Applications are now open for BSR Humanities Awards 2026–27! Fellowships and awards for scholars at all career stages. Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. Apply: bsrome.slideroom.com More info: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fuelling up for Day Two of the Irish Conference of Historians. Looking forward to presenting on Grief and Great War: Emotions in French Colonial Pension Files. I'll be sharing a panel with @khayyat.bsky.social and with fellow COLVET Tema members @camilleriana.bsky.social and Anindita Bhattacharya

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Jetzt erschienen als Band 103 der Buchwissenschaftlichen Beiträge! Mit Texten von @yanaraschmacks.bsky.social, @hannaboege.bsky.social uvm. – ich habe über Jürgen Habermas‘ unwahrscheinlichen Erfolg »Erkenntnis und Interesse« geschrieben. @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social @sfb1472.uni-siegen.de

Exciting weeks lie ahead. Can't wait to be back in Ethiopia for ICES! ices22.hu.edu.et/programs?fbc...

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Ein Interview aus dem Frühjahr: "Es gibt so eine Opfererzählung über Ostdeutsche, die angeblich ständig Opfer von irgendetwas geworden sein [...] Ich denke hingegen, dass es den Aufstieg der AfD ohne diese Opfererzählung nicht gegeben hätte." Der ganze Text hier: www.academia.edu/143634625/_R...

CFP: "Colonial Objects. Material Culture of Italian Colonialism." Don't forget that there are only a few days left to send your proposal! Deadline: 5 September 2025

News from past Fellows— Call for Papers: "Colonial Objects – Material Culture of Italian Colonialism." Day 2 at Italian Academy in 2026; Day 1 is in Dec. 2025 at Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. tinyurl.com/4ru5a83f @camilleriana.bsky.social

YES!

Sono campano e ho firmato!

@cljmarion.bsky.social @benoitvaillot.bsky.social et moi-même nous réjouissons de vous annoncer la parution du dossier "Le retour du Kaiserreich (1871-1918)" dans le n°242 de Histoire, économie & société, issu d'un colloque que nous avons organisé à Strasbourg en 2022 shs.cairn.info/revue-histoi...

News from former Fellow: Read Nicola Camilleri's essay, "Challenging race, gender, and class in Fascist and postwar Italy. Biographical notes on Elena Sengal (1911–1962)," based on his Italian Academy research; Published online: tinyurl.com/2c4sfa76 @camilleriana.bsky.social

💥 Can you imagine what it was like to live in fascist Italy as a Black female academic? Check out the article that Uoldelul Chelati-Dirar and I wrote about Elena Sengal on @modernitaly.bsky.social. It's a sneak preview of a major ongoing project. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Why did so many men enjoy picking up a rifle and practising shooting in the German Empire between 1871 and 1914? 📖 Presentation of the book by @camilleriana.bsky.social: Una cultura delle armi (Carocci, 2024) 🗓 29.05. at 17.30 Casa della #Memoria e della Storia #Siscalt #bookrecommendations

Venerdì a Padova! @matteomillan.bsky.social @euguns.bsky.social

Tomorrow in Asmara 🌴

While civilians are being killed in Ukraine today, grotesque pacifists will be demonstrating in Rome tomorrow against the EU, but NOT against Putin's Russia. Rsssian infiltration pays off.

First COLVET event in @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie organised by @donalh.bsky.social and @camilleriana.bsky.social. Fascinating talks and multiple research avenues for a promising project. #WW1 #1GM

We are delighted to invite you to @donalh.bsky.social’s symposium on veteran history. Funded by the @erc.europa.eu and hosted at @maynoothuniversity.ie it will be a fantastic day. #history #Europe #Veterans #colonial #Colvert

🔴 Unlocking the Red Sea’s Mixedness Join us for the kick-off meeting of the #ERCCoG project #REDMIX – Unpacking #Mixedness for an Inclusive History of the #RedSea, 1800s-2000s 📅 March 25-26, 2025 📍 Auditorium, Archivio di Stato di Torino 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/... @erc.europa.eu

🧐🧐 #roma

📢 Neue Forschungsstelle in der #Ukraine 📢 Die Max Weber Stiftung baut eine Forschungsstelle in #Lviv auf und setzt damit ihre Neuausrichtung in #Osteuropa fort! Die Münchener Historikerin Iryna Klymenko wird den Aufbau leiten. Zur Pressemitteilung 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...#Ukraine

Hello Bluesky community! We are the leading Center in the U.S. to promote the study of Europe. CES trains the next generation of scholars and experts, funds innovative research, and leads vibrant discussions on European affairs. In short, CES is “Where #Harvard & #Europe Meet Since 1969.”

Delighted to welcome @camilleriana.bsky.social as the newest member of the COLVET research team. Nicola is a social and cultural historian of Italian and German colonialism with a particular interest in citizenship, militarism and sociability. He will be focusing veterans in the Italian empire.

Wir sind jetzt auch bei Bluesky aktiv und freuen uns auf den Austausch! 💬 🌐 Mehr über die Stiftung und ihre Institute unter www.maxweberstiftung.de #Geisteswissenschaften #Sozialwissenschaften #Humanities #ForschungInternational #GlobalResearch #Wisskomm #OpenScience #WeltweitForschen #MWS

Today here at the AHA Annual Meeting @historians.org #NY

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💥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.

In April 2025, we will be hosting an exciting workshop here in Munich: ‘Archiving Dis:connected Cultural Heritages in Africa.’ Organized by my colleague Gideon Ime Morrison and our Fellow Andrea Azizi Kifyasi. Applications are open until 15 January. www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

Extraordinary new finds from the sanctuary at San Casciano dei Bagni, Tuscany: extraordinary bronze statues, bronze snakes, jewellery, coins recovered from the mud. www.ansa.it/english/news... #archaeology 🏺 AncientBluesky

Call for Visiting Professor in Ukrainian Studies at Columbia University harriman.columbia.edu/open-positio...

Join us for our workshop on Material Culture and #Colonialism (t1p.de/sm70s). Going beyond the question of provenance and restitution focus is on material culture that permeated a historical moment. 4.12. in-person + online, register: t1p.de/s5u5c @colmigproject.bsky.social @mcshistory.bsky.social

We have just released the call for applications for this funded PhD position on the history of social and political reactions to HIV and AIDS: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share the word! #History #HIV #AIDS #MedicalHumanities

On reposts: Given that there is no algorithm here, for posts to get seen across a longer period of time & by a wider audience they require reposts: these are much more important than retweets. Accordingly, if you like a post do consider reposting it as well *especially* those by smaller accounts!

🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️

Very excited to join it 🔥

Roma, Piramide Cestia (I a.C)

This was lovely. Last week - dziękuję bardzo 🙏🏼

The Berliner Zeitung has been running a number of pieces along these lines attacking the idea that the GDR was a dictatorship and claiming that this is part of some kind of new Historikerstreit. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here...