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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having just started teaching new undergraduates at uni, I think we're missing a key issue in the debate about AI: these kids do not know how *not* to use AI, full stop. We assume they are 'digital natives' but they are not and a Google Scholar search is as alien to them as an archival card-index.

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'll admit, this is really scary. Tried all the queries myself (some of those are not included - German got Gemini to point to a movie, Chinese or Turk to translations from English to these languages, Canadian to one of their immigration laws, American did not give any AI short result at all etc).

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pourquoi un historien doit maîtriser la langue originale de ses sources à l'âge de l'ia ? D'abord, bien sûr, parce que la traduction n'est jamais "fidèle", même quand elle est exacte. Mais c'est vrai que cette dimension est plus ou moins sensible selon les objets et sources (par ex données quanti

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EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales @ehess.fr · 28/07/2026

🚒 Depuis les incendies de 2022 en Gironde, ses articles et ses controverses, le modèle de la sylviculture a peu changé Au vu de l'actualité, l'EHESS et les @editions.ehess.fr vous offrent l'accès à “Le feu et le capital” d'Arthur Guérin-Turcq 👉 #ÀLire sur @cairninfo.bsky.social : urlr.me/shT6pj

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am truly honoured to be among the contributors to the just launched Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Military History, with an article on War Occupations. It was a true challenge to write a synthesis on this important but often overlooked dimension of modern warfare!

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War Occupations

Summary. A war occupation occurs when the armed forces of a belligerent state assume actual authority over the territory of an enemy state during an ongoin

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

[1/8] Leyla Dakhli, historienne sociale du monde arabe et chargée de recherche au CNRS, présente avec Laurence Dufresne Aubertin "Les Révoltes de la dignité". Leur enquête montre que les soulèvements naissent aussi de blessures intimes, d’humiliations et de vies empêchées. #HGGSP #geography #dignity

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Leyla Dakhli, historienne : « Dans les révoltes arabes contemporaines, la notion de dignité est déterminante »

La chercheuse, codirectrice de l’ouvrage collectif « Les Révoltes de la dignité », explique, dans un entretien au « Monde », que les analyses géopolitiques occultent parfois les raisons profondes et i...

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In fact, the speaker admitted to "working very closely with Claude", to the point where he's currently "writing" a book entirely written by AI. People in the amphitheater gasped. The speaker - a scholar from France - then shared that his "experiment" has led him to feel useless as an intellectual.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

People need to understand that every time Pu talks about peace he means Ukrainian surrender. When he said last week the war was nearly over, he meant to express confidence in Russian victory. Whether he’s lying or he’s deluded doesn’t matter.

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bert hoppe @berthoppe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Für die "Edition Judenverfolgung" (VEJ) habe ich die beiden Bände zum #Holocaust in den besetzten sowjetischen Gebieten (einschließlich Baltikum) erstellt. Rund 600 Dokumente, übersetzt aus 13 Sprache, mit 2 ausführlichen Einleitungen. Sie sind jetzt im #OpenAccess verfügbar. 1/2

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Indeed, peer review is not equipped to fight this kind of fraud. The people who would check the citations would be the editors. Professional, well-paid, not overworked editors. It's a shame that there's so few of them left.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🔽 This is highly alarming, so let me try to explain what it's about in a manner understandable to laypeople: ‣ reCAPTCHA is a service used to prevent bots from accessing Web sites. You probably know it as “click on all squares containing bicycles”. … •1/5

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Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500–1800) 🔜 Submission deadline: 15 June 📍 Warsaw | 📅 28–30 Sept Student workshop included :) #EarlyModern #History #BlueSkyStorians More info ⬇️

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Stephane Siohan @stefsiohan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Excellent reporting in Ukraine and Colombia by @gullivercragg.bsky.social and Catalina Gomez on @france24.com about the thousands of Colombian fighters joining the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Por...

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Why are so many Colombians fighting for Ukraine? • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Observatoire de l'Ukraine Contemporaine @obsukraine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Post 1/5 : L’Ukraine face à son passé : pour une décolonisation sans angles morts. L’Observatoire de l’Ukraine contemporaine publie la traduction d’un texte important de l’historienne Daria Mattingly : « Une décolonisation sans innocence », paru dans Ukraina Moderna. Fil ⬇️

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Une décolonisation sans innocence

Par Daria Mattingly. L’agression armée de la Russie contre l’Ukraine a considérablement influencé la réflexion des chercheurs et intellectuels ukrainiens sur l’identité de leur pays et sur la nature d...

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Zoltan Miklosi @zmiklosi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 11/04/2026

What a quote: “at the beginning of the war, everybody was trained in tactical medicine. Now we realise we should have been trained in drones, because when you know drones, you need so much less tactical medicine.” Fantastic episode (in English!) podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/l...

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Drones in Ukraine: From the Air to the Ground

Podcast Episode · Le Collimateur · 10 April · 1hr 48min

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Chercheurs en shset en sciences dures devraient pouvoir s'organiser ensemble pour s'opposer à l'extension incontrôlée des pouvoirs des fsd, et pour réaffirmer la responsabilité et l'autonomie des chercheurs.

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ok, Lažljiv Izgubljenović as author is genius, thanks for the laugh !

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 07/04/2026

🚨 Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 'Les sources nativement numériques. Enjeux de #documentation et de #redocumentarisation' par @valeriesch.bsky.social , Frédéric Clavert et @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social Un article à lire en #openaccess 👇 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Émojis les plus utilisés entre février et juillet 2020
pour une requête COVID dans les tweets archivés par l’INA

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Slezkine & cie focusing on Ukrainian Russian speakers need to account for one fact: why has the overwhelming majority of Ru-speaking Ukr refugees since 2014 chosen "the West" (in and out of Ukriane) over Russia?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

C'est en ligne et le nouveau site est super réussi ! Merci pour votre confiance @aphg.bsky.social @jalazard.bsky.social Vous pouvez mettre un signet sur www.aphg.fr/lhistoire-pa... (et n'hésitez pas à participer)

capture d'écran page d'accueil Histoire par les textes

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 05/02/2026

EHRI #CallForPapers | Transnational Workshop of @ehri-cz.bsky.social and EHRI-AT: Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches 18-19 May 2026 | Venue: Prague, Czech Republic | Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026, submissions in English only. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-call-fo...

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Let me clarify this with a small thought experiment. Let's imagine we invent glasses that can automatically and discreetly read into your ear anything written to see. They can decipher hard to read script. They can produce broadly accurate summaries with a quick scan, as a good reader can.

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"apprendre à dire non" est un conseil fréquent notamment aux jeunes femmes. J'ai mis longtemps à comprendre que ça ne signifie pas juste dire non aux tâches inutiles ou ingrates, mais qu'il fallait savoir dire non à des choses passionnantes qu'on n'a pas le temps de faire malgré l'envie.

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Many professors, yes, even in the humanities, use IA. IT has useful uses where it can meaningfully help a highly trained professionnal in some tasks. But it threatens the very possibility of training the next generation to the level where there can benefit from IA use.

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

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500 Years of Yiddish Printing: Symposium – Oxford Medieval Studies

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Caroline Mezger @carolinemezger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The @dhi-paris.fr and Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah have launched a new one-year research fellowship on the history of the Holocaust in France/Western Europe! Deadline for this first round of applications: April 1. More details below 👇👇👇 www.dhi-paris.fr/fileadmin/us...

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Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

CfP - Experiencing Borders. The Long 1940's and their legacies in (Eastern) Europe International conference, Lviv, Ukraine Sep. 16-18, 2026 @ehess.fr with Center for urban history in Lviv, Charles University, Lviv office of the @maxweberstiftung.de Apply by April 20, 2026!

Wars intensify borders in multiple ways: along with administrative hardening, securitization, and militarization,
wartime also enhances the importance of migration and refuge, the transfer of supplies and
technologies, as well as processes of social re/bordering within societies, including the radical reconfiguration
of gender orders. Wars are also about shifting, fading, and disappearing borders. Looking at
borders in the context of mass violence, especially wars, benefits from recent interdisciplinary scholarship
that treat them not as fixed spatial delimitations of territory, drawn and redrawn throughout history
by states and governments, but as an everyday social reality constituted through contingent bordering
processes. These processes involve a multitude of social actors, practices, narratives, and materialities.
By foregrounding the lived experience of borders, we intend to place at the center the agency of those
who engage with them—whether regularly or occasionally—and who, through embodied experience,
participate in their everyday (re)creation. In this sense, borders are continuously enacted, appropriated,
and contested through mundane encounters that both reproduce and potentially destabilize their
meaning and effects.
The conference will focus on the multiple borders in Europe that were drawn and redrawn, experienced
and installed, moved and secured throughout the long 1940s—a period of violence and upheaval
shaped by annexation, war, occupation, and postwar settlements. Thus, the opening moment of this
period can be located in the Anschluss of 1938, followed by a cascade of annexations that turned borders
into military frontiers after 1939; the establishment of different occupation zones; postwar border
settlements formalized through agreements signed, and people moved. The last pieces of this new re/
bordering puzzle were put in place by the mid-1950s.

From the
Yugoslav Wars, which marked the return of warfare to the European continent, through the annexation
of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the entire
border system that originated in the long 1940s is being challenged and changed.
Taking these two periods—the historical and the more contemporary—as points of reference, we
would like to look not only at state borders but at complex and composite border systems of different
types and kinds. These include state borders recognized under international law and transgressed in the
acts of annexation or declarations of war; borders between and within occupation zones (such as ghetto
borders); borders delineating zones of control and borders dividing ideological systems (such as the
“Iron Curtain”, which was both closed and permeable); state borders within ideological blocs, in particular
within the Socialist Bloc; borders within supra-national entities. Furthermore, borders were more than
lines delineating territories; they were both tools and markers of a radical and major societal change.
We welcome researchers who engage with these periods across different European geographies—
particularly Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe, but not exclusively—and offer a perspective
on borders as social constructs.

We invite submissions focusing on the following topics:
- Borders experiences and imagined
- Materiality of borders and environment
- Multiple types of borders and modes of bordering
- Movement and bodily experiences
- Social relations
-Welfare
- Temporalities
- Urban / rural perspectives
- Property issues
- History and methodology of border studies applied to wartime contexts

We welcome submissions (max. 700 words) from scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Submissions from early-career researchers are explicitly encouraged. Applications should be sent to
conferences@lvivcenter.org by April 20, 2026, with the subject line “Experiencing the Borders.”
Notifications on acceptance will be sent by May 5, 2026. We expect to have draft papers or notes
submitted to discussants by September 7, 2026.
The conference language will be English. Organizers can provide assistance to the conference participants
with limited English proficiency but strong proposals.
The conference will take place on 16-18 September 2026 in Lviv (Ukraine). Online participation will
be possible; however, preference will be given to in-person attendance. The organizers will cover travel
and accommodation costs for all participants who are not funded by their home institutions.
This conference is part of the activities of the “War and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (20th-
21st centuries)” Research Alliance (EURETES, EHESS-MESR), which brings together the Center for
Russian, Caucasian, East-European and Central-Asian Studies at the School for Advanced Studies
in Social Sciences (CERCEC-EHESS) in Paris, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social
Sciences at Charles University in Prague, and the Center of Urban History. The conference will be
hosted in Lviv by the Center for Urban History in cooperation with the Research Centre Ukraine / Max
Weber Foundation.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Putin proposes to take over the "temporary administration of Ukraine" under "UN supervision" in order to "enable democratic elections". This is a remarkable repetition of the promises Stalin made in 1945 with respect to Poland, which led to democratic politicians ending up dead, in prison or in

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Галузин: Россия готова обсуждать внешнее управление Украиной под эгидой ООН

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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

in another entirely illegal move, the nihilistic totalitarianism of the Georgian Dream continues its rampage, here against #Georgia's most successful research university. Yes, it is a regime, and yes, this is illegal and totally illegitimate. open.substack.com/pub/ganatleb...

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Unconstitutional Assault Strips Universities of Core Faculties

Starting 2026, most programs and faculties will be cut or reassigned, with Ilia State University effectively dismantled and GTU reduced to technical disciplines.

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is on Bluesky now. Follow here: @kritikajournal.bsky.social #academicsky #skystorians

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Outside of Global North scholars working in European archives nobody has easy access to archives. I was lucky as an Indian national to experience the extraordinary democratization and transparency of Brazilian archives after the dictatorship. It gave me a horizon of hope not a standard.

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Nouvel épisode en ligne: les restitutions artistiques de 1815, avec Bénédicte Savoy. Un moment passionnant de fin d'empire, où le Louvre doit rendre des milliers d’œuvres issues des conquêtes françaises, préfigurant les débats actuels sur l'art africain notamment. parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

couverture du livre 1815 le temps du retour

Le livre : 1815, le temps du retour. Restituer l’art en Europe après l’Empire napoléonien, Paris, La découverte, 2026.

La discussion :

Une lecture comparée des enjeux de restitution des fins d’empire (1 :00)
L’ampleur des spoliations révolutionnaires et napoléoniennes (7:40)
Les timides débuts des restitutions en 1814 (16:30)
Les vainqueurs haussent le ton en 1815 (25:40)
Spoliations napoléoniennes, spoliations coloniales de l’époque (36:30)
Les œuvres rendues ne le sont jamais à l’identique ou dans les mêmes lieux (42:15)

Conseil de lecture et référence :

Entretien avec Maria Pia Donato
Matilde Cartolari, Ambassadors of Beauty. Italian Old Master Exhibitions and Fascist Cultural Diplomacy 1930-1940

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Aix Marseille Université @univ-amu.fr · 14/01/2026

[#Infuse] Mars Imperium portail web en libre accès dédié à l’histoire impériale et post-coloniale de Marseille. Il est le fruit d’un projet collectif rassemblant des laboratoires de recherche d’Aix Marseille Université, des institutions culturelles et des partenaires socio-culturels. ⤵️

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Portail Mars Imperium : comprendre l’histoire coloniale et post-coloniale de Marseille

Mars Imperium est un portail web en libre accès dédié à l’histoire impériale et post-coloniale de Marseille (XIXᵉ-XXIᵉ siècle). Il est le fruit d’un projet collectif rassemblant des laboratoires de re...

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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

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The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...

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CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed

Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the ...

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Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung @leibniz-ios.de · 08/01/2026

📚 #OutNow In the summer of 1940, many Romanian Jews fled to the USSR to escape persecution and protest antisemitism. In this book chapter, Svetlana Suveica (IOS) examines this largely overlooked migration & the fate of the refugees. Published by Bloomsbury Academic. ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

The banner shows a new publication by Svetlana Suveica (IOS): "Choosing the Soviet Union over Romania: The 1940 Jewish Exodus as Protest and Survival" published in "Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands, Popular Responses to Nation-Building, 1900-1940".

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 05/01/2026

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

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Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA

Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire

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Fabian Baumann @fabianbaumann.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!

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Universität Basel: PhD position: History of Interwar Czechoslovakia (case study Bohemian Lands)

The Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a invite applications for a fully funded, four-year (1 plus 3) PhD position in a history project led by Dr. ...

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