Emily Julia Roche-Peplinska
@emilyjuliaroche.bsky.social
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University
PhD History '24, Brown University
Researching the relationship between architecture, war, and national belonging, writing about Jewish architects during the Holocaust
PhD History '24, Brown University
Researching the relationship between architecture, war, and national belonging, writing about Jewish architects during the Holocaust
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Updated intro time:
✍ Book #1 about Polish-Jewish architects (in peer review), book #2 about architectural labour at Auschwitz (in progress)
📚European history, architecture, Jewish studies, Holocaust studies
🏙️ Dublin, Ireland
💗 🏃 (training for Warsaw Marathon), 🎥, 🏈, 📚, 🍺, 🚲
✍ Book #1 about Polish-Jewish architects (in peer review), book #2 about architectural labour at Auschwitz (in progress)
📚European history, architecture, Jewish studies, Holocaust studies
🏙️ Dublin, Ireland
💗 🏃 (training for Warsaw Marathon), 🎥, 🏈, 📚, 🍺, 🚲
The (almost) full moon having a big day yesterday at @maynoothuniversity.ie 🌙
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The (almost) full moon having a big day yesterday at @maynoothuniversity.ie 🌙
Spotify: this year, you mostly listened to metal bands like Nightwish and recent indie releases like Florence and the Machine's new album
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December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Spotify: this year, you mostly listened to metal bands like Nightwish and recent indie releases like Florence and the Machine's new album
also Spotify:
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📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more
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November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more
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Join us in London in July!
CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE
#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck
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Call for Papers: BIAJS Conference 2026 (13-15 July, Birkbeck, University of London)
CALL FOR PAPERS #BIAJS2026 Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | July 2026 “there is…
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More to the point: this and a couple of other recent news stories illustrate just how relevant degrees in art history and visual analysis are
This administration really is a bonanza for art and architecture historians: this lecture just writes itself
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
More to the point: this and a couple of other recent news stories illustrate just how relevant degrees in art history and visual analysis are
I'm a historian of architecture and would like to confirm that these renderings are hideously tacky.
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I'm a historian of architecture and would like to confirm that these renderings are hideously tacky.
Having a productive time at the @genocidescholars.bsky.social conference in Johannesburg this week! Hearing experts' ideas and approaches is fundamental to forming my own projects as they continue to develop. Thank you to @researchireland.ie for making it possible!
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Having a productive time at the @genocidescholars.bsky.social conference in Johannesburg this week! Hearing experts' ideas and approaches is fundamental to forming my own projects as they continue to develop. Thank you to @researchireland.ie for making it possible!
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Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here:
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October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
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SHERA is currently seeking self-nominations and nominations for the President-Elect (Jan 2026–Jan 2029). For more information, visit www.shera-art.org/about-shera/.... To apply, please email a bio and a statement to shera.artarchitecture@gmail.com by Nov 28. Voting will take place in early Dec.
SHERA
The Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture
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September 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
SHERA is currently seeking self-nominations and nominations for the President-Elect (Jan 2026–Jan 2029). For more information, visit www.shera-art.org/about-shera/.... To apply, please email a bio and a statement to shera.artarchitecture@gmail.com by Nov 28. Voting will take place in early Dec.
I'm usually not one to post too many personal updates on social media, but you only run your first marathon once, so... #MaratonWarszawski
September 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm usually not one to post too many personal updates on social media, but you only run your first marathon once, so... #MaratonWarszawski
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Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert
September 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert
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Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th century European History or Holocaust studies?
On 17 November 2025, the Wiener Holocaust Library are hosting an online digital skills workshop for MA and PhD Students
Find out more here: bit.ly/4naClvi
On 17 November 2025, the Wiener Holocaust Library are hosting an online digital skills workshop for MA and PhD Students
Find out more here: bit.ly/4naClvi
September 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th century European History or Holocaust studies?
On 17 November 2025, the Wiener Holocaust Library are hosting an online digital skills workshop for MA and PhD Students
Find out more here: bit.ly/4naClvi
On 17 November 2025, the Wiener Holocaust Library are hosting an online digital skills workshop for MA and PhD Students
Find out more here: bit.ly/4naClvi
I'm very excited to be presenting my work at the Wiener Holocaust Library's PhD and a Cup of Tea series next month! 🫖 Looking forward to sharing and discussing my current project.
Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!
This year we launch a new seminar programme - Spatial Histories of the Holocaust. The first event is the series is live now...
📍 The Other Architects of Auschwitz: Towards a Spatial Holocaust History from Below, with Emily Roche buff.ly/lFOwSjW
This year we launch a new seminar programme - Spatial Histories of the Holocaust. The first event is the series is live now...
📍 The Other Architects of Auschwitz: Towards a Spatial Holocaust History from Below, with Emily Roche buff.ly/lFOwSjW
PhD and a Cup of Tea - The Other Architects of Auschwitz: Towards a Spatial Holocaust History from Below - The Wiener Holocaust Library
This presentation explores the experiences of architects and other forced building labourers in the Auschwitz camp system. In particular, this work sheds light on how professional identity and…
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September 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I'm very excited to be presenting my work at the Wiener Holocaust Library's PhD and a Cup of Tea series next month! 🫖 Looking forward to sharing and discussing my current project.
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
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🏺: Paestan Red-Figure Fish Plate, third quarter of 4th century B.C., attributed to the Binningen Painter. Getty Museum
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July 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🏺: Paestan Red-Figure Fish Plate, third quarter of 4th century B.C., attributed to the Binningen Painter. Getty Museum
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"... 174,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged, accounting for up to 70 percent of all structures in the Strip... more than 58,000 people have been killed...More than 2,000 families have been wiped out...5,600 families now count only one survivor."
A powerful essay by @omerbartov.bsky.social that concludes, with care and precision, that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Others have reached this conclusion too. Bartov's piece explores some deep and important questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"... 174,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged, accounting for up to 70 percent of all structures in the Strip... more than 58,000 people have been killed...More than 2,000 families have been wiped out...5,600 families now count only one survivor."
Thank you to @biajs.bsky.social for organising an amazing conference in Glasgow this week! It was wonderful to share my work and hear the innovative research of other scholars in Jewish Studies in beautiful Glasgow.
BIAJS is sadly saying goodbye to #Glasgow after three amazing, intense conference days at #BIAJS2025, organised by our president Mia Spiro on the theme of crossing borders. In this thread, some images from the week…
July 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thank you to @biajs.bsky.social for organising an amazing conference in Glasgow this week! It was wonderful to share my work and hear the innovative research of other scholars in Jewish Studies in beautiful Glasgow.
Greatly appreciated the chance to present at the @biahs1.bsky.social conference at the University of Kent in beautiful Canterbury last week! It was a great chance to engage with new pedagogical and research approaches to the field of Holocaust Studies.
July 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Greatly appreciated the chance to present at the @biahs1.bsky.social conference at the University of Kent in beautiful Canterbury last week! It was a great chance to engage with new pedagogical and research approaches to the field of Holocaust Studies.
Great day for the Chapelizod Community Festival-- would be wonderful to have more closures of Main Street through the village, especially with the lovely summer weather and long evenings.
June 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Great day for the Chapelizod Community Festival-- would be wonderful to have more closures of Main Street through the village, especially with the lovely summer weather and long evenings.
Spotted in Warsaw's Stary Mokotów neighbourhood on 22 June, 2025: a balcony flying the EU and LGBT pride flags above one with a banner hanging for the defunct presidential campaign of Grzegorz Braun, known for his pro-Russian, anti-LGBT, and antisemitic views.
June 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Spotted in Warsaw's Stary Mokotów neighbourhood on 22 June, 2025: a balcony flying the EU and LGBT pride flags above one with a banner hanging for the defunct presidential campaign of Grzegorz Braun, known for his pro-Russian, anti-LGBT, and antisemitic views.
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More than 130 people showed up for the first members' meeting of the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network! Amazing energy and great ideas for the development of the group.
Check us out and if you find yourself in agreement with our perspective, sign up and join us!
www.ghscn.org/home
Check us out and if you find yourself in agreement with our perspective, sign up and join us!
www.ghscn.org/home
June 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
More than 130 people showed up for the first members' meeting of the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network! Amazing energy and great ideas for the development of the group.
Check us out and if you find yourself in agreement with our perspective, sign up and join us!
www.ghscn.org/home
Check us out and if you find yourself in agreement with our perspective, sign up and join us!
www.ghscn.org/home
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The world needs more brave elected officials like this.
Budapest's mayor says the city will organize Hungary's Pride march as a municipal event celebrating freedom in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. www.reuters.com/world/budape...
Budapest's mayor says the city will organize Hungary's Pride march as a municipal event celebrating freedom in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. www.reuters.com/world/budape...
June 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The world needs more brave elected officials like this.
Budapest's mayor says the city will organize Hungary's Pride march as a municipal event celebrating freedom in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. www.reuters.com/world/budape...
Budapest's mayor says the city will organize Hungary's Pride march as a municipal event celebrating freedom in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. www.reuters.com/world/budape...
"Fabricating faces with AI does not preserve memory. It reshapes it, distorts it, and risks turning tragedy into aestheticized fiction. The tragedy of Auschwitz does not need to be made more visual, more “emotional,” or more “shareable.” It needs to be remembered truthfully." 👏
The Auschwitz Museum has criticised Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok for adding dreadlocks to an image of a Polish Jew killed at the camp.
It called on the creators of AI systems to introduce safeguards preventing such "ridicule" of Holocaust victims.
It called on the creators of AI systems to introduce safeguards preventing such "ridicule" of Holocaust victims.
Auschwitz Museum criticises Musk's AI for adding dreadlocks to Holocaust victim
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June 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Fabricating faces with AI does not preserve memory. It reshapes it, distorts it, and risks turning tragedy into aestheticized fiction. The tragedy of Auschwitz does not need to be made more visual, more “emotional,” or more “shareable.” It needs to be remembered truthfully." 👏
Very glad to see this from Rhode Island, the state that was my home for seven years. Hopefully the bill passes the state senate this time! 🤞
Rhode Island is one step closer to legalizing aquamation and human composting!
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Human composting, water cremation for bodies one step closer to being legal in RI
Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first time.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Very glad to see this from Rhode Island, the state that was my home for seven years. Hopefully the bill passes the state senate this time! 🤞
Updated intro time:
✍ Book #1 about Polish-Jewish architects (in peer review), book #2 about architectural labour at Auschwitz (in progress)
📚European history, architecture, Jewish studies, Holocaust studies
🏙️ Dublin, Ireland
💗 🏃 (training for Warsaw Marathon), 🎥, 🏈, 📚, 🍺, 🚲
✍ Book #1 about Polish-Jewish architects (in peer review), book #2 about architectural labour at Auschwitz (in progress)
📚European history, architecture, Jewish studies, Holocaust studies
🏙️ Dublin, Ireland
💗 🏃 (training for Warsaw Marathon), 🎥, 🏈, 📚, 🍺, 🚲
May 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Updated intro time:
✍ Book #1 about Polish-Jewish architects (in peer review), book #2 about architectural labour at Auschwitz (in progress)
📚European history, architecture, Jewish studies, Holocaust studies
🏙️ Dublin, Ireland
💗 🏃 (training for Warsaw Marathon), 🎥, 🏈, 📚, 🍺, 🚲
✍ Book #1 about Polish-Jewish architects (in peer review), book #2 about architectural labour at Auschwitz (in progress)
📚European history, architecture, Jewish studies, Holocaust studies
🏙️ Dublin, Ireland
💗 🏃 (training for Warsaw Marathon), 🎥, 🏈, 📚, 🍺, 🚲