Emiliano Perra
@emilianoperra.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History
Co-Editor of the Journal of Perpetrator Research (https://jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/)
Co-Editor of the Journal of Perpetrator Research (https://jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/)
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The new issue of Journal of Perpetrator Research is now out! You can download the full issue and the individual articles here: jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/15/volume/8/...
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The new issue of Journal of Perpetrator Research is now out! You can download the full issue and the individual articles here: jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/15/volume/8/...
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**New Pub Unboxed!**
@oxfordup.bsky.social Handbook of #TransitionalJustice
48 Chapters by Leading Scholars
6 Parts / 1154 Pages long
A decade in the making
Oxford Academic link in next thread
@oxfordup.bsky.social Handbook of #TransitionalJustice
48 Chapters by Leading Scholars
6 Parts / 1154 Pages long
A decade in the making
Oxford Academic link in next thread
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
**New Pub Unboxed!**
@oxfordup.bsky.social Handbook of #TransitionalJustice
48 Chapters by Leading Scholars
6 Parts / 1154 Pages long
A decade in the making
Oxford Academic link in next thread
@oxfordup.bsky.social Handbook of #TransitionalJustice
48 Chapters by Leading Scholars
6 Parts / 1154 Pages long
A decade in the making
Oxford Academic link in next thread
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The new and improved 2nd Edition of The Holocaust in Eastern Europe is out now, hot off the presses!!!
If you're teaching about the Holocaust or just interested in the topic, please check it out!
If you're teaching about the Holocaust or just interested in the topic, please check it out!
September 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The new and improved 2nd Edition of The Holocaust in Eastern Europe is out now, hot off the presses!!!
If you're teaching about the Holocaust or just interested in the topic, please check it out!
If you're teaching about the Holocaust or just interested in the topic, please check it out!
It's a great book, and it's open access to boot!
Full open access ❗
Nicholas K. Johnson's book on the production of television representations of the Wannsee Conference. With @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and @c2dh.uni.lu
#Television #WWII #PublicHistory
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Nicholas K. Johnson's book on the production of television representations of the Wannsee Conference. With @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and @c2dh.uni.lu
#Television #WWII #PublicHistory
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Scripting Genocide
Scripting Genocide traces the history of how and why the Wannsee Conference has repeatedly attracted the attention of American, British, and German artists, writers, and filmmakers since 1960. Almost ...
www.degruyterbrill.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It's a great book, and it's open access to boot!
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This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza
Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
This is excellent by Omer Bartov, with serious food for thought for anyone engaged in the study of the Holocaust and Genocide.
"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
archive.ph/0dpn2
July 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This is excellent by Omer Bartov, with serious food for thought for anyone engaged in the study of the Holocaust and Genocide.
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
Bravo: 'this [...] also provides a blueprint for other branches'. @winchesterucu.bsky.social
I am so proud of my branch right now, and I want everyone to remember that NOTHING is ever over until you decide to roll over. It is always in your power to keep a fight going and to win.
A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
June 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Bravo: 'this [...] also provides a blueprint for other branches'. @winchesterucu.bsky.social
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We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
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A small upside of my institution cutting all personal research allowances means I don't have to use Key Travel 👇
You’d think providing a costly, useless service would be an issue but there are enough uni senior managers following their already promoted herd in signing off the deal. And this is also b/c it’s so horrible a service that academic travel goes down by more than the Key Travel markup. Great success!
Key Travel you absolute bastards. Eurostar ending in Brussels not in Rotterdam, while I have to be in Utrecht in the morning, have connecting trains and hotels booked. And you did not let me know.
June 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A small upside of my institution cutting all personal research allowances means I don't have to use Key Travel 👇
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JPR 7.2 is out! Complicit Testimonies by Ivan Stacy (ed.). Articles by Eunike Mutiara Himawan, Annie Pohlman & @winnifredlouis.bsky.social; @drjpersian.bsky.social; Michelle E. Anderson; Sofía Forchieri; Juliane Prade-Weiss; Sue Vice; Guido Bartolini jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/14/volume/7/...
Special Issue: Complicit Testimonies | Journal of Perpetrator Research
jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
JPR 7.2 is out! Complicit Testimonies by Ivan Stacy (ed.). Articles by Eunike Mutiara Himawan, Annie Pohlman & @winnifredlouis.bsky.social; @drjpersian.bsky.social; Michelle E. Anderson; Sofía Forchieri; Juliane Prade-Weiss; Sue Vice; Guido Bartolini jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/14/volume/7/...
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on ‘Dehumanization and Violence’ in JPR, edited by Jonathan Leader-Maynard (@jleadermaynard.bsky.social), Aliza Luft, and Torsten Michel. Deadline 16 October 2025. Please send your abstract (or any related questions/queries) to torsten.michel@bristol.ac.uk.
![Call for Papers: Special Issue on ‘Dehumanization and Violence’
in the Journal of Perpetrator Research
[...]
This special issue invites papers that examine dehumanization in and across diverse local and global contexts of harm. We seek contributions that employ a range of methods, offer rigorous analysis, and push theoretical and methodological boundaries. In particular, we aim to foster sustained dialogue across disciplines that too often remain siloed, bringing together insights from sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, political science, and beyond. By bridging these fields, we hope to generate more integrated and expansive understandings of how dehumanization takes shape, is contested, and unfolds across time, space, and structure. We especially welcome contributions that explore:
Dehumanization during armed conflict past and present (e.g. genocide, conventional and civil wars, colonial violence, terrorism, and various forms of extra-lethal violence during conflict (e.g., sexual violence, torture)
Dehumanization outside of wartime contexts, e.g., in policing and police violence, concerning houselessness, gender-based violence, gang violence, migration/deportation regimes, and more.
Dehumanization of participants in violence, self-dehumanization, how it feels to be a victim of dehumanization, mutual dehumanization, and so on.
We invite abstracts of approximately 350 words outlining key arguments and focus of the proposed article by 16/10/2025.
Selected authors will be invited to submit a full-length article (8000 words max; due date around April 2026).
Please send your abstract (or any related questions/queries) to torsten.michel@bristol.ac.uk.
Guest Editors
Dr Jonathan Leader-Maynard, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, King’s College London
Dr Aliza Luft, Assistant Professor in Sociology, UCLA (aluft@soc.ucla.edu)
Dr Torsten Michel, Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Bristol (torsten.michel@bristol.ac.uk)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n4tv4jkqnx456azyfa3qamma/bafkreiduk2cxsi3wcepyf4ki3ki56anbck3lwgyv3n2xqqs2zcxahq3fly@jpeg)
May 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Call for Papers: Special Issue on ‘Dehumanization and Violence’ in JPR, edited by Jonathan Leader-Maynard (@jleadermaynard.bsky.social), Aliza Luft, and Torsten Michel. Deadline 16 October 2025. Please send your abstract (or any related questions/queries) to torsten.michel@bristol.ac.uk.
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This is good and it does something all journalists looking at UK politicians and education should do, it lists where each of the MPs attacking universities went to school (invariably a posh grammar or private college then a top flight university for a PPE or equivalent).
“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit.
“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”
“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”
If universities sink, then so will Starmer
Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This is good and it does something all journalists looking at UK politicians and education should do, it lists where each of the MPs attacking universities went to school (invariably a posh grammar or private college then a top flight university for a PPE or equivalent).
Academia in 2025, indeed.
The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author
May 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Academia in 2025, indeed.
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I do think companies who are able to stomach/weather the (imo) short term loss of rejecting gen AI and building a trusted, solid content site will eventually come out on top during the Slop Wars. People will be searching for places they can rely on to be accurate, entertaining, and engaging.
May 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I do think companies who are able to stomach/weather the (imo) short term loss of rejecting gen AI and building a trusted, solid content site will eventually come out on top during the Slop Wars. People will be searching for places they can rely on to be accurate, entertaining, and engaging.
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Starmer should invite Farage to tour a NHS ward in central London to see how much he connects with working people.
Excl: Nigel Farage will challenge Sir Keir Starmer to accompany him on a visit to a working men’s club in the north of England to see who connects better with working people, as the Reform UK leader makes his pitch to traditional Labour voters.
www.thetimes.com/article/331b...
www.thetimes.com/article/331b...
Nigel Farage to challenge Keir Starmer to ‘connect with working people’
The Reform UK leader is seeking to capitalise on his party’s rising popularity by launching his ‘biggest direct attack yet’ on the prime minister
www.thetimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Starmer should invite Farage to tour a NHS ward in central London to see how much he connects with working people.
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Liberal arts majors rise up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
May 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Liberal arts majors rise up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
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In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
May 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
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If you're going to attack immigration levels in 2022-3, you need to say something about provision for Ukraine & Hong Kong (which Labour backed).
Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust.
It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives
Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust.
It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
If you're going to attack immigration levels in 2022-3, you need to say something about provision for Ukraine & Hong Kong (which Labour backed).
Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust.
It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives
Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust.
It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives
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🎶Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses🎶
May 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🎶Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses🎶
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Can anyone who has some expertise in way metrics shape reality and not always with good consequences please write about how the gaming of league tables has distorted our priorities? 1/
This week, we are launching a new series on "History & Higher Education in Crisis".
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🔮 its impact on research, methodologies, specialisms & teaching
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✊ building solidarities & collective action
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March 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Can anyone who has some expertise in way metrics shape reality and not always with good consequences please write about how the gaming of league tables has distorted our priorities? 1/
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March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
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