The legislation establishes the First Peoples’ Assembly as a permanent representative body to advise the government, under a new statutory corporation called Gellung Warl. Gellung Warl means ‘tip of the spear’ or ‘pointed spear’ in Gunaikurnai language. 📜 🗃️ firstpeoplesvic.org/treaty/treat...

The Australian state of Victoria has taken a historic step towards reconciliation, passing the nation’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners. 📜 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Die Rückgabe nach Namibia war "eine bequeme Möglichkeit für die Stadt und den Senat, diese Sammlung endlich loszuwerden." Zum Ende des Bremer Afrika Archivs berichtet heute der Weser-Kurier. www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/breme...

Freie Marktwirtschaft 2025 Handel mit Schädeln aus der Kolonialzeit: Bundesregierung will aktuell kein Verbot www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/hand...

It sits alongside another PhD scholarship just advertised by ACU, to be supervised by our colleague on the project, Kristie Flannery. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

🗃️ found this in my pigeonhole today! a wonderful book written by an extremely smart and intellectually engaging academic, who contacted me a few years back out of the blue to talk about cannibalism..., congratulations, Jasmin Köhler! 🎓

Sheer vandalism. Aotearoa / NZ showing its determination to institutionally forget its history. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hi #skystoriens, 🗃️ hier ein Veranstaltungshinweis :-)

🗃️history #skystorians #decolonize A quick shout out and big thank to all the amazing people who made this wonderful workshop possible: collectingoz.hypotheses.org/800

The last few weeks have been very busy, here is one of the reasons why: www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/museum/me... - more to follow :-) #skystorians #history🗃️

🗃️ Yesterday we held the dress rehearsal for our newly developed city tour on "Postcolonial Trier". 3 hours reporting on the colonial entanglements of Trier's city history at a total of 7 locations. Now the questionnaires are being evaluated and improvements made. #postcolonial #publichistory

Life Sciences: Das betrifft uns! Wir reden längst nicht mehr (nur) über Gender Studies. Unsere internationalen Kooperationspartner*innen ohne Gehalt, unsere Datengrundlagen bei der CDC abgeschaltet, unsere Submissions blockiert.

Die Anträge zu stützen, die die Union einbringen wird und Bürger*innen in zwei Klassen teilt, muss gelesen werden als: Man hält sich selbst für überlegen, besser, für die echten Bürger*innen. Das ist rechtsextreme Ideologie, unabhängig davon, mit welchen Fraktionen man stimmt.

Look, I found a book 🗃️ in my pigeonhole at work! Thank you, and congratulations, @markushedrich.bsky.social , I am very much looking forward to reading it! #colonialhistory

Good morning skystorians! 🗃️ I am curating a research blog connecting local spaces and networks with #globalhistory and the history of #colonialism. The current series of articles focusses on 19th- and 20th-century colonial history of the city my university is located in: trierglobal.hypotheses.org

fellow #skystorians, this week, 2 important projects on German colonialism & memory culture had to close down and Habbo Knoch, a highly regarded scholar of the impact & legacies of images of the Shoa passed away - what a blow to #decolonial #germancolonialism #multidirectionalmeories

I attended a wonderful workshop earlier this week with truely inspiring presentations, especially by Rahab Njeri, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and Elnathan John. kisd.de/termine/rese... If you ever have the opportunity to meet and/or listen to one of them, jump right to it! #history #decolonize 🗃️

I am involved in a wonderful project on the history of "Berlin's Australian Archive". In May 2024, Uncle Brendan Kennedy, Auntie Glenda Nicholls and our partners from Museums Victoria and Australian Museum came visiting us. Here's a film, documenting our workshop www.youtube.com/watch?v=79sx...

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

One of the first things that came to my mind when the UN plastic treaty talks failed was this picture by @nealhaddaway.bsky.social showing the plastic removed from one seabird chick's stomach. Today Neal wrote his personal response, too. [gift link] medium.com/the-new-clim...

Good morning skystorians! 🗃️ A dear colleague of mine, Prof. Dr. Marcia C. Schenck, is looking to fill a postdoc position at her department at Potsdam University (3yrs with the possibility of extension). You have expertise in #globalhistory, #Africa, #migrationhistory, #refugeseeking? Here's the CFA

I wrote a little something on Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes and the Anthropocene which might be of interest some history folks here 🗃️ . It's in German but open access zeithistorische-forschungen.de/3-2023/6161

This is a podcast project I would like to introduce to interested listeners at #history (it's in German, though). The most recent episode looks at the dismantling of the history department at Magdeburg University - available on all podcast platforms and the project's website www.hsozkult.de/podcast