David Smrček
@davidsmrcek.bsky.social
PhD researcher of Street Politics and Nationalism in Late Habsburg Austria (University of Vienna + Charles University in Prague)
My "Associations as Protest and Riots Brokers of the Badeni Unrest of 1897" has just been published as a FirstView article in the Austrian History Yearbook! 🎉🎉
Associations as Protest and Riots Brokers of the Badeni Unrest of 1897 | Austrian History Yearbook | Cambridge Core
Associations as Protest and Riots Brokers of the Badeni Unrest of 1897
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November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My "Associations as Protest and Riots Brokers of the Badeni Unrest of 1897" has just been published as a FirstView article in the Austrian History Yearbook! 🎉🎉
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Twenty participants of the July 2025 Central European History Convention in Vienna wrote blogs about what they thought about the event: what it gave, what it promises, what it didn’t. Read what they think! (There’s a little intro to the forum by Peter Becker + myself). cehc.hypotheses.org
Looking back- looking ahead
cehc.hypotheses.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Twenty participants of the July 2025 Central European History Convention in Vienna wrote blogs about what they thought about the event: what it gave, what it promises, what it didn’t. Read what they think! (There’s a little intro to the forum by Peter Becker + myself). cehc.hypotheses.org
Reposted by David Smrček
In Streetscapes of War and Revolution (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the First World War in the city of Prague. @davidsmrcek.bsky.social reviews the book.
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
Sounds and sights of the Great War in Prague - CEU Review of Books
In Streetscapes of War and Revolution. Prague, 1914–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the ...
ceureviewofbooks.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM
In Streetscapes of War and Revolution (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the First World War in the city of Prague. @davidsmrcek.bsky.social reviews the book.
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
I appreciate good marketing, but there are better ways to promote the return of Smetana's "Libuše" to the Czech National Theatre's repertoire. 😅
V Národním divadle hoří - Novinky
Pražští hasiči zasahují v budově Národního divadla. Podle mluvčího hasičů Vojtěcha Sosny hasí požár šatny. Na místě zasahuje větší počet hasičů z celé Prahy. Vyhlášen byl druhý stupeň poplachu.
www.novinky.cz
November 26, 2024 at 2:49 PM
I appreciate good marketing, but there are better ways to promote the return of Smetana's "Libuše" to the Czech National Theatre's repertoire. 😅
Reposted by David Smrček
The 19th Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) takes place @univie.ac.at, April 7-9, 2025
Topic: Law and Diversity in European History
The CfP is open: graceh2025.univie.ac.at/call-for-pap...
Please apply & share widely!
Topic: Law and Diversity in European History
The CfP is open: graceh2025.univie.ac.at/call-for-pap...
Please apply & share widely!
November 24, 2024 at 6:43 PM
The 19th Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) takes place @univie.ac.at, April 7-9, 2025
Topic: Law and Diversity in European History
The CfP is open: graceh2025.univie.ac.at/call-for-pap...
Please apply & share widely!
Topic: Law and Diversity in European History
The CfP is open: graceh2025.univie.ac.at/call-for-pap...
Please apply & share widely!
I am in the last phase of writing my dissertation, and I am just realizing how much more effectively I could have approached some parts of research in the past. Will I learn from this next time? Probably not 🙃
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I am in the last phase of writing my dissertation, and I am just realizing how much more effectively I could have approached some parts of research in the past. Will I learn from this next time? Probably not 🙃
Reposted by David Smrček
From #AHAPerspectives in 2011: "There have been few major transitions in political history that have not involved violence," explained Kellie Carter Jackson, offering best practices for educators when teaching political violence in world history. 🗃️
Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching about the Politics of Power and Resistance – AHA
There have been few major transitions in political history that have not involved violence. Riots, rebellions, and revolutions all contain (and perhaps even require) elements of political violence.
www.historians.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
From #AHAPerspectives in 2011: "There have been few major transitions in political history that have not involved violence," explained Kellie Carter Jackson, offering best practices for educators when teaching political violence in world history. 🗃️
Reposted by David Smrček
Our two alumni, Anna Adorjàni & Andreas Pfützner were awarded the first Austrian State Award in Historical Studies by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science.
Congratulations!
www.bmbwf.gv.at/Ministerium/...
Congratulations!
www.bmbwf.gv.at/Ministerium/...
Österreichischer Staatspreis für Geschichtswissenschaften
www.bmbwf.gv.at
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Our two alumni, Anna Adorjàni & Andreas Pfützner were awarded the first Austrian State Award in Historical Studies by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science.
Congratulations!
www.bmbwf.gv.at/Ministerium/...
Congratulations!
www.bmbwf.gv.at/Ministerium/...
It is slowly time to start considering Bluesky as an option
November 7, 2024 at 5:01 PM
It is slowly time to start considering Bluesky as an option