My school, a top research university, gives us access to an institutional AI bot, HopGPT. As an experiment, I just asked it for the most important *academic* works on WWII. It gave me a list of 8 books. The first was Churchill, followed by David Irving, then Primo Levi. We are so, so screwed
14.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 71 🔁 18 💬 8 📌 2Historians of Central and Eastern Europe! On this feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, consider submitting a proposal for "Encountering the European 'East'", our seminar at this year's GSA in Phoenix.
14.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Deadline’s coming up! Proposals must be submitted to the GSA application portal by 18 February. Please circulate widely.
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ICYMI:📢🚨CFP: "Encountering the European ‘East’: Imagination and Practice." seminar for
@thegsa.bsky.social
We explore the contradictory ways in which Europeans imagined the ‘East’, and how their encounters with these regions transformed interpretations and projects.
www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsa...
📢 🚨CFP: "Encountering the European ‘East’: Imagination and Practice." a seminar for @thegsa.bsky.social
We explore the contradictory ways in which Europeans imagined the ‘East’, and how their encounters with these regions transformed interpretations and projects.
www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsa...
Oh man! we went back and forth on it! And i really wish we could have you in the seminar!
30.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0John Deak, Jesse Kauffman, Gregor Thum, and I are convening the seminar.
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We welcome variety of approaches, including research on commerce, cultural contact, state-led development, nation-building, and empire.
Proposals must be submitted to the GSA's OpenWater Submission Portal by 18 February.
Please circulate widely.
📢 🚨CFP: "Encountering the European ‘East’: Imagination and Practice." a seminar for @thegsa.bsky.social
We explore the contradictory ways in which Europeans imagined the ‘East’, and how their encounters with these regions transformed interpretations and projects.
www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsa...
📢 Now Open: #theGSA2026 Seminars
Applications are now open for participation in the GSA 2026 Seminars at our 50th annual conference in Phoenix, AZ!
📝 Apply via the OpenWater submission portal
🗓 Application deadline: February 18, 2026
👉 Seminar topics & full details: thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsa...
On Christmas 2024, Robert Eggers released his adaptation of Nosferatu. What does this latest version of the Dracula story reveal about our dread and the evolving terrors of modernity?
www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...
We lost something when we stopped adapting classic literature with Muppets. Where is Muppet “Frankenstein”, Muppet “Pride & Prejudice”, Muppet “War and Peace”?
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I'm giving a talk on Monday in Berlin for those around.
**** Global History Colloquium: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) on "The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers" *** share.google/s7sxXYD6xJmm...
I will be teaching my grad seminar on nationalism next semester, and I was wondering if anyone had recommendations on works concerning nationalism and internationalism. I'm open to books or articles on any region/time period. Thanks! 🗃️
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Just one more!
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These would later inspire the visual style of Fritz Murnau's 2-part epic, Die Niebelungen
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Carl Otto Czeschka's magnificent illustrations for Die Niebelung.
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The fall semester approaches!
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Folks interested in German colonialism, If you're looking for a sneak peak at my new book, 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa', the introduction is now free to read online for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60083/c...
13.08.2025 02:52 — 👍 46 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
What can a vampire story tell us about our evolving fears about modern life?
Read my new essay with @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, "A Death of Despair in Wisborg"
www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...
The best book on the subject yet and probably ever
30.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
Considering these iterations in sequence, allows us to appreciate broader transformations in fundamental assumptions about gender, familiarity, and authority over the past 125 years.
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The essay considers Robert Eggers’s 2024 adaptation of Fritz Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu, itself an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I examine how key differences in each iteration of this story reflect the anxieties of their filmmakers and surrounding societies.
30.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What can a vampire story tell us about our evolving fears about modern life?
Read my new essay with @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, "A Death of Despair in Wisborg"
www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...
All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.
Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.
I just saw this. It looks like an amazing resource for anybody who teaches on Weimar film. I know I’m going to raid it for the next iteration of “German History through Film”.
29.07.2025 18:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I'm currently writing a book on Germany's occupation of Russian Poland during the First World War. I argue that this occupation fundamentally transformed how German military, political, and intellectual elites understood the relationship between ethnic diversity and imperial stability.
29.07.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, I finally got around to creating an account. Follow-me if you are interested in modern German History, the First World War in particular.
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