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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 39m

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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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Exciting transatlantic-reason.info/about/

About – A Critique of Transatlantic Reason

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 1d

Maradona from Felcsut is now playing in the highest league, at least in the German middlebrow imaginatoon

Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 2d

Check the news regularly. You may already have been appointed Prime Minister of France.

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, dear people (& machines)

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 8d

✨ 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 · 9d

Omer Bartov on what went wrong in Israel - out next year. Bring it on!

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

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…

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 16d

📝 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 · 16d

The arrival of autumn has brought out all colours over here

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 16d

You can’t say this trap is unpopular

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 16d

Finally some real intellectual-political imagination in Europe!

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

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 16d

Maastricht in all its evening glory

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 17d

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 ...

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 17d

Not sure I believe there is a ‘science of politics‘ but still nice - if undeserved - to be quoted as a political scientist for the first time ;) balkaninsight.com/2025/09/17/h...

Hungarians the Latest in Region to Have a New Cross to Bear

The new cross installed on Budapest’s Liberty Statue is just the latest of several such instances of governments or organisations in the region erecting Christian symbols in prominent and sometimes se...

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 17d

The panels of the excellent Budapest Forum 2025 are now available online m.youtube.com/@budapestfor...

Budapest Forum - Building Sustainable Democracies

The past decade witnessed the emergence of several high-profile international events in the CEE region. The upcoming Budapest Forum is similar in aspiration to its regional counterparts, with its firs...

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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 22d

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 19d

16 hours of tutorials, two hours of lecturing, a research presentation, an electoral speech, thesis grading & a declined peer review this week. Long live bezuinigen!!!

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 19d

Amazing opportunity for historians of Eastern Europe with a PhD: work for Dietmar Neutatz’s chair in Freiburg! www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

1 Akad. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Osteuropäische Geschichte" (Univ. Freiburg)

Ausschreibung einer Stelle als Akademische:r Mitarbeiter:in (w/m/d) an der Professur für Neuere und Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Freiburg, zunächst für 3 Jahre.

www.hsozkult.de

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 20d

Looks like an amazing volume

Pablo del Hierro @pablo1981.bsky.social · 27d

Join us today for a special online event hosted by the Second World War Research Group North America to discuss the newly released volume: The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives Edited by Andrew Buchanan (University of Vermont) and Ruth Lawlor (Cornell University) 🕜 Time: 1:30 PM Eastern

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20d

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 23d

It does increasingly look like what we from Central and Eastern Europe have been fearing all along tvpworld.com/88940373/pol...

Poland ‘neutralizes’ drone over gov’t buildings in Warsaw

The incident comes after a wave of Russian drones entered Polish airspace last week.

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 25d

I owe you a confession: on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, I simply did not know who Charlie Kirk was

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