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Moritz Mihatsch

@mihatsch.bsky.social
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Global historian working on sovereignty, nationalism & Sudanese political parties. Formerly British University in Egypt and @camhistory.bsky.social. Now Wenzhou Kean University. Author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026
33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.
The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New article in @iajournal.bsky.social by Scott Malcomson titled "On digital non-alignment" picks up on our notion of a sovereignty regime to discuss digital sovereignty regimes. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
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On digital non-alignment
How can states pursue digital prosperity without deepening digital vulnerability? Using India as its case-study, this article develops digital non-alignmen
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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
11/9/26 - nocturn
small hours
big time

stepping out - alright satellites 
gin clear - a whole bunch of stars

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moon's back
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Interesting new special issue asking "What was the Cold War?" edited by Silvia Pedraza www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What was the Cold War?
What was the Cold War?, an article collection from Social Science History
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I always found it funny that Apple weather gives monthly rainfall in millimetres for most cities in Europe but in centimetres for Wenzhou. Normally that is. Since this morning, it gives Wenzhou’s rainfall of the last 30 days in fractions of a meter 😂
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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
29/8/26 - nocturn
small hours
big time

a real murk
becoming splatter 

stars return at 0400hrs
you absorb them
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
John Iliffe was a giant in the field of African history taking African agency seriously, rather than just writing about the history of white men in Africa. May his books be read and re-read for many years to come!
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ooh... I really like weeping willows 🤨 Wouldnt' have thought that trees can make the air *worse*
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🌞🏖️ Still need some summer reading? 🏊‍♂️📕 You can get our book with a 40% discount until August 11.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's been quite a journey! 🥂🍾
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My clear favourite. It's time to put people on the money and this is the most original design by far.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Casper Andersen and I are really excited that our special issue on history writing after independence has now been published. In the issue, we are looking at how institutional and epistemological factors impacted the process of history writing in the aftermath of independence. 🧵
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🇪🇬😭
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
⚽️ football meets sovereignty — a little too on the nose... and yes, don't get me started on FIFA... May the better team win tonight... wait... did I say better? I meant Belgian... May the Belgian team win tonight 🇧🇪
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My mom passed away a week ago after struggling with cancer for the last year. Over her life she has done many things and played many roles — including creating the architectural design of the wintergarten you can see in the top picture.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Not sure how I missed this news, but if Burnham is already doing another Starmer, he does deserve a serious Green challenge... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say
Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Get the translated copy of Yongle Zhang's "Shifting Boundaries: A Global History of the Monroe Doctrine" and a copy of our book, to start your "Shifting..." book collection. www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Where is reviewer 2 when you need them? I am genuinely baffled how this diatribe of "old man shouting at clouds" could be published in what I considered a reputable journal... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Corrosive Leftism; From Revolutionary Origins to the Assault on Culture, Education, and Middle East Studies
This paper traces the evolution of ideological Leftism. It proceeds with this political framework’s origins in the French Revolution and classical Marxist thought, then focuses particularly on the ...
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 07/05/2026
We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Be kind to our colleagues. Be canny for our colleagues. Be outraged for our colleagues. Be vocal about our colleagues' plight, which is not of their making. Be there for our colleagues. Be an ally in whatever way we can. 3/3
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Teaching in one science department is “now bare-bones, with our pro vice-chancellor using the term ‘minimum viable product’ as the goal”. A politics academic keeps “trying to be positive, but it is exhausting. I moved my whole family here for this job; the guilt is horrendous." 1/3
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‘HE has given me a good career. But, my word, it’s in a terrible situation now’
The second part of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey examines the impact that the waves of layoffs have had on those left behind – and reveals a sector riven by rock-bottom mora...
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Too accurate! I did in fact rescue a cat between steps 16-20 when working on @shiftingsovs.bsky.social 😅
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I'm a historian and my province is the past not the future but this is going to end badly
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I'm excited to have received my Postgrad Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Ed (PGCTLHE) from Cambridge today & by that to have become a Fellow of the Higher Ed Academy (FHEA). Graduating also meant, that I was finally allowed to take a photo with the @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social horse.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I don't think that's right...
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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Good morning and happy National Tea Day! 🫖 Has anyone got a more obscure teapot than us? #NationalTeaDay #TimeForTea
A camel shaped teapot with a person at the right hand side
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Saw a street vendor selling 'The Art of War' to drivers stuck in traffic in Kampala and it is faintly amazing that a book written by a Chinese general 2,500 years ago is still in demand.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
See you on Monday!
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yesterday I had the honour to give the inaugural lecture of a new public lecture series hosted by my university, Wenzhou-Kean University, called Liberal Arts by the Lake, named for the lake in the centre of our campus.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The last article of our special issue has now made it to First View. Check out Adrian Young's "Beachcomber at the Ends of Empire: H. E. Maude, Colonial Futurity, and the Origins of Professional Pacific History" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Beachcomber at the Ends of Empire: H. E. Maude, Colonial Futurity, and the Origins of Professional Pacific History | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Beachcomber at the Ends of Empire: H. E. Maude, Colonial Futurity, and the Origins of Professional Pacific History
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Looks like the FRUS online documents are down... please tell me this is temporary!
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🎉 It is always exciting to get another review.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Just beautiful elephants of the past, printed by (European) humans who likely have rarely seen an elephant before or were just bad printers. A short 🧵
an elephantanother elephantOne moreand another one
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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Historian? No, you're being rebranded. You're now a 'Retrospective Content Creator'.
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Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Many thanks @mihatsch.bsky.social for your fantastic lecture yesterday @humanitiesuu.bsky.social on your book @shiftingsovs.bsky.social! It was fascinating, thought-provoking and timely!
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Brace yourself: the civilisation sovereignty nexus is making a comeback.
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Escape the dreary Utrecht weather, and join us for a "cozy" discussion of sovereignty this evening.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This year the beginning of Ramadan coincides with the Chinese Lunar New Year. And so, I want to wish you at the same time, a Happy Ramadan and a wonderful Year of the Horse.
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Yet you still won’t be able to comment on footnotes
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🇳🇱🗣️💬 Come and discuss sovereignty with me in Utrecht on 19 February 2026 at 17:15 (details in the link). www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🇳🇴 Join us tomorrow!
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I have a new article out (open access!) about what the Archaeological Survey of India was doing in Nepal in the 1960s, with thoughts about the global complexity of post-war archaeological knowledge and the categories we use to understand it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Developing Indian pasts? The Archaeological Survey of India, ‘postcolonial’ archaeology, and technical assistance in Nepal - William Carruthers, 2026
This article examines archaeological assistance provided to Nepal by the Archaeological Survey of India as part of India’s aid efforts there in the 1960s. It de...
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Soon the special issue is complete. Here comes Andrew Ivaska's "Two African Historiographies in a Decolonising Moment: Dependency Theory, the “Dar School,” and Institutional Politics at the University of Dar es Salaam" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Two African Historiographies in a Decolonising Moment: Dependency Theory, the “Dar School,” and Institutional Politics at the University of Dar es Salaam | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Two African Historiographies in a Decolonising Moment: Dependency Theory, the “Dar School,” and Institutional Politics at the University of Dar es Salaam
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I wish people would do / understand basic source criticism. Person X says Y happened ≠ Y actually happened. What does person X actually know? Who are they talking to and for what purpose? How does that change the reliability of the information or our interpretation? etc.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Next one in the special issue is Carlotta Marchi's wonderful piece on Sanusi history in Libya: "Building the Nation in the Monarchical Era: History, Historiography, and Historians in Libya’s Independence Process (1940s – 1950s)" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Building the Nation in the Monarchical Era: History, Historiography, and Historians in Libya’s Independence Process (1940s – 1950s) | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Building the Nation in the Monarchical Era: History, Historiography, and Historians in Libya’s Independence Process (1940s – 1950s)
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Benjamin Goh @bengohstoschool.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Excited that my article (based on my MPhil dissertation that was supervised by @lianachua.bsky.social and @mihatsch.bsky.social ) is out!
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I'm really excited to announce that the next article of our special issue. @bengohstoschool.bsky.social article titled: “Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”: A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”:  A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
“Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”: A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s
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Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New year, new instalment of the Utrecht Lectures in Political History! On Thursday 19 February 2026, @mihatsch.bsky.social (Wenzhou-Kean University), author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social, will deliver the fifteenth Utrecht Lecture in Political History at @humanitiesuu.bsky.social!
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