Zachary Mazur
@zacharymazur.bsky.social
Historian @Polin museum Research Fellow @ih_pan. Writing a book on radical nationalism, spies & murder. PhD @Yale // Just my opinions.
https://www.zacharymazur.com/
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📍Warsaw, Europe
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Zachary Mazur
@zacharymazur.bsky.social
· Oct 12
Introducing myself here with my article that has been quite popular
“Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Local Democracies in East Central Europe”
Open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🗃️
“Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Local Democracies in East Central Europe”
Open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🗃️
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Welcome to my customary and super-random report from my hometown’s biannual antique market. It’s that time of the year various old and less-old objects almost come alive and swarm the city in a symphony of idiosyncrasies.
Let’s see what was there this year.
🧵
Let’s see what was there this year.
🧵
April 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Welcome to my customary and super-random report from my hometown’s biannual antique market. It’s that time of the year various old and less-old objects almost come alive and swarm the city in a symphony of idiosyncrasies.
Let’s see what was there this year.
🧵
Let’s see what was there this year.
🧵
MAGA: “Pretend sex trafficking bad! Comet Ping Pong!”
Also MAGA: “Free Andrew Tate! Matt Gaetz is innocent!”
Also MAGA: “Free Andrew Tate! Matt Gaetz is innocent!”
Andrew Tate has left Romania for US by private jet, reports say
Andrew Tate has left Romania for US by private jet, reports say
Self-styled ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania since December 2023
Andrew Tate has left Romania for the US by private jet, according to local reports.
The self-styled “misogynist influencer” is thought to…
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
MAGA: “Pretend sex trafficking bad! Comet Ping Pong!”
Also MAGA: “Free Andrew Tate! Matt Gaetz is innocent!”
Also MAGA: “Free Andrew Tate! Matt Gaetz is innocent!”
Big announcement!
POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28).
POLIN is offering very generous financial support.
More details below.
Please share!
polin.pl/en/event/sum...
POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28).
POLIN is offering very generous financial support.
More details below.
Please share!
polin.pl/en/event/sum...
Summer School with POLIN Museum for Early Career Scholars | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie
Organizujemy tygodniowy program skierowany do doktorantów i doktorów na wczesnym etapie kariery.
polin.pl
February 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Big announcement!
POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28).
POLIN is offering very generous financial support.
More details below.
Please share!
polin.pl/en/event/sum...
POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28).
POLIN is offering very generous financial support.
More details below.
Please share!
polin.pl/en/event/sum...
Commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Warsaw, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz
January 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Warsaw, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177
Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana
Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177
Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana
Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …
Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe
www.hsozkult.de
December 20, 2024 at 5:10 PM
CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177
Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana
Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177
Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana
Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …
Great review by @davidsmrcek.bsky.social of Claire Morelon’s book on Prague.
Excited to see the book now!
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
Excited to see the book now!
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
Sounds and sights of the Great War in Prague - CEU Review of Books
In Streetscapes of War and Revolution. Prague, 1914–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the ...
ceureviewofbooks.com
December 19, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Great review by @davidsmrcek.bsky.social of Claire Morelon’s book on Prague.
Excited to see the book now!
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
Excited to see the book now!
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
Leipzig lights by night
December 2, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Leipzig lights by night
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
Are you working on a project about revolution or the revolutionary experience? Consider submitting a proposal to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/
Submissions
Would you like to join the discussion? If you are a scholar (ABD or PhD required) and you have an interest in submitting a guest post that explores the concept of “revolution” or the re…
ageofrevolutions.com
September 26, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Are you working on a project about revolution or the revolutionary experience? Consider submitting a proposal to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️
Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller E…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:06 PM
🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️
Snowy day in Warsaw.
November 22, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Snowy day in Warsaw.
After some important sleuthing on Wikipedia I learned that Matt Gaetz’s father lives in the house that was used for the Truman Show.
a man standing in front of a house with the number 36 on the front
ALT: a man standing in front of a house with the number 36 on the front
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
After some important sleuthing on Wikipedia I learned that Matt Gaetz’s father lives in the house that was used for the Truman Show.
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
Cemetery for troops from Celje (🇸🇮) tucked into the mountains, designed by Dušan Jurkovič
November 14, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Cemetery for troops from Celje (🇸🇮) tucked into the mountains, designed by Dušan Jurkovič
This week I’m attending a workshop to help the town of Gorlice plan a new museum of the First World War.
November 14, 2024 at 8:59 AM
This week I’m attending a workshop to help the town of Gorlice plan a new museum of the First World War.
Touring First World War cemeteries around Gorlice.
November 14, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Touring First World War cemeteries around Gorlice.
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :)
go.bsky.app/QMHzmog
go.bsky.app/QMHzmog
November 13, 2024 at 7:13 AM
I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :)
go.bsky.app/QMHzmog
go.bsky.app/QMHzmog
Even in the cold rain, Krakow looks lovely.
November 13, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Even in the cold rain, Krakow looks lovely.
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room?
Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
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Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
1/2
The art of Teaching About Violence
Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room?
Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
1/2
Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
1/2
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
so here's the bsky starter pack that you didn't know you needed. wondering what grift kushner & ivanka tr*mp are pulling buying up property in the balkans? sarajevo on your mind? or just want some wholesome stories about an ottoman-era donkey? we have you covered! go.bsky.app/AcUhygT
November 10, 2024 at 9:06 PM
so here's the bsky starter pack that you didn't know you needed. wondering what grift kushner & ivanka tr*mp are pulling buying up property in the balkans? sarajevo on your mind? or just want some wholesome stories about an ottoman-era donkey? we have you covered! go.bsky.app/AcUhygT
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Not sure how this works, but if you want to be added, let me know (lots of people have different usernames over here and it's confusing me 😂)
go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv
go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv
November 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Not sure how this works, but if you want to be added, let me know (lots of people have different usernames over here and it's confusing me 😂)
go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv
go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv
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Hi friends! I've been trying really hard to keep this list diverse.
Recommendations welcome, especially of BIPOC & queer (etc.) public historians whose voices you'd like to see elevated here!
go.bsky.app/53FhZd1
Recommendations welcome, especially of BIPOC & queer (etc.) public historians whose voices you'd like to see elevated here!
go.bsky.app/53FhZd1
November 10, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Hi friends! I've been trying really hard to keep this list diverse.
Recommendations welcome, especially of BIPOC & queer (etc.) public historians whose voices you'd like to see elevated here!
go.bsky.app/53FhZd1
Recommendations welcome, especially of BIPOC & queer (etc.) public historians whose voices you'd like to see elevated here!
go.bsky.app/53FhZd1
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I'm putting together a history of medicine (broadly defined) starter pack. Please let me know if I missed you. And please share and make suggestions for people to include
And remember - "medicine" is a lot bigger than orthodox medicine/biomedical science, despite what they say
go.bsky.app/KzT74Ai
And remember - "medicine" is a lot bigger than orthodox medicine/biomedical science, despite what they say
go.bsky.app/KzT74Ai
November 10, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I'm putting together a history of medicine (broadly defined) starter pack. Please let me know if I missed you. And please share and make suggestions for people to include
And remember - "medicine" is a lot bigger than orthodox medicine/biomedical science, despite what they say
go.bsky.app/KzT74Ai
And remember - "medicine" is a lot bigger than orthodox medicine/biomedical science, despite what they say
go.bsky.app/KzT74Ai
Reposted by Zachary Mazur
I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded.
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
November 10, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded.
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj