Siobhán Hearne

The CEH editors have started a digest in which we share news & choose an article that we have particularly enjoyed working on recently. My pick was Tereza Juhászová’s excellent ‘Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery'. Find the digest here: tinyurl.com/try6n599

YouTube video by CeasarEvora Julio Iglesias - The 1st performance in the USSR (1989)

Contemporary history provides unlimited avenues for distraction. I read in an archival document about Julio Iglesias doing a charity concert in Moscow in 1989 for UNICEF and hey presto, two minutes later I'm wincing at his cringey interactions with Soviet kids www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRM...

Back from #ICCEES2025 and still processing all the connections and conversations! It was great to see so many panels on the history of humanitarianism, and to share some preliminary #ERC EMPSOLID research in such inspiring company.

Roundtable on academic journal publishing - ICCEES 2025 The roundtable is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers who are looking to publish their research in an academic journal. It brings together editors from a variety of academic journals th...

Held on Thursday 24th at 16:30 and you can submit questions anonymously in advance here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

En route to ICCEES and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. Come join our panel on solidarities and relief across the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It's on Thursday 24th at 14:45 with @jolaycock.bsky.social and @catherinegibson.bsky.social www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

This year I will have the pleasure of presenting my research at the #iccees2025 congress at
@uclssees.bsky.social, in our panel "Ukraine as a humanitarian front: actors, practices and challenges, 1914-1923". It's on Thursday 24 July. Don't hesitate to join us! www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

ICCEES XI World Congress 2025 The ICCEES XI World Congress is being hosted by UCL in London in 2025, and will run from Monday 21st July to Friday 25th July. There is a large and diverse range of panels and roundtables to view, ei...

Heading to #ICCEES2025 next week? We have put together a list of sessions that may be of interest to Peripheral Histories? readers here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/iccees-...

Congratulations!

Father Lew Goroszko and the Vanished Intelligentsia: Memory, Identity, and Conflict in Western Belarus Stanisław BoridczenkoAmong the private papers of Fr Lew Goroszko — now archived in the Francis Skoryna Belarusian Library and Museum situated in northern London — there lies a chilling, handwritten no...

We are back with a new great post from Stanisław Boridczenko on memory, identity, and conflict in Western Belarus www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/father-...

Transnational HIV-AIDS Action and Citizen Diplomacy in the Late Soviet Union, 1988–1991

Although the article is behind a paywall, you download the AAM for free here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

For my article, I was lucky enough to interview HIV educators who travelled to the USSR & participants of the International Gay and Lesbian Symposium and Film Festival (Moscow and Leningrad, 1991). Tom Boellstorff even shared his amazing archive of Symposium photographs muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

A brilliant new special issue on transnational HIV/AIDS activism has been published in @jhistsex.bsky.social co-edited by the dream team of @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

My contribution examines transnational US-Soviet AIDS activism (cont. below)

Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective Professor Peter Gatrell delivers the 2025 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture, followed by the Society's annual summer party.

Next Wednesday, we host the Society's annual Prothero Lecture. This year's lecturer is Prof Peter Gatrell who will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/44xmpfx

The Lecture is at 6.30pm at Mary Ward House, London, and online and all are welcome #skystorians 1/2

New Methods for New Histories (Online) Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

Here is a sneak peek into our upcoming OA special issue Socialist Health: of Shortages and Solidarity in the European Journal of the History of Medicine and Health, co-edited with @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue as part of @socmederc.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #histmed

I'm digging myself a hole here... The Balkans both have a lot of character and a lot of characters! I reaffirm my love for the Balkans!

Yes, we would love to receive submissions from people working on the Balkans! Only not included above because of lack of characters

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Immobility Abstract. Increasingly, since the early years of the twenty-first century, some have questioned the relevance of historians’ ‘fetishization of mobility’ in

Terrific review article by current @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social fellows on ‘immobility’, challenging dominant historical narratives about mobility & globalisation. Also looks at how immobility shapes academic careers & who a leading history journal publishes…

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union* Abstract. In the mid-1980s, HIV and AIDS were initially dismissed in the Soviet press as infections that could only be contracted by individuals engaged in

From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union"

by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET
project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are a BIG fan of you!

I’m a BIG fan of @conteurohistory.bsky.social board meetings. We learn what’s going on with the journal + publishing at large. AND I get to spend a day with a merry band of historians and laugh, talk, listen, giggle and LEARN. Just a perfect first day. Thank you @siobhanhearne.bsky.social

Migration as Protest and Nostalgia: The Doukhobors’ Attempted Return to Soviet ​Union in the 1920s Victoria Peretitskaya As religious dissenters, the Doukhobors, a pacifist Christian sect dating back to the eighteenth century, endured multiple resettlements within the borders of the Russian Empire....

Continuing with the theme of religion, we have another excellent new post up on the website. Victoria Peretitskaya shares her research on the Doukhobors' attempts to return to the Soviet Union from Canada in the 1920s www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/migrati...

‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thrilled to see this article out in the world, soon featuring in the special issue on Health and Socialism edited by @doravargha.bsky.social @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue! For more on entanglements between socialist and social medicine from the Yugoslav perspective: t.co/5QnTExGqa7

Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue.

brill.com/view/journal...

Congratulations!

My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM