@severyandyakonov.bsky.social
Historian of socialist internationalism. USSR-India relations/International Red Cross movement and the Cold War divide. SSHRC postdoc at @carleton.ca university (Ottawa, Canada).
#digitalhumanities #futureai #futureofhistory
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For those who study Societ history - Reimagining Soviet Gerogia is a podcast with the participation of scholars talking about their research. Thank you Bryan and Sopiko for inviting me! Look up for the long list of previous series!
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I suspect this place is dead as an abandoned bus station in the northern part of the Leningrad region. I have over 900 views for the same post.
13.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coming soon...
12.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
7th Intl conf "Socialism on the bench," Pula, CR! Just opened!
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
Much excited to participate at the "Global Socialism and Non-Alignment" conference in Pula, CR this week. Too many interesting panels going at the same time! Program in the link
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
Report from the Euro Conf on African Studies by Sarah Howard. There you can find names of researchers working on the history of socialist countries' input in medical development of decolonizing African continent in the 1960s-80s. Happy, I was part of the panel!
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How great it was doing my BA in Paris and having all year free access to #Louvre. A new discovery during vacation.
09.07.2025 11:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed
05.07.2025 09:20 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
On June 27, I participated online at #WHA convention at roundtable "Negotiated Humanitarianism: CARE packages and the Global History of US foreign aid during the Cold War." We hope to have our texts published soon! My share will be on CARE reaching millions of Indian schoolchildren in the 1960s.
04.07.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for organizing the panel!
29.06.2025 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
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Our panel on Medical Socialist Entanglements is at 11 15, ground floor 011, #ECAS2025. Bidemi Balogun, Sarah Howard, me.
28.06.2025 09:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.
26.06.2025 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025
26.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ok, on y va. #ECAS #ECAS2025 European Conference on African Studies. Prague.
25.06.2025 16:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I will be in Prague June 23-28 at the #ECAS2025. Presenting my talk on the 28th. First time going to such a large conference for African studies! I hope to meet new colleagues and open another big field of research!
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/
I want to announce my #YouTube channel where I will post videos and audio recordings I am making and repost relevant history related posts from colleagues.
www.youtube.com/@SeveryanDya...
Thank you! Tell me if you have issues with access it.
04.06.2025 09:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
If you are part of Slavic studies don't miss this discussion on Revisionism.
"In this panel historians Sheila Fitzpatrick, Anna Krylova, Lewis Siegelbaum, and Ronald Suny gather to discuss the history and legacy of the "revisionist turn."
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Severyan Dyakonov at Carleton University’s Archives and Special Collections, MacOdrum Library. Credit: Dominique Marshall
"Project on the International Red Cross Movement and the Cold War Divide, the 1940s–1980s" a new post on the CNHH website by @severyandyakonov.bsky.social , post-doctoral fellow @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social : aidhistory.ca/project-on-t... @ifrc.org @icrc.org @icrclibrary.bsky.social
23.05.2025 10:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...
23.05.2025 09:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You can read my blog entry on my current project on hist of Intl Red Cross, 1940s-80s and about amazing archives at CarletonU in Ottawa. Special thanks to the Canadian Network for Humanitarian History for posting! Join their newsletter if interested in these themes.
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For lovers of podcasts and social justice:
My colleague @severyandyakonov.bsky.social has interviewed Canadian doctor Yipeng Ge, who went to Gaza on a humanitarian mission and was suspended from his university.
Public history at its best.
Please share!
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@yipengge.bsky.social
20.05.2025 18:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Spotify too: open.spotify.com/episode/408R...
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You can listen my interview (58 mins) with with Dr. Yipeng Ge @yipengge.bsky.social, a Canadian physician who traveled to Gaza on a humanitarian mission here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vwG...
#GAZA #HUMANITARIANISM #FREESPEECH
Interesting fact, in 1956 ministers of health care (and in charge or heads of national Red Crosses) in the USSR, India, and China were women. Maria Kovrigina, Amrit Kaur, and Li Dequan. And active in international women's federation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Dequan
