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Ivana M. Žimbrek

@ivanamihaela

Teaching at CEU Invisible University for Ukraine PhD from CEU Historical Studies: Yugoslav department stores (she/ona)

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Women's Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond Book presentation with authors, with a commentary by Marcel van der Linden and Zsófia Lóránd.

Join us at the Arbeiterkammer Wien Library this Thursday evening for the launch of this incredible book on the history of women's labor activism in Eastern Europe.

ihsf.at/Veranstaltun...

09.03.2026 08:08 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Retail for ‘the People’: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE The decline of department stores is part of a broader process of capitalist restructuring, most visibly exemplified by the proliferation of suburban shopping malls and digital commerce. The loss of lo...

I wrote for @berlinergazette.bsky.social about Yugoslav department stores, the civic role of retail spaces in humanizing city and neighborhood centers in postwar Europe, and what to do in the face of their closure, like in the recent case of Zagreb's Na-Ma.

berlinergazette.de/retail-for-t...

26.02.2026 14:55 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats to Vojtech, well deserved!

24.02.2026 12:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Richard Georg Plaschka-Preis Stipendien & Preise der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

#opportunity

Richard Georg Plaschka-Preis

Wissenschaftler:innen, außerordentliche Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropäischen Geschichte erbracht und das 40. Lebensjahr noch nicht überschritten haben. @oeaw.bsky.social

stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/preise/geist...

23.02.2026 12:32 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Globalising the Yugoslav Revolution in the Postcolonial World: Veterans, Memory and Transnational Networks of Solidarity

Join the CEU Yugo-Group on March 3 in Vienna for Jelena Đureinović's @jelenadj.bsky.social talk exploring the role of memory and war legacies in Yugoslav socialist internationalism and anti-colonial solidarity. More info here:

events.ceu.edu/2026-03-03/g...

23.02.2026 12:10 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Our article is out! It's part of a special issue on welfare and housing in southeastern Europe, so keep an eye for upcoming articles.

18.02.2026 09:50 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 CfP: The Yugoslav Wars & Post-Cold War Europe
📍 Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026

We invite proposals for presentations on all aspects of the Yugoslav Wars. 🔗 www.ifz-muenchen.de/aktuelles/au...

This conference is organised jointly with @leibniz-ios.de and @humboldtuni.bsky.social

06.02.2026 10:51 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

New collab with @leahorvat.bsky.social coming soon!

06.02.2026 10:57 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
- Balkan Talks In Focus Stories Blog

For an insight on what we do, also check out Balkan Talks, an amazing outcome of our course, with texts from students, friends, and supporters: balkantalks.org

06.02.2026 10:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Invisible University for Ukraine The open call for the Spring Semester 2026 is out! The deadline for applications is 10 February 2026, midnight, 12 PM (CET).  The detailed information on current programs and application requirements ...

The call for the IUFU Spring Term 2026 is out. There are a lot of great courses, including our Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine, which also accepts students from WB universities.The deadline is Feb 10, so please share with anyone interested.

www.ceu.edu/academics/no...

06.02.2026 10:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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CFP
for a special journal issue to be submitted to History of European Ideas
Subverting Hierarchies through Women’s Intellectual History in Eastern Europe in the Long Twentieth Century
Editors: Isidora Grubački, Zsófia Lóránd, Emily Steinhauer
More: inz.si/wp-content/up...

05.02.2026 10:48 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

03.02.2026 14:54 👍 4752 🔁 2569 💬 41 📌 31
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Marie Neurath Preis für Datenvisualisierung Die AK Wien schreibt 2025 erstmals den Marie Neurath Preis für Datenvisualisierung aus.

Marie-Neurath-Preis: Einreichfrist wird verlängert ⏰ Grafiker:innen, Studierende, Wissenschafter:innen aufgepasst! Der #Preis für #Datenvisualisierung der #AK sucht starke Arbeiten. Einreichfrist neu = 15. Februar.
Preisgeld bis 3.000 €, Preisverleihung am 17. März im Wien Museum. 👉 Mehr Infos hier:

29.01.2026 08:16 👍 37 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1
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The KARL KASER PRIZE FOR #HISTORICALANTHROPOLOGY IN #SOUTHEASTERNEUROPE
for outstanding publications by early-career scholars is now open for submissions. We invite you to apply and to share this announcement with interested colleagues and networks.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2026
See more ⬇️

27.01.2026 16:45 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks to @histmat.bsky.social for publishing my article “Afterlives of Austro-Marxism in Yugoslavia: Rethinking the Multinational Federal Political Community in Crisis”

brill.com/view/journal...

28.01.2026 05:00 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Bursaries The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries of up to £500 to students on BA and Taught Masters programmes to support archival, library and online research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

27.01.2026 17:02 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Support Women* Write the Balkans Support Women* Write the Balkans

My fave corner of the internet @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social is fundraising to maintain its digital infrastructure. If you can, consider supporting them, every amount helps: ko-fi.com/womenwriteth...

27.01.2026 14:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

03.01.2026 12:19 👍 3575 🔁 893 💬 1 📌 18
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+++ Call for Applications +++

PhD position at the Department of Historical Studies, CEU (Vienna) in collaboration with the ProletGard ERC Starting Grant project, Kassák Foundation (Budapest, Hungary).

❗Deadline pre-application: 5 January 2026❗
❗Deadline application: 4 Februrary 2026❗

10.12.2025 11:47 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Gastarbeiteralltag in 3.500 Fotos Der jugoslawische Fotoreporter Jovan Ritopečki (1923-1989) hat in den frühen 1970er Jahren begonnen, das Leben seiner Landsleute zu dokumentieren, die als Gastarbeiterinnen und Gastarbeiter ins Land g...

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Gastarbeiteralltag in 3.500 Fotos

Der jugoslawische Fotoreporter Jovan Ritopečki (1923-1989) hat in den frühen 1970er Jahren begonnen, das Leben seiner Landsleute zu dokumentieren, die als Gastarbeiterinnen und Gastarbeiter ins Land gekommen sind.

science.orf.at/stories/3233...

23.12.2025 12:59 👍 42 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1
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Amid all the ups and downs, one constant in 2025 was the support from friends. My last big task was a guest lecture in @leahorvat.bsky.social's course on cultural history. My first Vorlesung was stressful, but went well, and we even had time to relax in Jena. Hope for more vibes like this in 2026!

31.12.2025 12:39 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Part 2 of our History on the Edge season is here!

Join us from January to March for new lectures, discussions, and historical insights. Lectures take place at the Institute of Contemporary History and via Zoom at 3 p.m. Programme coming soon.

#INZ #HistoryOnTheEdge

12.12.2025 09:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement in the Long 1970s: conjunctures and contradictions

Next CEU Yugo-Region Research Group event: Paul Stubbs will talk about his new research on Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s. Everyone is welcome!

events.ceu.edu/2025-12-09/s...

05.12.2025 12:33 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Homo Academicus, Homo Politicus - A biography of Philip E. Mosely

I'm super happy that the CEU Yugo-region Research Group can welcome Maria Todorova. Join us on November 25 for a talk on her new research on the Sovietologist Philip Edward Mosel.

events.ceu.edu/2025-11-25/h...

19.11.2025 15:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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06.11.2025 20:43 👍 6308 🔁 2872 💬 236 📌 618
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Un jour, une ZUP, une carte postale : Zagreb 🇭🇷

13.11.2025 08:31 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The new issue of Aspasia is out! I contributed only with a short book review, but it's always a cozy feeling to see one's text surrounded by so many great articles and authors.

www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

11.11.2025 13:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

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Eroticization of the Adriatic: Sex, Tourism and Masculinities in Socialist Yugoslavia

If you're in Vienna, please join the next CEU Yugo-Region Research Group public event on November 10. We will reminisce about the summer with Anita Buhin and her research on the romantic and sexual interactions on the Yugoslav Adriatic in the 1960s and 1970s.

events.ceu.edu/2025-11-10/e...

04.11.2025 12:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1