Lea Horvat

Gratulace! Very nice cover!

WBHCEE

Forgot to self-promote here (distracted by my catastrophic DB trip), but I was in Ljubljana last week, talking about chicory - my first contact with business history! www.wbhcee.org

... and the winners are:

Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond”

Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”

This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.

... and the winners are:

Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond”

Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”

This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.

My Vokabelheft from 2013, when I moved to Germany - many common words in it - to show the students that you can improve your language skills (in their case english) as an adult. Funny to see "scheitern" ("to fail") on the list - but can you really fail if you don't even know the word for it?

We set up a shared pad where students can indicate if they want printouts. If they do, I’ll bring them to the next session. I know some students prefer working with analog copies but also live on a tight budget, so they often print 4 pages on 1. I wanted to remove this barrier in this seminar.

For the next session, they received a printout of the introductory texts and a task of focusing on the word level (Which words are unfamiliar to me? Which ones will I look up? Which ones not? Where do unknown words go?) + the general idea of the texts.

Sitzen als Gesundheitsrisiko: Sitzen ist ungesund. Was passiert, wenn man damit aufhört? Martin Oswald ist 73, drahtig, beweglich, agil – und versucht seit 25 Jahren, Sitzen aus seinem Leben zu verbannen. Dafür hat der Arzt sogar ein stuhlfreies Haus gebaut.

First step: finding something seminar-related in current media
We read a lengthy feature from Zeit Magazin about a radical anti-sitting doctor. The students were encouraged to read it while not sitting. We discussed both their reading experience and the article's content
www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...

We discussed current statistics on time spent online, based on the representative Postbank study: the age cohort that includes me and the students (18-39): 85 hours/week! I then presented my small goal of carving out just 2 of those hours for reading as part of this seminar.

A thread on this experiment, connected to my seminar on sitting. I started with a brief introduction about why I believe reading is important and shared an example of the reading load I experienced as a student, esp in Belgrade, where it was common for entire books to be assigned for exams.

Behold! The new season of the History on the Edge lectures begins! 💪

To be clear, I also need to return to reading with fewer interruptions; maybe this works better as a collective endeavor.

Will do!

The problem with a grading system that relies heavily on the Hausarbeit (the sole component of the final grade here!) is that it doesn’t encourage broader reading; most syllabus texts aren’t relevant to students’ projects. I see reading as analogous to listening, much needed now, I believe.

Also planning to offer free printouts for anyone interested, to help move us away from screens.

I was inspired by the techniques used in my kid's elementary school (reading alone, reading out loud, with a partner...) and by this thread: bsky.app/profile/akta...
Curious to see whether this will work out!

A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.

I couldn't imagine a better home for what turned out to be by far one of the hardest pieces to write—read it over at @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social 💙

"According to Bosnian documents, he is a traitor. According to Turkish documents, he is a spy. According to American documents, he is an alien. According to them all, he is to be put in no position to help others or himself." Ena Selimović: Airborne Illustration: gray and black embroidery of B-2 bomber patent drawings on a blue background

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

Me too!

Colorful package with motif of brush strokes in yellow, blue, purple, and different glittery colors, with the text "posta.hr"

No matter how many times I tell her she could just reuse a cardboard box, she insists on buying an official one at the post office, "to be on the safe side" 🥹

Photo of 11 packages of kviki gric in different sizes

my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia

Another few WWII bombs found in Berlin. Once again heard some gleeful you-reap-what-you sow comments. Recently, a bomb was suspected in our communal courtyard, in an area where 60+% have Migrationshintergrund, children who play there almost exclusively with MH, including refugees. Who would reap?

source: exhibition catalogue Bugholz, vielschichtig: Thonet und das moderne Möbeldesign by S. Hackenschmidt & W. Thillmann

Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture

Hate how omnipresent AI is (or in Croatian: iskače iz paštete/jumps out of a tin of paté). Grading Hausarbeiten and Adobe pops up with:
"Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung."

Wow, ispod 40 minuta ❤️‍🔥

Odlična ideja, ja bih totalno išla da sam u Zagrebu i slažem se s procjenom; moji su se vratili putovanju vlakom na relaciji Krapina-Zagreb (auto ostave kod kolodvora u Krapini) i dosta su zadovoljni.