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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

On 22 October, Alexander Walther will explore Jewish Holocaust memory and antifascism in the GDR, drawing on personal documents and the work of Arnold Zweig and Helmut Eschwege. Free lecture, in person and online: lbilondon.ac.uk/walther-26

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📕 🏆 Call for submissions: the 2027 BIAJS Book Prize! Inviting applications from books in any area of academic Jewish Studies related to early modern through contemporary period across all disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts and Law). EOI deadline is 15 Jan: biajs.co.uk/2026/10/06/c...

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Call open for Book Prize 2027

Call for Submissions: 2027 Book Prize We are pleased to announce that the BIAJS book prize is now accepting submissions of interest for 2027, in the category of early modern through contempo…

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Come work with us at Winchester! We're hiring a 0.5FTE open-ended contract in pre-1800 English Lit. Details at the link. Deadline 14 October. Please share! Lecturer in English Literature at University of Winchester share.google/2la1PLwY1Tey...

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Lecturer in English Literature at University of Winchester

An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in English Literature is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Brian DeLay @briandelay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Berkeley History is hiring in African History. Please help us spread the word😎 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05494?app...

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Assistant Professor – African History - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Anna Koch @annakoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wish I had someone to call to discuss brisket with our British butcher. Wonder if there is a lend a bubbe service.

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kasparburger.bsky.social @kasparburger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...

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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A job in modern British History. At Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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UCL Arts and Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Join us for an evening of readings and conversation on 8 June Bernhard Malkmus and translator Marielle Sutherland present Flight Paths / Himmelsstriche (2025), a memoir and ecological reflection on life between the Northumbrian coast and the Scottish mountains buff.ly/NekwY8b @uclselcs.bsky.social

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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📢 JOB ALERT📢 Please spread the word that there are 2x1-year, F/T (Teaching & Research) posts going in History @ Lancaster: Lecturer in Modern British History (1800-2000), with a focus on the social & cultural histories of the economy, advertising, or consumerism. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Modern British History

Lecturer in Modern British History, c1800-2000 The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Modern British History, c.1800-2000 (Teaching and Scholarship). ...

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Deadlines for intention to submit is THIS FRIDAY 27th March !

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Join us for this seminar with Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos to hear more about his book 'The Interpreters' which offers a new interpretation of the cultural and intellectual exchanges between Britain and southeastern Europe in an age of imperial transformation. 🗓️ 3 March at 6pm ➡️ buff.ly/3FH0K8u

Event poster for 'After Empire: National Questions and the making of International Order in Southeastern Europe' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

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York History Department - Academic Jobs

Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Czech and Comparative Literature The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature. 🗓️ Deadline: 26 February ➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Please join us for the next Study of Central Europe seminar with @jcbretan.bsky.social to hear more about British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era. 🗓️ 27 January at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @annakoch.bsky.social

Event poster for 'T.S. Eliot's anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era' with a photo ofT.S. Eliot quote in concrete, embedded in the ground on the Queen's Walk, near the Tate Modern Gallery.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Please join us for this Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture with @annakoch.bsky.social to hear more about the return journeys of Italian Jews who survived the camps in Eastern Europe and travelled across countries devastated by war. 🗓️ 27 January, 1.30pm 📍 Online www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

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Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture - A Long Road: Italian Holocaust Survivors’ Journeys Home

Join us for this Lunch Hour Lecture with Anna Koch, DAAD Francis Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more ➡️ bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/u...

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women. 🗓️ 2 December at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social

Event poster for 'Mourning a lost future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime' with a photo of Tea Arciszewska.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Please join us for this seminar with Anders Blomqvist, who will examine how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania. 🗓️ 11 November at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @annakoch.bsky.social

Event poster for 'Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights (1918–1995)' with a photo of a Man Riding Horse Sculpture in Romania.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What is ‘Central Europe’? Where do its borders lie? Does it even exist? Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @ljukic.bsky.social to find out more. 🗓️ 14 October at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @annakoch.bsky.social

Event poster for 'Central Europe The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea' with an image of the book cover.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/07/2025

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

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Anna Koch @annakoch.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thrilled that 'Home After Fascism' has received the 2025 BIAJS Book Prize! Many thanks to the #BIAJS and especially to the prize committee for their kind words! bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/07/08/b...

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BIAJS Book Prize 2025

BIAJS Book Prize 2025 We are delighted to announce the BIAJS book prize winner and two honourable mentions for 2025: The 2025 winner: Anna Koch, Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after th…

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news. "A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

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Anna Koch @annakoch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Thanks for sharing, that's so helpful!

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🔊 There's still time to register for today's event: www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just two days to go! Do join us for four weeks of online, international, interdisciplinary conversations around water livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with Katalin Straner, who will discuss her research on the translation and reception of Darwinism and evolutionary thought in the 19th-century Habsburg Empire. 🗓️ 29 April at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/Dwu5kpE

Event poster for 'Knowledge in Exile: Translating Science for (and in) 19th century Central Europe'.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Please join us for the launch of 'The Last Peasant War' (@princetonupress.bsky.social) by Jakub Beneš, who will discuss his new book with @annakoch.bsky.social and Celia Donert. Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social. 🗓️ 11 March at 6pm 📍 SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/3EGeZwh