Rok Stergar
@stergarr.bsky.social
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Historian of the Habsburg Empire in the long 19th century; also WWI and history of nationalism. Professor in Modern History, University of Ljubljana.
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The @nationalitiesp.bsky.social article Jan Bernot and I just published looks at explicit and implicit linguistic, ethnic, and national classifications in pre-1848 Habsburg schools and their effects.

It is available in OA, go grab it. #nationalisky
A Cacophony of Classifications: Education and Identification in a Prenational Empire | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core
A Cacophony of Classifications: Education and Identification in a Prenational Empire
www.cambridge.org
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blenormand.bsky.social
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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raisatoivo.bsky.social
If you work on history of experience, or on history of emotion, note this!👇
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afrayn.bsky.social
Wee reminder that you can have some 11 Nov @fwwsoc.bsky.social action with the Dennis Showalter Lecture by @juliarsct.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/fwws...
fwwsoc.bsky.social
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War

5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025

Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University

What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it.

Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Lille. She completed her doctorate, on French poetry of the First World War, at Université Paris Nanterre. Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies.

This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection. Funding comes from the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture and the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement. This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies.

The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus (Google map | travel info). There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom.

If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr Andrew Frayn (a.frayn@napier.ac.uk).

This event is both in person and online. If you wish to attend online, please buy an 'online Ticket'. Zoom information will be found in the email confirmations.
stergarr.bsky.social
Above all, you should be proud of your work. Even though I was mostly just observing from the sidelines, I couldn't help but notice how hard you and your team worked.
stergarr.bsky.social
Another week, another championship. @tamaupogi adds the European championship to his palmarès.
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
stergarr.bsky.social
Everyone likes the Mediterranean in October. In July ... not so much. 😏
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stergarr.bsky.social
I hope they at least served a wide variety of yogurt at breakfast.
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edinburghup.bsky.social
📚 Book launch
📍 Aga Khan Centre, London/Online
🕧 Thursday October 16th, 5:30pm 

Editors Sevgi Adak and Thomas Schmidinger discuss the influence of the Habsburg Islam Policy towards Muslims of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's successor states.

Book your free in-person ticket:
Book Launch: The Enduring Legacy of the Habsburg Islam Policy at Aga Khan Centre
Tickets are now available for Book Launch: The Enduring Legacy of the Habsburg Islam Policy at Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street on Thursday 16th October 2025. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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uclssees.bsky.social
🔊 Submissions now open: South-East European Studies Fellowship!

The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes at SSEES.

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@seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social
Submissions Open: South-East European Studies Fellowship
The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes / opportunities at SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk
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hsozkult.bsky.social
Konf: Catholicism and Language Diversity in late Habsburg Empire

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157818

Vatikanstadt, 29.01.2026-30.01.2026, Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology, University of Innsbruck; Roman Institute of the Görres-Society; Austrian Historical …
www.hsozkult.de
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enghistrev.bsky.social
New article! Tim M. Schmidt on 'Social Democracy, Multi-Ethnicity, and National Conflict: Belgium and the Bohemian Lands, 1885–1940'

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fwwsjournal.bsky.social
📢 🧵 This year the International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social is hosting a conference in the University of Macedonia! If you can't attend in person, you can still take a look at the work that has been published in First World War Studies by some of this week's speakers.
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tamarascheer.bsky.social
Es ist wieder soweit - Bewerbungen für den Österr. Staatspreis für Geschichtswissenschaft sind möglich - mit der Bitte um fleißiges Teilen :-)
www.bmfwf.gv.at/ministerium/...
Österreichischer Staatspreis für Geschichtswissenschaften
www.bmfwf.gv.at
stergarr.bsky.social
In Slovakia, there's Štúrovo.
stergarr.bsky.social
Congratulations soon-to-be-dr Chazal!
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uclssees.bsky.social
🔊 One week until this event with Prof. Theodora Dragostinova, who will examine the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands.

Co-sponsored by @criticalchildhood.bsky.social

🗓️6 October at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for '“Like My Own”: Adopting Displaced Children after the Great War' with a collage of photos from the Bulgarian state archives
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conteurohistory.bsky.social
🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.

This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
stergarr.bsky.social
It's an excellent article.
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