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Alex Drace-Francis

@alexdrace.bsky.social

Cultural historian of modern Europe. Associate Professor @uvahumanities.bsky.social Books: "The Making of Mămăligă", "Networks, Narratives and Nations", “Un boem la Bucureşti” &c. https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html

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Alex Drace-Francis@alexdrace.bsky.social · 10h ago

Fri 2 Oct, Lecture by Professor Maria Todorova @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Todorova is well-known as a historian and theorist of the Balkans, but this is new research on area studies, starting from the biography of US Sovietologist and Balkanist Philip E Mosely artes.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Homo Academicus - Homo Politicus - Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES)

Lecture Maria Todorova (University of Illinois) on The life and work of Philip E. Mosely.

artes.uva.nl

Alex Drace-Francis@alexdrace.bsky.social · 2d ago

Random question about halva: for many people perhaps esp. in eastern Europe, halva is made with sunflower seeds. But this is not traditional - perhaps a by-product of sunflower oil processing developed under socialism? I can't find any studies on this topic

Alex Drace-Francis@alexdrace.bsky.social · 3d ago

Conference, 17-18 Sep: Iași and Bucharest as nodes of a multipolar Eastern Christianity in the 17th century: institutulxenopol.ro/evenimente/i...

Iași and Bucharest as Nodes of a Multipolar Eastern Christianity in the Seventeenth Century / Iași și București – centre ale unui creștinism răsăritean multipolar în secolul al XVII-lea (17-18 Septemb...

Institutul de Istorie „A.D. Xenopol”, Academia Română – Filiala Iași vă invită la Conferința Internațională Iași și București – centre ale unui creștinism răsăritean multipolar în secolul al XVII-lea....

institutulxenopol.ro

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.

Im not going to lie, the very real degrading of history as method(s), as expertise by the AI pushers, by Big Tech and edtech and our own administrators at a time when fascists across the world are seeking to rewrite histories to their liking occasionally gives me a particular kind of stomach ache

Levke Harders@levkeharders.bsky.social · last wk.

New website on #GenderHist & #MigHist: "Women who migrated within and to Europe have shaped our societies as workers, caregivers and activists. Let’s rediscover European history from their perspective and explore public history approaches which make their stories more visible." womenworkmigration.eu

Women Work Migration

Women who migrated within and to Europe have shaped our societies as workers, caregivers and activists. Let’s rediscover European history from their perspective

womenworkmigration.eu

Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · last wk.

Because my sister and I have both, independently, found ourselves down the same Wikipedia holes in the past few weeks: is there a good history of the Yugoslav Wars that would be accessible/interesting to both of us? (one former academic historian, one history major turned librarian)

Alex Drace-Francis@alexdrace.bsky.social · 2w ago

Romanian varză (pl. verze) usually explained from an unattested *viridia (pl. 'greens')

A green cabbage
Yoïn van Spijk@yvanspijk.bsky.social · 2w ago

When you say ‘famly’, you’re performing syncope: deleting an unstressed vowel from the interior of the word, losing an entire syllable. The Romans did this too. They turned ‘viridis’ (green) into ‘virdis’. It’s this syncopated form that birthed ‘verde’ in the Romance languages. Zoom in for more:

Attitude Magazine@attitudemag.bsky.social · 3w ago

In his new book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, historian Dr Ross Brooks finds that Victorian naturalists can teach us a thing or two about the nature of sex www.attitude.co.uk/culture/lite...

The hidden queer history of Charles Darwin's biological research, from Swallowtail butterflies to emus

In his new book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, historian Dr Ross Brooks finds that Victorian naturalists can teach us a thing or two about the nature of sex

attitude.co.uk

Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're pleased to share the details of Professor Stephen Small's upcoming UK and Ireland book tour for his new book Black Liverpool, 'The real thing': West African, West Indian and Afro-American culture at the end of the twentieth century.

Promotional poster for Stephen Small's Black Liverpool 2026 book tour. The poster features the book cover alongside the title "Black Liverpool" in large gold lettering on a dark blue background. Tour dates and venues listed are: 1 October, Writing on the Wall at Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool; 6 October, Africa Centre, University of Sussex; 8 October, New Beacon Books, London; 13 October, House of Commons, London; 15 October, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, University of Manchester; 17 October, Liverpool Literary Festival; 19 October, Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool; 20 October, University of Glasgow; 22 October, University of Edinburgh; 28 October, Maynooth University and Trinity College Dublin; and 30 October, Queen's University Belfast. Website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk.
Die Capuccinogruft@thomas.escritt.eu · 3w ago

Incredible cache of internal emails from Hungarys state news agency last week showing how news was shaped. Here a top editor tells staff to write high up that the suspect “in the Swiss train murder… is Eritrean”. That was in 2019, when government comms were all about the dangers immigrants posed

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Alex Drace-Francis@alexdrace.bsky.social · 3w ago

In a recent work I cited a source then ALL citations of it I cd find. Source A, signalled by B, translated by C, cited recently by D, E, F and G. Wdnt usu do this but I disagreed with all previous interpretations.

Sestini, Viaggio, pp. 15–16. Signalled by Iorga, translated by Alexandrescu, cited recently by Petrică, Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, Barbu, and Jianu.
Alex Drace-Francis@alexdrace.bsky.social · 3w ago

Historians! How bad in your opinion is "source mining", i.e. taking over primary sources from existing 2ndary lit when writing an article? How much acknowledgement is due? Colleague says unacceptable in any circs, I think depends heavily on context