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Very excited to launch the CfP for the 2025 Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress: “TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers” 🚨🚨🚨 Steven Wilson called for a multilingual medical humanities, and we’re answering that call! Abstracts for papers in any language welcome!

Talking about the US-Russia relationship in the 90s and 00s in tomorrow's MA class, which has reminded me that this remains the unbeatable Yeltsin-related headline:

In the beautiful stage of research where every document is exciting and everything feels new. Wish I could bottle the feeling for the banging-head-against-the-desk stage that will inevitably come a little later.

We begin with an article from 2022 by Elena Kochetkova, which explored scientific attempts by the Soviet government to increase the nutritional value of food, and the ensuing controversy around this so-called 'food modernity '. Read here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The program of the CERCEC's institute seminar is now available. If you're in Paris, drop in! If not: if you register on participations.ehess.fr , you will receive the link to the webinar (usually sent on Monday morning). EHESS

Last month, amid an ever more stifling political climate, Doctors Without Borders (MSF International), one of the many non-governmental organisations that have played such an active role in helping Russia overcome some of its gravest challenges, was effectively squeezed out Russia. 🧵

It was a pleasure to interview Ivanna Cherchovych about the digital platform REESOURCES for the rebooted Peripheral Histories? archives series. This platform will be useful for anyone teaching European history and you can learn all about the project here: peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/reesources

Check out my new piece in Good Authority with Grigore Pop-Eleches about Moldova’s 🇲🇩important 2024 elections! 2nd round of prez election is this Sunday. goodauthority.org/news/high-stak…

'Baltic Sexualities' is happening tomorrow and there's still time to register! Link and programme below.

Looking forward to crossing the Pennines to talk about Soviet blood donation later this this week ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/events…

We have a new post for you in our archives series! This week Susan Grunewald spoke to the Blavatnik archive about their collection. Read more here: peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/the-blava…

📣 New Voices is back! Our blog, showcasing new scholarship by PGs and ECRs, returns with a piece from Cesare Vagge, Oxford History, on the life and legacy of the French Planning Commissioner Étienne Hirsch. Read it here: cambridge.org/core/blog/2024…

Very excited to have been translated into Estonian. A short essay I wrote for Deep Baltic a few years ago is now available in 'Kõlvatu Tallinn', a book recently published by the Tallinn City Life Museum apollo.ee/kolvatu-tallin…

Celebrating the publication of this #OpenAccess sourcebook on histories of women’s rights and feminism in socialist Eastern Europe. It is such a valuable resource for teaching! ceupress.com/book/texts-and…

1) Thrilled to announce I’ve signed a new book contract with Oxford Academic. The book explores the practices and ideas of international law in wartime, focusing on actors from the Global South and East.

📢 Now available on FirstView! Siobhán Hearne (Siobhán Hearne) explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War in her new article. Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S17400…