Juliette Bretan
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Juliette Bretan
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PhD at University of Cambridge on modernism, East-Central Europe & political geography.
Research assistant for the Baltic Geopolitics Programme, Centre for Geopolitics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review, Engelsberg Ideas, The Arts Desk & more.
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For #ModWrite this week, how about a ModRead? Our new Eliot Studies Annual is out now. Chew on these:
- Special forum: THE ELIOT WE NEED
Higher ed is collapsing, climate crises abound. Our Prez asks: "in what contemporary struggles could we enlist Eliot as an ally?"
June 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thrilled that my article on Eliot’s Polish plains has been published in The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
German and Soviet pavilions in antithesis - Paris International Exposition, 1937
May 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Excited to be presenting a BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature tomorrow, ‘Tango Goes East’, on the story of tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond.
April 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Strange-looking pierogi at Warsaw diner (very good though)
April 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
First time in a Polish home and garden shop in the U.K. (in Nottingham). With signs and announcements in Polish.
April 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A recent purchase: handbook of central and east Europe, from 1936
March 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Staying in apartment goals in Warsaw
March 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Kavka pickle cocktail :)
March 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
…the Free City of Danzig?
January 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Lángos at Selwyn college 😍
January 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My piece in @uk.theconversation.com on language and culture in Estonia:
January 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Our piece from Pokrovsk in Ukraine on the famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders. With Jonathan Beale, Hanna Chornous, Daniel Wittenberg, Anastasia Levchenko & Imran Ali.
#Ukraine #Pokrovsk #Christmas
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders
Carol of the Bells was written in Pokrovsk, a key target for advancing Russian troops in Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
December 24, 2024 at 6:52 AM
The Klub Polonia addiction continues
December 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Love the cloud moquette pattern on the London cable car
December 16, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Military recycling: cannon bollard in London
December 16, 2024 at 2:08 PM
A knotty railway map of Austria-Hungary, 1918
December 11, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).
December 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
The cult of chicken paprikash continues
December 10, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Mulled sloe gin 😍
December 6, 2024 at 9:26 PM