Zora Piskačová

Peter Becker + I wrote "Forward: A Kaleidoscope of CEH-C Meanings" to explain how the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention and the collection of 20 blogs by emerging scholars on the joys, promises, + challenges of the event came into being. Read! Share! Discuss! cehc.hypotheses.org/79

Odešla Atomová lady. Čest její památce.

An honor to hear Czech President Petr Pavel speak @harvard.edu last night, and even more so to have the chance to meet him shortly after.

Děkujeme za návštěvu, pane prezidente! 🇨🇿

We are getting ready to welcome President Pavel of the Czech Republic to Harvard today.

CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...

Very honored to be part of this great group!

I’m actually at the Harvard Academy (part of the Weatherhead), which isn’t in fact listed there (ups) but does have its own call: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13851 — deadline Sept 19!

Apply and join me next year! careers.historians.org/jobs/2159507...

The TV show 'Smoke' on Apple TV just had a side character explain to his teenage son why he has to leave him and move across the country:

“It’s tenure-track, man. These positions come up once every five or ten years... like... I can’t. It’s like being an astronaut and getting called to the moon.”

PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth Discover a PhD Studentship: PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

My friend Raul Carstocea is advertising 2 PhD positions within his fabulous ERC project. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/p...

Town of Carrboro Named All-American City After National Competition - Chapelboro.com The Town of Carrboro won an All-American City award from the National Civic League Sunday evening after a weekend competition.

Can't believe I'll be leaving this gem of a town in two weeks. This is so well deserved!

IOS Annual Conference: "Continuity and Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century" IOS Annual Conference 2025

📣Tomorrow starts our 12th #IOSConference2025 on economic continuities between the interwar period & post-1989 transformations in Central, Eastern & #SoutheastEurope. W/ keynotes by Tamás Vonyó (Bocconi University, Milan) & János Mátyás Kovács (@recetvienna.bsky.social).
📅 26–27 June | #LeibnizIOS ⬇️

Right?!? I wish they caught this…

"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”

I have done it.
I have found a mistake on the first page of my ProQuest-approved dissertation.
#newlevelachieved 🏆

I'm still crying because of my wounded pride, but this was amazing.

There is an alumni email, but when you’re no longer ‘enrolled’ your access to other resources is gone apparently. I expected this, just not so fast…

Call for participants / Summer school: Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries. Prague, 23-25 October 2025, Deadline 15 August 2025.
URL: www.oeaw.ac.at/ikw/v...

Psst 🤫

I "graduated" less than a week ago, and UNC Library has already cut off my access.

Went to look something up and—boom—ACCESS DENIED.

How do independent scholars even survive out here?

The Historian and the Murder Trial On May 14, 2018, I was led into a nondescript courtroom in Kew Gardens, Queens to testify at a murder trial. I am a historian who loves details, and the resources

7 years ago today I testified in front of a NYC judge + jury how widespread ignorance of how academia works helped a murderer kill a promising scholar vulnerable only because he wanted a stable job. Things have only gotten scarier. Please share: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/historian-mu...

Děkuji!!

Officially Dr. Piskačová! Thank you, @unchistory.bsky.social, for everything!

I couldn't agree more! Thanks for 'walking' with me @tessmegginson.bsky.social! Here is to us—historians of the Czechoslovak borderlands!

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Same! They can look so majestic when the setting is right!

Brilliant! Here's one from Orlová—probably one of my favorite photos I've ever taken.

What an incredible lineup! I’m so bummed to be missing it...

A stark reminder of how fragile our infrastructure networks are—and how deeply we rely on them, even when we rarely give them a second thought.