Moritz Mihatsch
@mihatsch.bsky.social
Global historian working on sovereignty, nationalism & Sudanese political parties. Formerly British University in Egypt and @camhistory.bsky.social. Now Wenzhou Kean University. Author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social.
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Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
Please check out this fantastic review of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social by @alexspalinska.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social 🥳
Please check out this fantastic review of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social by @alexspalinska.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social 🥳
Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Please check out this fantastic review of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social by @alexspalinska.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social 🥳
I used em-dashes before Chat GPT told me to do so...
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I used em-dashes before Chat GPT told me to do so...
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You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.
I have started a new job in Wenzhou. I am looking forward to learning a lot about China at a moment in time which is pivotal for China and in which China is pivotal for the world.
The image shows the campus as seen from my flat. If you pass through China, come by and say hi.
The image shows the campus as seen from my flat. If you pass through China, come by and say hi.
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I have started a new job in Wenzhou. I am looking forward to learning a lot about China at a moment in time which is pivotal for China and in which China is pivotal for the world.
The image shows the campus as seen from my flat. If you pass through China, come by and say hi.
The image shows the campus as seen from my flat. If you pass through China, come by and say hi.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it was beautiful."
My father has selected this quote by Gabriel José García Márquez for his death notice.
Of course, he is right. Still, it will take time until I will be able to fulfil his final wish.
My father has selected this quote by Gabriel José García Márquez for his death notice.
Of course, he is right. Still, it will take time until I will be able to fulfil his final wish.
September 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it was beautiful."
My father has selected this quote by Gabriel José García Márquez for his death notice.
Of course, he is right. Still, it will take time until I will be able to fulfil his final wish.
My father has selected this quote by Gabriel José García Márquez for his death notice.
Of course, he is right. Still, it will take time until I will be able to fulfil his final wish.
Word is getting around!
Check out this review of Shifting Sovereignties in Italian:
www.albengacorsara.it/2025/09/06/i...
www.albengacorsara.it/2025/09/06/i...
Idee e letture. Sovranità in evoluzione: una storia globale del potere
Sovranità: concetto fluido, globale e storico, tra legittimità, potere e sfide tra stato, impero e governance globale. (Moritz Mihatsch e Michael Mulligan, 2025)
www.albengacorsara.it
September 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Word is getting around!
I always knew @xinfan.bsky.social was a prolific writer, but I just learnt from Amazon how incredibly expansive his 2021 monograph is. 😲
August 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I always knew @xinfan.bsky.social was a prolific writer, but I just learnt from Amazon how incredibly expansive his 2021 monograph is. 😲
Ein guter Artikel von @romandeckert.bsky.social zur Rolle Deutschland's im Sudan:
www.rosalux.de/news/id/5367...
www.rosalux.de/news/id/5367...
Deutschlands Rolle im Sudan - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Die Bundesrepublik trägt eine historische Verantwortung für den Bürgerkrieg im Sudan – und eine aktuelle: als strategischer Partner des Hauptkriegstreibers. Von Roman Deckert
www.rosalux.de
August 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Ein guter Artikel von @romandeckert.bsky.social zur Rolle Deutschland's im Sudan:
www.rosalux.de/news/id/5367...
www.rosalux.de/news/id/5367...
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📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.
July 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.
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A new podcast on international students in the UK. The title is brilliant @jasonilagan.com. It was lovely chatting with @heather-rolfe.bsky.social and @bdmabrams.bsky.social. Thank you so much for hosting the conversation @ioe.bsky.social .
I came up with the episode title, @hendaly.bsky.social @heather-rolfe.bsky.social @britishfuture.bsky.social @bdmabrams.bsky.social brought the content.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Britain's got (international student) talent - but what do they really think of them? | Research for the Real World
Podcast Episode · IOE insights · 14/07/2025 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A new podcast on international students in the UK. The title is brilliant @jasonilagan.com. It was lovely chatting with @heather-rolfe.bsky.social and @bdmabrams.bsky.social. Thank you so much for hosting the conversation @ioe.bsky.social .
🇨🇩 I used to show photos of these in class to talk about Lumumba, NAM and the Cold War. I have now gotten the physical artefacts so I can let students look at them instead and also discuss stamps as a historical source.
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🇨🇩 I used to show photos of these in class to talk about Lumumba, NAM and the Cold War. I have now gotten the physical artefacts so I can let students look at them instead and also discuss stamps as a historical source.
I wish you all a very happy Eid al Adha.
عيد أضحى مبارك.
عيد أضحى مبارك.
June 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I wish you all a very happy Eid al Adha.
عيد أضحى مبارك.
عيد أضحى مبارك.
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Und in hellen Leuchtbuchstaben flimmert „Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz“ über dem neuen deutschen Exil-Campus für Harvard.
June 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Und in hellen Leuchtbuchstaben flimmert „Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz“ über dem neuen deutschen Exil-Campus für Harvard.
Das muss diese »garantierte Wissenschaftsfreiheit« sein, von der Doro Bär spricht.
June 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Das muss diese »garantierte Wissenschaftsfreiheit« sein, von der Doro Bär spricht.
Na liebe Hannas... fühlt ihr euch schon ausreichend verarscht?
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Ministerin Bär plant »Rundum-sorglos-Paket« für ausländische Forschende
US-Präsident Trump macht ihnen das Forschen schwer, Wissenschaftsministerin Bär will nun Spitzenkräfte von US-Hochschulen nach Deutschland holen. Parteifreund Söder schwärmt bereits von einem »Exilcam...
www.spiegel.de
June 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Na liebe Hannas... fühlt ihr euch schon ausreichend verarscht?
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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4/6/25 - nocturn
June 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
4/6/25 - nocturn
I was waiting for the opportunity to use a Expanse gif in my Shifting Sovereignties posts... I should do that more often 😇
🎓 Roxanne Ruixian Zhua and Jacob Haqq-Misra ask "Can a Referendum Solve Problems of Shared Sovereignty on Mars?"
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10434
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10434
a woman in a black uniform has a badge on her chest that says ' rescue ' on it
ALT: a woman in a black uniform has a badge on her chest that says ' rescue ' on it
media.tenor.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I was waiting for the opportunity to use a Expanse gif in my Shifting Sovereignties posts... I should do that more often 😇
It must be rather rare that books get the approval of academics as an academic book & by their 8-year olds thanks to their lavish images and illustrations.
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
May 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It must be rather rare that books get the approval of academics as an academic book & by their 8-year olds thanks to their lavish images and illustrations.
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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First publication of articles in a book forum about Jens Bartelson’s great book Becoming International.
I was intrigued by the way the book ends with hope that a planetary perspective will enable the creation of an alternative to international relations.
I was intrigued by the way the book ends with hope that a planetary perspective will enable the creation of an alternative to international relations.
Shadows of Empire: A Reply to My Critics
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
First publication of articles in a book forum about Jens Bartelson’s great book Becoming International.
I was intrigued by the way the book ends with hope that a planetary perspective will enable the creation of an alternative to international relations.
I was intrigued by the way the book ends with hope that a planetary perspective will enable the creation of an alternative to international relations.
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Cambridge Global Economic History Seminar, 19 May:
Lisbeth Rodrigues (Porto), ‘Beyond almsgiving: The financial role of charitable institutions in early modern Portugal and its empire’. 17:15 UK time in Audit Room, King's College, Cambridge. Or online: subscribe at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
Lisbeth Rodrigues (Porto), ‘Beyond almsgiving: The financial role of charitable institutions in early modern Portugal and its empire’. 17:15 UK time in Audit Room, King's College, Cambridge. Or online: subscribe at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
May 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Cambridge Global Economic History Seminar, 19 May:
Lisbeth Rodrigues (Porto), ‘Beyond almsgiving: The financial role of charitable institutions in early modern Portugal and its empire’. 17:15 UK time in Audit Room, King's College, Cambridge. Or online: subscribe at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
Lisbeth Rodrigues (Porto), ‘Beyond almsgiving: The financial role of charitable institutions in early modern Portugal and its empire’. 17:15 UK time in Audit Room, King's College, Cambridge. Or online: subscribe at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
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To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
May 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
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Lastly, yesterday we announced the election of 337 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members to the Society.
We look forward to meeting and working with them to support history and historians. If you'd like to join them (and us), please do apply bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
We look forward to meeting and working with them to support history and historians. If you'd like to join them (and us), please do apply bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
May 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Lastly, yesterday we announced the election of 337 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members to the Society.
We look forward to meeting and working with them to support history and historians. If you'd like to join them (and us), please do apply bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
We look forward to meeting and working with them to support history and historians. If you'd like to join them (and us), please do apply bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians
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15/5/25 - nocturn
May 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
15/5/25 - nocturn