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Zora Piskačová

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Historian of Central Europe | Academy Scholar @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social @harvard.edu‬ ‬| Interested in towns, borders and people trying to cope.

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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📢 My new article, "Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38," is now out in Central European History via First View! And it's open access! Many thanks to everyone who made this piece better. You know who you are!
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Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38 | Central European History | Cambridge Core
Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38
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Gábor Egry @gegry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Next year, again! Please, distribute, apply, consider coming as mentor, discussant, chair! @dacretu.bsky.social @giannako.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social @zorapiskacova.bsky.social @rkpejsova.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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Central European History Convention
In July 2027 the University of Vienna, the Institute of Austrian Historical Research, and the Wirth Institute of Austrian and Central European Studies will host a second Central European History Conve...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Jürgen Habermas im Alter von 96 Jahren gestorben
Jürgen Habermas ist in Starnberg gestorben. Das teilte der Suhrkamp Verlag mit.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The making and remaking of #Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland by Cristina Florea is now available (10 Feb UK pub) Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History
Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland by Cristina Florea
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Very upsetting news from my alma mater, which has decided to close both the European Studies Center and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, among others.
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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Peter Becker + I wrote "Forward: A Kaleidoscope of CEH-C Meanings" to explain how the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention and the collection of 20 blogs by emerging scholars on the joys, promises, + challenges of the event came into being. Read! Share! Discuss! cehc.hypotheses.org/79
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Odešla Atomová lady. Čest její památce.
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
An honor to hear Czech President Petr Pavel speak @harvard.edu last night, and even more so to have the chance to meet him shortly after. Děkujeme za návštěvu, pane prezidente! 🇨🇿
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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We are getting ready to welcome President Pavel of the Czech Republic to Harvard today.
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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026 Application deadline: 30.11.2025 URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Very honored to be part of this great group!
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Apply and join me next year! careers.historians.org/jobs/2159507...
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Weatherhead Scholars Program in Cambridge, MA for Harvard University:Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Exciting opportunity in Cambridge, MA for Harvard University:Weatherhead Center for International...
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The TV show 'Smoke' on Apple TV just had a side character explain to his teenage son why he has to leave him and move across the country: “It’s tenure-track, man. These positions come up once every five or ten years... like... I can’t. It’s like being an astronaut and getting called to the moon.”
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My friend Raul Carstocea is advertising 2 PhD positions within his fabulous ERC project. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/p...
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PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Discover a PhD Studentship: PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Can't believe I'll be leaving this gem of a town in two weeks. This is so well deserved!
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Town of Carrboro Named All-American City After National Competition - Chapelboro.com
The Town of Carrboro won an All-American City award from the National Civic League Sunday evening after a weekend competition.
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Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung @leibniz-ios.de · 25/06/2025
📣Tomorrow starts our 12th #IOSConference2025 on economic continuities between the interwar period & post-1989 transformations in Central, Eastern & #SoutheastEurope. W/ keynotes by Tamás Vonyó (Bocconi University, Milan) & János Mátyás Kovács (@recetvienna.bsky.social). 📅 26–27 June | #LeibnizIOS ⬇️
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IOS Annual Conference: "Continuity and Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century"
IOS Annual Conference 2025
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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above." ~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I have done it. I have found a mistake on the first page of my ProQuest-approved dissertation. #newlevelachieved 🏆
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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Call for participants / Summer school: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries. Prague, 23-25 October 2025, Deadline 15 August 2025. URL: www.oeaw.ac.at/ikw/v...
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I "graduated" less than a week ago, and UNC Library has already cut off my access. Went to look something up and—boom—ACCESS DENIED. How do independent scholars even survive out here?
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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
7 years ago today I testified in front of a NYC judge + jury how widespread ignorance of how academia works helped a murderer kill a promising scholar vulnerable only because he wanted a stable job. Things have only gotten scarier. Please share: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/historian-mu...
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The Historian and the Murder Trial
On May 14, 2018, I was led into a nondescript courtroom in Kew Gardens, Queens to testify at a murder trial. I am a historian who loves details, and the resources
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Officially Dr. Piskačová! Thank you, @unchistory.bsky.social, for everything!
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I couldn't agree more! Thanks for 'walking' with me @tessmegginson.bsky.social! Here is to us—historians of the Czechoslovak borderlands!
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
What an incredible lineup! I’m so bummed to be missing it...
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A stark reminder of how fragile our infrastructure networks are—and how deeply we rely on them, even when we rarely give them a second thought.
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Ramazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.
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Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Absolutely worth the read this morning: Tara Zarah on collapsing globalization and how similar developments have played out in the past www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...
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Opinion | Globalization Is Collapsing. Brace Yourselves. (Gift Article)
The world was just as intertwined 100 years ago, and its unraveling was a disaster. Can we avoid the same outcome?
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John Paul Newman @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Myself and my colleague Dr Raul Carstocea are inviting applications for a PhD scholarship at Maynooth University , looking at the imperial roots of the Ustasha fascist movement. If successful, the position is fully-funded for four years. Please share and feel free to contact me!
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Six years and 100k words later, the “thing” is done and printed for final read-through.
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It's Women's History Month. Because the offerings are so broad, I'm posting books, often about women & agender, by women in my field, HABSBURG Central Europe. Nope, not Germany! First, by Mo Healy, whose book from earlier this century has changed the field. Among the best books on World War I.
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Guggenheim might be old news, but I’m excited to share that I was recently featured in the @unchistory.bsky.social newsletter talking about my research both in and about Cieszyn/Český Těšín. Check it out!
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Zora Piskačová Named a Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar | The Department Historian
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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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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's October 19, 1935, and Czechoslovak censorship is at its best: "This is not how we imagined the governance of our affairs," in Moravskoslezský deník.
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
📢 Eastern European historians—I'm looking for an #ASEEES25 panel! My work focuses on borderlands, empire-to-nation transitions, urban history & local elites. I’m also open to organizing a panel on memorialization of post-WWI border conflicts if anyone would be interested? Let me know!
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Sem: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1523… Prag, 05.05.2025-07.05.2025, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Johann Gottfried Herder-Forschungsrat, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2025
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Habsburg Central Europe in Global History
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Many thanks to the Central European History Society for sponsoring our emerging scholars panel at the #AHA25 and kudos to everyone who woke up bright and early on Sunday to delve into the various ways Central Europeans navigated nationalism with pragmatism. As this photo shows, we had a blast!
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you’re at the AHA in New York and you don’t know what to do with your Sunday morning, I’d have a suggestion… (This is a totally objective advice, of course!)
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas! Veselé Vánoce! Frohe Weihnachten! Wesołych Świąt!
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1521… Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …
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Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
CFA: Borders in Motion: Narratives of Cooperation and Conflict www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1520… Prague, 01.12.2024-15.04.2025, Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2025
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Borders in Motion: Narratives of Cooperation and Conflict
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Alison B. Curry @abcurry.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In February, I’ll be giving the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies’ Emerging Scholars Talk on Zoom. Event page is linked below, but registration won’t be live until January. Mark your calendars for February 3 at 5:30pm EST if you’re interested in Jewish burial societies and funeral homes in Poland.
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Emerging Scholars: From Burial Society to Funeral Home
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I wrote a little "newbie" blog post for the Global History and Culture Centre at University of Warwick. Title is self-explanatory. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
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East-Central Europe and Global Histories
Dr. Anca Cretu, new member of the GHCC, reflects on the relationship between East-Central Europe and global history.
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Tomas Cvrcek @tomascvrcek.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A new CfP for all those interested in the #econhist of Central & Eastern Europe in the long 20th century. To be held at IOS @leibniz-ios.de in lovely Regensburg, 26-27 June 2025. Submission deadline: 15th Dec 2024. #econsky
Call for Papers for a conference on interwar economic history of Cetnral and Eastern Europe, held in Regensburg, Germany, in June 2025.
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Proud Tar Heels!
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s the end of November and that means it’s time for #ASEEES24! But we’re in #Boston so before the panels start, everyone should get a cannoli… I recommend Mike’s.
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