The new special feature of @europenowjrnl places the rural at the centre of current debates in European studies. My contribution highlights the global connections of rural Europe in the past. Many thanks to the entire editorial team!
The November issue is here with a feature on rurality. This issue seeks to encourage an engaged representation of rural areas & populations in the study of Europe, interrogating how interdisciplinary rural scholarship can frame key questions about Europe: https://t.co/HnHDLRbvSu
If you're looking to learn something new in 2025, you could sign up for my new introductory short online course: Navigating Energy History.
It will give you new knowledge and perspective on how energy has transformed our economy, politics and environment.
https://t.co/28nd9wujb6
New #OpenAccess book out! Our former colleague @mgabo (now @ftsk_unimainz) together with his co-author Mykola Homanyuk just released "Monuments and Territory. War Memorials in Russian Occupied Ukraine" (with @CEUPress).
The first book from our junior research group "Contrasting East Central Europe" at @LeibnizGWZO is out! 🎉 Hana Antal's comparative study of populism in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria https://t.co/LLk85Q7XB0
We remind you that already this weekend the ‘Intersections of the Peripheries’ conference will take place. We will be extremely happy to see you during the panel discussions and we encourage you to take part in the talk by asking the questions.
We cherish the scraps of paper hidden between pages, the unanswered messages, and even the lingering pain—each a reminder of those we love, of those lost to this war.
Our workshop yesterday at @uni_tue and the Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde on 'Visions of Europe in the East of Europe' with @LeemingBeatrice @m_mahmutovic and others.
We tend to position disabled people in 'cared for' roles in histories of the family, but in 19th century working class households, disabled people were also carers and contributors. My new article for Journal of Modern European History: https://t.co/S0vA5PyCm4
just arrived in the post: the new 'Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe', put together by the wonderful Jill Massino and Markus Wien. Tons of great essays - on migrants, women, workers, minorities, kids; and on some weird historians, by yours truly.
So proud of the series of Qazaq-Kyrgyz language podcasts on coloniality and decoloniality we produced this summer!!!
In this episode a notable Qazaq poet and writer Tlek Yryspbek in conversation with our Kyrgyz host on the meaning of colonialism for the whole Central Asia!
Please spread the word and join us: "Global History meets German Zeitgeschichte", jointly organized by @zzfpotsdam and @GHIWashington with wonderful colleagues - @MichelleLKahn, Frank Biess, Franziska Exeler and Carolin Liebisch: https://t.co/krWFJ7Lzjo
#CfA: @LeibnizGWZO has a great application for a post-doctoral position in the "Cities. Building. Culture - The Residential Heritage of the Soviet Union in Times of Multiple Crises" project.
Deadline is September 30th.
More info: https://t.co/ZvoaJClodA
Job: Postdoctoral position @LeibnizGWZO on revalorisation and reconstruction of residential heritage in Ukraine following wartime destruction. Deadline: Sept 30. Please share widely! https://t.co/6AWlFguWmj
Yesterday in Kharkiv, Russians bombed a residential building killing 7, including the 18-yo artist Nika Kozhushko. I remember her well from a literary event in January. Here is the drawing she had with her. It depicted the recently bombed residential building. She was the future.