Anna Koch

Event poster for 'After Empire: National Questions and the making of International Order in Southeastern Europe' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.

Join us for this seminar with Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos to hear more about his book 'The Interpreters' which offers a new interpretation of the cultural and intellectual exchanges between Britain and southeastern Europe in an age of imperial transformation.

🗓️ 3 March at 6pm
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We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Czech and Comparative Literature

The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.

🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj

Event poster for 'T.S. Eliot's anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era' with a photo ofT.S. Eliot quote in concrete, embedded in the ground on the Queen's Walk, near the Tate Modern Gallery.

Please join us for the next Study of Central Europe seminar with @jcbretan.bsky.social to hear more about British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era.

🗓️ 27 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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@annakoch.bsky.social

Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture - A Long Road: Italian Holocaust Survivors’ Journeys Home Join us for this Lunch Hour Lecture with Anna Koch, DAAD Francis Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London

Please join us for this Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture with @annakoch.bsky.social to hear more about the return journeys of Italian Jews who survived the camps in Eastern Europe and travelled across countries devastated by war.

🗓️ 27 January, 1.30pm
📍 Online
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📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more

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Event poster for 'Mourning a lost future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime' with a photo of Tea Arciszews­ka.

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.

🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social

Event poster for 'Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights (1918–1995)' with a photo of a Man Riding Horse Sculpture in Romania.

Please join us for this seminar with Anders Blomqvist, who will examine how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania.

🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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@annakoch.bsky.social

Event poster for 'Central Europe The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea' with an image of the book cover.

What is ‘Central Europe’? Where do its borders lie? Does it even exist? Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @ljukic.bsky.social to find out more.

🗓️ 14 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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@annakoch.bsky.social

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

@biajs.bsky.social

BIAJS Book Prize 2025 BIAJS Book Prize 2025 We are delighted to announce the BIAJS book prize winner and two honourable mentions for 2025: The 2025 winner: Anna Koch, Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after th…

Thrilled that 'Home After Fascism' has received the 2025 BIAJS Book Prize!
Many thanks to the #BIAJS and especially to the prize committee for their kind words!
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This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news.

"A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

and disturbing...

Thanks for sharing, that's so helpful!

🔊 There's still time to register for today's event: www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

Just two days to go! Do join us for four weeks of online, international, interdisciplinary conversations around water livingwithwater.hcommons.org

Event poster for 'Knowledge in Exile: Translating Science for (and in) 19th century Central Europe'.

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with Katalin Straner, who will discuss her research on the translation and reception of Darwinism and evolutionary thought in the 19th-century Habsburg Empire.

🗓️ 29 April at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Event poster for 'Book Launch: The Last Peasant War (2025) by Jakub Beneš'. In-person event.

Please join us for the launch of 'The Last Peasant War' (@princetonupress.bsky.social) by Jakub Beneš, who will discuss his new book with @annakoch.bsky.social and Celia Donert.

Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social.

🗓️ 11 March at 6pm
📍 SSEES
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If you are in London and free that evening do please come by!

We'll be holding a launch of this book in collaboration with @uclssees.bsky.social on 11 March - all welcome!
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#OpenAccess
“Holocaust Memory and the Cold War: Remembering across the Iron Curtain” by Anna Koch & @stachst.bsky.social (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2024)

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#Shoah #SovietUnion #IronCurtain #Israel #NewYork #Paris #ColdWar #Antifascism #Holocaust #Berlin #GDR