Incredible!!! 4 new ERC Synergy Grants @uni-freiburg.de !!! and one more for the local Fraunhofer #INATECH 5 out of 66 @erc.europa.eu projects !!! uni-freiburg.de/vier-erc-syn...

Here's the preview of the book cover... it's not out yet, but you can now pre-order The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History, 1850-1950

#CfA "Mobility Fellowships - Global Indo-Pacific" to conduct research for 1-2 months at @arinus.bsky.social @dijtokyo.org @ghilondon.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr @ghiwashington.bsky.social or IAAS @humboldtuni.bsky.social Details ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/7...

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

OMG, how amazing can a conference calls for papers be? This looks amazing!

Übermorgen ist es soweit! Alle historisch arbeitenden Menschen in und um Freiburg sind herzlich eingeladen. Wer es nicht schafft, kann sich gerne auch auf der Website (hist4dem.de) und hier @hist4dem.bsky.social über das Netzwerk informieren. #Freiburg #hist4dem #Demokratie #Geschichte

This story is so incredibly upsetting. It will haunt me. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...

We are recruiting again. Come join the Trondheim team of BLOCKADE as a 4 year, fully funded postdoc in Modern Economic History - you'll be working with Prof. Jonas Scherner and in one of the most beautiful university towns in Europe (evidence from last visit below)! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

there's a (very) small party going on here in Freiburg :-)

Congratulations to @klosem.bsky.social, author of “Why They Gave,” and @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social, author of “Selling Weimar,” whose books in our THS book series have been shortlisted for the Richard T. Arndt Prize for Outstanding Work on Cultural Diplomacy! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Love when US soldiers' 'souvenirs' ('loot'?) just turn up randomly eighty years later. Such as this ancient Roman headstone which turned up in a New Orleans' backyard this week www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Die #UniFreiburg bringt #Wissenschaft in die Stadt: Morgen startet die Vortragsreihe „Samstags-Uni“ unter dem Titel: Freiburg en détail – eine Kulturgeschichte in Objekten. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen. Wann: 18.11.2026, um 11:15 Uhr. Wo: HS 1010 (KG I). uni-freiburg.link/samstagsuni

Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social

🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week! 🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.

Starting at 2pm CET: @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social -Conference "The Aftermath. Postwar Times in Modernity and Premodernity: Re-Constructions – Re-Writings – Re-Orderings", if you want to join by uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/6797163684... Meeting-ID: 679 7163 6844 Kenncode: vBMB85iiG 👇

Looking forward to joining @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social and others in Freiburg next week to rethink postwar-isms - in my case through the lens of the post-1944 laws of war. uni-freiburg.de/frias/the-af...

Es geht wieder los! Herzliche Einladung zum Semesterauftakt des Historischen Seminars der @uni-freiburg.de mit einer hochrelevanten Podiumsdiskussion.

Very much looking forward to our conference next week at @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social and to discussing post-war times in the (early) modern period with @doctoressa.bsky.social @claudiussittig.bsky.social @andrekrischer.bsky.social @paulinastarski.bsky.social

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships with the America in the World Consortium! Applicants from all disciplines whose research bears directly on American grand strategy, broadly defined, are welcome to apply. Deadline: December 1

CFA: Moral Alienation and Emotions During Wars and Conflicts https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157736 Gdańsk, 30.09.2025-31.01.2026, Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2026

Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

So delighted to be at the @fwwsoc.bsky.social conference in Thessaloniki on the theme of the sea in the First World War Heather Jones' excellent opening keynote has already convinced me that, alas, I cannot continue to completely ignore all things naval as I have always happily done before 🚢🔱🌊

Finally, applications for our binational Tandem Program, which provides a two-year research fellowship based at our Pacific Office in Berkeley @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social, are due on October 15: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/pac...

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 is out today! Huge congratulations to @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social and the rest of the team at the State Department's Office of the Historian. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

From long study of Franco-American relations I know that whenever they dredge up the Marquis de Lafayette it's a diplomatic crisis

📣Fellowship and grant opportunity! @chuarchives.bsky.social has multiple by-fellowships & research grants currently open for applications✨ 🕰️Different deadlines on 31 October, 31 December & 31 May. 👉More info: archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/resear...

CFP: Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2026 https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157499 Heidelberg, 23.03.2026-27.03.2026, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule. Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is now available in #paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #History #Habsburg

Great opportunity for early-career scholars working on topics related to World War II at the National WWII Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. www.nationalww2museum.org/war/jenny-cr...

Doing a Q & A on the German job market for postdocs/ECRs for @fwwsoc.bsky.social - it starts at 6 pm (Berlin/Paris time) if you are interested www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phdecr-eve...

Wie ich just zufällig durch 1 Anfrage mitbekommen habe, ist die Stellenanzeige für eine WiMi-Stelle bei mir veröffentlicht 🎉 Ich suche eine*n WiMi, Doc oder Postdoc, bis zu 5 Jahre und 100% - #religionswissenschaft, #digitalreligion, #christentümer #islam. Bei Fragen gern melden! Und pls share! 🙏

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wonderful library and lovely small town - 100% recommend applying for this grant!

Fresh from the September Passport issue: We are honored to publish a roundtable on the Cold War International History Project and the many wonderful things it has done! www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...

DEADLINE UPDATE: The Bernath Lecture Prize will now be announced with SHAFR's June prizes. The deadline for the 2026 award (delivering the lecture at #SHAFR2027) is February 1, 2026. #SHAFR #skystorians #diplohistory

The deadline for the CEH Prize is tomorrow⌛ Polish those abstracts and get uploading!

PhD students working on diplomatic history - if you need more language training, apply for the Hogan Fellowship from @shafrhistorians.bsky.social I’m a previous winner & thrilled to be chairing the committee this year! ⬇️ #skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory

My favorite packages to receive in the mail are those with new books written by friends 🙂

Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking for a nice read to get the week started? Try the report that Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Nadja Klopprogge, and I wrote on our conference "Uncertain Boundaries," in which we explored the interplay of material and immaterial borders in international history. #history #borders #internationalrelations

As summer comes to an end, why not try out our most-read paper of 2025 so far. It's OPEN ACCESS, so no subscription necessary... Gettysburg and American history: the Peter J. Parish Memorial Lecture by Adam I. P. Smith www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The BLOCKADE project (blockades.eu) continues recruiting! We are looking for a PhD student at the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) in Trondheim, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Hamburg.

Come join our SINOFANTASY team @uni-freiburg.de ! ERC-funded @erc.europa.eu doctoral position on Chinese fantasy fiction and post-doctoral position on fantasy fiction across the Chinese mediasphere. Details see links below! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

How wonderful is this poster on U.S. food aid to Italy (1947)? My book's cover design is basically taking care of itself ...

If anyone working on blockades or WWI in the Middle East is looking for a good postdoc opportunity, check this out

The Hamburg team (Professor Alan Kramer) of our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant BLOCKADE is looking for a FOUR YEAR PostDoc to work on blockade as 'slow violence' in the Great War-era Middle East. Please share! www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Seit gestern ist unser #LitLIA -Blog online, in dem wir euch in den kommenden Jahren über unsere Forschung zum Verhältnis von Klima und Literatur zwischen dem 16. und 18. Jahrhundert informieren. litlia.hypotheses.org

Du willst Auslandserfahrung sammeln und dir fehlt noch das passende Praktikum? Dann bewirb dich jetzt noch für ein Praktikum an einem unserer Institute! 🌎💻📚 #WeltweitForschen 🔗 Infos zu den aktuellen Fristen gibt es unter gab.hypotheses.org/p...#WeltweitForschen #Auslandspraktikum #Praktikum #MWS