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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Together" is coming closer 📝💻 A little reminder to get your pitches in and/or join us for the Together workshop on Zoom. More info here: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

Call for pitches: Together

A reminder that the deadline to submit pitches for our fall/winter special, Together, is September 30!
If you have an idea for a piece exploring different dimensions of collectivity, we’d love to hear from you. You can e-mail us a pitch, or join our workshop on September 16, where we’ll share ideas and experiences, talk through the process, and answer questions.
The special also invites writers to experiment with co-authorship.

If you’re interested, write to us or come meet us on Zoom next week!
We’re looking forward to hearing your ideas.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The big question of the night is what the CDU decides this means for the party: dump Merz and try for a new leader to take on the far right or drop the firewall and embrace the AfD as a partner in governance. bsky.app/profile/gild...

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Cihan Çelik @cihancelik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Jetzt haben wir unseren eigenen kleinen failed state.

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Going to re-up @charnab.bsky.social's wonderful writing about this:

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hello hivemind. Who here has worked on ethnogenesis (etnogeneza) critically? Do you know of someone who has done so? Monika Milosavljevic and I are asking

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hello hivemind. Who here has worked on ethnogenesis (etnogeneza) critically? Do you know of someone who has done so? Monika Milosavljevic and I are asking

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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We started an open letter countering some of the incorrect framing about the suspension of Nathan Cofnas. It is a long letter, but we think it is needed to explain the issues. Please sign in support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'll be in Ann Arbor for this wonderful event and in Chicago (ASEEES) in November - let me know if you'll be around

Fall events at the CREEES University of Michigan

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ECR researching work/labour? Join our community of writing fellows. Deadline for applications: tomorrow!

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Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The call for Papers is still open for #SolidCareLab international conference! "Philanthropy, Solidarity, and Care: Mobilising for the Common Good in Southeast Europe". Flip the script on regional theory with keynotes Čarna Brković & Heath Cabot. ⬇️

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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"our co-resistance seeks to expose, not conceal, structures of oppression and dismantle the discourses and policies that sustain inequality and dispossession." Read the position paper of PJA here (in ENG and DE)⬇️ pja-verein.de/on-solidarit...

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is the revival of the policy vision of 'two speed Europe'. It didn't work before. Maybe stop trying to bring physics into politics?

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Join us in Berlin or online. Grateful to Urmila Goel for the invitation 🙏

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Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus @wigefa.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📢 Nächste Woche ist es so weit! Besuche in der ersten Juniwoche Veranstaltungen der Themenwoche „Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus“ oder organisiere selbst eine. 🤩 Bereits 150 Events an über 70 Hochschulen sind registriert. Höhepunkt: das bundesweite Podium am 3. Juni um 19 Uhr. Sei dabei! 👏🏼

Textplakat auf pinkem Hintergrund mit Informationen zum bundesweiten Podium am 3. Juni zum Thema „Verantwortung in Zeiten faschistischer Gefahr – Wissenschaft zwischen Analyse und demokratischem Widerstand". Geladene Gäste: Prof. Dr. Rahel Jaeggi (Philosophin, HU Berlin), Maximilian Steinbeis (Jurist und Journalist, Verfassungsblog), Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan (Professorin für Integrationsforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik, HU Berlin) sowie eine Vertreterin von Studies gegen Rechts. Moderation: Prof. Dr. Margarita Tsomou (Professorin für zeitgenössische Theaterpraxis, Hochschule Osnabrück).

Veranstaltungsplakat auf Pink-Grau für das bundesweite Podium am 3. Juni um 19:00 Uhr im Hörsaal 10 der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, mit gleichzeitigem bundesweitem Livestream an allen teilnehmenden Hochschulen. Hinweis: Den Link zum Stream gibt es am 3. Juni auf der WigeFa-Website und auf Social Media.

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

With Fatbardh Kqiku, Darja Klingenberg, and Alicja Orlow ✨️

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Join us at Futures East #2 at the Volksbühne Berlin on 20 May to discuss socialist past beyond irony and nostalgia. Humbled to speak together with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and others at the roundtable X3 FUTURES, conceived and organized by Ani Menua & Julia Boxler 💫

Poster for an event Futures East #2 to be held at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz

List of speakers at the Futures East#2, including Aleksandra Lewicki, Fatbardh Kqiku, Darja Klingenberg, Alicja Orlow, Ani Menua, Julia Boxler, Čarna Brković and others

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Join us in Prague or online on 11 May to chat about 'Realigning humanitarianism' www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Morn...

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

...first time as Tarantino, second time as farce

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Brilliant book, Žižek's endorsement notwithstanding. It discusses the conditions making a major, revolutionary change possible, without making it anticipated. No wonder it is being republished now

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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Such a brilliant piece

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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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...

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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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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Loved this piece from @charnab.bsky.social and this last passage in particular really hit and resonated with me, it's the core dynamic of so much transmisogyny, not just in the Balkans but everywhere. The idea that being a woman is so obviously shit that anyone *choosing* to be one is an abomination

Next time I met her, I asked Mima what she meant by her comment. Trans men had sworn virgins as a tradition to turn to, she said. For many it did not work, but for some it did, like for Petar. There was no such interpretive device for trans women. No traditional practice, way of being, not even a ritual to turn to. “What person in their sane mind would want to be a woman?” she asked.

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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

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HumanEuroMed @humaneuromed.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

@doratot.bsky.social has published "Challenging Socialist Solidarity: Yugoslav Perspective on Intra-Social ist Competition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Algeria (1959-1965)" available in open access here 👇 #socialistsolidarity #globalhistory edizioni.sns.it/prodotto/a-w...

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A World without Empire? Encounters and connections between African, European, and Soviet Communists, 1920s to 1970s - Edizioni della Normale

edited by Silvio Pons pp. 461 Scarica il PDF CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

David Graeber on political pleasure: "Part of the pleasure is a certain kind of abandonment of self, which comes from a trust in others, that other people are actually sometimes smarter than you are, or that a group as a whole becomes this collective mind which is smarter than you are"

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The possibility of political pleasure: David Graeber at TEDxWhitechapel

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Art piece by Sarkis, presented at the 1991 Cetinjsko Bijenale

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Super interesting discussions on how to write critique in the moment of crisis are popping up everywhere, from the CEU IAS Budapest workshop on social critique to Allegra's podcasts. Still, poets lead the way 💫

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Grateful that the first conversation about "Realigning Humanitarianism" after its publication will be held in Podgorica, with Paul Stubbs as the discussant and Natalija Vujošević as the moderator, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, on 2 April, 7 pm @paul-stubbs.bsky.social

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Thanks for sharing this, Andy. I have just ordered the book.

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

When in Mainz... kunstundbau.rlp.de/kunstwerke/k...

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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

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