Johana Kłusek
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Johana Kłusek
@klusek.bsky.social
Historian at the Institute of Ethnology CAS | prev. Charles University and UCL SSEES | Czech Anglophilia amid the tumolt of 1940's | reviewer of Anglo-American fiction for iliteratura.cz
I'm excited to be at #iccees2025 in London! We had a great debate on Eastern European national ideologies with @annaherran.bsky.social, Andreii Kepsha and Jakub Beneš on Monday. Three more days packed up with EE history and politics!
July 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My review of Billy O'Callaghan's Paperman is out. It is called "Love in the time of Anschluss" and reflects on the relation between "big" and "small" history.

www.iliteratura.cz/clanek/47395...
February 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An English "breakfast" on Regio Jet to Brno. Call me fanatic, but it was actually tasty! 🇬🇧
January 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"Mickiewicz began to address his friends in English; 'Dear John' in a letter to Czeczot, 'dear Edward' in a letter to Odyniec. Occasionally, he inserts an English word, for instance 'grief' or 'goddamn the congress of Bolimof' in his later letters."
January 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Mazzini, my soulmate: “I think very often under these radiant skies of the London fogs and always regretfully. Individually speaking, I was evidently intended for an Englishman.” 1849, while drafting the constitution of the Roman Republic (obviously in Rome)
January 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
From the London Journal of socialist Flora Tristan: "Since I came to know the English proletariat, I no longer regard slavery as the greatest human misfortune."

Beautiful. Almost as much as my copy of the book published in 1953 in socialist Czechoslovakia.
January 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A new review of mine is out!

The book "Intertwining Worlds. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Cold War Era" deserves attention of everyone researching transnational history, Cold War East-West links and film studies.
January 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM