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Matej Jungwirth

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PhD Candidate in Political Science at Northwestern. All things territorial conflict, forced displacement, collective memory and national identity. “Il vecchio mondo sta morendo. Quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro nascono i mostri.”

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This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

07.03.2026 23:52 👍 5296 🔁 1640 💬 178 📌 38
Call for papers: EUI Workshop on Political Behaviour in Central & Eastern Europe The Department of Political and Social Sciences SPS has launched the call for papers for the workshop on political behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe CEE

Call for Papers 📣

The EUI SPS Department invites submissions for the workshop “Political Behaviour in Central & Eastern Europe.”

Research on elections, public opinion, parties and political participation in the CEE region.

Submit by 30 March 2026
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

#PoliticalScience

04.03.2026 17:11 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
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In the spirit of Olympics, a new discipline, US policy-thlon, or covering the following issues in the span of ~10 minutes for Czech public TV: SCOTUS tariff ruling, US-Iran negotiations, Mar-a-Lago shooting and the “offer” of US hospital ship to Greenland. Truly a spinning wheel of topics there..

23.02.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“We are taking a sign out of the window”

Brilliant speech by Carney and brilliant use of Havel’s Power of the Powerless to outline a bold vision for a new, post-Trumpian world order.

20.01.2026 19:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looking for 1-2 papers (and maybe one more discussant) to put together an #APSA2026 panel proposal on recent methodological developments in surveys/experiments (can go either way). Feel free to reach out!

07.01.2026 20:08 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks for the quick clarification!

08.01.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is this fellowship designed with the US in mind specifically?

08.01.2026 17:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Universität Basel: PhD position: History of Interwar Czechoslovakia (case study Bohemian Lands) The Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a invite applications for a fully funded, four-year (1 plus 3) PhD position in a history project led by Dr. ...

The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!

05.01.2026 14:45 👍 26 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

Sounds like an incredible opportunity to me!

31.12.2025 15:43 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Grateful for the recognition from MAPOR (great and friendly venue to present at, regardless of your rank!) and for the continuing generous support from the @buffett.northwestern.edu

29.11.2025 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent thread on how to read and make sense of the protest visuals from Portland.

13.10.2025 16:55 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

"Precisely because they have been losing court cases over free speech and visas for foreign students, Trumpists now seek to entrap universities in a deal that effectively removes the protections of federal law and gives the administration arbitrary power over them."

07.10.2025 12:54 👍 135 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 6

Hot takes on Czech elections:
1/ the outcomes were driven by voter mobilisation in economic peripheries which are ANO strongholds. Pre-election polls suggested that ANO is able to mobilise their voters from 2017 who abstained in 2021 and also non-voters from 2021.

05.10.2025 12:16 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Had a great time at the highly picturesque campus of the University of Denver where I attended the @bridgingthegap.bsky.social workshop on bridging the worlds of academia and public policy

27.09.2025 21:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@apsa.bsky.social unofficial reception for the yet-to-be recognized Mountain Scrambling section is starting soon atop Mt Harvey! Serving stunning sunrise and local fares.

13.09.2025 14:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Czech TV host: “What should we expect from the Trump-Putin summit”

- “I am worried.”

15.08.2025 17:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you/we have comparative data for post-communist researchers in leading anglophone journals?

10.07.2025 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thoughts on how much of this could be explained by English skills? Seems like the first barrier to any type of publication for non-native speakers and scholars

10.07.2025 10:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lmk if you want some fun cool-off tips!

04.07.2025 12:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, many are way too short still - I think the EU has a minimum threshold of 5 seconds but those can still be short especially on busy intersections around VSE where ISPP is

04.07.2025 12:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You know the green times vary quite a bit intersection by intersection, right? ;)

04.07.2025 12:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As the last photo shows, this is a decidedly Czech institution, inclusive of the heavily subsidized buffet restaurant for employees and visiting researchers :)

03.07.2025 06:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Very happy to begin the archival research stage of my dissertation at the Czech National Archive in Prague! I do still have a lot to learn about the nuts and bolts of archival procedures in CZ :) still excited to begin studying the displacement of Czechoslovak citizens after the 1938 Munich treaty.

03.07.2025 06:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Kiitos paljon, Tuire!

01.07.2025 13:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2/2 …survey data both within and without Ukraine in the context of the ongoing Russian aggression. These types of insights and studies would not be possible without these efforts. I am particularly indebted to the researchers at @sociologicky.bsky.social for excellent and robust survey sample.

30.06.2025 08:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1/2 Delighted to begin my engagement here with this recognition of my research and work. That being said, this research would not be possible without the continuing support of @polisciatnu.bsky.social and @buffett.northwestern.edu for which I am very grateful. Also, kudos to all collecting…

30.06.2025 08:05 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0