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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · 21d

7th Intl conf "Socialism on the bench," Pula, CR! Just opened!
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...

Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · 24d

Much excited to participate at the "Global Socialism and Non-Alignment" conference in Pula, CR this week. Too many interesting panels going at the same time! Program in the link
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...

Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jul 10

Report from the Euro Conf on African Studies by Sarah Howard. There you can find names of researchers working on the history of socialist countries' input in medical development of decolonizing African continent in the 1960s-80s. Happy, I was part of the panel!
connecting3worlds.org/african-afro...

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jul 9

How great it was doing my BA in Paris and having all year free access to #Louvre. A new discovery during vacation.

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Socialist Medicine @socmederc.bsky.social · Jul 5

Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jul 4

On June 27, I participated online at #WHA convention at roundtable "Negotiated Humanitarianism: CARE packages and the Global History of US foreign aid during the Cold War." We hope to have our texts published soon! My share will be on CARE reaching millions of Indian schoolchildren in the 1960s.

Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you for organizing the panel!

Jelena Đureinović @jelenadj.bsky.social · Jun 29

#ECAS2025, where @alilacandonga.bsky.social and I had wonderful two panels on medical socialist entanglements between Eastern Europe and Africa, including, among others, @severyandyakonov.bsky.social. Also heard some excellent talks on veterans, memory of anti-colonial wars and public health!

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 28

Our panel on Medical Socialist Entanglements is at 11 15, ground floor 011, #ECAS2025. Bidemi Balogun, Sarah Howard, me.

Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 26

#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 26

Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 25

Ok, on y va. #ECAS #ECAS2025 European Conference on African Studies. Prague.

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 19

I will be in Prague June 23-28 at the #ECAS2025. Presenting my talk on the 28th. First time going to such a large conference for African studies! I hope to meet new colleagues and open another big field of research!
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 8

I want to announce my #YouTube channel where I will post videos and audio recordings I am making and repost relevant history related posts from colleagues.

www.youtube.com/@SeveryanDya...

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thank you! Tell me if you have issues with access it.

Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 1

doi.org/10.1163/2666...

“Resilience, Perseverance, and Sense of Diplomacy:” The Soviet Red Cross in India, 1954–1963

Abstract In the 1950s, the Soviet Red Cross gained positions in the governing bodies of the International League of the Red Cross, supported by newly established Red Cross and Red Crescent societies i...

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · Jun 1

My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · May 27

If you are part of Slavic studies don't miss this discussion on Revisionism.
"In this panel historians Sheila Fitzpatrick, Anna Krylova, Lewis Siegelbaum, and Ronald Suny gather to discuss the history and legacy of the "revisionist turn."

youtu.be/L9pLh1T5RbI?...

Remembering Revisionism - Black Sheep Society Webinar (May 2, 2025)

YouTube video by Black Sheep Society

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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History @aidhistory.bsky.social · May 23

"Project on the International Red Cross Movement and the Cold War Divide, the 1940s–1980s" a new post on the CNHH website by @severyandyakonov.bsky.social , post-doctoral fellow @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social : aidhistory.ca/project-on-t... ‪@ifrc.org‬ ‪@icrc.org‬ ‪@icrclibrary.bsky.social‬

Severyan Dyakonov at Carleton University’s Archives and Special Collections, MacOdrum Library.
Credit: Dominique Marshall

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · May 23

Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · May 22

You can read my blog entry on my current project on hist of Intl Red Cross, 1940s-80s and about amazing archives at CarletonU in Ottawa. Special thanks to the Canadian Network for Humanitarian History for posting! Join their newsletter if interested in these themes.
aidhistory.ca/project-on-t...

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · May 20

For lovers of podcasts and social justice:

My colleague @severyandyakonov.bsky.social has interviewed Canadian doctor Yipeng Ge, who went to Gaza on a humanitarian mission and was suspended from his university.

Public history at its best.

Please share!

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · May 20

@yipengge.bsky.social

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · May 20

On Spotify too: open.spotify.com/episode/408R...

Interview with Yipeng Ge — Canadian Doctor Who Went to Gaza on Humanitarian Mission.

Interview with Dr. Yipeng Ge - Canadian doctor that went to Gaza. · Episode

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Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social · May 19

You can listen my interview (58 mins) with with Dr. Yipeng Ge @yipengge.bsky.social, a Canadian physician who traveled to Gaza on a humanitarian mission here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vwG...
#GAZA #HUMANITARIANISM #FREESPEECH

Interview with Yipeng Ge — Canadian Doctor Who Went to Gaza on Humanitarian Mission.

YouTube video by Severyan Dyakonov

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