"Lea Wesemann, eine junge Historikerin, gewinnt den renommierten Bremer Heimatpreis. Ihre Bachelorarbeit über die Ausbeutung der deutschen Gebiete im Südwestpazifik hat die Jury beeindruckt." www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/verd...

Job: David Richards Junior Research Fellowship "Economic History" (Wadham College, Univ. of Oxford) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158498 Oxford, 01.09.2026, Wadham College, University of Oxford, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.12.2025

CFP: Colonial Violence, Resistance and Legacy in Africa: Perspectives and Critiques https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158639 Lomé, 21.04.2026-23.04.2026, Association des Historiens et des Archéologues du Togo, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.12.2025

Mahmood Mamdani: "In the world we grew up in, the idea was that the wider society could claim free speech but only the university could claim academic freedom. And academic freedom was broader and stronger and deeper than free speech. Now it’s the reverse."

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.

In der globalen Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung spielte Namibia nur eine Nebenrolle. Das mag ein Grund sein, warum auch die Forschung der internationalen Solidarität mit dem namibischen Befreiungskampf bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt hat. Unser Band „Solidarity with Namibia“ 1/3

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

@wadhamcollege.bsky.social (University of Oxford) is recruiting a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (beginning from 1 September 2026). Open to all subfields and time periods. Join us! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

Great #JobOffer in #History at #UniInnsbruck in the ASTRA-Projekt “Provincializing #Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol”. One #PostDoc position and two doctoral postitions. Deadline is November 25, 2025: www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Für die Bremer/innen: Am 1.11. liest Virginie aus unserem Buch „Stadt der Kolonien“ im Kwanzaa Bookshop Bremen

What a great cover for the forthcoming publication "The Politics of Culture. Far-right, Feminist, and “Immigrant” Movements in France, ca. 1965 to 1985" by my friend @christianjacobs.bsky.social! You can pre-order the book for your local library here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern: power, texture, sound, fury, beauty, grace, pride & much more ... Phew what a journey! On until May 2026. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

In Bremen hat der rot-grün-rote (!) Senat unter Bovenschulte sich nicht an das Versprechen gehalten, ein Dokumentationszentrum Kolonialismus einzurichten. Stattdessen "entsorgt" man das Afrika Archiv nach Namibia und verkleidet dies rhetorisch als "Restitution". www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/breme...

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...

"Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Support and solidarity!

Here’s the term card for the Northeast Africa Forum in Oxford, a research seminar focused on the broader East Africa region. We meet on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and most sessions are also held in hybrid format. @jasonmosley.bsky.social @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social

We managed to save the Bremen Africa Archive collection, though it was not the outcome we had hoped for.

Heute erschienen: Eine Erinnerung daran, dass nicht an alles erinnert wird... unrast-verlag.de/produkt/der-...

Over 120 abstracts came in (I even stopped counting at one point). Such an amazing response. We aim to share the line-up in early November.

Promovieren in den Geschichtswissenschaften – aber wie? Am 6 Oktober 2025 findet ein Info-Abend zu Promotionsmöglichkeiten in den Geschichtswisseenschaften am Europäisches Hochschulinstitut, Florenz statt 👉 loom.ly/5MhCuf4 📣 #PhD #Geschichtswissenschaften

Neue Besprechung der (mittlerweile schon etwas älteren) Studie von Florence Bernault „Colonial Transactions“. Mehr: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The headline is clearly false and damaging. Germany has not stopped exporting arms to Israel; shipments licensed before August are still being sent, and my investigation shows that F35 parts from the USA transiting through Germany were transferred as recently as last week.

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView 🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

In bester Gesellschaft. Und mit Empfehlung der Buchhandlung. 🔆🍀

At this year’s conference of the German Historical Association ("Historikertag"), @schoeckquinteros.bsky.social and I organised the first panel ever on Black German history. The room was packed, with more than 90 participants. With Eve Rosenhaft, @rjmauk.bsky.social and Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago.

„Ein geisteswissenschaftlicher Kongress in den 2020er-Jahren kommt nicht um die Modethemen Geschlechtergeschichte und Postkolonialismus herum.“ 🤡🤡

CFP: Cities and Decolonization: Anti-colonial Struggles, Urban Protest, and Global Solidarities https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156398 Oxford, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Norman Aselmeyer, Oxford; Eric Burton, Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

Sometimes the impossible becomes possible ✓ My project "Manufacturing Modernity in Africa" (MAGIC) just won a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant - Europe's most competitive early-career research funding. I'll be investigating Bata shoe factories in Kenya, Malawi & Zimbabwe from the 1940s to 2000s.

Everyone: we have a cover. I repeat--the cover has landed, and it is glorious!

📣 #CFA - We are now accepting applicants for our 2-year Visiting Tandem Fellowship, bringing German and North American postdoctoral scholars together at our Pacific Office at Berkeley @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social - Application deadline: Oct. 15; learn more: www.ghi-dc.org/progr...

Eyes on Gaza: A daily series of 20-minute talks. Organized by the Black Flag Group, which unites hundreds of academics across Israel who are dedicated to oppose and resist the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza. www.eyesongaza.net/en

Selten so einen hanebüchenen Artikel gelesen. Wahrscheinlich hat Koltermann zu viel mit Hoeres, Rödder & co. geflüstert, die sich als Daueropfer einer linken Geschichtswissenschaft sehen. @pbahners.bsky.social

"Europe’s political and moral paralysis over Gaza is intimately linked to the structural racism and violence which so many black, brown and Muslim Europeans face every day. It is clear to me that attitudes towards Gaza are shaped by an enduring colonial mentality" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Given the deliberate starvation in #Gaza, it is crucial for historians to place this within the longer history of colonialism. Who would be interested in working on a piece about the #weaponization of #food in (settler-)colonial contexts?

The Namibian: „Germany rejects reparation payments to former colonies.“ @he-mel.bsky.social h/t @heikebecker.bsky.social www.namibian.com.na/germany-reje...

From the archives: In 1960, historian Bethwell Ogot drafted the proposal to establish the Kenya National Archives (KNA). Five years later, in 1965, the KNA opened its doors. Today, it stands in Nairobi’s CBD as the country’s central repository of memory.

📣 PhD/DPhil researchers: we want to hear from you! Send us your abstract, even if your project is still in its early stages. New research is very welcome.

CFA: Solidarität mit Namibia: Transnationale Perspektiven auf die Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung im geteilten Deutschland https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156604 Oxford, 01.08.2025-31.10.2025, Martha Akawa-Shikufa, University of Namibia; Norman Aselmeyer, University of Oxford; Katharina …

4-year Departmental Lectureship in Global & Imperial History in Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC516/d...

Dirk van Laak zum Tod von Lutz Niethammer. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Eric Burton (Innsbruck) and I are organizing a workshop on the role of cities in the anticolonial struggles of the 20th century. The workshop will be held on 19/20 March 2026 in Oxford. Please submit abstracts and share the call.

"Wir fordern: Abschaffung der verpflichtenden Titularlehre. Und wenn es Lehraufträge gibt, dann bitte: bezahlt!" @jenniferhenke.bsky.social, @juliahauser.bsky.social und @joergsternagel.bsky.social gründen #PDprekär und berichten darüber bei @jmwiarda.bsky.social!

Muss Deutschland angesichts der veränderten geopolitischen Situation rasch kriegstüchtig werden? @jensbisky.bsky.social spricht mit Ulrich Bröckling und Jürgen Osterhammel über Aufrüstung, Ernstfall-Rhetorik und Versicherheitlichung. www.soziopolis.de/von-krieg-un...

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Josephine Akinyosoye und ich haben ein Buch über den vergessenen Schwarzen Aktivismus in Hamburg geschrieben. In einem Monat kommt es aus der Druckerei! www.assoziation-a.de/buch/sichtba...