1-year visiting professorship at UAlberta/ @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for Croatian professors in the Humanities + Social Sciences. Join us for a year, with reduced teaching load so you can explore research connections with UAlberta faculty and staff! Deadline Oct 15. www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

It's online! Maureen Healy, Howard Louthan, Katya Motyl, Robert Nemes, Jonathan Singerton, and Daniel Unowsky each share their impressions from last year's CEHC in Vienna on @ahy-history.bsky.social. Read it here! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's online and open access! Don't miss Tara Zahra's 2025 CEHC keynote "What Good Is Habsburg History When the World Is On Fire?" from @ahy-history.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's online! Don't miss Peter Haslinger's 2025 CEHC keynote "Austro-Hungarian Relations 1867-1914: The Perfect Example of a Community of Conflict?" from @ahy-history.bsky.social. www-cambridge-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/core/journal...

The Journal of Modern Italian Studies will be publishing a forum on Igor Bezinović's incredible film "Fiume o Morte!," featuring Pamela Ballinger, Victoria de Grazia, @dominiquereill.bsky.social, with a response from Bezinović and edited by @eileenryan.bsky.social. I've read it: it's FABULOUS!

lease share far and wide this amazing opportunity for a 1-month residency in Koper, Slovenia for Mediterranean studies (especially Renaissance). I would snap this up in a second. I love Koper (and its many brilliant scholars). www.zrs-kp.si/en/santorio-...

We did it! Sonja Dolinsek, Tiffany Florvil, Anita Kurimay, Jill Massino, Alisha Rankin, Michał Wilczewski, + I just submitted the final revisions to our CEHS presidential forum: "Gender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe," soon out with "Central European History."

1 of my favorite professional activities is my work with @conteurohistory.bsky.social. First time I've missed the yearly meeting: sorry for it. Look at these brilliant, caring scholars, hosted by Mary Hilson + @au.dk. So sad not to be there that for some reason in zoom meeting there were two of me!

So proud our newly minted Dr. Adelina Tratarou, who just defended her dissertation ""Learning Experiences: A Study of Ghana's 1957-1964 Mass Education Campaigns" at UMiami. She will make the world a better, smarter, more caring place. Hurray for the future! We need moments of hope like this.

So proud to have joined a department so dedicated to teaching! Congrations University of Alberta History, Classics, + Religion teachers Tristan Ellenberger, KD Burton, Margriet Haagsma, Craig Harvey, Tulika Singh, + Patrick Erickson!

Don't miss our last @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Central European Talk of the year on April 17 at 1pm featuring our wonderful Czech Doctoral Fellow, Tereza Trojanová, who asks the BIG question "Is Internationalism More Than a Buzzword? Navigating the Global from Central Europe." Join us!

PhD students everywhere! Respond to this call for papers to participate in the doctoral workshop "Socialism and the Sea," Aug 26-29 in Pula, Croatia and spearheaded by the always fascinating Prof. Igor Duda. www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/doc...

The new partnership between @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social + the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social to house the CUP journal "Central European History" at the Wirth is the product of countless hours of emails/zooms. Thank you Jared Poley, Ben Marschke, + Anthony Steinhoff for all the hours (+passion)!

This year UAlberta design students Alyssa Li + Jasmine Chan, + their prof. Ehsan Baha have been helping the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social rebuild our web presence. April 2 at 7pm we will celebrate them at their Grad Exhibi. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/bdes-grad-...

It's day 2 since the announcement was made about the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social collaboration with the @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social to house the @universitypress.cambridge.org journal "Central European History." I'm still celebrating! www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Come to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Central European Cafe this Thursday, April 2 at 2pm to hear Pro Coro Canada director Michael Zaugg perform + discuss Dvořák's Stabat Mater (which Pro Coro Canada will be performing on Good Friday). + free tickets for Friday's performance! What's not to love?

What a marvelous day: learning with former @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Director Franz Szabo and hearing the rehearsal of the Pro Coro Canada for this performance next Friday of Dvorak’s Sabat Mater. www.tickettailor.com/events/proco...

The AMAZING @wirthinstitute.bsky.social fellows are helping us revise our message on why you should apply for a Wirth doctoral fellowship. Luna (my very discerning cat) is helping guide them

March 27, 1-2pm: @arv-er.bsky.social will give her @wirthinstitute.bsky.social yearly talk: “Harnessing the Diaspora: State Instrumentalization of Hungarians Abroad” at University of Alberta in the Senate Chamber (3rd floor; Old Arts) Please come and spread the word! www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Woke up at 5am to finish talk for today's HCR Grad Student Conference "Memory and Narrative." Life lesson: we never stop being the grad students we once were. Join Yigal Bronner, Alex Marcus, Mckelvey Kelly, + me for the Methodologies roundtable in Bus. 2-09 Mar 7 4pm? www.hcrgsa.ca/_files/ugd/0...

Join us April 23 at 7pm to hear Victoria de Grazia talk about her smash book "The Perfect Fascist" at the much beloved Edmonton institution Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Ave). Please come! Please share! This is a book I couldn't put down for all the right reasons!

Come one + all tomorrow, March 5 at 2:30-4:00 p.m at University of Alberta's Tory 2-58 to hear the fascinating panel "Diasporic Memories and Narratives", chaired by Aya Fujiwara and featuring Eduardo Lactaoen, @wirthinstitute.bsky.social fellow Erzebet Arvay, + Mariia Burtseva.

Join us 1-2pm, March 6 at University of Alberta's Senate Chamber to learn more about the current research of the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian Fellow, Adriana Blažević, in her talk "Regulating Migration in Europe: A Discursive Problem." + Don't forget our Central European Cafe after!

Come March 5-7 to see our PhD students in Canada in action! Organized by the ever-inspiring merry core at the University of Alberta, and co-sponsored by the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social

Are you in Austria Feb. 23 + interested in learning more about studying and research opportunities in Canada? Come to Klagenfurt! Representatives from the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social at the University of Alberta and the CANADIAN EMBASSY will be there + eager to share info.

Tis the season for @wirthinstitute.bsky.social "Romantic." I don't quite understand how joyful this event will be, but I have heard from students, staff, + faculty that it's insanely fun. I am bracing myself for the psychic reading part of this all. My job is proving more unexpected than I expected.

Such an amazing day of music and goodwill at this last Sunday’s “Central European Gems” concert by The Alberta Baroque Ensemble, co-sponsored by the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social. The music was inspiring, + Ethan Filner’s viola solo had many standing ovations. For more info, see: albertabaroque.com

Just read Hillel Kieval's beautifully written 2025 AHY article “Was There a Habsburg Jewish Experience?” Such a pleasure! So thought-provoking! Something perfectly suited for the classroom! doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1017/S006....

Join us Jan 16 at @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for our monthly Central European Cafe, where we will be featuring the new book "Echoes of Tartini", led by @ualberta.bsky.social editors Carpenter + Tardif, as well as live violin + cello performances. It'll be amazing! www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Yesterday at the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social we had a double dose of feeling honored by our Austrian-Canadian community: Ambassador Rendl visited us and helped us inaugurate our newest donation by the Austrian-Canadian painter Ernestine Tahedl! What a lucky day!