Philipp Hofmann
@philipphofmann.bsky.social
Historian | Religion, slavery, and landownership in early modern Angola | Postdoc at International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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African Economic History publishes scholarly essays in English, French, and Portuguese on the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present.
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January 23, 2024 at 1:48 PM
African Economic History publishes scholarly essays in English, French, and Portuguese on the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present.
Send us your work!
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Send us your work!
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent
The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about.
Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209
Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent
The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about.
Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209
August 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent
The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about.
Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209
Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent
The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about.
Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209
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I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
August 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
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Acabar com a FCT. Eu receava que as coisas fossem piorar, mas isto é o descalabro. A FCT tem muitos problemas, certo, mas ainda faz algo pela Ciência em Portugal e permite que algo se faça pela Ciência. Agora, Ciência vai ser só Engenharias e ciências ditas exatas? E o resto da sociedade? Asqueroso.
Reforma do Estado: Governo reduz de 18 para 7 as entidades sob alçada do Ministério da Educação. FCT extinta
O Governo anunciou esta quinta-feira, 31 de julho, uma profunda reorganização do Ministério da Educação, Ciência e Inovação (MECI), que inclui a extinção da Fun
https://www.dn.pt/política/reforma-do-estado-governo-reduz-de-18-para-7-as-entidades-sob-alçada-do-ministério-da-educação-fct-extinta
July 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Acabar com a FCT. Eu receava que as coisas fossem piorar, mas isto é o descalabro. A FCT tem muitos problemas, certo, mas ainda faz algo pela Ciência em Portugal e permite que algo se faça pela Ciência. Agora, Ciência vai ser só Engenharias e ciências ditas exatas? E o resto da sociedade? Asqueroso.
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‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
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Don't get me wrong, I'm a ball of fears and frustrations -- am currently writing a book, after all -- but I reject attempts to frame historians' dislike of LLMs as fear/anxiety about their own skills, and not as a concern about what doing history -- the method, the ethos -- is.
Like it or not, the main takeways here seem accurate (including shifting the focus away from academic history). But for all the anger, frustration and fear with which historians respond to AI, one point seems important: going to the archives will matter again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Don't get me wrong, I'm a ball of fears and frustrations -- am currently writing a book, after all -- but I reject attempts to frame historians' dislike of LLMs as fear/anxiety about their own skills, and not as a concern about what doing history -- the method, the ethos -- is.
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Despite a few critical remarks, Germany’s stance on Israel hasn’t changed. From Gaza to Tehran, its backing of war and genocide continues. Read the full article on my Substack.
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germanys-p...
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germanys-p...
Why Germany’s “Paradigm Shift” on Israel Is a Lie
Despite some critical remarks, Germany hasn’t shifted its stance on Israel-Palestine. From Gaza to Tehran, its support for genocide and war persists – while Staatsräson is being rebranded.
hannohauenstein.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Despite a few critical remarks, Germany’s stance on Israel hasn’t changed. From Gaza to Tehran, its backing of war and genocide continues. Read the full article on my Substack.
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germanys-p...
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germanys-p...