Reka Krizmanics

Every day is a gift when writing comes easy. Today is one of those days.

If you're attending #ASEEES25 and are interested in how the new nation-states acted as nationalizing states, join us tomorrow at 2 pm.

Manchester University Press - Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe by Doina Anca Cretu

Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/

Book review writing Wednesday📚🗃

Monday musings

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I contributed with a chapter:
Writing Contemporary History in Late Socialist Hungary: Dissecting Institutional Legacies.

At the third session we finally got started on Texts and Contexts. The students engaged with the political thought of Anna Kéthly (HU) and Milada Horáková (ČSSR). We have a nice interdisciplinary crowd (history, gender studies, sociology, polsci, English) and apparently, quite some enthusiasm! 🗃🗃

Finally!
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Very much looking forward to the EUROPE AFTER DECOLONISATION conference in Konstanz this week! A fantastic line-up.

Happy winter term!🗃

***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for October 2025.

A thread.

I will update the thread over the course of the month.

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Yes, if I reviewed a manuscript in the first round, I will make sure to be available for subsequent ones. No, I am not happy when none of the reviewers' substantial recommendations (two reviews altogehter) are taken on in the new version that is supposed to be a revise and resubmit.

A last-minute addition to the syllabus? Anna Dobrowolska's recent monograph is an exciting read.
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It took some time for them to arrive, but now they'll keep me occupied 📚🗃

Starting today!

The syllabi are ready for the fall term:

Introduction into the history of state socialist Eastern Europe: A global perspective (BA)

Advocating for women behind the Iron Curtain: Eastern European women's voices (MA)

I can't wait to meet the students again.
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We received many excellent proposals in response to the call for papers for the upcoming conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary." The organizing committee will begin reviewing applications soon.
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www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

On my way to Berlin to EAHMH 2025 - I will be presenting at a medical history conference for the first time.
(Gendered Mobilities? Hungarian Women Health Care Professionals and the Circulation of Socialist Medical Knowledge)

eahmh25.org

Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twen...

The #ZARAH project's collective monograph, "Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond. A new transnational history" is out with UCL Press. Congrats to the authors!
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uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

Funny how academia works: nothing for ages, then boom, 2 articles in a week. The 2nd began with @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social email. Not my usual period but those intriguing AAN files kept calling… Of course, Jewish threads are in: I wouldn’t be me otherwise 😉. doi.org/10.1177/0888...

Yeyy, it's out!!

Thank you for sharing!
In this case, the nurse did not return to Libya for the last 6 month after getting married during her vacation in Hungary - the last thing I know about her for sure.

Her application was approved and she worked in Libya for two years.

I hope she was made permanent at a HU institution at last - the archives are silent.

The last lines in the cv of a HU critical care nurse, 1982:

"Ever since I started working...I was always hired on a contract, my superiors...while greatly appreciating my performance on the job...remain unable to hire me permanently...most probably for economic reasons."

Perhaps you could take a look at Monika Baar's projects? (disability history)

Teaching my Other Europes course again this fall & in response to student interest am expanding focus on queer & trans history & on disability history. Historian friends, any recs for favorite articles/book chapters &/or primary sources that work well w/ undergrads? 19th-20th c. focus. Thanks! 🗃️

It’s real!

Vacation, finally!

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)