David Smrček

Administory Volume 9 (2024): Issue 1 (December 2024)

It happened! Our Issue 9 - Stress in Public Administration is now OA and available online! reference-global.com/issue/ADHI/9/1

Administration in Habsburg Austria During the Badeni Riots... The riots of 1897 accentuated divides in the society. One of the most visible conflicts erupted between the Habsburg Austrian state administration...

The new volume of Administory. Journal for the History of Public Administration is out! I had the honor of contributing an Open Access article on the strain placed on the Habsburg administration during the riots of 1897.
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The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation This cutting-edge collection of essays analyzes the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a p...

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My "Associations as Protest and Riots Brokers of the Badeni Unrest of 1897" has just been published as a FirstView article in the Austrian History Yearbook! 🎉🎉

Twenty participants of the July 2025 Central European History Convention in Vienna wrote blogs about what they thought about the event: what it gave, what it promises, what it didn’t. Read what they think! (There’s a little intro to the forum by Peter Becker + myself). cehc.hypotheses.org

Sounds and sights of the Great War in Prague - CEU Review of Books In Streetscapes of War and Revolution. Prague, 1914–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the ...

In Streetscapes of War and Revolution (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the First World War in the city of Prague. @davidsmrcek.bsky.social reviews the book.

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V Národním divadle hoří - Novinky Pražští hasiči zasahují v budově Národního divadla. Podle mluvčího hasičů Vojtěcha Sosny hasí požár šatny. Na místě zasahuje větší počet hasičů z celé Prahy. Vyhlášen byl druhý stupeň poplachu.

I appreciate good marketing, but there are better ways to promote the return of Smetana's "Libuše" to the Czech National Theatre's repertoire. 😅

Announcement of the CfP for the Graduate Conference on "Law and Diversity in European History; in the right side is Klimt's painting "Jurisprudence"

The 19th Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) takes place @univie.ac.at, April 7-9, 2025

Topic: Law and Diversity in European History

The CfP is open: graceh2025.univie.ac.at/call-for-pap...

Please apply & share widely!

I am in the last phase of writing my dissertation, and I am just realizing how much more effectively I could have approached some parts of research in the past. Will I learn from this next time? Probably not 🙃

Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching about the Politics of Power and Resistance – AHA There have been few major transitions in political history that have not involved violence. Riots, rebellions, and revolutions all contain (and perhaps even require) elements of political violence.

From #AHAPerspectives in 2011: "There have been few major transitions in political history that have not involved violence," explained Kellie Carter Jackson, offering best practices for educators when teaching political violence in world history. 🗃️

Our two alumni, Anna Adorjàni & Andreas Pfützner were awarded the first Austrian State Award in Historical Studies by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science.
Congratulations!

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It is slowly time to start considering Bluesky as an option