Carna Brkovic
@charnab.bsky.social
Professor @ Uni Mainz | Europeanization | humanitarianism | historical anthropology of socialism | surfing ambivalences for a living | new book: Realigning humanitarianism in the Balkans, Indiana UP | ERC CG Racial Socialism
https://carnabrkovic.net/
https://carnabrkovic.net/
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Carna Brkovic
@charnab.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂
iupress.org/978025307522...
iupress.org/978025307522...
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Call for Applications at the Estonian National Museum: International Residency Researching the Photo Archive and Producing an Exhibition
Submit your application no later than 28 February 2026: www.erm.ee/residency#EN
Submit your application no later than 28 February 2026: www.erm.ee/residency#EN
Rahvusvaheline residentuur / International Residency
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS CLICK HERE Algab konkurss ERMi rahvusvahelisse residentuuri! Fotokogu uurimine ja näituse kokkupanek ERMi fotoarhiiv klaasnegatiividest digipiltideni ootab uurijaid. Neli resi...
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February 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Call for Applications at the Estonian National Museum: International Residency Researching the Photo Archive and Producing an Exhibition
Submit your application no later than 28 February 2026: www.erm.ee/residency#EN
Submit your application no later than 28 February 2026: www.erm.ee/residency#EN
"Justice in the Balance" is a fantastic book by one of the few people who see law and legal instititions as a potential tool for progressive social change. Jessica Greenberg also visited KAEE Mainz to talk about her book 💫
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Justice in the Balance | Stanford University Press
Established as a post-World War II response to conflict and fascism, the European Court of Human Rights is routinely characterized as the most successful human rights institution in the world. Based i...
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January 31, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"Justice in the Balance" is a fantastic book by one of the few people who see law and legal instititions as a potential tool for progressive social change. Jessica Greenberg also visited KAEE Mainz to talk about her book 💫
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Save the date! Feb 24th, Global Initiatives Grant webinar.
Register for 10 AM: buff.ly/SVMb2N8
Register for 8PM: buff.ly/JD3jtX3
Register for 10 AM: buff.ly/SVMb2N8
Register for 8PM: buff.ly/JD3jtX3
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Save the date! Feb 24th, Global Initiatives Grant webinar.
Register for 10 AM: buff.ly/SVMb2N8
Register for 8PM: buff.ly/JD3jtX3
Register for 10 AM: buff.ly/SVMb2N8
Register for 8PM: buff.ly/JD3jtX3
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𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬🗒️
Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal focusing on European cultures & societies, past & present. We're always looking for contributions that are rooted in theoretical & methodological frameworks from ethnology, cultural anthropology or folklore studies.
Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal focusing on European cultures & societies, past & present. We're always looking for contributions that are rooted in theoretical & methodological frameworks from ethnology, cultural anthropology or folklore studies.
January 28, 2026 at 11:36 AM
𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬🗒️
Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal focusing on European cultures & societies, past & present. We're always looking for contributions that are rooted in theoretical & methodological frameworks from ethnology, cultural anthropology or folklore studies.
Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal focusing on European cultures & societies, past & present. We're always looking for contributions that are rooted in theoretical & methodological frameworks from ethnology, cultural anthropology or folklore studies.
A very special opportunity today to talk about teaching and to discuss SIEF's initiative to develop transnational syllabi of European ethnology / empirical cultural studies. It feels a bit like going home @ KAEE Göttingen and online 🙏
January 28, 2026 at 5:39 AM
A very special opportunity today to talk about teaching and to discuss SIEF's initiative to develop transnational syllabi of European ethnology / empirical cultural studies. It feels a bit like going home @ KAEE Göttingen and online 🙏
Join us if in Halle
Grateful to Asta Vonderau for the invitation 🙏
Grateful to Asta Vonderau for the invitation 🙏
January 27, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Join us if in Halle
Grateful to Asta Vonderau for the invitation 🙏
Grateful to Asta Vonderau for the invitation 🙏
Chiara Bonfiglioli wrote a nice essay about this film
January 24, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Chiara Bonfiglioli wrote a nice essay about this film
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Jetzt publiziert Leonid Schneider einen Brief, den 44 Lehrstuhlinhaber unterschrieben. Darin steht u.a.
Ich bin ehrlich gesagt fassungslos, dass diese Kolleg*innen sich Gedanken machen über faires Procedure für diesen Professor, aber nicht für seine Opfer.
Ich bin ehrlich gesagt fassungslos, dass diese Kolleg*innen sich Gedanken machen über faires Procedure für diesen Professor, aber nicht für seine Opfer.
January 23, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Jetzt publiziert Leonid Schneider einen Brief, den 44 Lehrstuhlinhaber unterschrieben. Darin steht u.a.
Ich bin ehrlich gesagt fassungslos, dass diese Kolleg*innen sich Gedanken machen über faires Procedure für diesen Professor, aber nicht für seine Opfer.
Ich bin ehrlich gesagt fassungslos, dass diese Kolleg*innen sich Gedanken machen über faires Procedure für diesen Professor, aber nicht für seine Opfer.
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"Our AI has turned your book chapter on pleromatic forms in gnostic cosmogony into a cute cat video."
New AI-Generated Content Derived from Your Work Posted on Academia.Edu
“By making any Member Content available through the Site or Services, you hereby grant to Academia.edu a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:00 AM
"Our AI has turned your book chapter on pleromatic forms in gnostic cosmogony into a cute cat video."
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Join us in Mainz for a lecture series Media of Solidarity/Medien der Solidarität. Today: Alexandra Schneider on "Cinemas of Proximity". On 11 Feb I will chat about my book Realigning Humanitarianism and how to think about past progress. Organized by film studies & media dramaturgy at our institute 💫
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Join us in Mainz for a lecture series Media of Solidarity/Medien der Solidarität. Today: Alexandra Schneider on "Cinemas of Proximity". On 11 Feb I will chat about my book Realigning Humanitarianism and how to think about past progress. Organized by film studies & media dramaturgy at our institute 💫
Join us in Mainz for a lecture series Media of Solidarity/Medien der Solidarität. Today: Alexandra Schneider on "Cinemas of Proximity". On 11 Feb I will chat about my book Realigning Humanitarianism and how to think about past progress. Organized by film studies & media dramaturgy at our institute 💫
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Join us in Mainz for a lecture series Media of Solidarity/Medien der Solidarität. Today: Alexandra Schneider on "Cinemas of Proximity". On 11 Feb I will chat about my book Realigning Humanitarianism and how to think about past progress. Organized by film studies & media dramaturgy at our institute 💫
Jadni Madjari nemaju more 😄
January 20, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Jadni Madjari nemaju more 😄
Cairo has strong Blade Runner vibes
youtu.be/RScZrvTebeA?...
youtu.be/RScZrvTebeA?...
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Cairo has strong Blade Runner vibes
youtu.be/RScZrvTebeA?...
youtu.be/RScZrvTebeA?...
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One further piece in the plague-puzzle I’ve been inadvertently building, showing how #18thC #plague policy implementation was negotiated to the tiniest detail when it came to the circulation of cows, but apparently less important when it came to people. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Urban Governance and Battling the “Evil of Contagion”. Measures Against the 1738–1739 Plague in Sibiu/Hermannstadt
PDF | On Dec 16, 2025, Oana Sorescu-Iudean published Urban Governance and Battling the “Evil of Contagion”. Measures Against the 1738–1739 Plague in Sibiu/Hermannstadt | Find, read and cite all the re...
www.researchgate.net
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
One further piece in the plague-puzzle I’ve been inadvertently building, showing how #18thC #plague policy implementation was negotiated to the tiniest detail when it came to the circulation of cows, but apparently less important when it came to people. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
www.berghahnjournals.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
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If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/
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Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
The history and memory behind where we now are.
The history and memory behind where we now are.
‘Performing Queer Nations: the Eurovision Song Contest Since 1990’ is coming in 2027
In 1990, Toto Cutugno won the Eurovision Song Contest celebrating a future Europe integrated under the same sky, stars and ideals from the stage of a Zagreb that hoped for democracy. In 1997, Icela…
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December 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
The history and memory behind where we now are.
The history and memory behind where we now are.
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Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
Thank you! Look forward to catching up in Poznan! ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Thank you! Look forward to catching up in Poznan! ❤️
More about the project: carnabrkovic.net/racial-socia...
Racial Socialism. Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies – Čarna Brković
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December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
More about the project: carnabrkovic.net/racial-socia...
I can't wait to dive into the historical anthropology of Yugoslav, Bulgarian, and East German Red Cross societies in an attempt to engage with the puzzle of racialization beyond capitalism. presse.uni-mainz.de/erc-consolid... @unimainz.bsky.social
ERC Consolidator Grants für vier Forschende der JGU | Kommunikation und Presse (KOM)
presse.uni-mainz.de
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I can't wait to dive into the historical anthropology of Yugoslav, Bulgarian, and East German Red Cross societies in an attempt to engage with the puzzle of racialization beyond capitalism. presse.uni-mainz.de/erc-consolid... @unimainz.bsky.social
Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
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✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles.
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles.
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...