Victor Petrov
@VictorPPetrov
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Assoc Professor of History, UTK. Academic vices: socialism, the Balkans, computers & the information age, Cold War, development. Added musings on my other ones.
Knoxville, TN; Here & There
Joined April 2016
Obligatory #ASEEES2024 @aseeestudies post of offerings: 1) Learn of spooky goings-on in transition Bulgaria - from Baba Vanga & poltergeists to bio-energies & more. First session Thursday! 2) Friday - presentation & discussion of the excellent new Everyday Postsocialism volume!
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@JohannaMellis @aseeestudies Would totally but we sadly clash timeslots wise. Damn. Looks fascinating
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Assigned Eliade and Cioran in the class week on Eastern Euro fascism. Students concluded they are the most annoying proto-emo boys ever, running on vibes because they don't want to worry about things like policy, and that I should give them their time back.
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Tomorrow! SU377, 3:30pm! Please share widely! @ArtsSciencesUT @UTKEnglish @UTKnoxvilleNews @ResearchUTK @UTKGeography @UTKPhysAstro @UTCCI
This upcoming event—hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences's new Interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, Health, and Society—may be of interest to our followers.
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just arrived in the post: the new 'Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe', put together by the wonderful Jill Massino and Markus Wien. Tons of great essays - on migrants, women, workers, minorities, kids; and on some weird historians, by yours truly.
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@johnpaul_newman They were just thinking of the Second Bulgarian/Vlach-Bulgarian Empire (gotta keep all regional nationalists happy with the terms). Honest mistake.
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I am really, truly happy to announce that 'Balkan Cyberia' has been named the winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, and co-winner of the Marshall Shulman Prize, both awarded by @aseeestudies. Over the moon.
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RT @snackowska: academics will write endlessly about the importance of place, belonging to place, attachments to place, then expect early-c…
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@DimitarBechev @StAntsCollege In 2010 I talked to someone in the library to see if there is anything useful left behind, or they remembered her. They told me that they don't really remember her coming, but a nice young man from the Bulgarian embassy was often there, reading a lot. Hmm.
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@dacretu @juliairwin @jtkoranyi Congratulations!!! Looking forward to getting my paws on it and I just know that the blurbs are richly deserved.
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dealing with an Oxford college for the first time in many years, and was reminded that there is a position of the 'Admiral of the Fleet'....for what amounts to 3 punts and change.
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delighted to share the news that 'Balkan Cyberia' has won the @ComputerHistory Museum book prize, awarded by @SIGCIS for an outstanding book in the history of computing.
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@kalinah I know it is possibly a gauche response but sadly it still holds true in my heart of hearts
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