Anna Herran
@annaherran.bsky.social
History PhD Candidate | Central European & Baltic history 🇨🇿🇪🇪 & memory studies | researching celebrations and nation-building from interwar holidays to Eurovision
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Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
@supportourscience.bsky.social
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not?
@supportourscience.bsky.social
@supportourscience.bsky.social
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⚡️NATO confirms Russian incursion into Estonian airspace, calls it "reckless."
"NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.
"NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.
BREAKING: 3 Russian MiG-31 jets violate Estonian airspace, Tallinn says
Estonia summoned Russia's charge d'affaires on Sept. 19 after three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered the Baltic nation's airspace for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said.
kyivindependent.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
⚡️NATO confirms Russian incursion into Estonian airspace, calls it "reckless."
"NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.
"NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.
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Za dva měsíce se otevře kus historie. 19. září 2025 v 10.00 v přímém přenosu vysílání Českého rozhlasu se rozpečetí obálka s posledními slovy Tomáše Garrigua Masaryka. Text dopisu přečte Dagmar Hájková, historička z Masarykova ústavu a Archivu AV ČR. irozhl.as/wpP
Masaryk si nebral servítky, připomíná historička. Blíží se otevření obálky s jeho posledními slovy
„Masaryk si nebral v korespondencích, ale i normálně příliš servítky. Byl si vědom své úrovně a slovo hlupák se třeba v korespondenci s Edvardem Benešem vyskytuje často,“ říká historička Hájková.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Za dva měsíce se otevře kus historie. 19. září 2025 v 10.00 v přímém přenosu vysílání Českého rozhlasu se rozpečetí obálka s posledními slovy Tomáše Garrigua Masaryka. Text dopisu přečte Dagmar Hájková, historička z Masarykova ústavu a Archivu AV ČR. irozhl.as/wpP
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I'm excited to be at #iccees2025 in London! We had a great debate on Eastern European national ideologies with @annaherran.bsky.social, Andreii Kepsha and Jakub Beneš on Monday. Three more days packed up with EE history and politics!
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I'm excited to be at #iccees2025 in London! We had a great debate on Eastern European national ideologies with @annaherran.bsky.social, Andreii Kepsha and Jakub Beneš on Monday. Three more days packed up with EE history and politics!
currently in London for #ICCEES2025 ! Looking forward to presenting tomorrow on how the Czechoslovak Communist Party appropriated, rejected, and eventually erased the holiday celebrating Czechoslovak Independence Day (October 28) in the immediate post WWII period 🇨🇿
July 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
currently in London for #ICCEES2025 ! Looking forward to presenting tomorrow on how the Czechoslovak Communist Party appropriated, rejected, and eventually erased the holiday celebrating Czechoslovak Independence Day (October 28) in the immediate post WWII period 🇨🇿
currently attending my very first Memory Studies Association Conference in Prague, aka the city that sparked my interest in memory studies! #msaPrague2025
July 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
currently attending my very first Memory Studies Association Conference in Prague, aka the city that sparked my interest in memory studies! #msaPrague2025
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⚡️ 'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk.
Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.
Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.
'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk
Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.
kyivindependent.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
⚡️ 'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk.
Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.
Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.
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In a serious blow to scholars, the Russian authorities have outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an "undesirable organization." The designation poses legal risks for the organization's 3,200 members when researching in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia outlaws Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as ‘undesirable organization’ — Meduza
Russia’s Justice Ministry has outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an “undesirable organization.”
meduza.io
June 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In a serious blow to scholars, the Russian authorities have outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an "undesirable organization." The designation poses legal risks for the organization's 3,200 members when researching in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
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This is German Kurrentschift. It says: Der Lehrkörper der allgemeinen Volksschule, Knabenbürgerschule u. Mädchenbürgerschule in Grulich; der Stadtrat und die Stadtsvertrertung der Stadtgemeinde Grulich.
June 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is German Kurrentschift. It says: Der Lehrkörper der allgemeinen Volksschule, Knabenbürgerschule u. Mädchenbürgerschule in Grulich; der Stadtrat und die Stadtsvertrertung der Stadtgemeinde Grulich.
anyone out there who can read what this says? Or at least what language it is in? (German??) Any help would be appreciated
For context, these are from a booklet from Žamberk (Eastern Bohemia) in which citizen groups and state official swore their loyalty to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1936
For context, these are from a booklet from Žamberk (Eastern Bohemia) in which citizen groups and state official swore their loyalty to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1936
June 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
anyone out there who can read what this says? Or at least what language it is in? (German??) Any help would be appreciated
For context, these are from a booklet from Žamberk (Eastern Bohemia) in which citizen groups and state official swore their loyalty to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1936
For context, these are from a booklet from Žamberk (Eastern Bohemia) in which citizen groups and state official swore their loyalty to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1936
Currently in Cambridge for #cbse2025 looking forward to presenting my paper on the celebrations of 90th anniversary of Estonian Independence on Saturday 🇪🇪
April 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Currently in Cambridge for #cbse2025 looking forward to presenting my paper on the celebrations of 90th anniversary of Estonian Independence on Saturday 🇪🇪
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Czech martyr Jan Palach’s enduring legacy, 50 years today after his self-immolation english.radio.cz/czech-martyr...
Czech martyr Jan Palach’s enduring legacy, 50 years after his self-immolation
Fifty years ago on January 16, a young Czech university student named Jan Palach doused himself in petrol and set himself alight at the top of Prague’s Wenceslas Square…
english.radio.cz
January 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Czech martyr Jan Palach’s enduring legacy, 50 years today after his self-immolation english.radio.cz/czech-martyr...
Big thanks to the Toronto Estonian community for featuring my piece on the integration of Setomaa into Interwar Estonia 🇪🇪
eestielu.ca/making-eston...
eestielu.ca/making-eston...
Making Estonia, Shaping Setomaa: the Creation of Interwar Estonia and its Impact on the Southeastern Borderland - Eesti Elu
In 2020, Värska unveiled a monument to the soldiers of the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) in its Freedom Square. As the inscription on its base indicates, this monument was intended to be pl...
eestielu.ca
January 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Big thanks to the Toronto Estonian community for featuring my piece on the integration of Setomaa into Interwar Estonia 🇪🇪
eestielu.ca/making-eston...
eestielu.ca/making-eston...
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🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Now with a volume, issue and page numbers in Millennium. @chrsjcksn.bsky.social and I wrote about the craziness of Skopje's faux neoclassical revamp, a huge statue of Alexander the Great, copy of Arc de Triomphe and things that are supposed to look like... Venice? It's a riot. Pics 👇
The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox: Domestic and International Effects of Public Architecture in North Macedonia’s ‘Skopje 2014’ Project - Christopher M. Jackson, Jelena Subotic, 2024
This article theorises the relationship between material environment and state ontological security by analysing how public architecture is used to defend, asse...
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December 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Now with a volume, issue and page numbers in Millennium. @chrsjcksn.bsky.social and I wrote about the craziness of Skopje's faux neoclassical revamp, a huge statue of Alexander the Great, copy of Arc de Triomphe and things that are supposed to look like... Venice? It's a riot. Pics 👇
rare finds at the secondhand bookshop or a sign I should start learning a Baltic language soon? 🤔 sadly there wasn’t one for Estonian
December 7, 2024 at 5:09 PM
rare finds at the secondhand bookshop or a sign I should start learning a Baltic language soon? 🤔 sadly there wasn’t one for Estonian
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Today it is Finland’s independence day. Lit candles in windows is a somber reminder that independence is not to be taken for granted.
December 6, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Today it is Finland’s independence day. Lit candles in windows is a somber reminder that independence is not to be taken for granted.
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Not exactly traditional, but not exactly a tourist trap either. This article sheds a little more light on the ‘trdelník’ mystery :)) www.czechology.com/trdelnik-his...
Trdelník – History and Recipe
Trdelník is a traditional Transylvanian-Hungarian dessert that arrived to the regions of eastern Moravia in the 18th - 19th century. Let's talk about its history, use in Czech folklore and I'll also s...
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November 25, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Not exactly traditional, but not exactly a tourist trap either. This article sheds a little more light on the ‘trdelník’ mystery :)) www.czechology.com/trdelnik-his...
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A new CfP for all those interested in the #econhist of Central & Eastern Europe in the long 20th century. To be held at IOS @leibniz-ios.de in lovely Regensburg, 26-27 June 2025. Submission deadline: 15th Dec 2024. #econsky
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 AM
A new CfP for all those interested in the #econhist of Central & Eastern Europe in the long 20th century. To be held at IOS @leibniz-ios.de in lovely Regensburg, 26-27 June 2025. Submission deadline: 15th Dec 2024. #econsky
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Ivan Trojan a Erik Tabery: Češi a Slováci si politicky nikdy nebyli dál, společensky je to naopak.
🎧 Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat.
🎧 Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat.
Ivan Trojan a Erik Tabery: Češi a Slováci si politicky nikdy nebyli dál, společensky je to naopak
Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat
www.respekt.cz
November 23, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Ivan Trojan a Erik Tabery: Češi a Slováci si politicky nikdy nebyli dál, společensky je to naopak.
🎧 Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat.
🎧 Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat.
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Twenty years after the Orange Revolution, as Ukrainians continue to resist Russia’s full-scale war of aggression, many are looking back on the anniversary of that uprising as the first battle in their enduring fight for the nation’s independence.
'It was my first revolution' — Ukrainians look back on the Orange Revolution 20 years later
Two weeks before Ukraine's pivotal 2004 presidential election, 22-year-old filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk found herself at the center of a heated exchange during a trip to Moscow. The upcoming elections were ...
kyivindependent.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Twenty years after the Orange Revolution, as Ukrainians continue to resist Russia’s full-scale war of aggression, many are looking back on the anniversary of that uprising as the first battle in their enduring fight for the nation’s independence.
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Then we have a post from Leah Johnson, in which she presents her fascinating oral history interviews with members of the Estonian American National Council who engaged in political activism throughout the second half of the twentieth century www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/far-awa...
Far Away but Never Powerless: Oral Histories of Estonian American Activists
Leah Johnson“We all grew up with the history of Estonia, the injustice of that history… what the Soviets did. And as I was growing up, there was a constant need to explain to people, what’s Estonia? W...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk
November 12, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Then we have a post from Leah Johnson, in which she presents her fascinating oral history interviews with members of the Estonian American National Council who engaged in political activism throughout the second half of the twentieth century www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/far-awa...
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The Berliner Zeitung has been running a number of pieces along these lines attacking the idea that the GDR was a dictatorship and claiming that this is part of some kind of new Historikerstreit. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here...
November 21, 2024 at 9:34 AM
The Berliner Zeitung has been running a number of pieces along these lines attacking the idea that the GDR was a dictatorship and claiming that this is part of some kind of new Historikerstreit. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here...
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Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...
November 20, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...
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Research Grant: Do you plan archival research somewhere in Central Europe next year? The Central European History Society sponsors historical research undertaken by junior scholars. Deadline for applications is January 15, 2025. www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?page_id=122
October 27, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Research Grant: Do you plan archival research somewhere in Central Europe next year? The Central European History Society sponsors historical research undertaken by junior scholars. Deadline for applications is January 15, 2025. www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?page_id=122
Happy Independence Day, Latvia 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻
feat. the commemorative plaque on the building of the National Theatre in Riga, where independence was declared on this day 106 years ago
feat. the commemorative plaque on the building of the National Theatre in Riga, where independence was declared on this day 106 years ago
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Happy Independence Day, Latvia 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻
feat. the commemorative plaque on the building of the National Theatre in Riga, where independence was declared on this day 106 years ago
feat. the commemorative plaque on the building of the National Theatre in Riga, where independence was declared on this day 106 years ago