Our fall/winter special explores the shapes of the collective and the ways togetherness shapes us. Deadline: September 30, 2026 +90-minute co-writing workshop on September 16, 2026 www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials
Ivana M. Žimbrek
@ivanamihaela.bsky.social
ÖAW Postdoc Fellow @ IHSF, Arbeiterkammer Wien Teaching @ CEU Invisible University for Ukraine PhD from CEU Historical Studies: Yugoslav department stores (she/ona)
Check out this call for a new initiative: Fascism Early Career Research Forum. www.connections.clio-online.net/event/id/eve...
Call for Applications: Fascism Early Career Research Forum (AY 2026/27)
The "Fascism Early Career Research Forum" invites applications from early career scholars (advanced MA, PhD, postDoc) working on historical fascism and its immediate aftermath, with a focus on fascist...
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Lea @leahorvat.bsky.social i ja sutra držimo izlaganja o stanovanju i robnim kućama u Jugoslaviji na Arhitektonskom fakultetu, pa svratite ako ste u Zagrebu! www.ipu.hr/article/hr/2...
Doctoral researchers in my department just published a CfP for a doctoral and postdoctoral workshop titled "Those Who Serve: Service, Labor, and Social Hierarchies in Historical Perspective."
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We’re hiring! 📢 The Department of Historical Studies is seeking a full-time Post-doctoral Researcher to join the FWF Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations,” an exciting international research network focused on transregional histories across Eurasia. 👉 careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...
Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
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❗Applications are open for the INZ Visiting Fellowship Programme 2026/2027! ❗ We welcome scholars in contemporary history, related fields and digital humanities for short research stays in Ljubljana. Deadline: 1 July 2026. More: inz.si/2026/05/11/v... #INZ #VisitingFellowship
I am happy to share that my article on women retail workers in Yugoslav department stores is now out in Labour History. It's part of an amazing special issue on women's labor history in Europe, edited by Leda Papastefanaki and Eszter Varsa.
Looking forward to the New Yugoslav Studies Non-Conference tomorrow in Vienna. Feel free to drop by if you're there!
@hasenberger.bsky.social vom #AK TV Team spricht mit @fwenninger.bsky.social, Leiter des Instituts für historische Sozialforschung, über die Geschichte des #1.Mai und darüber, warum dieser Tag bis heute relevant ist. Hört und seht euch das an! 👂👁️2/2
1. Mai: Warum ist er ein Feiertag?
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If you're a Yugo-scholar based in Vienna/Austria, consider applying to the workshop and networking event of our New Yugoslav Studies Association. It will take place on May 7 at the Central European University. events.ceu.edu/2026-05-07/n...
New Yugoslav Studies "Non-Conference"
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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...
Women's Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Book presentation with authors, with a commentary by Marcel van der Linden and Zsófia Lóránd.
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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...
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...
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Congrats to Vojtech, well deserved!
Department of Historical Studies at CEU@historicalstudies.bsky.social · 5mo agoCEU alum Vojtech Pojar received the Austrian Award of Excellence for his PhD thesis: “Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the ‘Miniature Empires,’ c. 1900 – 1939.” #modernhistory www.ceu.edu/news/2026-02...
#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...
Richard Georg Plaschka-Preis
Stipendien & Preise der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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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...
Globalising the Yugoslav Revolution in the Postcolonial World: Veterans, Memory and Transnational Networks of Solidarity
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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.
Lea Horvat@leahorvat.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur (@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....
📢 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
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...
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 ...
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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...
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...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
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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:
Marie Neurath Preis für Datenvisualisierung
Die AK Wien schreibt 2025 erstmals den Marie Neurath Preis für Datenvisualisierung aus.
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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 ⬇️
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...
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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...
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…
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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...
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
+++ 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❗
ÖAW-Bilddatenbank 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...
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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