Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social
Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm
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Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Creolizing the Modern Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu & Manuela Boatcă
Presenting the award-winning book
creolizingthemodern.com
Our book now has a website! As it was getting hard to keep track of materials around "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social, we put them all in one place. Many thanks to Louise Link @uni-freiburg.de! We hope the overview is helpful & a possible teaching resource. creolizingthemodern.com
A new review symposium of our "Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires" in International Sociology @isa-sociology.org is online on the last day of our publisher's winter sale! If that isn't a sign that you should buy the book! 😇 tinyurl.com/2s4zf57v
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A new review symposium of our "Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires" in International Sociology @isa-sociology.org is online on the last day of our publisher's winter sale! If that isn't a sign that you should buy the book! 😇 tinyurl.com/2s4zf57v
Thrilled that I'll be spending February and March at the @iwm.at in Vienna working on part II of Creolizing the Modern, this time focused on the political economy and literary discourses on racialized enslavement in interimperial Moldavias!
www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...
www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thrilled that I'll be spending February and March at the @iwm.at in Vienna working on part II of Creolizing the Modern, this time focused on the political economy and literary discourses on racialized enslavement in interimperial Moldavias!
www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...
www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...
Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8
This is for my Ukrainian friends who might be interested in this reading group. Very many thanks, dear Oksana, I hope you have a good discussion and will make some of the insights known in some form afterwards.
really looking forward to discussing "Creolizing the Modern" by @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and Anca Parvulescu at our Ukrainian Reading Group in December.
@cornellupress.bsky.social
#URG #УЧГ
@cornellupress.bsky.social
#URG #УЧГ
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is for my Ukrainian friends who might be interested in this reading group. Very many thanks, dear Oksana, I hope you have a good discussion and will make some of the insights known in some form afterwards.
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(1/3) 🇪🇺 Today is a good day for a #Europe and #Schengen area without #internalborders!
📄+📃+📄= 3️⃣ separate lawsuits have been filed against the German internal #bordercontrols for violating #EU-law.
📄+📃+📄= 3️⃣ separate lawsuits have been filed against the German internal #bordercontrols for violating #EU-law.
Kontrollen an deutschen Grenzen? Das verletzt die #Freizügigkeit im Schengenraum! Deswegen haben wir jetzt mit drei Betroffenen und dem @ecchr.bsky.social, dem @enareurope.bsky.social und Equal Rights Beyond Borders vor zwei deutschen Verwaltungsgerichten geklagt. freiheitsrechte.org/grenzkontrol...
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
(1/3) 🇪🇺 Today is a good day for a #Europe and #Schengen area without #internalborders!
📄+📃+📄= 3️⃣ separate lawsuits have been filed against the German internal #bordercontrols for violating #EU-law.
📄+📃+📄= 3️⃣ separate lawsuits have been filed against the German internal #bordercontrols for violating #EU-law.
So, the big news is that Bolsonaro has been arrested, but in German-Brazilian relations, the other news will soon be that Der Spiegel follows in Merz‘ steps in being so ignorant about Brazil that they wrote Lula has been arrested. Screenshot for posterity, hope the online text is corrected soon!!! 😎
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So, the big news is that Bolsonaro has been arrested, but in German-Brazilian relations, the other news will soon be that Der Spiegel follows in Merz‘ steps in being so ignorant about Brazil that they wrote Lula has been arrested. Screenshot for posterity, hope the online text is corrected soon!!! 😎
In unserem Graduiertenkolleg 2571 „Imperien: Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen“ sind 4 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen-Stellen, befristet auf drei Jahre, Teilzeitstelle (65 %), Eintrittstermin: 01.05.2026, zu besetzen!
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In unserem Graduiertenkolleg 2571 „Imperien: Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen“ sind 4 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen-Stellen, befristet auf drei Jahre, Teilzeitstelle (65 %), Eintrittstermin: 01.05.2026, zu besetzen!
Reposted by Manuela Boatcă
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Reposted by Manuela Boatcă
Full list of events for our Global Teach In/Out:
Find one near you! 🌍
migrationscholarsmobilize.org/upcoming-eve...
Find one near you! 🌍
migrationscholarsmobilize.org/upcoming-eve...
Migration Scholars Mobilize Network
migrationscholarsmobilize.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Full list of events for our Global Teach In/Out:
Find one near you! 🌍
migrationscholarsmobilize.org/upcoming-eve...
Find one near you! 🌍
migrationscholarsmobilize.org/upcoming-eve...
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Alle Ausländer*innen sollen raus, aber diese Ägypterin wird eingebürgert.
Ansonsten ist die Aussage, Nofretete sei rechtmäßig hier historisch einfach falsch.
Geehrt fühle ich mich durch den persönlichen Angriff...
Ansonsten ist die Aussage, Nofretete sei rechtmäßig hier historisch einfach falsch.
Geehrt fühle ich mich durch den persönlichen Angriff...
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Alle Ausländer*innen sollen raus, aber diese Ägypterin wird eingebürgert.
Ansonsten ist die Aussage, Nofretete sei rechtmäßig hier historisch einfach falsch.
Geehrt fühle ich mich durch den persönlichen Angriff...
Ansonsten ist die Aussage, Nofretete sei rechtmäßig hier historisch einfach falsch.
Geehrt fühle ich mich durch den persönlichen Angriff...
Congratulations, dear Meta! A fantastic thesis that was ready to be a great book from the very beginning, back in those dreary lockdown months of 2020! 🤗
Very happy to share that my monograph on the negotiation of global asymmetries of science has been recently published! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/colonial-leg...
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean - Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making; This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate globa...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Congratulations, dear Meta! A fantastic thesis that was ready to be a great book from the very beginning, back in those dreary lockdown months of 2020! 🤗
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Last week, I had the great pleasure and privilege of being part of a fantastic panel chaired by @granttharward.bsky.social, with @manuelaboatca.bsky.social as our discussant, at the @as Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies ( @aseees.bsky.social ) 2025 Virtual Convention.
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Last week, I had the great pleasure and privilege of being part of a fantastic panel chaired by @granttharward.bsky.social, with @manuelaboatca.bsky.social as our discussant, at the @as Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies ( @aseees.bsky.social ) 2025 Virtual Convention.
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If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
This is such a great idea and a fantastic resource! Check out the lesson plans complete with activities, prompts, questions, indicating which level & topic they cover! The worksheet for my episode on "Europeans" - A-level teaching on Culture & Identity and Globalisation is here tinyurl.com/5ast4z5d
We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
October 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is such a great idea and a fantastic resource! Check out the lesson plans complete with activities, prompts, questions, indicating which level & topic they cover! The worksheet for my episode on "Europeans" - A-level teaching on Culture & Identity and Globalisation is here tinyurl.com/5ast4z5d
Reposted by Manuela Boatcă
What’s behind the pursuit of “paradise” in travel to the Caribbean? How does tourism continue and compound the legacy of colonialism? How can we resist? Angelique Nixon joins #UncommonSense on #desire #tourism and #decolonising – Plus: celebrating Sylvia Wynter.
buff.ly/UFrCeYd
buff.ly/UFrCeYd
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What’s behind the pursuit of “paradise” in travel to the Caribbean? How does tourism continue and compound the legacy of colonialism? How can we resist? Angelique Nixon joins #UncommonSense on #desire #tourism and #decolonising – Plus: celebrating Sylvia Wynter.
buff.ly/UFrCeYd
buff.ly/UFrCeYd
In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig!
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig!
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
Fantastische Neuigkeiten!!
EXKLUSIV: Ein Professor der HU muss sich wegen des Vorwurfs der sexuellen Nötigung vor Gericht verantworten. Er bestreitet die Vorwürfe. Die HU untersagte dem Professor nun die Führung seiner Dienstgeschäfte.
Recherche mit @evamurasov.bsky.social @tagesspiegel.de
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/vorwu...
Recherche mit @evamurasov.bsky.social @tagesspiegel.de
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/vorwu...
Vorwurf der sexuellen Nötigung: Professor der Humboldt-Universität muss vor Gericht
Die Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen einen HU-Professor wegen sexueller Nötigung erhoben. Im Januar beginnt der Prozess. Seine Lehrveranstaltungen wurden nun abgesagt.
www.tagesspiegel.de
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Fantastische Neuigkeiten!!
🥁 Join us next Thursday, October 23, for the first lecture on on "Anti-colonial Social Theory and the Peripheral Gaze" by Sujata Patel, recipient of the @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award, hosted at the @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social of the @uni-freiburg.de for the duration of her stay 2025-2026!
🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week!
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🥁 Join us next Thursday, October 23, for the first lecture on on "Anti-colonial Social Theory and the Peripheral Gaze" by Sujata Patel, recipient of the @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award, hosted at the @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social of the @uni-freiburg.de for the duration of her stay 2025-2026!
🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week!
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
October 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week!
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
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Join us for the launch of the latest issue of Migration and Society, an international peer-reviewed journal exploring global research on migration, solidarity, and refugee experiences.
📆 October 21st
⏰ 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT +1)
📍 Online (register to receive the link)
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
📆 October 21st
⏰ 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT +1)
📍 Online (register to receive the link)
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Migration and Society launch: solidarity and the “Anti-Refugee Machine”
The latest issue of Migration and Society explores global research on migration, solidarity, and refugee experiences, offering fresh insights into movement, belonging, and social connection worldwide.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Join us for the launch of the latest issue of Migration and Society, an international peer-reviewed journal exploring global research on migration, solidarity, and refugee experiences.
📆 October 21st
⏰ 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT +1)
📍 Online (register to receive the link)
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
📆 October 21st
⏰ 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT +1)
📍 Online (register to receive the link)
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network
📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London
📆11 November 1pm
Join us!
and join the network
www.instagram.com/migration_sc...
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
@migrationscholars.bsky.social
📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London
📆11 November 1pm
Join us!
and join the network
www.instagram.com/migration_sc...
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
@migrationscholars.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network
📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London
📆11 November 1pm
Join us!
and join the network
www.instagram.com/migration_sc...
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
@migrationscholars.bsky.social
📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London
📆11 November 1pm
Join us!
and join the network
www.instagram.com/migration_sc...
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
@migrationscholars.bsky.social
🔊Thinking of applying to the Global Studies M.A. in Social Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de? 🎓🌍 Our next info session this year is on October 15th, 2-3pm CEST! 🗓️
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🔊Thinking of applying to the Global Studies M.A. in Social Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de? 🎓🌍 Our next info session this year is on October 15th, 2-3pm CEST! 🗓️
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
Reposted by Manuela Boatcă
Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.
Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)
President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.
Reposted by Manuela Boatcă
📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict
🚨🚨Conference Alert! Abstract Submissions Due Soon!🚨🚨 “Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", Happening July 2026, University of British Columbia. Open to all Topics Within a GPE Framework. Lots of Travel Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73
Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
July 21 – July 23, 2026
With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict
Neues @mittelweg36.bsky.social -Heft mit spannenden Beiträgen zum Oberthema "Pluralisierung der Aufklärung"!
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Neues @mittelweg36.bsky.social -Heft mit spannenden Beiträgen zum Oberthema "Pluralisierung der Aufklärung"!