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Anthropology of Work Review@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 4w ago

Is your current/recent PhD research related to #anthropology of work and #labor? Still time to apply for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social early career/grad student Community of Writing fellows! Deadline August 1st.

Very cool call for applications: Artistic Research Residency and Grant for a Project Related to the Archives of International Organisations in Geneva www.eofa.ch/en/open-call/

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The call for Papers is still open for #SolidCareLab international conference! "Philanthropy, Solidarity, and Care: Mobilising for the Common Good in Southeast Europe". Flip the script on regional theory with keynotes Čarna Brković & Heath Cabot. ⬇️

"our co-resistance seeks to expose, not conceal, structures of oppression and dismantle the discourses and policies that sustain inequality and dispossession." Read the position paper of PJA here (in ENG and DE)⬇️ pja-verein.de/on-solidarit...

Grateful to Asta Vonderau and Janine Hauer for the invitation to share my experiences with public anthropology (in German) public-anthropologies.ethnologie.uni-halle.de/de/intervent...

Im Gespräch mit Čarna Brković

Eine Plattform, die Projekte und Perspektiven von Ethnologie*innen der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg im Feld der Public Anthropology sichtbar macht und mit der breiten Öffentlichkeit teil...

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This is the revival of the policy vision of 'two speed Europe'. It didn't work before. Maybe stop trying to bring physics into politics?

Bremain in Spain@bremaininspain.com · 2mo ago

France & Germany are calling for a new process of "structured gradual integration" for EU candidate countries ahead of a summit with Western Balkan countries.The initiative aims to give candidate countries earlier benefits from closer integration with the bloc but maintain merit based framework

Join us in Berlin or online. Grateful to Urmila Goel for the invitation 🙏

📢 Nächste Woche ist es so weit! Besuche in der ersten Juniwoche Veranstaltungen der Themenwoche „Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus“ oder organisiere selbst eine. 🤩 Bereits 150 Events an über 70 Hochschulen sind registriert. Höhepunkt: das bundesweite Podium am 3. Juni um 19 Uhr. Sei dabei! 👏🏼

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Call for Applications: 2026-27 Scholars at Risk (SAR) Academic Freedom Fellowships | Scholars at Risk

Scholars at Risk (SAR) is pleased to invite early-career researchers to apply for remote research fellowships focusing on academic freedom and related higher education values.

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We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

Join us at Futures East #2 at the Volksbühne Berlin on 20 May to discuss socialist past beyond irony and nostalgia. Humbled to speak together with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and others at the roundtable X3 FUTURES, conceived and organized by Ani Menua & Julia Boxler 💫

Join us in Prague or online on 11 May to chat about 'Realigning humanitarianism' www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Morn...

Remembering Yugoslavia podcast made an episode inspired by "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans". Listen and/or read here: yugoblok.com/humanitarian...

(Post)Yugoslav Humanitarianism ⋆ Yugoblok

(Post)Yugoslav Humanitarianism The Yugoslav Red Cross promoted a version of humanitarianism that served its geopolitical goals. After the fall of socialism, nonaligned humanitarianism vanished and was...

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...first time as Tarantino, second time as farce

Patrice G. Poutrus🔻aka Icke@poutrusicke.bsky.social · 4mo ago

OMG!

Brilliant book, Žižek's endorsement notwithstanding. It discusses the conditions making a major, revolutionary change possible, without making it anticipated. No wonder it is being republished now

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of “late socialism” (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Out now in #paperback with a new preface by the author. Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Such a brilliant piece

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

Loved this piece from @charnab.bsky.social and this last passage in particular really hit and resonated with me, it's the core dynamic of so much transmisogyny, not just in the Balkans but everywhere. The idea that being a woman is so obviously shit that anyone *choosing* to be one is an abomination

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

I am very grateful to Lea Horvat & Ana Sekulić for creating Women* write the Balkans as a platform for conversation and experimentation, as well as for their masterful editorial guidance and patience. I enjoyed writing this para-ethnographic story and might do more of that in the future

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

@doratot.bsky.social has published "Challenging Socialist Solidarity: Yugoslav Perspective on Intra-Social ist Competition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Algeria (1959-1965)" available in open access here 👇 #socialistsolidarity #globalhistory edizioni.sns.it/prodotto/a-w...

A World without Empire? Encounters and connections between African, European, and Soviet Communists, 1920s to 1970s - Edizioni della Normale

edited by Silvio Pons pp. 461 Scarica il PDF CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Francesca Rolandi’s article, “Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime,” is now available: 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfonline.bsky.social

Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime

This essay analyses how Yugoslavia’s unique geopolitical position between the blocs, after its 1948 split with Moscow, played out in its refugee policies. First, it investigates the way in which Yu...

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Podgorica

David Graeber on political pleasure: "Part of the pleasure is a certain kind of abandonment of self, which comes from a trust in others, that other people are actually sometimes smarter than you are, or that a group as a whole becomes this collective mind which is smarter than you are"

The possibility of political pleasure: David Graeber at TEDxWhitechapel

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.

Super interesting discussions on how to write critique in the moment of crisis are popping up everywhere, from the CEU IAS Budapest workshop on social critique to Allegra's podcasts. Still, poets lead the way 💫

Grateful that the first conversation about "Realigning Humanitarianism" after its publication will be held in Podgorica, with Paul Stubbs as the discussant and Natalija Vujošević as the moderator, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, on 2 April, 7 pm @paul-stubbs.bsky.social

Bogdan Iacob and Marek Eby discuss "socialist malariology" and the role of socialist models of disease control in shaping malaria programmes in the global south (The Global Health Histories podcast) globalhealthhistories.podbean.com/e/epsiode-8-...

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

CNN@cnn.com · 5mo ago

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.

When in Mainz... kunstundbau.rlp.de/kunstwerke/k...

A proud editor moment: this piece hits with exactly the right intensity, and I might spend the next few days asking everyone around me to read it. + @anasekulic.bsky.social did an amazing job streamlining the story

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We’re closing our winter special with a gem: Lejla Talić’s intimate exploration of bodily and sexual repression in 2000s Croatia, and the passion and love found beyond it. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/sleep...