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Megan Maruschke

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global studies J-Prof Universität Leipzig | transimperial history of refugees and the mobile poor in Philadelphia (1780-1830) | global history of SEZs and free ports

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Nicolás A. González Quintero @nagonzalezq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m glad to see that our special issue, “Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of ‘Exile,’ ‘Asylum,’ and ‘Refugee’ during the 18th and 19th Centuries,” has finally been published in its entirety in the latest issue of Itinerario. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ICYMI: Dr. Rob Taber (@robtaber.bsky.social) on the politics of clothing and locating connections among women of color in "What's in a Headwrap?: Using Mouchoirs to Illuminate Connections Between Women of Color in Colonial Haiti." ageofrevolutions.com/2026/09/02/w...
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What’s in a Headwrap? Using Mouchoirs to Illuminate Connections Between Women of Color in Colonial Haiti
By Robert D. Taber Dress and grooming standards are often political. In the contemporary United States, this ranges from Sikhs in the US military advocating to wear turbans as part of their uniform…
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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this fascinating new Age of Revolutions essay, explore how mouchoirs in colonial Haiti served as more than fashion, illuminating networks of identity, culture, and connection among women of color. @robtaber.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/09/02/w...
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What’s in a Headwrap? Using Mouchoirs to Illuminate Connections Between Women of Color in Colonial Haiti
By Robert D. Taber Dress and grooming standards are often political. In the contemporary United States, this ranges from Sikhs in the US military advocating to wear turbans as part of their uniform…
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Delighted to put together this curated collection for French Historical Studies, enhancing our recent INCARCERATION special issue with these fantastic articles from the archive – all deal with issues of race and the carceral in French history @sfhs.bsky.social 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
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Incarceration and Race | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
This curated collection presents an opportunity to showcase French Historical Studies articles that treat questions of race and incarceration in French his
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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Interested in interning with us in Washington? We offer research internships focused on history as well as public administration & scholarly communication internships. We recommend students interested in 2027 internships apply by July 31: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/res...
Photograph of the front door of the German Historical Institute Washington’s building in Washington, DC
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🤔 Thinking about applying for a #PhD in History? 📣 Our fully funded PhD programme focuses on global connections within Early Modern and Modern European History 🗓️ Save the date: applications open in November 2026! 📚 Find out how to start the intellectual adventure of a lifetime 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc
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Doctoral Programme in History and Civilisation
emstrongImportant note: The deadline to apply for the 202627 academic year is 15 January 2026 at 14:00 CET Time in Italy Later applications will not be accept
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Marieke Polfliet - Citoyens atlantiques Migrants français à New York et la Nouvelle-Orléans 1790-1860 À paraître en novembre aux PUR
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Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Two PhD positions, one supervised by Marie Huber and Tristan Oestermann and the other by Dmitri van den Bersselaar at Uni Leipzig. uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/f...
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2 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/-innen (Doktoranden) (m/w/d/x)
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 04/06/2026
New Special Issue & Book: Her co-edited work, "Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present," is officially out in the Slavery & Abolition journal and available as a Routledge book! 👉 Journal: buff.ly/OgfZEMT 👉 Book: buff.ly/Ut5nTwG ✍️ New Article: buff.ly/XImVuM3 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
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Thomas Mareite @thomasmareite.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Le numéro spécial dans la revue Itinerario que j'ai eu le bonheur de co-éditer avec @nagonzalezq.bsky.social est désormais entièrement disponible en "first view". Les deux derniers articles publiés sont signés Sibylle Fourcaud et @jkeindorf.bsky.social 1/3
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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our colleague, Dr Oliver Finnegan, records specialist for the Prize Papers at @nationalarchivesuk, holds a workshop on 'Practical Archival Skills Training (PAST) Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records', more info below & tickets can be booked here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-...
Workshop Announcement: Practical Archival Skills Training (PAST) Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records. 18 June 2026 at the UK National Archives. Banner with an archive image in the background.
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Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
First view of my article in an issue edited by @thomasmareite.bsky.social and @nagonzalezq.bsky.social on Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries doi.org/10.1017/S016...
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A “Distressed Class of People”: French Refugees and Mobility Control in Philadelphia, 1790s–1810 | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
A “Distressed Class of People”: French Refugees and Mobility Control in Philadelphia, 1790s–1810
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Jürgen Dinkel @juergendinkel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Grosse Freude www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/a...
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Jürgen Dinkel wird Heisenberg-Professor an der Universität Leipzig
Der Historiker Dr. Jürgen Dinkel wird ab 1. April 2026 als Heisenberg-Professor an der Universität Leipzig lehren und forschen. Gefördert im prestigeträchtigen Heisenberg-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) wird er am Historischen Seminar zur Geschichte von Ungleichheiten und Globalisierungsprozessen im 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhundert arbeiten. Die Schwerpunkte liegen hierbei auf sich wandelnden Weltordnungen, Kolonialismus und Dekolonisation sowie der historischen Eigentums- und Familienforschung, insbesondere der globalen Zirkulation von Eigentum.
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Thomas Mareite @thomasmareite.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🗣️ New publication! In this introduction, @nagonzalezq.bsky.social and I revisit the historiography on refugees and explore how the category of “refugee” (or its historical equivalent) was constructed in Atlantic and Mediterranean societies (18th–19th c.) ... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Introduction | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Labelling and Looking for Refuge during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Introduction
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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
CFP: In/tangible Connections – Material, Embodied and Sensory Stories of Global Dis:connection Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich 18–19 June 2026 Apply by 25 March 2026. Conveners: Kate Stevens & Erika Zerwes. More info: www.globaldisconnect.org/research-cen...
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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social! Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/ @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️
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No Safe Haven: Fugitives from Slavery as Contested Refugees in Hamburg, 1770–1840 | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
No Safe Haven: Fugitives from Slavery as Contested Refugees in Hamburg, 1770–1840
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 11/02/2026
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
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Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
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Nicolai von Eggers @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
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2 Postdoctoral positions in Intellectual History at the Department of History - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet
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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Apply! Apply! Apply to participate in this fascinating June 25-26 conference in Vienna studying the role of Habsburg consuls in global history (especially US). Due: Jan 16; networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Habsburg International: Austrian Consuls and Consulates in the United States and Around the World | H-Net
Consuls have long occupied an ambiguous place in the historiography of international relations. Ubiquitous in imperial infrastructures, yet largely overshadowed by ambassadors and high diplomacy, the ...
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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Age of Revolutions seeks contributions on Venezuela’s revolutionary movements, ideas, and global impact. 🔗 Submit here ageofrevolutions.com/2026/01/06/c... Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis but should be submitted by January 19, 2026. Bring your research to the conversation!
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CFP: Venezuelan Revolutions
Series editor: Amanda C. Waterhouse, University of Notre Dame   Recent events in and around Venezuela demand more scholarly and public attention to the country’s history and relevant related t…
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The Journal of Transport History @jtransporthist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A new Article has been published in JTH! "“My only address is this ship”: Refugee seamen and the work of UNHCR, 1950s–1960s", by Peter Gatrell. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Don't miss it!
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
From the current issue: “Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920” by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*
Abstract. A new survey of ‘Liberated Africans’ exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly
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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Podcast Alert! I had so much fun chatting with @lizcovart.bsky.social about the history of 1820s interoceanic Canal Dreamers. The @bfworld.bsky.social podcast episode went live today! What a great last day of classes treat. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️ benfranklinsworld.com/episode-428-...
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Episode 428: Jessica Lepler, America’s Forgotten Quest to Link Two Oceans
In the 1820s, Americans dared to dream big. They believed they could cut a canal through the wild, rain-soaked terrain of Nicaragua. This is their story.
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Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics | ReCentGlobe @recentglobe.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Wednesday: @tomdivon.bsky.social will explore questions of evidence, testimony, credibility and truth concerning the use of generative AI in Palestinian activism. With commentary from Lilly Boxman-Shabtai (Jerusalem) & Julian Kuttig (Leipzig), chaired by Christian Pentzold (Leipzig) #GlobeColloquium
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Virginie Adane @vadane.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Notre volume sur la Révolution américaine (1763-1783), co-rédigé avec A. Delahaye, C. Lounissi, B. Van Ruymbeke et yours truly est désormais paru. En lien avec le sujet d'agrég de civi US, cet opus vise à une mise à jour historiographique *récente* sur la question. www.atlande.eu/nos-ouvrages...
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La révolution américaine (1763-1783)
La révolution américaine 1763-1783 Par Agnès Delahaye, Carine Lounissi, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke et Virginie Adane.
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Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics | ReCentGlobe @recentglobe.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🌍 At tomorrow's #GlobeLecture, @ttieku.bsky.social will explore the role of the African Union in helping to mainstream African voices in global security, economic, social, and political governance in the 21st century. More info & ZOOM link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/d...
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Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Come work with us at @recentglobe.bsky.social and @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social, for those starting new dissertation projects with an interest in global multiplicity and ethnography uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/0...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
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The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
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Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Come work with us at @recentglobe.bsky.social and @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social, for those starting new dissertation projects with an interest in global multiplicity and ethnography uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/0...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 07/11/2025
If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com
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Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement…
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Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics | ReCentGlobe @recentglobe.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In this week’s #GlobeColloquium, Katarina Ristić (@fgz-risc.bsky.social) explores how far-right extremists use novel forms of digital activism to construct a narrative of Kosovo’s independence as a threat to European and Christian civilization. More info & ZOOM link: tinyurl.com/4u663626
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Excellent Expert Brief on Denaturalization including the relevant legal precedent from @brennancenter.org by @faizapatel.bsky.social & @margyoh.bsky.social. 🗃️ www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Stripping Naturalized Americans of Citizenship Faces High Legal Hurdles
The Trump administration may want to aggressively denaturalize citizens, but the Supreme Court has forbidden doing so when a person’s political beliefs are a focus.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...
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A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic
By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…
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Les Voies de l'Histoire @voiesdelhistoire.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📻 La nouvelle saison des Voies de l'Histoire commence sur @euradio.bsky.social et avec le @crhia.bsky.social : nous démarrons l'année avec Claire Bourhis-Mariotti qui nous parle des liens politiques entre les États-Unis et Haïti au XIXe siècle : euradio.fr/emission/4BZ...
illustration intitulée "distinguished colored men" : plusieurs cartouches ovales sont assemblés avec les portraits de leaders politiques africains-américains du XIXe siècle". Au centre, un cartouche avec le portrait de Frederick Douglass.
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Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke @rabeari.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Super excited and proud to announce the start of the De Gruyter Brill/GSA Dissertation Prize!! thegsa.org/prizes/de-gr... Cannot WAIT to check out everything people have worked on - please spread the word and/or submit, prize is a 1000EUR and a free OA publication :) @thegsa.bsky.social
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Out now! @joseaguilar1992.bsky.social (@czechacademy.bsky.social) analyses "The Anticolonial Moment and the Global Influence of the Leipzig School: A Sociology of Cold War Intellectual History" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Leipzig town centre in the 1980s
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Aleksandra Komornicka @olakom.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We are seeking a PhD candidate with an interest in East–West European relations (1970s–1990s) to work with me and Aline Sierp. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 September. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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PhD in the long-term history of the European Union's Eastern enlargement
PhD in the long-term history of the European Union's Eastern enlargement
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography networks.h-net.org/jobs/68992/u...
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University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography | H-Net
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Beyond Orwellian to complete undermining www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Exclusive: Trump administration weighing refugee cap of 40,000 with focus on white South Africans
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is discussing a refugee admissions cap of around 40,000 for the coming year with a majority allocated to white South Africans, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter and an internal refugee program email, reflecting a major shift in the U.S. approach to refugees.
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Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris
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Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It breaks my heart how few news articles there are on this recent EO on forced removal and institutionalization of the unhoused (and others). Did @nytimes.com even publish one? If so, it wasn't visible on my app.
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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · 29/07/2025
Global Minds Initiative Germany: Federal Ministry of Research launches new programme to strengthen Germany as a science location together with the Humboldt Foundation, @dfg.de and @daadworldwide.bsky.social. www.bmftr.bund.de/EN/Research/...
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Global Minds Initiative Germany - BMBF
Our Global Minds Initiative Germany offers international research talent career prospects in the German science system. We will thereby lastingly strengthen the German and European Research Area.
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 24/07/2025
Uncover stories of restriction and resilience. In a new collection from Past & Present, scholars highlight how immobility shapes both lives and legacies: oxford.ly/45ptK0b @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
Uncover stories of restriction and resilience. In a new collection from Past & Present.
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Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I assume this EO will impact veterans. Part of my book Asylum at the Almshouse, will look at the intersections between refugees and military veterans discarded from imperial projects (US, France, Britain) in prison or the almshouse of Philadelphia (1790s/early 1800s). Lit suggestions welcome...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Cover of book, with photograph of a group of men with surveying equipment standing in front of a mountain range
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Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The incarceration of the mobile poor, homeless and mentally ill has long been connected to the policing of "foreigners", broadly conceived incl. Black and Indigenous people. Below are some reading suggestions for 19th century.
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Melanie A. Kiechle @melaniekiechle.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
While I would prefer that my historical research have less relevance, please read and consider what it was like to fall ill and die before germ theory. #histmed 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
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Dying Before Germ Theory
As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…
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