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James Koranyi

3 years

As I make my way to Vienna and Budapest tomorrow, it's quite nice that my book, 'Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Twentieth Century Europe' is out tomorrow with @CambridgeUP @durham_history . It is already available online:

Migrating Memories

Cambridge Core - European Studies - Migrating Memories

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

A few years ago, I debated ⁦Peter Hitchens⁩ at Durham Union. Over drinks afterwards, he referred to the Holodomor as a Ukrainian conspiracy fable and praised Putin.

PETER HITCHENS: One glorious day in Sevastopol, I saw what was coming

PETER HITCHENS: In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

I come back from Hungary to this.

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2 years

@DrAndreKeil I think I said 50 years and it was in the summary part of the debate…

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2 years

@ksvarnon I agree (when talking political history), but think Soviet iconography and aesthetics are clearly Russian and imperialist, certainly for east-central Europeans.

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3 years

We @durham_history @durham_uni are looking for a Lecturer in Modern European History for the next two years. We are a nice bunch of modern European historians (and the rest are okay, too):

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

What used to be my step grandad‘s shoe shop in Budapest is now a very hip café.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

If you've ever wondered what Stefan Jäger's triptych would look like as a book cover, then look no further than my forthcoming book 'Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe'.

Migrating Memories

Cambridge Core - European Studies - Migrating Memories

www.cambridge.org

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

Historians: Years, decades, and centuries are only constructs which we use to impose patterns, logic, and ruptures on narratives. Also historians: Thank fuck 2020 is over! We've turned the page...things can only get better etc. Happy New Year!

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

1 year

@willsheehan68 @Twitter Rapapa.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

4 years

British Foreign Office map for Trianon trying to figure out the 'four nationalities problem' of Southern Hungary. Note the individually coloured dots that make up towns and cities.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

I greatly enjoyed speaking with @roloclark at @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksEEuro @NewBooksGerman about my book 'Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe' and you can listen to it here @durham_history @durham_uni :

‎New Books in History on Apple Podcasts

‎Society & Culture · 2024

podcasts.apple.com

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

6 years

Endings of German place names on a map.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

What does the Habsburg-Romanian border look like in the Carpathians? Unclear and interrupted: a tourist map by the Transylvanian Carpathian Association from 1912, south-east of Avrig/Freck.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

@AlexanderFaludy Obviously this must be read against the backdrop of the impending election, but still, this is deeply destabilising. While NATO are working out what article 5 would entail, one calculation that hasn't featured yet is what happens if a member state collaborates with Russia.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

We've managed to coax Larry Wolff to @durham_history , virtually, on 2nd June at 12 noon, to talk about Woodrow Wilson and Eastern Europe:

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

5 years

Got my copy of Identities In-between in East-Central Europe. Delighted to have been part of this project @mariusturda .

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

7 months

Here's our 'Modern Carpathians' panel with @pdabrow as discussant, with Jonathan Parker, Raluca Cernahoschi, Enikő Dácz and me completing the panel, and with Josh First for chairing the session! #ASEEES23

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

4 years

@HistoryNed And anyway, the putsch was only intended to fire up his base for the Bavarian Landtag elections in April 1924.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

Welcome to Debrecen in 1964 (Source: Fortepan).

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

Furnica, August 1913, on the Second Balkan War.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 months

CfP: 'The Future of Central and East European Studies', 17-19 October 2024, @InstPileckiego Warsaw.

Call for Papers - The future of Central and Eastern European Studies in the light of Russia’s War...

The Pilecki Institute’s Center for Totalitarian Studies invites you to participate in the International Conference “The future of Central and Eastern European Studies in the light of Russia’s War of...

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

7 years

New publication @RoutledgeHist of East Central Europe since 1700 with ch1 by @BernhardStruck and me @durham_history .

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@jtkoranyi

2 years

Newcastle Central station which is the first of many train legs on our v slow way to Füzesgyarmat and Debrecen.

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@jtkoranyi

7 years

Brexit vote one year on in Newcastle today @cliodiaspora @DGStewart07 @NE4EU .

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@jtkoranyi

1 year

Very happy to have met students from @ZNU_University Zaporizhzhia today who will be joining my special subject module online on Monday as part of our growing @durham_history @durham_uni partnership with @ZNU_University .

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

Very excited to see the first part of the special issue ‘Transnationale Karpaten’ appear in print in Spiegelungen, with my article ‘Gendered Escapes: British Travellers in the Carpathians, 1890s-1920s’. Thanks to Raluca Cernahoschi and Enikő Dácz for their editorship.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

Lecture series (March to June): 'To Mountains From a City: Imagining Carpathians in Arts and Culture' with @pdabrow and others:

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

Pan-European Picnic Memorial Park, on the Austrian-Hungarian border near Sopron.

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@jtkoranyi

3 years

Yesterday was the first time I taught in-person since May 2019, and let me say that it was absolutely delightful and invigorating.

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@jtkoranyi

7 months

Glühwein panel with @StellaGhervas , @leslie_H2Os , @KindKovacs and Balázs Apor. #ASEEES23

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

The Wusch - a narrow-gauge railway built in 1898 connecting Agnita and Sighișoara in Transylvania - pictured in August 1914 in Agnita.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

Antal Szerb memorial in Balf just outside Sopron. He was murdered in Balf in January 1945 like many other Jews in the area in labour camps and factories.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

4 years

A lively and fascinating lecture by Pieter Judson yesterday in Durham Town Hall on ‘What Austria-Hungary can teach us and why it matters’ @durham_history .

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

Despite the sceptical looks, we were actually celebrating @C_H_Gibson 's wonderful new book 'Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic' with @siobhanhearne , @steven_seegel and Katja Wezel @durham_history @peripheralhist .

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 months

Here's my review of @pdabrow 's fabulous book 'The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine' in @AHY_History .

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

4 years

More east-central Europeans: Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), author of the dystopian novel We, lived in Jesmond, Newcastle in 1916 while working as shipyard supervisor in Wallsend.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

Tomorrow @durham_history . @C_H_Gibson , @siobhanhearne , @steven_seegel , Katja Wezel and me, on Catherine's new book 'Geographies of Nationhood : Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic'. It feels very apposite to delving into claims on the Baltic region.

Steven Seegel 🇺🇦

@steven_seegel

2 years

Mapheads, join us if you can! I'll be doing this with @C_H_Gibson @siobhanhearne @jtkoranyi & Katja Wezel tomorrow. #maps #cartography #cartographytwt @mhedney @jansurman1 @UTCREEES @peripheralhist @FranHirsch @HarryMerritt @OUPHistory @KuldkeppMart @gwilymeades @tessmegginson

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

4 years

Prague was known as 'Geneva of the East' and Łódź as 'Polish Manchester'; Tampere is still 'Manchester of the North'. Are there examples of nicknames for places working the other way round (from east to west or south to north etc.)? @JanKoura @BernhardStruck

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7 years

Stolpersteine in Budapest.

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2 years

@johnpaul_newman First images of his fellow plotters emerge:

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@jtkoranyi

7 years

@amencarini @cliodiaspora And they often say this as if it's okay, by contrast, to target Poles and Lithuanians.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

5 years

@IanDunt That's because most Brits only speak English. In translation, German humour is lost, which confirms their view of Germans and humour. Germans, by contrast, speak English, which is why they watch British comedy, which again confirms the view that they have no humour of their own.

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@jtkoranyi

4 years

‘Transylvania: Built on Grass’, part of Rena Effendi’s exhibition ‘Waiting for Winter’ ⁦ @SideGallery ⁩, Newcastle. Some really wonderful images from Maramureș.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

7 years

A plug for my technophobe colleague Tom Stammers @durham_history who has an exquisite review article in the current @LRB , 'Down with Weathercocks'!

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2 years

A quick morning run to Csömör/Čemer/Tschemer in Pest county. Trilingual signs in what looks distinctly Swabian in some parts of the town.

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@jtkoranyi

2 years

Bravo, Klaus! A great thread!

Klaus Richter

@kaa_richter

2 years

1/11 As someone who has spent all his career studying the history of the ‘small’ states situated between Russia and Germany, I am very concerned about the framing of the Russian war against Ukraine as a conflict between Russia and NATO.

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@jtkoranyi

4 years

CfP: Transnational Germans: Competing Ideas of Germanness since the Mid-Nineteenth Century, please circulate our call!

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@jtkoranyi

5 years

Interesting language politics in the in-flight Eurowings magazine: Bilingual Polish/German cities, German names for main cities in east-central Europe, Romanian Timișoara, and then: ‘Kosize’.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

2 years

I got a very nice end-of-year surprise in the post today ⁦ @BernhardStruck ⁩ ⁦ @kmlawson ⁩ ⁦ @tshsta ⁩ ⁦ @RoutledgeHist ⁩ ⁦ @durham_history ⁩.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

7 years

Ich liebe Bayern.

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2 years

A sneak peek of my paper at the Modern Travel, Modern Landscape @mtml2022 conference next week organised by @janakhunter @cj_drury and hosted @durham_uni @durham_history : here's the full 'Wusch' train route, first opened in 1898, in the southern Carpathians.

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7 years

@DrAndreKeil @FeliciaGottmann March for Europe in Newcastle. #Remain

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3 years

Astonishing scenes at the Eurotunnel in France as a young British soldier jumps to freedom.

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

7 years

'Middle class scum', 'disgrace' and 'immigrants out' were among the more articulate Brexit shouts against the March for Europe today. #NCL4EU

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

8 months

Virtual book launch and discussion of Svetlana Suveică's new book 'Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere 1917-1922' hosted by @Soc4RoStudies .

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

4 years

What an image. Memory and conflict only ever seems to happen elsewhere, but here we are and made possible because there are statues of slave holders and other unsavoury historical figures in the UK. Some historical examples from east-central Europe: a thread 1/

Martin Booth

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Speeches are taking place on the plinth where Colston’s statue used to stand before protesters pulled it down earlier today. #blacklivesmatter

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@jtkoranyi

5 years

Stolpersteine in Brno, too @LegaciesofPast .

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@jtkoranyi

2 years

On my way to the @nepostrans conference in Bratislava, 24-25 May, featuring a painting by the Brasovian Hermann Morres, 'Frühling in den Bergen' (1938).

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2 years

Manner from heaven.

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4 years

Had a very enjoyable conversation with @alan_fentiman for the @durham_history podcast on 'Iron Curtain Twitchers: A Romanian German Family during the Cold War':

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7 years

My leftover Schnitzel looks like a map of Greater Hungary. I ate about 2/3 of it.

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3 years

InterRail poster from Germany in 1976 with a fascinating map of Europe.

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6 months

I'm upholding the annual tradition of writing a book review on Christmas Eve.

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2 years

It’s good to see principled politicians like Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak saying enough is enough after Johnson’s 1,726,254 lie. Surely nothing to do with wanting to be PM next week.

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3 years

Every time Kirani James wins a medal, I feel I win a medal, too. #Olympics #400m

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4 years

The latest instalment of British exceptionalism is that the UK has the highest Corona death toll in Europe, because Brits are the best when it comes to counting.

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6 years

New footage of Lloyd Russell-Moyle trying to flee the chamber with the mace. #Brexit

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

7 months

I'm flying to #ASEEES23 tomorrow from Newcastle to Philadelphia via London. There's even a song by Mark Knopfler about my trip: 'We are sailing to Philadelphia, a world away from the coaly Tyne'...

Mark Knopfler & James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia

Download Mp3: http://amzn.to/Z6d5pNJames Taylor & Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia

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@jtkoranyi

2 years

German History in the North workshop with @DrAndreKeil , @alberto_murru and @CMLaw1992 and some spectacular views over Liverpool.

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7 years

I call this piece of art Sovereignty & Freedom. #Brexit

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1 year

Me discovering my new outfit at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź.

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4 years

Mary, we’re driving to Durham.

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4 years

Commemorating the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto 75 years ago at the Dohány Street Synagogue tonight.

Hungary commemorates 1945 liberation of Budapest ghetto

At ceremony at Dohany Street Synagogue, rabbi speaks of 'ambivalent feelings' surrounding anniversary, which contains pain and mourning, but also 'celebration of life'

www.timesofisrael.com

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

5 years

Discussing ‘Race, Blood, and Biopolitics in Interwar Romania’ with first years this morning @mariusturda .

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@jtkoranyi

2 years

Very pleased to see this in print. My chapter on travel guides brings back memories of writing the thing almost exclusively in a café near Schloss Charlottenburg.

Bernhard Struck

@BernhardStruck

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The paperback of our "Doing Spatial History" has now landed @spatialhistory @spatial_history @RoutledgeHist @StAndrewsHist @tshsta @NewBooksNetwork @kmlawson

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2 years

V happy that our edited volume ( @emilyhanscam ) 'Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Contested Present in East-Central Europe' is out @durham_history . Online today, in print in a few weeks. With some fab contributions from @C_Doppelhofer @annekluger and many others.

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@emilyhanscam

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#DiggingPolitics is now available online! See below for a thread 🧵 on its contents 👇

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3 years

Copernico: a new portal for cultural history in east-central Europe hosted by the Herder-Institut in Marburg. (hat tip: @siebenbuerger and @peripheralhist )

Startseite | Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa

www.copernico.eu

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5 years

I'm flying from Avram Iancu airport (Cluj) to Robin Hood airport (Doncaster), which must be the ultimate haiduc route.

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2 years

I'm a Holocaust historian and I'm taking up arms to defend Ukraine by Artem Kharchenko

Opinion | Opinion | I'm a Holocaust historian and I'm taking up arms to defend Ukraine

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www.haaretz.com

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James Koranyi

@jtkoranyi

3 years

Just had a fascinating conversation about differences between Polish colonial fantasies - maritime versus 'inland' - with @KathrynCiancia @marta_grzechnik and others. That distinction might be key for thinking about other colonialisms, e.g. the German case.

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5 years

‘Jewish Life on Tyneside’, exhibition at Newcastle City Library.

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2 years

For anyone interested, I am speaking at the Nicolae Iorga Institute (Bucharest) on Tuesday, 22 March, at 4pm (EET) on Zoom, 'A New Centre: Romanian Germans in Europe after 1989'.

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'No need to worry!', the Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung assures its readers in July 1918: the so-called Spanish flu is just a normal flu with mild symptoms.

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Berlin football day: first Makkabi Berlin vs Fürstenwalde, now @TennisBorussia vs Sparta Lichtenberg, with @DrAndreKeil .

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The excitement of finding two long-standing fee-paying members of the Transylvanian Carpathian Association in 'Middlesbroo on Tees' in the 1880s and 1890s.

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4 years

New special section of Slavic Review on the Collapse of Empire/New States, 1918–2018 with a focus on central and south-eastern Europe.

Slavic Review: Volume 78 - Issue 4 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Slavic Review - Volume 78 - Issue 4

www.cambridge.org

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An alpine hut (c. 1935) in the Șureanu Mountains in Transylvania near Hunedoara, dedicated to Dr Albert Amlacher, one of the founding members of the Transylvanian Carpathian Association.

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CfP Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe @durham_uni @durham_history @ArcDurham @Durham_Classics @emilyhanscam for June 2019, deadline 15 March 2019. Please circulate.

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An encounter with the monument to the thirteen martyrs in Arad in 1914.

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Zone of Interest is a Holocaust film without Nazis or Jews. Beyond the banal 'banality statement' lies something darker in its jubilant reception.

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4 years

My sense is that Brexit will become real to many in the summer of 2021 when Brits go on their summer hols to discover phone bills worth £1,000s, huge health care and repatriation costs and first serious problems of overstaying their welcome. But we didn’t vote for that!

Lewis Goodall

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Unless there’s an agreement, free mobile roaming to end.

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Some of the figures who were going to serve in Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss zu Köstritz's cabinet:

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3 years

Looking forward to our @aseeestudies panel today at 12 noon CST (6pm GMT) on 'Continuities, Disruptions, and Realignments in Eastern Europe's Transnational Networks: 1890-1945' with Alex Vari, Irina Gigova, @C_H_Gibson as chair and Irina Livezeanu as discussant!

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Happy to be welcoming our DAAD fellows @fl_probst (Münster), Stefanie Populorum (Rutgers) and Jana Stöxen (Regensburg) to @durham_history @durham_uni as part of our 'Futures of German Diasporas' programme coordinated by @kaa_richter .

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You spend years agonising over geography and terminology when writing about east-central Europe, and then virologist Hendrik Streek blows everything up by saying ‘Tschechei’ on German TV...

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3 years

Crucial to keep an eye on the question of language in that book when available. Looking forward to reading it. I am gespannt.

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

@daniel_dsj2110

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How many languages must one know to write this forthcoming book? Jonathan Sperber: "The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century". Advertised as the "First major global history of the entire era":

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How did we end up with sociopathic liar Johnson and his incompetent successor Truss? Here's your periodic reminder that the 'change candidate' 2015-2019 was this Putinist weirdo, here chinwagging with Hezbollah channel Al Mayadeen and advocating the end of Ukraine.

Al Mayadeen English

@MayadeenEnglish

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"Pouring arms in isn't gonna bring back a solution." Jeremy Corbyn on the war between #Russia and #Ukraine . @jeremycorbyn @MoussaSrour

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Fascinating session on 20th century Romanian music and offence with Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Nicolae Gheorgiță and Florinela Popa at the ‘Offence’ conference @DurhamIAS .

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@irgarner Dschinghis Khan

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