The 20 year anniversary double Special Issue of Material Religion, celebrating Key Terms in the study of material religion, is now out. So glad to be working with such great colleagues and honoured to help steward such stellar contributions to print.

Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8

Sem: Colonialism, Material Culture and Museum Collections https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158914 München, 11.05.2026-15.05.2026, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in cooperation with the University of Bamberg (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies / KDWT) …

We have a new Currents in Critical Heritage Studies post up by Sofya Shahab from the University of Stirling, Pacific Heritage: embodied modalities of peacebuilding with the past www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

Come work with us in Bremen and with Nasima Selim! Postdoc for #anthropologists with focus on #environment. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

This Friday! If you’re in Johannesburg, please consider joining us.

In addition, the call for new Heinz Heinen fellows has just gone live: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/fellowshi... (for doctoral, junior postdoc, senior postdoc, and alternative knowledge producer positions)

A cohort of graduate students is coming through who-- shook by the uncertainties of the COVID pandemic and forced into the disruptive environment of online learning, leaned into AI writing tools--are really struggling with the demands of doing original research. It is tough out there.

Rez. Ex: umbenennen?! Ausstellungsprojekt zur Geschichte der Berliner Straßennamen https://www.hsozkult.de/exhibitionreview/id/reex-154915 Berlin, 28.03.2025-31.12.2026, Aktives Museum. Faschismus und Widerstand in Berlin e.V.; Arbeitskreis Berliner Regionalmuseen

❗⚠️ We are hiring a Professor at W2 level in urban and regional geography. The link below is in English, however candidates must also be able to speak German. If you have any questions about the position itself, please write to the email in the job ad. www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/de/medien-fo...

Web dossier on uneasy postcolonial spaces, with contributions on Latin America, Ireland, Goa, Palestine & the European East, initially published in 2013 in honor of Fernando Coronil, is now available for free download tinyurl.com/3bp6wky6. Thanks to Louise Link for invaluable work on the new layout!

Stip: DAAD Doctoral Scholarship for International Researchers "Understanding Written Artifacts" (Univ. Hamburg) https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-156913 Hamburg, 01.01.2026-31.12.2028, Universität Hamburg, Cluster "Understanding Written Artefacts" Graduate School, Bewerbungsschluss: …

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Rez: K. Antweiler: Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-134614 K. Antweiler: Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums

BREAKING: M-Straße darf umbenannt werden. Jetzt wird der große Schwarze deutsche Philosoph der Frühaufklärung, Anton Wilhelm Amo, im Herzen des früheren Kolonialimperiums geehrt. Wahrlich historisches Ereignis. Dank an alle Initiativen! h/t @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

Memory over Forgetting, Radical History Review. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

🏺 So pleased to have this out for ACHS #Currents about my adventures in economic history, how markets have valued the past, and how #heritage buys into growth (but doesn’t have to!). 🙏🏻 @heritagethings.bsky.social for being the most patient editor! www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

I’ve started tracking political actions affecting museums in 2025 here. Please add your own links so we can build a comprehensive record of the actions happening to the field. #Museums #GLAM #MuseumEthics 📜🏛️ drive.proton.me/urls/7CRNDY5...

CFP: Fleeting Voices. Preserving Acoustic Heritage in the Archives and the Arts https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-153192 Wien, 01.10.2025-03.10.2025, Department Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Cultural Heritage Studies, …

Oxford! an event on colonial statues and contested heritage, April 9 - couldn't have picked a more suitable town for it - www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/contes...

You want to work in academia in Germany? Read this first: www.haujournal.org/index.php/ha...

There are about 10 such masks, but none remains in the Democratic Republic of #Congo: 1.5 m tall & about 10 kg heavy - that is the truly monumental #Kakuungu dance mask. In part 7 of their #MuseumOfStolenHistory series, @thecontinent.org tells its story: continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

New post up at the ACHS Currents Blog: Pinar Aykac draws on the conversion of the Hagia Sophia to reflect on the pitfalls of rights based approaches in heritage management and the potential of rethinking Heritage as Commons. www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

📣 CFP for a Special Issue on 'Holocaust Memory Education and the Problem of Coloniality', organised by @drkatrinantweiler.bsky.social & Thomas Van de Putte ⏰ Deadline for abstracts and bios is 1st April 2025 & first versions of the articles October 1st ➡️ www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

In the latest Currents in Critical Heritage Studies, @corneliusholtorf.bsky.social discusses how to overcome “The Climate Heritage Paradox” (World Archaeology 2024), the emergence of heritage futures as a topic and the dynamics of heritage in society. www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

Let's see how the undergraduates take to this firecracker of a heritage definition: "National heritage is the backward glance taken from the edge of a vividly imagined abyss, and it accompanies a sense that history is foreclosed". Patrick Wright, On Living in an Old Country

Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures- University of Oxford - The Queen’s College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK331/j...

JOB ALERT: I have two vacancies for fully-funded, 4 year PhD positions in my European Research Council Project “Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa”; one on Nigeria, one on Mozambique. Closing date for applications 15 March 2025, start in Sept. 2025 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Has anybody tried using TikTok short videos as an assessment method for undergraduates? I am thinking of asking students to produce one minute long responses to concepts for a (non media studies) short course, but would like some peer input before taking the leap.

Our 3-month fellowship program for African scholars (postdoc) offers a chance to connect with scholars and professionals in Germany at SWP Berlin, @idos-research.bsky.social , @kiel.institute and beyond. Interested? Learn more here t1p.de/is37v and apply until January 15th!

The holiday thriller I didn't know I'd needed. A material religion drama about scholarship, antiquities dealing, fraud, theft and the ultimately flawed evangelical aspiration to stake a political claim to Christianity in American public life. Excellently unravelled.

Cape Town's District Six Museum: "a space where memory lives". www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

New post up on the ACHS Currents in Critical Heritage Studies platform: On Threads and Knots: Reweaving Critical Heritage Studies, by Magdalena Buchzcyk, from HU, Berlin. www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!

Wer möchte mit mir zusammenarbeiten? #kreisarchiv #verden #archiv #dimag #arcinsys #digitalisierung #job #jobfairy www.landkreis-verden.de/bewerbung/be...

#JobFairy Univ of Copenhagen looking for a #HistSTM 3 year post-doc in the history of physical sciences to work with the Niels Bohr Archive. employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

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New post up at the ACHS Currents in Critical Heritage Studies Blog. In Rethinking Heritage in Africa, Prof Jesmael Mataga of Sol Plaatje University reflects on the role of ancestral voices and the sacred in critical heritage studies. www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

Vorl: Heritage in Transformation http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-150514 Berlin, 22.10.2024-04.02.2025, Käte Hamburger Kolleg; Centre for Advanced Study; inherit. heritage in transformation - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

CFP: Symposium on Global Memory Work amidst Postcolonial and Postmigrant Shifts http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-150552 Leipzig, 02.12.2024-03.12.2024, University of Leipzig, East Asian Institute, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.10.2024

📜New publication📜A special issue of Memory Studies - Remembering Activism: Explorations in the Memory-Activism Nexus - coedited with Ann Rigney. Working on this with Ann & others was a work highlight of my year. It’s here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/MSS/curr... & much of it is #openaccess

Surely the worst part of the blind peer review process is 'not being able to' immediately ping colleagues when their amazing work crosses one's desk?

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