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Manuela Boatcă

@manuelaboatca.bsky.social
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Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Very happy to see this labor of love online, open access and part of an @ersjournal.com special issue titled "Migration Industry: Governance, Capital Accumulation and Global Dehumanization" co-edited by two inspiring luminaries of migration studies, Anna Triandafyllidou and Nina Glick Schiller.
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Global Studies Programme @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Do you want to study globalisation in a transdisciplinary and transnational setting? Do you like to critically engage with concepts and methods of the Social Sciences? Then apply for the 2027 intake of the Global Studies Programme 🌍 Applications open Sept 15 - Nov 30: uni-freiburg.de/global-studi...
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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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Helge Schwiertz @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
💥Out now💥 Gesellschaft der Migration. Zur sozialtheoretischen Revision einer kontroversen Wissenspraxis Hg. Helge Schwiertz / Serhat Karakayalı #OpenAccess www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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Helge Schwiertz @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Mit Beiträgen von: Anna Amelina, @karobarg.bsky.social, @cbcmoi.bsky.social, Inken Bartels, @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, @heikedelitz.bsky.social, Coretta Ehrenfeld, Fabian Georgi, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Serhat Karakayalı, @fabios.bsky.social, @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social, Anja Weiß
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🤯🤯😱
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Next Monday afternoon in Freiburg, Sujata Patel, Ali Meghji and I, together with Ercüment Çelik, will be discussing how to address, navigate, and critique positionalities in our research and who gets to do so in academic contexts with or beyond decolonial and anticolonial commitments. Join us!
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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Starting tomorrow - the inaugural conference of the new Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich! Delighted to be on this fantastic opening panel that asks all the right questions - hope we'll be able to provide a few answers! Join us if you're around!
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kat köppert @katonymous.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Die Reihe "Faschisierung - analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien" geht in die zweite Runde, organisiert von der KriSol-AG "Was ist Faschisierung?". Alle Vorträge hybrid. @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"The past is a foreign country", sex tourist edition.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 12/04/2026
Reuters, breaking at 14:21 CDT
Magyar says Orbán has congratulated
Magyar has just posted on Facebook to say Orbán has congratulated.
Here is a translation of his post: “Just now Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated me on victory in a phone call.”
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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I am very grateful to Lea Horvat & Ana Sekulić for creating Women* write the Balkans as a platform for conversation and experimentation, as well as for their masterful editorial guidance and patience. I enjoyed writing this para-ethnographic story and might do more of that in the future
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Seebrücke @seebruecke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Am 8. April, dem Internationalen Tag der Rom*nja und Sinti*zze, erinnern wir an den ersten Welt Roma Kongress 1971 in London und damit an den Beginn einer internationalen Bürger*innenrechtsbewegung. "Romani Zor" heißt auch den Kampf heute weiterzuführen. #RomaDay #8April #InternationalRomaDay
Flagge der  Rom*nja und Sinti*zze davor weiße box und in orangener Schrift:
8. April, Internationaler Tag der Rom*nja & Sinti*zze
Für Sichtbarkeit, Erinnerung und Widerstand.
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Was machen eigentlich die deutschen Regierungsvertreter aus den Parteien mit dem C im Namen gerade...
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
No, @britannica.com, it's not "the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution", it's the Haitian Revolution - with Black political subjects carrying out their own revolutionary acts, not subsumed under/inspired by white Europeans' revolutionary actions. #trouillot #silencingthepast
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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
NOW in berlin: www.hkw.de/programme/ti... www.hkw.de/programme/pu...
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Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations– Reader (en) | HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde—The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe
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Norbert Maria Schüssler @nmschuessler.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Sklaverei verschweigen Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon www.akweb.de/gesellschaft...
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Sklaverei verschweigen
Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon
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Louis Berger @ajournomento.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Papst Leo XIV. in seiner Osteransprache: „Wer Waffen in der Hand hält, lege sie nieder! [...] Wir sind gerade dabei, uns an die Gewalt zu gewöhnen, wir finden uns damit ab und werden gleichgültig. [...] Es gibt eine immer ausgeprägtere ‚Globalisierung der Gleichgültigkeit‘.“
Papst Leo XIV. auf der Benediktionsloggia.
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Danke für die Einladung und die sehr schöne Diskussion mit der engagierten und interessierten Gruppe! Hat Spaß gemacht! 🤗
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Mary @mariamunteanca.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Alfred Bulai a fost trimis în judecată, după investigația Snoop
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The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science @mpips.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Can't believe I'm saying this, but here is a serious warning against "Theory & Society" as a publication venue, which seems to be run by a right-wing board with an evolutionist agenda.
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Friends and colleagues in Vienna - a warm invitation to my talk next Wednesday at the Department of Development Studies: ie.univie.ac.at/aktuelles-un...
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Book review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars. By Rita Maricocchi, PhD candidate at the University of Münster and Brian Quinn, PhD candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington. newfascismsyllabus.com/contribution...
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Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism Syllabus
Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Join us on March 17 for the screening of the documentary and a subsequent discussion on memory and decoloniality.
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noltelin.bsky.social @noltelin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
see you there!
ie.talks
Public Lecture Series at the Department of Development Studies 
Summer term 2026
Wednesdays 16:15-17:45
Department of Development Studies, Room SG2, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna

March 25, 2026
Creolizing the Modern. European Entanglements of Coloniality and Inter-Imperiality
Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg, Germany

April 29, 2026
Changing Rural Lives: An Ethnographic Exploration of Transformation in Bangladesh
Ranjan Saha Partha, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

May 27, 2026
Territoriale Macht: Wie Unternehmen sozial-ökologische Konflikte unterbinden. Am Beispiel des Extraktivismus in Chile
Anna Landherr and Jakob Graf, University of Augsburg, Germany

June 10, 2026

Between Social-Ecological Conflicts and Structural Transformation in Colombia: Possibilities and Challenges for Social Movements under a Progressive Government

Jakob Rammer

University of Vienna, Austria
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Looking forward to the conversation with like-minded colleagues and students of critical development in Vienna!
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Franziska Müller - DECT 6097 @squirrelista.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social
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Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Not to be missed if you're in Berlin and work on anti-racism!
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Look, @madelinepotter.bsky.social, your beautiful book is gaining more traction - as it should! 🤗
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Oh, you MUST be kidding me, BBC!!! You first get all of Ukraine's neighbors wrong for four years and in the next war you start mislabeling former British colonies?
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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · 01/03/2026
"I propose the concept of 'Romani Europeans' not so much as a scholarly concept (yet), but more as a way to signal a political necessity." 📺️Missed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's lecture last Tuesday? Watch the recording and her full lecture on unthinkable European history here:
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MANUELA BOATCĂ: Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal Europes
Monthly Lecture Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal Europes Manuela Boatcă, Ayşe Çağlar 24 February 2026, 18:00 CET IWM Library The reigning notion of “Europe” and its corresponding claims to…
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Join us for our next RUTA webinar with @magdamatache.bsky.social and @madelinepotter.bsky.social. We will discuss their paradigm shifting new books that revisit Romani histories, rethink how they’re theorised with and envision pathways toward racial justice Register here: forms.gle/tn6go6ZJ2pNi...
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Aurora C @theaurorac.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🧵 On February 20, 1856, slavery was formally abolished in the Romanian Principalities, ending five centuries of chattel slavery. The first official record of the enslavement of Roma people dates to 1385.
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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
hab in den letzten Tagen viel mit Freund:innen & Kolleg:innen über Jobs gesprochen.In- und außerhalb der Wissenschaft.Viele Jahre lang war ich #IchBinHanna & hab zig Bewerbungen geschrieben.Ich dachte ich teile mal ein paar Jobportale (außer Indeed&Co).Gerne ergänzen!Wir hatten das mal bei Twitter:
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Join us next Tuesday, February 24, 6pm @iwm.at in Vienna to discuss the theoretical and political implications of unequal European subjects and to ask, drawing on the notion of "unthinkable history" by Michel-Rolph Trouillot: What is it that makes Romani Europeans unthinkable in a European project?
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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 16/02/2026
From De-Colonization to Re-Colonization? And European leaders give this a standing ovation?
This is the path that President Trump and the United States has embarked upon.  It is the path we ask you here in Europe to join us on.  It is a path we have walked together before and hope to walk together again.  For five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding – its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.
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LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
⏰ ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY! 🌍️ 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A great example of how concepts rarely - if ever - used in legal studies, like creolization & semiperiphery, can shed light on both legal & sociological, literary & historical aspects of #Europe and #Europeanness! Many thanks to @silviasteininger.bsky.social & @jennyos.bsky.social for the dialogue!
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This looks like a fantastic issue and a very rich introduction that couldn't come at a better time!
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Read the editors' introduction and "Voided Patterning: Thinking Racial and Spatial Division in the Zone," both freely available: buff.ly/x1m3Ejx Buy this issue and use code SAVE30 at checkout for a 30% discount: buff.ly/okrGTeU
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Volume 125 Issue 1 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
South Atlantic Quarterly | 125 | 1 | January 2026
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Today. Please share and register. 5.30 pm Paris time - online👇🏽
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Nofretete zum Kulturgut der Menschheit zu erklären, das alles zusteht, wodurch enge Rückgabeforderungen ausgehebelt werden sollen, überzeugt deshalb nicht, weil viele Menschen nicht nach Europa kommen können. Visums- und Reisefreiheit für alle, das wäre eine Forderung...
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Am 31. März darf ich auf Einladung des Leibniz-Instituts für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa die Oskar-Halecki-Lecture 2026 halten, in der ich über Nationalstaatsbildung, Latinität und ungleichen Vorstellungen von Rumänischsein sprechen werde. Details unten, Vortrag wird aufgezeichnet.
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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Update: Wir haben schon über 30 000 Euro. Wer kann noch spenden? Für die Menschen in Kyjiw. Sehr gute Aktion von @vitsche.bsky.social und @bravery-ev.bsky.social!
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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Deshalb sammelt @vitsche.bsky.social gemeinsam mit Starenki und @bravery-ev.bsky.social Spenden für 300 Warm Help Boxes. Jede Box bringt unmittelbare Hilfe – mit Wärme, Licht und lebensnotwendigen Alltagsgegenständen. 3/4 vitsche.org/donate/
Bilder von zwei älteren Damen. Text: Unser Spendenziel beträgt
40.000 Euro, und dient ausschließlich der Finanzierung der 300 Warm Help
Boxes sowie deren Einkauf, Transport, Verteilung und der notwendigen Gebühren.
Die ergänzenden Stromlösungen (drei EcoFlow-Kraftwerke und 500 Laternen) werden parallel dazu von Bravery separat finanziert. Gemeinsam sorgen wir dafür, dass alle Hilfsgüter nach Kyjiw gelangen.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Interesting article by Bernd Greiner in Die Zeit, on the history of flooding politics with lies in the US, focusing on the campaign against Upton Sinclair as Governor of California and the reign of Huey Long in Louisiana in the 1930s. epaper.zeit.de/article/62ac...
Screenshot of page in Die Zeit.
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