I'm excited to be at #iccees2025 in London! We had a great debate on Eastern European national ideologies with @annaherran.bsky.social, Andreii Kepsha and Jakub Beneš on Monday. Three more days packed up with EE history and politics!

My review of Billy O'Callaghan's Paperman is out. It is called "Love in the time of Anschluss" and reflects on the relation between "big" and "small" history.

www.iliteratura.cz/clanek/47395...

An English "breakfast" on Regio Jet to Brno. Call me fanatic, but it was actually tasty! 🇬🇧

"Mickiewicz began to address his friends in English; 'Dear John' in a letter to Czeczot, 'dear Edward' in a letter to Odyniec. Occasionally, he inserts an English word, for instance 'grief' or 'goddamn the congress of Bolimof' in his later letters."

Mazzini, my soulmate: “I think very often under these radiant skies of the London fogs and always regretfully. Individually speaking, I was evidently intended for an Englishman.” 1849, while drafting the constitution of the Roman Republic (obviously in Rome)

From the London Journal of socialist Flora Tristan: "Since I came to know the English proletariat, I no longer regard slavery as the greatest human misfortune."

Beautiful. Almost as much as my copy of the book published in 1953 in socialist Czechoslovakia.

Fascinating listen about links between Czechoslovakia’s communist intelligence services and the Palestinian Liberation Organisatian in 1970 and 80s. @kieranwilliams67.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Something worth spreading 🔥
The collection of some of the most representative texts on feminism and women’s rights published in East Central Europe in the 20th century (new translations from the original, with introductions etc) 💜
PDF file with the book (open access):
ceupress.com/book/texts-a...

🧵Another review of our volume published! Read what Paulina Dominiak wrote for the Polish Review: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

Deadline for 1st Central European History Convention (CEH-C, Vienna, July 17-19) is Jan 31. No registration necessary, heavily subsidized housing, + more subsidies available for those who need it. Keynote: Tara Zahra; several panels dedicated to work of Pieter Judson Apply! ceh-c.univie.ac.at

A new review of mine is out!

The book "Intertwining Worlds. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Cold War Era" deserves attention of everyone researching transnational history, Cold War East-West links and film studies.

Hats off to @klusek.bsky.social and all the other academics out there juggling parenting and publishing!
 
You can find the volume here: brill.com/edcollbook/t...

I couldn't be happier that women's rights were the key topic of the Polish parliamentary election for more than 16% of Poles. Not only about how the woman question became Polish question in my commentary for Alarm: bit.ly/3s5qt6h And by the way, nice to meet you Bsky community!