On Thursday, April 16, Lucy Jeffery will be at Central European University in Budapest to launch the edited volume Replaying Communism. Sign up for the hybrid event: events.ceu.edu/2026-04-16/b...

Stephen Henighan’s English translation of 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙨 was reviewed by Thomas de Waal for Strategic Europe. Read the full review of the book, part of the CEU Press Classics series, here: carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

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Join commissioning editor Jen McCall for the roundtable Demystifying Open Access at BASEES 2026 in Birmingham, April 11 at 11am.
Read more about the conference and find the full program here:
baseesconference.org

Promotional graphic featuring the book The Warsaw Ghetto Little Nurse: The Memoirs of Alina Margolis-Edelman. The cover shows a stylized portrait of a woman in muted blue and beige tones. The title appears at the top, with editor and translator credits below. A circular label in the corner reads “New Title!” against a bright yellow background, with CEU Press branding on the cover.

The Warsaw Ghetto’s Little Nurse (ed. Irena Grudzińska-Gross) presents the memoirs of Alina Margolis-Edelman, Polish-Jewish writer, physician, and activist who endured the Warsaw Ghetto and served as a nurse and courier for the Resistance movement.

🔗 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Promotional graphic featuring the book cover Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered. The cover shows a historical black-and-white illustration of a crowded town scene with people gathered in front of buildings. The title appears in large white text, and the editors are listed below. A bright yellow circle in the corner reads “New Title!” against a pink background, with CEU Press branding at the bottom.

𝙀𝙩𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 (ed. Woodworth, Davoliūtė, and Staliūnas) explores shifting identities and borders in the Baltic region—and in open access.

aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Linda McGrath will speak on Plenary 1 of this year's UKSG Conference to discuss what it means to be a university press in the 21st century.
#UKSG2026 #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityPress

Just a couple weeks until #BASEES2026 (Apr. 10–12)! CEU Press is excited to join the conference to explore new research on Russia, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Stop by our table to meet commissioning editor Jen McCall. 🔗
www.aup.nl/en/events/co...

Graphic announcing an international workshop titled “From Dissertation to Book: Jewish Studies Publishing in East and East Central Europe,” with a photo of CEU Press books on display and CEU Press branding.

Our editor Ilse Lazaroms @ilsejosepha.bsky.social joined 10 emerging Jewish studies scholars in Budapest for a 3-day workshop on turning dissertations into first books. Co-hosted by CEU Press, CEU’s Jewish Studies program, and HUJI’s Nevzlin Center, they explored topics from mikvehs to migration.

Graphic announcing the Spring 2026 ASEEES First Book Subvention Winners, featuring a portrait of Zachary Mazur and his book To Kill a Spy: Everyday Nationalism and Political Violence in fin-de-siècle Europe, with CEU Press branding.

Congratulations to CEU Press author Zachary Mazur, whose book 𝙏𝙤 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙖 𝙎𝙥𝙮: 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙁𝙞𝙣-𝙙𝙚-𝙎𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚 has been awarded the ASEEES First Book Subvention!

aseees.org/news/spring-...

Dissonant Heritage in Tourism (ed. Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi, & Giovanni Gregorini) explores how difficult histories and heritage, both in Italy and beyond, can be confronted through tourism.

🔗 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Looking for something to read on International Women’s Day?

Explore our open access books on women and music, women’s work in the 20th century, the history of feminism, and more.

📚www.aup.nl/en/promotion/internation...

#InternationalWomensDay #OpenAccess #WomensHistory

@scholtom.bsky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social live from London 🎤

Pete Barr looming large from Sheffield ....

Another excellent session at #copimconference chaired by @scholtom.bsky.social on collective funding for monographs.

Kat Baier from CEUP completely right in highlighting importance of #OpenAccess as an “act of resistance” esp in turbulent political regimes…

Book cover of Stigma, Fear and Foreign Policy: Serbia’s Destigmatization Dilemma in the Western Balkans by Milan Krstić, published by CEU Press. The cover features an abstract artwork in red, white, and green tones resembling a dynamic figure against a textured background. The title appears in large white capital letters, with “Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe” at the top and the CEU Press logo at the bottom. A circular orange label in the top right corner reads “New Title!”.

𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙢𝙖, 𝙁𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮: 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙖’𝙨 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘿𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙢𝙖 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙖𝙣𝙨 by Milan Krstić traces the trajectory of a country's stigmatization and how Serbia has managed this stigma in an international context since 2001.

🔗 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Great book talk coming up, in-person and online: 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 (ed. Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi).

Sign up here: events.cardiff.ac.uk/view/book-ta...

We proud to introduce our freely available Open Educational Resources Toolkit: www.aup.nl/en/open-acce...

Great news from the @openingthefuture.bsky.social team 🎉

BAB Publishing House joins OtF’s other publishing partners @ceu-press.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Michigan State University Press & @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Read more here 👉 bab.openingthefuture.net/news/168/
#OABooks

Black-and-white portrait of historian Vladan Jovanović, shown in a formal jacket, alongside CEU Press branding and the title “Author Spotlight – Author of Opium in the Balkans.”

𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙑𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝙅𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙞ć: Check out short interview with the author of 𝙊𝙥𝙞𝙪𝙢 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙖𝙣𝙨 ceupressauthorhub.com/news/author-...

Book cover of An Environmental History of Knowledge and Politics (CEU Press), featuring a historical black-and-white riverside scene and an “Available as Open Access” label.

𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 by Róbert Balogh with Péter Homor examines forestry’s role in Hungarian and global history.

🔗 aup.nl/en/book/9789...

#EnvironmentalHistory #Politics

Thoroughly recommend people attend this 👇

Find out more about the history of, and the current examples of, ongoing threats to academic freedom and how #OA can support the fightback

Sobering but inspiring!

colour blocks with ink painting of somebody swimming with a feather floating on top. bullet points with the following text: Law and theatre, legal architecture, legal education through art, law in the arts, aesthetic argumentation in law, law and film, performative aspects of law

We are launching a new, interdisciplinary book series, 'Law, Aesthetics and Art'

Exploring how legal practice is not just a matter of text-based argumentation, the series discusses how it can be studied from aesthetic perspectives

Read the call for proposals! www.aup.nl/en/series/la...

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How can community-driven OA initiatives sustain mission-driven publishing in politically constrained environments?

Join our webinar this afternoon! Including Q&A with CEU Press and Opening the Future

🕙 14–15 CET tinyurl.com/348fwkrm

Join @openingthefuture.bsky.social on Weds 26 November for a joint webinar with @ceu-press.bsky.social exploring how mission-driven publishing can endure under political pressure

The event is running twice 💙

➡️ 10:00–11:00 CET: buff.ly/pExK5d3
➡️ 14:00–15:00 CET: buff.ly/0FWhoz5

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Two opportunities to join @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social TOMORROW 🥳

📝 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔
📅 26 November
📌 Online
🔗 buff.ly/pExK5d3 (9-10 AM GMT), buff.ly/0FWhoz5 (1-2PM GMT)

Opening the Future

Find out more about our #Publishing model and the other presses already on board @ceu-press.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

👉 www.openingthefuture.net

Team UP in History, University Press Week 2025, featuring 3 book covers: -No One Ever Asked: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Worker -Deep History: Country and Sovereignty -Ukraine as a Migration Nexus

So many university presses #TeamUP with history scholars, including @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social, @ceu-press.bsky.social & @umissouripress.bsky.social. Learn more in the University Press Week Gallery: https://bit.ly/47sJm3P

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Next up is @ceu-press.bsky.social

They publish English language books from & about Central / Eastern Europe

Subjects include:

🔹Politics, History, Economics
🔹Gender studies
🔹Jewish studies
🔹Cultural Studies
🔹Medieval studies
🔹Post-communism

Find out more 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net

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This #OpenAccessWeek we're championing our @openingthefuture.bsky.social model; a sustainable way to make books free to readers everywhere.

By joining OtF, libraries support new OA books while gaining access to a rich backlist of titles

Learn more 🔓 www.openingthefuture.net
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