Christoph Kalter
@christophkalter.bsky.social
Historian | University of Agder | Author | Discovery of the Third World (CUP 2016) | Postcolonial People (CUP 2022) | New project: European Languages in Post-Independence Africa |
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“Reparations for Settlers?” ... is the clickbait title of my latest (and possibly also my last) journal article on postcolonial Portugal in a European context, published in the e-Journal of Portuguese History @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Screenshot of abstract attached.
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"A Pan-African couple:" @elarabertho.bsky.social's great book on Miriam Makeba (South African singer-activist) and Stokely Carmichael (Trinidadian-US theorist-activist of Black Power) in Guinea both challenges and inspires scholarship on the 'Global Sixties.' www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QCSCM...
Un couple panafricain: Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael en Guinée
Published in The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"A Pan-African couple:" @elarabertho.bsky.social's great book on Miriam Makeba (South African singer-activist) and Stokely Carmichael (Trinidadian-US theorist-activist of Black Power) in Guinea both challenges and inspires scholarship on the 'Global Sixties.' www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QCSCM...
Norway, the King and the Shaman: My take on the annoying debate that has stormed around a somewhat fun Netflix production. www.fvn.no/mening/kroni...
«Svært underholdende, og til og med lærerik»
En mulig folkemorderisk krig raser i Gaza, det forferdelige drapet på Charlie Kirk er påskuddet for enda et angrep på demokratiets pilarer i USA – og Norge debatterer en Netflix-film med den morsomme ...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Norway, the King and the Shaman: My take on the annoying debate that has stormed around a somewhat fun Netflix production. www.fvn.no/mening/kroni...
Here's how to fix this AI-attack, presumably at least (see screenshot) - although it does not solve the more general problem of handing over your work to a rather dubious for-profit organization whose account I have not had the heart to delete (yet).
August 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Here's how to fix this AI-attack, presumably at least (see screenshot) - although it does not solve the more general problem of handing over your work to a rather dubious for-profit organization whose account I have not had the heart to delete (yet).
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Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.
I say that with all due gravity.
August 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.
I say that with all due gravity.
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Heute in der FAZ:
Mein Text zur Mythenbildung rund um die Kufiya, die in Deutschland seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 Aufschwung erhalten hat.
www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
Mein Text zur Mythenbildung rund um die Kufiya, die in Deutschland seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 Aufschwung erhalten hat.
www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
August 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Heute in der FAZ:
Mein Text zur Mythenbildung rund um die Kufiya, die in Deutschland seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 Aufschwung erhalten hat.
www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
Mein Text zur Mythenbildung rund um die Kufiya, die in Deutschland seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 Aufschwung erhalten hat.
www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
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This is happening on Friday in Kreuzberg.
Join Adam Shatz, Emilia Roig, and me for a conversation about Frantz Fanon, violence, and decolonization.
More information here: blnreview.de/events/fanon...
Join Adam Shatz, Emilia Roig, and me for a conversation about Frantz Fanon, violence, and decolonization.
More information here: blnreview.de/events/fanon...
I very much look forward to being in conversation with these two fantastic authors, next week. Organized by the wonderful people of @blnreview.bsky.social
All are welcome!
All are welcome!
May 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is happening on Friday in Kreuzberg.
Join Adam Shatz, Emilia Roig, and me for a conversation about Frantz Fanon, violence, and decolonization.
More information here: blnreview.de/events/fanon...
Join Adam Shatz, Emilia Roig, and me for a conversation about Frantz Fanon, violence, and decolonization.
More information here: blnreview.de/events/fanon...
"Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution," @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, eds. Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, @pramospinto.bsky.social. An awesome book! Have a chapter in there that writes the "retornados" aka decolonization, Cold War, and refugeeness back into the picture.
May 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution," @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, eds. Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, @pramospinto.bsky.social. An awesome book! Have a chapter in there that writes the "retornados" aka decolonization, Cold War, and refugeeness back into the picture.
I will be there! Maybe you will, too?
Our project Constellations of Memory organises the conference "Rethinking Colonial Memory: The Afterlives of Empire and the Politics of History in Times of Crisis" that will take place at Portugal National Library on 3 June 2025.
May 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I will be there! Maybe you will, too?
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"Provincializing Europe Revised": 25 years after the publication of Dipesh Chakrabarty's major work, Richard Bourke (@camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social) offers a review article critically analysing its context, arguments, & legacy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Provincializing Europe Revised": 25 years after the publication of Dipesh Chakrabarty's major work, Richard Bourke (@camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social) offers a review article critically analysing its context, arguments, & legacy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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CfA: Webinar Migration in a World of Regions, September 15-17, organized by the International Society for Regional History.
I will give a keynote entitled Migration and Regional History: Reconstructing Western Europe’s Arab Past (1960s–80s).
Deadline for abstracts: June 10.
isrh.org/2025-webinar/
I will give a keynote entitled Migration and Regional History: Reconstructing Western Europe’s Arab Past (1960s–80s).
Deadline for abstracts: June 10.
isrh.org/2025-webinar/
2025 Webinar - ISRH
ISRH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR REGIONAL HISTORY III Global Conference 2025 Webinar 15–17 September 2025 SUBMIT ABSTRACT REGISTER & PAY Migration in a World of Regions The International Society for Reg...
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May 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
CfA: Webinar Migration in a World of Regions, September 15-17, organized by the International Society for Regional History.
I will give a keynote entitled Migration and Regional History: Reconstructing Western Europe’s Arab Past (1960s–80s).
Deadline for abstracts: June 10.
isrh.org/2025-webinar/
I will give a keynote entitled Migration and Regional History: Reconstructing Western Europe’s Arab Past (1960s–80s).
Deadline for abstracts: June 10.
isrh.org/2025-webinar/
It seems like I am officially beginning my humble and cautious transition into the field of African history! Stoked to be invited to this very exciting author's workshop organized by Mary A. Owusu and @martinrempe.bsky.social. Looking forward!
April 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It seems like I am officially beginning my humble and cautious transition into the field of African history! Stoked to be invited to this very exciting author's workshop organized by Mary A. Owusu and @martinrempe.bsky.social. Looking forward!
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** Sounds of independence **
Lecture series on the sounds of the independence of the African colonies of #Portugal -- #Angola #Mozambique #CapeVerde #SaoTome. Every Monday in June - for the 50 years of independence
#musicology #history #anthropology AfroLuso Afrihistosky
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** Sounds of independence **
Lecture series on the sounds of the independence of the African colonies of #Portugal -- #Angola #Mozambique #CapeVerde #SaoTome. Every Monday in June - for the 50 years of independence
#musicology #history #anthropology AfroLuso Afrihistosky
== ONLINE ==
April 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
** Sounds of independence **
Lecture series on the sounds of the independence of the African colonies of #Portugal -- #Angola #Mozambique #CapeVerde #SaoTome. Every Monday in June - for the 50 years of independence
#musicology #history #anthropology AfroLuso Afrihistosky
== ONLINE ==
** Sounds of independence **
Lecture series on the sounds of the independence of the African colonies of #Portugal -- #Angola #Mozambique #CapeVerde #SaoTome. Every Monday in June - for the 50 years of independence
#musicology #history #anthropology AfroLuso Afrihistosky
== ONLINE ==
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#BD Dans les années 1970, une maison d'édition se lance dans la réalisation de biographies de dirigeants africains sous forme de bandes dessinées. Sauf que les scénarios ne reflètent pas toujours la réalité historique... C’est la naissance d’Afrique Biblio Club. Par @kalidousy.bsky.social ⬇️
« Il était une fois… » La BD française au service des dictatures - Histoire
Au milieu des années 1970, une maison d’édition française se lance dans la réalisation de biographies de nombreux dirigeants africains sous forme de bandes dessinées. Sauf que les scénarios ne (…)
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April 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
#BD Dans les années 1970, une maison d'édition se lance dans la réalisation de biographies de dirigeants africains sous forme de bandes dessinées. Sauf que les scénarios ne reflètent pas toujours la réalité historique... C’est la naissance d’Afrique Biblio Club. Par @kalidousy.bsky.social ⬇️
🚨Attention Global Sixties scholars:🚨A typical French handwriting in the mail is always a good omen. Here, it announced the arrival of @elarabertho.bsky.social’s exciting new book “A Pan-African Couple: Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Guinea”. Looking forward to reading!
April 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🚨Attention Global Sixties scholars:🚨A typical French handwriting in the mail is always a good omen. Here, it announced the arrival of @elarabertho.bsky.social’s exciting new book “A Pan-African Couple: Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Guinea”. Looking forward to reading!
"Building Nations, Making Worlds, Creating Subjects: European Languages in Postcolonial Africa" is the megalomaniac title for the presentation of my research project at @sdu.dk (host: @christiandp.bsky.social) that is still very much work in progress and a fragile flower. Join us if you are around!
March 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Building Nations, Making Worlds, Creating Subjects: European Languages in Postcolonial Africa" is the megalomaniac title for the presentation of my research project at @sdu.dk (host: @christiandp.bsky.social) that is still very much work in progress and a fragile flower. Join us if you are around!
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Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social
I am stoked to announce the publication of the Portuguese translation of my 2022 book “Postcolonial People” - finally in the language of the people this book is about, and finally at a very affordable price!
February 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I am stoked to announce the publication of the Portuguese translation of my 2022 book “Postcolonial People” - finally in the language of the people this book is about, and finally at a very affordable price!
🚨Berlin // Kristiansand, Southern Norway // Home Swap!🚨 We (two adults, one kid) want to spend two weeks in Berlin in July 2025 (exact dates flexible). We offer our beautiful home in Kristiansand on the "Norwegian Riviera" in return. Please be in touch if interested & share widely!
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨Berlin // Kristiansand, Southern Norway // Home Swap!🚨 We (two adults, one kid) want to spend two weeks in Berlin in July 2025 (exact dates flexible). We offer our beautiful home in Kristiansand on the "Norwegian Riviera" in return. Please be in touch if interested & share widely!
Hello! If you know a thing or two about Google's Ngram viewer, please help! I was wondering how I can ngram not a single search term (ex.: "modernization"), or a combination of two (ex.: "modernization theory"), but instead a combination of three or more (ex: "us modernization theory")?
February 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hello! If you know a thing or two about Google's Ngram viewer, please help! I was wondering how I can ngram not a single search term (ex.: "modernization"), or a combination of two (ex.: "modernization theory"), but instead a combination of three or more (ex: "us modernization theory")?
🚨Global history & language. Amazing workshop coming up!! 🚨 (Unfortunately, I won’t apply myself 😔 - blame Norway’s ‘fellesferie’ in July! 😖)
CfP: New Global Histories of Language, organized by Valeska Huber @globaldiscnct.bsky.social. Deadline for proposals 28 Feb: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🚨Global history & language. Amazing workshop coming up!! 🚨 (Unfortunately, I won’t apply myself 😔 - blame Norway’s ‘fellesferie’ in July! 😖)
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O Instituto de História Contemporânea chegou ao Bluesky !
#bskystorians
#bskystorians
👋 Olá!
👋 Hello!
Sejam todos/as bem-vindos ao nosso espaço no Bluesky.
Welcome to our Bluesky space.
Um espaço para quem queira acompanhar as actividades do Instituto de História Contemporânea e dos nossos investigadores/as.
Here, you can know more about our activities and researchers.
👋 Hello!
Sejam todos/as bem-vindos ao nosso espaço no Bluesky.
Welcome to our Bluesky space.
Um espaço para quem queira acompanhar as actividades do Instituto de História Contemporânea e dos nossos investigadores/as.
Here, you can know more about our activities and researchers.
February 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
O Instituto de História Contemporânea chegou ao Bluesky !
#bskystorians
#bskystorians
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A huge congrats to @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social on the publication of his book, 'Repeating Revolutions: The French Revolution and the Algerian War.' I can't wait to read it.
🗃 Check it out here:
www.routledge.com/Repeating-Re...
🗃 Check it out here:
www.routledge.com/Repeating-Re...
Repeating Revolutions: The French Revolution and the Algerian War
Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France’s Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria’s struggle for decolonization from the 1930s t...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A huge congrats to @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social on the publication of his book, 'Repeating Revolutions: The French Revolution and the Algerian War.' I can't wait to read it.
🗃 Check it out here:
www.routledge.com/Repeating-Re...
🗃 Check it out here:
www.routledge.com/Repeating-Re...
Look what the library found for me! Excited to explore this 1968 publication in sociolinguistics based on a 1966 conference.
January 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Look what the library found for me! Excited to explore this 1968 publication in sociolinguistics based on a 1966 conference.
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Ned Richardson-Little, The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, August 2025
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
The German Democratic Republic
This book is a succinct yet comprehensive history of East Germany which provides a differentiated picture of the communist state. It offers a sophisticated anal…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Ned Richardson-Little, The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, August 2025
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
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The Global Urban History Project is now on bsky:
@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social
Follow GUHP, if you are interested in the crossroads of urban and global history!
@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social
Follow GUHP, if you are interested in the crossroads of urban and global history!
January 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The Global Urban History Project is now on bsky:
@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social
Follow GUHP, if you are interested in the crossroads of urban and global history!
@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social
Follow GUHP, if you are interested in the crossroads of urban and global history!