Join me at ASEEES on Dec 1, 10 AM, Room 414 (4th Floor). I'll talk about queer domesticities in interwar Poland, asking how looking at the homes of queer people can transform our understanding of Eastern European history.

Sawchen Lecture: Kamil Karczewski, “Lesbian Utopias and Polish Nationalism, 1840–1940.” - Depa... Join us on November 22 at 11 am for an online Sawchen Lecture with Kamil Karczewski.

Three lesbian “utopias” within one Eastern European nationalism - in today’s lecture, I’ll take the University of British Columbia students on a journey through 100 years of queer women’s history in Poland.

Tuesday Nov. 14 Paulina Kewes (Jesus College @ Oxford) will deliver her lecture 'Towards a History of Parliamentary Culture in the Early Modern World' @ my Dept www.eksoc.uni.lodz.pl/en/news/deta... @queerkamil.bsky.social @obyrska.bsky.social @avielroshwald.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

65 years ago, Czechoslovakia banned life on the road: Did the communists destroy Romani culture and ... Besides the Holocaust, their forced assimilation during communism has impacted Romani people the most in the modern history of the Czech lands. That assimilation began with the law to "permanently set...

Worth a read. In my book Queer Roma, I also talk about an earlier “anti-vagrancy” law from the 1920s, modelled after similar laws across Europe

65 years ago, Czechoslovakia banned life on the road: Did the communists destroy Roma culture and engineer their social exclusion?
romea.cz/en/czech-rep...

Really golden sunset over Florence which is covered in haze from rain clouds

Sunburst over Florence from the Badia Fiesolana

Congrats! I’m sorry I missed it, but my 4th covid has been quite horrible.

Transphobes who get mad about pronouns are weak. I speak Vietnamese. The pronoun I use for myself and the person I’m talking to or about depends on how old I am, how old they are, whether they’re a relative, whether they’re related to my mom or my dad, gender, and more. There are over 20 of them.

I once dreamed of being a professor and reading and writing and having big thoughts. I have instead become an email machine.

Conference program: Dis/Connecting the World, Subjectivities, Networks, and Transcultural Encounters Across Cold War Boundaries

Hi skystorians, my colleagues are organizing this exciting event at Bielefeld Uni on subjectivities, networks, and cultural encounters during the Cold War. Looking forward to the presentations! 🗃️

33K, to be precise. Thank God, never again

The enduring appeal of a century-old German film about queer love A silent German film from 1918 was one of cinema’s first dramatic presentations of queer love. Over a century later, and the story of love in a hostile social environment still resounds.

I wrote a shorter article about my book for the conversation. Check it out darlings. ❤️🌈

theconversation.com/the-enduring...

Makes sense!

Still before the rainy season, I can see.

Yeah! It’s a magical place, and for some reason, not too popular (the entry price?).

Where did you take the pic? I’m trying to figure out which angle it is. Villa Bardini? I profoundly miss Flo.

A view over the centre of Florence between the foliage of trees and bushes; the Palazzo Vecchio is centre and the Duomo is centre-right

Florence in the foliage

Only 300 new doctoral students per year in all the Arts and Humanities disciplines in a country of 67 million and over 160 universities. The UK no longer pretends to expertise in these disciplines

We are HIRING in German Studies! Black German Studies or Environmental Humanities preferred. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/131927

New Article, Open access too: "How a Factual Error became a Historical Fact: The 1182 ‘ritual murder’ in Zaragoza in Antisemitic Propaganda and Modern Scholarship", Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, 24 (2022-2023), pp. 31-57. ISSN: 1645-1910. www.researchgate.net/publication/...