Lea Horvat
@leahorvat
@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social co-founder and editor lecturer at Uni Jena: coffee, gender, labor in the Habsburg South PhD (Uni Hamburg): cultural history of Yu mass housing Berlin/Jena, she/sie/ona
later in the day, more realistic/chaotic academic parenting/coworking situation to be continued in the few remaining days before the school season
Starting my year in Ireland at Maynooth Uni as a Feodor Lynen fellow funded by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and coming with this incredible accommodation 🏰
Bjelovar alert: tamo sam od 15. do 17. srpnja i zainteresirana za pitomo druženje i lokalnu povijest ako netko zna nekog iz Bjelovara 📨
in awe of Lolita Zikmane (spotted in Latvian National Museum of Art), 1970s-1980s The Snow-Covered Table and everything else ✨
Spectacular Monday off, alone with the Baltic Sea 🩵 all means of transportation included in Deutschlandticket 🥰
sneak peek or different (gendered) communication style of "dwelling agents"
Hochschulaktionstag in Jena! Took 10 min in class this week to talk about studying & working conditions and answer any questions students might have. Especially interesting to hear from student assistants!
putting the final touches on a paper that has to be in British English and questioning everything at this point
My teaching countdown just moved past December ❄️ love my analog semester overview sheet with most important teaching, research and writing obligations
10 min before my very first job interview for a permanent uni position - no matter what the outcome will be, good to know that I can do this without crumbling under stress!
Reading for the session on seating in transportation: W. Schivelbusch on train compartment, S. Weiß on airplane seat design, and one of my favorite pieces by R. Gay on public seating and fatness
Last week I enjoyed a much-needed research trip at the Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Württemberg, exploring promising avenues for my second book. As I work through the material and write, it is exciting to see its contours more clearly.
I recently saw a list of the first members of the Croatian Mountaineering Association:a group of prominent men (scientists, politicians, artists) who used the outdoors as a space to develop their relationships and networks. www.matica.hr/media/upload...
My Vokabelheft from 2013, when I moved to Germany - many common words in it - to show the students that you can improve your language skills (in their case english) as an adult. Funny to see "scheitern" ("to fail") on the list - but can you really fail if you don't even know the word for it?
No matter how many times I tell her she could just reuse a cardboard box, she insists on buying an official one at the post office, "to be on the safe side" 🥹
my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia
Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture
1 dreamy week in a simple socialist resort (still not privatized!) on a car-free Adriatic island 🪸
My neighbor (single mom from 🇺🇦) had an injury, so I walk her kid to school together with mine (+kids play after school) She is always profusely thanking me. Today, her toddler echoed her words: "danke, danke". Reminded me of @enaselimo.bsky.social stellar piece Counting Change: tinyurl.com/y8pwsnnn
The true meaning of the phrase “marriage of convenience”: my husband is in charge of foods I never make (kimchi, pickles, sourdough pizza & focaccia) and vice versa