Jessica Reinisch
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Jessica Reinisch
@jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Modern historian at Birkbeck, working on UNRRA, relief & humanitarianism, internationalism. I edit the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series & direct the Centre for the Study of Internationalism.
Many thanks to @emmakluge.bsky.social for a fascinating seminar about the importance of decolonial & environmental activism in Oceania in the history of internationalism
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Save the date! Delighted that @emmakluge.bsky.social will give our first Centre for Internationalism lunchtime seminar on "Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific", 30 Oct, 1-2pm, Birkbeck Central Building rm407. Message for Teams link if you want to join online
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
September 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
An exciting date for your diaries: the first Birkbeck-QMUL Historical Studies Graduate Symposium will take place on 18 June, on the theme of "methodologies in historical research". BBK PhD students @bbkhistorical.bsky.social & @qmul.ac.uk do send your proposals for 5 or 15 minute papers by 30 April!
March 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Such a brilliant, lively, rich discussion with these clever people about @sulinlewis.bsky.social’s & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social’s book
February 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Christmas bonus. Who says history doesn't pay?
December 13, 2024 at 11:23 AM
In happier news about tractors blocking city roads, here is a 1947 photo of Farmall Tractors, just arrived from the Port of Gdynia as part of an UNRRA shipment, parked for the night in front of the remains of Warsaw's Central Station. [photo from UN Archives] #skystorians
December 12, 2024 at 4:25 PM
The cover for the BJHS December issue just landed in my inbox - 'The Art of Gathering: Histories of International Scientific Conferences' papers coming out in hard copy (And all our pieces will stay open access online) #histsci
November 24, 2023 at 3:03 PM