Dominique Reill
@dominiquereill.bsky.social
Historian. Loves the Adriatic.
Tonight (Nov 6) at 6pm the @WirthInstitute will host the 2025 Annual Toby & Saul Reichert Holocaust Lecture by Vanderbilt Prof Ari Joskowicz, "Jews, Roma, and the Holocaust." Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf (Poli Sci; Faculty of Native Studies) will introduce him. More here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tonight (Nov 6) at 6pm the @WirthInstitute will host the 2025 Annual Toby & Saul Reichert Holocaust Lecture by Vanderbilt Prof Ari Joskowicz, "Jews, Roma, and the Holocaust." Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf (Poli Sci; Faculty of Native Studies) will introduce him. More here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
Did Jews help in the Italian colonization of Ethiopia? Matteo D’Avanzo talks with Prof. Michael Ebner about his SIHS 2025 Honorable Mention article "Jews as Agents of Colonization: Italian Jewry, Carlo Alberto Viterbo and the Ethiopian Jews" www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbmo...
2025 Modern Article Prize Honorable Mention: Matteo D’Avanzo
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November 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Did Jews help in the Italian colonization of Ethiopia? Matteo D’Avanzo talks with Prof. Michael Ebner about his SIHS 2025 Honorable Mention article "Jews as Agents of Colonization: Italian Jewry, Carlo Alberto Viterbo and the Ethiopian Jews" www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbmo...
How did Garibaldi's ragtag army defeat so many world powers? Learn in this interview between 2025 @ital_hist_stud article-prize winner Daniel Banks + Steven Soper, on "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsI...
2025 Modern Article Prize Award Winner interview: Daniel Banks
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November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How did Garibaldi's ragtag army defeat so many world powers? Learn in this interview between 2025 @ital_hist_stud article-prize winner Daniel Banks + Steven Soper, on "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsI...
Were 16th-century mines a place to work or a place to learn? Gabriele Marcon answers in his 2025 SIHS Honorable Mention article “‘The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines.” Watch this interview to learn more www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytnr...
2025 Medieval/Early Modern Article Prize Honorable Mention: Gabriele Marcon
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November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Were 16th-century mines a place to work or a place to learn? Gabriele Marcon answers in his 2025 SIHS Honorable Mention article “‘The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines.” Watch this interview to learn more www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytnr...
Don't miss this fascinating interview by @smithcollege.bsky.social Prof. Josh Birk + Ori Ben-Shalom discussing his 2025 SIHS prize-winning article “Public Health, Medicine, and Religious Reform in Carlo Borromeo’s Milan,” @16csociety.bsky.social. Watch + share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qef6...
2025 Medieval/Early Modern Article Prize winner interview: Ori Ben Shalom
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November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Don't miss this fascinating interview by @smithcollege.bsky.social Prof. Josh Birk + Ori Ben-Shalom discussing his 2025 SIHS prize-winning article “Public Health, Medicine, and Religious Reform in Carlo Borromeo’s Milan,” @16csociety.bsky.social. Watch + share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qef6...
I know you know this. But I TOTALLY agree with you. Again. This piece is excellent
A wonderful and very pertinent wrap up of one of the funnest and most intellectually stimulating conferences I have attended so far!
Jana Osterkamp + Jonathan Singerton's "How Central European History Became a Vibrant Field — and Where It Might Go Next" reflects on what we can learn from the 20 CEHC blogs written by emerging scholars. I love this piece. Please share. cehc.hypotheses.org/473
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I know you know this. But I TOTALLY agree with you. Again. This piece is excellent
Jana Osterkamp + Jonathan Singerton's "How Central European History Became a Vibrant Field — and Where It Might Go Next" reflects on what we can learn from the 20 CEHC blogs written by emerging scholars. I love this piece. Please share. cehc.hypotheses.org/473
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Jana Osterkamp + Jonathan Singerton's "How Central European History Became a Vibrant Field — and Where It Might Go Next" reflects on what we can learn from the 20 CEHC blogs written by emerging scholars. I love this piece. Please share. cehc.hypotheses.org/473
Feeling so supported by my new university and institute. Thank you University of Alberta and @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for making this big transition to Canada feel so promising!: www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/...
Have You Met Dominique Kirchner Reill?
Meet Dominique Kirchner Reill, Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies and Professor of History.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Feeling so supported by my new university and institute. Thank you University of Alberta and @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for making this big transition to Canada feel so promising!: www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/...
I think being part of bringing the Central European History Convention together will be one of the things I’m most proud of doing. Thank you @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for co-sponsoring it and now for helping celebrate it. www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
CEHC 2025: a Milestone Gathering for Central European Historians
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October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I think being part of bringing the Central European History Convention together will be one of the things I’m most proud of doing. Thank you @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for co-sponsoring it and now for helping celebrate it. www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
It’s official! The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is grateful to receive these 2 beautiful paintings as a donation from the talented Canadian-Austrian artist Ernestine Tahedl. Stay tuned for information on a mini-vernissage to celebrate their arrival. In the meantime, so happy! ernestinetahedl.ca
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s official! The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is grateful to receive these 2 beautiful paintings as a donation from the talented Canadian-Austrian artist Ernestine Tahedl. Stay tuned for information on a mini-vernissage to celebrate their arrival. In the meantime, so happy! ernestinetahedl.ca
The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Czech doctoral fellow Tereza Trojanová's research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Czech doctoral fellow Tereza Trojanová's research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
Our new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Polish doctoral fellow Anna Zabraniak is showing me how translation functioned in the 19th century to help create "Two (intermingled) Enlightenments" between Polish + Jews culture makers. Learn more about what I'm learning here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Our new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Polish doctoral fellow Anna Zabraniak is showing me how translation functioned in the 19th century to help create "Two (intermingled) Enlightenments" between Polish + Jews culture makers. Learn more about what I'm learning here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
The new wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana Blažević's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
October 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The new wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana Blažević's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow Erzsébet Árvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" émigré communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow Erzsébet Árvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" émigré communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
The new @WirthInstitute Polish doctoral fellow Tereza Trojanová's research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The new @WirthInstitute Polish doctoral fellow Tereza Trojanová's research on the internationalization of academia + its relationship to social mechanisms of inequality couldn't be more timely. Grateful to have someone here investigating this topic: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana Blažević's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
Adriana Blažević
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October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The new @wirthinstitute.bsky.social Croatian doctoral fellow Adriana Blažević's work on analyzing how language discourse frames our understandings around migration + power is now making me read + write with even more care. Learn here why: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow Erzsébet Árvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" émigré communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
Erzsébet Árvay
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October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The @wirthinstitute.bsky.social is so lucky to be hosting Hungarian doctoral fellow Erzsébet Árvay. After just a month among us, I'm already asking different questions about how Cold War states tried to "manage" émigré communities. Learn more about her project here: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...
A little birdie told me some exciting news: Howard Louthan is stepping in as Executive Editor of the Journal of Early Modern History. Now, help welcome the new editor by sending great work his way! brill.com/view/journal...
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A little birdie told me some exciting news: Howard Louthan is stepping in as Executive Editor of the Journal of Early Modern History. Now, help welcome the new editor by sending great work his way! brill.com/view/journal...
Which ones did you especially like? (And, yes, the writing is so clear, sometimes fun, always engaging)
Finally caught up with these beautiful texts! Content on the side, we have some amazing writers in our field…
Check out the 20 blogs by emerging scholars in Central European history, discussing the successes, promises, + challenges experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, that featured 2 keynotes + 55 panels, among other events. cehc.hypotheses.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Which ones did you especially like? (And, yes, the writing is so clear, sometimes fun, always engaging)
Check out the 20 blogs by emerging scholars in Central European history, discussing the successes, promises, + challenges experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, that featured 2 keynotes + 55 panels, among other events. cehc.hypotheses.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Check out the 20 blogs by emerging scholars in Central European history, discussing the successes, promises, + challenges experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, that featured 2 keynotes + 55 panels, among other events. cehc.hypotheses.org
In his "Overcoming Orientalism," Matthias Lehmann discussed the fascinating new research presented at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that de-centered Habsburg Europe, thereby permitting its deeper contours into center stage. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/239
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In his "Overcoming Orientalism," Matthias Lehmann discussed the fascinating new research presented at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that de-centered Habsburg Europe, thereby permitting its deeper contours into center stage. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/239
In his "Whither nation, blossom state," Simon Neumaier highlighted the new trends present at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that dislodged traditional ways of understanding state-society-governance outside + alongside the national. cehc.hypotheses.org/257
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In his "Whither nation, blossom state," Simon Neumaier highlighted the new trends present at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention that dislodged traditional ways of understanding state-society-governance outside + alongside the national. cehc.hypotheses.org/257
In her "Empire, Environment, and the Judson Legacy: Reflections from the first Central European History Convention in Vienna," Daša Ličen discusses the most exciting work at the July Convention that reframed thinking about power, empire, + money beyond the man-nature binary. cehc.hypotheses.org/270
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In her "Empire, Environment, and the Judson Legacy: Reflections from the first Central European History Convention in Vienna," Daša Ličen discusses the most exciting work at the July Convention that reframed thinking about power, empire, + money beyond the man-nature binary. cehc.hypotheses.org/270
In "The Quest for Global History and the “Relevance” of Central Europe," @Cosminea argues the 2025 Central European History Convention showed promise of what can be gained when local Central European approaches worked together + apart from US/UK/global trends in scholarship. cehc.hypotheses.org/281
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In "The Quest for Global History and the “Relevance” of Central Europe," @Cosminea argues the 2025 Central European History Convention showed promise of what can be gained when local Central European approaches worked together + apart from US/UK/global trends in scholarship. cehc.hypotheses.org/281
In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In her "Peripheral states, weak empires and other fairytales," Lida Dodou reveals how global history has changed (and changes) our understandings of Habsburg Europe as seen from the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention. Learn more here! cehc.hypotheses.org/295