“Jefferson’s life and legacies cannot be fully understood without understanding American chattel slavery, nor can it be understood without understanding the lives of the hundreds of enslaved individuals that lived and labored at Monticello,” ~Andrew Davenport www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.

Five great resources for archives in the thread introduced by the post below. 📜🗃️

The 20th-century globe, as 'colonised by immigrants'.

Judge orders Trump administration to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibit https://aje.news/8nioa5

Der Februar ist Black History Month. Schon gewusst?

The memorial of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple from Berlin-Wedding who distributed anti-Hitler postcards they had written throughout Berlin and were killed by the Nazis in 1943. Hans Fallada made them the main protagonists in his novel “Alone in Berlin”. Postcards can be resistance.

Es ist die rassistische Visumspolitik, die dem ganzen kosmopolitischen Kulturfestivalstrubel Hohn spricht.

The body in the archive ... on heritage, photography, and archaeological labour, including the Palmyra (Tadmur) logs, this by @mideastineurope.bsky.social and Trinidad Rico is v good. 🏺📜🗃️📷📸 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Glyptoteket (Copenhagen) just, four days ago, opened a new gallery showcasing its collection, primarily funerary statuary, from Palmyra. Highly recommended.

Applications are open for our 23rd Summer School on British History and the History of the British Empire! This year's topic will be "City and Empire. Colonial and Postcolonial London". 🏛️ 📅 21-24 July 2026 📍German Historical Institute London ⏰ Apply by 6 March 2026 1/5

Stellungnahme zum Stellenwert der Kolonialgeschichte in der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte 👇 wird gezeichnet u.a. von @hdilger.bsky.social @glasmanjo.bsky.social @noa-k-ha.bsky.social @mrothberg.bsky.social @rjmauk.bsky.social @patrickhege.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @franziscaz.bsky.social

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I signed this open letter from archaeologists, conservation experts, museum curators and other heritage professionals against cultural destruction in Gaza and the West Bank initiated by the incredibly important NGO @emekshavehheb.bsky.social. Please follow and support: emekshaveh.org/en/open-lett...

Reminded of this article again after finding an Italian colonial army payroll today, where ascari acknowledged receipt of payment with their fingerprint

200 years Museum Island in Berlin! 🎂 🎈💥💫 What has changed, or rather, what has to change in the age of repatriation? Delighted to be part of new documentaries by ARTE @artefr.bsky.social & Deutsche Welle @news.dw.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnoz... Tune in on Sunday (ARTE) or use the links below.

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

The road to fascism is paved by German media calling things umstritten...

@taz.de: „Am Samstag wird in Berlin-Mitte das neue Stra­ßen­schild in der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße fei­er­lich enthüllt. Damit enden die jah­re­lan­gen Kämpfe um die Um­be­nen­nung der M-Str. Die Ak­ti­vis­tin­nen Regina Römhild & Adela Taleb vom Amo Kol­lek­tiv blicken zurück.“ www.taz.de/!6105262

Public Events on Memory & Responsibility 🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg 🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...

In case you've been wondering about the moral and intellectual crisis in Holocaust studies, here's exhibit A. It also illustrates why we felt the need to found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: www.ghscn.org/home

Dear colleagues and friends, A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨

L'Allemagne racontée à travers l'île aux Musées de #Berlin. Deux documentaires donnent la parole à des historien.ne.s comme @mideastineurope.bsky.social pour retracer l'histoire souvent tourmentée d'objets iconiques et d'une archéologie européenne aux racines impériales. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

How did Sufis navigate the complex political landscape of late 19th-century Egypt under British occupation? 1/4

#CfA Postgraduate Students and Postdoc #Scholarships 📍 for research projects in #Britain | up to three months beginning from January 2026 | awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social Deadline: 30 September 2025 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

🪧Applications invited from post-doctoral/early career scholars at German universities and research institutions, for a three-month #fellowship 🕔26 September 2025 (23:59 CET) Details👇 karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/f... @ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @icasmp.bsky.social

The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

What does it mean to connect to ‘Country’? Our Sydney Winter School ‘History in the Park. Connecting Histories of Relations to Land’ is coming to an end. A week of discussion on land dispossession (eg park heritagisation, military use or golf courses), from 🇦🇺& Rapa Nui, to South Africa & Palestine.

What does it mean to connect to ‘Country’? Our Sydney Winter School ‘History in the Park. Connecting Histories of Relations to Land’ is coming to an end. A week of discussion on land dispossession (eg park heritagisation, military use or golf courses), from 🇦🇺& Rapa Nui, to South Africa & Palestine.

Why apply for the ICAS:MP Fellowship? • Work in an interdisciplinary environment • Monthly stipend up to €3,500 • Focused writing time • Present your research to the ICAS academic circle & receive expert feedback @ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @unierfurt.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Join us on 24 June at 5:30pm for the next lecture in our GHIL lecture series given by Aparna Vaidik (Ashoka University) on 'Forensics, Expert Testimony, and Judicial Truth in British India: A History of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Trial (1929–31)'. 1/5

Tomorrow if you fancy a late afternoon outing to Greenwich!

Please join us this Thursday in London if you’re around!

Vanished by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social is such an exceptional book. It traces the history of how Western scientists have understood #extinction, and the political and social implications of that thinking, including on colonial fantasies of replacing Indigenous peoples. I can't recommend it enough! 👏

“According to @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social animal extinction should not be treated as a separate historical development from human extermination.” ‼️ Brilliant as expected (& just on time for our Winter School in 🇦🇺 on Settler Colonialism, National Parks & Heritage 😉) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌱🌺🌸🌼🌱 A huge thanks to Penguin for giving me these seeded bookmarks to mark the publication of my book Vanished on Thursday. I’ll give them out at launch events to the first people buying the book, or bringing copies, so that they can grow wildflowers as they read about amazing ways of being. 🌱🌺🌸🌼🌱

Join us on Monday, 19.5., for the sixth lecture in our series in cooperation with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on 'Science, Knowledge and the Legacy of Empire' given by Helen Tilley! www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #histsci #globalhistory #colonialhistory

Today! Join us in person or online.

Im Rahmen der europäischen Veranstaltungsreihe "Facing Nazi Crimes" werden an Orten damaliger Ausstellungen die gesellschaftlichen und historischen Kontexte diskutiert. ▶️ Der Auftakt am @ghilondon.bsky.social heute ab 18.30 Uhr im Livestream www.youtube.com/live/bjweVF5...

Here we are, discussing why solutions to the problems of knowledge are still solutions to the problem of social order. Delighted to contribute as invited speaker to reflect on offsite museum storage, the politics of the archive and the future of the field: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leviathan-...

Today we are launching the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: an alliance of scholars who have come together because our field & institutions are in crisis. To find out more about our group, to read our inaugural collective statements, & to join us, visit: www.ghscn.org/home.

Today in Paris

If you're in Paris, come to Sorbonne to discuss how preservation relates to destruction - this coming Friday.

If you're in Paris, come to Sorbonne to discuss how preservation relates to destruction - this coming Friday.

It’s #MosseWednesday! Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

Just out today on e-international relations, my review of Jade McGlynn's wonderful Memory Makers: www.e-ir.info/2025/03/15/r...

„In den vergangenen Jahren rangierte Deutschland auf einem der vordersten Plätze. Jetzt ist es aus der Spitzengruppe herausgefallen und landet auf Platz 27, hinter Ländern wie Slowenien, Panama, Italien, Spanien und Österreich.“ www.spiegel.de/panorama/bil...

Join us for this special keynote lecture by Rosie Bsheer tomorrow! 👇 #historysky #skystorians