Peter Polak-Springer

interdisciplinary history, 20th c. Central Europe and Middle East, borderlands, forced migration. Love biking and Arabic.

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

@BelindaJDavis1 Horrible

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

@elisabmpiller I soooo hear you and wish you the best of luck.

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

Congrats Elisabeth

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

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[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

Join #MESA panel:
"Semiotic landscapes of Al-Andalus in Contemporary Times"
On how the memory of #AlAndalus (#Andalusia / #Moorish_Spain) is represented in modern and contemporary politics, music, and culture.
See #34 at https://t.co/M060CayV0f

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

Online conference on Saudi heritage

[جمعية التاريخ والآثار الخليجية @gcchistarch1]

تذكير بندوة هذا الشهر للجمعية من المملكة العربية السعودية، بعنوان: "التراث السعودي: الاهتمام المحلي والرؤية الخارجية"، وذلك في تمام الساعة الثامنة (بتوقيت مكة المكرمة) مساء يوم الثلاثاء ٢٧ جمادى الآخرة الموافق ٩ فبراير، عبر برنامج (Zoom) وسيعلن عن الرابط لاحقًا بحول الله.📡

[Steven Seegel 🇺🇦 @stevenseegel.bsky.social @steven_seegel]

new book alert! Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges | Berghahn Books https://t.co/s6IlGJqVUr

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's children.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Kresy-Siberia @KresySiberia]

We get it Moscow, everyone is a Nazi except the people who helped Hitler start world war 2 and expand the reach of the Holocaust

[Matthew Luxmoore @mjluxmoore]

A video from the massive protest in St Petersburg earlier today, via Telegram

[Donald Tusk @donaldtuskEPP]

They didn’t break Navalny with poison, they will not break him with prison. Let our solidarity be his strength.

[contemporary european history @ContEuroHistory]

Read Felix Jiménez Botta on the prehistory of German refugee policy. https://t.co/cAJjxjolUI

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

I want to form a panel on non-European views on extremism and racism (including anti-Semitism or Islamophobia) in #Germany or #GermanHistory for the #GSA Anyone interested or have suggestions?

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

@theodora_dragos Fromherz, History of Qatar.

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

Another article in the cultural diplomacy issue of Contemporary European History

[Christopher Lash @ChrisLashHist]

A poll shows that more Poles are worried about the Covid-19 vaccination than the virus itself. 47% are more worried about the vaccination than the virus while 26% are more worried about the virus https://t.co/QjXYOehGsr

[جمعية التاريخ والآثار الخليجية @gcchistarch1]

#إعلان عن عقد الجمعية ندوة هذا الشهر بالتعاون مع الجمعية العمانية للكتاب والأدباء بعنوان: "القلاع والآثار في محافظة جنوب الشرقية: سلطنة عمان" وذلك مساء الأحد 19 جمادى الأولى/ 3 يناير الساعة 9 مساء  بتوقيت عمان/ 8  بتوقيت مكة المكرمة عبر برنامج (Zoom) وسيعلن عن الرابط لاحقًا📡

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

Let’s not say East Central Europe, but rather European Middle East

[Peter Polak-Springer @stanleywroclaw1]

The new European East

[Stanley Bill @StanleySBill]

In July this year, three women were formally charged with "offending religious feelings" for making images of the Virgin Mary and Jesus with rainbow halos. They could face prison sentences of up to 2 years. They had previously been detained and their homes raided.