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Waqar Zaidi
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Historian, with a focus on science, technology, and international relations. Author, 'Technological Internationalism and World Order'. Associate Professor, LUMS.
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🔴 Pakistan has closed its airspace to all Indian airlines, impacting several Air India flights to and from North America, the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. As a result, some flights will operate on extended routes, leading to longer travel times. #Airways #News
April 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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#JobAlert: Two (full or assistant) professorships at the ETH Zurich, one in the History of Technology, the other in Philosophy of Science. Closing date for applications is June 15 – please share!
ethz.ch/de/die-eth-z...
Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Technikgeschichte und Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Wissenschaftsphilosophie
ethz.ch
April 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Technology deadline is 15 May 2025 #HPS #histtech
www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awa...
The Hindle Fellowship
Visit the post for more.
www.historyoftechnology.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Today I discovered that the Egyptian royal stamp collection was auctioned off in 1954 after the overthrow of the Egyptian King Farouk. 1,143 lots, with a reserve value of over GBP 100,000. With lots of aviation stamps
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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🔴 The last stage of dismantling is in progress for an Emirates Airbus A380 before it is scrapped.

📸: Unknown

#emirates #airbus #avgeek
April 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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On 10 May, 1-3pm, as part of Birkbeck's Arts Week, the Centre for Internationalism will launch 2 new books on the League of Nations. The lively panel incl Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Daniel Laqua, Jane Mumby & Emil Seidenfaden & me - should be great fun!

Reserve your place www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remot...
New histories of the League of Nations
Join us to for this book launch and panel discussion on the changing meanings of the League of Nations.
www.bbk.ac.uk
April 12, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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I'm a reviews editor for the Journal of Contemporary History and forever looking for 1. reviewers and 2. books to be reviewed (history; after 1930). Do YOU want to write something for me? Get in touch! Journal here: journals.sagepub.com/home/jch My details here: mau.se/en/persons/e...
Journal of Contemporary History: Sage Journals
This quarterly peer-reviewed international journal publishes articles and book reviews on twentieth-century history, covering a range of historical approaches, ...
journals.sagepub.com
October 25, 2023 at 9:44 AM
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We wrote a 'review dossier' on Daniel Laqua's Activism across Borders, and it's now out online with the International Review of Social History.

with @constancebantman.bsky.social, Georgina Brewis, Mark Hurst, Nicole Robertson and, of course, Daniel Laqua

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Activism across Borders since 1870: A Review Dossier | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core
Activism across Borders since 1870: A Review Dossier
www.cambridge.org
March 13, 2024 at 1:57 PM