Anna Parker

I spoke to three psychoanalysts about the artworks and objects they chose for their consulting rooms, @aeon.co

What’s the meaning of the objects an analyst puts on display? | Aeon Essays The consulting office reflects the personality of the therapist, while also subtly shaping the experience of their patients

‘The artworks in a consulting room shouldn’t matter. Psychoanalysis is the talking cure: its medium is language … But the space in which the conversation happens is important.’

How does the office of a therapist subtly shape the experience of the patient? @annaporker.bsky.social

What’s the meaning of the objects an analyst puts on display? | Aeon Essays The consulting office reflects the personality of the therapist, while also subtly shaping the experience of their patients

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I spoke to three psychoanalysts about the artworks and objects they chose for their consulting rooms, @aeon.co

Past & Present Fellowships Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open

Applications close on 31st Jan 2025

Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months

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And I wrote a feature about Renaissance Prague as a place empires converged, cultures mixed, and art and science collided in this month’s @historytoday.com, which they made look characteristically beautiful

It’s a collaboration between the University of Kent, Czech Academy of Sciences and Prague City Tourism and can be accessed here (config for mobile): www.renaissanceprague.co.uk

Earlier this week we launched Renaissance Prague Stories, a walking-tour app following the lives of 8 astronomers, merchants, alchemists, diplomats & poets, connecting their stories to the historic city

In search of Mitteleuropa's lost nobility The fate of the Austro-Hungarian nobility after the fall of the Habsburg Empire raises interesting questions about what ‘old’ elites should do when politics changes.

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In search of Mitteleuropa's lost nobility The fate of the Austro-Hungarian nobility after the fall of the Habsburg Empire raises interesting questions about what ‘old’ elites should do when politics changes.

engelsbergideas.com/reviews/in-s...

I reviewed Pauline Terreehorst’s Secrets of a Suitcase—an account of the ‘lost world’ of the 20th-century Silesian countess Margrit Szapáry—for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

I have a short review of Claire Morelon’s atmospheric Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914-1920 in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

over the moon to have been awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for my forthcoming book - alongside such a brilliant group of writers. You can read more about it here: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...

What the Germans Left Behind | Anna Parker | Granta ‘My Czech family’s house stands on a geopolitical rift: it occupies a place the political storms sweep through, uprooting everything that is settled.’

Bringing the best thing I wrote this year – about my Czech family & the haunted history of the Sudetenland – over to Bluesky: granta.com/what-the-ger...