Lukas Schemper
@lukasschemper.bsky.social
History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | research associate for ERC project "Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800" @zfl-berlin.bsky.social
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Great to see that my article Lifesaving, Sovereignty, & the Place of the Late Ottoman Empire in the European International Order is now officially out in excellent company in the latest issue of the Journal of World History: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55899. OA through zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1753...
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"La recherche n’a pas vocation à plaire ni à se conformer à un « équilibre politique » dicté par le pouvoir. Elle repose sur la méthode, la critique, le débat argumenté, des principes aujourd’hui mis en péril."
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Annulation du colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe » au Collège de France : « Cette interdiction ouvre la voie à une ère de censure institutionnelle »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », un collectif de plus de 300 universitaires, parmi lesquels Jean-François Bayart, Judith Butler et Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur, s’élève contre l’annulation de l’évén...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"La recherche n’a pas vocation à plaire ni à se conformer à un « équilibre politique » dicté par le pouvoir. Elle repose sur la méthode, la critique, le débat argumenté, des principes aujourd’hui mis en péril."
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www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Great to see that my article Lifesaving, Sovereignty, & the Place of the Late Ottoman Empire in the European International Order is now officially out in excellent company in the latest issue of the Journal of World History: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55899. OA through zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1753...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Great to see that my article Lifesaving, Sovereignty, & the Place of the Late Ottoman Empire in the European International Order is now officially out in excellent company in the latest issue of the Journal of World History: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55899. OA through zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1753...
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Check out Gemma Sou's "How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship" in the Journal of #Disaster Studies at muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/...
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Check out Gemma Sou's "How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship" in the Journal of #Disaster Studies at muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/...
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„Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen“
Das Open-Access-Lexikon erklärt Schlüsselbegriffe der deutschen Geschichte und Gegenwart – von Demokratie über Alltag bis Globalisierung.
Unser Tipp: ÖKOLOGIE von Florian Sprenger und Christina Wessely
👉 Open Access: doi.org/10.31267/Gru...
Das Open-Access-Lexikon erklärt Schlüsselbegriffe der deutschen Geschichte und Gegenwart – von Demokratie über Alltag bis Globalisierung.
Unser Tipp: ÖKOLOGIE von Florian Sprenger und Christina Wessely
👉 Open Access: doi.org/10.31267/Gru...
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
„Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen“
Das Open-Access-Lexikon erklärt Schlüsselbegriffe der deutschen Geschichte und Gegenwart – von Demokratie über Alltag bis Globalisierung.
Unser Tipp: ÖKOLOGIE von Florian Sprenger und Christina Wessely
👉 Open Access: doi.org/10.31267/Gru...
Das Open-Access-Lexikon erklärt Schlüsselbegriffe der deutschen Geschichte und Gegenwart – von Demokratie über Alltag bis Globalisierung.
Unser Tipp: ÖKOLOGIE von Florian Sprenger und Christina Wessely
👉 Open Access: doi.org/10.31267/Gru...
Ein Anlass, sich die ausgezeichnete und bedrückende Trilogie „Wohin und Zurück“/„Welcome in Vienna“ wieder einmal anzusehen, die teilweise auf den Erlebnissen Trollers beruht (und bezeichnender Weise in Österreich recht unbekannt geblieben ist)
"Einer der letzten Wiener Literaten in der Nachfolge von Polgar und Kraus": In Paris wurde der im Alter von 103 Jahren verstorbene Publizist und Filmemacher Georg Stefan #Troller zu Grabe getragen – inklusive einer prominenten Gesangseinlage via WhatsApp. Mein kleiner Text über einen Großen.
Abschied vom Jahrhundertmenschen: Bestattung von Georg Stefan Troller in Paris
"Einer der letzten Wiener Literaten in der Nachfolge von Polgar und Kraus": In Paris wird der im Alter von 103 Jahren verstorbene Publizist und Filmemacher zu Grabe getragen – inklusive einer prominen...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ein Anlass, sich die ausgezeichnete und bedrückende Trilogie „Wohin und Zurück“/„Welcome in Vienna“ wieder einmal anzusehen, die teilweise auf den Erlebnissen Trollers beruht (und bezeichnender Weise in Österreich recht unbekannt geblieben ist)
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How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)
How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)
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I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
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October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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New job:
Professor of History
The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69197
Professor of History
The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69197
September 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New job:
Professor of History
The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69197
Professor of History
The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69197
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Gino Severini, Red Cross Train Passing a Village, 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137947
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137947
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Gino Severini, Red Cross Train Passing a Village, 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137947
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137947
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Over the 1990s, Washington transformed Guantánamo Bay into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse. Miriam Pensack reports on this little-known history.
Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial
Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets
www.thedial.world
October 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Over the 1990s, Washington transformed Guantánamo Bay into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse. Miriam Pensack reports on this little-known history.
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I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction
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September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns
Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns
Pollution could be on par with annual emissions generated by Brazil as experts warn of climate effects of war
A planned expansion of military spending by Nato countries could generate an additional 1,320m tonnes of planet-heating pollution over the next decade – on a par with the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated by Brazil, the fifth largest emitter in the world, according to a new report.
Military activity is fossil-fuel intensive, yet official country data on military emissions is patchy or non-existent. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns
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📢 Call for applications: @chlcologne.bsky.social is offering 2 positions in a research project exploring how the 1990s reshaped global governance & human security.
👉 PhD Position: bit.ly/46vKCnp
👉 Postdoc Research Position: bit.ly/46ufZ1D
Apply now!
👉 PhD Position: bit.ly/46vKCnp
👉 Postdoc Research Position: bit.ly/46ufZ1D
Apply now!
September 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
📢 Call for applications: @chlcologne.bsky.social is offering 2 positions in a research project exploring how the 1990s reshaped global governance & human security.
👉 PhD Position: bit.ly/46vKCnp
👉 Postdoc Research Position: bit.ly/46ufZ1D
Apply now!
👉 PhD Position: bit.ly/46vKCnp
👉 Postdoc Research Position: bit.ly/46ufZ1D
Apply now!
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The Cologne Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law (CHL) is hiring for two positions with the Synergy Research Project: Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security in the 1990s.
Info on the PhD position: tinyurl.com/4azzjuxu
Info on the Postdoc: tinyurl.com/5n73343s
Info on the PhD position: tinyurl.com/4azzjuxu
Info on the Postdoc: tinyurl.com/5n73343s
September 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Cologne Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law (CHL) is hiring for two positions with the Synergy Research Project: Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security in the 1990s.
Info on the PhD position: tinyurl.com/4azzjuxu
Info on the Postdoc: tinyurl.com/5n73343s
Info on the PhD position: tinyurl.com/4azzjuxu
Info on the Postdoc: tinyurl.com/5n73343s
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📘From our latest Special Issue
Sarah Knoll (@sarahmknoll.bsky.social) (@uni-graz.at) on 'Hungarian Refugees in the United States between Cold War Politics, Economic Growth, and Labour Demands, 1956–1958'
#ColdWar #Emigration #Religion 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sarah Knoll (@sarahmknoll.bsky.social) (@uni-graz.at) on 'Hungarian Refugees in the United States between Cold War Politics, Economic Growth, and Labour Demands, 1956–1958'
#ColdWar #Emigration #Religion 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📘From our latest Special Issue
Sarah Knoll (@sarahmknoll.bsky.social) (@uni-graz.at) on 'Hungarian Refugees in the United States between Cold War Politics, Economic Growth, and Labour Demands, 1956–1958'
#ColdWar #Emigration #Religion 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sarah Knoll (@sarahmknoll.bsky.social) (@uni-graz.at) on 'Hungarian Refugees in the United States between Cold War Politics, Economic Growth, and Labour Demands, 1956–1958'
#ColdWar #Emigration #Religion 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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#Neuerscheinung Elisabeth Röhrlich und ich haben sich in einem neuen Band zur österr. Neutralität mit dem neutralen Österreich als Sitz internationaler Organisationen auseinandersetzen - Open Access!
@transcript-verlag.bsky.social @fopolab.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
@transcript-verlag.bsky.social @fopolab.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Österreichs Neutralität
Zeit, Farbe zu bekennen? Wesen und Wert der politischen Neutralität Österreichs angesichts fundamentaler Umwälzungen in der europäischen und globalen Ordnung.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#Neuerscheinung Elisabeth Röhrlich und ich haben sich in einem neuen Band zur österr. Neutralität mit dem neutralen Österreich als Sitz internationaler Organisationen auseinandersetzen - Open Access!
@transcript-verlag.bsky.social @fopolab.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
@transcript-verlag.bsky.social @fopolab.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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📣 what a great way to start the new term! This paper has been long in the making, and combines years of research from the two of us, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our research Group, @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📣
On advance access: "The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830"
by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social and Erik de Lange (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social and Erik de Lange (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830*
Abstract. There is a world of imperial connections and consequences of the revolutions of 1830 that historians hardly ever mention. The relationship betwee
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August 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
📣 what a great way to start the new term! This paper has been long in the making, and combines years of research from the two of us, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our research Group, @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📣
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Gut gemacht.
July 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Gut gemacht.
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‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ich bin ja nicht immer einer Meinung mit #IchBinHanna , aber
"verpflichtende Titellehre"
musste ich erst mal nachschlagen.
So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.
"verpflichtende Titellehre"
musste ich erst mal nachschlagen.
So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.
Die Statusgruppe der PDs muss endlich mehr Gehör in der öffentlichen Debatte um prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft finden. Vor allem müssen sich PDs untereinander besser vernetzen! Wir – @juliahauser.bsky.social, @joergsternagel.bsky.social & ich – haben deshalb 1 Netzwerk gegründet: 1/3
July 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Ich bin ja nicht immer einer Meinung mit #IchBinHanna , aber
"verpflichtende Titellehre"
musste ich erst mal nachschlagen.
So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.
"verpflichtende Titellehre"
musste ich erst mal nachschlagen.
So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.
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Bring it on: Judson & Zara on the catastrophe to begin all catastrophes!
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July 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Bring it on: Judson & Zara on the catastrophe to begin all catastrophes!
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global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Where are our university presidents? They are totally silent, completely absent from the public square as this existential crisis is about to break the entire business model of American higher education & scientific research 🤷♂️
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I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Where are our university presidents? They are totally silent, completely absent from the public square as this existential crisis is about to break the entire business model of American higher education & scientific research 🤷♂️
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...