CFP: Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and the Third World (1950-1990) https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158419 Lisbon, 15.12.2025, Georgia Nasseh, University of Cambridge; Giulia Dickmans, Freie Universität Berlin; Raquel Ribeiro, FCSH – NOVA; Tom Stennett, Independent …

La censure a perdu: le colloque aura quand même lieu! #Palestine #libertés carep-paris.org/annonce/comm...

Much recommended talk to all the people in London!

The university based Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Tübingen College of Fellows, and Zukunftskolleg Konstanz (ZuKo) invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA, to apply for the Baden-Württemberg Early Career Rescue Fellowships 2026-28.

#OTD, in 1918, Poland regained its independence as a sovereign country, after 123 years of rule under the three empires it was partitioned and absorbed by. [Flyer celebrating Poland's independence day, before 1939, Polona.]

And there’s already plenty of evidence to back this up.

Was lucky to made it to the museum visit in the Warsaw’s own Queer Muzeum and to listen to the Ukrainian and Polish quests to their own queer identity!

Me, when one day this damn PhD will be defended: *(3 days post-finale I can kind of spoil it no?)

Dear friends in academia, could you please share your recommendation letters for students trying to apply for their MAs to Oxbridges? I know the form matters much more there than anywhere else, so I wouldn't want to tank my students' chances with the wrong register! DM meee

Scholarship for early- to mid-career researchers from the EU enlargement countries (the Western Balkans, Turkey or Eastern neighbourhood) via @epc-official.bsky.social! Deadline: 4 December.

Berlin colleagues in history and/or theatre: who's around next week? Let's meet up!

I genuinely don't know any better placed National Library than the one in Warsaw, in the middle of the park. Particularly right now, in the autumn. It's breathtakingly beautiful!

I have some faith in Zohran Mamdani and his political future for one reason: he is an excellent public speaker. For a long time, if ever, I have not seen a person who would stick to their message with such clarity. Fingers crossed!

I have some faith in Zohran Mamdani and his political future for one reason: he is an excellent public speaker. For a long time, if ever, I have not seen a person who would stick to their message with such clarity. Fingers crossed!

Today's session of my seminar "Curiosity, Critical Thinking and Research in Social and Human Sciences" concerns conducting research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and I am super excited to have a chat with my students about fragments of these two books!

Your Master students think about PhD? Let them look at the EUI! I can also talk to them about the general vibe/history dept!

"America appears to be [...] in a sort of benevolent hostage situation. AI-related spending now contributes more to the nation’s GDP growth than all consumer spending combined, and by another calculation, those AI expenditures accounted for 92 percent of GDP growth during the first half of 2025."

Hello from one of my favourite places: the National Library in Warsaw.

"intellectual life itself, central to the pedagogical optimism of the Enlightenment and still deemed a source of progress by nineteenth-century liberals, was now regarded as a wellspring of political disaster," writes Samuel Moyn on J. Shklar's "After Utopia" and her criticism of liberals. Fitting.

Cat Burns in the #CelebrityTraitorsUK is all of us getting through 2025.

Sounds absolutely fascinating!

Academy in Exile opened applications for 12-month fellowships at TU Dortmund University and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen. Eligibility: scholars from anywhere with a PhD in the humanities, & at risk because of their academic work and/or civic engagement.

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year. It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

Is [enter the most obvious bit related to the female body] overlooked in women's health? After learning that the ob-gyn tools haven't changed since the 1850s, and menstrual products started being tested with actual blood only in 2023, the response to this question more often than not is OBVIOUSLY.

it's also, I reckon, a vicious cycle of neverending pushing of the overton window, with trump flipping the table altogether. more and more hostile politics towards universities--politicians like trump show that it's at least partly socially acceptable--let's apply this to other places--here we are 🤷‍♀️

Praying to Dante in Naples.

The most important tourist spot in Paris these days: the window through which the thieves went in to the Louvre.

Old school Polish film cool: the movie director Andrzej Żuławski and his then-wife, Małgorzata Braunek, in 1973. Fun fact: Braunek, probably one of the best actresses of her generation in Poland, became a Kanzeon Sangha Buddhist and received Dharma transmission, becoming rōshi, in 2011.

After yesterday's episode of #CelebrityTraitorsUK I have only one comment: YOU DONT HAVE ANY INTEREST TO MAKE US THIS STRESSED IN 2025!

Pretends to be shocked www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Possibly one of the best news this whole year

2025 is the strangest year

My students, whose obligation is to spend their 3rd year of BA abroad, are actively avoiding the US for the first time. Most choose Asia (Japan, S. Korea) instead, or try to go to Canada.

How to spend one of the last sunny Saturdays in Paris:

Amazing book choice! Congrats to @lottelydia.bsky.social and @triptychphrases.bsky.social in particular!

Interesting thing about the Gen Z-fueled political protests is something we, millennials, still didn't cope well with: the societal infantilisation of the youth. With our geriatric political representatives, it's Gen Z that takes itself more seriously and demands an accurate representation, not us.

That’s reassuring

Happy to participate in @rdvhistoire.bsky.social in Blois this weekend. This morning we talked about renationalisation of memories in Europe, w/ @elaurentin.bsky.social Sébastien Ledoux, Stéphane Michonneau and Thomas Serrier.

People started resharing this meme again and I’m unhappy to announce is even more accurate than it was.

The Polish NGO debunked news about Angela Merkel's interview for Hungarian media, where she reportedly said that Poland is also guilty of the war in Ukraine. Her words were taken out of context and reinterpreted, first in the Russia-adjacent media, then in other outlets that copied the "hot" story.

Last minute announcement: on Saturday at 9.30 am in Blois I will be joining the panel on memory renationalisation at @rdvhistoire.bsky.social replacing the brilliant Kornelia Kończal. If by any chance/miracle you're around, come over!

It's been a carnage indeed. When I started my PhD in 2019, things did not look well, but now... Phew.

via @rabeari.bsky.social: @degruyterbrill.bsky.social announced a German Studies Association Dissertation prize for the best recent (last two calendar years) unpublished dissertation! Deadline: 1 November.

A dla @krytykapolityczna.bsky.social napisałam krótki komentarz o tym, co dzieje się od poniedziałku we Francji:

What a pleasure to be writing while listening to the #Chopin Competition! The second round is just starting, I recommend tuning in right now very much.

Historians of the 20th century be like:

via @rabeari.bsky.social: @degruyterbrill.bsky.social announced a German Studies Association Dissertation prize for the best recent (last two calendar years) unpublished dissertation! Deadline: 1 November.

Historians of the 20th century be like:

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