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Jelena Subotic

@jelenasubotic.bsky.social

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I play tennis and I write books. I hate pickleball. https://jsubotic.com I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at# .. more

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Jelena Subotić is a political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is known for her research on memory politics, human rights, and transitional justice. She has expertise in the politics of the Western Balkans. Her 2019 book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism won the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the best book award of the year by the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association. .. more

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 8d

This is so incredibly dumb and a waste of everyone’s time and money.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 9d

Because all of it just fucking sucks

CNN @cnn.com · 9d

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 9d

Really the only question that matters

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CNN @cnn.com · 9d

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

www.cnn.com

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 9d

Every time I watch any Pete Hegseth speech, it's clear the main audience for said speech is his own insecurities.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 10d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 16d

I have an earnest post (sorry!) My son lost his grandma this week and when he came back to his dorm after the funeral he found a sympathy card signed by his roommates and a bunch of other kids from the dorm. This kind of thing simply did not happen in my generation. The kids are really alright.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 16d

Too soon

Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.bsky.social · 16d

Riffing on an old Russian joke for my USian academic friends: If you're feeling miserable today, remember that somewhere at your university, someone is studying international relations.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.bsky.social · 16d

Riffing on an old Russian joke for my USian academic friends: If you're feeling miserable today, remember that somewhere at your university, someone is studying international relations.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 25d

My book is up and about in the world or, at least, in Vancouver.

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 25d

wait WHAT who is handing these out for free???

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 27d

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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 27d

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A color portait of Alexander the Great, king of the ancient empire of Macedonia, pictured here as a late 20th century business executive. And indeed, a distant but direct descendant of Alexander the Great manages the Clinton Street location of small carwash franchise in the greater Cleveland area. Al, as he’s known, sighs in back office of the carwash, running his hands through his thinning hair as he looks at the month’s disappointing numbers again. At night Al dreams he’s at the head of great army, a man who solves every problem with a sword.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 27d

The dumbest

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 27d

super Nazis like actual Nazis who think that the Trump Nazis are too soft. I need a shower now thanks

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 27d

please don't make me explain groypers to the normal people in my life

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 28d

I regret to inform you that my son is busy annoying his college professors by promoting both @gsqjournal.bsky.social AND my war against AI. Good boy.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Sep 6

In this great conversation with Natasha Roth-Rowland and Valentina Pisanty, I talk about the weaponization of antisemitism by Trump, Netanyahu, and other autocratic populists who feed on conspiratorial frameworks, and the danger this poses to the fight against actual, rampant antisemitism.

Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · Sep 5

In this episode of Lifting the Curtain, guest host Natasha Roth-Rowland talks to scholars Valentina Pisanty and @jelenasubotic.bsky.social about the anatomy and function of conspiracy theories and the role of antisemitism within them. Tune in now at bit.ly/47v3Bj6.

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism
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Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory with Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić

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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Sep 4

If only there was a new book that helped explain all this. Oh wait! It's my book!

Painting Looted by the Nazis Is Handed to Argentine Authorities

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Sep 1

You are too kind. I wish I had written all of your books.

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Sep 1

You are the best 😍

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

I managed to trace most of these paintings to their original owners. Serbia continues to argue nothing to see here, this is "just reparation." This flies in the face of any contemporary understanding of restitution especially in clear cases of Nazi looted art!
Thanks for following. Buy my book!

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

But I have receipts. I found lists of this shipment in the archives which partly show where the paintings were taken from. A few paintings were taken from the Rothschild collection in Paris, for example.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

In 2016, Italian government determined some of the art in this collection was looted by Nazis in Italy and should be returned, including this Carpaccio. The National Museum was 🤷‍♀️

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

But YU authorities did not care, and argued even if this was a mistake, it was "just reparation" for massive war losses YU endured. The paintings have been at the National Museum (now of Serbia) ever since, with no provenance acknowledgment.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

The valuable paintings were by Titian, Tintoretto, Carpaccio, Robert, and were happily accepted by the National Museum in Belgrade (then called Art Museum) in 1949. The officers in Munich figured out quickly they sent the wrong package as claims to these same paintings came from France, Austria, etc

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

Amidst the chaos at CCP, a Croatian con-man Ante Topic Mimara appeared in Munich in 1948 and said he was a representative of Yugoslavia. He made a list of art he claimed was looted from YU. The officers at Munich believed him and put 50 paintings and other art onto 4 trucks that went to Belgrade.

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

As the war was ending, Nazis moved this hoard into various hiding spots in Germany, Austria and elsewhere. After liberation, the Allies consolidated these discovered artworks into a Central Collection Point (CCP) in Munich, and started to figure out who the art belonged to and how to send it back.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 31

I begin this chapter with a familiar story of the massive art looting by the Nazis, who stole from the Jews, of course, but also from various museums and collections in all the countries they occupied. Peak looting was in France, as that was where most valuable art was. They hoarded at the Louvre👇

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