The yearbook of the GHI Rome Rome, rather austerely called Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, has published some of my thoughts on how to write European colonial history, moving away from national narratives. Here is some recommended reading for a rainy weekend 😁

🥂Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhältlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. 🥂 Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beiträgt www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...

Un omaggio a un amico e maestro con affetto e gratitudine ☺️ www.viella.it/libro/979125...

I'm excited to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social has published an expanded version of the special issue, 'The Cold War of Labour Migrants'. In it, my article, 'From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism' explores the global intellectual history of migrant activists in 1970s France.

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Tomorrow in Naples!

🧵 Poiché in Italia Jeffrey Sachs viene spesso presentato come una sorta di oracolo, un’autorità morale e scientifica, credo sia utile ricordare cosa pensi in realtà la comunità accademica internazionale dei suoi interventi nel dibattito pubblico. 1/5 fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/lettera-de...

🚨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...

These books come with me from Addis Ababa 😍

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A wonderful book now available in Open Access. It would be great for teaching too!

Bye bye Addis Ababa 🫶🏼

I have reviewed this book and recommend it to anynone interested in a truly global history of international relations (who can read Italian). It is highly regarded @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Missions Abyssines: L’Etiopia, la Grande Guerra e la Conferenza della pace www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QCGYS...

Happy 75th Birthday, Addis Ababa University! 🎉

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

I spent the morning walking around Charlottenburg, Berlin, tracing the sites of Indian anticolonialism. This was the location of the Indian Independence Committee during the First World War.

Soon in Naples 😎

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Share widely! We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026! The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website! frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Beautiful & interesting exhibition ‘History in a Vessel: Tej and the Berelé’ at Yimtubezina Museum and Cultural Centre, Addis Ababa

Excellent discussion www.oeaw.ac.at/news/ungarns...

It's publication day! 🎉🥳 Very soon I won't need to post about this anymore, but in the meantime, if you're interested in the colonial roots of modern tourism, or the role of leisure travel in producing knowledge about the world, check it out. Also as e-book on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

Matinee 🎥

"What is Restitution? Some Conceptual Considerations": MIASA Working Paper by Kodzo B. Gavua (Univ. of Ghana) & Hans Peter Hahn (@goetheuni.bsky.social) now available for download on UGSpace: miasa.ug.edu.gh/publications... #restitution, #culturalartefacts, #museum

Today. Addis Ababa University 🙌🏼

important reflections on the colonial archive and how we might use it, from @camilleriana.bsky.social - makes me wonder how to get myself over to Eritrea!

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

Abrehot Library, Addis Ababa

This was AMAZING 🔥🎥

Today 🤩 @ Hawassa University

Hawassa, Ethiopia

Unser neues Heft ist erschienen: #WerkstattGeschichte 92 »prekäres wissenschaften«! 🧵 1/ Der Thementeil, hg. v. @jojoweis & @t_winnerling, behandelt historische Fälle von #Machtmissbrauch & #Prekarität in akademischen Kontexten seit dem #Mittelalter: ▶ […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

Excited to attend ICES 22 (International Conference of Ethiopian Studies) at Hawassa University and to discuss my research on colonial soldiers and veterans of COLVET project with great scholars from Ethiopia and beyond @erc.europa.eu

New flower / Addis Ababa

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