Vaida Niksaite
@vaidanik.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe, working on diasporas, mass politics, propaganda, crowdfunding. Research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History · associate @ox.ac.uk and @ulbruxelles.bsky.social
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Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A reminder
CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A reminder
Really enjoyed this episode on an important book!
The Prussian city of Konigsberg is a microcosm for the twentieth century. This week, explore the it's storied legacy as we deep dive with @nicoleeaton.bsky.social into her book, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad."
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October 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Really enjoyed this episode on an important book!
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RUTA stands in solidarity with the Latvian civil society, that is raising alarms and protesting against the concerning rise of global anti-gender and authoritarian politics fuelled by Russia's propaganda narratives
In Latvia, the opposition - right-wing, Russian speakers, populists - have united to push for withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. They are backed by one of the governing coalition parties, the Farmers and Greens Union. Large civil society protests are expected tonight in Riga against the move.
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
RUTA stands in solidarity with the Latvian civil society, that is raising alarms and protesting against the concerning rise of global anti-gender and authoritarian politics fuelled by Russia's propaganda narratives
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Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online
The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.
www.filmbuffonline.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/
A book as smart and engaging as its title. @clairedederer.bsky.social reflects not just on polanskis, wagners, and other picassos, but also on ourselves, redemption, love, and more.
October 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A book as smart and engaging as its title. @clairedederer.bsky.social reflects not just on polanskis, wagners, and other picassos, but also on ourselves, redemption, love, and more.
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"Youth Protest in Serbia: And some thoughts for America."
Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country.
snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...
Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country.
snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...
Youth Protest in Serbia
And some thoughts for America
snyder.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Youth Protest in Serbia: And some thoughts for America."
Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country.
snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...
Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country.
snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...
First time working at the National Archives in Kew, London, this week. So efficient, friendly, and brutalist. Really, can it get any better?
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
First time working at the National Archives in Kew, London, this week. So efficient, friendly, and brutalist. Really, can it get any better?
‘The Kremlin is threatening all of Europe. In other words, just because Putin is carrying out stunts in the Baltic does not mean that the alliance must necessarily focus its response there.’
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
‘The Kremlin is threatening all of Europe. In other words, just because Putin is carrying out stunts in the Baltic does not mean that the alliance must necessarily focus its response there.’
New Historiographical Perspectives on Influence and Propaganda successfully steered through two major strikes in France and the waves of seasonal viruses. Many 🙏 to our panelists for the stimulating exchanges - it was wonderful to have you all in Brussels!
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September 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New Historiographical Perspectives on Influence and Propaganda successfully steered through two major strikes in France and the waves of seasonal viruses. Many 🙏 to our panelists for the stimulating exchanges - it was wonderful to have you all in Brussels!
calenda.org/1290551?lang...
calenda.org/1290551?lang...
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The Cold War Archives serves as a portal to an extensive collection of digitized documents from the Eastern European country files found in the LBJ Presidential Library and stored in Texas Scholar…
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September 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction
www.cambridge.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949
www.cambridge.org
September 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
Le 16 et 17 septembre aura lieu à Bruxelles une journée d'étude autour des questions de propagande, d'influence et du renouvellement des études historiographiques autour de ces sujets!
Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216
@vaidanik.bsky.social
Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216
@vaidanik.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
Le 16 et 17 septembre aura lieu à Bruxelles une journée d'étude autour des questions de propagande, d'influence et du renouvellement des études historiographiques autour de ces sujets!
Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216
@vaidanik.bsky.social
Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216
@vaidanik.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
Still in Oxford, but my first farewells will be at the Old Boys School, as today the Faculty of History moves out of this building. It’s been a real privilege to spend two years here - with great people - in what was once Lawrence of Arabia’s high school.
August 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Still in Oxford, but my first farewells will be at the Old Boys School, as today the Faculty of History moves out of this building. It’s been a real privilege to spend two years here - with great people - in what was once Lawrence of Arabia’s high school.
Good news!
Lithuania’s parliament today approved Inga Ruginienė — a longtime trade unionist and political newcomer — as prime minister, following the resignation of Gintautas Paluckas amid allegations about his financial dealings.
Trade union veteran becomes new Lithuanian PM
Inga Ruginienė now has to submit a governing program and build her Cabinet.
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August 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Good news!
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CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
August 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...
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For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products
August 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products
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today I am loving the UN Geneva Archives platform which hosts the complete League of Nations archives, digitised, entirely free
some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata
some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata
archives.ungeneva.org
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
today I am loving the UN Geneva Archives platform which hosts the complete League of Nations archives, digitised, entirely free
some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata
some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata
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I don’t understand why Trump insists on the Nobel Peace Prize specifically. He is just as qualified to claim the one for literature.
August 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I don’t understand why Trump insists on the Nobel Peace Prize specifically. He is just as qualified to claim the one for literature.
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“A single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to ‘financially ruin’ the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.” 🎻🎻🎻
The absurdity of their argument is basically: "It's too hard to figure out how to pay everyone we stole from." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
arstechnica.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“A single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to ‘financially ruin’ the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.” 🎻🎻🎻
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Making science possible
Ces « bibliothèques de l’ombre » où les scientifiques du monde entier partagent gratuitement des articles
« Un monde de pirates » (2/5). Les sites sur lesquels les articles scientifiques sont mis à disposition, en toute illégalité, sont très populaires au sein de la communauté universitaire. Rapides, effi...
www.lemonde.fr
August 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Making science possible
"Pessimism doesn’t have to mean despair. It can be a form of political seriousness: a way of keeping our eyes open to risks and truths we might prefer to ignore."
My new Substack on revisiting the pessimistic early “breakdown prophecies“ made about Eastern Europe im early 1990s.
Wrong then, but look more prescient
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Wrong then, but look more prescient
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What the early pessimists on Eastern Europe got right
After 1989, a few scholars warned Eastern Europe’s new democracies would rapidly fail. They were wrong — but 30 years on, their “breakdown prophecies” look prescient.
open.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Pessimism doesn’t have to mean despair. It can be a form of political seriousness: a way of keeping our eyes open to risks and truths we might prefer to ignore."
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My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring a postdoctoral researcher. Must have strong German language skills and archival research experience. Please help spread the word! Deadline is Sept. 1.
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring a postdoctoral researcher. Must have strong German language skills and archival research experience. Please help spread the word! Deadline is Sept. 1.
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...