#Nationalism Studies with a side of good coffee. @WolfsonCollege, Oxford | Research Fellow @OxfordBrookes. Post-#Habsburg #CentralEurope. Consulting. Podcast.
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#Poland, #Hungary and beyond: an unmissable overview by global expert @fromTGA of the big issues: #illiberalism, #history & #politics in #centraleurope. Listen now: shows.acast.com/pseudoscienc…
Thought: this is a new ‘end of history’, but not as #fukuyama defined it. Rather, the end of history as a warning or lesson from after two World Wars.
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Truly newsworthy: where is the coverage?
🇬🇪 World, are you still watching? Tonight might have just been the biggest gathering of Georgians marching in Tbilisi against the russian violations and law infiltrating the Georgian government! Please watch, share, stand with the brave people of Georgia!🇬🇪 #NoToRussianlaw
-- This article examines the role of websites as historical sources, using a comparative case study of Germany and Poland’s respective lost territories after WWII, suggesting ways historians can better assess their material function in the wider taxonomy of source material.
Websites are key agents of public history - but underexamined for their role as sources. #twitterstorians, let's get our heads together on this... meanwhile, a thought starter: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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I did a thing this term where I told my students they were allowed to use ChatGPT. The catch was, they had to tell me about it in a reflection when they handed in their paper. This is a thread about how it all went.
Post-‘putsch’ Wagner as de facto Trojan horse to a NATO attack, now with (supposedly) plausible deniability has the awful ring of truth. #PL #LT Close the borders! theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
#CentralEurope today = divided east on imperial not Cold War faultlines - pithy review essay of Rady / others by Krastev in FT (paywall but limited free access on signup) on.ft.com/3JaxjwH
Poland protest: Hundreds of thousands demand change in Warsaw bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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Disappointed by @ucu passing StopTheWar motion! It accepts 🇺🇦 subjugation to 🇷🇺 imperialism & war crimes. It is shocking 4 an academic union to not understand this & it is highly anti-intellectual. @DrJoGrady how can UCU say it defends rights when it sanctions this?! @ellieknott
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Ahead of our event with Olena Stiazhkina this Friday @UCLSSEES (tickets: tinyurl.com/ywcmc5ua) read some of her amazing work in translation!
1. An extract from her novel In God's Language, about occupied Donetsk, in my translation at @apofenie. apofenie.com/fiction/2021/1/…
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I'm honoured by the presence of Miriam Asnes, Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues at the U.S. Department of State. Miriam will be joining me for this talk at @cfd_center on April 7th.
eventbrite.com/e/on-eugenics…
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DAVID v GOLIATH has made the Sunday Times today!
thetimes.co.uk/article/a7f7a…
In 2008 #Russia suggested #Poland + others 'divide + conquer' #Ukraine. Another eg of intentions plain from start + not Russia's first time (#WWII allies of Nazis to divide PL until Hitler turned on RU). Comments were played down... (From Reuters) tinyurl.com/yupusfaw
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A scandalous state of the nation address by the Hungarian Prime Minister.
No Orbán, it's a fight between good & evil... and you are on the side of evil.
Elephant in the room: #Ukraine-#Russia as paradigm of conflicting world views. Lack of global approaches mean the titular big questions here (climate change, more) can’t be resolved with generalisations. #iq2 @intelligence2
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Der offene Dialograum des Berliner Pilecki-Instituts und die Einengung wissenschaftlicher Diskursräume in #Polen sind zwei Seiten derselben Medaille: der Legitimierung der autoritären Herrschaft von Jarosław Kaczyński. zeitung.faz.net/faz/feuillet… ✒︎ 1/12
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The brilliant @zachary_mazur_ is coming to the University of Miami Feb. 13 to talk on "BATTLES OVER THE HOLOCAUST: POLISH-JEWISH MEMORY WARS" at 4pm in the Miller Center Auditorium. Join me! This is a scholar whose work within academia and without I greatly admire! @univmiami
