Daniel Leonhard Purdy
@snowtheory.bsky.social
German scholar focused on Orientalism, Goethe, early modern globalism, China in Europe
We put together this volume on Enlightenment race theories and their lasting impact on colonialism. We start with Kant and then move forward into the 20th century, Nazis, and post-colonial conflict. Many powerful essays on the history of race, anthropology and colonialism.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We put together this volume on Enlightenment race theories and their lasting impact on colonialism. We start with Kant and then move forward into the 20th century, Nazis, and post-colonial conflict. Many powerful essays on the history of race, anthropology and colonialism.
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Wulf D. Hund, Lukas Egger und Felix Lösing untersuchen die Schriften von Marx und Engels im Hinblick auf rassistische, antisemitische, eurozentrische Stereotype und Vorurteile. Für Kolja Lindner bleiben trotz der Qualitäten des Buches eine Reihe von Fragen offen:
www.soziopolis.de/anachronisti...
www.soziopolis.de/anachronisti...
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Wulf D. Hund, Lukas Egger und Felix Lösing untersuchen die Schriften von Marx und Engels im Hinblick auf rassistische, antisemitische, eurozentrische Stereotype und Vorurteile. Für Kolja Lindner bleiben trotz der Qualitäten des Buches eine Reihe von Fragen offen:
www.soziopolis.de/anachronisti...
www.soziopolis.de/anachronisti...
Downright embarrassed to be reading J.G. Herder's love letters to Karoline Flachsland, as if I were eavesdropping or they should just get a room.
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Downright embarrassed to be reading J.G. Herder's love letters to Karoline Flachsland, as if I were eavesdropping or they should just get a room.
So I am giving up on teaching Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life. My grad students all just see him as a creepy, sexist guy lurking on the street. As a student of Susan Buck -Morss, I am taken aback. No longer is he the source of an aesthetics of dandyism, flaneurs, maquilage, modernity etc
September 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
So I am giving up on teaching Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life. My grad students all just see him as a creepy, sexist guy lurking on the street. As a student of Susan Buck -Morss, I am taken aback. No longer is he the source of an aesthetics of dandyism, flaneurs, maquilage, modernity etc
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Amos Goldberg: We come from Jewish history, and Jewish history commands us – "Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor." .We cannot read the testimonies from Gaza without recalling the testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto about hunger...
Amos Goldberg on Hunger Strike
The Israeli Holocaust historian speaks in Jaffa
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July 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Amos Goldberg: We come from Jewish history, and Jewish history commands us – "Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor." .We cannot read the testimonies from Gaza without recalling the testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto about hunger...
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La memoria collettiva è sempre a breve termine
June 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
La memoria collettiva è sempre a breve termine
Men carrying babies, resumed
June 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Men carrying babies, resumed
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BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
May 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
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– Konsistoriet är till stor del direkt utsedda av regeringen. Så när de uppmanar regeringen att agera, smäller det högt.
Artikeln har uppdaterats med en färsk intervju med @nphellstrom.bsky.social, en av initiativtagarna till Uppsaladeklarationen.
Artikeln har uppdaterats med en färsk intervju med @nphellstrom.bsky.social, en av initiativtagarna till Uppsaladeklarationen.
Uppsala universitet i brev till regeringen: ”Förhindra folkmord i Gaza”
Både rektor och ordförande vill se fördömande av Israels krigsbrott
www.flamman.se
May 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
– Konsistoriet är till stor del direkt utsedda av regeringen. Så när de uppmanar regeringen att agera, smäller det högt.
Artikeln har uppdaterats med en färsk intervju med @nphellstrom.bsky.social, en av initiativtagarna till Uppsaladeklarationen.
Artikeln har uppdaterats med en färsk intervju med @nphellstrom.bsky.social, en av initiativtagarna till Uppsaladeklarationen.
The latest volume in the Penn State University book series: Germans Beyond Europe
April 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The latest volume in the Penn State University book series: Germans Beyond Europe
In a vast American supermarket, you ask your German sweetheart timidly if she might pick out some bread.
She returns with the statement:
"There is no bread."
She returns with the statement:
"There is no bread."
April 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In a vast American supermarket, you ask your German sweetheart timidly if she might pick out some bread.
She returns with the statement:
"There is no bread."
She returns with the statement:
"There is no bread."
Justifications for the Declaration of Independence, include:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.
April 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Justifications for the Declaration of Independence, include:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.
Hands Off--2000 strong in State College, PA
April 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hands Off--2000 strong in State College, PA
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1. The account reproduced by John of Winterthur was evidently composed by a Franciscan from Tana who had an antipathy towards the Genoese and tried to make them the main culprits of the subsequent Tatar repressions in 1343.
#mongolsky
#tengri
#mongolsky
#tengri
March 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
1. The account reproduced by John of Winterthur was evidently composed by a Franciscan from Tana who had an antipathy towards the Genoese and tried to make them the main culprits of the subsequent Tatar repressions in 1343.
#mongolsky
#tengri
#mongolsky
#tengri
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The Amsterdam Maritime Museum has just announced a round of fellowships for PhD holders, PhD candidates, and Master students to conduct research in their collections. It's a fantastic museum with very rich collections, and also Amsterdam...
www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...
www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...
Apply to the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships
The National Maritime Museum - Register for the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships 2024
www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Amsterdam Maritime Museum has just announced a round of fellowships for PhD holders, PhD candidates, and Master students to conduct research in their collections. It's a fantastic museum with very rich collections, and also Amsterdam...
www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...
www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...
Book promotion is a vital function of social media. I have come to Bluesky in large part to keep up with my scholarly colleagues. In the old Twitter days I learned a great deal about what was happening in the Republic of Digital Letters and am eager to revive that older tradition from five years ago
I actually like the promo - keeps me up to speed on what's out there and helps me when I get requests from reporters for folks to talk to - go for it early and often. Point about about university/college prestige in messenging is a good one.
March 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Book promotion is a vital function of social media. I have come to Bluesky in large part to keep up with my scholarly colleagues. In the old Twitter days I learned a great deal about what was happening in the Republic of Digital Letters and am eager to revive that older tradition from five years ago
Finally finished a novel I had started in grad school circa 1986
February 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Finally finished a novel I had started in grad school circa 1986
Happy to learn that "evolution" derives from the Classical Latin action of unrolling a scroll.
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Happy to learn that "evolution" derives from the Classical Latin action of unrolling a scroll.
Turn Gaza into Atlantic City, complete with boardwalk and casinos? Real estate development as a crime against humanity.
February 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Turn Gaza into Atlantic City, complete with boardwalk and casinos? Real estate development as a crime against humanity.
Sometimes you really can't read another racial theorist. Tonight's tired summary:German racial thinkers: in the first half of the 19th century they are crack-pot gentleman scholars, in the second half they are dangerous nationalists.
January 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Sometimes you really can't read another racial theorist. Tonight's tired summary:German racial thinkers: in the first half of the 19th century they are crack-pot gentleman scholars, in the second half they are dangerous nationalists.
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Ooh! Ooh! Another opportunity to share the Albert Einstein Institute's offering on this! If you find something that interests you, research that thing . . . www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-...
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action — AEI/ Empowering Humankind
www.aeinstein.org
January 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Ooh! Ooh! Another opportunity to share the Albert Einstein Institute's offering on this! If you find something that interests you, research that thing . . . www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-...
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This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future".
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
‘Learn to code’
Should’ve done a proper degree like sociology or political science
Should’ve done a proper degree like sociology or political science
January 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future".
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
Crushing Contrasts. Teaching the layout of a Carolingian church from 815 while the old Penn State Architecture Building next door gets demolished.
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Crushing Contrasts. Teaching the layout of a Carolingian church from 815 while the old Penn State Architecture Building next door gets demolished.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
An explanation for Berlin's high rents
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground | Tim White
Germany’s capital was known for its affordable rents. Now ‘furnished temporary’ flats risk destroying the heart of the city, says researcher and writer Tim White
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
An explanation for Berlin's high rents
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...