When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

When two kinds of unintelligence collude...

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Central European Elites in Post-Imperial Transition: Locality, Agency, Capital This book examines how local elites from the dissolved Austria-Hungary managed to survive and often thrive despite the empire's collapse in 1918. When faced with national and social revolutions, these...

Slightly cheating the system, but still it looks like an edited volume:
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An unusual situation when one has a sceond chance to elaborate his views of a book:
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(The first one in comment.)

The bright side: Maduro's "arrest" abroad makes any argument in the birtright citizenship case that "illegal aliens" (people violating US law) within the US are subject to its jurisdiction or not moot. One would even risk claiming: it asserts that everyone in the world is.

Manchester University Press - Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe by Doina Anca Cretu

My Humanitarianism scholar disguise.

Allegedly, there will be an OA version...

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The internet tells me this is out today, together with my chapter:

When Imperialists Joined the Nationalists against the West: Post-Imperial Business Networks and the Creation of National Economies in the Habsburg Post-Imperial Economic Space

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Fresh from the press! Check out the whole volume "Habsburg Natures : Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918" eds. Jawad Daheur, Iva Lučić
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That is so kind of you!

I loved to work on this essay during in New York, so much came together in a dense text. Grateful to Anna Ross and Jean-Michel Johnston for offering me this chance!
The Human Factor: Living with and after Empire | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Registration link:
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Gábor Egry Fellow 2024/2025 An Invisible Empire? The Austro-Hungarian Economic Space in Southeast Europe 1890–1940: Actors, Structures, Embeddedness, Factors of Resilience https://www.wiko-berlin.de/fellows/ak...

Colloquium Apr 1: Fellow @gegry.bsky.social, "Imperial Turns. Biographical Trajectories and Informal Imperialism with and without Empire" www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/a... vimeo.com/1067801682

Chater 6 in which the author theorizes in a most speculative manner about petit bourgeois revolutions...

The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border: Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I | Berghahn Books url:https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GranditsDisputed

It might be out there for a longer time now, but this is the firts time I saw it as official. We have a book series:
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Or that the deep state exists...

An extraordinary opportunity, with supportive enviroment and students to inspire. Not least, it is generously funded too. Be my sucessor!

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Boston, Friday, 10 am. The most thrilling program you might have! #ASEEES2024

Does a biographer have an autobiography? - CEU Review of Books Gábor Egry reflects on the blurred boundaries between historical and subjective writing and on the historical in the autobiographical through Ignác Romsics’s “egohistory”, Hetven év - Egotör...

I loved to work on this and I hope it tells something about more general issues than simply the life of a revered Hungarian historian whose autobiography (?) was published in Hungarian language.

It is Christmas and the professor is in the right mood!

A popularizing volume from the Nepostrans results in 9 languages of Austria-Hungary:
napvilagkiado.eu/termekkategoria/tortenettudomany/momentous-times-tortenettudomany/

Direct link to yuotube:

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It might not be the most conspicuous or prominent event, but if you are around in Princeton on November 29, come!

Afterlives of Empire: New Histories of 1918 in East Central Europe | Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination
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We had an exceptional conference on September 7-8 in Budapest, Three generations of scholars discussed what the recent developments in the different fields offer for a new regional history of Central and Eastern Europe. Check out the videos now!
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I promised more cheerful news earlier. If officially being endangered species is cheerful, I'm now one. #Elkanafellowship #Berlin

It is now on Cambridge Core and the title consists of Imperial Borderlands. That is from where I got the blurb of the eminent Berkley political scientist.

It is now on Cambridge Core and the tile consists of Imperial Borderlands.

I hope it will not always a site for depressed posts but I have just seen that the book that misunderstands the Habsburg military border the most is just coming out soon. Fun fact, one blurb writer political scientist seem to think that its inhabitanst were the colonized and not the colonists.