"Hochstapelei: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Täuschung im 20. Jahrhundert" erscheint im Herbst im @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social , herausgegeben von Michael Homberg, Thomas Werneke und mir und basierend auf unserem Workshop am @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social. www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/18184/

My contribution to a wonderful special issue on global Samurai in Japan Review. nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/search?page=...

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Really enjoyed reading Joanna Simonow‘s blog piece on the history of Marriage and Migration @uni-muenster.de www.evir.uni-muenster.blog/en/marriage-...

Thanks to Ufaque Paiker for her insightful Review of David Boyk‘s Provincial Metropolis for @hsozkult.bsky.social.

Neuer Artikel, erschienen in einer Sonderausgabe zum Thema „The Power of Voluntary Activity: Global Perspectives“ der @freiwilligkeit.bsky.social in Comparativ. @unierfurt.bsky.social

Rez: M. Pernau: Jamia's Aapa Jaan https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-159286 M. Pernau: Jamia's Aapa Jaan

Juhu!🎉 Nach vielen, vielen Jahren wird unser Buch mit Praxisbeispielen zur Interpretationen von Quellen der Gewaltgeschichte im Mai erscheinen. Ich freu mich sehr darüber! Der Band ist aus dem Arbeitskreis Geschichte - Gesellschaft - Gewalt entstanden. 1/3 www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...

Camargue at its best.

Thanks to @bennonietzel.bsky.social for his insightful review of Baijayanti Roy‘s important book The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism for @hsozkult.bsky.social

Publication day! I am thrilled that my book is now published and available open access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Heute Nachmittag online am SAI Heidelberg.

Konf: Unsilenced Voices. Women’s Voluntary Activism in (Post)Colonial Societies https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158990 Erfurt, 15.12.2025-16.12.2025, Gifty Nyame Tabiri, University of Erfurt

New on transimperialhistory.com: How do racialized visual stereotypes that circulated transimperially relate to contemporary identity debates in Southern Africa? @drnatermann.bsky.social on (re)appropriations of colonial photographs, monuments, and memory www.transimperialhistory.com/colonial-vis...

Thanks a lot to @vik1004.bsky.social for the insightful review of Vanya Bhargav‘s Being Hindu for @hsozkult.bsky.social

Autumn at its best

A big thanks to @boscha.bsky.social for his insightful review of Tobias Delfs‘ Koloniale Naturforschung for @hsozkult.bsky.social

BLOG-NEWS! 📢"Geben als Akt der Freiwilligkeit?/Giving as an Act of Voluntarienss?" - Gobalhistorikerin Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social diskutiert, was dies für Inder:innen während der Weltkriege bedeutete. Gerne reinlesen! Gibt's auch auf Englisch. www.voluntariness.org/de/geben-als...

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

Job in Kassel ⬇️⬇️

Thanks to @hannajanatka.bsky.social for her insightful review of Erin O‘Halloran‘s East of Empire for H-Soz-Kult.

Do join us! 👇

Reading the proofs!

Autumn vibes at home

Thanks to Svenja von Jan for her insightful review of Transnational Intersections of Germany and India for H-Soz-Kult.

EASAS is offering three awards of €300 each to the most outstanding papers by research students presenting at #ECSAS2025. For more information: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #SaiHeidelberg #SouthAsiaInstitute #UniversitätHeidelberg #Heidelberg #SaiResearch #ECSAS2025 #ECSAS #EASAS

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

📘New issue out now! Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at) 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️ 20thc

A major new resource by a wonderful team that will be essential for anyone teaching, and researching, South Asian histories of Britain. A huge congratulations and thank you for making this wonderful, and much needed, site a reality! #skystorians

Back in the British Library ☺️

Lauter neue Mitgliedschaftsanträge und Vernetzungsanfragen für #PDprekär. 🥳 Schließt Euch uns an – nur gemeinsam sind wir stark! ✊ #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG pdprekaer.jimdosite.com

Privatdozent*innen gehören ebenfalls zu den prekär beschäftigen Wissenschaftler*innen. Häufig wird ihre Arbeit nicht mal mehr entlohnt. #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan sind sicherlich solidarisch mit #PDprekär! @jmwiarda.bsky.social fragt zu Recht "Titel ohne Zukunft?" www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

Rez: C. Heffernan: Indian Club Swinging https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-146363 C. Heffernan: Indian Club Swinging

www.zeit.de/2025/25/huma... wichtiger Beitrag! @glasmanjo.bsky.social

Le Mourne Brabant

The birds of Mauritius

Thanks to Joanna Simonow for her engaging review of Leonie Wolters‘ Cosmopolitan Elites and the making of globality for @hsozkult.bsky.social.

Lunchbreak walk in Berlin

Nearly a decade on from beginning the PhD, we have a book cover! Out later this year - my book exploring caste, migration and indenture as foundational to Indian diplomacy. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social t.co/bUTfpFncmk

On 23 April 1933, upon his return to Germany from Italy, Saumyendranath Tagore was arrested in Munich, ostensibly for plotting to assassinate Hitler. Tagore was an outspoken critic of the Nazi regime and had ties to communists, but the accusations were false. valuepast.hypotheses.org/1022

Morgen (23.04.2025) in Erfurt: "Exploring Voluntariness in Postcolonial Settings". Ich spreche über entwicklungspolitische Kampagnen zur "Modernisierung" von Kleidungsmoden im postkolonialen Ostafrika (1960er–1980er Jahre).

A wonderful review of my dear colleague and friend Fritzi-Marie Titzmanns‘s important book on Mediatised Solidarity: Media Practices of Contemporary Indian Social Movements. For all interested the book is open access. doingsociology.org/2025/04/10/m...

PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post about Indian anti-imperialism, anti-fascism, and the Spanish civil war, which has now been translated into Spanish. libertamen.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/e...

Sunday morning in the Oderbruch

A big thanks to Marius Müller for his insightful Review of Rahul Markovits‘s A Passage to Europe for @hsozkult.bsky.social

Thanks so much @simonwfuchs.bsky.social for your insightful review for @hsozkult.bsky.social