Alex Oberländer

Another week springs forward, which also means another editor spotlight! Today, meet editor Krista Goff. She is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami.

A book cover with a poster at center showing a woman in a purple skirt, orange top, and black boots waving to a distant crowd, opposite a taller looming woman in white. At bottom is the book title, Circulating Subjects, in black and at top is the author's name, Philippa Hetherington, in orange type.

An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."

More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓

📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space
8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland

If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you!

Deadline 31 March
www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Dear #skystorians. You do not have to be interested in #queer #history to read this. #coldwar #soviet #kgb

#skystorian #history #soviet #russia #eurasia

Cover von "Passagiere"

Pünktlich zum Frühlingsanfang ist meine Dissertation zur Kulturgeschichte der Eisenbahnreise erschienen. Wie schön! Bestellen und probelesen kann man das Buch hier: www.campus.de/buecher-camp.... (1)

Exiled Political Analyst Yekaterina Schulmann Jailed 1 Year in Absentia for Breaking ‘Foreign Agent’ Law - The Moscow Times A judge in Moscow on Monday sentenced exiled political commentator Yekaterina Schulmann to one year in prison in absentia after finding her guilty of violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law.

Schulmann is also facing terrorism charges due to her connection to the Russian Anti-War Committee.

The submission deadline for our "Demonstrations" Call for Proposals has been extended to March 15! You still have time to get your proposals in for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion on the history of political movements and dissent throughout Eurasian history.

An Early European View of Nomadic Central Asia - The Times Of Central Asia Rather than producing an official report or military survey, Karutz wrote in a personal and descriptive style typical of travel literature. His narrative

A 1911 travel memoir by German explorer Richard Karutz offers a rare glimpse of nomadic Kazakh and Turkmen life before imperial transformation https://ow.ly/MO5k50Yl7zS #CentralAsia #History #TravelWriting #Kazakhstan #Turkmenistan

Public Domain Image Archive Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️

What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images?

(free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)?

Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org

Shortparis, Хор ветеранов им. Ф. М. Козлова – Яблонный Сад YouTube video by Shortparis

RIP Nikolai Komiagin, 39 years old #shortparis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Cs...

Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️

The call for papers for an exciting new workshop on Growing up in the Early Modern World is now live. This hybrid workshop will offer online participation and the deadline for submissions is July 15th. Please see the poster for full details.

#booksky #skystorians

#sykstorians #Soviet #academicsky #easterneurope

Умер писатель и историк Рой Медведев — Meduza Советский и российский писатель, историк и публицист Рой Медведев умер на 101-м году жизни, сообщает ТАСС со ссылкой на его родственников.

The great Soviet dissident historian Roi Mevedev has died at the age of 100. He is best known in the West for his pioneering 1971 study of Stalinism «К суду историй» (“To the Judgment of History,” published in English as “Let History Judge.” He was the brother of fellow dissident Zhores

Check out these History book reviews published in the January 2026 issue!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

#newbookalert #skystorians #academicsky

Brutal numbers on Marie Curie Fellowships: over 17 000 applications, with success rate dropping to below 10%. For a scholarship of 2-3 years only, no matter how prestigious, it only shows how impossible academia has become.

In NYRB, @joyneumeyer.bsky.social looks at Poland's lessons for democracy supporters hoping to unite against autocrat dirtbag nationalists. "Feminist fury" as an engine for change, if you can keep it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Correspondent (Russia) | The New York Times Company

Big opportunity here: the NYT is hiring a new Russia correspondent (an in-office position based in Berlin). www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

#skystorians #academicsky #newbookalert #history #russia

The journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is on Bluesky now. Follow here: @kritikajournal.bsky.social
#academicsky #skystorians

📝 Call for Proposals:
“Demonstrations”: Rituals of Political Belonging, Support, and Dissent in Eurasia from the Medieval Period to 2000

For more information, visit kritika.georgetown.edu/announcement...

#russianhistory #historians #callforpapers #conferenceproposals #cfp

I just stumbled across a treasure of #Soviet diafilms online. They were often used for teaching in schools and are great material for teaching #history today. #skystorians
archive.org/details/sovi...

Fleeing the front and wanted in Russia, deserters face deportation as Germany ‘churns out’ asylum rejections — Meduza Georgy Avaliani, a 47-year-old father of three, was mobilized into the Russian army in the fall of 2022. He fled the front line as soon as he was deployed, only to be arrested, held in a “torture…

Georgy Avaliani was mobilized into the Russian army, survived a “torture basement,” and escaped abroad. Now, he’s wanted in Russia and Germany has rejected his family’s asylum application. According to Mediazona, his case is hardly unique. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#skystorians

Sometimes I happen to invent new and really good words/terms. My latest (in german): Cis-Dudismus. In english: cis-dudism. #academicchatter #gender #masculinity

My interview in Die Zeit coming out shortly. Thanks to them for allowing me this mild criticism of survey data in the German mainstream press.

Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934∗ Abstract. It is a historiographical convention to view interwar debates over the protection of vulnerable populations through the prism of ‘minority rights

Happy to share my new Past & Present article: “Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934.” OA: academic.oup.com/past/advance...