Julie Deschepper
@juliedeschepper.bsky.social
Cultural & art historian of (Post-)Soviet Russia
Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies - Utrecht University
(Post-)Socialist Heritage I Socialist Material Culture I Global Iconoclasm I Weaponization of Heritage in Ukraine
Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies - Utrecht University
(Post-)Socialist Heritage I Socialist Material Culture I Global Iconoclasm I Weaponization of Heritage in Ukraine
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Save the date! www.zois-berlin.de/en/events/ta... 16 January 2026, Berlin, we're organising our second conference : "Taking Stock: Russia and the Russians Four Years After the Full-Scale Invasion" This time, we teamed with @zois.bsky.social to build this exciting programme with 4 panels.
Taking Stock: Russia and the Russians Four Years After the Full-Scale Invasion
CORUSCANT Conference
www.zois-berlin.de
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Save the date! www.zois-berlin.de/en/events/ta... 16 January 2026, Berlin, we're organising our second conference : "Taking Stock: Russia and the Russians Four Years After the Full-Scale Invasion" This time, we teamed with @zois.bsky.social to build this exciting programme with 4 panels.
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" L’univers des choses soviétiques "
Séminaire le 2e jeudi du mois sur le site
@campuscondorcet.bsky.social
▶️ 1e séance le 13/11 : " Penser le 'post-soviétique' au prisme de sa matérialité " avec @juliedeschepper.bsky.social et @ordzon.bsky.social
Infos sur urlr.me/z3GrY4
Séminaire le 2e jeudi du mois sur le site
@campuscondorcet.bsky.social
▶️ 1e séance le 13/11 : " Penser le 'post-soviétique' au prisme de sa matérialité " avec @juliedeschepper.bsky.social et @ordzon.bsky.social
Infos sur urlr.me/z3GrY4
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
" L’univers des choses soviétiques "
Séminaire le 2e jeudi du mois sur le site
@campuscondorcet.bsky.social
▶️ 1e séance le 13/11 : " Penser le 'post-soviétique' au prisme de sa matérialité " avec @juliedeschepper.bsky.social et @ordzon.bsky.social
Infos sur urlr.me/z3GrY4
Séminaire le 2e jeudi du mois sur le site
@campuscondorcet.bsky.social
▶️ 1e séance le 13/11 : " Penser le 'post-soviétique' au prisme de sa matérialité " avec @juliedeschepper.bsky.social et @ordzon.bsky.social
Infos sur urlr.me/z3GrY4
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Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Here we go with Racist Reconstruction.
The National Park Service has been ordered to reinstall a statue of former Confederate general Albert Pike in Judiciary Square in Washington, DC. Pike's statue was pulled down and set on fire in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...
Confederate general statue toppled in 2020 to be reinstalled in DC
The bronze statue depicting Confederate Gen. Albert Pike is being restored, the Park Service said in a statement Monday. Officials shared a photo of a worker removing corrosion and paint.
www.nbcwashington.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Here we go with Racist Reconstruction.
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Job for Ukrainian citizen:
Deputy Director of the European Think Tank Office in Kyiv
Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies @sceeus-ui.bsky.social
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs @uisweden.bsky.social
Deputy Director of the European Think Tank Office in Kyiv
Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies @sceeus-ui.bsky.social
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs @uisweden.bsky.social
Deputy Director – European Think Tank Office, Kyiv, Ukraine - Utrikespolitiska institutet
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) is establishing a European Think Tank Office (ETTO) in Kyiv through its Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS). This Office will ...
jobb.ui.se
July 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Job for Ukrainian citizen:
Deputy Director of the European Think Tank Office in Kyiv
Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies @sceeus-ui.bsky.social
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs @uisweden.bsky.social
Deputy Director of the European Think Tank Office in Kyiv
Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies @sceeus-ui.bsky.social
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs @uisweden.bsky.social
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Guerre en Ukraine : ne rien faire, c’est laisser Poutine l’emporter. Kyiv a besoin d’un soutien occidental franc pour espérer une issue au conflit favorable aux Ukrainiens.
✍️ L'édito de @hamdammostafavi.bsky.social :
✍️ L'édito de @hamdammostafavi.bsky.social :
Guerre en Ukraine : ne rien faire, c’est laisser Poutine l’emporter
A l’heure du désengagement américain, et où l’attention générale est tournée vers le Moyen-Orient, Kyiv a besoin d’un soutien occidental franc pour espérer une issue au conflit favorable aux Ukrainiens.
www.liberation.fr
July 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Guerre en Ukraine : ne rien faire, c’est laisser Poutine l’emporter. Kyiv a besoin d’un soutien occidental franc pour espérer une issue au conflit favorable aux Ukrainiens.
✍️ L'édito de @hamdammostafavi.bsky.social :
✍️ L'édito de @hamdammostafavi.bsky.social :
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Hi colleagues,
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Hi colleagues,
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
Hi colleagues,
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Hi colleagues,
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
*RESEARCH SEMINAR*
19 June, 5pm (Paris Time)
For the last session of our seminar "L’univers des choses soviétiques", we'll have the pleasure to welcome online:
Mollie Arbuthnot (Harvard University)
A Building Containing the Universe: The Materiality of Heritage and Atheism in Soviet Tashkent
19 June, 5pm (Paris Time)
For the last session of our seminar "L’univers des choses soviétiques", we'll have the pleasure to welcome online:
Mollie Arbuthnot (Harvard University)
A Building Containing the Universe: The Materiality of Heritage and Atheism in Soviet Tashkent
June 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
*RESEARCH SEMINAR*
19 June, 5pm (Paris Time)
For the last session of our seminar "L’univers des choses soviétiques", we'll have the pleasure to welcome online:
Mollie Arbuthnot (Harvard University)
A Building Containing the Universe: The Materiality of Heritage and Atheism in Soviet Tashkent
19 June, 5pm (Paris Time)
For the last session of our seminar "L’univers des choses soviétiques", we'll have the pleasure to welcome online:
Mollie Arbuthnot (Harvard University)
A Building Containing the Universe: The Materiality of Heritage and Atheism in Soviet Tashkent
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Really enjoyed this conversation!
📻 @drpollyjones.bsky.social joins Polina Popova on the
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss her book Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin.
👂 Listen 👉 bit.ly/3EH9wWl
📙 Discover the book 👉 bit.ly/3GIo3S6
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss her book Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin.
👂 Listen 👉 bit.ly/3EH9wWl
📙 Discover the book 👉 bit.ly/3GIo3S6
May 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Really enjoyed this conversation!
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Kyiv came under a massive air assault, as Putin’s forces launched waves of Shahed drones and ballistic missiles.
Authorities report casualties and significant damage.
www.kyivpost.com/post/53265
Authorities report casualties and significant damage.
www.kyivpost.com/post/53265
Kyiv Suffers One of the War’s Heaviest Russian Airstrikes – Fires, Injuries, Destruction
Kyiv came under a massive air assault, as Russian forces launched waves of Shahed drones and ballistic missiles. Authorities report casualties and significant damage.
www.kyivpost.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Kyiv came under a massive air assault, as Putin’s forces launched waves of Shahed drones and ballistic missiles.
Authorities report casualties and significant damage.
www.kyivpost.com/post/53265
Authorities report casualties and significant damage.
www.kyivpost.com/post/53265
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Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!
May 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!
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Apropos of nothing, here's a book about how bad art drives out the good in authoritarian states, as artists' careers depend on producing art which flatters those in power rather than the ability to make quality art.
AI art supercharges this process by not requiring any actual artists.
AI art supercharges this process by not requiring any actual artists.
May 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Apropos of nothing, here's a book about how bad art drives out the good in authoritarian states, as artists' careers depend on producing art which flatters those in power rather than the ability to make quality art.
AI art supercharges this process by not requiring any actual artists.
AI art supercharges this process by not requiring any actual artists.
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L'aéroport de Volgograd renommé Stalingrad, V.Poutine explique qu'il est aussi possible que la ville reprenne son nom soviétique. On nage dans la nostalgie morbide, c'est un marronnier russe...
April 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
L'aéroport de Volgograd renommé Stalingrad, V.Poutine explique qu'il est aussi possible que la ville reprenne son nom soviétique. On nage dans la nostalgie morbide, c'est un marronnier russe...
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The hacker group NoName said the DDoS attacks were retaliation for the Netherlands’ military assistance to Ukraine.
Pro-Russian Hackers Take Down Local Government Websites in Netherlands - The Moscow Times
A group of pro-Russian hackers took down the websites of several Dutch municipalities and provinces on Monday in retaliation for the Netherlands’ military assistance to Ukraine.
www.themoscowtimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The hacker group NoName said the DDoS attacks were retaliation for the Netherlands’ military assistance to Ukraine.
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⚡️Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut killed in deadly Russian attack on Sumy.
Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut, was killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy, which killed at least 34 and injured 117 people on April 13.
Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut, was killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy, which killed at least 34 and injured 117 people on April 13.
Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut killed in deadly Russian attack on Sumy
"On April 13, 2025, as a result of a missile strike by Russia, our theater family suffered a pain that words cannot describe. Inflicted wounds killed our colleague, artist of the orchestra theater — E...
kyivindependent.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
⚡️Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut killed in deadly Russian attack on Sumy.
Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut, was killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy, which killed at least 34 and injured 117 people on April 13.
Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut, was killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy, which killed at least 34 and injured 117 people on April 13.
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📕 Happy to see this presentation of our book published on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia's blog!
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
Time, Objectified: Introducing a New Collected Volume on the Materialization of Soviet Temporalities
In the USSR, there was no such thing as a singular, coherent "Soviet temporality," an assumption of scholarship that foregrounds the unity of...
jordanrussiacenter.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📕 Happy to see this presentation of our book published on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia's blog!
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
📕 Happy to see this presentation of our book published on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia's blog!
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
Time, Objectified: Introducing a New Collected Volume on the Materialization of Soviet Temporalities
In the USSR, there was no such thing as a singular, coherent "Soviet temporality," an assumption of scholarship that foregrounds the unity of...
jordanrussiacenter.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📕 Happy to see this presentation of our book published on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia's blog!
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
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We’re looking for someone to review ‘Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State’. Reviewer will receive a free copy of the book and their review published in the journal.
DM us if you’re interested or email euroreviewhistory@gmail.com
DM us if you’re interested or email euroreviewhistory@gmail.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We’re looking for someone to review ‘Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State’. Reviewer will receive a free copy of the book and their review published in the journal.
DM us if you’re interested or email euroreviewhistory@gmail.com
DM us if you’re interested or email euroreviewhistory@gmail.com
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Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the so-called “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November 2023.
Russia Issues First Prison Sentence for ‘LGBT Extremism’ - The Moscow Times
A court in Siberia handed down Russia’s first-ever prison sentence under the country’s ban on the so-called “international LGBT movement,” the independent news website Mediazona reported Wednesday.
www.themoscowtimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the so-called “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November 2023.
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One year the death of Alexey Navalny, @mlallouet.bsky.social reflects on the crisis at the organisation he created, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, in an op-ed for the @themoscowtimes.com www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/16/t...
The Fall of the House of Navalny? - The Moscow Times
Opinion | In the year since Alexei Navalny’s death, his most important legacy, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), has been rocked by scandal and criticism.
www.themoscowtimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
One year the death of Alexey Navalny, @mlallouet.bsky.social reflects on the crisis at the organisation he created, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, in an op-ed for the @themoscowtimes.com www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/16/t...
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I’m incredibly relieved to share that the Judicial Court of Créteil acquitted me yesterday in the libel suit filed by RT France against both my publisher, INA, and me! 1/9
February 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’m incredibly relieved to share that the Judicial Court of Créteil acquitted me yesterday in the libel suit filed by RT France against both my publisher, INA, and me! 1/9
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Happy and relieved with the acquittal of one of our founding members, @maudinet.bsky.social, sued by Russia Today for libel ⬇️⬇️⬇️
I’m incredibly relieved to share that the Judicial Court of Créteil acquitted me yesterday in the libel suit filed by RT France against both my publisher, INA, and me! 1/9
February 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Happy and relieved with the acquittal of one of our founding members, @maudinet.bsky.social, sued by Russia Today for libel ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Soutien à Benjamin Quénelle, correspondant du Monde à Moscou. Violation flagrante de la liberté de la presse, l'annulation de son accréditation par les autorités russes nous prive d'informations essentielles à notre travail. www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-et-...
A nos lecteurs/Нашим читателям
Le Monde.fr - 1er site d’information sur l’actualité. Retrouvez ici une info de la thématique Le Monde & Vous du 05 février 2025 sur le sujet A nos lecteurs/Нашим читателям
www.lemonde.fr
February 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Soutien à Benjamin Quénelle, correspondant du Monde à Moscou. Violation flagrante de la liberté de la presse, l'annulation de son accréditation par les autorités russes nous prive d'informations essentielles à notre travail. www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-et-...
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Save the date ! @maudinet.bsky.social interviendra @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social : « En quête de "désoccidentalisation" : la stratégie d’influence de la Russie en Afrique subsaharienne ». 11 février 2025 de 14:30 à 17:30
www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...
www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...
Conflits et bouleversements tectoniques en Eurasie
Conférence organisée à l’occasion de la publication de Regards sur l’Eurasie. L'année politique 2024, sous la direction d'Anne de Tinguy, dans la collection « Les Etudes du CERI » (n°277-278)
www.sciencespo.fr
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Save the date ! @maudinet.bsky.social interviendra @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social : « En quête de "désoccidentalisation" : la stratégie d’influence de la Russie en Afrique subsaharienne ». 11 février 2025 de 14:30 à 17:30
www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...
www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...