Václav Algirdas Zheng
vaclavzheng.bsky.social
Václav Algirdas Zheng
@vaclavzheng.bsky.social
History PhD + Postdoc @Johns Hopkins | Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Czech and Polish Renaissance, Utopia, History of the Future, Body and Medicine, Historical Theory and Historiography| On the Job Market
One week from now! East-Central Europeanists and poloniści/historycy polscy, join us for our exciting panel "300 Years Ago: History and Memory of Premodern Poland" on Thursday afternoon! This is going to be an annual conference filled with "memory." #ASEEES25 @aseees.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Long journey and new chapter. On my way to becoming a real scholar. PhD in Early Modern European history. Viva passed with no corrections.
September 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Reposted by Václav Algirdas Zheng
Basta!
August 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This is truly exciting and well worth watching! A filmed conversation with Oxford historian John Elliott (or J. H. Elliott) (1930-2022) was just made public, in high resolution and with subtitles. Prof. Elliott is supposedly my academic great-grandfather.

open.substack.com/pub/ideasroa...
August 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop (2000 ➡️ 2025). Čisté blaho~
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#RenSA25 An exciting roundtable on the historiography of philosophy in the Renaissance and beyond. Honored to present with renowned intellectual historians: Christopher Celenza, Ada Palmer, Denis Robichaud, Thomas Leinkauf, and Wiebke Denecke. Join us on Thursday!

rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...
March 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Two weeks from now, MIT Global Humanities will hold this exciting event on the Renaissance question & critical issues in the humanities--- periodization, humanism, the Global South, and "future directions"! Please attend if you are there, or zoom!

comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/mit-ghi-pane...
March 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Glad to join the exclusive evening tour at the Icon Museum in Clinton, MA during the ASEEES conference. Looking at iconography from as early as 16th-Century Russia and the Eastern Church. Small but absolutely gorgeous. The only one in North America. All should go. #ASEEES24
November 26, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Yugonostalgia? Jagiellone!#ASEEES24
November 22, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Drop by Saturday afternoon, dear Slavicists & East Central Europeanists & Early Modernists & Cultural Historians & Bohemists & Polonists & Ukrainists! #ASEEES24
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM