Yesterday, we launched the new Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. @catherineowen.bsky.social Muireann Maguire, Nelly Bekus, and others organised with excellent external speakers and a display of the wealth of Eurasia expertise at Exeter. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc

Professor Catherine Hall will be delivering our annual early modern history lecture, "Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic". Join us on Wednesday 5 March from 15:30 to 17:00 in the Newman Red lecture theatre, or on Zoom. Register here: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk #earlymodern

Just finished and highly recommend this by Eva Dou. Sober yet gripping. Perhaps not enough detail on how exactly Huawei leapfrogged so many times, but fair enough. The best parts are on Ren Zhengfei's early life and on Huawei's initial expansion along the fringes (and in the rubble) of US empire.

From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/02/21/t...

📢EXETER BOOK LAUNCH📢 My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️ 📆Tues 12 March 7pm 🏫Bookbag 🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...

I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom: Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf 🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom

I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom: Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf 🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom

My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon. www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...

Published today: "Europe in British Literature and Culture" edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (Cambridge University Press). Chapter 6 by me is on "Balkans and Ruritania"; Chs. 1-5 and 7-26 also recommended! www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

The next item on my reading list: Masha Kirasirova's The Eastern International. 🗃

Open Access...which is nice docs.lib.purdue.edu/ces/9/#:~:te....

Russia’s stark population decline is leading to increasingly wild proposals for upping birth rates. Not just abortion restrictions, monetary incentives, or attacks on “child free propaganda” - there’s also consideration for freeing female prisoners and nullifying sentences of those who conceive.

This global take on the contemporary rise of radical conservatism looks really good.

Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.

Hi new followers! I use this account to stay updated on all things far-right, past and present. In August ‘24, I defended my dissertation ‘The Pursuit of White Security’. In it, I show that the fantasies of ‘white security’ fueling recent right-wing terrorist attacks are anything but new.

#OpenAccess #new Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... #GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar

Until recently, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum was the only major Russian institution dedicated to the memory of Soviet-era repressions that hadn’t come into the government’s crosshairs. Now that appears to be over.

On reactions in Hungary to Trump's win vsquare.org/goulash-unex...

this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in @risjnl.bsky.social, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historians! I'm drawing up a bibliography of work from any region and any period that reflects on what history looks like from the sides, from the middles-of-nowhere, from the peripheries; and work that examines how those places come to be defined that way. I'd love some recommendations.

And this afternoon, you can participate (also on Zoom!) in a workshop New Tendencies in Writing the Intellectual Histories of East Central Europe, combined with the launch of 4(!) books discussing Central Eastern European pasts. @szidora.bsky.social events.ceu.edu/2024-11-14/c...

So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd

Our upcoming volume (comes out in January) is about rethinking modern imperialism from its (European) margins, the intro might be of interest?

Reposting this in the hope that the array of new followers can help spread the word about a truly global M.A. program in the Social Sciences at the University of Freiburg - still two weeks left to apply to @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social

NEW CANARY ALBUM Dr. Eva Davidovà’s work on Slovak Roma music, language, & life includes this album of her field recordings — the first anthology of Romani songs in Czechoslovakia, made during a brief window of liberalization by the totalitarian regime. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/romane...

Our series highlighting archive & library collections relaunched last month and we will post the latest instalments in this thread. First, we spoke to Ivanna Cherchovych of REESOURCES - an innovative platform useful for anybody teaching European history www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/reesour...

Moving beyond just the GDR, this year with Oxford UP, Raluca Grosescu and I have co-edited: "Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies." It should be available before Christmas (at least electronically).

Date for your diary. This Thur 14 Nov @uclssees Streamed online and in-person. Trumping Eastern Europe: Repercussions of the US elections | UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

In The Eastern International (OUP, 2024) Masha Kirasirova explores how the concept of "the East" was used by the Soviet Union to spread their ideology across Eurasia. Aleksandr Korobeinikov reviews the book: tinyurl.com/KirasirovaRe...

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m

On science fiction and the Alt-right lareviewofbooks.org/article/whos... via @lareviewofbooks

Looking for people to follow? Find here a directory of almost 6500 starter packs & growing. Very useful, do share! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Our new co-edited collection Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024) is open access, free to download here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

It doesn't overlap completely with the North Africa starter pack which you can find here:

I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!

This way for broader histories of colonialism and imperialism:

Ok, here is the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Starter Pack (VERY MUCH under construction) If you are a HGS researcher or institution and you aren't on here, please comment. And also recommend folks! go.bsky.app/7mxC2NF

We have made some updates to our starter pack of Imperial & Commonwealth Historians: go.bsky.app/4qEornE

Celebrating the publication of this #OpenAccess sourcebook on histories of women’s rights and feminism in socialist Eastern Europe. It is such a valuable resource for teaching! ceupress.com/book/texts-a...

Room for one more starter pack? Here's the (very) beginning of a list of people, journals, institutions etc, working in or adjacent to contemporary European History. Comment if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb

I hadn’t seen anyone else do it, so I’m working on a starter pack of Russia/USSR/Eurasia historians. Check it out! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ