Antoni Porayski-Pomsta

It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

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I know everything is blowing up everywhere but I've managed to deploy a new Shiny app for Polish polling so you can find out how many seats PiS are estimated to get in Koszalin while you search for things to burn instead of gas.

Yiddish non-profit hosts book clubs, listening parties in London ‘Jargon’ founders sought a Jewish space that focuses on diaspora and counter-cultural Jewish characters

Nice piece in @forward.com about the dynamic new London-based Yiddish/Jewish culture organization Jargon.

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A call for papers that may be of interest to our readers - The 'Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia' conference will be held at the University of Szczecin in October networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Thank you! It seems that the mac email app has a similar option. I will give it a try.

Any tips on keeping emails from my soon-to-be-deleted university account? Is there away to just save them in my mail app?

“Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin, 25-26 June 2025 From 1917 to 1949, Europe saw a proliferation of internal conflicts and civil wars that were often connected with global conflicts and wars of decolonization. Historians have long established the (re)founding nature of experiences such as World War I (often described as the crucible of the 20th century) and World War II. Despite the omnipresence of civil wars contemporary to these two major conflicts, their experience was almost often examined within narrow national frames. Yet , the experiences of Europe’s civil wars were both distinct and, above all, connected: many Spaniards who experienced exile during the Retirada joined the anti-fascist resistance in World War II; veterans of the Russian Civil War joined the Republicans; reporters sent to the Spanish Civil War travelled to other European conflicts to forge the narratives and images disseminated in the press and media; Greek officers who had served during the Russian Civil War featured prominently in the Greek Civil War. With time these cross-national experiences were overshadowed by one-sided national narratives, with limited archives available, and the experiences of the other side of the civil war often preserved in exile, excluded from the national community. The aim of this international conference is to examine everyday experiences in Europe’s civil wars of 1917 and 1949, and to explore how they were recorded and narrated at the time and after the conflict. We particularly welcome papers which seek to explore entanglements and interconnections between different civil wars.

Call for papers: “Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin (@ucddublin.bsky.social), 25-26 June 2025.
Deadline: 13 February 2026. More info to come here: civil-wars.eu/workshops/
#CivilWar

Events — Jargon We organise in-person events in London, from writers in conversation to film screenings, panel discussions, artist workshops, and more.

Two fantastic events coming up from Jargon: Holocaust Memorial Day with the great @ankahajkova.bsky.social, author of People Without History Are Dust, at the brilliant @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, and legend David Rosenberg doing a From Yiddish to Bangla Street Life walk

www.jargon.org.uk/events

The seminar programme of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities for Hilary Term 2025/06

Our term has started and we've got another round of great Environmental History Research Seminars scheduled in Dublin. Come and join us!

Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for supporting and hosting the series!
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social

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Looking for recommendations for a proofreader with experience in academic art history. Any leads much appreciated!

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry at 40 – Editor-Selected Articles from the Archive In 2026, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry celebrates its 40th anniversary—four decades of publishing authoritative, interdisciplinary research on all aspects of the history, culture, and experience o…

🎉 Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry turns 40 in 2026. To celebrate, the editors have curated a selection of journal articles free to read for the next year, highlighting four decades of leading scholarship on Polish–Jewish history & culture ⬇️
@uclhjs.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

CfP: Second Conference on Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe

💡 Recombining Representation During the Transformation from Empires to Nation-States 1905-1923
📆 15-16 June 2026
📍 Warsaw, Poland
⏰ Submission deadline: 15 January 2026

Detailed information ⤵️
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Calling all EC researchers working on environmental law. Come and tell us about your work in London on the 21st of April 2026!

We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy to answer any questions via DM or email

I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!

Hi everyone!

I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky

Congratulations!!!!

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

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Tough to be the fifth column these days :(

I have always found the label utterly confusing! What is so Trotskyite about your behaviour?

This year I will have the pleasure of presenting my research at the #iccees2025 congress at
@uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

Immobility

The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility"

by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh

Is now out in full and free to access

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Not sure if you're using Tropy or Zotero, but they both work well on Mac. I recommend getting Magnet or, I think, Tiles to organise your desktops better (I believe that this does not require a separate app on Windows devices, but oh well). Also, learning to use Spotlight search is super convenient.

A few words on the article about historiography that everyone is annoyed about. There are obvious technical problems with the suggestion that historians may soon let LLMs sift through the sources, suggest a book structure, select examples from the sources etc. 1/x

AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union* Abstract. In the mid-1980s, HIV and AIDS were initially dismissed in the Soviet press as infections that could only be contracted by individuals engaged in

From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union"

by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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5 ‘A Dead Letter in the Hands of Local Authorities’? Implementing Public Health Legislation in French Provincial Cities, 1850– 60 WILL CLEMENT On 13 April 1850, the French Second Republic’s National Assembly passed a law on logements insalubres (unhealthy housing).1 This law enabled municipal councils to create housing commissions to enter and inspect poor- quality dwellings, instruct landlords to make structural improvements, and prohibit the rental of particularly egregious premises. These commissions would be staffed both by experts – includ- ing a doctor and an architect – as well as active local politicians, including up to four municipal councillors and the mayor or his deputy. Fundamentally, this law represented a shift in the relationship between the state and the question of improving housing conditions, which had to this point been the domain of iso- lated private charity or industrial philanthropy. It was also a law which, as Parisian ministers quickly noted, lived and died by the hands of the local politicians and experts charged with implementing it. In August 1850, Jean- Baptiste Dumas wrote as minister for agriculture and commerce to the prefects who administered all 86 French departments, impressing on them the need to ensure that the law saw good application. If they failed in their duty, the innovative legislation risked being sim- ply ‘a dead letter in the hands of local authorities if they do not understand the importance of it’.2 1 A[rchives]N[ationales] (Paris) F 8 210, Dépot des lois et actes du gouvernement: B. 252, No. 2068, Loi relative à l’assainissement des Logements insalubres des 19 janvier, 7 mars et 13 avril 1850 (prom- ulgée le 22 avril 1850), 1850. 2 A[rchives]D[épartementales du]H[aut- ]R[hin] (Colmar) 5 M 39, Ministre de l’Agriculture et du Commerce, Circulaire no. 41, 11 August 1850. Proceedings of the British Academy, 271, 90–114, © Authors 2025

Looking forward to seeing the publication of “State-making in an age of Revolution, 1830-80” in August after receiving a preprint of my chapter today. Full details and contents page here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....