Dr Rachel Morley

🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks!
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Stefan Lacny and Dr Natalia V. Parker with their award

Congratulations to Stefan Lacny on winning the BASEES Prize for Best Scholarly Article for “Creating the Polish Enemy on the Soviet Screen, 1925–1939.” Also to Dr Natalia V. Parker, awarded the BASEES Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Well deserved!👏

I'll be talking about the movement away from/towards regimes of belonging as an everyday security practice tomorrow at #iccees2025. Come say hi if you're around!
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Guest, Host, Ghost A Dinner Party in Kyiv

"It is too easy, more than three years into this terrible war, to call to mind dinner parties, academic conferences, weddings, where memory folds and unfolds to admit a shadow, because someone who was there, and who should still be with us, has been killed."
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Women end up doing the academic housework

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Yes, but how is he?

And you gave Stanislav lots of walks and adoration.

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

Event poster for 'The Thankless Foreigner: A discussion with Irena Brežná' with a photo of the book cover. In-person event.

Please join us for this PLEJ centre event with author Irena Brežná to hear more about her latest book 'The Thankless Foreigner' - an incisive novel on immigration and the search for integration and resistance.

🗓️ 11 June at 6.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

My brother Adam Hájek who is a Czech journalist came back on Wednesday from a ten day trip to Eastern Ukraine. In the podcast below for their paper (Idnes), they speak about what they learned beyond the articles.
I summarize key parts that were new to me - I learned lots.
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Very wise!

📚 Literatura — UIL’s most popular course — is back!
Dive into the world of Ukrainian literature and culture with this year’s exciting programme.
Enrol by 27 May to take advantage of our early bird discount!
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Photo of the presenters of the podcast with the title ‘writing war and trauma withY Musakovska and Maria Tumarkin’

New Ukraine Shelf is out! Yuliya Musakovska and Maria Tumarkin joined us in front of a live audience in Lviv to discuss writing war and trauma, and the conversation was superb, don’t miss it! Find on youtube etc here: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Adelina Stefan

This Weds at 5:00 @ SSEES, Adelina Stefan, "Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain." All are welcome, register at the link.

www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

1700h at Nunn Hall, IOE room 421

If you are around on Tuesday we are having a chat about the protests.

Last week @okhromeychuk.bsky.social & I recorded our first Ukraine Shelf episode in Ukraine! Julia Musakovska & Maria Tumarkin joined us in Lviv to discuss war poetry, silence, the meaning of place, survival & more. Soon on youtube, soundcloud etc! Thanks @dovzhyk.bsky.social for the invitation!

Congratulations, @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social! Inspiring Teaching Delivery is a great award to be nominated for! 🎉 🙌⭐️

Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation On Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice Abstract. This forum brings together six historians of Eastern Europe who discuss decolonizing approaches. In the aftermath of the Russian genocidal war, t

Over the last 22 months, @oksanadudko.bsky.social and I have been plotting this forum in @historyworkshop.org.uk
It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history.
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Looking for something to listen to this long weekend? Tune into the latest Ukraine Shelf episode—this time on Eastern Ukraine, a region still too often misunderstood. @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and I speak with brilliant authors Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan. Link below.

YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan
🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/NjoJ40hapDc

Produced in collaboration with @ukrinstitute.bsky.social, @uclssees.bsky.social, @uclei.bsky.social and @britishacademy.bsky.social.

Champagne for the select few.

Catch up with our new podcast on the best books on Ukraine! New episode on Ukraine’s east coming soon!

“Lilacs Blooming in the Botanical Garden” — a gorgeous painting by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Sydoruk, 1984, Kyiv. See more paintings of spring by Ukrainian artists in this article: daryazorka.substack.com/p/defiant-sp...

Our animal companions clearly have very good taste.

We’re currently looking after a friend’s dog and he will only eat his kibble if it has a sprinkling of Parmesan or feta cheese on top.

I’ll be speaking at Yale on 23 April and at Harvard on 24 April. If you’re in the area, it’d be lovely to see you in person. If not, the Harvard talk will be live-streamed. Details: www.huri.harvard.edu/event/olesya...

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

Overlooking language skills ‘risks limiting the scope and impact of UK research’, new British Academy report finds A new British Academy report highlights how multilingualism could strengthen the UK’s research, warning that language skills remain undervalued and underused in academia - despite a wealth of linguist...

@uclhjs.bsky.social offers training in a variety of ancient and modern Jewish languages (for both students in our degree programs and continuing education students).

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The Curriculum and Assessment review led by @beckyfrancis.bsky.social with IOE academics has published an interim report pinpointing the need for a more inclusive curriculum attuned to social and technological change, with supportive pathways to employment or further study.
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