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Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · 15d

I gave an interview to Nada & Novosti about my research on Yugoslav department stores. You can't fully see it, but the photos were taken in front of the (now privatized and abandoned) department store Pula, built in 1978. Check it out here: www.portalnovosti.com/ivana-mihael...

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · 15d

Hvala ti!!

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · 23d

Yes they are, just make sure to point out what's your interest/connection to the topic in the letter.

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · 23d

There is still some time left to apply for our amazing Balkan course at the Invisible University for Ukraine. It's always a great place for mutual exchange (and aid), and exploring (un)expected connections. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/09/call...

Call for the Free CEU/IFDT Online Course on the Balkans

ifdt.bg.ac.rs

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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · Aug 11

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans.

Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:

www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · Aug 1

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

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This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron.

Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept.

This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

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Senad Lacevic @senad.bsky.social · Jun 20

Auch heuer bieten die Wiener #Volkshochschulen wieder kostenlose Deutschkurse für Erwachsene in elf Wiener Parks an.
Alle Infos:
www.vhs.at/de/deutschim...

Kostenlose Deutschkurse in elf Wiener Parks

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · May 5

Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms.

We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.

Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms - A Special Issue of Historical Materialism - Historical Materialism

Guest editors: Anna Beria (Kingston University, London), Isabel Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London), Giorgi Kobakhidze (Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), Jiří Růžička (The Institute of Philoso...

www.historicalmaterialism.org

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Wasbishergeschah.at @wasbishergeschah.bsky.social · Jun 20

„Diese Menschen haben keine Lobby.“ Petar „Pero“ Rosandić erzählt im Interview über seine eigene Fluchterfahrung als Kind, über rassistische Lehrer:innen in Wien und warum er heute selbst Menschen hilft, die vor Krieg flüchten. 1/4

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · Jun 12

Postdoc position at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at CEU for Ukrainian researchers.

careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...

Post-doctoral Researcher (with focus on Ukraine) (f/m/d)

careers.ceu.edu

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Jun 5

If you wondered why the EU is ignoring protests in #Serbia, look no further.

The EU (ofc in agreement with Serbia's corrupt regime, how else) has declared the Jadar mining project strategic.

This is bound to devastate an entire region, in the name of "green transition," which is anything but.

Selected strategic projects under CRMA

single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu

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Mladen Zobec @zobec.bsky.social · May 27

🆕 Just out in @nationalitiesp.bsky.social:

“Negotiating Brotherhood and Unity: ‘Oriental Confectioners’ and Socialist Morality in Post-war Slovenia”

Albanians in socialist Slovenia/Yugoslavia weren’t just victims – they negotiated inclusion from within YU socialism
🔗 cup.org/4kuS07r
🧵 key findings

Negotiating Brotherhood and Unity: “Oriental Confectioners” and Socialist Morality in Postwar Slovenia | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core

Negotiating Brotherhood and Unity: “Oriental Confectioners” and Socialist Morality in Postwar Slovenia

www.cambridge.org

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Veronika Helfert @veenomen.bsky.social · May 21

I am very excited to be part of this excellent panel on "Women and feminism in early twentieth-century labour movements" together with ‪@szidora.bsky.social‬, Daria Dyakonova and Sára Bagdi and talk about my research on women in revolutionary movements at the end and after World War I.

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · May 21

A bit late in advertising, but there's still time to check out this amazing conference.

capitalist-transformations.com

Capitalist Transformations

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe * Submit Abstract: Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December 2024

capitalist-transformations.com

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · May 4

My first peer reviewed article on has appeared alongside some very excellent articles in a special issue of Rethinking History. Many thanks to @npapadogian.bsky.social and Ulrike Schaper for their insights and support in the process!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Buying sex across the Iron Curtain: Western Men and transactional intimacy in State-Socialist Hungary during the long 1960s

By the late 1960s, Budapest had an international reputation as Eastern Europe’s most swinging city, where the Western tourist could find luxury hotels, striptease and charming girls in short skirts...

www.tandfonline.com

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Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social · Apr 23

Call for application 2025/26
The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program.
The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025.
The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025.

For more information visit: www.inz.si/en/VF/

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Petar 'Pero' Rosandić @kidpex.bsky.social · May 4

From Sierra Leone to Bihać: Neuanfang in Bosnien 🇧🇦
Musa (21) aus Sierra Leone hat nach tausenden Kilometern Flucht & Camp Lipa in Bihać als Koch neu gestartet. Fleißig, pünktlich, voller Hoffnung. Integration braucht Chancen.
Wir zahlen Bosnischkurs.
IBAN: AT20 2011 1842 8097 8400
Danke!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 20

Glad to see all this discussion of community education. Just a reminder that I’ve made all of my course material — 40 classes, from methods to maps, knowledge infrastructures to local media, digital ethnography to digital urbanism — freely available for 20+ years :)

wordsinspace.net

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fernetzt @fernetzt.bsky.social · Apr 17

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass Jelena Tešijas Blogbeitrag in kroatischer Übersetzung im online Magazin Vox Feminae erschienen ist: voxfeminae.net/pravednost/k...

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Dražen Lučanin @metakermit.bsky.social · Apr 14

Gong je lansirao Parlametar Zagreb! 🗳️🚀

Od danas je građanima dostupan Parlametar Zagreb, novi digitalni alat za praćenje glasanja zastupnica i zastupnika u Skupštini Grada Zagreba.

Parlametar Zagreb prisustvo na sjednicama

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · Apr 3

Pictured is another heartwarming defense gift from my friends @szidora.bsky.social and Jelena.

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · Apr 3

I am spending April in Ljubljana at the always wonderful Institute for Contemporary History. I'm very happy to spend some nice springtime here after my defense. If you're in town, let's get coffee.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Mar 26

In so far as it's a sign, it's a sign that elite academics enjoy mobility that 99% of their colleagues do not, given the absurdities of the academic labor market. If you wanted the "direst sign of bad things to come," that was probably when Mahmoud Khalil got detained.

RED MEAT from the secret files @maxcannon.bsky.social · Mar 26

I just found out today that both Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder have left Yale to move to Canada.

If you know who they are, then you know it’s likely the direst sign of bad things to come.

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Ivana M. Žimbrek @ivanamihaela.bsky.social · Mar 24

Beautiful golden balloons for the new title provided by the best @leahorvat.bsky.social

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