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Madina Thiam
@thiamm.bsky.social
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writer, professor, historian of Mali and the Sahel ✨bien thiepe bien mafée✨ writing📚Navel of the World, an intimate history of Muslim West Africa

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📍NYC | Bamako
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thiamm.bsky.social
Dans ma chronique pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur la genèse d'un monument que les Bamakois connaissent bien, la fresque Mohammed al-Durah, et au delà, sur les voyageurs dont les itinéraires et les imaginaires ont connecté le Sahel à la Palestine depuis des siècles

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Du Sahel à la Palestine, un monde globalisé depuis au moins sept siècles
Les liens entre Bamako, Zinder et Jérusalem ou Gaza ont une histoire ancienne, tissés par les religieux et les intellectuels, puis renforcés par les mouvements de solidarité anti-impérialiste dans la ...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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audreycel.bsky.social
Le séminaire Antiracismes et sciences sociales reprend avec un très beau programme!
nmartinbreteau.bsky.social Nicolas Martin-Breteau @nmartinbreteau.bsky.social · 19d
📢𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲🪧J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer le programme de la deuxième année du séminaire transatlantique en ligne "Antiracismes et sciences sociales", que je coordonne avec @audreycel.bsky.social. La première séance accueillera l'historienne Leslie Alexander, le vendredi 21 novembre. See you there!
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.
July 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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thejah.bsky.social
Interested in recent scholarship on #Mali? Check out this #OA piece by @thiamm.bsky.social, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow: bit.ly/430cvRx
July 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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annales.ehess.fr
Please visit our new webpage on Cambridge Core (@universitypress.cambridge.org)

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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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July 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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camillelefebvre.bsky.social
En 1904, deux savants se rencontrent à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire, un lettré musulman du Borno, al-Hajj Musa et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, tous deux en Égypte pour poursuivre leurs études, ils collaboreront pendant dix ans produisant des centaines de pages de textes en kanouri.
Photographie des étudiants à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire vers 1900
June 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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hofrench.bsky.social
A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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drmargottudor.bsky.social
I’m in NYC for June so was lucky enough to attend an interesting panel at The People’s Forum this evening for @versobooks.bsky.social’s new series on Southern Questions with Adom Getachew, @thiamm.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, & Adéwálé Májà-Pearce. Lots to think about and even more to read 🔥
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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liberation.fr
Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950.

Bamako, 1959. Des militantes de la première heure livrent un réquisitoire à la fois contre le joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre

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Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam
Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre.
www.liberation.fr
June 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
thiamm.bsky.social
Dans ce billet pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur une époque où les femmes d'Afrique de l'ouest étaient engagées localement et à l'international

Et sur un événement fondateur: le congrès de l'Union des Femmes de l'Ouest Africain, juillet 1959, Bamako

www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam
Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pou...
www.liberation.fr
June 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
thiamm.bsky.social
NYC, join us tomorrow for the launch of Verso's Southern Question series

we'll discuss the (re)release of Andrée Blouin's My Country, Africa, and Adéwálé Májà-Pearce's This Fiction Called Nigeria

7pm at The People's Forum, more info + tickets here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...
Event flyer The peoples forum 320 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018 May 29 @7pm Verso Books Southern Questions Series Launch Featurng Adom Getachew, Adéwálé Májà-Pearce, Howard French and Madina Thiam
May 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
thiamm.bsky.social
New York! Join us for a screening of Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence

Afterwards I'll be in conversation with director Kalidou Sy

🗓️Monday May 26
📍Maysles Documentary Center
🕜doors open 6pm

Free with registration. Grab your seat, we don't have many left!

RSVP🔗https://pp.events/b2QYQNBm
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open

Applications close on 31st Jan 2025

Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months

Please share with your network

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Past & Present Fellowships
Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.
www.history.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
thiamm.bsky.social
Just back from Morocco and if you guys are in Casablanca, please visit Siniya research.

It's a community center, archive, and translation space taking its partial inspo (and name) from Nas El Ghiwane, revisiting panafrican histories that almost were, and doing much more.
December 30, 2024 at 11:15 PM
thiamm.bsky.social
Last night was 10/10 the highlight of my time at NYU so far. Long live Onions, cheers to the colleague who said we ride until dawn, and s/o to RK aka the best to ever do it (iykyk). Free Palestine!!🍉
lainenooney.bsky.social Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · Dec 30
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
December 30, 2024 at 10:36 PM