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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen

@cmarkthiesen.bsky.social
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Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History. “Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257

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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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africamultiple.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Join us for a screening and discussion of Episode 1 of the ARTE documentary series "Afrikas vergessene Geschichte". The event will be held in German and recorded for the ARTE event media hub and our YouTube channel. @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social @artefr.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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'Mr Baird was so excited that words didn't come': The office worker who became the first person ever to appear on TV
On 2 October 1925, John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image of a human face. Forty years later, the world's first television star told the BBC about that dramatic moment.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
So has become the great responsibility shifter for the most privileged
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This winter semester I’ll be taking over as interim professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge (Vertretungsprofessor für Transregionale Wissenskulturen) at #DIMAS, University of Regensburg. www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... Students at Regensburg, do consider taking one of my classes.
My courses at the University of Regensburg this Winter 2025:
-The United States and Africa
-Decolonization and Intellectuals
-Global History: Methods, Approaches, Sources
-Decolonization and the End of European Empires
-Tips, Tricks and Hacks: Researching and Writing a Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel @zasb.unibas.ch · 15/04/2025
📢The #CallForPanels for the #SGAS-VAD-2026 conference is now open. 🌍Theme: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations" ‼️Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2025 📅Conference date: 26-28 Aug 2026 📍Location: Basel, Switzerland zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news... #CfP #AfricanStudies #VAD #SGAS #SSEA
Flyer with URL of conference website
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
CfP Basel, 26-28.08.2026 Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel. www.sagw.ch/africa/aktue...
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Call of panels: African Perspectives on Global Transformations (Basel, 26-28.08.2026)
Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Base...
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Happy to see this in print: 💽"What is Digital Global History Now?" Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2025), 1–19. www.cambridge.org/core/service... Find the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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LinkedIn
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Excellent piece by two dear friends @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social & @themorningsnows.bsky.social about the cyber truck & its uncanny similarities to the Casspir, the tank by which the Apartheid regime brutalized Black south Africans during Elon's childhood. 1/ slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.
Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.
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Vivian Chenxue Lu @themorningsnows.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It is worth reading the 4 pages of Columbia's enthusiastic over-compliance to federal threats to get a sense of what's coming down the pipeline for other universities: Expanded commitments to disciplining + policing speech, protest, and intellectual life president.columbia.edu/sites/defaul...
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clabrunebadiane.bsky.social @clabrunebadiane.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Avec Giulia Bonacci nous lançons un appel à articles autour des retours en Afrique. Propositions attendues au plus tard le 15 mai.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Interested in plantation studies? American empire? Globalization? Liberia? I wrote a review of Gregg Mitman‘s book „Empire of Rubber.“ academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America - Regensburg @europeamerica.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Welcome to our Bluesky! We are a research platform based in #Regensburg, #Germany, exploring interconnections and frictions between regions of #Europe and the #Americas Check out our Open Call for Contributions: #Transatlantic Ruptures and Transformations frictions.europeamerica.de#open-call-tr...
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Frictions: Europe, America and global Transformations
Frictions is a blogjournal – a hybrid format of blog and e-journal – discussing Europe and the Americas in the context of global transformations.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
On Valetine‘s Day we held a public viewing of lost & found tv & film in and on Liberia (prewar, 70s/80s) in collaboration with Liberian filmmaker Artina Michelle. We were joined by some former anchors, current members of the movie union, school teachers, and many students. #Watchshowlib2025
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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Public history in Africa: Let's map and support existing projects. If you have (or know of) PH projects in Africa, please add it in the comment section here. You can see some projects such as the fantastic African Digital Heritage Foundation www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... #PublicHistory #Africa
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Public history projects - Google My Maps
Each entry should include: 1 ) a name of the project, 2 ) A few lines of description, 3 ) at least 2 keywords on the practice (for instance Oral History, Migration), 4 ) a link to a website and contac...
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Dieter Roth, Basel on the Rhine, 1969 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Barbara Jakobson Fund and Jeanne C. Thayer Fund
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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Come work with me 😊 Successful candidates will be required to register for full time study in February 2025.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
L. Schulte Nordholt, N. Nkealah, and R. Bod have edited a special issue of History of Humanities dealing with Classics in the History of the African Humanities. My chapter: "Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante, 1895." www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/GAQKB...
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
„Could a new ‘religious turn’ in society be one unexpected, counter-intuitive impact of the rise of Artificial Intelligence? What might that mean for our institutions and communities – and for public policy.“
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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Liberia's notorious rebel-turned-senator Prince Yormie Johnson dies. Johnson was one of the key figures in the country’s civil war, in which 250,000 people died many survivors from sexual assault and other attacks were left permanently scarred /1
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New open access article: „Black American Agricultural Experts and the Vernacularization of American Science in Liberia Prior to Decolonization in Africa“. muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic....
Lamar E. Fort delivering a „simple press“ to produce high quality palm oil in a Liberian village.
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Emmanuel Freudenthal @emmanfre.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Amazing job opportunity: news editor at @thecontinent.bsky.social
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
More on my chapter: „Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past“. link.growkudos.com/1f1filuje2o
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A study of the history and institutional memory of the Historical Society of Ghana.
This chapter explores the possibilities and limitations of historiography and memory as it explores the past of the Historical Society of Ghana.
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!
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Society’s journal ‘Transactions’ now fully Open Access | RHS
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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Originally reported that Taylor and Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social were only making 10 million off of #selling #scholars' work to AI firms Wrong! - Turns out it is #75million in 2024 thus far, and that doesn't include a deal w/ @microsoftincel.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/taylor-...
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Taylor & Francis set to make £58m from AI in 2024 as it reveals second partnership
The parent company of academic publisher Taylor & Francis has revealed it expects to earn £58m ($75m) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships in 2024 and that it has a second AI technology part...
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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
Opportunity 👀 Apply for a fellowship or become an artist in residence at global dis:connect for up to 12 months and explore the complex relationships of global interconntectedness and disentanglement in the context of globalisation with us. www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Really excited that this Friday May 3 the World History Group is organising a keynote by Erica Charters followed by a roundtable (incl. @sulinlewis.bsky.social @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social) on "Teaching Imperial & Global History" on occasion of the @camhistory.bsky.social Faculty Anniversary programme.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
Nairobi life.
Scene from downtown Nairobi, with a bodaboda driver speeding passed a bus tagged with the term „forward“.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
📢 4 days to submit a paper or panel
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
A shot of the back of the building in Amsterdam where the International Institute of Social History is located.A shot of the front of the building in Amsterdam where the International Institute of Social History is located.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
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Kritik an Postkolonialen Theorien: Revanchistischer Kulturkampf
Kritik an postkolonialen Theorien hat Konjunktur. Sie mäandert zwischen Bauchgefühl und revanchistischer Identitätspolitik. Zeit für eine Verteidigung.
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ESSHC.bsky.social @esshc.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
The Call for Papers is now open for the ESSHC of 2025! Submit your paper abstracts or panel proposals before 15 April 2024 so our network chairs can make their selection. Check out our website for the submission guidelines.
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ESSHC.bsky.social @esshc.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Only 3 weeks left to submit your abstracts and panel proposals for the next ESSHC! Deadline 15 April. Submit here 📝: esshc2025.exordo.com
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Not for the first time, I'm reminded that there is no one more thoughtful about the financial and social shocks created by climate change than Spencer Glendon.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Looking forward to this.
The programme for the Teaching Imperial and Global History conference for 3 May.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
„Digital Monolingualism, Archives at Risk, and Global Views on Open Access“ der Blogbeitrag zum Roundtable bei CrossArea: trafo.hypotheses.org/50712
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Digital Monolingualism, Archives at Risk, and Global Views on Open Access
By Kathleen Schlütter and Eva Ommert (Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University). Report on the Roundtable “The Future of the Archive(s): Digital Infrastructures Across Regions”   (17.11.20...
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FID Geschichtswissenschaft @historicumnet.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
📢 Neue alte FID-Lizenz! Das Online-Zeitungsarchiv RetroNews steht allen mit FID-Lizenz-Konto in vollem Umfang zur Verfügung. 15 Mio Artikel aus 2.000 🇫🇷 Zeitungen und Magazinen (1631-1952) im Volltext durchsuchbar. 👉 historicum.net/services/fid-lizenzen/retronewsfr-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france
Tablet mit Symbolbild der Seite historicum.net. Darauf der Text: "Neue FID-Lizenz auf historicum.net. RetroNews. Das Online-Zeitungsarchiv der Bibliothèque nationale de France"
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Out soon! This was a worthwhile project. Check out my chapter on "Contestation over Agricultural Production in Colonial Africa". global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of the Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History. It pictures a barn amid a lush green field.
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Sabine @sabineemsland.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Das nächste Demo Wochenende am Start. Für jeden was dabei, direkt vor unseren Haustüren. Also raus auf die Straßen.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Our CfP with Praticas da Historia: "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African Press, and the Uses of Historical Knowledge." Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to praticashistoria@gmail.com . praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retr...
Artwork by Nuno Silas.
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
As a newly-appointed Africa Network Chair for the European Social Science History Conference, I'm happy to announce that the CFP for the 2025 conference is now open! Submit your proposals here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en More on the Africa network: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/africa-ne...
The CFP for the ESSHC. The deadline for paper and session proposals is 15 April 2024.
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African Studies Library - Cambridge University @afrlib.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
ASAUK 2024 is happening August 29-31 at Oxford Brookes University. There are 30+ topics within the theme "Generation and Regeneration" that you can submit an abstract for - deadline is April 20th! Click the link to find out more. #afrpolsky
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ASAUK – African Studies Association of the UK
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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 16/01/2024
Thank you @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social, @buggeln.bsky.social. It was great to have had the opportunity to listen to your impressive and thought provoking comments! And thank you to Katja Castryck and the European Network in Universal and Global History for the Organisation. I am truly honoured.
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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 16/01/2024
Please join @buggeln.bsky.social, @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social and me as we talk about "Unternehmen Weltaneignung" at 5pm CET (via Zoom) today!
Cover of Unternehmen Weltaneignung
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Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Call for application: One-Year Fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. If you are an Africa-based scholar at post-doc level with a historical book projet that you want to finish in this writing retreat, please consider applying. www.historischeskolleg.de/consolidator...
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
The Journal of African History is looking for a new Book Reviews Editor. Please do consider applying!
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Call for Applications, Book Reviews Editor
Call for Applications, Book Reviews Editor
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection www.openculture.com/2022/10/1000...
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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
My recent piece in the Journal of African History.
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Neglected Historiography from Africa: The Case for Postindependence Journals | The Journal of Africa...
Neglected Historiography from Africa: The Case for Postindependence Journals - Volume 64 Issue 1
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