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African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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Dr. Seulgie Lim's interdisciplinary research on gender and politics in Senegal inspires her to explore similar political questions about other parts of the world. We want to know: What does your African social science research inspire you to explore in your off hours?

Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Friends this is so important. If you have been the beneficiary of one of these programs, please share your own experiences with as much concrete detail as you can manage to help us make the case. There’s tips and resources at the links below. The deadline is the 31st!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I taught methods classes for ~25 years and always advocated for methodological "promiscuity." My students knew that I commonly used the words "kaleidoscopic" and "capacious" a lot, too. Tonight, my friend Kameelah shared this Clarice Lispector passage; she gets it :)

So writing is the method of using the word as bait: the word fishing for whatever is not word. When this non-word—between the lines— takes the bait, something has been written. Once whatever is between the lines is caught, the word can be tossed away in relief. But that's where the analogy ends: the non-word, taking the bait, incorporates it. So what saves you is writing absentmindedly.

Is this word to you promiscuous? I would like it not to be, I am not promiscuous. But I am kaleidoscopic: I'm fascinated by my sparkling mutations that I here kaleidoscopically record.

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African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Looking to use the last of your research funds before the fiscal year ends? Buy yourself & your grad student a ticket to the ASA Presidents' Luncheon to enjoy a meal with distinguished scholars Gina Dent & Angela Davis in New Orleans. Email us to buy more than one! ow.ly/Ll8e50Z8gNw

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 18/05/2026

The AHA recently announced the Community Action and Resource Exchange (CARE) network, which brings historians together to discuss shared professional issues and concerns, exchange ideas, and collaborate on strategies and solutions that strengthen the discipline. Get involved today.

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The AHA’s Community Action and Resource Exchange (CARE) program brings historians together to discuss shared professional issues and concerns, exchange ideas, and collaborate on strategies and solutio...

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Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Stephen Legg (Nottingham) has written a fantastic conference report on our “Cities and Decolonization” conference, which has just been published in the Journal of Historical Geography. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

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Cities and decolonization: Anti-colonial struggles, urban protest, and global solidarities in the twentieth Century: Wadham College, University of Oxford, 19–20 March 2026

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Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This was so fun! So grateful to @cjdenial.bsky.social and @kevinmcclure.bsky.social for crafting and executing a vision for this panel with me!

Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This was a super helpful event that provided insights for us in considering how we communicate with students! Highly recommend!

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

And is if my last post wasn't exciting enough, I'm also presenting with @drkevinrmcclure.com and @detroittoaccra.bsky.social on "Faculty, Care, and Leadership in the Contemporary University." April 17, 4.45pm!

Banner that reads "I'm presenting! CLASS 2026: the AAC&U conference on learning and student success. Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18."

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Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@katedmcc.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give her a follow for all great things on #highered #gened #pedagogy #assessment and much else!

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 20/01/2026

In #AHAPerspectives, director of engagement Hope Shannon writes about the AHA’s new CARE program. "CARE reflects and supports the AHA’s broader vision for a collaborative, welcoming, and well-connected discipline." 🗃️

Learn about the AHA’s new CARE program, which hosts working groups for historians to discuss issues of common professional interest and develop strategies to address related needs and challenges.

Better Together – AHA

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 09/01/2026

Would you like to know more about the process of publishing in the American Historical Review? Hear from several recent AHR article authors about their experience publishing in the journal and ask questions about the submission and review process. #AHA26.

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139th Annual Meeting (January 8-11, 2026): Publishing in the AHR: Early Career Experiences

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 02/12/2025

In #AHAPerspectives, Leigh Gardner analyzes US–Africa economic policy in the 1920s and today, finding many parallels a century apart. 🗃️

The “new chapter” in US-Africa relations isn’t so new after all.

From Aid to Trade – AHA

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Jessamyn Neuhaus @geekypedagogy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The 2025 issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods is available now! Includes some very cool articles, reviews & an interview w/the one & only @thetattooedprof.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Reviews Editor @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social. openjournals.bsu.edu/teachinghist...

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View of Vol. 50 No. 1

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 24/11/2025

In the #AHA26 app, browse sessions grouped by topic or theme using our thematic tracks. From local history to African history, legal history to gender history, career development sessions to sessions for undergraduates, there's a track for everyone at the meeting. Download it today! 🗃️

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...

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The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/11/2025

This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians

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New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS

In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The Institute of Historical Research's 2026 June summer school in Bloomsbury is on Sickness and Health, from London's medieval history to the present. Suitable for the History-curious over the age of 16.

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IHR London Summer School 2026: Sickness and Health

From the Black Death to the Covid-19 pandemic, from medieval medicine to public health across the centuries, from hospitals to archives & collections. Join us to discover Londo...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social. Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm.

Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 24/10/2025

Applications are open for the #AHA26 Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting. This session, limited to 10 attendees following an application, will focus on the development process for producing historical podcast. Apply at the link by November 15. 🗃️

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139th Annual Meeting (January 8-11, 2026): Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: Developmental Conversations

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Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This is in my research wheelhouse, but I'm not an early career scholar. Get this money young scholars!!

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: 2025 Eighteenth-Century Africa Publication Fellowships – ASECS

Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Friends! It’s here! The 2026 GSA conference CFP! Propose your panels or papers or workshops or film screenings or other creative forms of presentation and join us in Kumasi. There’s going to be some special opportunities for Ghana-based doctoral students/candidates and virtual (not hybrid) options!

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 17/09/2025

The program for #AHA26 is available to browse! This year’s annual meeting will feature over 460 sessions and events. Join us in Chicago on January 8–11, 2026. 🗃️

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“Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World”: Historians, their Publics, and the 250th Anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs. Study history! Get a job!

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Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Honored to be included @historians.org and thrilled to be able to hype amazing colleagues like Trevor Getz and Jonathan Roberts who’ve been building stellar resources and support for this work for a long time.

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Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Very excited about this miniseries and honored to be part of it! Thanks so much @danieljstory.bsky.social

Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

As I start yet another new academic year in what feels like chaos, I keep remembering to ground myself in things that are real and take time to breathe and think.

Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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Delighted to share this essay adopted from my new book, The Second Emancipation, out in two weeks and available for pre-order now. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/s...

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The Political Giant the West Forgot

Kwame Nkrumah’s life demonstrates that the end of colonial rule in Africa is central to modern history.

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Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Excited to see this article out at last, part of a special issue edited by @aselmeyer.bsky.social and Avner Ofrath and growing out of a fantastic conference they organized several years ago! Grateful for the chance to think about my work in a new way and learn from such interesting scholars!

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 16/06/2025

Register by TODAY, June 16, for the AHA's annual Department Chairs’ Workshop, which will be held online from June 23–⁠24. The workshop is an opportunity for chairs to share resources, learn from one another, and build a cohort to support their professional development. 🗃️

Annual Department Chairs' Workshop | American Historical Association

This workshop provides a unique space for new and experienced chairs to hold productive discussions about the issues facing department chairs in our discipline.

Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Well, I think this is it…the last full article I can probably manage to write based on primary sources collected during dissertation research, available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Steering the Nation? Drivers, Nationalism, and the Writing of History | History in Africa | Cambridge Core

Steering the Nation? Drivers, Nationalism, and the Writing of History

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 29/04/2025

Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA, @modernlanguage.bsky.social, & @ach.bsky.social are convening an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process on Wednesday, April 30th at 11am ET on Zoom. Register now 🗃️

Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process - AHA

Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA and partner organizations are convening an Information Exchange about the N...

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Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Spending the weekend in a whirlwind of presentations abt things you care about w/ people you like & deeply respect is really the best! I will talk about history methods, intro courses, syllabus design, & radical hope w/ @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Trevor Getz any time! Thx @historians.org

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African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Saturday, March 22 is your extended deadline to submit to the ASA CFP! Submit early this week and email members@africanstudies.org with questions. We can't wait to see you this November 20-22 in Atlanta.

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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So many recent essays abt digital ephemerality (due both to format instability *and* the capricious decisions of corporate IP holders + access providers), state censorship, the anxieties of digital archiving and the compulsion to *hoard*. (I wish more folks talked to *actual web archivists* :)

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We All Have ‘Archive Anxiety’ Now

As online access to information becomes increasingly restricted, even the noblest feats of preservation and archiving are being hijacked

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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Sharing a nice piece from VT about our great experience at the @socintelhist.bsky.social conference last month 😊 Nota bene #skystorians that VT has a *funded* history M.A., and our students do very cool things. Send us your talented undergrads! 🗃️ liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-...

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Classroom to conference: professor and graduate student travel to Washington D.C.

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African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Three days left to submit to the ASA CFP! Don't miss your chance to join us this year November 20-22 in Atlanta! If you have questions, email us at members@africanstudies.org

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Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Colleagues at Malmö University are searching for a postdoc working on transport issues. Check it out at this link and share with folks you know who might be interested: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...