Next Monday at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, thanks to Ivan Kalmar's kind invitation! Join us if you're around!

We all need to send this link to data driven university administrators who view funding applications as key performance target.

Sämtliche Titelbilder, Artikel und Ausgaben aus der 100-jährigen Geschichte des ‚New Yorker‘ können nun online angesehen werden. Stöbern lohnt sich. Das Magazin schätze ich sehr, es gehört zu den angelsächsischen Publikationen, die ich regelmäßig mit Gewinn lese. substack.com/@newyorker/n...

My book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalepress.bsky.social) has been out for 6 months! I’m thrilled that in 2026, it will be available as an audiobook (March) and a paperback (July)! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

It's out!🍾 I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today" It is Open Access! 👇 You can download it here for free. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Vivek Chibber is the worst part of Jacobin and its not even close weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...

Very many thanks for your generous and careful reading, dear Aleks, always a treat to be in dialogue with you! 🤗

"Nearly half (43%) of the journalists slain in the past 12 months were killed in Gaza by Israeli armed forces" rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

A new review symposium of our "Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires" in International Sociology @isa-sociology.org is online on the last day of our publisher's winter sale! If that isn't a sign that you should buy the book! 😇 tinyurl.com/2s4zf57v

Thrilled that I'll be spending February and March at the @iwm.at in Vienna working on part II of Creolizing the Modern, this time focused on the political economy and literary discourses on racialized enslavement in interimperial Moldavias! www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...

Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8

This is for my Ukrainian friends who might be interested in this reading group. Very many thanks, dear Oksana, I hope you have a good discussion and will make some of the insights known in some form afterwards.

(1/3) 🇪🇺 Today is a good day for a #Europe and #Schengen area without #internalborders! 📄+📃+📄= 3️⃣ separate lawsuits have been filed against the German internal #bordercontrols for violating #EU-law.

So, the big news is that Bolsonaro has been arrested, but in German-Brazilian relations, the other news will soon be that Der Spiegel follows in Merz‘ steps in being so ignorant about Brazil that they wrote Lula has been arrested. Screenshot for posterity, hope the online text is corrected soon!!! 😎

In unserem Graduiertenkolleg 2571 „Imperien: Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen“ sind 4 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen-Stellen, befristet auf drei Jahre, Teilzeitstelle (65 %), Eintrittstermin: 01.05.2026, zu besetzen!

Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.

Full list of events for our Global Teach In/Out: Find one near you! 🌍 migrationscholarsmobilize.org/upcoming-eve...

Alle Ausländer*innen sollen raus, aber diese Ägypterin wird eingebürgert. Ansonsten ist die Aussage, Nofretete sei rechtmäßig hier historisch einfach falsch. Geehrt fühle ich mich durch den persönlichen Angriff...

Congratulations, dear Meta! A fantastic thesis that was ready to be a great book from the very beginning, back in those dreary lockdown months of 2020! 🤗

Last week, I had the great pleasure and privilege of being part of a fantastic panel chaired by @granttharward.bsky.social, with @manuelaboatca.bsky.social as our discussant, at the @as Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies ( @aseees.bsky.social ) 2025 Virtual Convention.

If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/

This is such a great idea and a fantastic resource! Check out the lesson plans complete with activities, prompts, questions, indicating which level & topic they cover! The worksheet for my episode on "Europeans" - A-level teaching on Culture & Identity and Globalisation is here tinyurl.com/5ast4z5d

What’s behind the pursuit of “paradise” in travel to the Caribbean? How does tourism continue and compound the legacy of colonialism? How can we resist? Angelique Nixon joins #UncommonSense on #desire #tourism and #decolonising – Plus: celebrating Sylvia Wynter. buff.ly/UFrCeYd

In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig! Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs

Fantastische Neuigkeiten!!

🥁 Join us next Thursday, October 23, for the first lecture on on "Anti-colonial Social Theory and the Peripheral Gaze" by Sujata Patel, recipient of the @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award, hosted at the @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social of the @uni-freiburg.de for the duration of her stay 2025-2026!

🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week! 🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.

Join us for the launch of the latest issue of Migration and Society, an international peer-reviewed journal exploring global research on migration, solidarity, and refugee experiences. 📆 October 21st ⏰ 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT +1) 📍 Online (register to receive the link) www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network 📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London 📆11 November 1pm Join us! and join the network www.instagram.com/migration_sc... www.facebook.com/profile.php?... @migrationscholars.bsky.social

🔊Thinking of applying to the Global Studies M.A. in Social Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de? 🎓🌍 Our next info session this year is on October 15th, 2-3pm CEST! 🗓️ Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict

Neues @mittelweg36.bsky.social -Heft mit spannenden Beiträgen zum Oberthema "Pluralisierung der Aufklärung"!

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Ausgerechnet heute dazu erschienen unrast-verlag.de/produkt/der-...

So glad this finally happened. It took us too long and I hope this is only the beginning. 100.000 in the streets of Berlin to end Germany's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Thank you to the wonderful and courageous organizers, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and all the others!

As the further details note, the 'sugar trade' referenced here was 'built on slavery'. Call it by its name.

Nicht als Metapher für die Migrationspolitik missverstehen! 😎 www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Deut...

Happy to present new research on the investment migration industry at REMESO, Linköpings universitet's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society to scholars of migration with whom I have long been in dialogue. All welcome! liu.se/en/event/man...

That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store. P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!

Cool recap of little-known facts that the brilliant team of the Uncommon Sense podcast unveils in dialogue with sociologists. Listen to the ones discussed here, but even better to all of them! Find mine, on Europe and its Caribbean borders, here: thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

Many thanks for the warm reception and the exceptionally rich discussion!

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇 lnu.se/.../events/2...

External colonialism converging with four centuries of internal colonialism.

A great, bone-chilling (pardon the pun!) report on the treatment of Romanian workers in Dutch meat plants by Dia Radu, Anna Milovanovic, Job Doornhof. So many implications for #unequalEuropes, migrant racialization in West & East, and the divide & rule of fragmenting labor struggles!!

Call For Papers!: "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", a conference at University of British Columbia from July 21-23, 2026. Please share with faculty and grad students! Details here: www.climateandsocietylab.com/call-for-pap...

At last I also got a hard copy of the @berlinerjournal.bsky.social article that @fabios.bsky.social & I co-authored! Happy to see that our maps & illustrations make sense in black-and-white, too, but you can check out the color original. Open Access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

Since we're apparently re-litigating the Mercator Projection again, I can't resist reposting this: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

And case no. 4, conflict studies via @richardstupart.com this time. Peer review managed to catch 2 out of 4 so far.