Carna Brkovic

📣 New article online!

'Blood Knows No Borders: Blood Donation and Transfusion Systems in Yugoslavia', by Ivan Simic | @ivansimic.bsky.social

📖 Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Meanwhile, meta analyses of generations of anthropological research on hunter-gatherer societies show that Darwin was deeply wrong in his conclusions about sex and gender. Showing clear and consistent evidence of women in prominent hunting roles.

stories.spu.edu/articles/pro...

Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency From the Right New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the public sector can match or even surpass the private sector in excellence. It’s high time the Left reclaimed the value of “efficienc...

Yes to democratic socialist excellence: “For too long, we have turned to the private sector for greatness, while accepting mediocrity from those who serve the public”...
This focus on “democratic excellence” marks a significant innovation for the Left jacobin.com/2026/02/zohr...

Rest in power, Henrike Naumann

Now I want to know more about how you decided to study ex-YU

Rest in power, Henrike Naumann

Call for Applications at the Estonian National Museum: International Residency Researching the Photo Archive and Producing an Exhibition

Submit your application no later than 28 February 2026: www.erm.ee/residency#EN

Justice in the Balance | Stanford University Press Established as a post-World War II response to conflict and fascism, the European Court of Human Rights is routinely characterized as the most successful human rights institution in the world. Based i...

"Justice in the Balance" is a fantastic book by one of the few people who see law and legal instititions as a potential tool for progressive social change. Jessica Greenberg also visited KAEE Mainz to talk about her book 💫
www.sup.org/books/anthro...

So I wrote something about ethnicity and gender, and the feeling of being "Other" in both. Thanks so much to @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social for publishing it, hope people find it an interesting read!

Save the date! Feb 24th, Global Initiatives Grant webinar.

Register for 10 AM: buff.ly/SVMb2N8

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Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal focusing on European cultures & societies, past & present. We're always looking for contributions that are rooted in theoretical & methodological frameworks from ethnology, cultural anthropology or folklore studies.

A very special opportunity today to talk about teaching and to discuss SIEF's initiative to develop transnational syllabi of European ethnology / empirical cultural studies. It feels a bit like going home @ KAEE Göttingen and online 🙏

Join us if in Halle
Grateful to Asta Vonderau for the invitation 🙏

Chiara Bonfiglioli wrote a nice essay about this film

"Mit großer Sorge verfolgen wir die Aktionen, die seit dem Ende des Sommersemesters unter anderem mit einer Internetpetition, Demonstrationen und Boykottaufrufen versuchen, den Entzug der Lehrbefugnis von Prof. Eckert zu erwirken. Dies widerspricht dem Prinzip, dass für ihn ebenso wie für jeden anderen Beschuldigten im Rechtsstaat die Unschuldsvermutung zu gelten hat, sofern und solange kein gegenteiliges Urteil ergangen ist."

Jetzt publiziert Leonid Schneider einen Brief, den 44 Lehrstuhlinhaber unterschrieben. Darin steht u.a.
Ich bin ehrlich gesagt fassungslos, dass diese Kolleg*innen sich Gedanken machen über faires Procedure für diesen Professor, aber nicht für seine Opfer.

New AI-Generated Content Derived from Your Work Posted on Academia.Edu “By making any Member Content available through the Site or Services, you hereby grant to Academia.edu a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-...

"Our AI has turned your book chapter on pleromatic forms in gnostic cosmogony into a cute cat video."

Programm der Ringvorlesung Medien der Solidarität an der JGU Mainz

Join us in Mainz for a lecture series Media of Solidarity/Medien der Solidarität. Today: Alexandra Schneider on "Cinemas of Proximity". On 11 Feb I will chat about my book Realigning Humanitarianism and how to think about past progress. Organized by film studies & media dramaturgy at our institute 💫

Programm der Ringvorlesung Medien der Solidarität an der JGU Mainz

Join us in Mainz for a lecture series Media of Solidarity/Medien der Solidarität. Today: Alexandra Schneider on "Cinemas of Proximity". On 11 Feb I will chat about my book Realigning Humanitarianism and how to think about past progress. Organized by film studies & media dramaturgy at our institute 💫

Jadni Madjari nemaju more 😄

Cairo has strong Blade Runner vibes
youtu.be/RScZrvTebeA?...

(PDF) Urban Governance and Battling the “Evil of Contagion”. Measures Against the 1738–1739 Plague in Sibiu/Hermannstadt PDF | On Dec 16, 2025, Oana Sorescu-Iudean published Urban Governance and Battling the “Evil of Contagion”. Measures Against the 1738–1739 Plague in Sibiu/Hermannstadt | Find, read and cite all the re...

One further piece in the plague-puzzle I’ve been inadvertently building, showing how #18thC #plague policy implementation was negotiated to the tiniest detail when it came to the circulation of cows, but apparently less important when it came to people. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting

🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology

If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/

‘Performing Queer Nations: the Eurovision Song Contest Since 1990’ is coming in 2027 In 1990, Toto Cutugno won the Eurovision Song Contest celebrating a future Europe integrated under the same sky, stars and ideals from the stage of a Zagreb that hoped for democracy. In 1997, Icela…

Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...

The history and memory behind where we now are.

Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.

Thank you! Look forward to catching up in Poznan! ❤️

More about the project: carnabrkovic.net/racial-socia...

I can't wait to dive into the historical anthropology of Yugoslav, Bulgarian, and East German Red Cross societies in an attempt to engage with the puzzle of racialization beyond capitalism. presse.uni-mainz.de/erc-consolid... @unimainz.bsky.social

Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.

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✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles.

📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...