🎉Our December activities continue next week, with an online lecture by Dr. Arzu Ünal 👩‍🏫 and Dr. Jeremy F. Walton🧑‍🏫
🗓️Date & time: 16 December, 9:30am CET 🕤
💻Registration link: uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/9585994337...

We have something very interesting in plan next week! 🗓️9️⃣ Join us for a visiting lecture and book presentation on Tuesday 9 December! More details about time & location below! 📰📚📖🧑‍🏫🏙️

Our team member Magdalena is currently in Sweden on Erasmus+ mobility. 👩‍🏫 This Saturday she attended the premiere of Anton Dvořák’s "Rusalka" at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. 🎼🎶 Alongside the performance, she noted intriguing details in the theatre’s architecture. 🏰⛲️⚜️

As Thursday approaches, we're excited to announce our upcoming lecture by Prof. Dr. Ann Rigney, one of the foremost theorists in Memory Studies! 👩‍🏫🕑⬇️ Find more details below, and join us for an interesting afternoon in Rijeka!

Last week, our doctoral research associate Goran Stanić visited the University of Naples Federico II, where he gave a guest lecture entitled "Franciscans and coexistence during the Bosnian war in the 1990s" in the class "Ethnic conflicts and national integrations in Modern and Contemporary History".

📜Interimperial persons appear in unexpected places. A plaque in Warsaw commemorates Francis II Rákóczi, the Hungarian noble who rebelled against the Habsburgs and died in exile in Ottoman domains.

👨‍🏫Our research group leader Dr. Walton will deliver a lecture tomorrow, 14 May - 16:00 🕓 at the Institute of History PAN (Joachim Lelewel Hall) Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 🏢More about the lecture below! ⬇️

Documentary Now available:

vimeo.com/1036824312/b...

Congratulations to Jeremy Walton and his @revenantempires.bsky.social project team @erc.europa.eu

Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation

PS:We were not sitting that close to Pummerin- it is a fascinating optical illusion 🙂

We invite you to visit us today because we are screening two films this afternoon!! 🍿📽🎞
🏦Where: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Rijeka, Sveučilišna avenija 4, event hall F-006 (ground floor)
When:🕑14:15 h (The Revenant Project - Persons, Places, Things) and 🕓16:15 h (Fiume O Morte!)

Imperial capitals often harbour neglected legacies. In London, Jeremy found this trace of diplomatic relations between the UK and the Republic of Texas, which lasted between 1836 and 1846 before being absorbed into the USA as a proslavery southern state in the context of the Abolitionist movement.

We're proud to announce the inclusion of Tomislav Žaja’s film “REVENANT: Persons, Places, Things” in Los Angeles’ Southeast European Film Festival (April 30 - May 7)! 🎬
📽 🎞 Showing: Thursday, May 1st 🕙 10:00 AM PDT 🕖 (7:00 PM CET) at Goethe-Institut Los Angeles 🌇

🔜Join us tomorrow on the visiting lecture by Dr. Brunnbauer! 👨‍🏫

We've got you covered for your weekend listening needs with the new episode of our Podcast. Jeremy F. Walton, Kevin Kenjar, & Matea Magdić discussed their @erc.europa.eu project @revenantempires.bsky.social.

Listen here: tinyurl.com/RevenantERC & on all other podcast platforms.

Mark the date! If you are in Rijeka tomorrow, we are screening for the first time the short documentary about REVENANT that was directed by Tomislav Zaja.

📍📍 Rijeka, Art Kino
🕣 8 PM.

What kind of post-imperial afterlives do a Belgian princess and an Austrian archduke have in Mexico?👑

Our predoctoral researcher, Adi Tufek, spent a month at UNAM investigating the collective memory of Maximilian of Austria and Charlotte of Belgium, rulers of the Second Mexican Empire.

[In Croatian] The interview of @gstanic.bsky.social with Ivana Dragičević for Prometej:

My review of Greg Eghigian's excellent cultural history of the UFO phenomenon has been published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The book is fantastic - a compassionate treatment of a marginalized and sometimes ridiculed cultural phenomenon that deserves meticulous study.

👀 TODAY Join us online or in person at LSE from 1730 as this year's Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellow, @timoaava.bsky.social, speaks on "From Empire to Nation-State: Minority Rights in Estonia in the First Half of the 20th Century" - details at asen.ac.uk/event/est...

Hello world! We are migrating from the birdsite finally. Who's out there? We ported our follows list, but if anybody was missed, we are here!