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Ferenc Laczo
@ferenclaczo.bsky.social
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‘In the age of chimpanzees, I was a monkey,’ political & intellectual historian from ‘the middle of Europe,’ tenured @MaastrichtU, tifoso @SPAL, book hoarder @everywhere, 'never again is now’

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Ferenc Laczó is a historian at Maastricht University.

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Political science 68%
Sociology 18%
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 2h
Excited to see this @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jan-Werner Müller · Caesar wept: Trolling the Libs
All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in power...
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 11h
English-language intro to my new volume
Intertwined Stories. Writings on Contemporary History

www.academia.edu/145140993/Ou...

@umceehub.bsky.social @ceudeminst.bsky.social
Our Intertwined Stories: Writings on Contemporary History
This is a brief English-language description of my new Hungarian-language volume Összefonódó történetek. Írások jelenkorunkról (Budapest: Gondolat, 2025)
www.academia.edu

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 1d
We‘ve got new books :) Joint launch with @stefanobottoni.bsky.social on Dec 16 in downtown Budapest, @ceudeminst.bsky.social @umceehub.bsky.social

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 5d
Just as I am listening to Georgios Varouxakis in Amsterdam

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d
www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...
Rezension zu: D. Motadel (Hrsg.): Globalizing Europe
Rezension zu / Review of: Motadel, David: Globalizing Europe. A History
www.hsozkult.de

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451280...
The Age of Confiscation
Expropriation – the forced transfer of property rights – is usually associated with dictators, unstable countries, and violent revolution. But in fact, it has been integral to the political and econom...
www.penguin.co.uk

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d
Abracadabra gondolatkiado.hu/webshop/tort...
Összefonódó történetek. Írások jelenkorunkról
Összefonódó történetek. Írások jelenkorunkról
gondolatkiado.hu

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 8d
Caputova in Hungarian right on time for Christmas europakiado.hu/konyv/tarsad...
Könyv: Zuzana Caputova, Eric Tabery: Megőrzött méltóság - Európa Könyvkiadó
Kétéves beszélgetéssorozat gyümölcse ez a könyv, amelyben Zuzana Čaputová szlovák köztársasági elnök válaszol a Respekt című cseh hetilap főszerkesztője, Erik Tabery kérdéseire. Ezek a kérdések messze...
europakiado.hu

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 8d
Exciting

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 9d
Balázs Trencsényi reviewed in LARB lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-t...
In the Shadow of Yesterday | Los Angeles Review of Books
Aurelian Craiutu thinks about Balázs Trencsényi’s “Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History.”
lareviewofbooks.org

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 9d
🎙️ In our new podcast, @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social examines the progress of undoing the consequences of eight years of illiberal rule in Poland, and the challenges that lie ahead. 🇵🇱🇵🇱🧑‍⚖️

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 11d
news.columbia.edu/news/new-cha...
New Chair of History Says the Discipline Should Document the Past and Engage With the Present
Camille Robcis believes that historical analysis allows us to elucidate contemporary political, economic, social, and cultural questions.
news.columbia.edu

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 11d
Global history & the European semi-periphery: essential contribution to the excellent Spotlight Series of CEH www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global History Wars: Dispatches from the East-Central and Southern European Frontlines | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Global History Wars: Dispatches from the East-Central and Southern European Frontlines
www.cambridge.org

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 12d
Find it kinda fitting that this one will be published on my birthday www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Age of Hobsbawm — Harvard University Press
An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth cent...
www.hup.harvard.edu

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 13d
AI's impartial opinion of my new book manuscript

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 13d
Can‘t remember seeing a more impressive endphase m.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjf...
MUST-SEE OT ENDING Heat vs Cavaliers 🔥 | November 10, 2025
YouTube video by NBA
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 14d
Back on NU.nl ( www.nu.nl/321468/video... ) who have been following Péter Magyar’s rise from the very beginning - @umceehub.bsky.social @ceudeminst.bsky.social

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 15d
I swear this is a real footnote in a real article of a real journal

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 20d
I am about to publish a volume on contemporary history - a selection of my writings from the past twelve years - which has a pretty awesome cover

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 21d
Check out the prog of this amazing annual conference of Eurozine to be held in Nova Gorica www.eurozine.com/translating-...
Translating cultures – Cultures of translation
The 33rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will take place from 7–9 November 2025 in the Slovenian–Italian cities of Nova Gorica/Gorizia, a ‘borderless’ European Capital of Culture in 2025. The co...
www.eurozine.com

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 21d
This new initiative is shaping up to be really exciting - make sure to follow it
equatormag.bsky.social Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 28d
Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
www.equator.org

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 21d
An important initiative

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 23d
Discussing these two essential monographs

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 23d
The long-term threats AI poses to democracy

Check out our newest episode with @dwj88.bsky.social and Samuel Woolley
revdem2020.bsky.social Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 23d
🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley discuss the ways in which AI could strain, or even crack, the foundations of democracies.

🎧 Listen to it now:
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revdem2020.bsky.social
Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 23d
🎙️ In the new podcast of our series co-produced with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley discuss the ways in which AI could strain, or even crack, the foundations of democracies.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4t2z3p3c

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 23d
Thank you for these insightful comments.

My sense is that - despite having 15 parties - Dutch politics is much like in the rest of Europe: the main divide is now bw. pro-European liberals & right-wing populists. In recent years, you have had the same in France, Poland, even Hungary...

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 23d
My brand new article on the idea of the West and the European project in Modern Intellectual History

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Bear in the Room and the Civilizing Process | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
The Bear in the Room and the Civilizing Process
www.cambridge.org