Congratulations to my dear friend and absurdly talented historian Ivan Jeličić! As of tomorrow he will be an assistant professor at the University of Rijeka, with a permanent contract. So proud! So happy! Lucky Rijeka!

I just published a short political piece on why European History is dying in the US: “Irrelevant Scapegoat: The Perils of Doing European History in Post-Trump America” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/abs/irrelevant-scapegoat-the-perils-of-doing-european-history-in-posttrump-america/4E320F6651F934D1A585B3719C4955C9 If you don’t have access, you can also find it here: https://www.dominiquereill.com/_files/ugd/986892_579210c9c2744d3ea82b31466fc14744.pdf

@avielroshwald @dominiquereill @histodons Oh, no. Such sad news. Such a great historian. I first read his work on Weimar when I was a student, then followed his evolving work on East Central Europe. He was very friendly to me at my first @AHAHistorians conference, sent me some of his articles.

One of the things I most appreciated was the way he continued to grow. Here is how, 2 decades ago, he linked the memory of the #Tulsa #race massacre to that of #Jedwabne in PL

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40citizenwald%20Tulsa%20De%C3%A1k&src=typed_query

#histodons @histodons

@dominiquereill reports the passing of the great István Deák. #histodons @histodons

Istvan Deak died this morning in his sleep. I am sure many of us are grieving. His family hopes to organize something in New York in spring. In the meantime… her daughter Eva asked me to help spread the news.

Empires!

Feeling well enough for a sunrise!

Join Sarah Davis-Secord, Bee Lehman, Caroline Sequin, Brian Van Wyck, + Dominique Reill Thurs, Jan 5 at 1:30pm in Philly's AHA annual meeting to talk "Teaching European Migration History with Open Access Sources"! @ModEuroHistColl American Historical Association #histodons

Really enjoying Ulrike Harmat's article "Till Death Do You Part." It is so hard to be clear when talking about Church law and Habsburg secularization initiatives. She does an excellent job at it! (In the 2017 "Marriage, law, and modernity: global histories") #histodons

Happy holidays to all!

Just a gorgeous 17th-century book, courtesy of the Bodleian Library collection:

Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (1620), in a temptingly strokable velvet binding emblazoned with a golden wild boar – the author's personal badge (Bacon 🥓🐗 ? come on now)

#books #bookstodon #francisbacon #histodons #history #17thcentury

CFP - Histories of Disability and Emotions

An International Online Conference Hosted by KU Leuven and Universite de Liege, Belgium, 13-15 June 2023.

Org. by Sara Scalenghe, Pieter Verstraete and Ninon Dubourg (me!)

More info and #dishist cfp on: https://dishist.hypotheses.org/2770

@histodons @disability

Any recommendations on new work on citizenship and divorce in the late Russian empire? I have a rich Russian lady who married an Italian and in 1902 thinks she can just change her citizenship back from Russian to Italian and get a divorce. #histodons

So proud to be invited to be a member of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies Board of Advisors with some of my favorite ECE/Habsburg colleagues! This Institute has saved my next project with its support. Happy to give back! https://botstiberbiaas.org/about/biaas-board/ @awssorg University of Miami History Department

The blood red sun trying to rise through the clouds

In Budapest this semester I asked some brilliant Hungarian researchers if they thought Anita Kurimay’s fabulous “Queer Budapest” would be translated into Hungarian. They doubted it. Now one just wrote me with the great news! They were wrong! It’s OUT in Hungarian! Yippee! #Histrodons

University of Miami History Department 2nd- + 3rd-yr grad students presented their fascinating research yesterday. So proud them! Giltrecia Head, Adelina Tratarou, Alison McCann, Jason Fontana, Tim Martin, Nana Asamoah, + Natalia Meilan Gonzalez
UMiami Center for Humanities

First UMiami History Department pic in a long, long time! #Histrodons

@drsepinwall I will!