🎙️ The Library of Lost Maps
Listen to James Cheshire, Britain’s only Professor of Cartography and Director of UCL Social Data Institute, talk about the role of maps in our histories and why they still matter.
🔗 tinyurl.com/iwejtwe
@ucl.ac.uk #maps #podcasts #libraries
The online banner shows a Call for Papers: "New Approaches to the Study of the ICTY Archives". Conference dates: October 15-16, 2026 at the University of Graz. Application deadline: March 31, 2026.
📣 #CfP: "New Approaches to the Study of the ICTY Archives"
Workshop @uni-graz.at, Oct 15–16, 2026. We welcome proposals on tribunal truths, digital infrastructure & memory politics. Exploring digital coloniality & computational methods.
📅 Deadline: March 31, 2026
➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...
At our Annual Graduate Workshop “Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies“, the participants examined the ways in which material objects and natural elements shape our recollections of the past. The organizers gave an interview about their findings.
blog.uni-regensburg.de/corals-and-c...
Radicalization and Fascism in the Ustaša by Constantin Iordachi & Goran Miljan examines how prejudice, social breakdown & political grievances fuelled Ustaša’s rise from militant movement to genocidal regime.
Out now! 📗 https://bit.ly/4pLHhXG
Ageing populations, declining birth rates, rising migration: What are the real challenges facing #SoutheastEurope, and what is politically constructed threat rhetoric? Leading scholars discuss at our roundtable, "Ageing Societies and Immigration in Southeast Europe".
📅 28 Feb | 10:00 CET | Hybrid ⬇️
#opportunity
Richard Georg Plaschka-Preis
Wissenschaftler:innen, außerordentliche Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropäischen Geschichte erbracht und das 40. Lebensjahr noch nicht überschritten haben. @oeaw.bsky.social
stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/preise/geist...
Join the CEU Yugo-Group on March 3 in Vienna for Jelena Đureinović's @jelenadj.bsky.social talk exploring the role of memory and war legacies in Yugoslav socialist internationalism and anti-colonial solidarity. More info here:
events.ceu.edu/2026-03-03/g...
"Cityscape, townscape, streetscape, brainscape, hairscape, cloudscape, airscape, hardscape, bedscape, and other nonce words exist because 'landscape' is now a promiscuous word indeed." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/reading-land... #Landscape #Language via @mitpress.bsky.social #writing #words #phrases
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In 1507, the German mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller coined the term “America” in honor of the Florentine adventurer Amerigo Vespucci, and placed it on a world map.
In 2007, the Library of Congress paid $10 million dollars for the map. But "America" here didn't refer any part of the US.
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Hvar in the Modern Age by @fbieber.bsky.social traces the history of the island using it as a lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states & identity, tourism & the transnational entanglements of the Adriatic Sea & the region of southeast Europe.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49LfcLF
Alte Bücher, Lupe, Taschenlampe, Schere und Stift liegen auf einem Tisch.
Daniela Mathuber, lächelnd, vor Bücherregal.
Innenseite eines Buches, dazu handschriftlicher Vermerk "Ostfeldzug 1941/42".
🔎 Werkstattbericht einer Detektivin, schmerzhafter Einblick in die Geschichte unseres Instituts – und spannendes Wissenschaftsblogging: Nach 3 Jahren und 15 Folgen endet unsere Blogserie über die Suche nach NS-Raubgut in der IOS-Bibliothek.
Thread 👇
Hy-Brasil: The mythical island that confounded mapmakers for centuries.
theageofexploration.com/hy-brasil-th...
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
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Die Ukraine-Analysen werden 20 Jahre alt!
Die vergangenen 8 Jahre durften wir sie als Teil des Herausgebergremiums wie auch durch Mitarbeit in Redaktion und wissenschaftlichem Beirat mitgestalten. Umso herzlicher gratulieren wir und freuen uns auf viele weitere kluge Analysen.
In unserer #Bibliothek lagert NS-Raubgut. Wie entdeckt man es? Welche Geschichten stecken dahinter? Daniela Mathuber mit einer Serie auf unserem #ostBLOG über Fundstücke und #Provenienzforschung am #LeibnizIOS. Teil XV: wie ein idyllischer Ort am See zum Versteck für NS-Raubgut wurde. ⬇️
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The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
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The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
Map: Carte de Indes Orientales (Pierre Du Val, 1665). Source: David Rumsey
The first appearance of Albion Island on maps coincides with a rivalry between the French and English on who would be the first to publish the first chart of Australia's full coastline. 🧵
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Rory Archer writes, "Modes of Masculinities among the Yugoslav Workforce in Postcolonial Zambia" in the latest #SlavicReview. Available with Open Access.
07.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
📢 CfP: The Yugoslav Wars & Post-Cold War Europe
📍 Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026
We invite proposals for presentations on all aspects of the Yugoslav Wars. 🔗 www.ifz-muenchen.de/aktuelles/au...
This conference is organised jointly with @leibniz-ios.de and @humboldtuni.bsky.social
The online banner shows the new issue of Comparative Southeast European Studies 73, no. 4 now available in open access, featuring articles by Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, Nikolaos Tzifakis & Eleni Vasdoka, Giovanni Parente, Mehmed Ganić, and Anna Calori.
📚 Our journal, #COMPSEES 73/4 available in #OpenAccess!
Articles on anti-gender mobilisation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, EU accession dynamics in the Western Balkans, Greece's role in maritime security, finance-driven poverty reduction & a film review of J. Žbanić's "Blum".
leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...
❗Tomorrow is finally the day ❗
Join us for the keynote lecture at the 7th Annual Graduate Workshop of the GS OSES (UR) in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus on this year's theme, ‘Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies.’
More details see here 👉 www.gsoses-ur.de/.../Final_Wo...
CFP: From Exile to Diaspora: Southeast European Intellectuals and Political Activists Abroad
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160339
Fribourg, 09.09.2026-10.09.2026, Dr. Franziska Zaugg / Dr. Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler / Dino Tsakmaklis, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Fribourg, …
📢 Call for Papers: “Imagining the future of research on South East Europe”
The BISA South East Europe Working Group invites paper proposals for its upcoming workshop on the future of research on South East Europe.
📍 London | 🗓 01 April
⏰ CfP Deadline: 15 February
🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Da su mostarski fudbaleri poginuli u ustaško-četničkoj koloni, danas bi imali pozlaćene spomenike, političke govore, popovski tamjan i školske udžbenike koji bi ih slavili kao 'žrtve komunizma'. Po njima bi se zvale ulice, snimali filmovi, gradili nacionalni oltari. Ali oni su poginuli kao partizani
28.01.2026 18:47 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sehr, sehr wichtiger Beitrag auf FM4: Auf der Balkanroute, vor unserer Haustüre, sterben Menschen. Gemeinsam mit lokalen Helfer:innen schauen wir, dass diese zumindest ein menschenwürdiges Grab bekommen. Und dass wir selbst nicht vergessen, was hier passiert...
fm4.orf.at/player/20260...
What can Cold War maps teach us about today’s Arctic tensions?
In this piece for @uk.theconversation.com, Prof. James Cheshire, (@uclsocialdata.bsky.social) shows how US maps from the 1940s–50s shaped public understanding of global threats - and why perspective still matters in geopolitics today.
The KARL KASER PRIZE FOR #HISTORICALANTHROPOLOGY IN #SOUTHEASTERNEUROPE
for outstanding publications by early-career scholars is now open for submissions. We invite you to apply and to share this announcement with interested colleagues and networks.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2026
See more ⬇️
In the second part of our winter special, Bodies of The Balkans, Magdalena Crăciun guides us through the river crossing between socialist Romania and Bulgaria, exploring the shadow economy and the delicious pleasures on the other side with a touch of life-changing suspense.
tinyurl.com/3v24vamk
I remember the celebration of this ⬇️ and had a tiny hope three years ago that things might get better. But no. The obsession with this term is still there across Western media.
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Out and open access! Enjoy the read! Special thanks to @szidora.bsky.social and @markozajc.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this excellent project!
omp.inz.si/zalozba/cata...
@inz-ljubljana.bsky.social
