Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Sur Jacques Revel, grand passeur de la microstoria, qui vient de décéder www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

History repeating, the same procedure as in Gaza... This world now needs courageous politicians to stop these illegal wars. Yet historians have a long memory and will bring up the cruelties and war crimes for decades to come! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #WarCrimes #genocide

The journal "Monde(s)" organised a debate around my book "Catholicism and the mkaing of politics" with Profs Elizabeth A. Foster, Samuël Coghe, Markku Hokkanen and myself. Here: shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes... #Mozambique #Africa #Catholic #History #Politics #Church #Diocese #Sociology

After Cees Noteboom earlier this year, another favourite author of mine has died. Reading António Lobo Antunes in Portuguese was a challenge. I remain grateful for his tragic-hilarious stories. RIP www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Pete Hegseth "You lack the character, composure and competence to hold the position of Secretary of Defense." -Senator Jack Reed youtu.be/qhZ3lILyolM?...

If European leaders want international law to survive, then they have to speak up and defend it, instead of remaining silent. How difficult can it be to condemn the illegal actions of states that don't respect us anyway? #SpeakUpEurope

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

The AfricaMuseum in Brussels rightly refuses to transfer mining archives on DRC's geology to Trump and his greedy imperialist techfriends. Back off! vrtnws.be/p.vLePpJvpm #greedyimperialists

Mocht je ondanks alles nog zin hebben om naar het WK voetbal te gaan: @hardgras.bsky.social

Tomorrow, February 10, Samuël Coghe will be presenting at the Socialist Medicine Seminar at the Humboldt University of Berlin about 'The Ecological Limits of the Cattle Frontier: Anthrax and Transimperial Technopolitics in Colonial Madagascar, 1890s-1960". socialistmedicine.com/samuel-coghe...

How great the US can be!

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Es gibt häufig nicht die eine Wahrheit. Aber es gibt eindeutige Lügen. Die klar zu benennen, wie @philippsarasin.bsky.social schreibt, sollte Aufgabe unserer Medien sein. Sonst ist alles egal.

Warum zum Teufel schreibt der Spiegel (und analog andere Medien), die Videos von der Ermordung von Pretti „scheinen“ der „Darstellung“ von Trump und DHS „zu widersprechen“?! Sie *zeigen* absolut eindeutig, dass Pretti keine Waffe, sondern ein Phone in der Hand hielt. Was alle sehen…/2

Never thought the Sex Pistols were being prophetic about the US in 1977: "God save the Queen. The fascist regime.They made you a moron. A potential H-Bomb..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"God save the queen, a fascist regime..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Important work by economists in Germany shows that US importers and consumers are paying Trump's import tariffs... www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...

Tomorrow, Elene Vernaeve and Samuël Coghe will present the CATTLEFRONTIERS project at the Internationalised Politics Colloquium at the University of Bremen. For more information: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

Last week Elene Vernaeve and Zarah Cleve attended the 4th CRN PhD Days, presenting on "Cattle, companies and the countryside: Environmental impact of the cattle industry in 20th century Katanga" and "Controlling Flies and Managing Landscapes: Veterinary Science and Tsetse in Katanga" respectively.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Still 6 days to apply for the CATTLEFRONTIERS international workshop in Ghent (3-5 June 2026) 'Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire'. See the CfP below for more information or cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...

Hoelang moet het nog duren voordat de leiders van de Democratische Partij opstaan tegen dit schrikbewind?

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📢 Call for Papers 📢 2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” 📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026 ⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/ @davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Irène Herrmann's new book is finally out link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

Mamdani kennt sich auch im Völkerrecht besser aus als Merz....

"Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex"....Man weiß gar nicht, wo man anfangen soll. #Merz #Venezuela

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, see 'Working Through a War: The Traders of John Holt & Co. in Cameroon During the First World War' by Deborah Neill: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Tomorrow (Thursday 11 dec., 10:00-12:00 CET), we are hosting Prof. Yi-Tang Lin from Zürich University for the last session in our Lecture Series in Global and African History. She will present her ongoing research on rice farming sciences in 20th-century West Africa. www.grh.ugent.be/activities/

For the final lecture in our Livestock Histories series we look forward to welcoming William Gervase Clarence-Smith next Tuesday, who will be speaking about 'Mules and Donkeys in Global History: Neglected Animal Technologies'. To register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/william-gerv...

For more information, including the call for papers, please visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...

We are very happy to announce the first International Workshop of the CATTLEFRONTIERS Project, Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire. The workshop will be taking place 3-5 June 2026 in Ghent, Belgium.

Next Tuesday for our Livestock Histories Lecture Series we welcome Oscar Broughton who will be speaking on 'Brazilian Beef: A National Cuisine in a Transimperial Setting 1880-1980'. For more information and to register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/oscar-brough...

Next Tuesday will be the third lecture of our Livestock Histories Lecture Series! Helen Cowie (University of York) will be talking about Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire. For more information and to register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/helen-cowie-...

Very happy to present my research in Leipzig at the GlobeColloquium, this Wednesday!

In this week's #GlobeColloquium, @samuelcoghe.bsky.social explores the history of cattle farming in Africa: How did colonial intervention, capitalist exploitation, and scientific practices change traditional livestock farming, give rise to new conflicts, and shape global economic interdependencies?

Next Monday (10 Nov., 18:00-20:00 CET), Prof. Eric Jennings (University of Toronto) will present his new book on the global history of vanilla (yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...) at Ghent University, in our Lecture Series in Global and Regional History. All welcome! And full programme attached.

Over zin en onzin, fictie en realiteit van het Nederlands als onderzoekstaal aan Vlaamse universiteiten... www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...

Only now did I hear about her death. Without the Erasmus programme, my life would have been very different, just like that of millions of other Europeans, and just like Europe itself... RIP! www.brusselstimes.com/1802731/sofi...