The second History of Knowledge Conference has come to an end. Over three intense days in Lund, around a hundred researchers have explored the history of knowledge from various perspectives. It has been a real pleasure to host this conference and organise it with my wonderful colleagues at LUCK.

Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

@gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social and I are looking for a good wiki hosting partner. Any tips? #wiki #academicbsky #mediawiki

Open call for PhD candidates, Post-Docs and Senior Researchers We offer 3 fellowships for visiting researchers in 2026 Seize the opportunity and apply before 15.10.2025 www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

This by Alex de Waal is incisive as usual: Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The EU deserves a credible antisemitism coordinator. After von Schnurbein's deeply troubling statements - framing bake sales as antisemitic and suggesting that Hamas is behind mass protests across Europe - she lost all credibility. We call for her immediate replacement 👇

An important read that includes some very pertinent observations on the abuse of antisemitism accusations in relation to Gaza, moral selectivity, and the future of Holocaust studies and genocide scholarship.

Lees dit stuk: Cultureel musicoloog Barbara Titus is twee weken in Indonesië voor het restitutieproject ‘Stemmen die naar huis terugkeren’: ze brengt oude geluidsopnames van lokale zang, die in Amsterdam lagen opgeslagen, terug naar het dorp waar ze zijn opgenomen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The term “scientific asylum” is gross. None of these people are individually targeted and most can continue to work in more luxury than most colleagues in Europe. I understand their desire to leave — I want to leave too — but I really wish this topic was addressed more critically by the media.

Pro-Israëlische lobbyisten worden in de Tweede Kamer warm onthaald, terwijl VN-functionarissen worden geweigerd. Israël heeft zowel zichtbaar als onzichtbaar invloed op Tweede Kamerleden. De AIVD benoemt Israëls heimelijke invloed niet. buff.ly/rww1K1r

Cultuurvernietiging als oorlogsdoel in Gaza, Oekraïne en elders: de identiteit van een volk uitwissen, en dan het volk zelf www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Workshop History of Digital History between East and West (5-6 February 2026) 📣❗ Extended deadline for abstracts: 27 June #digitalhistory #dhist #digitalhumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

So much to say about this topic, but perhaps a good framework to reference here: LLMs ultimately intensify global inequalities already established by existing infrastructures, be it archives, platforms or otherwise. See this article by @gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/dsh/article/...

Executive Director Alex de Waal recently sat with @niodamsterdam.bsky.social to discuss how #hunger can be used as a political-military instrument of #power —from the Dutch Hunger Winter of WWII to Sudan, Yemen, Ukraine, and Gaza today. Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/581t...

Zeer lezenswaardig interview met Uğur Umit Ungör vandaag in de Volkskrant:

Erg goed stuk waarin definitiekwesties helder worden uitgelegd en gecontextualiseerd, inclusief de vraag naar de neveneffecten van een fixatie op het begrip genocide. Aanrader.

1) The PKK leadership has announced the organisation’s disarmament&dissolution. A couple of points stand out from the statement: i) Criticism of the Lausanne Treaty that marks the foundation of the Republic of Turkey&the 1924 Constitution as the landmarks of denying Kurdish existence as a people

👉 reminder for our call for papers: Workshop History of #DigitalHistory between East and West - 5-6 February 2026 @c2dh.uni.lu - Deadline for abstracts: 29 May #dhist #digitalhumanities @hdsmtudarmstadt.bsky.social @juliannenyhan.bsky.social @cinehisto.bsky.social

Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu, Two Pale Boys.. RIP David Thomas and thank you for the music We need the means to dig deeper To search below the surface appearance of things Worlds never dreamed of! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbH_...

Excellent background piece by Alex de Waal that puts the current man made starvation events in Sudan and Gaza in historical perspective (Ukraine, Cambodia, Ethiopia among others), and discusses the politics of famine/starvation wrt the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification initiative (IPC):

Join the @uni.lu and the @c2dh.uni.lu for your Master in Digital and Public History. Applications for non-European students will close April 30. www.uni.lu/fhse-en/stud... #PublicHistory #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #Master Short video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgXb...

“This is probably the first time Americans are witnessing deletion weaponized on a large scale as a political tool,” write the professor Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and the librarian Richard Ovenden. “Now we must focus on the public’s right to remember.”

Many thanks to @maximb.bsky.social and @verfassungsblog.de for this interview on the resumed and intensifying starvation of Palestinians in Gaza: verfassungsblog.de/those-with-t... Also available in German: verfassungsblog.de/die-mit-den-...

The Israeli Embassy in Berlin had philosopher Omri Boehm cancelled for (allegedly) comparing the Holocaust to the Nakba--and for his "universal values." A new low in the ongoing transformations of Holocaust memory.

Evergreen reminder that academic acumen is no indication of any other kind of acumen. I've known academics whose scientific prowess left everyone in the dust - people I looked up to as a junior researcher - who were also staunch climate change deniers. Rationality doesn't always travel.

1/ Misschien een leuk extra draadje, over ELIZA. ELIZA is een vroeg vb van een AI-chatbot, uit de jaren 1960. De maker, Joseph Weizenbaum, gaf de bot vorm als rudimentaire psychotherapeut. Als gebruiker kan je dan vragen aan ELIZA stellen. ELIZA staat online: psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/ps...

If anyone wishes to discuss Holocaust relativisation in the context of the Omri Boehm affair, it should focus on the overt (and deeply problematic) instrumentalisation of Holocaust memory for political purposes by his detractors

Omer Bartov: ‘Infinite License: The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.’ www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

It's incredible how much respect this man was afforded for so long.

NIEUWS -- Prominente oud-ministers Van Aartsen, Bot, Brinkhorst en Pronk roepen premier Schoof en minister Veldkamp op tot hardere veroordeling Israël. www.trouw.nl/cs-b01b3c12/

The International Court of Justice must order Israel to halt its current offensive in Gaza, restore humanitarian access to Feb. 2025 levels, and not displace civilians from their land. The situation has changed and the Court must act. My latest with Jasmin Nessa @justsecurity.org

Reflections on the events of the last two days in Turkey: 1) The arrest of Imamoglu (alongside 105 others) has created a societal backlash across TR, including in Anatolian cities. At the forefront are university students. Not surprising given the ever-disappearing perspective for the future.

It is the ever-disappearing perspective for a future that motivates university students in Turkey to take to the streets. Something to seriously take into account in discussions about how the EU should deal with Turkey.

Studying Digital and Public History? Join our Master at @uni.lu under the international expertise of the @c2dh.uni.lu www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgXb... #Master #PublicHistory #DigitalHumanities

In memory of Grant Vernon Hart, American musician, drummer and co-songwriter for the alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü, singer and guitarist of Nova Mob, born on this day in 1961, St. Paul, Minnesota #punk #punkrock #granthart #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Rewriting history online, US version👇 #digitalhistory

The 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History celebrates the best of digital history internationally. You have until 30 May to nominate your work or work you love. Please consider doing so. ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

⭐ out now our call for papers: Workshop History of Digital History between East and West - 5-6 February 2026 @c2dh.uni.lu - Deadline for abstracts: 29 May #digitalhistory #dhist #digitalhumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

The catastrophic impact of starvation crimes in Sudan.

Before people get too drawn into this, there is a significant jurisdictional obstacle here for #Sudan: #UAE made a reservation to Article IX when acceding to the #GenocideConvention. In other words, the UAE does *not* consent to #ICJ jurisdiction over Genocide Convention disputes.

🔊 The @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar *is back in London* on Tuesday 11 March at 17:30 UK-time welcoming @julialilinoe.bsky.social to discuss "Syon Abbey and Women’s Reading and Community as a Model for Bibliographic Network Analysis". Do join us! ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...

Terrific talk today by @toddpresner.bsky.social to a packed room at UC Santa Barbara about his book, Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory (press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...).

The ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu was issued amongst others for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare. Last time the Netanyahu government disputed the amount of aid it allowed into Gaza. That does not seem to be the case now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A ‘data paper’ is a wonderful way to stimulate both archival accountability and (digital) source criticism. Happy to have contributed to Carlijn Keijzer’s ‘Dutch War Letters to Digital Data’: doi.org/10.5334/johd... @niodamsterdam.bsky.social

Deze beta laat mooi zien hoe het 'zoeken' (nu als Linked Open Data) een heilloze weg is voor historisch onderzoek. Linkjes tussen dingen zeggen niks. Als je wat wil moet je modelmatig te werk gaan, (analoog) met inventarissen of een index, of (computationeel) met kwantitatief onderzoek in datasets.

Join us in #Luxembourg to study Digital and Public History. Applications to our Master at @uni.lu and @c2dh.uni.lu are open (deadline April 30 for non E-U, and July for E-U students) www.uni.lu/fhse-en/stud... #PublicHistory #DigitalHistory #History #graduate

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the annual prize that celebrates the best of digital history. Submit your work or work you love published since January 2024. Deadline for submissions is 30 May. ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

Worst. Episode. EVER.

23 years ago today 'Don't Worry About Me' is the first album released by Joey Ramone as a solo artist, released posthumously on this day in 2002, less than a year after his death. #punk #punkrock #punklegend #joeyramone #dontworryaboutme #history #punkrockhistory #otd

What happens when two comics artists ‘meet on the page’ to explore the tragedies of the Israel-Gaza war? Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, and Joe Sacco, author of bestselling graphic reportage Palestine, grapple with the ongoing crisis