Bruce Berglund
@beastofberglund.bsky.social
Historian transplanted from Duluth to Prague | Teaching: Institute of International Studies, Charles Univ | Last book: "Fastest Game in the World: Hockey & the Globalization of Sports" | Next book: Russia & world sport
Last look through the proofs
September 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Last look through the proofs
Afternoon drive, Duluth to Minneapolis
June 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Afternoon drive, Duluth to Minneapolis
Re: English words & phrases that young Czechs sprinkle into conversation. Two women next to me on the tram are talking about their "situationships"
April 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Re: English words & phrases that young Czechs sprinkle into conversation. Two women next to me on the tram are talking about their "situationships"
Happy 175th birthday to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st president of Czechoslovakia. I attempted a portrait of him in my second book. What stood out was how much he respected his wife, and how he would come home from work as a professor and parliament member to lie down on the floor & play with his kids
March 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Happy 175th birthday to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st president of Czechoslovakia. I attempted a portrait of him in my second book. What stood out was how much he respected his wife, and how he would come home from work as a professor and parliament member to lie down on the floor & play with his kids
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Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.
Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
Title VIII: Funding: Summer Language Workshop: Language Workshop: Indiana University Bloomington
Title VIII Fellowships
languageworkshop.indiana.edu
February 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.
Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
A beautiful morning
January 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A beautiful morning
The highlight of today's language lesson was me explaining to my tutor how American health insurance works. Explaining the concept of an $8000 deductible in Czech was a bit of a workout.
January 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The highlight of today's language lesson was me explaining to my tutor how American health insurance works. Explaining the concept of an $8000 deductible in Czech was a bit of a workout.
My family's second year of the Icelandic book flood 🎄📚🇮🇸
December 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
My family's second year of the Icelandic book flood 🎄📚🇮🇸
Glanced out my kitchen window on a cloudy morning and gasped.
December 17, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Glanced out my kitchen window on a cloudy morning and gasped.
European friends are always astonished when I tell them how my US insurance company refused to pay for tests during my late wife's treatment. From tonight's conversation: "So do Americans just want sick people to die?"
December 4, 2024 at 9:27 PM
European friends are always astonished when I tell them how my US insurance company refused to pay for tests during my late wife's treatment. From tonight's conversation: "So do Americans just want sick people to die?"
Perfect night for a stroll and the first mulled wine of the season
November 25, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Perfect night for a stroll and the first mulled wine of the season
A salute to my father on his 80th birthday. I became a teacher because he was a great teacher. I became a father because he is a great father. Thanks, Dad!
November 22, 2024 at 7:39 AM
A salute to my father on his 80th birthday. I became a teacher because he was a great teacher. I became a father because he is a great father. Thanks, Dad!
1) History of Russian sport & politics, from Stalin to Putin
2) Referees at the ancient Olympics & gladiator matches are the key to understanding classical Greece & Rome
2) Referees at the ancient Olympics & gladiator matches are the key to understanding classical Greece & Rome
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working but keep thinking about.
Here’s mine:
1) the history of the Island Games
2) the Danish Empire & the governance of world sport (handball, badminton, etc.).
Here’s mine:
1) the history of the Island Games
2) the Danish Empire & the governance of world sport (handball, badminton, etc.).
1. What project you are working on
2. An odd idea/theory
Here's mine:
> mapping all procession and protest march routes in London 1780-1939
> British politics is at base all down to bins and parking.
2. An odd idea/theory
Here's mine:
> mapping all procession and protest march routes in London 1780-1939
> British politics is at base all down to bins and parking.
November 15, 2024 at 1:36 PM
1) History of Russian sport & politics, from Stalin to Putin
2) Referees at the ancient Olympics & gladiator matches are the key to understanding classical Greece & Rome
2) Referees at the ancient Olympics & gladiator matches are the key to understanding classical Greece & Rome
Autumn morning views from my kitchen window
November 15, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Autumn morning views from my kitchen window
Manuscript submitted! It took 10 years to write Book #1, five years to write Book #2, and 18 months to write this one. Finally getting the hang of it.
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Manuscript submitted! It took 10 years to write Book #1, five years to write Book #2, and 18 months to write this one. Finally getting the hang of it.
Graded first exams from my high school history students in Prague. A nice surprise were all the illustrations - including the teacher depicted as a Minion.
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Graded first exams from my high school history students in Prague. A nice surprise were all the illustrations - including the teacher depicted as a Minion.