I'm looking for two postdocs/research fellows (2.5 years, 100%) to join the #ERC project EMPSOLID.
Preference for candidates with expertise on the Caucasus and/or Central Asia🌏, but applications focusing on other regions of the Romanov Empire are also encouraged.
These are the stories of animals harmed by Russia’s war in #Ukraine - ones I have written about over the years. Sadly, there are many more.
Do you remember them? Which story stayed with you the most?
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.
My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
Envious glints at the window pant, paw.
You lick, I lose touch with our stray afternoons,
your mind to return. You’ve come from nowhere before.
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My ears prick up at your claw-on-lino patter
complete with the crash of a flyscreen door.
Your shape’s reassertions, stir-crazy with breeze,
run with the glossy-coated spirit of play
finding your fur which can’t be contained.
Persis & Odesa
Toby Davidson, Rescue:
I hang out with what I suppose is your ghost
and call you by only the last of your names,
I in my new place and you in yours.
It’s waggling bliss before recall and what took you
snarl in combined from the teeth of an ocean
too broad to tear around, comical hound.
During this operation, one drone fell in each of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and I believe that no citizen of the Baltic states objects to paying such a price for cutting off Russian oil and gas entirely. #SanctionsWork #CutTheKremlinOff
This needs to be amplified:
The malign influence of Russia in the cultural sector extends beyond the film industry, affecting even Ukrainian musicians.
"American-Ukrainian artist Kelsie Kimberlin sues Soundcloud for removing her catalog amid Russia’s hybrid war on Ukrainian musicians. "
"The Peasants’ War was about movement. Revolutions, I realised, are made up of numbers of people moving, in ways the authorities can’t prevent or control" Lyndal Roper.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/war-military...
As saying goes,there are no good enemies
#nostagetorussia
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Shame for La Biennale di Venezia for allowing Russia back in. Full scale invasion of Ukraine is ongoing. ART is POLITICS, it is ACTION, let’s sign this petition!
Personally, it’s the best film I’ve seen in years. It explores memory and the way memory and imagination flow into each other. A film where you sense images that are never shown and you begin constructing your own. Deeply touching
Despite invading Ukraine and waging a hybrid war against Europe, not to mention committing daily war crimes against civilians, the Italians have allowed the Russian terror state to reopen its pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026 to spread its propaganda through 'art'.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Pleased to see my article published today!
For those who speak of russian “liberation” and the prosperity it supposedly brought: Schirwindt, the first German town occupied by the Soviet army - i.e., completely destroyed. Today known as Kutuzovo, it has not been rebuilt and, acc. to Wikipedia, looks much as it did immediately after the war.
"One of Atesh’s most significant achievements has been its ability to recruit and work with Russian soldiers who want to undermine Moscow’s war effort from the inside. " cepa.org/article/behi...
Since 2008, Estonia has convicted 19 Russia-linked spies — more than twice as many as Germany. One reason for this discrepancy is that Western countries prioritized counterterrorism over countering Russian espionage after the Cold War.
balticsentinel.eu/8421239/esto...
This is a 4th year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am not Ukranian, so I am only a witness to the pain of others. My hope is alive that Ukraine will prevail despite monsters and fools trying to divide again what does not belong to them.
Russian empire in 2008
Grinius writes that russian politicians at the time preferred the verb "okruglit’ (“to round off”) instead of “to seize” or “to annex” when speaking about taking territory from another state - because, as the logic went, such a seizure made one’s own state “more rounded.”
#russiacolonialism #empire
Russian empire in 1900's
Reading memoirs about the nineteenth-century Russian Empire, the future Lithuanian president Kazys Grinius recalls a striking “political truth” about colonialism and russian empire he learned at school - during a language lesson.
#Grinius #russiaisempire
At Milan–Cortina 2026, Olena Smaga competed with the message “Remembrance is not a Violation” on her glove, supporting skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych. “No one can forbid memory — we will remember,” she said.
📷: NOC Ukraine
Over on ‘All Old Strange Things’ I wrote about the translated collection of Tomas Venclova’s latest poetry, ‘The Grove of the Eumenides’ open.substack.com/pub/drfranci... 🇱🇹✍️
After 2000, the structure underwent one more costume change, donning pitched roofs, timber cladding, and chalet fantasies in order to broadcast coziness and pastoral comfort. What began as an imported vision of universal modernity thus ends as a carefully staged illusion of “tradition”.
#Ignalina
By the late 1970s, this Soviet transparency proved inconvenient, and the glass pavilion gave way to brick. Though the building retreated into itself, the social project it served was quietly freezing.
#SovietHeritage #SovietModernism #ModernismGoneWrong #sovietunion
Metamorphoses of the Žuvėdra building in Ignalina resemble an architectural comedy of errors. In 1962, a glass pavilion was planted into its setting as a manifesto of optimism and openness - while copying modernist language spectacularly indifferent to local climate, geography, and common sense.
Photo of the book page with the cited quote.
Quote of the day. Edward Thompson described French 1968 as a "revolutionary psychodrama" of the Althusserian "lumpen-intelligentsia".
(From Daniel Gordon's latest text on British students and intellectuals and 1968 in the edited volumne "Les passeurs de révolte")
Museo del Louvre - 1947
#Photography #PierreJahan
The US needs Greenland so much for national security that it has closed all but one of its bases there and keeps only 150 soldiers on the island, while Denmark would allow as many US troops as it wants
The only thing that the russian state built in the city of Donetsk in 12 years of occupation have been filtration camps. They recycled former Ukrainian art centres for this purpose at that.
Amazing. More power to the protests
