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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 10h

The cover of the new Pynchon novel out this week depicts a famed street in central Budapest. Trump announces today that he wants to meet Putin in Budapest & solve all outstanding issues. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 4d

“I used to think that the day would never come”

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent discussion www.oeaw.ac.at/news/ungarns...

Ungarns illiberale Demokratie: Wenn die Verfassung zum Machtinstrument wird

In Ungarn sichert die Verfassung nicht Minderheiten, sondern die Regierungsmacht. Wie gefährlich ist dieser Wandel – und welche Lehren lassen sich daraus für Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit ziehen?

www.oeaw.ac.at

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d

Why have critical voices on Russia been suppressed in Germany for so long? Here comes a substantial answer: www.ullstein.de/werke/das-ve...

Das Versagen - Hardcover

Bestellen Sie Das Versagen als Hardcover jetzt günstig im ULLSTEIN Online-Shop! ✓ Sichere Zahlung ✓ Gratis-Versand ab 9,00 Euro ✓ Vorbestellen möglich

www.ullstein.de

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d

@stefanobottoni.bsky.social ’s bio of Orban is that rare feat: an immediate classic of contemporary history writing which is not at the same time boring - now available in a revised German edition hang.hu/webshop/stef... (My review of the Italian original visegradinsight.eu/hungary-tran...)

Transnational Champion of Restoration

Viktor Orbán’s political career and a multi-layered depiction of the foundations and trajectory of the regime he has come to build in Hungary since 2010.

visegradinsight.eu

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d

The ‘most global’ of Hungarian writers was awarded the Nobel yesterday. Just today, we agreed on the contract to have A Global History of Hungary published in English in 2027. Pure coincidence? Seemingly so :)

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d

Join us to work with people in an amazing project & with an amazing advisor!

Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 7d

My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring two PhDs! One will look at women from Italy, and the other, women from Turkey.

Please distribute through your networks! Deadline to apply is November 30.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Two PhDs in the History of Migrant Women's Labour in Postwar Europe

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 7d

What a way to pick a family name too

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 7d

My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring two PhDs! One will look at women from Italy, and the other, women from Turkey.

Please distribute through your networks! Deadline to apply is November 30.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Two PhDs in the History of Migrant Women's Labour in Postwar Europe

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 7d

Let me just say that I used to show and translate Sátántangó once a year while in grad school & by coincidence, I sat with him once on a Deutsche Bahn train leaving Berlin

If there ever was a Nobel recipient I felt closer to, I just cannot remember

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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 7d

"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 8d

Unser Buch "Zerstörungslust" (ET 13.10.) ist auf der Longlist für das Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres und es ist in bester Gesellschaft! Grosse Freude bei @onachtwey.bsky.social & mir!