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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of Russia's most dynamic and beloved small non-fiction publishers has announced it's closing down after several years of pressure on its founders and employees. Yet there is no better snapshot of the zeitgeist than its most recent releases. Saving it here for posterity.

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Highly recommend. [📢 shared through Valeria Umanets] Call for Papers: Politics & Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop @ MPSA2027 Chicago | April 1–4, 2027 We welcome research on politics & political economy across Eurasia, from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Deadline: Sept. 15 More info:

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Politics and Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop

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Asli Cansunar @aslicansunar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy (HPE)? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE), we discuss state-of-the-art research in the field on a regular basis. ‼️We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Please see the link below if you’d like to join.

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The pump! (And a pint right after.)

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Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

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Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We just wrapped up another year of the Stanford Historical Social Science workshop! I'm so proud of the community we ended up building. Check out this year's line-up on our website, and please spread the word and consider presenting if you're ever in the Bay Area! sites.google.com/stanford.edu...

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Stanford HSSW

Welcome to the Historical Social Science Workshop at Stanford! We invite papers from across the social sciences that engage with historical subjects or rely on historical data, broadly defined. To fos...

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

why hasn't circulating the acknowledgements section of a dissertation to all mentioned in there been normalized? i just occasionally found myself mentioned in the diss's of a couple of department friends, which i had no idea about, while looking up how the diss should be formatted.

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

By the way, a week ago, I defended my dissertation - credit is due to the best committee who have inspired and supported me throughout these crazy years (@saumjha.bsky.social, @Steve, and @Vicky, in a purely alphabetical order). Next stop: TBA once a visa gets approved (nothing new under the sun).

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Friends and colleagues, I'll be at MPSA this Friday through Sunday, and if you'd like to catch up, now is the perfect time! I'm leaving the US in June and have a strong suspicion that I won't be back for a while :-) If you'd like to grab a coffee or a beer, do let me know!

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is such an amazing conference and the most welcoming community. Please consider applying!

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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm very excited that you all can now read about Itinerant Rule in the Holy Roman Empire from 919-1519 in the @ajpseditor.bsky.social! Thank you @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social and Jørgen Møller for a great collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

On April 21, @nvasilenok.bsky.social (Stanford) will present "Reading Orwell in Moscow" and @sgehlbach.bsky.social (Chicago) and @eugenian.bsky.social (@liverpooluni.bsky.social) will discuss.

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As I still haven't found a job (btw, I'm on the job market), I keep distracting myself by knitting. Meet my recreation of a historical pair of mittens from the northeastern part of East Prussia (today the most mesmerizing and most heartbreaking part of the Kaliningrad region, my home.)

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Amid everything else, a brief note to announce the CFP for the 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia. If you are an economist, historian, or political scientist working on Imperial Russia or the USSR, please consider applying. July 17–18, Paris.

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Scott Gehlbach - 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and

Call for papers We invite submissions to a workshop on the economic history and historical political economy of Eurasia. The workshop will take place at th...

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Natalia Vasilenok @nvasilenok.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Happy to announce that I’ve just enticed my most amazing coauthor and great friend @timurnatkhov.bsky.social onto this platform! Please give Timur a follow!

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Jared Rubin @jaredcrubin.com · 22/09/2023

First post on Blue Sky! Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!) The Handbook comes out in November

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