Christoph Kalter
@christophkalter.bsky.social
Historian | University of Agder | Author | Discovery of the Third World (CUP 2016) | Postcolonial People (CUP 2022) | New project: European Languages in Post-Independence Africa |
Here's how to fix this AI-attack, presumably at least (see screenshot) - although it does not solve the more general problem of handing over your work to a rather dubious for-profit organization whose account I have not had the heart to delete (yet).
August 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Here's how to fix this AI-attack, presumably at least (see screenshot) - although it does not solve the more general problem of handing over your work to a rather dubious for-profit organization whose account I have not had the heart to delete (yet).
"Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution," @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, eds. Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, @pramospinto.bsky.social. An awesome book! Have a chapter in there that writes the "retornados" aka decolonization, Cold War, and refugeeness back into the picture.
May 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution," @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, eds. Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, @pramospinto.bsky.social. An awesome book! Have a chapter in there that writes the "retornados" aka decolonization, Cold War, and refugeeness back into the picture.
It seems like I am officially beginning my humble and cautious transition into the field of African history! Stoked to be invited to this very exciting author's workshop organized by Mary A. Owusu and @martinrempe.bsky.social. Looking forward!
April 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It seems like I am officially beginning my humble and cautious transition into the field of African history! Stoked to be invited to this very exciting author's workshop organized by Mary A. Owusu and @martinrempe.bsky.social. Looking forward!
🚨Attention Global Sixties scholars:🚨A typical French handwriting in the mail is always a good omen. Here, it announced the arrival of @elarabertho.bsky.social’s exciting new book “A Pan-African Couple: Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Guinea”. Looking forward to reading!
April 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🚨Attention Global Sixties scholars:🚨A typical French handwriting in the mail is always a good omen. Here, it announced the arrival of @elarabertho.bsky.social’s exciting new book “A Pan-African Couple: Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Guinea”. Looking forward to reading!
"Building Nations, Making Worlds, Creating Subjects: European Languages in Postcolonial Africa" is the megalomaniac title for the presentation of my research project at @sdu.dk (host: @christiandp.bsky.social) that is still very much work in progress and a fragile flower. Join us if you are around!
March 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Building Nations, Making Worlds, Creating Subjects: European Languages in Postcolonial Africa" is the megalomaniac title for the presentation of my research project at @sdu.dk (host: @christiandp.bsky.social) that is still very much work in progress and a fragile flower. Join us if you are around!
I am stoked to announce the publication of the Portuguese translation of my 2022 book “Postcolonial People” - finally in the language of the people this book is about, and finally at a very affordable price!
February 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I am stoked to announce the publication of the Portuguese translation of my 2022 book “Postcolonial People” - finally in the language of the people this book is about, and finally at a very affordable price!
🚨Berlin // Kristiansand, Southern Norway // Home Swap!🚨 We (two adults, one kid) want to spend two weeks in Berlin in July 2025 (exact dates flexible). We offer our beautiful home in Kristiansand on the "Norwegian Riviera" in return. Please be in touch if interested & share widely!
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨Berlin // Kristiansand, Southern Norway // Home Swap!🚨 We (two adults, one kid) want to spend two weeks in Berlin in July 2025 (exact dates flexible). We offer our beautiful home in Kristiansand on the "Norwegian Riviera" in return. Please be in touch if interested & share widely!
Look what the library found for me! Excited to explore this 1968 publication in sociolinguistics based on a 1966 conference.
January 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Look what the library found for me! Excited to explore this 1968 publication in sociolinguistics based on a 1966 conference.
New review of my book "Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal" by Sofie De Baere. It comes with some well-deserved criticism and much praise, e.g.: "Kalter possesses the invaluable skill of making complex processes comprehensible." brill.com/view/journal...
December 16, 2024 at 10:43 AM
New review of my book "Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal" by Sofie De Baere. It comes with some well-deserved criticism and much praise, e.g.: "Kalter possesses the invaluable skill of making complex processes comprehensible." brill.com/view/journal...
“Reparations for Settlers?” ... is the clickbait title of my latest (and possibly also my last) journal article on postcolonial Portugal in a European context, published in the e-Journal of Portuguese History @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Screenshot of abstract attached.
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December 16, 2024 at 7:32 AM
“Reparations for Settlers?” ... is the clickbait title of my latest (and possibly also my last) journal article on postcolonial Portugal in a European context, published in the e-Journal of Portuguese History @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Screenshot of abstract attached.
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.
November 29, 2024 at 1:57 PM
💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.
„Gives us back our Negro Art“ - Paulin Jaochim, Bingo (1965), 144 (Janvier). Stumbled in the archives about this document which has a central place in Bénédicte Savoy’s 2022 “Africa’s Struggle for Its Art.”
November 21, 2024 at 11:41 AM
„Gives us back our Negro Art“ - Paulin Jaochim, Bingo (1965), 144 (Janvier). Stumbled in the archives about this document which has a central place in Bénédicte Savoy’s 2022 “Africa’s Struggle for Its Art.”
Finally back in the archives for a couple of days! If only research could always be as colorful and stylish as with this glossy Panafricanism-plus-consumerism lifestyle magazine for the Francophone West African middle classes.
November 19, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Finally back in the archives for a couple of days! If only research could always be as colorful and stylish as with this glossy Panafricanism-plus-consumerism lifestyle magazine for the Francophone West African middle classes.
After article published online ... comes published article, all nicely with number of volume, issue, pages, the whole thing! It's still Open Access and still called: "Building Nations After Empire: Post-Imperial Migrations to Portugal in a Western European Context." Enjoy! doi.org/10.1017/S096...
February 2, 2024 at 4:53 PM
After article published online ... comes published article, all nicely with number of volume, issue, pages, the whole thing! It's still Open Access and still called: "Building Nations After Empire: Post-Imperial Migrations to Portugal in a Western European Context." Enjoy! doi.org/10.1017/S096...
About to start: Conference on “Global Europe in the 20th ct.” at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. Grateful and excited to be here and to present, for the first time, ideas from my new project “Languages of Transition”!
November 3, 2023 at 2:24 PM
About to start: Conference on “Global Europe in the 20th ct.” at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. Grateful and excited to be here and to present, for the first time, ideas from my new project “Languages of Transition”!
My 2022 book “Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal” is available as a paperback as of today. Finally, it comes with a reasonable price tag, especially if you use the attached promotion code HIST4323 before the end of the month. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
October 25, 2023 at 12:02 PM
My 2022 book “Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal” is available as a paperback as of today. Finally, it comes with a reasonable price tag, especially if you use the attached promotion code HIST4323 before the end of the month. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
This looks interesting: Five articles on "La Françafrique, un néocolonialisme français." New issue of Cahiers d'Histoire. Revue d'histoire critique. Open access! journals.openedition.org/chrhc/
October 12, 2023 at 10:24 AM
This looks interesting: Five articles on "La Françafrique, un néocolonialisme français." New issue of Cahiers d'Histoire. Revue d'histoire critique. Open access! journals.openedition.org/chrhc/
I reviewed Emily Marker’s “Black France, White Europe. Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era.” journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/fr....
October 4, 2023 at 12:33 PM
I reviewed Emily Marker’s “Black France, White Europe. Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era.” journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/fr....
Hi! I am a German historian of modern Western Europe in the world. My published work focuses on how decolonization shaped the French and Portuguese societies. In the future I hope to research histories of language in African decolonization. The photo, however, is from Kristiansand, where I am based.
October 4, 2023 at 9:02 AM
Hi! I am a German historian of modern Western Europe in the world. My published work focuses on how decolonization shaped the French and Portuguese societies. In the future I hope to research histories of language in African decolonization. The photo, however, is from Kristiansand, where I am based.