Itβs official! The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is grateful to receive these 2 beautiful paintings as a donation from the talented Canadian-Austrian artist Ernestine Tahedl. Stay tuned for information on a mini-vernissage to celebrate their arrival. In the meantime, so happy! ernestinetahedl.ca
28.10.2025 22:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Czech doctoral fellow Tereza TrojanovΓ‘'s research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
27.10.2025 16:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Our new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Polish doctoral fellow Anna Zabraniak is showing me how translation functioned in the 19th century to help create "Two (intermingled) Enlightenments" between Polish + Jews culture makers. Learn more about what I'm learning here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
27.10.2025 16:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The new wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana BlaΕΎeviΔ's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
27.10.2025 16:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow ErzsΓ©bet Γrvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" Γ©migrΓ© communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
27.10.2025 15:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The new @WirthInstitute Polish doctoral fellow Tereza TrojanovΓ‘'s research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
27.10.2025 15:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Adriana BlaΕΎeviΔ
The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana BlaΕΎeviΔ's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
27.10.2025 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
ErzsΓ©bet Γrvay
The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow ErzsΓ©bet Γrvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" Γ©migrΓ© communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
27.10.2025 15:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A little birdie told me some exciting news: Howard Louthan is stepping in as Executive Editor of the Journal of Early Modern History. Now, help welcome the new editor by sending great work his way! brill.com/view/journal...
26.10.2025 13:32 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Which ones did you especially like? (And, yes, the writing is so clear, sometimes fun, always engaging)
26.10.2025 12:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Check out the 20 blogs by emerging scholars in Central European history, discussing the successes, promises, + challenges experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, that featured 2 keynotes + 55 panels, among other events. cehc.hypotheses.org
22.10.2025 20:57 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
In his "Overcoming Orientalism," Matthias Lehmann discussed the fascinating new research presented at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that de-centered Habsburg Europe, thereby permitting its deeper contours into center stage. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/239
22.10.2025 15:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In his "Whither nation, blossom state," Simon Neumaier highlighted the new trends present at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that dislodged traditional ways of understanding state-society-governance outside + alongside the national. cehc.hypotheses.org/257
22.10.2025 15:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In her "Empire, Environment, and the Judson Legacy: Reflections from the first Central European History Convention in Vienna," DaΕ‘a LiΔen discusses the most exciting work at the July Convention that reframed thinking about power, empire, + money beyond the man-nature binary. cehc.hypotheses.org/270
22.10.2025 15:36 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
In "The Quest for Global History and the βRelevanceβ of Central Europe," @Cosminea argues the 2025 Central European History Convention showed promise of what can be gained when local Central European approaches worked together + apart from US/UK/global trends in scholarship. cehc.hypotheses.org/281
22.10.2025 15:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295
22.10.2025 15:14 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
In "Echoes of a lost Empire. Central Europe through the eyes of the RΓo de la Plata," Alexander Dementyev talks on what experiencing the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention was like in respects to the Argentinian (Lost) Central Europes he has known. cehc.hypotheses.org/312
22.10.2025 15:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In "Navigating t(hr)o(ugh) Gender Studies Perspectives at CEH-C," @KorbelSusanne discussed how at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention scholars showed that gender studies no longer is an ignored lens: it's an anchor in a field of brilliant emerging scholars. cehc.hypotheses.org/344
22.10.2025 15:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In his "Central European Convention: An Isle of Humanity in a Competitive Academic World," David SmrΔek discussed how Pieter Judson's influence in connecting scholars from different generations + geographies came to life at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. cehc.hypotheses.org/125
22.10.2025 14:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In her probing "Is it worthwhile for a medievalist to participate in the CEH-C?," Sonja Lessacher confronted a tough question: do these interdisciplinary, cross-chronology big events like the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention work? Read here to learn her answer! cehc.hypotheses.org/145
22.10.2025 14:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In her "A New Economic History of Central Eastern Europe," Bianca Centrone talks about how economic history of Habsburg lands had been overshadowed + what new scholars at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention promise to reveal of how much we still have to learn. cehc.hypotheses.org/156
22.10.2025 14:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In "Networks then and nowβ¦," MΓ‘ria Lengyel shared what she found to be the most inspiring work at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, a place where new networks were made but most importantly new light was shed of how power functioned in Habsburg Europe. cehc.hypotheses.org/166
22.10.2025 14:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In his "βNew Conference, Familiar Community, New Challenges,β Henry Blood reflected on what it was like to conference it up with authors you've spent a career reading. Learn more from him what happened at the 2025 Central European History Convention. cehc.hypotheses.org/193
22.10.2025 14:33 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
In "Imperial Afterlives," Cristina Florea discusses what has come back to life in studying the lands + peoples of the "dead" Habsburg Empire. Learn more about the exciting new work she heard at the 2025 Vienna Central European Convention that excited her: cehc.hypotheses.org/201
22.10.2025 14:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In his β'How Delightful It Is When Friends Come from Afar:' Reflections on the CEH-C 2025 in Vienna," Taisei Yamashita reflects on the impact of Pieter Judson's work in Japan + how the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention represented a new model for history-making. cehc.hypotheses.org/225
22.10.2025 14:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In her "The State of Habsburg Studies and the Study of Habsburg State(s)," Rachel Trode talks about how at the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention a new wave of "putting the state + its bureaucrats" back in is changing the field. Learn more here cehc.hypotheses.org/351
22.10.2025 14:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In her "Dispatches from the CEH-C: What the Future of History Might Look Like?," Liubov Stepanova shares the intellectual catalysts experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here cehc.hypotheses.org/363
22.10.2025 13:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In his "Paths towards a more-than-human Central European history?" Corentin Gruffat thinks about what tools Habsburg scholars are using differently by bringing animals into the mix to understand empire at the Vienna 2025 Central European History Convention. cehc.hypotheses.org/383
22.10.2025 13:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Read Anna Molnar's piece "From Continuity to Cooperation: What CEHC 2025 Taught Medievalists and Early Modernists" to see how bringing 500 historians together at the Vienna July 2025 Central European History Convention fared at breaking down chronologies. cehc.hypotheses.org/391
22.10.2025 13:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lisa Kolb reflected on new trends in how animals, nature, + human history are treated in Habsburg studies based on what she heard at the July 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Check out her "Resourceful research into human-nature-relations." cehc.hypotheses.org/409
22.10.2025 13:32 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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