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Manuel Castelao Ouzande
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PhD researcher at @eui-history.bsky.social

Mumbles (mostly) about disabled war veterans

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🤔 Wondering what a PhD at the EUI entails? Let's talk about the details in our Prep Talks!

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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📰 "...To remember Pilati today is to recall that neither fascism nor war was inevitable"

Read the @theflorentine.bsky.social article by our #PhD researcher @castelaoouzande.bsky.social on Gaetano Pilati, socialist leader and disabled war veteran, murdered in Florence 100 years ago 👇
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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En breves, el @eui-eu.bsky.social abrirá el plazo para presentarse a sus programas de doctorado. Si tienes dudas, únete a la prep talk el 18 de noviembre (16:00-17:00): www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

En ella te informaremos sobre el proceso y responderemos a (casi) cualquier pregunta. ¡Nos vemos!
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October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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How did Italian servicemen see their enemies in FWW? My review of ‘Uomini come noi’ is just out – a sound study of how soldiers imagined the foe, based on their writings and personal narratives.

Take a look here via @fwwsjournal.bsky.social!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TXBEV...
‘Uomini come noi’: Il nemico nelle scritture dei soldati italiani (1915–18)
Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Hace nueve años, cuando comencé a divulgar, estaba algo más flipado sobre mis conocimientos pero sobre todo más seguro de que estos eran necesarios, de que mucha gente tenía ganas de saber y les faltaba información de calidad, y creía en las posibilidades del debate racional.

Ahora no sé.
June 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
castelaoouzande.bsky.social
In 1919, French veterans demonstrated against the ‘foreign’ employees working in French hotels, many of whom were Swiss. The veterans called for the expulsion of these workers and for their own reinstatement in those jobs. Here is a letter from a hotel owner in Nice addressed to the Swiss consul.
Here‘s my (rather imperfect) translation: Nice, 7 November 1919 Mr. Consul, I regret to inform you that yesterday my Hotel was the scenario of a tumultuous scene provoked by a number of demonstrators claiming to be demobilized, former hotel employees, who, insulting and threatening, invaded the Lobby of my Hotel, hoping by these actions to force me to dismiss the few Swiss employees I still employ, being fully aware of my clientele, of the entire organization of my Hotel, and who are therefore absolutely indispensable to me. I must confess to you, Mr. Consul, that, given the provocative attitude of these demonstrators, with whom it was impossible to speak for two hours, I felt absolutely insecure, and I would be grateful if you would take the necessary steps to ensure my protection and the free exercise of my profession. Please accept, Mr Consul, the expression of my distinguished consideration. [last part in the next image]
June 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The programme for the 4th international Military Welfare History Network conference (9-11 July) is now live. Full details can be found at militarywelfarehistory.com/2025-confere.... Book your place now by emailing the organisers #milwelfhist
June 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Chi va piano va sano e va lontano…
Something about veterans, disability e tutte queste robe pazze che mi svegliano nel mezzo della notte.
June 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Honoured to have been awarded Best Article of 2024 in @francemodern.bsky.social for this piece (now Open Access). Writing this was a tortuous process and so many colleagues helped me. Special thanks to @ninaparish.bsky.social and Hannah Grayson for their support: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies
First as candidate and then as President, Emmanuel Macron has elevated colonial memory policy as a key site for the performance and enactment of the dual values of rupture and reconciliation that u...
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April 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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From 1919 to 1922, many ex-servicemen and disabled veterans protested in Italy. They demanded reemployment, aid for their cooperatives, and other types of material and symbolic compensation and recognition. Among them, tubercular ex-servicemen played a particular, key role.
Circulaire 400 is a swindle. = War tuberculosis patients are granted allowances during convalescence, but these are later deducted from their meager pensions!!! Tuberculosis patients demand assistance and care not only for themselves but also so as not to be harmful to society. While war tuberculosis patients die in misery, action is taken by appointing commissions. War tuberculosis patients number over forty thousand. = Yet there are not even a thousand places available in sanatoriums.
April 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Lo que vi en la guerra: diario de un soldado (1912), de Eugenio Noel, es una de las primeras aproximaciones autobiográficas a la guerra colonial española en el Rif.

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Lo que vi en la guerra :diario de un soldado / Eugenio Noel - Noel, Eugenio - Libro - 1912
Page showing bibliographic data of a work.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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On this international Women's Day I'm thinking particularly of the late great Annie Steiner who broke gendered and racial expectations of settler colonial society in Algeria to fight for liberation. She suffered greatly for it but remained an advocate of justice until the end. Here's a 🧵on her life
March 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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💬 "Women’s liberation is not a standalone issue [..] it depends on the power of collective, international resistance."

On #IWD2025 @minjabujakovic.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social explores the Communist Women’s Movement & its relevance to today’s #emancipation struggles.

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March 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1
March 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Very excited to announce our first COLVET workshop on April 02. The theme is New Directions in Veteran History and our keynote will be the brilliant Jelena Ɖureinović. This is a hybrid event and all are welcome to attend. Registration required. Please share widely.
March 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Don't miss the poster exhibition Mapping Colonial Florence: A History of Violence and Its Remains 👇

On display at Villa Salviati until 6 March 2025

#bhmf #blackhistorymonth
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Didn’t get a chance to see the Black History Month poster exhibition at the Badia? It is now on display in Villa Salviati! Learn more about the exhibition, Mapping Colonial Florence: A History of Violence and Its Remains, here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
#bhmf
BHM Book display at EUI Library, BHM online display of reading list collection, Poster exhibition for BHM in Lower Loggia at the EUI.
February 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The historian’s curse: you see the plates in Tuscan public transport (roughly from the 1990s) and immediately think about them as a historical source.

Instead of going to the archives, one might have to start looking on the buses!
‘Seats reserves for war, labour and civilian mutilated and invalid [people], handicapped and incapacitated people and elderly people.’
February 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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En 1985 Svetlana Aleksiévich lanzaba una atrevida investigación. En su superventas La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer recopilaba los testimonios orales de numerosas mujeres soviéticas que habían vivido la segunda guerra mundial.
February 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A continuación os proponemos un recorrido por la historiografía reciente que ha explorado la interrelación entre guerra, género, intimidad y sexualidad.

Dentro hilo 🧵👇
February 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Que.

Rip historia agraria e historia social do campesiñado.
February 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The salary of a 1st and 2nd year Phd student in Spain is now only about 100€ higher that than the minimum wage
January 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Every so often, we catch a glimpse of the brutal realities for victims of war under colonialism. Here we have administrators raising the issue of how to establish the identity of West African veterans who are illiterate and have no fingerprints due to the loss of both hands.
January 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Petition letters are either the most formulaic or the most insightful source ever. I'm currently dealing with a disabled veteran living in Philadelphia, prolly from Armenian origins but 'naturalised' French citizen. I've only found one letter from him; however, it is endless material.
January 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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International environmental discussions and policymaking are usually associated with post-1945 politics. Yet, there were some pioneering initiatives linked to the League of Nations.

Here's a report of the May 1928 meeting of the International Committee for Bird Protection.
The Committe proposed two initiatives. The first one was 'intended to protect migratory birds […] while on their way to, and while in, their breeding haunts'. The second proposal aimed 'to prevent the destruction of birds by oil pollution in navigable waters'.
January 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM