NEW EPISODE with journalist and travel writer Mark Baker who talks about his personal journey and epic adventures in Prague during a time of transformation at the end of the Cold War and after. Take a listen! slavxradio.com/prague @earlportion Misha Simanovskyy🕯️🕯️🕯️ Mark Baker 📚☕️🇺🇦🕵️‍♂️

Little-known Czech photographer Premysel Koblic’s wonderfully atmospheric image ‘View of a Village from Above’ ticks all the boxes for me (1930)

Prague Metro station guard. No idea what year this system ended.

The story of Menzel’s 🇨🇿 classic Larks on a String: commissioned in 1968, banned in 1969 — and named Best Film at the Berlinale more than two decades later. #Czechfilm english.radio.cz/1990-winner-19…

Here's a slightly different way to get to know the #CzechRepublic: kafkadesk.org/2019/01/17/rea…

Prague's Náměstí Republiky in 1905. In some ways not that different!

The second panel is about “Experiences of State Socialism in the Perspective of Education” where I’ll be presenting with Vojtěch Ripka and Lani Hartikainen from Socialism Realised, Alžbeta Śnieżko, Václav Sixta and our discussant Johanna Mellis #BASEES2022

Let's take #ValentinesDay2022 as an opportunity to think about how politics might complicate friendship. #MondayMaterial socialismrealised.eu/catalogue/a-de…

A fascinating — if tough — story, and a reminder that "history" isn't always that far away from us. english.radio.cz/czechoslovak-g…

The communist secret police forces from across the #Easternbloc command an extraordinary amount of the public imagination about the period. Here's a deep dive into them: kafkadesk.org/2020/01/15/int…

1/2 Feel welcomed to our Sat 9 am #basees2022 panel The experience of state socialism in the perspective of education. Featuring Socialism Realised, Dr Kelly Hignett 🇺🇦🌻, with prof.Oates-Indruchova as a discussant (thx). Do not shy away due to the timing or the detached CBW location.

Greetings from #basees2022 #BASEESconference! So wonderful to be back at an in-person conference and in such great company (with Dr Kelly Hignett 🇺🇦🌻 on our panel!) Want to meet up? We’re here all weekend!

How to teach about the experience of state socialism? Thanks to the Socialism Realised team for presenting and evaluating concrete teaching tools to increase students’ historical literacy at #basees2022 Check their fascinating website: socialismrealised.eu

If I have to wake up for a 9am panel, at least it’s to present on Socialism Realised with my wonderful colleagues from Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů and to hear Dr Kelly Hignett 🇺🇦🌻 discuss carceral landscapes from an educational perspective! #BASEESconference #basees2022

A pleasure to have an attentive audience with witty questions. Thx #BASEESconference for making it happen this morning at our The Experience of State Socialism in the perspective of Education panel. Great contributions by Dr Kelly Hignett 🇺🇦🌻, Lani Hartikainen, Socialism Realised & alia!

What was it like living in an ethnic minority in #coldwar #Romania? 👇👇👇 coldwarconversations.com/episode230/ Romania News @_EmergingEurope Hungarian Studies Review Socialism Realised Cold War Research Group

Wonderful to see such a good crowd on the last day of #basees2022 for Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů’s own Václav Sixta’s presentation on museums as so-called “memory machines” #BASEESconference