New Book: Sickle and Veil - Sickle and Veil Communist gender policies were often violent, placing many people, particularly women, in difficult and marginalized positions. Targeted individuals were rarely consulted, yet their clothing and bodil...

My second book is out 🎉

If you are interested in gender policies and Muslim minorities in Eastern Europe, it is on its way to libraries and can already be ordered online. Very excited to finally share this one.

sickle-and-veil.net

My review of Iryna Vushko’s "Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867–1939" is now online in the Austrian History Yearbook.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Half price on Amazon

Everybody loves a bargain, don’t they. Grab yours now, by pre-ordering my new book with a massive discount 👊

no :(

Indeed, the renown publisher Geca Kon rejected the publication as it was too traumatic, with the logic that it is better to forget.

I think the experience of this retreat in 1915 also shaped the decision of Milan Nedić to accept to be the Serbian maréchal Pétain in Second World War.

Staging the Wizard: Tesla, Photography, and Self-Fashioning of a Scientist Did Tesla really sit next to millions of volts?

Did Nikola Tesla truly sit there as lightning exploded around him?

My new Substack looks at the trick behind the photo, the self-fashioning of scientists, and where Tesla really was in his life when he posed as a “wizard” of electricity.

open.substack.com/pub/milosvoj...

They need to add a haček, but other than that, I quite like our cover.

The Armistice Day post.

The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita

"early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita"

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Nothing says how it is to be a scholar like a €30 paywall on an article about how hard it is to be an early-career scholar.

The abstract is free, the irony is extra.

:there might not be a second date, but she will know how bravely the Genoese fought:

Three Posters by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden (1887–1938; Merrill C. Berman Collection, #skystorians): mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...

☺️

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures (with Emine Saner for the @theguardian.com; #photography, #skystorians). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#46 The 2020s: The Age of What? An Adjective for Our Times

Wonderful set of reflections from Miloš Vojinović (@infinite-milos.bsky.social), in part on one of my great mentors in François Hartog; #skystorians: milosvojinovic.substack.com/p/46-the-202...

You are most kind, as always, dear John.

Thanks! I guess it's too powerful, and there's no other suitable one, so it will stay there forever, probably.

You are most kind, as always, dear John.

#44 The dramatic last stand of Mašera and Spasić in April 1941. Two Men, One Ship.

I grew up on a street named after them, so here are a few lines about who they were and the connection between politics and memory.

milosvojinovic.substack.com/p/44-the-dra...

Stunning artwork in the turbine room of the Djerdap Hydroelectric Dam. The sculpture "Power of Danube" was made by Frano Delale.

Cold War dams as a point where modernisation, state power, and technocracy met, from Assuan to Djerdap, and from China to Brazil...

Astonishing Find in the Czech Republic: Hikers Discover a 3.7 Kilogram Serbian/Bosnian Gold Treasure - Arkeonews A leisurely hike on the slopes of Zvičina Hill in the Czech Republic turned into an extraordinary discovery for two lucky individuals who unearthed a hidden treasure trove valued at over 7.5 million C...

"Astonishing Find in the Czech Republic: Hikers Discover a 3.7 Kilogram Serbian/Bosnian Gold Treasure"

P.S. Could really use a cash injection, so it's hiking time!

arkeonews.net/astonishing-...

Otto Freundlich (German, born Poland. 1878–1943; Merrill C. Berman Collection; #skystorians, #arthistory) mcbcollection.com/campaigns/vi...

#43 What would Serbs from 1900s think of contemporary Serbia? If a time machine existed

Miloš Vojinović (@infinite-milos.bsky.social), "What would Serbs from 1900s think of contemporary Serbia?" #skystorians milosvojinovic.substack.com/p/43-what-wo...

Dear John, thank you!

#42 The Global Echoes of the Siege of Belgrade in 1688 Serbia, Mexico and Japan in 1700

Fantastic, just a model of the best sort of intellectual and cultural history and highly recommended to all #skystorians: Miloš Vojinović, "The Global Echoes of the Siege of Belgrade in 1688" (@infinite-milos.bsky.social). milosvojinovic.substack.com/p/42-the-glo...

Mass Protests in Europe and Serbia: Something Is Profoundly Wrong - CorD Magazine Growing discontent with political elites, economic instability and global crises are fuelling mass protests across Europe. With traditional solutions failing, it remains uncertain whether Gen Z’s digi...

It is one of the five texts written for the magazine's forum "Something is profoundly wrong - mass protests in Europe and Serbia."

cordmagazine.com/focus/mass-p...

Dr Miloš Vojinović, research associate of the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts: Time of Great Unease Despite the differences that define the ongoing protests in various countries, the protestors are clearly united by a sense of unease regarding the future and a crisis of internal political and social...

I wrote a short text for CorD magazine exploring what connects protests in different European countries. #Serbia #Europe

cordmagazine.com/opinion/time...

#41 The generational divide and political crisis in Serbia The term “crisis” is often used without sufficient justification.

My dear friend and colleague Miloš Vojinović ( @infinite-milos.bsky.social) wrote an *extremely* smart piece about Serbian history today that's well worth the time and attention of #skystorians everywhere: milosvojinovic.substack.com/p/41-the-gen...

Utterly fascinating document from the Département fédéral des affaires étrangères DFAE; h/t @infinite-milos.bsky.social. This is a reading list for aspiring diplomats that would utterly shame most historians of Europe, Anglophone or otherwise. #skystorians Cf. www.eda.admin.ch/eda/fr/dfae/...

#41 The generational divide and political crisis in Serbia The term “crisis” is often used without sufficient justification.

I wrote a piece on the current protests in Serbia, viewed through a generational lens.

milosvojinovic.substack.com/p/41-the-gen...