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Eva Bischoff

@curiousherstorian.bsky.social
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coffee addict, interested in German and British imperial histories and how we got into this mess of 423.16 ppm

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/03/2026
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
hi #skystorians, 🗃️ interested in the postcolonial history of Trier/ southwest Germany? There is a new contribution on the blog I'm hosting: trierglobal.hypotheses.org
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Beziehungsweise Trier – Globalgeschichte in der Region
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
hi #skystorians, here's a little something I prepared with my fellow researchers Katja Kaiser, André Koch, and Sabine v. Mering: riojournal.com/article/1816... (open access).
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Provenance, Science & Profit: Natural History Museums and the Global Network of the Umlauff Natural History Trading Houses
Natural history traders have been crucial, yet under-researched contributors to museum collections. The Hamburg-based J.F.G. Umlauff family company, founded in the mid-19th century, exemplifies this s...
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ist per Email auf dem Weg zu Dir!
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
hi #skystorians, my project partner CKI and I have written a little something on Trier's postcolonial history. Contact me if you'd like to read the text (alas German only).🗃️
Cover of journal on the topic of colonial history in the Saar region with coffee mug and stylus
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The legislation establishes the First Peoples’ Assembly as a permanent representative body to advise the government, under a new statutory corporation called Gellung Warl. Gellung Warl means ‘tip of the spear’ or ‘pointed spear’ in Gunaikurnai language. 📜 🗃️ firstpeoplesvic.org/treaty/treat...
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About TREATY for Victoria | The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria
Treaty is our opportunity to make sure we – the Traditional Owners of these lands – always have the freedom and power to make the decisions that affect our communities, our culture, and our Country.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Australian state of Victoria has taken a historic step towards reconciliation, passing the nation’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners. 📜 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria
Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives
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Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Die Rückgabe nach Namibia war "eine bequeme Möglichkeit für die Stadt und den Senat, diese Sammlung endlich loszuwerden." Zum Ende des Bremer Afrika Archivs berichtet heute der Weser-Kurier. www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/breme...
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Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Freie Marktwirtschaft 2025 Handel mit Schädeln aus der Kolonialzeit: Bundesregierung will aktuell kein Verbot www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/hand...
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Handel mit Schädeln aus der Kolonialzeit: Bundesregierung will aktuell kein Verbot
Im Internet und in Auktionshäusern werden menschliche Überreste verkauft, die Deutschland sich vor 120 Jahren gewaltvoll aneignete. Die Ampel wollte das verbieten – doch die neue Regierung sieht das a...
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It sits alongside another PhD scholarship just advertised by ACU, to be supervised by our colleague on the project, Kristie Flannery. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
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Pacific powers: Imperial competition and cooperation in Micronesia
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
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PhD Scholarship: Pacific Powers - Flinders University
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🗃️ found this in my pigeonhole today! a wonderful book written by an extremely smart and intellectually engaging academic, who contacted me a few years back out of the blue to talk about cannibalism..., congratulations, Jasmin Köhler! 🎓
Title page of book by Jasmin Koehler on cannibalism in early 20th century German literature
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Sheer vandalism. Aotearoa / NZ showing its determination to institutionally forget its history. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms 80 percent cut in senior historian roles
Manatū Taonga is going ahead with cutting the jobs of most of its historians.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I am prone to fatalist climate doomerism. But is it really too late? | First Dog on the Moon
It’s bad (real bad) but it’s NOT over
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Hi #skystoriens, 🗃️ hier ein Veranstaltungshinweis :-)
Einladung zu einem Workshop zum Thema "Trier Postkolonial" am 10.07.2025. Wir werden mögliche Stationen einer Stadtführung vorstellen und diskutieren.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🗃️history #skystorians #decolonize A quick shout out and big thank to all the amazing people who made this wonderful workshop possible: collectingoz.hypotheses.org/800
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Workshop 2025 Recap
We look back on a successful workshop on Country in Euston/ Robinvale VIC on the banks of the Miloo [Murray] River, organised by our project partners at Museums Victoria (Caine Muir, Rebecca Carland, ...
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The last few weeks have been very busy, here is one of the reasons why: www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/museum/me... - more to follow :-) #skystorians #history🗃️
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Historische Dokumente zugänglich gemacht
Transkriptionen und Scans des Forschungsprojekts „Berlin’s Australian Archive: Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History“ veröffentlicht
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
🗃️ Yesterday we held the dress rehearsal for our newly developed city tour on "Postcolonial Trier". 3 hours reporting on the colonial entanglements of Trier's city history at a total of 7 locations. Now the questionnaires are being evaluated and improvements made. #postcolonial #publichistory
map with locations of postcolonial city walk Trier 22 Feb 2025announcement postcolonal city walk in Trier 22 Feb 2025
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Ankündigung Filmvorführung von "Das leere Grab" (2024) mit anschließendem Gespräch mit den den beiden Direktorinnen Cece Mlay und Agnes Lisa Wegner, Broadway Trier 15.02.2025 Beginn 19:30 Uhr.
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Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft @nnwiss.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Life Sciences: Das betrifft uns! Wir reden längst nicht mehr (nur) über Gender Studies. Unsere internationalen Kooperationspartner*innen ohne Gehalt, unsere Datengrundlagen bei der CDC abgeschaltet, unsere Submissions blockiert.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
www.demokrateam.org/brandmauer/
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Brandmauer Demos gegen Rechts
Finde Brandmauer Demos gegen Rechts in deiner Nähe.
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Die Anträge zu stützen, die die Union einbringen wird und Bürger*innen in zwei Klassen teilt, muss gelesen werden als: Man hält sich selbst für überlegen, besser, für die echten Bürger*innen. Das ist rechtsextreme Ideologie, unabhängig davon, mit welchen Fraktionen man stimmt.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Look, I found a book 🗃️ in my pigeonhole at work! Thank you, and congratulations, @markushedrich.bsky.social , I am very much looking forward to reading it! #colonialhistory
Title of Markus Hedrich's book on Bernhard Nocht, who founded the Institute for Tropical Medidine in Hamburg in 1900.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Good morning skystorians! 🗃️ I am curating a research blog connecting local spaces and networks with #globalhistory and the history of #colonialism. The current series of articles focusses on 19th- and 20th-century colonial history of the city my university is located in: trierglobal.hypotheses.org
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Beziehungsweise Trier – Globalgeschichte in der Region
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/de/aktuelles...
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Trauer um Habbo Knoch
Völlig überraschend hat uns die Nachricht ereilt, dass Prof. Dr. Habbo Knoch am 11. Dezember 2024 plötzlich verstorben ist. Wir sind fassungslos! Habbo Knoch wurde 55 Jahre alt, wir alle haben sein En...
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v...
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Willkommen und Abschied: Sisyphus und das koloniale Erbe
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
taz.de/Modellprojek...
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Modellprojekt Dekoloniale wird beendet: Kein Raum für Erinnerungskultur
Fünf Jahre erinnerte die „Dekoloniale“ an den deutschen Kolonialismus aus Betroffenen-Perspektive. Nun müssen die Initiativen ihre Räume aufgeben.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
fellow #skystorians, this week, 2 important projects on German colonialism & memory culture had to close down and Habbo Knoch, a highly regarded scholar of the impact & legacies of images of the Shoa passed away - what a blow to #decolonial #germancolonialism #multidirectionalmeories
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Sehr gerne. Sag einfach Bescheid :-) Weiterhin gute Fahrt! LG
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I attended a wonderful workshop earlier this week with truely inspiring presentations, especially by Rahab Njeri, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and Elnathan John. kisd.de/termine/rese... If you ever have the opportunity to meet and/or listen to one of them, jump right to it! #history #decolonize 🗃️
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
safe travels! If you happen to also visit family, just holler, there's some Riesling waiting for you nearby...
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I am involved in a wonderful project on the history of "Berlin's Australian Archive". In May 2024, Uncle Brendan Kennedy, Auntie Glenda Nicholls and our partners from Museums Victoria and Australian Museum came visiting us. Here's a film, documenting our workshop www.youtube.com/watch?v=79sx...
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Blandowski, First Nations und die Naturgeschichte Australiens – Museums-Evolution
YouTube video by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'm shocked. Looking at the important work of our colleagues in Aotearoa NZ, this is just unbelievable.
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
One of the first things that came to my mind when the UN plastic treaty talks failed was this picture by @nealhaddaway.bsky.social showing the plastic removed from one seabird chick's stomach. Today Neal wrote his personal response, too. [gift link] medium.com/the-new-clim...
A colourful mosaic of fragments arranged in a circle against a black background - it is made up of the volume of plastic pieces found inside one sable shearwater chick’s stomach.
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Good morning skystorians! 🗃️ A dear colleague of mine, Prof. Dr. Marcia C. Schenck, is looking to fill a postdoc position at her department at Potsdam University (3yrs with the possibility of extension). You have expertise in #globalhistory, #Africa, #migrationhistory, #refugeseeking? Here's the CFA
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I wrote a little something on Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes and the Anthropocene which might be of interest some history folks here 🗃️ . It's in German but open access zeithistorische-forschungen.de/3-2023/6161
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Hobsbawm lesen im Anthropozän | Zeithistorische Forschungen
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
yes, please, add me too 🌱🌺
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Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This is a podcast project I would like to introduce to interested listeners at #history (it's in German, though). The most recent episode looks at the dismantling of the history department at Magdeburg University - available on all podcast platforms and the project's website www.hsozkult.de/podcast
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Podcast
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