Reka Krizmanics

A last-minute addition to the syllabus? Anna Dobrowolska's recent monograph is an exciting read.
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It took some time for them to arrive, but now they'll keep me occupied 📚🗃

Starting today!

The syllabi are ready for the fall term:

Introduction into the history of state socialist Eastern Europe: A global perspective (BA)

Advocating for women behind the Iron Curtain: Eastern European women's voices (MA)

I can't wait to meet the students again.
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We received many excellent proposals in response to the call for papers for the upcoming conference "Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary." The organizing committee will begin reviewing applications soon.
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www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

On my way to Berlin to EAHMH 2025 - I will be presenting at a medical history conference for the first time.
(Gendered Mobilities? Hungarian Women Health Care Professionals and the Circulation of Socialist Medical Knowledge)

eahmh25.org

Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twen...

The #ZARAH project's collective monograph, "Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond. A new transnational history" is out with UCL Press. Congrats to the authors!
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uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

Funny how academia works: nothing for ages, then boom, 2 articles in a week. The 2nd began with @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social email. Not my usual period but those intriguing AAN files kept calling… Of course, Jewish threads are in: I wouldn’t be me otherwise 😉. doi.org/10.1177/0888...

Yeyy, it's out!!

Thank you for sharing!
In this case, the nurse did not return to Libya for the last 6 month after getting married during her vacation in Hungary - the last thing I know about her for sure.

Her application was approved and she worked in Libya for two years.

I hope she was made permanent at a HU institution at last - the archives are silent.

The last lines in the cv of a HU critical care nurse, 1982:

"Ever since I started working...I was always hired on a contract, my superiors...while greatly appreciating my performance on the job...remain unable to hire me permanently...most probably for economic reasons."

Perhaps you could take a look at Monika Baar's projects? (disability history)

Teaching my Other Europes course again this fall & in response to student interest am expanding focus on queer & trans history & on disability history. Historian friends, any recs for favorite articles/book chapters &/or primary sources that work well w/ undergrads? 19th-20th c. focus. Thanks! 🗃️

It’s real!

Vacation, finally!

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)

Human Rights, the Family, and Internationalism Since the Nineteenth Century This book examines global considerations of human rights today: how the family has historically served as a protected category

Happy to see this volume on family, human rights, and internationalism out, edited by Julia Moses, and with my chapter on disability policies (providing a historical background for UNCRPD article 12)
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Would appreciate any shares, friends! Not sure where ppl go to to ask for recs rn

Anyone know of a racial history of amateurism in international sport? Ie pre-WWII?

(Will take case studies, but looking for an overarching history to avoid getting lost in details if poss)

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Our library was super fast with the acquisition - Bad Lieutenants by Andrew Mertha is on my desk finally!
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Spread the word, submit an abstract for our conference on Entanglements of Scale and Spheres in History: Between the Local, Regional, Global, and Planetary to be held in Bielefeld on Nov, 14-15, 2025, with @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social

www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

The pleasure was all mine!

Wrapping up the preparations for the last classes of the term - on homonationalism (class on nationalism theories) and some aspects of postwar masculinities (class on Communism and gender).

I taught many texts for the first time. It was an exhausting but very rewarding experience.
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Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost

Our new volume 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956', co-edited with Daniel Frost, is now available for pre-order from @manchesterup.bsky.social.

Hardback is out Nov 2025, with a paperback edition to follow in 2026-27.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Strawberry mousse cake - first attempt, I am pretty satisfied with the result!

fast 40 grad in ungekühlten räumen, marode gebäude, abgehängte kinder, überforderte eltern, ausgebrannte lehrkräfte, lehrermangel, schlechte pisa ergebnisse, immer selbstbewusstere forderungen rechter in bezug auf schule, klaffende schere sozialer ungerechtigkeit JETZT ERST MAL EIN GENDERVERBOT

And it is great to see the article appearing alongside the contributions of Agnieszka Mrozik, Katherine Marino and Alberto García Molinero!🗃📚

The special issue was convened by Chiara Bonfiglioli and Malgorzata Fidelis. I am grateful for their insightful and kind treatment of my paper during the editing process.🗃📚

It's publication day:
Socialist Medical Mobilities from the Global East: Hungarian Women's Access and Experiences is out! 🗃🗃📚
If anyone's interested, please reach out via dm. I can share a link to a PDF (up to 50 free copies).

Really happy to see that this special issue on transnational histories of HIV/AIDS activism is out in the world. Thanks so much to @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social for all their hard work bringing it together! #histmed [1/2]

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146