It’s official. If everything goes according to plan, starting in October the book Transnational Communism During the Cold War: The Spanish Communists and their European Networks will be available from @routledgebooks.bsky.social , edited by @MencheAstur, Emanuele Treglia, and myself🙂
and meanings within the transnational pursuit of socialist politics. We welcome contributions that address different periods of state socialism (pre-WWII, post-WWII) and places within the Soviet Union, socialist Eastern Europe, or other parts of the world.
We invite papers that analyze the construction and (re)negotiation of communist/socialist internationalism through cultural institutions (e.g., periodicals, publishers) and practices (e.g., translation, layout design), focusing on the opportunities they created for local agency, forms,
Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!
We are looking for panelists for the 2025 ASEEES convention @aseees.bsky.social:
Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices
We are seeking participants for a panel or series of panels titled “Provincializing Internationalism.”
Our journal Slavic Queer Studies now has been issued an ISSN by the @librarycongress.bsky.social. Another step toward greater visibility for queer studies work in the Slavic field.
Check out our first two issues at sqsjournal.org
Any recommendations for affordable book scanners for home and office use? Our library doesn't have quite the right options that will help me digitize materials for some small-scale data sets...