.eu/job-opening-...

In one chapter of my forthcoming book "People Without History Are Dust" I examine Gad Beck, his queerness, sexual barter, sexualized violence, agency, his decision to out his lovers and colleagues, the whole beautiful mess: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

His memoir, co-written with Frank Heibert, is available in English with @uwiscpress.bsky.social and I have it on good authority it still sells well. No surprise! it is one of the most captivating, moving, funny, and authentic reads you will get your hands on. uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/A/An-U...

New article by Elisheva Baumgarten: "The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815

📣 New Long Read! @agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...

CFP: “Care and the #Jewish Experience” @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on Sept. 16, 2025 How do human beings who follow a Jewish way of life sustain, cherish and honor life through care and how does the “invisible work" associated with this care change over time? #Jewishstudies #CareCentury

Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.

Just President Zelensky casually hangs out with Ukrainian cleaning staff at the Czech parliament

Join me Thursday, on International Workers' Day, to discuss the impact of AI, digital platforms, and gig work on labour. I'll be sharing the findings from a recent case study on female drivers for a ride-hailing app in Oman. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

New on advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Yeah, except that many of these global institutions, including most European ones, have been busy gutting their own systems & driving their own researchers away! So good luck finding jobs at this side of the pond. Hopefully the Gulf States can benefit from this flight of researchers?

Grateful for the opportunity, humbled by the quality of work out there, and energized to promote humanist perspectives on the world when we most need them! The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”

Author number 4 from the @aseh.bsky.social conference is @stanfordpress.bsky.social author Marc Landry, pictured below with his book Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age. #aseh2025

Want to learn more about quantifying carework and why we need to rethink how we count GDP? This episode of "The Conversation on @bbcnews.bsky.social was brilliant. #Carecentury, my @erc.europa.eu thanks Emma Holten and @jayatighosh.bsky.social. Wanna come to @unileiden.bsky.social and tell us more?

Want to get a PHD in the history of early childcare and invisible work in central and eastern Europe, from 1905-2004? come work with me @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on my @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant Project! Deadline April 11! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Sarah Cramsey's recent book

Oxford has now made my introductory chapter freely available. The hope is that once you start reading, you'll want to recommend the book to your library. Would you consider doing that? It is the only way OUP might release a more affordable paperback edition.

The Bracewell Scolarship gives PhD students from, and studying, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe an opportunity to work at @uclssees.bsky.social for a term. Applications are open, deadline is 30 April. Please share. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2...

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

On March 24, the @simonandschuster.bsky.social #CounterfeitCountess story is coming to @rowanuniversity.bsky.social. I will give the Dr. Paul B. Winkler Lecture, in honor of the late exec dir of the NJ Commission on #HolocaustEducation.

Coming to @unileiden.bsky.social for the @esshc.bsky.social ? Let the Austria Centre Leiden buy you lunch on March 27 at 13:15! @jillmassino.bsky.social will present her @purdueprescouncil.bsky.social book "Everyday Postsocialism in eastern Europe"/DM me to RSVP! #easternEurope #history #socialism

Belgian university VUB is offering funding and a dedicated point of contact to attract US researchers whose work is in jeopardy 🇧🇪 press.vub.ac.be/vub-zet-deur...

‘Het initiatief van de VUB is een reactie op de zorgwekkende inmenging van de Trump-administratie in het vrij onderzoek in de VS.’ Zij wel.

TONIGHT:

Well done 60 minutes, indeed!

A must read from my favorite essayist John Connelly @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/connelly-put...

Now on @literaryhub.bsky.social, an excerpt about maternal solitude deprivation from my new memoir MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

Quick reminder about our upcoming conference in #Brussels on 17 September. The Call for Papers is open until the end of this week! calenda.org/1217954?lang...

Very pleased to share my article in the Journal of Baltic Studies on popular fundraising in Lithuania during the #GreaterWar, where I explore the dynamics of mass politics in a newly established state. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Colm Toibin on Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. buff.ly/JxBdm01

Are you working in a setting where historical data is at risk of being lost/erased/removed? Let the OAH know. I think this is an important way to account for what's there now so that we understand what goes missing. You can fill out the form anonymously. #historysky www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r...

Hello blue sky friends! I'm hiring two phd students @leidenhumanities.bsky.social thanks to my @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant "A Century of Care: Early Childcare and Invisible Work in Central and Eastern Europe." Due April 11 to start Sept 1! Please re-post! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Everyone look up Karl Lueger