Vaida Niksaite

"- And what would you say to people who deny the risk of new Russian aggression?

- If they’re so sure, they should publicly swear that they will personally come to fight against the Russian army in the event of a new invasion. Without this, their words are worthless."

CFP: "Nationalities and National Diversity in Revolutionary #Ukraine, 1917-21". University of #Vienna, 3-5 September 2026. Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026 nuru.univie.ac.at/en/news/news...

Showing my ignorance here, but I had not realised that LSE's digital library had grown so much since I'd last browsed it.

What a remarkable set of online archives relating to a comprehensive range of past and present social movements:
digital.library.lse.ac.uk

a beautiful piece of scholarship 🗃️

A call for papers that may be of interest to our readers - The 'Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia' conference will be held at the University of Szczecin in October networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

At last!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

so handy and much needed.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
#herstory 🗃️

so handy and much needed.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
#herstory 🗃️

YouTube video by Laibach Laibach - Allgorhythm (feat. Wiyaala) [Official Video]

Allgorhythm!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=erR5...
#Laibach

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) | MUBI A struggling Siberian rock band leaves home in the lonely tundra to tour the United States because, as they’re told, “they’ll buy anything there.” The musicians bravely venture across the States, carr...

Well, this was strange, and fun.
mubi.com/en/be/films/...

Marc Bloch to be inducted into French Panthéon. 🗃️

1) Which is more effective, grassroots or government fundraising initiatives? What happens when you combine both? And how do new nations finance themselves in eras of uncertainty?

#econsky #economichistory #nsrpproject

Doubt I post on here enough for this to reach any sort of audience, but anyhow:

I'm thinking of starting a Substack with deep dives on subjects relevant to the Baltics - there are great journalists here, and a few elsewhere who know the region, but there's a lot of absolute toss

Belgium open to housing foreign prisoners in other countries, minister says Belgium’s Migration Minister Anneleen Van Bossuyt is looking at “every possible solution” to increase the number of irregular migrants returned from Belgium, including renting prison space abroad to h...

Belgian Migration Minister Anneleen Van Bossuyt announced that she is exploring plans to send undocumented people convicted of a crime to third-country prisons as part of efforts to escalate deportations of irregular migrants and ease prison overcrowding.

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

My article in @fwwsjournal.bsky.social ! Open access! #FWW #WWI

In it: social revenge as a key cause of soldiers’ unrest in 1917 and struggles for dignity and equality against paternalistic orders during #RussianRevolution

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Echoes of Deceit - Media, Pandemics and the Disinformation Lifecycle

On January 29, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm, join online the lecture by Prof. Vera Tolz (University of Manchester) at #CEU
events.ceu.edu/2026-01-29/e...

YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Instituut Meet the Thinker: Timothy Snyder | Bozar Brussels

The conversation between @timothysnyder.bsky.social and Pieter Lagrou at BOZAR in Brussels is now available online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jstB...

Ban Forever Chemicals Now Forever chemicals are poisoning Europe’s water, food, and even our blood. Chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections - but people across Europe are pushing back. Sign now to ban PFAS and put h...

PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

Le séminaire REPINE poursuit son exploration de l’influence sous toutes ses formes.
📅 Mardi 20 janvier (16–19h) : séance sur les controverses de l’influence numérique, avec Romain Badouard et Aleksandr Alymov. Participation à distance sur inscription : enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue...

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Something to look forward to in the new year--in 2026, my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service, will be published with Oxford University Press.

Last jam of the year.
#rosehip

The Dawn of Everything For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those...

Read this cover to cover over the summer (a luxury I rarely allow myself) and finally had time to take notes. Main take-aways:

1. There is no equality without freedom and vice versa. They are not mutually exclusive, as liberalism would have us believe.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/314162...

Car il est bien connu qu’à un moment Dreyfus est parti se dorer la pilule en toute quiétude pour se remettre de toutes ces émotions.

I read somewhere that the secret key to postwar British history is that in any incident, meeting, whatever, there’s a high chance that most participants are a bit tipsy and someone round the table is absolutely steaming drunk.

📆🚨 Nouvelle saison du séminaire "De Plus Grandes Guerres" à SciencesPo. Avec @tvaisset.bsky.social @camillemahe.bsky.social @daccoulon.bsky.social Claire Miot et Guillaume Piketty nous accueillerons des chercheuses et chercheurs pour parler alimentation, alcools, déchets, occupations, famines…

“Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin, 25-26 June 2025 From 1917 to 1949, Europe saw a proliferation of internal conflicts and civil wars that were often connected with global conflicts and wars of decolonization. Historians have long established the (re)founding nature of experiences such as World War I (often described as the crucible of the 20th century) and World War II. Despite the omnipresence of civil wars contemporary to these two major conflicts, their experience was almost often examined within narrow national frames. Yet , the experiences of Europe’s civil wars were both distinct and, above all, connected: many Spaniards who experienced exile during the Retirada joined the anti-fascist resistance in World War II; veterans of the Russian Civil War joined the Republicans; reporters sent to the Spanish Civil War travelled to other European conflicts to forge the narratives and images disseminated in the press and media; Greek officers who had served during the Russian Civil War featured prominently in the Greek Civil War. With time these cross-national experiences were overshadowed by one-sided national narratives, with limited archives available, and the experiences of the other side of the civil war often preserved in exile, excluded from the national community. The aim of this international conference is to examine everyday experiences in Europe’s civil wars of 1917 and 1949, and to explore how they were recorded and narrated at the time and after the conflict. We particularly welcome papers which seek to explore entanglements and interconnections between different civil wars.

Call for papers: “Experiencing, reporting, recording civil wars, 1917-1949” University College Dublin (@ucddublin.bsky.social), 25-26 June 2025.
Deadline: 13 February 2026. More info to come here: civil-wars.eu/workshops/
#CivilWar

V good piece - also exemplifies well a specific quality of historical research which AI doesn't do, namely pausing for thought

Dutchmen are notoriously presumptuous!

ERRATUM: from 4 to 7 pm