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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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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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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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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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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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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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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Eastern Europeans endlessly reciting geography lessons, Epstein edition. No map.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Was ist mit der Fürsorgepflicht der Universität gegenüber Studierenden, Doktorand*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen? Wie kann man in einem Brief, unterschrieben von Dutzenden von Universitätsprofessor*innen, unerwähnt lassen?

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Many thanks for the invitation and lovely to reconnect, dear Ivan!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Next Monday at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, thanks to Ivan Kalmar's kind invitation! Join us if you're around!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Thrilled that I'll be spending February and March at the @iwm.at in Vienna working on part II of Creolizing the Modern, this time focused on the political economy and literary discourses on racialized enslavement in interimperial Moldavias! www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

So, the big news is that Bolsonaro has been arrested, but in German-Brazilian relations, the other news will soon be that Der Spiegel follows in Merz‘ steps in being so ignorant about Brazil that they wrote Lula has been arrested. Screenshot for posterity, hope the online text is corrected soon!!! 😎

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig! Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week! 🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🔊Thinking of applying to the Global Studies M.A. in Social Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de? 🎓🌍 Our next info session this year is on October 15th, 2-3pm CEST! 🗓️ Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Happy to present new research on the investment migration industry at REMESO, Linköpings universitet's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society to scholars of migration with whom I have long been in dialogue. All welcome! liu.se/en/event/man...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store. P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇 lnu.se/.../events/2...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Erinnert mich an diesen Post 😎.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Update: A kind soul ran the whole chapter through a citation checker and came up with many non-existing references...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Web dossier on uneasy postcolonial spaces, with contributions on Latin America, Ireland, Goa, Palestine & the European East, initially published in 2013 in honor of Fernando Coronil, is now available for free download tinyurl.com/3bp6wky6. Thanks to Louise Link for invaluable work on the new layout!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New call for applications for the Global Studies cohort of 2026! There's still time, but you can get an early start on your application & mark your calendars for our virtual info events about @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de! Details below & here: tinyurl.com/4y2ra9p9

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Die Karibik als Labor der Moderne - nicht nur seit dem 16. Jh., sondern auch hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der Pille, für die in Puerto Rico Experimente ohne Einwilligung der betroffenen Frauen stattfanden - drei starben. Starker, verstörender Artikel von Steffi Malleier @katapultmagazin.bsky.social!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

New review of "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social by my long-time interlocutor and earlier co-author @giopicker.bsky.social is now online first in EJST, and we couldn't be happier about its main message, the inspiring critique & suggestions and the really heart-warming conclusions! 🙏🤗

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Happy about another generous review of our book, this time in the Slavic and East European Journal. Many thanks to Siobhán Seigne for carefully excavating of the many connections that brought Anca Parvulescu's & my work together before we even met! seej.org/issues/68.3....

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Off to Rabat for the @isa-sociology.org World Forum that starts tomorrow. Since our Monday morning panel on #sociology and the politics of history appears differently in the online program depending on the search term, here is the correct version for those interested in joining us!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Until Friday, you can get our book (and all other @cornellupress.bsky.social books in print) at half price when ordering to the U.S. using the code below!!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Our panel is starting soon! Very excited to present Fabio Santos' and my article on Refiguration/Transformation in the Caribbean on site - in the Caribbean 🤩🤗🙏! P.S. German-language article open access here: tinyurl.com/7ac4mju5

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you're in or headed for Cluj tomorrow, you might want to check out this series of events around the Global History of Romanian Comparatism project Anca Parvulescu directs at UBB, including a keynote by @ananyajahanara.bsky.social bridging inter-imperial contexts and a double special issue launch!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Thrilled to have the English-language version of my article on "Becoming an Author in Times of Asymmetric Ignorance" come out in the @postcolh.bsky.social "Virtual Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies" right in time for my presentation at @ergvidsu.bsky.social on Tuesday! tinyurl.com/pdep62fr

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In two weeks' time in Stockholm thanks to my Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professorship @sodertorn.bsky.social @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

See you tomorrow at the @uusociologydep.bsky.social to discuss the history and present consequences of #Romani enslavement, their erasure from #Europe's self-narratives & why racialized political subjects have been rendered unthinkable in modernity/coloniality, as Michel-Rolph #Trouillot taught us!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

They told us it was World Book Week until tomorrow, is it? Anyway, two authors and their brilliant translator are celebrating the publication of their German-language edition! Creolizing the Modern @cornellupress.bsky.social, available now as Kreolisierung der Moderne @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Back to brainwash you - it worked before!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thank you for the capture, Cristian! 🤗

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Autor*innenexemplar eingetroffen! Dank Malte Kleinschmidts toller Übersetzung ist mein Kapitel "The Colonial Institution of Citizenship and Global Capitalist Dynamics" nun auf Deutsch verfügbar! Leider nicht Open Access - bei Interesse über ResearchGate gehen: www.researchgate.net/.../38927145....

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Der Rest des Kommentars wurde von den Wellen des Inselstaats verschlungen 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Im neuen Heft von @mittelweg36.bsky.social fragen wir nochmal nach dem Verhältnis von Soziologie, Imperialismus und (Post)Kolonialität. Herausgegeben von @juliango.bsky.social, Tobias Werron und mir & weiteren Beiträgen von Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, @ricardahammer.bsky.social, Raewyn Connell!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Noch nicht öffentlich zugänglich, aber auf Nachfrage von Kolleg*innen und Promovierenden jetzt auf ResearchGate verfügbar: mein Beitrag zum Autor*innenschaft-Syposium in der DGS -Zeitschrift SOZIOLOGIE. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Am Mittwoch präsentiere ich an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social in dieser für Regionalstudien eher außergewöhnlichen Reihe unser Buch, das diesen Monat auf Deutsch erscheint 🤗. Der Vortrag heißt wie der Untertitel der deutschen Ausgabe, "Siebenbürgen zwischen Kolonialität und Interimperialität"!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We should have pics from the kick-ass lecture that @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social delivered on Monday, January 27 in Freiburg, but we were so fascinated by the inspiring way he navigated the murky waters of unequal memory cultures that we forgot to take photos. So here's us discussing it over tacos! 😎

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Heute! Online und vor Ort an der Universität Freiburg! @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social zu Erinnerungskämpfen - Deutschland und sein koloniales Erbe!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Am Montag, 27.01. laden das Institut für Soziologie der Universität Freiburg & der Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit der EH Freiburg zum Vortrag von @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social-Teil der RV "Postkoloniale Kritik-Dekoloniale Perspektiven" der Allianz für Kritische und Solidarische Wissenschaft herzlich ein!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Am vrea și noi să fi fost la târgul de carte, dar, dacă tot n-a fost să fie, ne bucurăm nespus de încă o recenzie atentă, generoasă și care pune de foarte multe ori punctul pe i în privința cărții noastre. Mulțumim mult, Grațiela Benga! www.revistaorizont.ro/arhiva/iunie...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Das sind aber extrem schlechte Neuigkeiten!! Das soll Schutzpflicht sein??

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happening right now at the University of Freiburg - annual conference of the RTG “Empires” on the topic of imperial biographies 👇🏼 www.grk2571.uni-freiburg.de/events/confe...

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