Delighted to have talked about a new research topic of mine with Anne van Mourik at NIOD Amsterdam, for the terrific Rewind podcast

‘… an IDIOCRACY, in which low-grade pleasures (such as the capacity to buy cheap goods, pay low or no taxes, carry guns into Starbucks, and maintain the right *not* to help each other) displace all other forms of FREEDOM …’ - Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

That new episode of The Diplomat with Keir Starmer in it was trite

Coming up online on 6 December -

extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...

“The law of the #ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe...our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.” Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com

Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!

You can now watch the recording of my inaugural professorial lecture on You Tube - ‘A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Futures’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...

Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"

Lovende woorden tijdens verdediging proefschrift Katja Paijens, live op de stream @unileiden.bsky.social, over Max Alkadrie. Volgens de opponenten een kasteelroman, een potentiele Netflixserie of een musical!

Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...

One of my favourite parts of being an academic historian is reviewing an outstanding journal article at the cutting edge of research - and waiting with baited breath to find out who wrote it! 🔥 #lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch

No communist armies involved AT ALL 🤣

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

Great short piece by @csetijadi.bsky.social and Ken Setiawan. 🙀 theconversation.com/how-mps-aban...

Reading this classic for the first time. Reminded *once again* that I cannot be convinced #perpetratortrauma has any conceptual value aside from clinical, therapeutic purposes

I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.

How do we decolonise archives? In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.

‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇 press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... #indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography

Out TODAY!

💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫 Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY press.anu.edu.au/publications... Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷

New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩 Open access 👇 bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...

Expert colleagues have written a report substantiating the need for Dutch universities to cut ties at the institutional level with Israeli universities in response to genocide. academictiesisrael.nl

In the year of our lord 2025, this is not OK. #Journalism #PublicDebate

#globalhistory @vuamsterdam.bsky.social 🌎💵 #economichistory #americanhistory #imperialism

Oh my piece is out too now. For colleagues in #PerpetratorStudies, I'd love to hear what you think. #Perpetrators #MassViolence #Genocide #Accountability #Justice justiceinconflict.org/2025/06/19/w...

Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#rodelijn With 150,000 people protesting genocide and standing with Palestine in The Hague today

Our book has a cover! Coming next November with the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social series at @uclpress.bsky.social

Mijn bijdrage aan dit artikel in het AD over koopkrachtverschillen tussen Nederland en Argentinië, met wat broodnodige nuance en een kleine herinnering dat publieke universiteiten in Argentinië nog altijd gratis zijn. www.ad.nl/buitenland/m...

Petit rappel: la journée "Réactiver les images" avec (notamment) Elizabeth Edwards, Edhem Eldem, @susieprotschky.bsky.social , @kimatiwagner.bsky.social, @[email protected] c'est lundi à l'INHA. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles invisu.cnrs.fr/2025/04/09/1...

Pairing Rothberg with Sremac & Van Liere for my short course on political history - ‘trauma and nostalgia’ plus ‘multidirectional memory’ - and it is a *great* match #historyandtheory #politicalhistory @mrothberg.bsky.social

Great to welcome Kim as invited professor at Université Paris Cité!

She did something racist that no normal person would do, and is facing the consequences. It takes until the end of this fawning artilce to reflect on what it did to the 15 yr old girl www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

For anyone in or near Amsterdam, I'll be hosted this coming Tuesday by @susieprotschky.bsky.social speaking about my new work on the German Empire in the Pacific.

#globalhistory at the VU Amsterdam presents - Prof. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, ‘Exception or empire as usual? German Samoa and liberal imperialism’ @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social #germanhistory #imperialism #samoa #pacifichistory #liberalism

Dutton, Abbott and Howard in a game of musical chairs. Called by Antony Green. Fantasy ABC broadcast.

#colonialism #martialraces #australia #papuanewguinea #britishempire www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Geen zelfkritiek? We hebben een heel pamflet met zelfkritiek geschreven notabene. Tegen dit soort masochisme is het moeilijk strijden. Of eigenlijk gewoon voorspelbaar ordinair contrarianisme. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Good read. Her name was Sophie Mousseau, and her story is worth remembering and contemplating.

The new issue of the Journal of War & Culture Studies is a special issue on cold war visual legacies, co-edited by our lab colleague, Dr Kylie Thomas: Cold War Visual Legacies: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ywac20/1...

Book presentation - Legacies of colonialism in museum collections: The (un)making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands, with author Mirjam Shatanawi; discussants Susie Protschky, Adieyatna Fajri, Theo Frids Hutabarat; moderator Marieke Bloembergen - 15 May 2025 hybrid www.kitlv.nl/event-shatan...

Al Jazeera achieves the opposite meaning from their intention with some shitty copyediting on the 50th anniversary of the end of the American War in Vietnam

Wat een idioot recensie. Zonder echte historische kritiek, en het herhalen van gemeenplaatsen over Nederlandse films in plaats van Indonesische ! De Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog als een mix tussen slasher en erotische thriller in 'Dajakarta 1946' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

‘…the antithesis of hit-and-run war photography’

Come work with me in Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - we are searching for an Endowed Prof. in Historical Cultures of Germany in a European and Global Context #germanhistory workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/en...

#globalhistory #visualculture #holocaust

Strike at the VU Amsterdam. Part of the relay strikes in universities across the country to protest the government’s proposed cuts to education - the far right’s attempt to crack down on criticism and internationalism - and its agenda to finance military spending by bleeding a public good.

Indonesia is a large democracy on Earth but also has a dark history of military rule that only ended in 1998 through a mass uprising in the streets. A new law is putting more of the military back into government theworld.org/segments/202...