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Jaromír Mrňka PhD

@mrnka.bsky.social

Historian of Central Europe | Studies of violence and postwar justice | Researching queer spaces and underworlds in state socialism | Head of DHI Warsaw – Prague Branch | Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at Charles University

13 Followers  |  29 Following  |  7 Posts  |  Joined: 08.09.2025  |  1.4548

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📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom.
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23.09.2025 18:47 — 👍 28    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1
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Český boomer je mladší kus než boomer americký. O vzniku generací rozhoduje společná zkušenost, vysvětluje expert Historik Jaromír Mrňka vyučuje na Fakultě humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy zajímavý předmět. Jmenuje se Okay Boomer – koncept generací a zlomové okamžiky dějin 20. století. Pozvali jsme ho do Gen...

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30.09.2025 10:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Český boomer je mladší kus než boomer americký. O vzniku generací rozhoduje společná zkušenost, vysvětluje expert", více na odkazu v komentáři 👇🏼

30.09.2025 10:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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CfP: Queering 20th-Century East Central Europe

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30.09.2025 08:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌈 “The archive of feelings gives us permission to turn down the volume on the voice of critique and pay attention to the strong feelings that get attached to things.” — Ann Cvetkovich

📩 Submit by Nov 16 👇🏼 link in comments

#QueerHistory #CfP #Archives #Feelings #QueerStudies

30.09.2025 08:15 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

"If people are uneducated and stupid, you can't do much. People like to be stupid. But don't make it easy for them. Argue and argue with them." This supposedly authentic message of T. G. Masaryk, recorded before his death and hidden for years, which was revealed today, speaks to every era.

19.09.2025 12:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#CfA Tandem #Scholarships in Entangled East Central European History

📌offered by GHI Warsaw and Research Centre Ukraine | 1–4 month stays in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, or Czech Republic | for early-career, non-tenured scholars (doctoral & postdoctoral level)

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

11.09.2025 08:57 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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A Liquid State of Exception: The Shifting Boundaries of Violence in the Czech Lands, 1944–1945 This article explores the persistence and transformation of violence in the Czech lands during the transition from Nazi occupation to post-war retribution, with a focus on role reversals and shifti...

Link to the Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

08.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
This is a black-and-white still from the film Shadow Country (Krajina ve stínu, dir. Bohdan Sláma, 2020). A uniformed officer stands in the foreground, facing the camera, with other soldiers and a military vehicle in the background.

This is a black-and-white still from the film Shadow Country (Krajina ve stínu, dir. Bohdan Sláma, 2020). A uniformed officer stands in the foreground, facing the camera, with other soldiers and a military vehicle in the background.

How do victims become perpetrators and justice turn into revenge❓My new article in The International History Review explores global legacies of violence in the Czech lands around the end of WWII. Contact me for the author link 👉 link in comments
#History #WWII #EasternEurope #Research #HumanRights

08.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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