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Annika Bärwald
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Historian & teacher | researching slavery and the lives of people of color in 18th- and 19th-century Hamburg | PhD'ing at Universität Bremen | banner: Tariq Safieh
Eine super Sache ist, wenn man für einen Miniatur-Beitrag gleich zwei Belegexemplare dieses wirklich schön gestalteten Bandes zu Geschichte und Sammlung des Stadtmuseums Berlin bekommt. www.stadtmuseum.de/berlin-sammeln
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Aufarbeitung oder Verdrängung? Am 26.11. im KörberForum: Kultursenator @carstenbrosda.bsky.social & die postkoloniale Stadtforscherin @noa-k-ha.bsky.social @dezim-institut.de diskutieren über Hamburgs koloniales Erbe. Moderation @vicareich.bsky.social
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Streitfall Geschichte: Haben wir ein Kolonialismus-Problem?
Vom Bismarck-Denkmal bis zum Baakenhöft: Hamburgs koloniale Vergangenheit prägt die Stadt bis heute. Wie geht die Hansestadt damit um? Kommt sie ihrer erinnerungskulturellen Verantwortung nach? Das di...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval Europe.

Magdalena Coline by Daniel Lord Smail is now available (13 Jan UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Rebecca Protten, born in 1718 in Antigua, made her way out of enslavement to become ordained in St. Thomas in the 1730s. Her career as a teacher & missionary in the Caribbean, Europe, & West Africa helped to shape the development of Christianity & education in the 18th century.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Vor 40 Jahren entstanden mit ISD und Adefra zwei Vereine, die das Selbstbild mehrerer Generationen Schwarzer Menschen prägten

Das Recht auf die eigene Geschichte und den eigenen Namen stehen von Beginn an im Vordergrund.

www.akweb.de/bewegung/40-...
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Neuanfang am Küchentisch - ak analyse & kritik
Vor 40 Jahren entstanden mit ISD und Adefra zwei Vereine, die das Selbstbild mehrerer Generationen Schwarzer Menschen prägten
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November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The first volume of the Special Issue on Global Economic History @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is now out! It features 4 new articles on 4 commodities in global economic history - salt, ivory, raw cotton, and finished cotton goods - all open access. It was a great experience editing this volume!
Vol. 34 No. 95 (2025) of @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is out! The first instalment of New Perspectives in Global Economic History, edited by @alkaraman.bsky.social, shows how commodity based economic history reveals global interconnections and rethinks long-term development. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Today in Rome 😎
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now!
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
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Academy in Exile
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November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Unser "Nakba"-Sammelband ist erweitert und umgestaltet neu erschienen. Von mir: Über die Nakba sprechen lernen. Hg Prof Wolfgang Benz, Metropol Verlag
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Harburg (vor ein paar Wochen)
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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#MuseumNeukoelln zeigt anlässlich des Städtepartnerschaft Berlin/Windhoek die Kabinett-Ausstellung KOLONIALISMUS VER-LERNEN schloss-gutshof-britz.de/museum-neuko...

und - soeben erschienen:

DIGITALE DOKUMENTATION zum Ausstellungsprojekt BURIED MEMORIES schloss-gutshof-britz.de/museum-neuko...
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A major international project to examine how the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people shaped the development of Europe will be led by our own Prof William Pettigrew, thanks to a new €10 million grant. (1/3)

@globalaffairslu.bsky.social | @erc.europa.eu
€10 million research grant to examine how the trafficking of enslaved African people shaped Europe’s development - Lancaster University
An international research team, led by a Lancaster University History Professor, is to receive a €9,999,324 million grant to identify and examine how investors in the trans-Atlantic traffic in enslave...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Small colourful glass beads like these ones turn up in archaeological excavations all over the East African coast. Most of them arrived on ships coming from various Indian Ocean ports, and many were probably produced in south Asia.
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Workshop CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Very happy to share that my monograph on the negotiation of global asymmetries of science has been recently published! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/colonial-leg...
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean - Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making; This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate globa...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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„Kolonialismus ver-lernen:
Die Ausstellung BURIED MEMORIES als Akt interkultureller Trauerarbeit mit den Mitteln des Museums.“ Im Bezirksmuseum Neukölln @matthiashenkel.bsky.social im Rahmen des 25-jährigen Jubiläums der Städtepartnerschaft Berlin/Windhoek.

@decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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McFreiheit

Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The book is now available to download! doi.org/10.54195/QEX...

We also made a summary for a broader audience (with more pictures) that is available for free at libraries in Nijmegen.
March 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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the worse the shared draft the better the friend
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM