Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
⚡️NATO confirms Russian incursion into Estonian airspace, calls it "reckless."
"NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.
Za dva měsíce se otevře kus historie. 19. září 2025 v 10.00 v přímém přenosu vysílání Českého rozhlasu se rozpečetí obálka s posledními slovy Tomáše Garrigua Masaryka. Text dopisu přečte Dagmar Hájková, historička z Masarykova ústavu a Archivu AV ČR. irozhl.as/wpP
I'm excited to be at #iccees2025 in London! We had a great debate on Eastern European national ideologies with @annaherran.bsky.social, Andreii Kepsha and Jakub Beneš on Monday. Three more days packed up with EE history and politics!
looking forward to attending this later today!
currently in London for #ICCEES2025 ! Looking forward to presenting tomorrow on how the Czechoslovak Communist Party appropriated, rejected, and eventually erased the holiday celebrating Czechoslovak Independence Day (October 28) in the immediate post WWII period 🇨🇿
currently attending my very first Memory Studies Association Conference in Prague, aka the city that sparked my interest in memory studies! #msaPrague2025
⚡️ 'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk.
Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.
In a serious blow to scholars, the Russian authorities have outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an "undesirable organization." The designation poses legal risks for the organization's 3,200 members when researching in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
This is German Kurrentschift. It says: Der Lehrkörper der allgemeinen Volksschule, Knabenbürgerschule u. Mädchenbürgerschule in Grulich; der Stadtrat und die Stadtsvertrertung der Stadtgemeinde Grulich.
Thank you so much!
anyone out there who can read what this says? Or at least what language it is in? (German??) Any help would be appreciated
For context, these are from a booklet from Žamberk (Eastern Bohemia) in which citizen groups and state official swore their loyalty to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1936
Currently in Cambridge for #cbse2025 looking forward to presenting my paper on the celebrations of 90th anniversary of Estonian Independence on Saturday 🇪🇪
Czech martyr Jan Palach’s enduring legacy, 50 years today after his self-immolation english.radio.cz/czech-martyr...
Big thanks to the Toronto Estonian community for featuring my piece on the integration of Setomaa into Interwar Estonia 🇪🇪
eestielu.ca/making-eston...
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Now with a volume, issue and page numbers in Millennium. @chrsjcksn.bsky.social and I wrote about the craziness of Skopje's faux neoclassical revamp, a huge statue of Alexander the Great, copy of Arc de Triomphe and things that are supposed to look like... Venice? It's a riot. Pics 👇
Two white grammar books for learning Latvian and Lithuanian
rare finds at the secondhand bookshop or a sign I should start learning a Baltic language soon? 🤔 sadly there wasn’t one for Estonian
Today it is Finland’s independence day. Lit candles in windows is a somber reminder that independence is not to be taken for granted.
Not exactly traditional, but not exactly a tourist trap either. This article sheds a little more light on the ‘trdelník’ mystery :)) www.czechology.com/trdelnik-his...
Call for Papers for a conference on interwar economic history of Cetnral and Eastern Europe, held in Regensburg, Germany, in June 2025.
A new CfP for all those interested in the #econhist of Central & Eastern Europe in the long 20th century. To be held at IOS @leibniz-ios.de in lovely Regensburg, 26-27 June 2025. Submission deadline: 15th Dec 2024. #econsky
Ivan Trojan a Erik Tabery: Češi a Slováci si politicky nikdy nebyli dál, společensky je to naopak.
🎧 Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat.
Twenty years after the Orange Revolution, as Ukrainians continue to resist Russia’s full-scale war of aggression, many are looking back on the anniversary of that uprising as the first battle in their enduring fight for the nation’s independence.
Then we have a post from Leah Johnson, in which she presents her fascinating oral history interviews with members of the Estonian American National Council who engaged in political activism throughout the second half of the twentieth century www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/far-awa...
A tweet from the Berliner Zeitung promoing an article: Historikerstreit, Teil 3: Warum es fatal ist, die DDR als #Diktatur abzutun. Die Etikettierung der #DDR als Diktatur, so unser Autor, blockiert neue historische Erkenntnisgewinnung. Und nicht nur das: Sie befördert den Rechtsradikalismus.
The Berliner Zeitung has been running a number of pieces along these lines attacking the idea that the GDR was a dictatorship and claiming that this is part of some kind of new Historikerstreit. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here...
One of them seems to be Vladimír Baran, mayor of the village of Smilno in North Eastern Slovakia who seems to have indeed collected money for Kursk back in September. spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clano... No idea about the others
Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...
map of Central Europe, with individual countries cut out
Research Grant: Do you plan archival research somewhere in Central Europe next year? The Central European History Society sponsors historical research undertaken by junior scholars. Deadline for applications is January 15, 2025. www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?page_id=122
Plaque on the national theatre building
Latvian National Theatre in Riga
Happy Independence Day, Latvia 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻
feat. the commemorative plaque on the building of the National Theatre in Riga, where independence was declared on this day 106 years ago
pictures from the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution in 2019, last time I was in Prague for the celebrations (and last time I was remotely active on Twitter 🫠)
Celebrations a of the Velvet Revolution in Prague
Svoboda není samozřejmost | Freedom is not a given 🕯️
commemorating the Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy and the 35th anniversary of the beginning of the Velvet Revolution today 🇨🇿🇸🇰
(pictures from 2019)
