So has become the great responsibility shifter for the most privileged

This winter semester I’ll be taking over as interim professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge (Vertretungsprofessor für Transregionale Wissenskulturen) at #DIMAS, University of Regensburg. www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... Students at Regensburg, do consider taking one of my classes.

📢The #CallForPanels for the #SGAS-VAD-2026 conference is now open. 🌍Theme: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations" ‼️Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2025 📅Conference date: 26-28 Aug 2026 📍Location: Basel, Switzerland zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news... #CfP #AfricanStudies #VAD #SGAS #SSEA

CfP Basel, 26-28.08.2026 Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel. www.sagw.ch/africa/aktue...

Happy to see this in print: 💽"What is Digital Global History Now?" Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2025), 1–19. www.cambridge.org/core/service... Find the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excellent piece by two dear friends @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social & @themorningsnows.bsky.social about the cyber truck & its uncanny similarities to the Casspir, the tank by which the Apartheid regime brutalized Black south Africans during Elon's childhood. 1/ slate.com/news-and-pol...

It is worth reading the 4 pages of Columbia's enthusiastic over-compliance to federal threats to get a sense of what's coming down the pipeline for other universities: Expanded commitments to disciplining + policing speech, protest, and intellectual life president.columbia.edu/sites/defaul...

Avec Giulia Bonacci nous lançons un appel à articles autour des retours en Afrique. Propositions attendues au plus tard le 15 mai.

Interested in plantation studies? American empire? Globalization? Liberia? I wrote a review of Gregg Mitman‘s book „Empire of Rubber.“ academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Welcome to our Bluesky! We are a research platform based in #Regensburg, #Germany, exploring interconnections and frictions between regions of #Europe and the #Americas Check out our Open Call for Contributions: #Transatlantic Ruptures and Transformations frictions.europeamerica.de#open-call-tr...

On Valetine‘s Day we held a public viewing of lost & found tv & film in and on Liberia (prewar, 70s/80s) in collaboration with Liberian filmmaker Artina Michelle. We were joined by some former anchors, current members of the movie union, school teachers, and many students. #Watchshowlib2025

Public history in Africa: Let's map and support existing projects. If you have (or know of) PH projects in Africa, please add it in the comment section here. You can see some projects such as the fantastic African Digital Heritage Foundation www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... #PublicHistory #Africa

Dieter Roth, Basel on the Rhine, 1969 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136178

Come work with me 😊 Successful candidates will be required to register for full time study in February 2025.

L. Schulte Nordholt, N. Nkealah, and R. Bod have edited a special issue of History of Humanities dealing with Classics in the History of the African Humanities. My chapter: "Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante, 1895." www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/GAQKB...

„Could a new ‘religious turn’ in society be one unexpected, counter-intuitive impact of the rise of Artificial Intelligence? What might that mean for our institutions and communities – and for public policy.“

💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.

Liberia's notorious rebel-turned-senator Prince Yormie Johnson dies. Johnson was one of the key figures in the country’s civil war, in which 250,000 people died many survivors from sexual assault and other attacks were left permanently scarred /1

New open access article: „Black American Agricultural Experts and the Vernacularization of American Science in Liberia Prior to Decolonization in Africa“. muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic....

Amazing job opportunity: news editor at @thecontinent.bsky.social

More on my chapter: „Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past“. link.growkudos.com/1f1filuje2o

As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!

Originally reported that Taylor and Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social were only making 10 million off of #selling #scholars' work to AI firms Wrong! - Turns out it is #75million in 2024 thus far, and that doesn't include a deal w/ @microsoftincel.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/taylor-...

Opportunity 👀 Apply for a fellowship or become an artist in residence at global dis:connect for up to 12 months and explore the complex relationships of global interconntectedness and disentanglement in the context of globalisation with us. www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

Really excited that this Friday May 3 the World History Group is organising a keynote by Erica Charters followed by a roundtable (incl. @sulinlewis.bsky.social @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social) on "Teaching Imperial & Global History" on occasion of the @camhistory.bsky.social Faculty Anniversary programme.

Nairobi life.

📢 4 days to submit a paper or panel

International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).

The Call for Papers is now open for the ESSHC of 2025! Submit your paper abstracts or panel proposals before 15 April 2024 so our network chairs can make their selection. Check out our website for the submission guidelines.

Only 3 weeks left to submit your abstracts and panel proposals for the next ESSHC! Deadline 15 April. Submit here 📝: esshc2025.exordo.com

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber - https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

Not for the first time, I'm reminded that there is no one more thoughtful about the financial and social shocks created by climate change than Spencer Glendon.

Looking forward to this.

„Digital Monolingualism, Archives at Risk, and Global Views on Open Access“ der Blogbeitrag zum Roundtable bei CrossArea: trafo.hypotheses.org/50712

📢 Neue alte FID-Lizenz! Das Online-Zeitungsarchiv RetroNews steht allen mit FID-Lizenz-Konto in vollem Umfang zur Verfügung. 15 Mio Artikel aus 2.000 🇫🇷 Zeitungen und Magazinen (1631-1952) im Volltext durchsuchbar. 👉 historicum.net/services/fid-lizenzen/retronewsfr-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france

Out soon! This was a worthwhile project. Check out my chapter on "Contestation over Agricultural Production in Colonial Africa". global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Das nächste Demo Wochenende am Start. Für jeden was dabei, direkt vor unseren Haustüren. Also raus auf die Straßen.

Our CfP with Praticas da Historia: "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African Press, and the Uses of Historical Knowledge." Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to [email protected] . praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retr...

As a newly-appointed Africa Network Chair for the European Social Science History Conference, I'm happy to announce that the CFP for the 2025 conference is now open! Submit your proposals here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en More on the Africa network: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/africa-ne...

ASAUK 2024 is happening August 29-31 at Oxford Brookes University. There are 30+ topics within the theme "Generation and Regeneration" that you can submit an abstract for - deadline is April 20th! Click the link to find out more. #afrpolsky

Thank you @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social, @buggeln.bsky.social. It was great to have had the opportunity to listen to your impressive and thought provoking comments! And thank you to Katja Castryck and the European Network in Universal and Global History for the Organisation. I am truly honoured.

Please join @buggeln.bsky.social, @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social and me as we talk about "Unternehmen Weltaneignung" at 5pm CET (via Zoom) today!

Call for application: One-Year Fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. If you are an Africa-based scholar at post-doc level with a historical book projet that you want to finish in this writing retreat, please consider applying. www.historischeskolleg.de/consolidator...

The Journal of African History is looking for a new Book Reviews Editor. Please do consider applying!

10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection www.openculture.com/2022/10/1000...

My recent piece in the Journal of African History.

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...