Lea Horvat
@leahorvat.bsky.social
@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social co-founder and editor lecturer at Uni Jena: coffee, gender, labor in the Habsburg South PhD (Uni Hamburg): cultural history of Yu mass housing Berlin/Jena, she/sie/ona
Fascinating piece on how women in the Belle Époque Habsburg South carved out places for themselves in public cafés — as customers, owners, or employees. Well worth a read. substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...
Lea Horvat@leahorvat.bsky.social · 2w agoWrote a short piece for the Architecture of Food issue published by Feminist Food Journal & Chlorophyll ☕️ chlorophyllmag.com/women-at-the...
Wrote a short piece for the Architecture of Food issue published by Feminist Food Journal & Chlorophyll ☕️ chlorophyllmag.com/women-at-the...
Women at the Tables of Empire — Chlorophyll homepage
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Wrote a short piece for the Architecture of Food issue published by Feminist Food Journal & Chlorophyll ☕️ chlorophyllmag.com/women-at-the...
Women at the Tables of Empire — Chlorophyll homepage
cargo.site
chlorophyllmag.com
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
It took longer than planned, and the communication about it was off, but my book is now open access! www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...
Harte Währung Beton
Der Massenwohnungsbau war eine Antwort auf den durch Industrialisierung und Urbanisierung verursachten Mangel an Wohnraum in Jugoslawien und prägt bis heute das postjugoslawische urbane Gewebe. Die Si...
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It took longer than planned, and the communication about it was off, but my book is now open access! www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...
Harte Währung Beton
Der Massenwohnungsbau war eine Antwort auf den durch Industrialisierung und Urbanisierung verursachten Mangel an Wohnraum in Jugoslawien und prägt bis heute das postjugoslawische urbane Gewebe. Die Si...
degruyterbrill.com
Bjelovar alert: tamo sam od 15. do 17. srpnja i zainteresirana za pitomo druženje i lokalnu povijest ako netko zna nekog iz Bjelovara 📨
Pisala sam za VoxFeminae o svojim i tuđim zubima 🦷https://voxfeminae.net/pravednost/zuboboja/
Zuboboja
Moja prva zubarka u Berlinu više se zanimala za hrvatsku obalu nego za moj zubni krš.
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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...
Pisala sam za VoxFeminae o svojim i tuđim zubima 🦷https://voxfeminae.net/pravednost/zuboboja/
Zuboboja
Moja prva zubarka u Berlinu više se zanimala za hrvatsku obalu nego za moj zubni krš.
voxfeminae.net
in awe of Lolita Zikmane (spotted in Latvian National Museum of Art), 1970s-1980s The Snow-Covered Table and everything else ✨
It’s common to criticize Studienstiftung for elitism, but I had the best experiences with them and was treated respectfully and fairly as a first gen academic and immigrant (unlike at 1 leftist Stiftung where an interviewer basically said that Eastern Europeans can’t formulate research questions).
Zur Studienstiftung: Ich sehe keine Medienberichte, keinen Aufschrei aus der Wissenschaft. Nur Professoren und Alumni in meinem Umfeld, die schulterzuckend zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass ihr Nachwuchs verheizt wird!? www.studienstiftung.de/infos-fuer-p...
Just arrived in Riga for the AWSS biennial conference. So happy that it’s taking place in Europe this year, as I’m not going to the US for any events at the moment. awsshome.org/about/confer...
Conferences – AWSS
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We love para-ethnographic stories and other genres beyond classic academia and op-eds. We’re always open to pitches if you feel inclined to experiment with us!
Čarna Brković@charnab.bsky.social · 4mo agoI 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
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 agoToday, @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...
Third sex/third gender in Montenegro — Women* Write the Balkans
The mountainous Balkan communities included a place to articulate gender that both confirmed and overcame the heteronormative binary.
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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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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 agoWe’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...
Happy to share that my book, "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" has just been published! iupress.org/978025307522...
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...
Sleeping Beauty — Women* Write the Balkans
There was no magic in figuring out I was a lesbian.
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If you’re in Berlin on 20 March, come along to the launch of the German edition of my book, ‘The Roma’ eriac.org/book-present...
Book Presentation at ERIAC-Madeline Potter The Roma: A Travelling History
ERIAC is pleased to host the book launch and German language presentation of The Roma: A Travelling History. The author, Madeline Potter, will be present and in conversation with Dr. Anna Mirga Krusze...
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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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Spectacular Monday off, alone with the Baltic Sea 🩵 all means of transportation included in Deutschlandticket 🥰
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....
Our (@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....
The architecture of advice: domestic literacy and welfare in Yugoslav self-management
In this article, the authors argue that housing as a welfare benefit in Yugoslavia extended beyond the mere provision of physical apartment space, encompassing a system of knowledge they term ‘dome...
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