In these terrible times, I choose to focus on rare awesome victories:

Spain FINALLY ordered the removal of the Ustaša plaque honoring Vjekoslav “Maks” Luburić — the single biggest war criminal of the Croatian Nazi regime during WWII — and will add another plaque describing his crimes!

Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

A first look:

My take on the history of criminal justice and the procuracy under (and after) Stalin

The Disciplined Dictatorship: The Soviet Procuracy from Stalin to Khrushchev, 1938—1956

forthcoming with Oxford University Press

Expected September 2026.
More soon.

Apply now: Who Owns the Land? Property Relations, Land Use, Belonging, and Social Inequality in Rural Southeast Europe The 64th International Academic Week of the Southeast Europe Association, hosted by IAMO's Dr. Judith Möllers and Prof. Dr. Daniel Müller, takes place in Tutzing from 5-9 October 2026.

64th International Academic Week from 5.-9. October 2026:
Who Owns the Land? Property Relations, Land Use, Belonging, and Social Inequality in Rural Southeast Europe

A man sitting at a working desk, in 1540 setting, with a drinking cup, a few books, a writing desk with paper sheets, and lots of more details.

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage? Can rivers be heritage? What is the place of rivers in our sense of place and/or self? What is the future of rivers? What lessons or parallels do rivers across the world have for Canada?

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage?

A NiCHE Series
Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026
Edited by @ramya.bsky.social

NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage.

niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c...

#rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage

✨We are excited to spring into the new summer semester with you! April and May are packed with events, collaborations and visiting researchers. Find out more: europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

BASEES Annual Conference 26 10 - 12 April 2026, Birmingham, UK

Many more ZOiS researchers will present their research at #BASEES2026 over the weekend – meet us there!

#80 Was treibt migrantische Unternehmer:innen an, Nadine Thielemann?

Neue Folge zu Erfolg, Anerkennung und Identität migrantischer Unternehmer:innen aus dem Balkan in Wien, mit FORM Affiliate Researcher Nadine Thielemann

open.spotify.com/episode/32fp...

#Skystorians, Job Alert! 🥳

Am @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social sind 5 unbefristete (!) Stellen zum Aufbau unserer neuen Abteilung "Zeitgeschichte Transfer" zu besetzen. 4 Stellen in München, 1 Stelle in Berlin. Ihr wollt unser Team verstärken? Bewirbt euch, wir freuen uns! 😊

Start: 1. Januar 2027

Postdoc opportunity with Ota Konrád in the project Everyday Histories of Violence in Europe.

platform.crowdhelix.com/opportunitie...

PhD students everywhere! Respond to this call for papers to participate in the doctoral workshop "Socialism and the Sea," Aug 26-29 in Pula, Croatia and spearheaded by the always fascinating Prof. Igor Duda. www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/doc...

A book cover with title in red text at top, Revolutionary Warfare, author name at middle in red text, Terrence G. Peterson, and a large globe-shaped map in the bottom half with red, black, and blue circulating arrows.

Great praise for @tgpeterson.bsky.social's "Revolutionary Warfare" has arrived, noting its "valuable contribution to the historiography of the Algerian War, counterinsurgency, & the persistent failure of colonizers to understand the societies they dominate." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Sports. Politics. Conflict.

In just two more weeks, our ScienceCampus will be launching its exciting – and highly topical – lecture series.

Check out the full programme here ⬇️

Taking a closer look at a 17th-century map...

The Kunyu Wagnuo Quantu (c.1644) was created by Chinese scholars and artisans after interactions with Western-style cartography. Earlier this week, our Collections team and expert conservators took it out of its custom-built case to examine it up close.

Sites of Memory VS Cultural Heritage: Urban Violence in Collective Narratives of Odesa Residents in Wartime by Iuliia Iashchenko Part I. The Why and The How: Practices of Documenting Urban Violence on Odesa City The ongoing war in Ukraine has demonstrated with particular clarity that cultural heritage and urban life are not peripheral but central targets in contemporary armed conflict. Since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, systematic attacks have affected … „Sites of Memory VS Cultural Heritage: Urban Violence in Collective Narratives of Odesa Residents in Wartime“ weiterlesen

What constitutes cultural heritage in wartime?

The project Echoes of Resilience aims to preserve Ukraine's cultural heritage in the context of ongoing conflict by documenting and archiving experiences of the war as it unfolds. 👇

dhlab.hypotheses.org...

#UkraineWar #CulturalHeritage #DHLab

... Accumulation (of wealth and resources, knowledges and technologies – in short, of capital) is organized during this historical period. This period, the era of industrialization, of history and the great historical struggles for conquest and domination over nature (the struggle against nature being accompanied by intense struggles between nations, peoples, classes and fractions of classes), this period is drawing to an end. It is ending in contempt hidden behind knowledge, in a form of madness whereby reason and unreason are the same: the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth's resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space. Let’s move on.

Henri Lefebvre wasn't a fan of previous missions to the moon - "the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth's resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space" (La Fin de l’histoire in 1970, p. 212, Key Writings, p. 182).

Leider nur noch wenige Tage zu sehen: die spannende Ausstellung zum #Kunstmarkt in Wien. Bleiben wird das Begleitbuch, das einen einmaligen Überblick über den europäischen Kunstmarkt liefert.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Born on this day 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

We are recruiting two postdoctoral researchers (2.5 years, full-time) 📢

Preference for candidates working on the Caucasus and/or Central Asia, but applications focusing on other regions of the late Romanov Empire are also encouraged.

📅 Deadline: 4 May
👉 Apply: lnkd.in/dPejtfYs

That’s one hell of a cover…..

Heron encircled by a snake. While eating a worm. By Maria Sibylla Merian, born OTD in 1647.

Call for Nominations: Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
Deadline: April 15
aseees.org/award/vucini...
Awarded for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.

Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979 with @exeter.ac.uk. Applications open soon. link.bl.uk/q95

Photo einer Brille, durch die hindurch man ein leicht angebranntes Ministerratsprotokoll aus dem Jahr 1873 erkennen kann. In den Gläsern der Brille spiegelt sich Computercode, der aus dem Film Matrix bekannt ist.

Aviso. #Veranstaltung am 21. April 2026 um 18 Uhr im Heeresgeschichtlichen #Museum

DAMALS TOP SECRET ‒ HEUTE ONLINE
Die Regierungsprotokolle der #Habsburgermonarchie
(1848‒1918)

Nur die Minister und der Monarch durften sie lesen. Denn sie enthielten alles, was […]

[Original post on fedihum.org]

#Bosnia-#Herzegovina! Nerves of steel in the city of steel!

It's hard to tell from this distance what is happening in Belgrade now but it looks like the regime is using a crime investigation into a tragic incident as a pretext to stage a takeover of the university.

Call for Papers: Conflict and Cooperation in the History of Cartography during the 20th century. Workshop at the Herder Institute in Marburg/Germany, September 24, 2026. URL: www.herder-institut....

The online banner shows a job vacancy announcement: Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) within the ERC Consolidator Grant Project EMPOWER at Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. 100% position, TV-L E13, fixed-term for 4 years. Research on sites of Romani genocide commemoration, archival and field research, digital mapping, community engagement, collaboration with Roma communities across the region. Submission deadline: April 22, 2026.

#Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) for the ERC project #EMPOWER: Sites of Romani Genocide and Community Commemoration in East & Central Europe. Open to applicants from #history, #anthropology, #culturalstudies or related disciplines.
📅 Deadline: 22 April 2026
leibniz-ios.de/en/vacancies...

(S+) Blood & Sinners: Ein Vampir-Forscher sagt, wer der echte Urvampir war Peter Mario Kreuter ist Vampirexperte. Hier erklärt er, warum sich die Untoten so gut für Filme eignen, ob man sie wirklich mit Knoblauch bekämpfen kann und wer der echte Urvampir war.

"Der Vampir ist voraussetzungslos und universell einsetzbar. Frankenstein muss sein Monster erst erschaffen, ein Vampir ist einfach da."

Bei @spiegel.de (Paywall) erklärt IOS-Historiker Peter Mario Kreuter anlässlich der Oscars für "Blood & Sinners" die Faszination für Vampire in der Populärkultur.