What can the lens of football tell us about the transformation years in East Germany? In this episode of our Transformative Podcast, historian and journalist Jan Mohnhaupt and @jelenadj.bsky.social (RECET) reflect upon this question.

Appreciation post for @asn-org.bsky.social convention this year: really amazing doctoral students’ papers in the Balkans section, a lot of time for catching up with everyone, and our roundtable on antifascism in Yugoslavia. If you work on the Balkans, join us next year in NYC!

I really enjoyed being interviewed about my PhD research by @jelenadj.bsky.social for the @recetvienna.bsky.social Transformative Podcast! Have a listen!☀️ www.recet.at/podcast/deta...

Research Center for the History of Transformations@recetvienna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Transformative Podcast out! Our researcher @jelenadj.bsky.social talks to Priska Komaromi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) about her research on Sex Tourism in Socialist Hungary

It was a pleasure to talk to @priskakomaromi.bsky.social and learn about tourism aimed at Westerners that developed in socialist Hungary from the 1960s onwards, often marketed in a sexualized way

Research Center for the History of Transformations@recetvienna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Transformative Podcast out! Our researcher @jelenadj.bsky.social talks to Priska Komaromi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) about her research on Sex Tourism in Socialist Hungary

A thread on the reception of the Easter rising among Algeriam nationalists. Emir Khaled, grandson of resistance leader Abd al-Qadir, led a movement for change to the colonial system after WWI. For his supporters, the Rising was a cautionary tale for the French. The movement's newspaper L'ikdam...

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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Out now and highly recommended: Engineering Global Socialism. Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company by Anna Calori iupress.org/978025307511...

Engineering Global Socialism

Engineering Global Socialism chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers from its Yugoslav socialist ideals through...

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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What does football tell us about Ukraine's political and economic transformations after the collapse of the Soviet Union? In this episode of our Transformative Podcast, Kateryna Chernii (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) tells @jelenadj.bsky.social (RECET) about football in the Soviet Union and Ukraine, …

The last day of my first research trip to Algeria is already there and I can’t wait to be back in a few months!

In Prague for this conference, presenting about the disability care concerning combatants and veterans in socialist Yugoslavia in the context of transnational circulations of knowledge between the West, East and South.

Centre de recherches historiques@crh.ehess.fr · 9mo ago

📍Body and care in the ordeal of war. A socio-historical perspective on East-Central and East-Southern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries📍 ❗EURETES @ehess.fr ▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10... ▶️ bit.ly/4oM0ecP

#jobopportunity Ph.D. position – Junior Researcher (Serbian Case, MEMCRIS Project) #Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz www.universitas.cz/nabidka-prac...

Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂 iupress.org/978025307522...

Excited to see The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation hit the web www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... It should be out at the end of 2025.

The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation

This cutting-edge collection of essays analyses the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a p...

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In #Gaza breitet sich eine Massenhungersnot aus und unsere Kolleg*innen und die Menschen, denen wir helfen, siechen dahin - Ein offener Brief von 100 Hilfsorganisationen u.a. von medico Oxfam, Amnesty und der Welthungerhilfe www.medico.de/presse/2025/...

So many great articles on socialist medicine and health in this issue, with a very broad geographical scope!

Socialist Medicine@socmederc.bsky.social · last yr.

Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

#ECAS2025, where @alilacandonga.bsky.social and I had wonderful two panels on medical socialist entanglements between Eastern Europe and Africa, including, among others, @severyandyakonov.bsky.social. Also heard some excellent talks on veterans, memory of anti-colonial wars and public health!

Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue brill.com/view/journal...

Gaza and the Sociology of War, open access, with @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social in Journal of Genocide Research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue. brill.com/view/journal...

My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi. #USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM

Research at @rutgershsl.bsky.social in Newark this week, working with papers of Henry H. Kessler, a leading expert in rehabilitation who worked in postwar Yugoslavia and trained Yugoslav experts at his institute in New Jersey, who would later establish the field of veterans’ disability care at home

This Wednesday! 👇

Research Group New Cold War Studies@fgncws.bsky.social · last yr.

On Wednesday 14 May 2025 @jelenadj.bsky.social l will present her project "Globalising the Yugoslav Revolution in the Postcolonial World: Veterans, Memory and Transnational Networks of Solidarity" at the ie.talks. Looking forward to an interesting discussion!

Just arrived to Reggio Emilia excited about the 3 days of discussions about antifascism and actors, practices and meanings after 1989 (and curious about “international turbo folk” band playing on the main square tonight) #Liberazione80 www.istitutocervi.it/convegno-ant...

Call for application 2025/26 The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program. The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025. The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025. For more information visit: www.inz.si/en/VF/

So great to meet up with so many colleagues from the Military Welfare History Network at #esshc #esshc2025

Participants today include our own @profalisonsfell.bsky.social @sdanisimova.bsky.social @hbuxton.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social, soon-to-be member @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and of course @donalh.bsky.social #milwelfhist #veteran

The People’s Liberation War, as the symbol of Yugoslavia, became in the 1990s the subject of radical revision in the often-parallel processes of erasure, demonisation, inversion and appropriation. Read @jelenadj.bsky.social new essay in The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/01/e...

Erasing the Yugoslav Revolution: (Mis-)Remembering Antifascism in Serbia and the Post-Yugoslav Space

The People’s Liberation War (Narodnooslobodilački rat, NOR), as the Yugoslav Partisans’ antifascist struggle and parallel socialist revolution during World War II were officially termed, was the bi…

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Our Researcher Dr. Jelena Ðureinović (@jelenadj.bsky.social) will be giving a keynote at the New Directions in Veteran History workshop at Maynooth University (@maynoothuniversity.ie) this Wednesday, April 2. You can join online or in person! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...