Alexandra S. Zaremba Panić Ph.D.

Who is surprised

I ended up rescinding my acceptance after finding out I was unexpectedly pregnant with my 2nd shortly after posting this, and wow am I grateful my family and I are not in Abu Dhabi right now. Really hope all the students and faculty at NYUAD are safe

The architecture of advice: domestic literacy and welfare in Yugoslav self-management In this article, the authors argue that housing as a welfare benefit in Yugoslavia extended beyond the mere provision of physical apartment space, encompassing a system of knowledge they term ‘dome...

Our (@ivanamihaela.bsky.social 🥰)article is out! While domestic literacy today largely in private sector (think home renovation influencers), we examine how it was embedded in housing provision in socialist YU.
If you’d like a link to a free copy, let us know!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Kids Aren’t Alright in Dilley A baby who needs medicine. A toddler whose detained mom may have breast cancer. A suicide attempt.

Shut down Dilley.

www.thebulwark.com/p/kids-arent...

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

The online banner shows a Call for Papers: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order". Conference dates: December 9-11, 2026 in Regensburg. Application deadline: March 1, 2026.

📣 #CfP: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order"
Conference at #LeibnizIOS Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026. We welcome proposals on the Yugoslav Wars & their impact on European & international politics.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026
➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

Link says page not found 😅

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

a phd

Damning testimony. Courageous witness.

Chicago Man From Bulgaria Dies In ICE Custody In Michigan Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, died Dec. 15 in an ICE detention center in Michigan after being arrested locally in September. He lived in the Chicago area for 30 years and was a business owner, reports sa...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/21/c... Local man with untreated diabetes who is not a public safety threat dies in ICE custody at 56.

he's re-running birtherism on the powerless

This is likely going to get me yelled at or at least grumbled about again but lots of young people were not told the truth about PhD programs over the past 2 decades. There wasn't an honest accounting that most of them were not going to get tenure track jobs even if they really wanted them.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Konf: Archival Intelligence: AI x Archives x Museums

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159011

Karlsruhe, 10.12.2025, Margit Rosen, ZKM / Zentrum für Kunst und Medien

Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War

Self-promotion, but will be giving a talk on something I have been VERY slowly working on at University of Oxford next Tuesday (11 November) at 5 pm! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/26c...

Novi Sad, November 1, 2025. One year of impunity of the lying, violent, authoritarian, ghoulish regime. Руке су вам крваве 🩸🩸🩸

#NoviSad on November 1st 2025

#Serbia

Dear White Europeans:

Just a reminder that racism has remained a problem for centuries in Europe. And Roman Britain was not only a space where whiteness thrived; it was actually multicultural. Racism is not just an American issue or an import. For Pete's sake, the US was legit a colony of Britain.

October Project Showcase October 2025 Project Showcase From Times Past: A Kreuzberg Postcard Collection By Alexander Elspaß, Maximilian Gärtner, Christina Helwig, Marina Kochedyshkina, Marcel Ravens, Janika Stolt, and…

Check the new student project showcase.
A #PublicHistory project by students from Master in Public History at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
They tell stories based on a collection of 5,000 digitised postcards.

publichistoryonline.org/project-show...

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Now that it's official, I'm thrilled to share that I've accepted a 2 year post as Visiting Assistant Professor of Public History at NYU Abu Dhabi starting January 2026. I'm hoping that teaching students to think and do #publichistory in this unique global setting will add some good to to the world.

📖 Read our two latest special issues online:

The first, 'Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949', connects civil conflict across Europe to the evolution of humanitarian practices.

(eds. @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwath)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wake up, Serbia! Pumpaj: The Student Uprising | Point of No Return YouTube video by 3Cat

Great documentary on student protests in Serbia, highly recommended: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3t4...

8th International Conference on Public History The Public History of Difficult Pasts 8th International Conference on Public History Lisbon, Portugal | September 7-11, 2026 Call for Papers Conference Overview In a time of escalating...

Check the Call for Participation to the 2026 conference of the International Federation for Public History. It will take place in Lison, Portugal (September 2026)
ifph.hypotheses.org/6522
#PublicHistory @ncph.bsky.social @sypph.bsky.social

Creating a @zotero.org bibliography to teach and study #PublicHistory.
More info on the website of the European network of Masters of Public History.
publichistoryonline.org/public-histo...

Teaching Public History in Britain Today: A Roundtable Discussion Abstract. ‘What is Public History Now?’ This was the question posed by the 2022 AHRC Network led by Julia Laite. The network culminated in a conference of

Rich discussion about #PublicHistory in the UK.
Katie Carpenter, Anna Maguire, David Geiringer, and Julia Laite in History Workshop journal

academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...