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Annika Bärwald
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Historian & teacher | researching slavery and the lives of people of color in 18th- and 19th-century Hamburg | PhD'ing at Universität Bremen | banner: Tariq Safieh
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m-azzolini.bsky.social
Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 1 incarico post-doc presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia - SSD PHIL-02/B - GSD 11/PHIL-02- Cod. Pica incarichipd202...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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I usually review books on my bookstagram basicbookstagrammer, but will post this one here, too!

a comprehensive & definitive history of how policing Black bodies shaped American law & society from colonial America through the twentieth century. (1/5)

uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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metoohistory.bsky.social
Eine Gruppe von Professor:innen forderte in einem Brief an die Hochschulleitung der HU Berlin den Schutz eines ihrer Kollegen, dem mehrere Personen Machtmissbrauch, zum Teil sexualisierte Übergriffigkeit vorgeworfen hatten. Ein Brief, der zahlreiche Fragen aufwirft. Unsere Stellungnahme dazu:
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January 26, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Die Argumente gegen eine Erbschaftsteuer überzeugen nicht, sagt Marc Buggeln. Er erklärt, was sich dazu aus der Geschichte lernen lässt.
Historiker über gerechte Steuern: „Das ist vor allem Propaganda“
Die Argumente gegen eine Erbschaftsteuer überzeugen nicht, sagt Marc Buggeln. Er erklärt, was sich dazu aus der Geschichte lernen lässt.
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January 24, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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teresagoeltl.bsky.social
Interested in the politics of #remembering in the #Caribbean?

Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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January 23, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
January 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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archaeoscape.bsky.social
"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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*Reposted CFP with alt text*

III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved

London, 11-12 June 2026

Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗

#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026 We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to: • Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims. • The exchange of goods and knowledge. • Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions. • Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city. This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch. Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!
January 21, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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rhaplord.bsky.social
near life-size terracotta head from Ife

12th–15th century,
Nigeria.
-Met Museum
#randomxt
January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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jakobburnham.bsky.social
Absolutely, truly, so excited for this book!! I’ve read some but there’s nothing quite like a physical copy
Image of the book “By Flesh and Toil: how sex, race and labor shaped the Early French Empire”
January 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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mbarcia24.bsky.social
Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians
Here:

yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Pirate Imperialism - Yale University Press London
This first truly global history of the suppression of piracy links maritime raiding to empire building in the nineteenth century   In the middle decades...
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January 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Akademische Freiheit unter Vorbehalt – Der autoritäre Kurs der Universität Bremen gegen Palästina-Solidarität - etos.media
Universitäten sind nicht nur Orte des Lernens, sondern auch Schauplätze gesellschaftlicher Diskussionen und Auseinandersetzungen. Die akademische Freiheit, also die Freiheit von Lehre und Forschung, i...
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January 18, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Ich mag nicht mehr. Frauen „sichtbar“ machen kann ich mit meiner Forschung, welchen Mehrwert hat denn jetzt hier bitte die KI? Die recycelt doch eh nur. Faschistische Technologie im Einsatz gegen systemische Probleme die durch white supremacy geschaffen wurden.

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January 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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cevans3.bsky.social
Coming soon from @livunipress.bsky.social A wild ride from Cuba to the Cape Colony and Civil War Kentucky. The moral of the story? Although C19 Britons thought their model of emancipation was exceptional, it was anything but #Cuba #AmericanCivilWar #slavery #emancipation #SouthAfrica
January 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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royalhistsoc.org
Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social

Prof. Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB

Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians
2026 Global History Lecture, with the German Historical Institute, London - RHS
On Tuesday 10 February, the Society hosts its annual Global History Lecture, in partnership with the German Historical Institute, London. This year we are delighted to welcome Professor Vinita Damodar...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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davidveevers.bsky.social
Easy to forget how early Portuguese involvement in the enslavement of West Africans was: 1441. By the mid-C16th, the country with the largest African slave population? Portugal, with more than 30,000 enslaved Africans working on the estates of nobles as well as religious orders.
January 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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levkeharders.bsky.social
Workshop an der #UniBern am 27.3.26: "Rassismus und Hochschule: historische Kontinuitäten und antirassistische Strategien": www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...
Rassismus und Hochschule: historische Kontinuitäten und antirassistische Strategien — Gendercampus
Gender Campus ist die Plattform für Gender Studies, Equality und Diversity im Schweizer Hochschulraum. Die Redaktion informiert über Aktivitäten und Neuigkeiten zu diesen Themen und vernetzt Personen ...
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January 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Rez: F. Krebs u.a.: Hamburgs „Baseballschlägerjahre“

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-158619

F. Krebs u.a.: Hamburgs „Baseballschlägerjahre“
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January 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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bydreamphd.bsky.social
Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
Black Atlantic Worlds — Harvard University Press
Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meaning...
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January 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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profmarylewis.bsky.social
Fellowship!

In connection with the research program in Economic History, Climate and the Environment:

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THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS IN PARIS
Fellowships
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January 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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carriegibson.bsky.social
Me, on California and slavery, for the LA Times:

‘California connects Mexican and U.S. history while also serving as a reminder that there are few corners of the Western Hemisphere that are untouched by the legacy of slavery.'

Read here: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: California's place in enslaved people's struggle for freedom
The end of slavery was not solely brought about by the Civil War in the U.S., but also by centuries of resistance across the Americas. This was part of California’s story.
www.latimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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analysekritik.bsky.social
US-Angriff auf Venezuela: Die Trump-Regierung tritt gegenüber Lateinamerika wieder unverblümt imperialistisch auf – der Kontinent selbst ist gespalten, schreibt
@tobiaslambert.bsky.social:
US-Angriff auf Venezuela: unverblümt imperialistisch
Die Trump-Regierung tritt gegenüber Lateinamerika wieder unverblümt imperialistisch auf – der Kontinent selbst ist gespalten
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January 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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jessemlocker.bsky.social
January (detail), Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento, Italy), c. 1400
A fresco of people in a snowy landscape dressed in not very seasonally appropriate medieval costume engaged in a snowball fight
January 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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colonial-memories.bsky.social
Provenienzforschung: Faszinierendes Buch von @museumderkulturen.bsky.social Basel zur Erforschung der Kolonialität seiner 340.000 Kulturgüter als Daueraufgabe („Auf dem Prüfstand“). Gibt es ein deutsches Museum mit derart umfassender Agenda?

@bundeskultur.bsky.social @joachimbaur.bsky.social
Titelseite des Buchs „Jeder Fall liegt anders: Ethnologische Provenienzforschung am Museum der Kulturen Basel“ im Verlag Hatje Cantz
January 3, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM