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Agustín Cosovschi

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Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Researcher at the Institute of contemporary history in Ljubljana. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd. 📍Ljubljana/Belgrade/Paris digitalkosovski.github.io

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Nov 13

A word about myself since it's my first day here. I'm a historian of socialist Yugoslavia and the Cold War. I was born in Buenos Aires, but I've been living in Europe for a decade. I've been mostly based in Paris, but I'm currently a postdoc in Athens. I like languages and digital history.

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Christian Lehmann @lehmanndrc.bsky.social · 1h

Lecornu saying "well it's groundhog day again"

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · Sep 2

Author copies have arrived! The book is demonstrably real! Official publication date in about two weeks but I've heard it will already be available at ENIUGH next week. Check out the full info over at: lup.nl/publications...

Three copies of my monograph Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka on a table, with a Leiden University Press postcard saying "Congratulations!" on top.

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · 16d

Yugoslav partisan Rodoljub Colaković with spouse artist Milica Zorić in Croatia in 1939. Taking a break from fighting fascists in Spain before fighting Nazis in the Second World War.

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!!

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m thrilled to announce that I was awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to carry out my project “Brokers of Nonalignment: Biographical and Network Approches to the Making of the Third World” for the next five years.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · Jun 9

Friends, my book is available for pre-order! It's really real! The official publication date is October 14, but if you order from the UNC Press website (uncpress.org/.../978146.....) you can get 30% off with the code 01SOCIAL30 and get your book 2-4 weeks early!

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Jul 8

I find her a bit banal, tbh

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’m not a fan of Hannah Arendt but I do appreciate the reminder that a life without empathy is not a life worth living

Herman Lambers @herman61.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are in the middle of it.

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Jul 6

In the Balkans: Stojan Novaković and Nicolae Iorga.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 6

Bluesky history enjoyers: who would you say are the most prominent examples of historians who were also major historical actors? The ones that jump out at me are Walter Rodney, Adolphe Theirs, and W.E.B Du Bois

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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · Jun 5

Est-ce que ce monde est sérieux ?

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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · May 22

Recently published!

A new translation of N. Frerebeau & B. Lebrun’s lesson:

doi.org/10.46430/phe...

We’re grateful to Christina Nguyen for their translation.

Thank you to @semantic-noodles.bsky.social + Jeff Blackadar for their reviews, and to Laura Chapot + @cosovschi.bsky.social for editing.

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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · May 1

Just published!

A new translation of N. Frerebeau & B. Lebrun’s lesson:

doi.org/10.46430/phe...

We’re grateful to Christina Nguyen for their translation.

Thank you to @semantic-noodles.bsky.social + Jeff Blackadar for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot + @cosovschi.bsky.social for editing

Calibrating Radiocarbon Dates with R

After reviewing the basic principles and challenges of radiocarbon dating, this lesson teaches you how to use the R programming language to calibrate a set of dates, and then explore and present...

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 25

For anyone who thinks the Economist is cool because they criticize Trump, don’t forget they’re also in the business of boosting Milei

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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · Apr 16

I keep hearing claims that 3.5 % of citizens protesting is a magic number to overthrow an autocrat. It is based on this Harvard study www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr.... However, that number is misleading. 1/3

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Seminario de Historia Internacional @historiaintermx.bsky.social · Apr 4

⚠️ ¡Querida comunidad!

📢 ¡Vuelve el Seminario de Historia Internacional!

🌍 Contaremos con la participación de Agustín Cosovschi (École Française d’Athènes), quien nos presentará una investigación titulada:

📝 "Clashing visions of non-alignment: the origins of the Cuban-Yugoslav conflict"

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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · Apr 2

Just published!

A new @proghist.bsky.social lesson by Luling Huang

doi.org/10.46430/phe...

Thanks to Diego Alves and @JohannesBreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy for their reviews, and to @caiomellodh.bsky.social for editing.

Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python

This lesson shows how to create interactive web-based dashboards using Python's Dash library. Using two news media case studies, this lesson provides a practical guide for making digital humanit...

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

I know, Joris, I’ve lived there since 2015! But all of them were able to run for office while appealing their cases. That’s the difference and it will matter for the public.

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

They are doing politics, as they do everywhere.

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

Again, the question is not what you see, but rather the narrative that they will spin. It will look like there is a political elite full of people who have committed similar crimes but are still in politics and the only one who is excluded is MLP. It will deepen the public’s distrust in the system

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

It’s great that she’s prosecuted, that’s how it should be, but making her ineligible by a ruling precisely at the time when her party is the most popular is a recipe for disaster IMHO.

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

The problem is not the fact that she was prosecuted, but rather that she’s been prosecuted under a new law that makes her ineligible for public office. That makes it that she’s become an exception. Others who committed equivalent crimes were not excluded from politics.

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

I personally love Marine Tondelier but she means nothing for most people and represents almost no one.

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Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

The solution for the crisis of democracy lies in politics, not in court. It is with political imagination and popular mobilization, not with a ruling, that one can beat fascism.

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

I agree with everything you’re saying in principle. But politics don’t work on the basis of principles nor laws, and currently the whole political system in France is extremely fragile. This will backfire.

Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social · Apr 1

David is right. The decision will only strengthen Marine Le Pen’s strategy to present herself and her party as the true and only representatives of all sectors of French society who feel estranged from the state and the government.

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Stopping Marine Le Pen From Running Is a Bad Idea

Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for office for five years. The sentence applies the law as written, but it turns her embezzlement conviction into a propaganda coup for her party.

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