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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · 3d

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · 3d

I encountered Joy’s writing, a 23-year-old Palestinian writer & student who wrote her book from tents lnkd.in/eZc-kyZs
You can access her book "By My Pen" for free: lnkd.in/e3ZC6fwP
Please consider making a donation lnkd.in/eaKpKhk7 to help Joy evacuate from Gaza and pursue her studies elsewhere.

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · 5d

Very happy that the brilliant @marcozampieri.bsky.social got the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social PhD mandate! 🎉

His project "Bare Lives of EUrope: The Italy-Albania Migration Protocol" will be carried out at our @dfuturevub.bsky.social for the next four years.

A very proud supervisor :)

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · 27d

It’s hard to fathom what universe Kurti’s coalition government has been living in for the past two years, but here we are.
Successive agreements & coziness with the Israeli government can't be excused as “state interests”; they reflect the moral and political decay within the ruling parties.

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · 28d

Fantastic article by Gjiltinë Isufi on the spatial component of traumatic memories of political prisoners in Gjilan prison.

She reads the carceral geography and architecture through rain, sunlight, clacking sound of key chains woven in the poems of political prisoners. tinyurl.com/78653yav

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Omar El Akkad in all brilliance, humanity, grace and humour at Bozar.

“Feeling complicit in all of this with all the toll that it takes in your day to day is the only way how I can live and still call myself a writer”.

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Sep 1

All proceeds go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Sep 1

You can order a copy through your local library. Many thanks to friends who have already done so in small bookshops in Lima, Dublin and Istanbul :).

The book is also available online. Beyond the usual suspect, you can find it on less exploitative platforms too. A curated world list is below:

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Girlhood At War" made it home!

Unlike anything I’ve written before, this book is a personal story about growing up during Serbia's war against Kosovo and about finding myself, at 14, translating for US NATO troops in its aftermath. (Yes, the young girl in these pictures is me.)

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Aug 19

In the cacophony of anti-corruption protests in Serbia and public anger over the EU’s lithium agreement, it is disturbing to see large protest factions platforming Srebrenica genocide denial, glorifying Putin and the good old anti-Albanian fascism. www.instagram.com/reel/DNWZXCP...

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · Aug 11

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

www.theguardian.com

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Aug 8

Applications for the doctoral course "Belarus as a Crucial Case of Wider Regional and Global Trends: Perspectives on Politics, Society, History, Law and Culture" are open until October 1.

🌍 Ghent University, Belgium
🗓️ 21-24 October 2025

All details are here: www.ugent.be/ps/politieke...

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Aug 7

In late November, we will convene at the University of Munich for the conference: "The 1990s as a Time of Unmaking and Remaking Albania" with topics from arts and politics to political economy. Tag along if you are around.

Details are here: www.gose.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/ko...

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Aug 5

My book "Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo" is now out with Bloomsbury!

Order it online shorturl.at/bS1fb or request it through your local library. All proceeds go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).

Book launches coming soon!

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Jul 12

It takes 11 hours 58 minutes and 30 seconds to read out the names of those killed in Srebrenica genocide.

11 hours, 58 minutes and 30 seconds!

A cup of coffee for each of the 8372 victims. Credits to Sto Te Nema.

It's Bosnian blues weekend in our house www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YKB...

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Jun 21

You are way too kind, Leandra! It was lovely to see you again and we should certainly expand on the Balkanic networks :)

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · May 29

In June 2024, we—the YugoslaWomen+ Collective—held actions at CEE-ISA in Rijeka to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.
A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced.
Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · May 29

Actual footage of academics who, after 20 months of a live-streamed genocide in Gaza, have suddenly become enlightened — and decided it’s now better for their careers to call a spade a spade.

a cartoon character wearing a straw hat is standing in front of a door

ALT: a cartoon character wearing a straw hat is standing in front of a door

media.tenor.com

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · May 28

This looks fantastic. Congratulations, Mladen!

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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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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · May 26

Associate Professor it is!

The true MVPs of academia are the partners who carry the weight of the everyday, so we can chase questions, write pages, stand at podiums and disrupt conferences 🤍.

It takes a village and I am grateful for mine.

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DFUTURE @dfuturevub.bsky.social · May 24

🎉 Big congrats to DFuture’s Nino Junius & David Talukder — both awarded a FWO Postdoc Fellowship! 🧠🎓

🗣️ Nino: Can political parties foster inclusive, reflective deliberation?
🗳️ David: What happens when citizens feel underrepresented in democracy?

We’re proud of this inspiring future research!

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DFUTURE @dfuturevub.bsky.social · May 26

Marie Curie Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship is still open:
‼️ DEADLINE 31/05 ‼️

DFUTURE @dfuturevub.bsky.social · May 5

🚨 Call for Postdocs! 🚨

VUB’s Democratic Futures Research Centre is looking for candidates for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025!

Want to boost your research career in Brussels with top training & international mobility?
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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · May 26

It was great to be part of the panel "Outsourced Empire? Questioning Norms and Values of EU External Relations" at #EUIA2025 with DFUTURE colleagues.

In times of genocide, we refused to carry on with “conference as usual", a small but necessary act of refusal against complicity.

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · May 21

No conferencing as usual during genocides!

Given the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza, we invite you to join us on Thursday (22 May) at 12:45 at The Thinker statue inside VUB’s campus for an action in solidarity with Gaza. #EUIA25

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