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Václav Algirdas Zheng

@vaclavzheng.bsky.social

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History PhD + Postdoc @Johns Hopkins | Early Modern East Central Europe, Czech and Polish, Global Renaissances, Utopia, History of the Future, World History, Historical Theory and Historiography| On the Job Market

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tomorrow! Tomasz Grusiecki’s ESSA talk. essa-grusiecki.eventbrite.com

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Book review in The Polish Review 71.1: 📕 @vaclavzheng.bsky.social ( @jhuartssciences.bsky.social ) discusses "Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania" by Tomasz Grusiecki ( @manchesterup.bsky.social ) scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

Cover of The Polish Review, Volume 71, Number 1, 2026
Photo of Jadwiga Maurer at her home in Lawrence, Kansas, in the 1990s, on burgundy background

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Exciting new book by Christopher S. Celenza on rewriting the premodern history of Western Thought! Curious to see if anyone would like to write a review essay on this book alongside James Hankins' The Golden Thread. The Evolution of Western Thought - www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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The Evolution of Western Thought

Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - The Evolution of Western Thought

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

AAS Vancouver. Saturday at 2pm. On Utopian history in ancient and medieval China. Drop by and have some fun! #AAS2026 (Taking an Asian retreat from European history)

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

One week from now! East-Central Europeanists and poloniści/historycy polscy, join us for our exciting panel "300 Years Ago: History and Memory of Premodern Poland" on Thursday afternoon! This is going to be an annual conference filled with "memory." #ASEEES25 @aseees.bsky.social

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Long journey and new chapter. On my way to becoming a real scholar. PhD in Early Modern European history. Viva passed with no corrections.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Basta!

Guidonian hand with musical notation, 16th c. woodcut at the Newberry.

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is truly exciting and well worth watching! A filmed conversation with Oxford historian John Elliott (or J. H. Elliott) (1930-2022) was just made public, in high resolution and with subtitles. Prof. Elliott is supposedly my academic great-grandfather. open.substack.com/pub/ideasroa...

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop (2000 ➡️ 2025). Čisté blaho~

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#RenSA25 An exciting roundtable on the historiography of philosophy in the Renaissance and beyond. Honored to present with renowned intellectual historians: Christopher Celenza, Ada Palmer, Denis Robichaud, Thomas Leinkauf, and Wiebke Denecke. Join us on Thursday! rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Two weeks from now, MIT Global Humanities will hold this exciting event on the Renaissance question & critical issues in the humanities--- periodization, humanism, the Global South, and "future directions"! Please attend if you are there, or zoom! comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/mit-ghi-pane...

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Glad to join the exclusive evening tour at the Icon Museum in Clinton, MA during the ASEEES conference. Looking at iconography from as early as 16th-Century Russia and the Eastern Church. Small but absolutely gorgeous. The only one in North America. All should go. #ASEEES24

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yugonostalgia? Jagiellone!#ASEEES24

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Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Drop by Saturday afternoon, dear Slavicists & East Central Europeanists & Early Modernists & Cultural Historians & Bohemists & Polonists & Ukrainists! #ASEEES24

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