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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 · 5h
Why have critical voices on Russia been suppressed in Germany for so long? Here comes a substantial answer: www.ullstein.de/werke/das-ve...
Das Versagen - Hardcover
Bestellen Sie Das Versagen als Hardcover jetzt günstig im ULLSTEIN Online-Shop! ✓ Sichere Zahlung ✓ Gratis-Versand ab 9,00 Euro ✓ Vorbestellen möglich
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 19h
@stefanobottoni.bsky.social ’s bio of Orban is that rare feat: an immediate classic of contemporary history writing which is not at the same time boring - now available in a revised German edition hang.hu/webshop/stef... (My review of the Italian original visegradinsight.eu/hungary-tran...)
Transnational Champion of Restoration
Viktor Orbán’s political career and a multi-layered depiction of the foundations and trajectory of the regime he has come to build in Hungary since 2010.
visegradinsight.eu

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 21h
The ‘most global’ of Hungarian writers was awarded the Nobel yesterday. Just today, we agreed on the contract to have A Global History of Hungary published in English in 2027. Pure coincidence? Seemingly so :)
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 1d
Join us to work with people in an amazing project & with an amazing advisor!
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 1d
My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring two PhDs! One will look at women from Italy, and the other, women from Turkey.

Please distribute through your networks! Deadline to apply is November 30.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Two PhDs in the History of Migrant Women's Labour in Postwar Europe
Two PhDs in the History of Migrant Women's Labour in Postwar Europe
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 1d
What a way to pick a family name too
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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 1d
My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring two PhDs! One will look at women from Italy, and the other, women from Turkey.

Please distribute through your networks! Deadline to apply is November 30.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Two PhDs in the History of Migrant Women's Labour in Postwar Europe
Two PhDs in the History of Migrant Women's Labour in Postwar Europe
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 2d
Let me just say that I used to show and translate Sátántangó once a year while in grad school & by coincidence, I sat with him once on a Deutsche Bahn train leaving Berlin

If there ever was a Nobel recipient I felt closer to, I just cannot remember
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 2d
"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org
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Reposted by Ferenc Laczó, Oliver Nachtwey

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 3d
Unser Buch "Zerstörungslust" (ET 13.10.) ist auf der Longlist für das Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres und es ist in bester Gesellschaft! Grosse Freude bei @onachtwey.bsky.social & mir!
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 3d
Exciting transatlantic-reason.info/about/
About – A­ Critique of Trans­­atlantic Reason
transatlantic-reason.info

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 3d
Maradona from Felcsut is now playing in the highest league, at least in the German middlebrow imaginatoon

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 4d
Check the news regularly. You may already have been appointed Prime Minister of France.
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 8d
Yes, dear people (& machines)
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 10d
✨ OCTOBER ISSUE OUT NOW!✨

🎃🍂 Read it FREE through October 30 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55657
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 11d
Omer Bartov on what went wrong in Israel - out next year. Bring it on!
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 11d
Essential by Kenneth Roth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s attack on George Soros is the next step in the autocrat’s handbook | Kenneth Roth
Having already attacked judges, lawyers, media companies and universities, the president has set his sights on civil society
www.theguardian.com
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 11d
Essential www.theideasletter.org/essay/diplom...
Diplomatic Delusions - The Ideas Letter
Malley, the lead negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, reflects on decades of US policy in the Middle East, from the promise and unraveling of diplomacy with Iran to…
www.theideasletter.org

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 18d
The arrival of autumn has brought out all colours over here
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 18d
📝 New review essay by @ferenclaczo.bsky.social! In “Do not surrender to words! Mark Mazower on two histories of Antisemitism”, he reflects on Mazower’s call to fight antisemitism as part of a wider anti-racist strategy while protecting free debate. Read the essay now: tinyurl.com/3mwv5773
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 18d
You can’t say this trap is unpopular
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 18d
Finally some real intellectual-political imagination in Europe!

Let's Agree on Poland
by Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk (eds.)

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 18d
Maastricht in all its evening glory
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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 19d
Mark Mazower’s judicious interpretation Antisemitism is released this week - and already covered @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social! ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/do-...
Do not surrender to words! Mark Mazower on two histories of Antisemitism - CEU Review of Books
Ferenc Laczó delves into Mark Mazower's forthcoming book, Antisemitism: A Word in History (Allen Lane, 2025), writing that its proposal is to combat anti-Jewish prejudice not in isolation but as part ...
ceureviewofbooks.com
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