I am very much looking forward to the workshop "Towards a global history of identity politics, c.1970-present" at FU Berlin next week. Do join us for the keynote by @emile-chabal.bsky.social. Check out the full program here: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/frankreichze....

Exeter rasiert Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaften. 👉Brexit zerstört nicht nur britisch Wirtschaft, sondern auch die brit. Softpower, auf der die globale Bedeutung GBs beruht. Zurück bleibt eine mittelgrosse Insel. Es steht zu befürchten, dass ganz Europa folgt www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ihr habt heute Abend noch nichts vor? Hört Euch @maxczollek.bsky.social bei Marcant an. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsvY... Er hat gute Worte gefunden.

Looking very much forward to this workshop on „Italian Colonialism and the Challenges of Global History“ taking place at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social on thursday. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Fascinating programme at the ‘SFPS PG and ECR Study Day 2026 - Common Ground: Locating Solidarities in the Francophone Postcolonial World’ Conference happening tomorrow at UCC. www.ucc.ie/en/french/ne...

At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonizers scarred a landscape, and a community

In den Niederlanden sind mehr Menschen mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs als mit dem Auto. Ergebnis: Die wenigsten Verkehrstoten weltweit. Und praktisch niemand trägt Helm. 🤷‍♂️🚲💚 #Verkehrswende

Back at the IMF and looking forward to another day in the archives. Yay!

Stumbled into a bookstore and treated myself to a new book. After the first 50 pages I am amazed. So well written and fundamentally rethinking what the „Scramble for Africa“ was and uncover its long durée dimension.

Stumbled into a bookstore and treated myself to a new book. After the first 50 pages I am amazed. So well written and fundamentally rethinking what the „Scramble for Africa“ was and uncover its long durée dimension.

This does look like a great conference for both students of Empire and Energy. www.connections.clio-online.net/event/id/eve...

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Great job opportunity at the university of Vienna! Mischa Suter is a good colleague of mine who's worked on money and imperialism and is currently doing a project on how pychoanalysts confronted the psychology of people in non-Western societies, with a focus on Paul Parin and his group:

And here is the second article from our special issue on the history of SAPs: Tobias Rupprecht rejects the common understanding that ‚shock therapy‘ in 1990s Russia was imposed by the IMF. He argues that the process was driven by domestic developments and actors. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ein vergessener Krieg des 20. Jahrhunderts: Interview mit Jannis Girgsdies (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) über den Rifkrieg, koloniale Gewalt in Nordafrika und deutsche Söldner. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/interview_gi...

Du bist Dissertant*in, arbeitest an einem wirtschafts-, sozial- oder umwelthistorischen Thema, wirst an einer österreichischen Uni (zweit)betreut und möchtest erste Ergebnisse präsentieren und dich vernetzen? Dann solltest du dich für den 2-tägigen Workshop in Salzburg bewerben! #envhist

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

Interested in the 1980s international debt crisis and the notorious structural adjustment programs of IMF and World Bank? I have written an article on the Zambian experience: „Structural Adjustment, Riots and the Break with the IMF“. It’s open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interested in the 1980s international debt crisis and the notorious structural adjustment programs of IMF and World Bank? I have written an article on the Zambian experience: „Structural Adjustment, Riots and the Break with the IMF“. It’s open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Next book to review. I am very much looking forward to reading „Disruption“ by @mdegroot51.bsky.social.

Eine neue Tandemführung am 11.7.26 17 Uhr im #HumboldtForum im kollaborativen Projekt "Verflochtene Erinnerungen" www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/... #CoMuse

#Skystorians, die lehren, aufgepasst! Unser Buch ist da und als free download hier zu haben: www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index... Buchvorstellungsanfragen gerne an uns Herausgeber_innen oder hier direkt an mich oder @kreienbaumj.bsky.social.

On 6 May Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe will introduce his book on Polish mayors in the Holocaust on zoom. His book has woken up the ire of some right wing Polish activists who have been harassing Grzegorz and even had his book event at the @topographie.de postponed. www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...

Dekolonial Erinnern in Frankreich: Initiative im Parlament zur Schaffung eines Museums für die Geschichte des Kolonialismus. Vielleicht auch eine Idee für den Bundestag @franziscaz.bsky.social @awettesfaiesus.bsky.social @inesschwerdtner.bsky.social? @richardlegay.bsky.social lcp.fr/actualites/b...

Nun sind auch die letzten Korrekturfahnen abgeschickt und vor allem hat das Buch jetzt das richtige Cover. Check it out here: www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...

This looks like an amazing conference on the history of banking, finance & globalization since the 1970s.

Militär & Kolonialismus: Podcast „Decolonial Memories“ mit Bundeswehr-Zentrum „Militärgeschichte“ über Forschung zur Gewalt in deutschen Kolonien. @michmo.bsky.social @kreienbaumj.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @mehler.bsky.social @bmvg-bundeswehr.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5tCe...

It's publication day! We have a complete issue now in "German History". With @aselmeyer.bsky.social I edited a volume on "Colonial Transactions in the German Empire". The contributions offer new insights into the construction of railways and colonial societies. academic.oup.com/gh/issue/43/4

Der Energieschock ist schon hier. Seine Konsequenzen kommen Schlag auf Schlag. Der Benzinpreis ist nur der Anfang. Eine weitere Inflation der Ungleichheit rollt auf uns zu. Unsere Analyse @surplusmagazin.de @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social www.surplusmagazin.de/isabellawebe...

Diese Idee über den "muslimischen" Sklavenhandel ist übrigens direkt der kolonialen Propaganda des 19. Jahrhunderts entnommen. Das ist nicht nur Relativierung, es ist Kolonialrevisionismus. Das kann man an Flaig auch sehr gut sehen.

Want to know more about current research on the German colonial Empire? Check out our new Special Issue on Labour and Business in german Colonialism. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

Fabulous new special issue on business and labour in the German colonial empire. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

Submission deadline approaching - March 31: 19th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) The AEHN, and the Unit for Economic History at the University of Gothenburg, warmly welcomes submissions on any aspect of African economic history.

I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested? onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Conference time! From protest routes to print networks, from imperial capitals to port cities, urban spaces were not just backdrops but engines of anticolonial struggle. Join us for the "Cities and Decolonization" conference in Oxford this week. More: citiesanddecolonization.com

Jeremy Adelman - The Capitalist Era The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind À paraître en septembre aux Princeton UP

It's easy to hide what this means behind words. But the President of the United States is threatening (over one million) lives to secure minerals. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Lesenswerter Rezensionsessay zu Neuerscheinungen, die sich mit Frantz Fanon beschäftigen.

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

The war on Iran is causing gas and oil price explosions. Our research shows: Fossil fuel prices are the most important prices for inflation and inequality. Energy price shocks are redistribution shocks. The poorer you are, the larger the share of income you spend on essentials.

We are advertising two more positions (economic history focus) in the Trondheim-based team of BLOCKADE - one doctoral and one postdoctoral position; great jobs in a fantastic city - please share!

Super Buch und eine coole Historikerin. Hatte das auch für die #iz3w besprochen. www.iz3w.org/artikel/reze...

„Der große Gewinn von Küntzels Studie liegt dagegen darin, detail- und kenntnisreich zu zeigen, wie koloniale Denkmuster und Fantasien die zentrale Folie bildeten, auf der die Soldaten ihren Erlebnissen während des Nordafrikafeldzugs Sinn gaben…“ 1/2

Started the day with a run along River Lee. Marvellous. (And no rain;-)

#Berlin Stadttouren zu Orten des Erinnerns an den Kolonialismus: Wege des Erinnerns zwischen Wilhelmstraße und „Afrikanischem Viertel“ Ab 05. März 2026, jeden Donnerstag um 15:30 Uhr Tickets und weitere Informationen: www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltun...

I have written about „Railway Construction and the Labour Question in German Southwest Africa, 1903–1909“ arguing that construction comp. used two key strategies to meet the central problem of labour scarcity: forcing concentration camp prisoners to work and tapping transimperial labour networks.

I have written about „Railway Construction and the Labour Question in German Southwest Africa, 1903–1909“ arguing that construction comp. used two key strategies to meet the central problem of labour scarcity: forcing concentration camp prisoners to work and tapping transimperial labour networks.

Heute fand ich völlig unverhofft das neue Buch von @he-mel.bsky.social in der Post. Eine schöne Überraschung und ich freue mich auf die Lektüre.

Now published / Jetzt im Buchhandel www.chbeck.de/melber-gesch...