Lea Horvat
@leahorvat.bsky.social
@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social co-founder and editor
postdoctoral 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
postdoctoral 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
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...
www.matica.hr/media/upload...
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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...
www.matica.hr/media/upload...
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I’ve been reading about Rosalind Franklin and came across a fascinating piece on her visits to Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Impressive historiography from a chemist — precise and well-grounded. It’s in Slovenian, but DeepL handles it quite OK, native speaker here. acsi-journal.eu/index.php/AC...
Obiski Rosalind Franklin v Sloveniji
| Acta Chimica Slovenica
acsi-journal.eu
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I’ve been reading about Rosalind Franklin and came across a fascinating piece on her visits to Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Impressive historiography from a chemist — precise and well-grounded. It’s in Slovenian, but DeepL handles it quite OK, native speaker here. acsi-journal.eu/index.php/AC...
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Just one of those words you love, unexplained. (This word: "bat" in BCMS.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Just one of those words you love, unexplained. (This word: "bat" in BCMS.)
"Arbeiten Sie ohne Gehalt und ohne soziale Absicherung? Pendeln Sie jahrelang an einen Arbeitsplatz ohne jeglichen Arbeitsvertrag, ohne Büro und ohne dauerhafte E-Mail-Adresse und bezahlen Fahrt und Unterkunft aus eigener Tasche?"
Ich habe gerade die Petition „An die Wissenschaftsminister:innenkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!“ unterschrieben - ihr auch?
#PDPrekär #IchBinHannah #IchBinReyhan
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#PDPrekär #IchBinHannah #IchBinReyhan
c.org/qShSsJr6sv
Diese Kampagne braucht dich jetzt
An die Wissenschaftsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!
c.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Arbeiten Sie ohne Gehalt und ohne soziale Absicherung? Pendeln Sie jahrelang an einen Arbeitsplatz ohne jeglichen Arbeitsvertrag, ohne Büro und ohne dauerhafte E-Mail-Adresse und bezahlen Fahrt und Unterkunft aus eigener Tasche?"
Forgot to self-promote here (distracted by my catastrophic DB trip), but I was in Ljubljana last week, talking about chicory - my first contact with business history! www.wbhcee.org
WBHCEE
www.wbhcee.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Forgot to self-promote here (distracted by my catastrophic DB trip), but I was in Ljubljana last week, talking about chicory - my first contact with business history! www.wbhcee.org
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... and the winners are:
Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond”
Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”
Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond”
Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
... and the winners are:
Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond”
Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”
Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond”
Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”
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This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.
AWSS – Association For Women in Slavic Studies
Association For Women in Slavic Studies
awsshome.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.
This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.
AWSS – Association For Women in Slavic Studies
Association For Women in Slavic Studies
awsshome.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.
A thread on this experiment, connected to my seminar on sitting. I started with a brief introduction about why I believe reading is important and shared an example of the reading load I experienced as a student, esp in Belgrade, where it was common for entire books to be assigned for exams.
A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A thread on this experiment, connected to my seminar on sitting. I started with a brief introduction about why I believe reading is important and shared an example of the reading load I experienced as a student, esp in Belgrade, where it was common for entire books to be assigned for exams.
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Behold! The new season of the History on the Edge lectures begins! 💪
🎓 The new season of History on the Edge begins!
Lectures will be held at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) and via Zoom.
⏰ This season, sessions start at 3 p.m.
Join us for the first lecture on 15 October!
#INZ #HistoryOnTheEdge #history #lectures
Lectures will be held at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) and via Zoom.
⏰ This season, sessions start at 3 p.m.
Join us for the first lecture on 15 October!
#INZ #HistoryOnTheEdge #history #lectures
October 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Behold! The new season of the History on the Edge lectures begins! 💪
A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.
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I couldn't imagine a better home for what turned out to be by far one of the hardest pieces to write—read it over at @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social 💙
We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I couldn't imagine a better home for what turned out to be by far one of the hardest pieces to write—read it over at @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social 💙
Reposted by Lea Horvat
We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...
my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia
September 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia
Another few WWII bombs found in Berlin. Once again heard some gleeful you-reap-what-you sow comments. Recently, a bomb was suspected in our communal courtyard, in an area where 60+% have Migrationshintergrund, children who play there almost exclusively with MH, including refugees. Who would reap?
September 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Another few WWII bombs found in Berlin. Once again heard some gleeful you-reap-what-you sow comments. Recently, a bomb was suspected in our communal courtyard, in an area where 60+% have Migrationshintergrund, children who play there almost exclusively with MH, including refugees. Who would reap?
Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture
September 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture
Hate how omnipresent AI is (or in Croatian: iskače iz paštete/jumps out of a tin of paté). Grading Hausarbeiten and Adobe pops up with:
"Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung."
"Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung."
September 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Hate how omnipresent AI is (or in Croatian: iskače iz paštete/jumps out of a tin of paté). Grading Hausarbeiten and Adobe pops up with:
"Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung."
"Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung."
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Potaknut ovim threadom - otvoren poziv blueskajašima koji žive u Zagrebu a nikad se ne voze vlakom da odemo na demonstracijski izlet - ovog ljeta sam prošao 75% željezničke mreže u HR i ozbiljno tvrdim da željeznica unatoč svemu u ovoj zemlji ima budućnost i moguće je voziti se vlakom brzo i sigurno
September 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Potaknut ovim threadom - otvoren poziv blueskajašima koji žive u Zagrebu a nikad se ne voze vlakom da odemo na demonstracijski izlet - ovog ljeta sam prošao 75% željezničke mreže u HR i ozbiljno tvrdim da željeznica unatoč svemu u ovoj zemlji ima budućnost i moguće je voziti se vlakom brzo i sigurno
Going to Japan tomorrow, like seemingly every middle-class person in Germany I know in 2025, and every upper-class person in Croatia. I don’t have a Japan obsession yet (though fascinated how so many different ppl have one), but looking forward to food&my dear friend who moved there.
August 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Going to Japan tomorrow, like seemingly every middle-class person in Germany I know in 2025, and every upper-class person in Croatia. I don’t have a Japan obsession yet (though fascinated how so many different ppl have one), but looking forward to food&my dear friend who moved there.
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We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans.
Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials
Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials
August 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans.
Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials
Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials
Reposted by Lea Horvat
Reposted by Lea Horvat
I got some lovely messages re: my essay on parental loneliness. I especially appreciated how non-parents connected with it: immigrants, people unsure of their place in the queer community, (un)wantedly childless people. Our capacity for compassion and connection is stronger than assumed&I love that.
Za VoxFeminae sam (plaćeno!) pisala o roditeljskoj usamljenosti: voxfeminae.net/feministyle/...
Nepotpuni popis roditeljskih usamljenosti i kako im doskočiti
"Moj ideal mješavine druženja s djetetom i bez njega otpuhala je stvarnost."
voxfeminae.net
August 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I got some lovely messages re: my essay on parental loneliness. I especially appreciated how non-parents connected with it: immigrants, people unsure of their place in the queer community, (un)wantedly childless people. Our capacity for compassion and connection is stronger than assumed&I love that.
1 dreamy week in a simple socialist resort (still not privatized!) on a car-free Adriatic island 🪸
August 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
1 dreamy week in a simple socialist resort (still not privatized!) on a car-free Adriatic island 🪸
Za VoxFeminae sam (plaćeno!) pisala o roditeljskoj usamljenosti: voxfeminae.net/feministyle/...
Nepotpuni popis roditeljskih usamljenosti i kako im doskočiti
"Moj ideal mješavine druženja s djetetom i bez njega otpuhala je stvarnost."
voxfeminae.net
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Za VoxFeminae sam (plaćeno!) pisala o roditeljskoj usamljenosti: voxfeminae.net/feministyle/...