Sarah Cramsey

Join the team of the Center for Totalitarian Studies! - Instytut Pileckiego The Center for Totalitarian Studies has announced competitions for positions in the humanities. We are looking for professors, adjuncts and assistants.

🚨 Academic job alert!

We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.

Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!

Reading Kafka in Prague An untold history of Franz Kafka's reception in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924 to the end of communism 1989.In the first bo…

Just learned that Veronika Tuckerová's long expected book on the afterlives of Kafka's readership in Czechoslovakia is out, with Bloomsbury.
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We have an interesting #JOBopening for an EHRI-ERIC Research and Content Officer who will work at the EHRI Central Hub located at @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. Come and join our nice team! Apply before 15 July! www.ehri-project.eu/job-opening-...

People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press

In one chapter of my forthcoming book "People Without History Are Dust" I examine Gad Beck, his queerness, sexual barter, sexualized violence, agency, his decision to out his lovers and colleagues, the whole beautiful mess:
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An Underground Life

His memoir, co-written with Frank Heibert, is available in English with @uwiscpress.bsky.social and I have it on good authority it still sells well. No surprise! it is one of the most captivating, moving, funny, and authentic reads you will get your hands on.
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#carecentury

The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective Read this new piece by Elisheva Baumgarten, “The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective,” in: Von unbequemen Dominikanern, organisierte...

New article by Elisheva Baumgarten: "The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective."
#jewishstudies
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A braided stream of histories in the Polish “Recovered Territories” - CEU Review of Books Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displ...

📣 New Long Read!

@agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement.

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Send 100 word abstracts and a title to s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl by July 1, 2025!

The conference will include a keynote lecture by Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten, Prof. Robin Judd, Dr. Katarzyna Person, Dr. Sarah Ifft-Decker and Dr. Mary Fraser Kirsh. Many thanks to #CareCentury @sarahacramsey.bsky.social 's @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant!

We hope to highlight the excellent research on care and the Jewish experience throughout historical time and across geographic space that is being done at Leiden specifically and in the Netherlands/Flanders more broadly. Colleagues are invited to give a short paper.

CFP: “Care and the #Jewish Experience” @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on Sept. 16, 2025

How do human beings who follow a Jewish way of life sustain, cherish and honor life through care and how does the “invisible work" associated with this care change over time?

#Jewishstudies #CareCentury

Cover design for "People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" in a rich burgundy color, with six faces on the cover, each corresponding with a chapter.

Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.

#carecentury

#carecentury

#carecentury

Just President Zelensky casually hangs out with Ukrainian cleaning staff at the Czech parliament

Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy Digital platforms mediating work between customers and service providers have expanded exponentially in the past decade, driving a growing research agenda on the impact of platform capitalism, AI, and...

Join me Thursday, on International Workers' Day, to discuss the impact of AI, digital platforms, and gig work on labour. I'll be sharing the findings from a recent case study on female drivers for a ride-hailing app in Oman. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism* Abstract. This article shows how the European Community sought to become a global climate leader during the 1980s and 1990s, only to fail to make progress

New on advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism"

by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu)

#OpenAccess

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Yeah, except that many of these global institutions, including most European ones, have been busy gutting their own systems & driving their own researchers away! So good luck finding jobs at this side of the pond.

Hopefully the Gulf States can benefit from this flight of researchers?

Grateful for the opportunity, humbled by the quality of work out there, and energized to promote humanist perspectives on the world when we most need them!

The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”

Author number 4 from the @aseh.bsky.social conference is @stanfordpress.bsky.social author Marc Landry, pictured below with his book Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age. #aseh2025

#carecentury

Want to learn more about quantifying carework and why we need to rethink how we count GDP? This episode of "The Conversation on @bbcnews.bsky.social was brilliant. #Carecentury, my @erc.europa.eu thanks Emma Holten and @jayatighosh.bsky.social. Wanna come to @unileiden.bsky.social and tell us more?

PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe Vacancies: PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe The PhD candidates will become part of a research team exploring a century of early childcare and the i...

Want to get a PHD in the history of early childcare and invisible work in central and eastern Europe, from 1905-2004? come work with me @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on my @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant Project! Deadline April 11!
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Sarah Cramsey's recent book

Oxford has now made my introductory chapter freely available. The hope is that once you start reading, you'll want to recommend the book to your library.

Would you consider doing that? It is the only way OUP might release a more affordable paperback edition.

Bracewell Scholarship applications are now open For current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).

The Bracewell Scolarship gives PhD students from, and studying, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe an opportunity to work at @uclssees.bsky.social for a term. Applications are open, deadline is 30 April. Please share.
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.