Nina Paulovicova
@ninjak.bsky.social
Associate Prof. History at Athabasca University, (she/her), research: history, politics & memory, genocide studies, far-right mobilization, heritage language activism, co-founder https://jseries.ca/, artist in the making: https://www.instagram.com/ninart96
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Nina Paulovicova
@ninjak.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Nationalities Papers: Volume 52 - Special Issue on The Post-Communist Far Right | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Nationalities Papers - Volume 52 - Special Issue on The Post-Communist Far Right
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Our much-awaited Special issue on The Post-Communist Far Right has been published! I would like to express sincerest gratitude to my co-editor George Soroka and our colleagues for their hard work, perseverance, resilience and thought-provoking contributions!
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Tomorrow! On the social psychology of disruptive, confrontational protests and the shift in resistance tactics in repressive contexts. Still time to register, here: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, November 10:
We do a peer review as conversation with @metesefauysal.bsky.social on confrontational-disruptive protests,
@yasemingacar.bsky.social and Carmen Marazzi as discusants
To register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
We do a peer review as conversation with @metesefauysal.bsky.social on confrontational-disruptive protests,
@yasemingacar.bsky.social and Carmen Marazzi as discusants
To register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Tomorrow! On the social psychology of disruptive, confrontational protests and the shift in resistance tactics in repressive contexts. Still time to register, here: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
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“Razing Palestine” (Ed. Leila Marshy) comes out this week. Proud to stand in solidarity with every contributor & others who experienced personal & professional consequences for speaking out against Israel’s genocide. These stories represent just the tip of the iceberg of repression in Canada.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“Razing Palestine” (Ed. Leila Marshy) comes out this week. Proud to stand in solidarity with every contributor & others who experienced personal & professional consequences for speaking out against Israel’s genocide. These stories represent just the tip of the iceberg of repression in Canada.
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The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
An excellent article by Nadim Khouri on the fluctuating memory signifiers of Nakba, Nakba memory's potential to transform global memory and how this memory exposes selective amnesia & deep structural tensions between global north and south
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
An excellent article by Nadim Khouri on the fluctuating memory signifiers of Nakba, Nakba memory's potential to transform global memory and how this memory exposes selective amnesia & deep structural tensions between global north and south
Not to be missed: An excellent lineup of elders/scholars in the Palestine tribunal on Canadian responsibility, you can watch the livestream, Nov 14 - 15 www.palcan-tribunal.ca
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Not to be missed: An excellent lineup of elders/scholars in the Palestine tribunal on Canadian responsibility, you can watch the livestream, Nov 14 - 15 www.palcan-tribunal.ca
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Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
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We are the Surrey Detention Center in solidarity with detained migrants. Canada is expanding its deportation machinery, not one more detention, not one more deporation
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We are the Surrey Detention Center in solidarity with detained migrants. Canada is expanding its deportation machinery, not one more detention, not one more deporation
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We all have stories of trauma and displacement. Those are important stories to tell and to share, but they are not the entirety of us. Our traditional stories are important because we are important and our survival as a living people relies on them.
www.thousandworlds.ca/anishaa-diba...
www.thousandworlds.ca/anishaa-diba...
Anishaa Dibaajimowinan
The stories we just thought up.
Sorry this is late. Book launch things have had me spending October in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Tweed. I'll be home for a few minutes and then I'm off to the ...
www.thousandworlds.ca
October 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We all have stories of trauma and displacement. Those are important stories to tell and to share, but they are not the entirety of us. Our traditional stories are important because we are important and our survival as a living people relies on them.
www.thousandworlds.ca/anishaa-diba...
www.thousandworlds.ca/anishaa-diba...
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In which I talk with the brilliant Marianne Hirsch (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In which I talk with the brilliant Marianne Hirsch (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
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Interview w/Marianne Hirsch, who says we need to teach about the #Holocaust differently: no exceptionalism; more contextualisation & connection to other events. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Interview w/Marianne Hirsch, who says we need to teach about the #Holocaust differently: no exceptionalism; more contextualisation & connection to other events. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
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Capitalism & Genocide: My testimony at the Gaza Tribunal, Istanbul 23-10-2025 www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/10/24/c...
Capitalism & Genocide: My testimony at the Gaza Tribunal, Istanbul 23-10-2025 - Yanis Varoufakis
On 23rd October, I testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. My speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. Here ...
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Capitalism & Genocide: My testimony at the Gaza Tribunal, Istanbul 23-10-2025 www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/10/24/c...
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I signed this open letter from archaeologists, conservation experts, museum curators and other heritage professionals against cultural destruction in Gaza and the West Bank initiated by the incredibly important NGO @emekshavehheb.bsky.social. Please follow and support: emekshaveh.org/en/open-lett...
Open letter from archaeologists, conservation experts, museum curators and other heritage professionals against cultural destruction in Gaza and the West Bank
Download as a PDF In recent days we have learnt of the total destruction of a building housing the archaeological store-rooms of the École…
emekshaveh.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I signed this open letter from archaeologists, conservation experts, museum curators and other heritage professionals against cultural destruction in Gaza and the West Bank initiated by the incredibly important NGO @emekshavehheb.bsky.social. Please follow and support: emekshaveh.org/en/open-lett...
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While Bill Flanagan sets up his new "civics" school at @ualberta.bsky.social, his administration struggles to practise what it preaches, i.e., pluralism, defence of democratic rights, listening to minorities, meaningful dialogue . . .
artssquared.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/g...
artssquared.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/g...
Guest Post (Laurie Adkin, Professor Emerita): Divestment campaigns at the University of Alberta confront an increasingly privatized and securitized university “commons”
Banner at the 17 October 2025 divestment rally at the University of Alberta; Photo by author The University of Alberta executive is not known for its sense of irony, so perhaps it missed entirely t…
artssquared.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
While Bill Flanagan sets up his new "civics" school at @ualberta.bsky.social, his administration struggles to practise what it preaches, i.e., pluralism, defence of democratic rights, listening to minorities, meaningful dialogue . . .
artssquared.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/g...
artssquared.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/g...
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as seen from the northern shores of Colombia, the current genocide in Gaza appears like a culmination: The physical annihilation of Palestine is the concentrated exhaust from a world system geared toward the destruction of the many for the benefit of the few.
jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...
jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...
The Making of a Coal Boycott
Inside the campaign to break the toxic relationship between Colombian mining and Israeli militarism
jewishcurrents.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
as seen from the northern shores of Colombia, the current genocide in Gaza appears like a culmination: The physical annihilation of Palestine is the concentrated exhaust from a world system geared toward the destruction of the many for the benefit of the few.
jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...
jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...
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Ottawa friends, attend an expert panel discussion on challenging Canada’s perpetuation of settler-colonial violence in North America and the Middle East on October 23.
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ottawa friends, attend an expert panel discussion on challenging Canada’s perpetuation of settler-colonial violence in North America and the Middle East on October 23.
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
More info: https://bit.ly/46StnNu
@jeremywildeman.bsky.social @@cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social @octopusbooks.ca
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At least 38 Palestinians have been killed as the Israeli army commits 47 violations of ceasefire agreement.
Israel continues deadly attacks on Gaza, closes Rafah crossing
At least 38 Palestinians have been killed as the Israeli army commits 47 violations of ceasefire agreement.
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October 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
At least 38 Palestinians have been killed as the Israeli army commits 47 violations of ceasefire agreement.
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“The same people who did the killing and financed the killing and justified the killing and turned away from the killing will congratulate themselves on doing the right thing.”
- Omar El Akkad
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- Omar El Akkad
open.substack.com/pub/hiddenci...
October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“The same people who did the killing and financed the killing and justified the killing and turned away from the killing will congratulate themselves on doing the right thing.”
- Omar El Akkad
open.substack.com/pub/hiddenci...
- Omar El Akkad
open.substack.com/pub/hiddenci...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade
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READ: Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn't accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...
Hamas just accepted Trump’s ‘peace’ plan. Here’s what it didn’t accept.
Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn’t accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.
mondoweiss.net
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
READ: Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn't accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...
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Speaking of bubbles, @ualberta.bsky.social External Affairs sure is working overtime to keep its SDG bubble intact. Well sorry, guys, but it's "symbiosis" like the UAlberta-Cenovus partnership that is obstructing climate action on the part of universities. 1/
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
Thinking outside the bubble
A mutually beneficial partnership between Cenovus Energy and the U of A has been ahead of its time for nearly two decades, helping the university and the company think differently about how to solve t...
www.ualberta.ca
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Speaking of bubbles, @ualberta.bsky.social External Affairs sure is working overtime to keep its SDG bubble intact. Well sorry, guys, but it's "symbiosis" like the UAlberta-Cenovus partnership that is obstructing climate action on the part of universities. 1/
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
This book arrived to my mailbox today 💔 💔 💔
October 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This book arrived to my mailbox today 💔 💔 💔
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'Free Mandela once again': South Africans demand release of flotilla detainees - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/free-mandela-once-again-south-african-urge-release-flotilla-abductees
'Free Mandela once again': South Africans demand release of flotilla detainees
South Africa's president says Israel has violated an ICJ ruling that humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow unimpeded
www.middleeasteye.net
October 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
'Free Mandela once again': South Africans demand release of flotilla detainees - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/free-mandela-once-again-south-african-urge-release-flotilla-abductees
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Bereits vor einigen Tagen erschienen, scheint es mir aktueller denn je; als Beitrag zur Debatte in & über Deutschland.
Freue mich sehr, in so guter Gesellschaft zu sein.
H. Kundnani, @adamtooze.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @marwecki.bsky.social, E. Özyürek, N. Samour
Freue mich sehr, in so guter Gesellschaft zu sein.
H. Kundnani, @adamtooze.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @marwecki.bsky.social, E. Özyürek, N. Samour
September 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Bereits vor einigen Tagen erschienen, scheint es mir aktueller denn je; als Beitrag zur Debatte in & über Deutschland.
Freue mich sehr, in so guter Gesellschaft zu sein.
H. Kundnani, @adamtooze.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @marwecki.bsky.social, E. Özyürek, N. Samour
Freue mich sehr, in so guter Gesellschaft zu sein.
H. Kundnani, @adamtooze.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @marwecki.bsky.social, E. Özyürek, N. Samour