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Liminal Waterway Countercultures
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A humanities project about liminal waterscapes in Europe, producing digital and museum resources to retrieve submerged narratives of resistance.
#BlueHumanities #BlueSocialSciences #EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #CoastalHistory #DigitalHumanties
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Feb 14
Introducing Liminal Waterway Countercultures

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LIMINALWATER: Liminal Waterway Countercultures
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Our Croatian PI, Professor Milka Car, is presenting our project in imperially splendid Vienna today.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Happy to share that our Zagreb team member Jelena Lalatovic will be presenting some of the research she has been doing on the project at the Latin American Studies Association Congress #LASA2026 next year in Paris, in a panel on periodical countercultures.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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From our Croatian team on the Adriatic
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Activists of @eausecours.bsky.social mourning lakes lost to mining yesterday in Ottawa by the parliament, observed by our PI @bengidley.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Pictured: Cast iron Sailors' Home railing detail c1850, #Liverpool.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r...

#OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Greetings from the fieldwork in southern Portugal
October 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Bienvenue sur Bluesky ! (Ajouté à notre liste « Mediterranean Studies » dans notre profil 👆🏼.)
rivesmed.bsky.social rivesmed.bsky.social @rivesmed.bsky.social · 18d
Créée en 1998, Rives méditerranéennes est une revue semestrielle en sciences humaines qui présente des études tournées vers la connaissance historique, géographique, sociologique, anthropologique et artistique en Méditerranée.
Pour en savoir plus journals.openedition.org/rives/
Rives méditerranéennes
Rives méditerranéennes est une publication en sciences humaines qui présente, dans des livraisons thématiques, des études principalement centrées sur le monde méditerranéen. Rives est la publicatio...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Where our team members are today. (Full points to anyone who can name all the locations.)
October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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We never posted about day two of our workshop in Marseille last week. Watch this space! It’s coming soon.
liminalwater.bsky.social Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 25d
Posting some highlights of our workshop in this thread…
liminalwater.bsky.social Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 27d
We are starting our second team meeting this morning. Expect more pictures.
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Park Lane, #Liverpool, 1968. Courtesy of Liverpool Record Office.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

See more at www.mappingmemory.org/map/r...

#OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Posting some highlights of our workshop in this thread…
liminalwater.bsky.social Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 27d
We are starting our second team meeting this morning. Expect more pictures.
October 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Fantastic long read by @yvonnesingh.bsky.social on Claude McKay in London

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
The long read: Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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We are starting our second team meeting this morning. Expect more pictures.
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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It was brilliant to kick off the Migration and Mobility Seminar with great papers from @profpanayi.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social @bengidley.bsky.social @marcloureiro.bsky.social - a lot to think about in terms of how we do migration history, especially in the current moment
profpanayi.bsky.social Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social · Sep 30
This was a great first session. Looking forward to many more to follow.
bengidley.bsky.social Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · Sep 30
Enjoyed first seminar of @ihr.bsky.social Migration + Mobility seminar series led by the fantastic @kabcommons.bsky.social, starring legend @profpanayi.bsky.social and great presentations by @endeeekay.bsky.social (see pic for book out soon w/ @punctumbooks.bsky.social) & @marcloureiro.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Including @blenormand.bsky.social on Rijeka on 3 February:
September 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Walter Benjamin, 15 juillet 1892 - 26 septembre 1940. In Memoriam. "Il est plus difficile d'honorer la mémoire des sans-noms que celle des gens célèbres. A la mémoire des sans-noms est dédiée la construction historique" (c'est tout le sens du projet Wo, Walter)
September 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Some of our team are in Marseille this week for “Balkan Matters! Material cultures in the Balkans”, hosted by our project partners MucemLab

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@telemme.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @lest-umr-cnrs-amu.bsky.social @gsrl.bsky.social @inalco.fr
September 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Greetings from our Zagreb team on the Adriatic coast this week
September 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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We’re very excited to be attending this conference next week at MucemLab!
cetobac.bsky.social CETOBaC @cetobac.bsky.social · Sep 3
#Colloque
Bonne rentrée à toutes et tous !
En septembre, RDV à Marseille pour le colloque "Balkan Matters !" organisé par l'AFEBalk, en partenariat avec le CETOBaC.
📅 25-27 septembre
📍 MucemLab
👉 bit.ly/4g4uiNH
September 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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aphg.aixmarseille Grâce à un partenariat entre le
MUCEM et l' @aphg-am.bsky.social tous les adhérents de l’ @aphg.bsky.social pourront découvrir l'exposition
« Lire le ciel » le mercredi 24 septembre à 14h30. La visite sera menée par un conservateur du MUCEM.
Inscription : aphg.aixmarseille.fr
September 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born.

(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
September 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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From the Croatian littoral
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Groeten uit Antwerpen!

Researching the Ostend East India Company in Antwerp
August 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social treasures exhibit is excellent. Struck by this 1779 letter from the Codrington Papers detailing the coercive sexual relationship between an overseer and an unnamed enslaved woman. Even better is Amina Atiq’s 2021 poem, “Wench” which gives her voice (see ALT text)🗃️
Hung on the wall in the Bodleian museum. An eighteenth-century letter in a wooden frame on the left. On the right on a dark green background is a poem entitled "Wench" (full text below). Underneath the poem is a smaller black rectangular sign with white print explaining the content of the 1779 letter (essentially that an overseer has purchased three of the children he fathered by an unnamed enslaved woman, and is enquiring about purchasing a fourth). There is also a QR code to hear Amina Atiq read her poem. Wench Amina Atiq In your warmest sense of gratitude you ask of me and my ten-month child everyone has forgotten us, as you remember I am here clothed in your waistcoats or worse colony bedding. I hope you will deem no offense, I promised death to run while your lingua left my body thirteen years of drunkenness. But here, you stained your four white shirts, allow me to wipe your mouth of slavery. No doubt of your thinking something strange you write I am your misfortune to breed, an indulged child-bearer, a sugar-shipped body, dancing cuffs in rituals around the highest bidders and studying wombs in English slave codes. I take my liberty of sweet-poetry, a moment of grief oath to all my four children to bless this Island under the Barbados windmills, wash in their holy water build the Codrington Estate in their mother’s bulwarks. I shall leave you to judge of it as you please but I still have one particular matter to mention there is an uprising lost between your starved forlorn eyes I button me up, I dress your white shirts
June 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Some of the books our team members are reading over the summer
Masha: Port to Port, by William Kornblum Sea of poppies, by Amitav Ghosh Kira Kiralina, by Panait Istrati
August 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM