Kasia Nowak
@nowkasia.bsky.social
Researching history of refugees and the Vatican in the early Cold War
www.katarzyna-nowak.com
Uni of Vienna
www.katarzyna-nowak.com
Uni of Vienna
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"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable"
(Etty Hillesum diary)
30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author, perished in Auschwitz. She was deported there from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands on 7 September 1943.
(Etty Hillesum diary)
30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author, perished in Auschwitz. She was deported there from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands on 7 September 1943.
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable"
(Etty Hillesum diary)
30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author, perished in Auschwitz. She was deported there from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands on 7 September 1943.
(Etty Hillesum diary)
30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author, perished in Auschwitz. She was deported there from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands on 7 September 1943.
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In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295
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Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
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I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
Incredible photographs from WWII have just been published online by UN archives.
Creator: the United Nations Information Organization (UNIO)
You can view over 3k photographs here: search.archives.un.org/informationo...
Creator: the United Nations Information Organization (UNIO)
You can view over 3k photographs here: search.archives.un.org/informationo...
August 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Incredible photographs from WWII have just been published online by UN archives.
Creator: the United Nations Information Organization (UNIO)
You can view over 3k photographs here: search.archives.un.org/informationo...
Creator: the United Nations Information Organization (UNIO)
You can view over 3k photographs here: search.archives.un.org/informationo...
Arguing with a historian is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. After a couple of hours, you realize the pig likes it.
July 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Arguing with a historian is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. After a couple of hours, you realize the pig likes it.
July 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Marking the end of school and the beginning of summer for many students in the UK, a piece from the archive by Sorcha Thomson.
In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution.
www.historyworkshop....
In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution.
www.historyworkshop....
Solidarity and the Summer Camp
What might the story of a summer camp tell us about the practice and politics of solidarity? Sorcha Thomson on the 'Friends of Palestine' camp of 1969.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Marking the end of school and the beginning of summer for many students in the UK, a piece from the archive by Sorcha Thomson.
In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution.
www.historyworkshop....
In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution.
www.historyworkshop....
Indeed ☂️
How to say you're going to a conference in London without saying you're going to a conference in London
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
July 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Indeed ☂️
"Keep comments short and on topic, avoid grandstanding, be responsible. Do not engage in harassment or judgemental rudeness." But that's endangering our way of life as academics. Without grandstanding, we're just underpaid hobbyists with library cards.
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
July 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Keep comments short and on topic, avoid grandstanding, be responsible. Do not engage in harassment or judgemental rudeness." But that's endangering our way of life as academics. Without grandstanding, we're just underpaid hobbyists with library cards.
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
July 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
London, ICCEES 2025, join us for the roundtable on global archives in researching the history of Eastern Europe and the USSR:
July 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
London, ICCEES 2025, join us for the roundtable on global archives in researching the history of Eastern Europe and the USSR:
My article on the Vatican archives🇻🇦🏛 in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe:
🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/08/t...
🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/08/t...
The Vatican and the Eastern Bloc: what the Vatican archives can reveal about Cold War Europe - New Eastern Europe
Five years after the Vatican unsealed its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, historians are only beginning to uncover the depth of insight they offer into the post-war transformation of Eas...
neweasterneurope.eu
July 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My article on the Vatican archives🇻🇦🏛 in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe:
🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/08/t...
🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/08/t...
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Our great thanks to Prof Peter Gatrell who yesterday evening gave the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture on ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’: bit.ly/3GmcpN6
Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians
Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Our great thanks to Prof Peter Gatrell who yesterday evening gave the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture on ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’: bit.ly/3GmcpN6
Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians
Thank you to all who attended in person and online. Video & audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly #Skystorians
These just reached me!! You can request your free inspection or review copy here: global.oup.com/academic/hel...
June 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
These just reached me!! You can request your free inspection or review copy here: global.oup.com/academic/hel...
22 May 2025, 6:30 pm, Zeitgeschichte Library (Campus, Altes AKH), University of Vienna: Book Launch: A History of Displaced Knowledge Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia, by Philipp Strobl 📚
May 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
22 May 2025, 6:30 pm, Zeitgeschichte Library (Campus, Altes AKH), University of Vienna: Book Launch: A History of Displaced Knowledge Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia, by Philipp Strobl 📚
Book Launch 📚 Join @PeterGatrell and me on 25 May 2025 at 6pm at Hotel Regina in Vienna for a conversation about "Refugee Voices in Modern Global History. Reckoning with Refugeedom"
global-displacement-and-resettlement.univie.ac.at/internationa...
global-displacement-and-resettlement.univie.ac.at/internationa...
May 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Book Launch 📚 Join @PeterGatrell and me on 25 May 2025 at 6pm at Hotel Regina in Vienna for a conversation about "Refugee Voices in Modern Global History. Reckoning with Refugeedom"
global-displacement-and-resettlement.univie.ac.at/internationa...
global-displacement-and-resettlement.univie.ac.at/internationa...
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CONCLAVE! 🗝️
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
![Detail of two of the [Four voting slips for the election of a Pope]. [Rome?: Reverenda Camera Apostolica?, 16--?], National Library of Scotland, Crawford.B.41(15). Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbfln5waxom3kmwcggh3wc2n/bafkreibjvh43lrk7z6h7y5wuffcdnvhstxr6c3nd4q7ra7mx2jg46tgr5y@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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CONCLAVE! 🗝️
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
May 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
CONCLAVE! 🗝️
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
As we await white smoke, read about some rare printed objects from early modern conclaves preserved in @natlibscot.bsky.social! In this post, USTC postdoc, @ciaokatet.bsky.social, explores blank conclave vote tallying sheets and sample ballots. #conclave2025 www.ustc.ac.uk/news/conclave
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Congratulations to Katarzyna Nowak for winning two BASEES awards for her book Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria!
Nowak won the Stephen White Prize and Women's Forum Prize.
Learn more about the book: buff.ly/lDfoQNi
Nowak won the Stephen White Prize and Women's Forum Prize.
Learn more about the book: buff.ly/lDfoQNi
March 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Congratulations to Katarzyna Nowak for winning two BASEES awards for her book Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria!
Nowak won the Stephen White Prize and Women's Forum Prize.
Learn more about the book: buff.ly/lDfoQNi
Nowak won the Stephen White Prize and Women's Forum Prize.
Learn more about the book: buff.ly/lDfoQNi
March 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM