Sign in

Maria Framke

@mariaframke.bsky.social
1.4K followers 1.1K following 92 posts

Historian of modern South Asia, interested in humanitarianism and rural development & women, Berlin and Oderbruch fan

PostsRepliesMedia
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks to Amal Shahid for her insightful review to Divya Kannan‘s Contested Childhoods for @hsozkult.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...
hsozkult.de
Making sure you're not a bot!
010
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After two years of inspiring collaboration, our ‘Arenas in Global History’ on ‘Women and Development in Asia and Africa, 1930–1980’ was published as First View. I am very grateful to my 12 co-authors for for taking part in this collaborative writing project. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
1125
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thanks to Lorenz Lüthi for his insightful review of Swapna Kona Nayudu‘s The Nehru Years for @hsozkult.bsky.social
010
Reposted by Maria Framke
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...
jobbnorge.no
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
66483
Reposted by Maria Framke
Centre for Transimperial History, Leipzig University @transimperial.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
How did Italian colonial actors perceive their own place within the broader imperial world? Historian Emanuele Ertola will examine this question at this week's #GlobeColloquium.
011
Reposted by Maria Framke
Tobias Becker @tobiasbecker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Hochstapelei: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Täuschung im 20. Jahrhundert" erscheint im Herbst im @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social , herausgegeben von Michael Homberg, Thomas Werneke und mir und basierend auf unserem Workshop am @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social. www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/18184/
1288
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My contribution to a wonderful special issue on global Samurai in Japan Review. nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/search?page=...
051
Reposted by Maria Framke
Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
17733
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Really enjoyed reading Joanna Simonow‘s blog piece on the history of Marriage and Migration @uni-muenster.de www.evir.uni-muenster.blog/en/marriage-...
evir.uni-muenster.blog
Policing Marriage and Migration - EViR Blog
Borders of Intimacy Then and Now
030
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thanks to Ufaque Paiker for her insightful Review of David Boyk‘s Provincial Metropolis for @hsozkult.bsky.social.
010
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Neuer Artikel, erschienen in einer Sonderausgabe zum Thema „The Power of Voluntary Activity: Global Perspectives“ der @freiwilligkeit.bsky.social in Comparativ. @unierfurt.bsky.social
171
Reposted by Maria Framke
H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Rez: M. Pernau: Jamia's Aapa Jaan www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/i… M. Pernau: Jamia's Aapa Jaan
hsozkult.de
011
Reposted by Maria Framke
Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Juhu!🎉 Nach vielen, vielen Jahren wird unser Buch mit Praxisbeispielen zur Interpretationen von Quellen der Gewaltgeschichte im Mai erscheinen. Ich freu mich sehr darüber! Der Band ist aus dem Arbeitskreis Geschichte - Gesellschaft - Gewalt entstanden. 1/3 www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...
transcript-verlag.de
Gewalt historisch lesen
Eine Quelle, zwei Interpretationen: ein multiperspektivischer Zugang zum Umgang mit Quellen in der Gewaltgeschichte.
1236
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Camargue at its best.
020
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Thanks to @bennonietzel.bsky.social for his insightful review of Baijayanti Roy‘s important book The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism for @hsozkult.bsky.social
020
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Publication day! I am thrilled that my book is now published and available open access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
4345
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Heute Nachmittag online am SAI Heidelberg.
030
Reposted by Maria Framke
H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Konf: Unsilenced Voices. Women’s Voluntary Activism in (Post)Colonial Societies www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1589… Erfurt, 15.12.2025-16.12.2025, Gifty Nyame Tabiri, University of Erfurt
hsozkult.de
011
Reposted by Maria Framke
Florian Wagner @florianwagner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New on transimperialhistory.com: How do racialized visual stereotypes that circulated transimperially relate to contemporary identity debates in Southern Africa? @drnatermann.bsky.social on (re)appropriations of colonial photographs, monuments, and memory www.transimperialhistory.com/colonial-vis...
transimperialhistory.com
Colonial Visualities and Their Influences Across Empires from the Late 19th to the 21st Century - Transimperial History Blog
Intricately linked to postcolonial realities, this essay delves into the visual-cultural connections between the establishment and challenging of white-centric perspectives, with a special focus on re...
052
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thanks a lot to @vik1004.bsky.social for the insightful review of Vanya Bhargav‘s Being Hindu for @hsozkult.bsky.social
030
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Autumn at its best
030
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A big thanks to @boscha.bsky.social for his insightful review of Tobias Delfs‘ Koloniale Naturforschung for @hsozkult.bsky.social
041
Reposted by Maria Framke
Forschungsgruppe Freiwilligkeit @freiwilligkeit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
BLOG-NEWS! 📢"Geben als Akt der Freiwilligkeit?/Giving as an Act of Voluntarienss?" - Gobalhistorikerin Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social diskutiert, was dies für Inder:innen während der Weltkriege bedeutete. Gerne reinlesen! Gibt's auch auf Englisch. www.voluntariness.org/de/geben-als...
voluntariness.org
Geben als Akt der Freiwilligkeit? - voluntariness.org
Blogbeitrag von Maria Framke über Motive, Umstände und Herausforderungen von freiwilligem humanitärem Engagement im spätkolonialen Indien.
011
Reposted by Maria Framke
Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social
01010
Reposted by Maria Framke
Arbeit - Bewegung - Geschichte @abg-zeitschrift.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Job in Kassel ⬇️⬇️
034
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Thanks to @hannajanatka.bsky.social for her insightful review of Erin O‘Halloran‘s East of Empire for H-Soz-Kult.
030
Reposted by Maria Framke
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad @vickyig.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Do join us! 👇
042
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Reading the proofs!
6858
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Autumn vibes at home
040
Reposted by Maria Framke
Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
042
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Thanks to Svenja von Jan for her insightful review of Transnational Intersections of Germany and India for H-Soz-Kult.
030
Reposted by Maria Framke
Südasien-Institut / South Asia Institute @unihd-sai.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
EASAS is offering three awards of €300 each to the most outstanding papers by research students presenting at #ECSAS2025. For more information: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #SaiHeidelberg #SouthAsiaInstitute #UniversitätHeidelberg #Heidelberg #SaiResearch #ECSAS2025 #ECSAS #EASAS
054
Reposted by Maria Framke
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12/08/2025
Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians
bit.ly
Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...
03444
Reposted by Maria Framke
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
📘New issue out now! Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at) 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️ 20thc
01510
Reposted by Maria Framke
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A major new resource by a wonderful team that will be essential for anyone teaching, and researching, South Asian histories of Britain. A huge congratulations and thank you for making this wonderful, and much needed, site a reality! #skystorians
12514
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Back in the British Library ☺️
0110
Reposted by Maria Framke
Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Lauter neue Mitgliedschaftsanträge und Vernetzungsanfragen für #PDprekär. 🥳 Schließt Euch uns an – nur gemeinsam sind wir stark! ✊ #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG pdprekaer.jimdosite.com
pdprekaer.jimdosite.com
Home | PDprekär
Netzwerk PDprekär. Herzlich willkommen auf der Homepage des interdisziplinären Netzwerks PDprekär!
01710
Reposted by Maria Framke
Michael Gerloff @michael-gerloff.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Privatdozent*innen gehören ebenfalls zu den prekär beschäftigen Wissenschaftler*innen. Häufig wird ihre Arbeit nicht mal mehr entlohnt. #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan sind sicherlich solidarisch mit #PDprekär! @jmwiarda.bsky.social fragt zu Recht "Titel ohne Zukunft?" www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...
jmwiarda.de
Titel ohne Zukunft?
0125
Reposted by Maria Framke
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians
cambridge.org
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit
44820
Reposted by Maria Framke
H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Rez: C. Heffernan: Indian Club Swinging www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/i… C. Heffernan: Indian Club Swinging
hsozkult.de
021
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
www.zeit.de/2025/25/huma... wichtiger Beitrag! @glasmanjo.bsky.social
zeit.de
Humanitarian Studies: Humanitäre Hilfe als Wissenschaft
Wo Not herrscht, hilft Deutschland gerne. Doch geforscht wird zur humanitären Hilfe kaum. Dabei trägt Humanitarian Studies dazu bei, dass die Hilfe auch wirklich ankommt.
021
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Le Mourne Brabant
040
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The birds of Mauritius
040
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thanks to Joanna Simonow for her engaging review of Leonie Wolters‘ Cosmopolitan Elites and the making of globality for @hsozkult.bsky.social.
020
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Lunchbreak walk in Berlin
050
Reposted by Maria Framke
Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Nearly a decade on from beginning the PhD, we have a book cover! Out later this year - my book exploring caste, migration and indenture as foundational to Indian diplomacy. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social t.co/bUTfpFncmk
3288
Reposted by Maria Framke
Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
On 23 April 1933, upon his return to Germany from Italy, Saumyendranath Tagore was arrested in Munich, ostensibly for plotting to assassinate Hitler. Tagore was an outspoken critic of the Nazi regime and had ties to communists, but the accusations were false. valuepast.hypotheses.org/1022
Saumyendranath Tagore.
1114
Reposted by Maria Framke
Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Morgen (23.04.2025) in Erfurt: "Exploring Voluntariness in Postcolonial Settings". Ich spreche über entwicklungspolitische Kampagnen zur "Modernisierung" von Kleidungsmoden im postkolonialen Ostafrika (1960er–1980er Jahre).
052
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A wonderful review of my dear colleague and friend Fritzi-Marie Titzmanns‘s important book on Mediatised Solidarity: Media Practices of Contemporary Indian Social Movements. For all interested the book is open access. doingsociology.org/2025/04/10/m...
doingsociology.org
Mediatised Solidarity: Media Practices of Contemporary Indian Social Movements by Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (2024): A Review by Ali Saha - Doing Sociology
Solidarity in social movements involves a sense of shared enthusiasm, devotion, and identification with the group (Benford, 2013). Mediated spaces offer a new paradigm for expressing solidarity in soc...
050
Reposted by Maria Framke
Monique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:
jobs.ethz.ch
PhD Position in Global History
04340