Leonie Bausch
@leoniebausch.bsky.social
PhD student at Uni of Nottingham researching sex in French-occupied Germany (1945-55)
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What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Thesis submitted, only 1 seminar to go until reading week, and looking forward to merging with this cuddle pile for hibernation 😴
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Thesis submitted, only 1 seminar to go until reading week, and looking forward to merging with this cuddle pile for hibernation 😴
"I’m saying whether this is genocide or whether it’s ethnic cleansing or whether it’s daily war crimes, I would just think that the focus of a Holocaust historian would be these horrors" really sums up how tired I feel debating what neat little label to use to describe people dying
@ichotiner.bsky.social asks the Holocaust historian Norman J. W. Goda to explain his view that Israel’s war in Gaza is not a genocide.
The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide
How the war in Gaza is dividing scholars of Nazi Germany.
www.newyorker.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"I’m saying whether this is genocide or whether it’s ethnic cleansing or whether it’s daily war crimes, I would just think that the focus of a Holocaust historian would be these horrors" really sums up how tired I feel debating what neat little label to use to describe people dying
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Had a great time at the 1st conference of the Occupation Studies Research Network in London (KCL's fancy & much more importantly AIRCONDITIONED premises pictured below). Learnt so much about perceptions of time, life writing, & colonial practices all while chatting with a lovely bunch of people
July 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Had a great time at the 1st conference of the Occupation Studies Research Network in London (KCL's fancy & much more importantly AIRCONDITIONED premises pictured below). Learnt so much about perceptions of time, life writing, & colonial practices all while chatting with a lovely bunch of people
Reposted by Leonie Bausch
You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead.
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
June 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead.
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
Excited to escape my little writing cave for a few days to participate in the Transatlantic Seminar at the GHI Washington 🧑🏻💻
This week our 30th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History is taking place in Washington. We look forward to welcoming a group of 16 scholars from both sides of the Atlantic for three days of discussion and reflection!
June 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Excited to escape my little writing cave for a few days to participate in the Transatlantic Seminar at the GHI Washington 🧑🏻💻
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
tinyurl.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Auf dem Weg nach Hamburg - heute Nachmittag red ich darüber was Prügeleien & Eifersucht mit (Besatzungs)Macht zu tun haben. Ich freu mich schon auf den Austausch und mehr über ganz viele spannende Projekte zu lernen!
Wir freuen uns auf die Teilnehmer:innen der Tagung „Politisierte Sexualitäten“, die heute und morgen bei uns stattfindet, und wünschen spannende Diskussionen und einen guten Austausch. Herzlich willkommen in #Hamburg!
#Sexualitätsgeschichte
#Sexualitätsgeschichte
April 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Auf dem Weg nach Hamburg - heute Nachmittag red ich darüber was Prügeleien & Eifersucht mit (Besatzungs)Macht zu tun haben. Ich freu mich schon auf den Austausch und mehr über ganz viele spannende Projekte zu lernen!