Felicity Jensz
@fjensz.bsky.social
Historian based in Germany
| history of empires | memories of empires | critical mission history | colonial education | histories of collections | fishfingers | u. a.
| history of empires | memories of empires | critical mission history | colonial education | histories of collections | fishfingers | u. a.
globalbible.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/10/16/g...
What an amazing exhibition opening and conference. Read all about our #DFG funded, internationally connected and inspiring work here.
What an amazing exhibition opening and conference. Read all about our #DFG funded, internationally connected and inspiring work here.
Global Bible Exhibition and Workshop, Münster. – Global Bible
globalbible.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
globalbible.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/10/16/g...
What an amazing exhibition opening and conference. Read all about our #DFG funded, internationally connected and inspiring work here.
What an amazing exhibition opening and conference. Read all about our #DFG funded, internationally connected and inspiring work here.
Our #DFG GloBil project exhibition on the legacies of Bible translations in the Arctic, West Africa and Oceania is opening next week. Come along to the @bibelmuseum in Münster from 10. October 2025
October 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Our #DFG GloBil project exhibition on the legacies of Bible translations in the Arctic, West Africa and Oceania is opening next week. Come along to the @bibelmuseum in Münster from 10. October 2025
Ich bin begeistert vom Veranstaltungsort und natürlich vom Inhalt hier am #historikertag2025
September 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Ich bin begeistert vom Veranstaltungsort und natürlich vom Inhalt hier am #historikertag2025
#historikertag2025
Reflexion on influences that shape history writing with Dipesh Chakrabarty
Reflexion on influences that shape history writing with Dipesh Chakrabarty
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
#historikertag2025
Reflexion on influences that shape history writing with Dipesh Chakrabarty
Reflexion on influences that shape history writing with Dipesh Chakrabarty
#historikertag2025
Great start to the conference.
Great start to the conference.
September 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#historikertag2025
Great start to the conference.
Great start to the conference.
Had a few inspirational days in Växjö at ENIUGH.
September 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Had a few inspirational days in Växjö at ENIUGH.
Some summer listening...
July 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Some summer listening...
Last day of the conference. It's been a inspiring few days. Thanks to @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social and GHI Washington
June 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Last day of the conference. It's been a inspiring few days. Thanks to @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social and GHI Washington
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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...
June 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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...
Hot off the press :
My latest article in @jich.bsky.social open access. Read, discuss, share. Thanks to all the scholars who helped shape this work.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My latest article in @jich.bsky.social open access. Read, discuss, share. Thanks to all the scholars who helped shape this work.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial Reach Through Bible Translations in Nineteenth Century German East Africa
Informed by an attention to global and transnational entanglements, this article examines the context and process of bible translations from German East Africa at the tail end of German colonial ru...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Hot off the press :
My latest article in @jich.bsky.social open access. Read, discuss, share. Thanks to all the scholars who helped shape this work.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My latest article in @jich.bsky.social open access. Read, discuss, share. Thanks to all the scholars who helped shape this work.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together
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Making Enemies: British and German Missionary Personnel in East African Internment Camps during the First World War*
Abstract. During the First World War, German and British citizens in British and German colonies in East Africa were placed in internment camps. Men, women
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May 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
My new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together
academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...
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muse.jhu.edu/article/950281
New article out by me and my wonderful colleague Marleen Reichgelt on children, photography and transimperialism
New article out by me and my wonderful colleague Marleen Reichgelt on children, photography and transimperialism
Project MUSE - Papuan Children, Catholic Missionaries, and the Formation of Transimperial Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe
muse.jhu.edu
March 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
muse.jhu.edu/article/950281
New article out by me and my wonderful colleague Marleen Reichgelt on children, photography and transimperialism
New article out by me and my wonderful colleague Marleen Reichgelt on children, photography and transimperialism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Just reminding you all that this article I co-wrote with the fabulous Daniel Gerster on methodology in researching boarding is open access.... Enjoy
Just reminding you all that this article I co-wrote with the fabulous Daniel Gerster on methodology in researching boarding is open access.... Enjoy
“Equipping a Child for Life’s Battles”? Sources and Methods in the History of Boarding Schools
Boarding schools are well-known institutions that have been extensively studied by historians. Yet, there are still many hidden histories associated with this type of schooling. This section presen...
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February 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Just reminding you all that this article I co-wrote with the fabulous Daniel Gerster on methodology in researching boarding is open access.... Enjoy
Just reminding you all that this article I co-wrote with the fabulous Daniel Gerster on methodology in researching boarding is open access.... Enjoy
Delighted to share here that I am a Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor for the month of February at the University of Bristol working with my wonderful colleague Prof Hillary Carey. My time here is already been very inspiring and productive. Very grateful for the opportunity.
February 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Delighted to share here that I am a Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor for the month of February at the University of Bristol working with my wonderful colleague Prof Hillary Carey. My time here is already been very inspiring and productive. Very grateful for the opportunity.
My DFG Globil project has case studies of the historical processes of bible translations in three areas including West Africa, Australia and Oceania and the Arctic.... And now I see in the city library in Münster this catégorisation exists too
January 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My DFG Globil project has case studies of the historical processes of bible translations in three areas including West Africa, Australia and Oceania and the Arctic.... And now I see in the city library in Münster this catégorisation exists too
This piece I wrote years ago is relevant again...
theconversation.com/greenland-is...
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Greenland isn’t Denmark’s to sell: some essential reading for Trump on colonialism
The USA has a long colonial history – as does Denmark. The USA has even tried to buy Greenland before. But this time, Greenland isn’t Denmark’s to sell.
theconversation.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This piece I wrote years ago is relevant again...
theconversation.com/greenland-is...
theconversation.com/greenland-is...
Back from my winter break and look what I found in my postbox. Thanks to Franziska Metzger and the team at SZRK for putting together this special issue on Religion and Post Colonial memory!
January 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Back from my winter break and look what I found in my postbox. Thanks to Franziska Metzger and the team at SZRK for putting together this special issue on Religion and Post Colonial memory!
Seen in the window of Rosta book shop. Our edited volume about Colonial traces in Münster and Münster land. Published by @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Seen in the window of Rosta book shop. Our edited volume about Colonial traces in Münster and Münster land. Published by @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
globalbible.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/12/13/p...
New post from our GloBil DFG/AHRC funded project.
New post from our GloBil DFG/AHRC funded project.
Peni Lelei and Bible Translations at the German colonial exhibition of 1896 – Global Bible
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December 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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New post from our GloBil DFG/AHRC funded project.
New post from our GloBil DFG/AHRC funded project.
Reposted by Felicity Jensz
Vielleicht sucht Ihr noch ein interessantes Weihnachtsgeschenk?! 👉 Philipp Erdmann / Felicity Jensz (Hg.), Koloniale Spuren in Münster und im Münsterland. ISBN: 978-3-8376-7483-5
Enjoyed the book launch tonight at the Stadtarchiv Münster. Thanks to all for coming and participating!
December 12, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Vielleicht sucht Ihr noch ein interessantes Weihnachtsgeschenk?! 👉 Philipp Erdmann / Felicity Jensz (Hg.), Koloniale Spuren in Münster und im Münsterland. ISBN: 978-3-8376-7483-5
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Our GloBil project, funded by the DFG, is featured in the December issue of the Münster University newspaper. You can read it here.
Our GloBil project, funded by the DFG, is featured in the December issue of the Münster University newspaper. You can read it here.
Verborgenes Wissen aus religiösen Archiven
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts gab es Bibelübersetzungen in etwa 1.000 Sprachen, darunter viele, die zuvor keine Schriftlichkeit kannten. Wer hat diese Übersetzungen angefertigt, gedruckt und verteilt...
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December 12, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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Our GloBil project, funded by the DFG, is featured in the December issue of the Münster University newspaper. You can read it here.
Our GloBil project, funded by the DFG, is featured in the December issue of the Münster University newspaper. You can read it here.
Enjoyed the book launch tonight at the Stadtarchiv Münster. Thanks to all for coming and participating!
December 5, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Enjoyed the book launch tonight at the Stadtarchiv Münster. Thanks to all for coming and participating!
Reposted by Felicity Jensz
Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Oslo, 22–24th April 2025: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... #histsci
Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration
- Department of Archaeology, Conservation and H...
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.hf.uio.no
December 2, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Oslo, 22–24th April 2025: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... #histsci
Reposted by Felicity Jensz
Volume 52 Issue 4-5 is now out - check it out here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Volume 52, Issue 4-5 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
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November 30, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Volume 52 Issue 4-5 is now out - check it out here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...