Last month I rode my motorbike in the depths of (Western) Turkey and I half-joked that I crossed villages where people haven't heard of the Republic yet. As on cue @selimkoru.bsky.social analyzes the politics of that visceral feeling in the current context kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/we-are-des...

My latest from @foreignpolicy.com "Just recently, Turkey stood out for its repeated assaults on international norms. Now, those norms have been shattered by a host of bigger and more aggressive actors, and Turkey looks almost calm in comparison. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/17/t...

Today's #Ausnahmezustand - just how absurd things have become. Stay on top of the daily madness but then also get acquainted with Carl Schmitt, Nietzsche, Heidegger, René Girard, Saint Augustine, etc. And when things get this Teutonic, it's usually not a good sign... 😵

I Ngurah Suryawan's essay on anti-government protests in #Bali; culturalist attitudes that view the Balinese as politically passive, harmonious, peaceful subjects; and commodification of "pure and authentic" Balinese culture... @BaleBengong balebengong.id/bali-dan-ras...

Coming soon: Eight European Congress on World and Global History 2025 "Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions" Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden 10-12 September 2025 eniugh.org/congress/

[Replay] 📺 Revivez la conférence inaugurale du professeur Sanjay Subrahmanyam : "Empires, nations, réseaux : les fabriques des récits civilisationnels", prononcée lors du coup d'envoi du programme DECRIPT, le 25 juin dernier à l'Inalco.

Our scholarship holder Taesoo Kim @uni-goettingen.de explores the entanglements of the #ConservativeRevolution, the #NouvelleDroite & the #NeueRechte. His project traces how ideas circulated transnationally & shaped Europe’s right-wing intellectual postwar networks.

Let me tell you as a historian of Nairobis matatu men: this will not end well for the government: Jan is correct, don’t mess with them.

News of a student killed at protests in #Yogya, family made to sign a pledge that they won't press charges against authorities

On its march towards authoritarianism, the Indonesian government has now created an enemy of the legions and legions of #ojek guys. Probably not a group anyone would want to mess with... These guys work their ass off and keep the capital and country running.

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

I declined interviews on the Trump-Putin nonsense. I don't want to speculate on rumours and I don't think it will deliver substance. However I created my first #substack text on what challenges lie ahead for 🇪🇺 supporting 🇺🇦 alone: open.substack.com/pub/gustavgr...

Our joint SWP-Comment on the role of Turkey in a future European security architecture is now online and can be accessed at the link below 👇 www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The memorial at Bologna Centrale.

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People need to distinguish between a political win for the Trump administration (who gets the policy they want) and a win for the US as a country (who will get that policy good and hard)

"What does the PKK disarming mean for Turkey and the Kurds?" by @galipdalay.bsky.social. [3/5]

Die russische Föderation nachdem ein ehemaliger deutscher Ministerpräsident (SPD) zum 13ten mal nach Moskau gereist ist

🪧Applications invited from post-doctoral/early career scholars at German universities and research institutions, for a three-month #fellowship 🕔26 September 2025 (23:59 CET) Details👇 karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/f... @ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @icasmp.bsky.social

Turkish government policies that are clearing the way for mining, tourism and unchecked development are also fueling unprecedented forest fires in the country, show @sofiacherici.bsky.social and @aylinlc.bsky.social in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social investigation.

Account to follow: There aren't many really active voices writing about #Turkey on this site. @cplaisant.bsky.social has been wonderfully engaged, sharing articles in multiple languages, and providing Eng translations of important Turkish texts, along with his own analysis. Well worth a follow

Percentage of female MPs in the parties represented in the Turkish National Assembly (via www.mecliste.org/icerik/125/Y...)

#Publication 📘 Retrouvez l'histoire complète et rigoureuse du peuple #kurde, de l’Antiquité à nos jours dans l'ouvrage collectif dirigé par Hamit Bozarslan (CETOBaC, @ehess.fr). 👉 bit.ly/4kI7jsy

The Jokowi Presidency: Indonesia’s Decade of Authoritarian Revival @iseas-singapore.bsky.social bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/...

The Jokowi Presidency: Indonesia’s Decade of Authoritarian Revival @iseas-singapore.bsky.social bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/...

Just saw that this was posted by one of my favorite Islamic Studies/History podcasts. This is a clip, focused on the contemporary scene, of a longer conversation in which Islamic da’wa (preaching/proselytization) is defined and examined from the Qur’an to the present. 🗃️

Where is Europe in this Year 4 of a new historical era? Will liberal or anti-liberal Europe prevail? What will become of the Zeitenwende? We have until 2029 to shape the answers. My weekend essay for the @FT @ftweekend (£, I'm afraid)

Watching the decline of the US in real-time...

One for the history books...

The Kurdish presence and its cultural, political impact in Turkey will likely increase... Its current political expression seems in crisis but new political languages and forms of expression will emerge in its place or out of it.

This future is simply a much dumber dystopia than the one I had imagined.

📸 Lancement de DÉCRIPT : le 25 juin, chercheurs et partenaires se sont réunis pour poser les bases de ce programme sur les récits civilisationnels porté par l'Inalco. Une rencontre qui a permis de créer une première dynamique collective pour une aventure scientifique qui se déploiera jusqu'en 2032.

📢 JOB ALERT: PhD Studentship for UKRI-funded 5-year project, 'Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City', selected for funding by the ERC under its HORIZON programme. Fully funded full-time international studentship for 3 years, starting Jan 2026. 🔗Apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51920/

This ideology's complex-laden obsession with symbolic conquest doesn't cease to produce the most absurd initiatives... www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/3511...

This ideology's complex-laden obsession with symbolic conquest doesn't cease to produce the most absurd initiatives... www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/3511...

Journée de lancement du programme de recherche #DECRIPT - étudiant l'essor des récits civilisationnels dans le monde contemporain. Écouter le tour d'horizon de Sanjay Subrahmanyam @inalco.fr

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

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Journée de lancement du programme de recherche #DECRIPT - étudiant l'essor des récits civilisationnels dans le monde contemporain. Écouter le tour d'horizon de Sanjay Subrahmanyam @inalco.fr

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I reviewed Sam Tanenhaus’s epic biography of William F. Buckley Jr. for Democracy: democracyjournal.org/magazine/77/...

Über das Lamentieren von privilegierterster Position...

Important read for parents and anyone with any app ;)

An interesting conversation based on a thoughtful exploration of the milieu of the Tarikats in Turkey...

Lectures and students in Yogyakarta, #indonesia, worried about military encroachment on campus liberties... www.tempo.co/politik/angg...

❗Publication du rapport " Frères musulmans et islamisme politique en France " www.interieur.gouv.fr/actualites/d...

❗Publication du rapport " Frères musulmans et islamisme politique en France " www.interieur.gouv.fr/actualites/d...

If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.