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Marek Eby

@marekeby.bsky.social
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Epidemics, environments, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. PhD from New York University (2025)

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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The International Journal of Central Asian Studies is seeking articles for its second biannual issue. For more details on the journal, submission guidelines, and its digital journal archive, please visit the journal's website: www.ijcas.or.kr/ #centraleurasia #centralasianstudies #CallForPapers
Flyer advertising a call for submissions for the International The background features a blue, beige, and gold watercolor landscape (hills with sparse vegetation). Journal for Central Asian Studies. A heading indicates a call for submissions, while a tan text box with a black border notes the journal's title. A white-and-gold CESS logo with black text sits at the bottom of the page.
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Polly Jones @drpollyjones.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
TWO full time researcher positions in Oxford and Sheffield now open for applications, as part of our Leverhulme project “The 101st Kilometre: Soviet marginalization, migration, memory and mapping”. Please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRE941/p... jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Ever wanted to know where your nearest UK #ColdWar collection or heritage site is? www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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Cold War Sites - Google My Maps
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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am organising a workshop at Manchester on 11-12 June entitled 'HIV/AIDS and the Boundaries of Europeanness'. Abstracts are due 29 April and you can find the full call for papers here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share with interested colleagues!
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Call for Papers
Call for Papers HIV/AIDS and the Boundaries of Europeanness Workshop held at the University of Manchester 11–12 June 2026 This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to ex...
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Great scholars and research projects in this issue!
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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Marianne Kamp was awarded a CESS Book Award for "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan." Dr. Kamp spoke about the recent book in an interview with Nicholas Seay, graduate student board member of CESS. Read the piece here: tinyurl.com/42u9zdf5
Book cover for Marianne Kamp's "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan." The cover features the title in white text, Kamp's name in yellow text, and a purple-to-red gradient from the upper right to the lower left. A block-printed design in the middle of the cover depicts a man wearing a do'ppi and chopon. He is kneeling in a field, next to an upright hoe, and planting a seedling.
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Join us in Leeds!
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I did a terrible job announcing this in the rush to arrange everything, but I have started a new role as a Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds! Our project (PI: Robert Hornsby) will study the USSR's role in the WHO and global health, 1957-1991. Lots more to come!
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Slavic Reference Service @srs-uiuc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Every donation, no matter the amount, makes a real difference in ensuring we can continue providing programming and research support. Those wishing to donate can find instructions here: buff.ly/XNmS9CG We thank you for your continued support!
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
With a hat tip to @ukrarthistory.bsky.social, who posted about it over on Twitter, I'll be very excited to check out this new exhibition on Tatlin as a Ukrainian artist! If you are (or will be) in NYC, check it out at the Ukrainian Museum until April 27! www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/
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TATLIN: KYIV
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Digital historians! I know some of you are doing amazing work with GIS, and I was wondering: could you share your favorite guides, courses, and tools for this work? And for data generation, management, and use in general? #skystorians #academicsky
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Not an earth-shattering point, but it occurs to me that the entire infrastructure of robo-service is optimized to make sure only *my* time is wasted. I have a question. 2 emails and 1 phone call later, I have gotten a robo-reply and a robo-phone message. I have not managed to trouble a single human.
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How did I not know that Eastview has a full open-access database of the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (1942-1992)?! Check it out: on-demand.eastview.com/browse/publi...
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Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (PDF, article-based)
Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (PDF, article-based). Established in 1942 by the Ministry of Health of the USSR, the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (Soviet Healthcare) was Soviet Union’s premier scient...
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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Great to see the volume is out in ebook form, and in open access! Full of wonderful contributions! Check out my chapter on Soviet participation in the "wider networks" of WHO malariology if you want to know how Soviet specialists both reinforced and transcended the boundaries of the Cold War!
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Has anyone written about the (apparently ill-fated) Soviet role in the 1939-40 World's Fair in NYC? NYPL has over 1,000 linear feet of records on the fair, and mentions significant controversy over Soviet plans and eventual withdrawal...
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The whole volume looks great!
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Canadian Slavonic Papers @canslavpapers.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We are excited to start off the year with a new double-issue, featuring, among other contributions, a cluster of articles on "War against Ukraine: language, culture, and media." www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsp20/c...
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Canadian Slavonic Papers
Volume 66, Issue 3-4 of Canadian Slavonic Papers
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In today's think-piece, Paul Kurek explores and situates Reinhart Koselleck's model of conceptual history with the more recent "geological turn" in history and social theory. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
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Towards a Cultural Geology: Merging Material and Conceptual History
by Paul Kurek
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New year, new (post about a) starter pack! I’ve been slowly adding people to the Russian/Soviet/Eurasian history pack as they appear. If you’ve never seen it or it’s been a while, check it out! And if you want to be added, just ask (reply or DM)! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Love the new style!
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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I’m teaching Research Methods for the first time this coming semester. #skystorians , tell me about articles in which the authors use their primary sources in unconventional, masterful, and/or especially compelling ways. Any time period, any topic! Trying to fill a few holes in the syllabus.
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Designing a graduate course for students who have no familiarity with working with archival sources. Any readings I should or could include in the syllabus?
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Loren Graham (based at MIT) one of the greatest historians of science, who wrote on Russian & Soviet science, passed away on Dec 15. Loren's brilliant insights and publications are many but he was also an incredibly kind & generous scholar. He supported me throughout my career & I owe him immensely.
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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm preparing a presentation for a school developing a medical humanities minor, and I just want to give a shout out to this FREE 2020 publication from @aamctoday.bsky.social (1/4) store.aamc.org/the-fundamen...
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The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (PDF)
This publication reviews the historic and current state of arts and humanities integration into medical education, considers curriculum and assessment methods, and provides guidance on the research an...
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Rebecca Charbonneau @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
How can we interpret signals from extraterrestrials when we struggle to communicate amongst ourselves? My new book (out now in the UK, out in the US on Jan 13) "Mixed Signals" delves into how the Cold War forged SETI and radio astronomy as we know it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Starting your most incoherent sentence with "put simply" to deflect blame onto the reader
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from November!! niche-canada.org/2024/12/09/e... #envhist
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#EnvHist Worth Reading: November 2024
Find salmon hats, lizard obsessions, and human-microbe co-evolution in this month's list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Rethinking Global History edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel is out now - in open access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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Rethinking Global History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Rethinking Global History
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I've returned from #ASEEES24 very tired, but very inspired! A new research project beckons, although the final deadlines to submit my dissertation also loom...
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The crucial missing starter pack for Slavic lit and culture is here! Definitely not one to be missed!
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Another really interesting starter pack!
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
George’s work provides (among many other things) a truly fascinating example of the reach of transimperial models of expertise. If you don’t think you’re interested in Romanian forestry, all I can say is; you just haven’t realized you are yet!
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I really like this new blog post by Yusra Abdullahi - on her experiences in postcolonial archives, the silencing of minority rights, and the roles of the UN and states. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/hier...
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The Hierarchies and Exclusions of Changing Regional and Global Orders: The Rwenzururu Movement and its (In)Visibility at the United Nations
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Sounds fairly ominous…
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British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies @basees.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great workshop by the BASEES Eurasian Regions Study Group. 👇
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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
HPS.CESEE is an online platform created and run by historians of science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Our aim is to facilitate the exchange of information between HPS and HSTM scholars in the region stretching from Prague to Perm and from Tallinn to Tirana.
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Paolo Sartori @psardor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Running away in horror from X: hello everyone!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Who are the river people on here? Hydrologists, geomorphologists, historians, anthropologists, poets, writers, people who love them. Looking to make a starter pack! #rivers #envhist #envhum 🏞️
A rainbow touches down in green bushes on the banks of the blueish Yukon, with hills in the background
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Wayne Soon @waynesoon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Pleased to share my new article on the history of health insurance in Taiwan through the lens of ethnicity, politics, and global health. (Open Access) 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Health Insurance, Medicine, and Society in Taiwan: Chinese Authoritarianism, Taiwanese Ethnicities, and Global Actuarial Science
This article explores the history of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang KMT) government’s expansion of health insurance in Taiwan from 1950 to the 2010s through the lens of ethnicity, politi...
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our humble Russian/Soviet/Eurasian History starter pack has passed 100 members! There is still room for more. I’ve been adding people as I see them, but if you should be included and are not, I assure you: it’s only a result of my own failings! Let me know and I’ll add you! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Will obnoxiously repost myself here with a response to a great thread by @ebrandom.bsky.social. Read through all the suggestions! But god, I adore the Portelli book endlessly and recommend it to annyone interested in history, literature, memory, politics, &c.
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A wonderful short essay by Amrita Rosyada about hidden collaborators and their role in anthropological knowledge. Similar work needs to be done in many fields. If knowledge is a social relationship, we need to ask: who is involved? Who is teaching? Who is learning? www.sapiens.org/culture/nati...
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Unsung Native Collaborators in Anthropology
Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and extensive labor.
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Selfishly reposting, because I’d like to see the recommendations too
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Interested in learning more about the future direction of U.S.-Russian relations following the U.S. election? Join us (virtually) today at 12:15 for the latest installment of the join NYU Jordan Center/Columbia Harriman NYC-Russia Public Policy series: jordanrussiacenter.org/events/elect...
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Election Debrief: What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for US-Russia relations?
Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University...
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 18/11/2024
Cambridge friends, a reminder that this event is coming up on Weds 20 Nov. All welcome!
Poster advertising talk by me in Cambridge UK, 5pm in Sidney Sussex College on 20 November
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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Rereading this wonderful book about development in post-Stalinist Sov. Tajikistan. How it was negotiated, lived and given meaning in a time and place when there was much more politics and improvisation than one might think. It sweeps beautifully from the global (decolonization) to individual lives.
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My Russia/USSR/Eurasia starter pack has almost tripled in size since its humble beginnings! If you haven’t checked it out, or did so a while ago, have a look again to find even more people! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ
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Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Very proud that our new volume on Development, Socialism, and Internationalism is now out on Open Access! Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor Nana Osei-Opare and all our contributors, & @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & David Brydan for welcoming us in their series www.bloomsbury.com/us/socialism...
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Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World
In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a ne…
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