Jazz Years: People, Migration and Music in Amsterdam, 1930-1939 /// In the 1930s, a lively jazz scene flourished in the migrant city of Amsterdam, involving artists from the United States, Suriname and Eastern Europe.

Wanneer weet je dat de periode die je beschrijft de geschiedenis zal veranderen en wanneer weet je zeker dat iets een voetnoot zal blijken te zijn? Na 7,5 jaar stop ik als politiek verslaggever. Lees hier mijn afscheidsstuk: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

CATS Network Roundup's March issue looks at Turkey's political landscape one year after the imprisonment of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, also featuring an interview with @liselhintz.bsky.social conducted by Sinem Bal 👇 www.cats-network.eu/assets/cats/...

Today, Ekrem Imamoglu stands trial on the most Kafkaesque allegation of establishing a " criminal organisation for illicit gain." The most threatening political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allegedly sought, through this purported network, +

My favourite cover The Ramones ever did. Managed to hold themselves in check instead of hell-for-leathering it.

Only one week to go until our workshop History of Digital History between East and West. Download the program and book of abstracts here: zenodo.org/records/1841.... It is also still possible to register, please join us: www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #digitalhistory #dhist #historiography

49 years ago today Leave Home is the second studio album by American punk rock band the Ramones, released on this day in 1977. The title Leave Home refers to the Ramones leaving New York City to go on tour around the world #punk #punkrock #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Spotted in Eskisehir, Turkey

It's out!🍾 I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today" It is Open Access! 👇 You can download it here for free. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Important, rigorous, and devastating report by @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social on RSF atrocities in El Fasher files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/00...

Only a decade ago, History of Humanities did not exist as a recognized field. How has it taken shape and been institutionalized? Join our digital workshop on 5 Dec, 3.00-5:30 p.m. CET, with insights from Mexico to China and from South Africa to Turkey. www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...

"Het is een democratische absurditeit die we ondertussen bijna normaal zijn gaan vinden: een demissionaire regering die nauwelijks een zesde van de Tweede Kamer vertegenwoordigt, maar die wel doorgaat met beslissingen die diep ingrijpen in de toekomst van ons land. [..]" www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Next week (19.11), @finolafinn.bsky.social 's presentation at @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #AI #Archive #DigitalHumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

Released 37 years ago Fugazi, also known as EP 7 Songs, is Fugazi's eponymous debut release, available in record stores in November 1988 with this opening track Waiting Room – live at the Wilson Center 1988 #punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Sudan civil war spiralling out of control, UN secretary general says

The world has collectively refused to hold accountable those who attack hospitals in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza, and now Sudan 👇 Without consequences and accountability, such attacks on sacred sites of healing a s care won’t stop: justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/02/t... #KeepEyesOnSudan #NotATarget

👉 The program for our workshop History of Digital History between East and West is online. 5-6 february 2026 at the @c2dh.uni.lu, remote participation is possible. More information in the link below. #digitalhistory #dhist #digitalhumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

Op 29 oktober verdedig ik mijn proefschrift ‘Caught in a web of silence: composers in Dutch music history 1920-1955 and the impact of World War II’. Bijna 5 jaar deed ik fulltime onderzoek naar componisten die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog vervolgd werden. Meer informatie: tinyurl.com/3r3jt645. 🧵

Er dreigt iets helemaal mis te gaan in het Amsterdamse stadsarchief, zeggen Charles Jeurgens, Fred van Lieburg en ik in Het Parool www.parool.nl/columns-opin...

Do not use a football match to start equating fans of a specific Israeli football team with all Jews, because that is supposed to be what responsible politicians are trying to avoid in condemning Israeli bombing but not associating this with a religion.

Can we hope that when (if?) the war in Gaza in over the world, and especially the West will finally turn their attention to this mass murder. The violence is bankrolled by the West's closest allies/partners, it's not like there is no leverage and it is just a local fight. Or am I just too naive?

46 years ago Members of British ska groups The Selecter, Madness and The Specials on Brighton Beach at the first date of the 2 Tone Tour in October 1979. Photo by Chalkie Davies #punkrock #ska #thespecials #madness #theselecter #history #skahistory

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.