iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by George Roberts

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Grim news and vacuous messaging from Essex: 200 academic posts (in unspecified subjects) to go this year & 200 professional staff posts in the next 2 years. Closure of Southend campus will be a blow regionally as well. The vision and ambition that saw Essex et al established is sorely needed now.

timeshighereducation.com

Essex to close Southend campus and cut 400 jobs

University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers

33623

George Roberts @george-roberts.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Like in a lot of other places, we're striking to protect jobs here at Sheffield. Management have failed to negotiate with us in good faith, deliberately allowed this to escalate, and now want to lock us out of work for refusing to replace teaching that has been lost. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

021

Reposted by George Roberts

George Roberts @george-roberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Call for Papers: Beyond the Box: Re-Thinking Global Histories of Contemporary #Shipping I'm hosting a workshop with my colleague Betty Banks in Edinburgh, 28-29 May 2026 More details here - networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Art detail from the cover of Africa Development magazine, November 1974.

A ship with the name 'ZIFI' at a port in Africa. Stevedores struggle to carry the weight of the cargo onto the shore.

022

George Roberts @george-roberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

022

Reposted by George Roberts

Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

“Those of us who lived through the tail end of Moi’s regime have developed a way of speaking politics in code and rumor, hiding the sharpest tips of our pens in fiction, comedy, and music.” #Kenya hammerandhope.org/article/keny...

hammerandhope.org

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence

What keeps the Ruto administration running from crisis to crisis remains a complete unwillingness to listen to people and an unswerving commitment to responding to any form of dissent with violence.

11510

Reposted by George Roberts

Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com

Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation

In 1961, West Papuan leaders declared their intent to become an independent nation in opposition to both Dutch colonial control and Indonesia’s campaign to incorporate the territory into its Republ...

35425

George Roberts @george-roberts.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Can anyone point me towards any literature in the Humanities that makes the case for the continued importance of print publications in the era of digital publishing and Open Access?

000

Reposted by George Roberts

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 08/04/2025

How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s? Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

historyworkshop.org.uk

The Soweto Uprising and South African Exile in Socialist Tanzania

How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s? Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile.

086

Reposted by George Roberts

Florence Brisset-Foucault @fbrissetfo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Face à la situation budgétaire dramatique de nos Universités, qui met en péril nos missions de service public, nos métiers, et l’avenir de nos étudiants, l’Ecole de science politique de la Sorbonne se déclare en chômage technique et appelle ses collègues et étudiant-es à faire de même ❤️‍🔥

4211133

Reposted by George Roberts

Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My new article ‘Mission Impossible? Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

67321

Reposted by George Roberts

Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts @glosoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We're happy to announce we've posted our next blog - authored by Project Post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social - a spotlight from our archival research on Trade Unions, Labour Rights and Tanzania: medium.com/@glosoc/docu...

medium.com

Document Highlight: When Julius Nyerere broke with Western Trade Unionism

[Author: Dr Niels Boender (University of Edinburgh)]

021

Reposted by George Roberts

George Roberts @george-roberts.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I've got a new article out in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social It's about the 'paper famine' of the 1970s, the causes and consequences of newsprint shortages in the developing world, and how we can think about print media as material infrastructure There's a graph, too www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Graph showing how the price of newsprint, constant since circa 1960, more than doubled in the mid-1970s

173

Reposted by George Roberts

Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project. Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories Dates: October 20-21, 2025 Location: Maastricht University Abstracts due: April 4, 2025 managingscarcity.com/waeh/

managingscarcity.com

WAEH

Call for Papers Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (WAEH): Scenarios and Transitions Organizers: Michiel Bron, Odinn Melsted, Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University) Venue: Maastricht University D…

12920

George Roberts @george-roberts.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

173

Reposted by George Roberts

Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa is recruiting postdocs in history. This is my old department and I spent three happy years working there.

Job advert.
Text of the job advert reads:
"UNIVERSITY OF THE
FREE STATE
UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE
VRYSTAAT
YUNIVESITHI YA
FREISTATA

UFS
THE HUMANITIES

The International Studies Group (ISG) at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, has vacancies for postdoctoral Research Fellows starting in September 2025, with an annual tax-free stipend of ZAR 275,000. The positions are full-time for one year, with the possibility
of extension for a further two years contingent on satisfactory progress. The ISG, headed by Professor lan Phimister, is a research-intensive department, made up of post-doctoral Fellows and PhD students. Although the group particularly specialises in Central and Southern African history, applications are encouraged from candidates with any specialisation in African and/or global and imperial history.

Criteria

Essential
A PhD of not more than two years
standing at the time of appointment
Excellent written, oral and
interpersonal skills
A project to produce original
research outputs

Desirable
Previous experience of supervising
student dissertations
Experience of departmental
administration
Proven track record of attracting
external research funding

Application Process

Applicants are asked to send a CV, along with a covering letter outlining their suitability for the position and their proposed research and publication plans. These should be emailed as one document to Ms Tari Gwena at gwenat@ufs.ac.za by 12pm on 15 April 2025. In addition, applicants should arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent to the above address.
Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 13 May. If you have not been contacted by this date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful."

11812