Lediona S.
@lediona.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in history at the University of Michigan; I study migration, population exchanges, the Balkans, and the post-Ottoman world.
I am excited and humbled to announce I will be joining the School for Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London (UCL) as the Alexander Nash Fellow in Albanian Studies in September! 🎉🎉
August 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I am excited and humbled to announce I will be joining the School for Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London (UCL) as the Alexander Nash Fellow in Albanian Studies in September! 🎉🎉
Today I visited my alma mater to speak to the newest Mellon Mays fellows about graduate school. Such a wonderful pleasure to talk to young researchers and to be back at CCNY! Special thank you to Prof. Isabel Estrada for the invitation!
July 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Today I visited my alma mater to speak to the newest Mellon Mays fellows about graduate school. Such a wonderful pleasure to talk to young researchers and to be back at CCNY! Special thank you to Prof. Isabel Estrada for the invitation!
I had such a wonderful experience learning about refugee history from such a group of scholars that covered a range of time periods and geographies! Truly a pleasure!
This week our Pacific Office hosted a seminar organized with the University of Tübingen, welcoming researchers from 11 different countries. Our program included a fantastic tour of the murals in San Francisco’s Mission District-- thanks so much to Renée Berger from @sfcityguides.bsky.social!
July 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I had such a wonderful experience learning about refugee history from such a group of scholars that covered a range of time periods and geographies! Truly a pleasure!
Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation! I am eternally grateful for those who came on this long and difficult journey. A special thank you to my committee: Dr. Pamela Ballinger, Dr. Rita Chin, Dr. Hakem Al-Rustom, Dr. Devi Mays, and Dr. @leylaamzi.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation! I am eternally grateful for those who came on this long and difficult journey. A special thank you to my committee: Dr. Pamela Ballinger, Dr. Rita Chin, Dr. Hakem Al-Rustom, Dr. Devi Mays, and Dr. @leylaamzi.bsky.social
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In this "new books out now" interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social I describe a little bit of how UNMENTIONABLES came to be a book, and why Arab labor histories are so crucial in our moment of rising repression of immigrants and the left.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4664...
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4664...
Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (New Texts Out Now)
Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachuset...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In this "new books out now" interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social I describe a little bit of how UNMENTIONABLES came to be a book, and why Arab labor histories are so crucial in our moment of rising repression of immigrants and the left.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4664...
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4664...
Submitted my dissertation to my committee a few minutes ago. Now I can go take a nap--which will probably be about a week long nap, before I can start preparing for my defense. This moment feels unreal.
April 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Submitted my dissertation to my committee a few minutes ago. Now I can go take a nap--which will probably be about a week long nap, before I can start preparing for my defense. This moment feels unreal.
Thank you to everyone for a well attended event! I learned so much from my colleagues--and now have so many new questions to reconsider and read up on!
Today at 3pm EST with @lediona.bsky.social @harunb.bsky.social @ademferizaj.bsky.social Piro Rexhepi
Dženita Karić
#Bosnian #Albanian Studies 🔥🔥🔥
#Balkansky 🗃️
Dženita Karić
#Bosnian #Albanian Studies 🔥🔥🔥
#Balkansky 🗃️
March 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Thank you to everyone for a well attended event! I learned so much from my colleagues--and now have so many new questions to reconsider and read up on!
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If you are an academic wanting to support academics under attack in Serbia, this is the place to sign.
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March 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If you are an academic wanting to support academics under attack in Serbia, this is the place to sign.
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Eating is DEI now.
BREAKING | Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families
Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks
Nonprofits first reported the freeze Tuesday
www.independent.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Eating is DEI now.
I’m so glad I occasionally check my junk mail because it looks like I don’t really need US academia, you all really need me right now—I’m rich! 🥹🥹
March 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I’m so glad I occasionally check my junk mail because it looks like I don’t really need US academia, you all really need me right now—I’m rich! 🥹🥹
I am convinced that parents who don't vaccinate their children, and allow them to die, should be charged with murder.
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I am convinced that parents who don't vaccinate their children, and allow them to die, should be charged with murder.
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Anyone who is working on a book about SE Euro is welcome to get in touch about publishing in our series. The first round of books is coming out and it looks like writers (especially new writers!) will be in good company.
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Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Series
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March 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Anyone who is working on a book about SE Euro is welcome to get in touch about publishing in our series. The first round of books is coming out and it looks like writers (especially new writers!) will be in good company.
ceupress.com/series/criti...
ceupress.com/series/criti...
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Given that today is Teacher’s Day in Albania, my mom bought me Lilies in a beautiful flower pot. After 3 rejections today, I’m grateful for the support system I have all around. Now I will try to keep them alive!
March 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Given that today is Teacher’s Day in Albania, my mom bought me Lilies in a beautiful flower pot. After 3 rejections today, I’m grateful for the support system I have all around. Now I will try to keep them alive!
60 pages later and I think finally figured out the narrative and crux of this whole citizenship chapter. 🥳
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
60 pages later and I think finally figured out the narrative and crux of this whole citizenship chapter. 🥳
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I will be in Paris in March, at the @ehess.fr. I am looking forward to my stay and hope to meet many colleagues, especially those I have never met in person and only know from social media. Let me know if you are in the area and want to meet.
#ProfesseurInvité
Rok Stergar (Université de Ljubjana) est accueilli au CETOBaC du 2 au 29 mars 2025 par Catherine Horel (CETOBaC) dans le cadre du programme Professeurs invités de l' @ehess.fr. À ce titre, il donnera quatre conférences.
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Rok Stergar (Université de Ljubjana) est accueilli au CETOBaC du 2 au 29 mars 2025 par Catherine Horel (CETOBaC) dans le cadre du programme Professeurs invités de l' @ehess.fr. À ce titre, il donnera quatre conférences.
👉 cetobac.ehess.fr/professeur-i...
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I will be in Paris in March, at the @ehess.fr. I am looking forward to my stay and hope to meet many colleagues, especially those I have never met in person and only know from social media. Let me know if you are in the area and want to meet.
The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan launched a new program, Scholars in Exile, in collaboration with Academy in Exile at TU Dortmund University, Germany. Please spread to your networks.
New Program Supports Scholars in Exile | U-M LSA Institute for the Humanities
“In partnering with Academy in Exile, the Institute for the Humanities affirms its commitment to academic freedom, excellence in research, and global justice."
lsa.umich.edu
February 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan launched a new program, Scholars in Exile, in collaboration with Academy in Exile at TU Dortmund University, Germany. Please spread to your networks.
In 1921, Gjon Marka Gjoni led the largest rebellion against the Albanian state. He intended to create his own independent Republic of Mirdita. What caused the rebellion? After the Congress of Lushnje, Tirana worked on securing its borders and centralizing the state. In turn, Tirana closed its border
February 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In 1921, Gjon Marka Gjoni led the largest rebellion against the Albanian state. He intended to create his own independent Republic of Mirdita. What caused the rebellion? After the Congress of Lushnje, Tirana worked on securing its borders and centralizing the state. In turn, Tirana closed its border
With Vetevendosje's majority win today in Kosova, Its fascinating how Albanians/Kosovars continue to vote for left-leaning leaders and parties in the region, but in the United States, a huge proportion of the population continues to support & vote for far-right MAGA.
February 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
With Vetevendosje's majority win today in Kosova, Its fascinating how Albanians/Kosovars continue to vote for left-leaning leaders and parties in the region, but in the United States, a huge proportion of the population continues to support & vote for far-right MAGA.
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In “The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century” (University of Cambridge Press, 2024), Zozan Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies.
Podcast 👇
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Podcast 👇
newbooksnetwork.com/the-politica...
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century - New Books Network
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January 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In “The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century” (University of Cambridge Press, 2024), Zozan Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies.
Podcast 👇
newbooksnetwork.com/the-politica...
Podcast 👇
newbooksnetwork.com/the-politica...
I just heard Edi Rama something along the lines of “Italians are like Albanians, except they wear Versace.”
January 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I just heard Edi Rama something along the lines of “Italians are like Albanians, except they wear Versace.”
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I published an op-ed in @sacramentobee.bsky.social on the poor prospects for refugee admissions during the second Trump presidency and the souring attitudes towards refugees in Europe — amid the world’s record numbers of displaced people. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
The United States and the world’s wealthiest countries have turned their backs on refugees | Opinion
“Policies restricting the right to asylum pander to the far right and violate domestic and international laws.”
www.sacbee.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I published an op-ed in @sacramentobee.bsky.social on the poor prospects for refugee admissions during the second Trump presidency and the souring attitudes towards refugees in Europe — amid the world’s record numbers of displaced people. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...