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Matti Välimäki

@mtaval.bsky.social
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Postdoc Researcher, Åbo Akademi University & University of Helsinki #GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: shorturl.at/flvJL Publications: www.researchgate.net/profile/Matti-…

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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 1h
Fantastic collection "Migration Control and Securitization on the EU Eastern Border" (ed. Klaus et al.) is published in few months (1-2/2027). Great to contribute with Miika Tervonen with chapter "Buffer Zones: Migration Prevention in CEE Countries and Finland from the Cold War to Europeanisation".
Colourful book cover, Routledge. "Migration control and Securitization on the EU Eastern Border"Table of contents. Three pics and 4 parts. HISTORY, LAW...Processes of bordering and People.
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Helsinki University Press @helsinkiupress.bsky.social · 8h
The latest articles in the 'Nordic Journal of Migration Research' address topics such as #LifestyleMigration, #AntiracistEducation in schools, and #securitization in the context of instrumentalized #migration. You'll find all the articles at: journal-njmr.org/articles #OpenAccess #MigrationStudies
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia
Just a screenshot with an EU logo saying that the 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026
Google said that AI models in testing inside the company accessed the internet and hacked other companies, becoming the fourth major tech company to disclose such an incident in recent months.
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Google’s Gemini AI hacked into other companies, adding to ‘rogue’ AI incidents
The incursions came during tests of its cybersecurity skills — similar to other incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds
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2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds
Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year Rivers across the world experienced one of their driest years in more than three decades in 2025, a comprehensive study of global water resources has found. The assessment of the global water cycle by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reveals a depletion in the world’s water savings bank: the amount of freshwater held on or under the ground, including groundwater, lakes, rivers, snow, ice moisture in the soil and inside plants and trees, was 42% below normal across the world last year. Continue reading...
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HISTORIC MILLIONS OF SQUARE KM WITH RECORDS EVERYWHERE Some examples today 45.9 Bilma NIGER HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY EVER High Min:Min:28.0 Goure MINS:29.1 Dori,28.4 Ouahigouya BURKINA FASO HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT 36.6 Brazzaville CONGO REPUBLIC Etc Records from Algeria to Iran!
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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On this day in the #coldwar 10 September 1989: Hungary announces it will let East Germans cross its border into Austria. More than 10,000 leave in the first 24 hours. 60 days later, the #GDR border and the #BerlinWall were open.
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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
John Iliffe has passed away. One of the best and most influential historians of Africa, member of the Dar es Salaam school and someone who did not go to conferences or use emails. Wonderful obituary by Derek Peterson […]
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Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Excellent analysis by @bramfrouws.bsky.social @mixedmigration.org of the EU’s disappointing reaction to the recent #Ceuta border crisis. mixedmigration.org/articles/ceu...
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Ceuta: a test of Europe’s new migration pact
The mass movement into Ceuta tested Europe’s new migration pact, exposing vulnerabilities in externalised migration control and the human cost of border policies.
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Kristen Jeanveau @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Another great piece on AI and pedagogy in the history classroom by Edward Dunsworth. (I would -love- to go to a printed course pack the next time I teach a course.) 🗃️ Teaching Against AI: Notes from the Field activehistory.ca/blog/2026/08...
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Teaching Against AI: Notes from the Field
Edward Dunsworth While a small but vocal minority of historians have embraced the use of generative artificial intelligence in their research and teaching,[1] many of us find ourselves trying to ho…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/08/2026
US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor
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US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor
Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza. The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement. Continue reading...
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tutkija Ruth Wodakin käsite: "Populist perpetuum mobile" on myös hyödyllinen.
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
2. "Confrontational yet submissive: Calculated ambivalence and populist parties’ strategies of responding to racism accusations in the media": www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt...
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Meiltä julkaistiin tällaiset 2 tutkimusartikkelia 2017-2018. Silloin puhuimme ilmiöstä nimeltä rasisminkieltostrategiat: ""Perussuomalaiset ei ole rasistinen puolue": Näin populistipuolue vastaa rasismisyytöksiin mediassa.": www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt...
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Meanwhile in the authoritarian Russia
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 10/08/2026
Russia’s Supreme Court has thrown the antiwar party Yabloko off the ballot for parliament’s lower house. Election officials and prosecutors backed the removal on copyright grounds — partly over lines from Soviet songs and images made with ChatGPT. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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A ChatGPT-generated image, a photo of Hiroshima, and a line from a Soviet song: the copyright case that helped boot Russia’s only antiwar party off next month’s ballot — Meduza
Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled to remove the opposition party Yabloko from the ballot in the election for the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. The Rodina party filed the lawsuit…
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My advice to EU leaders (who aren't far right): Offer help to the country concerned if it’s asked for, express sorrow for the deaths of people who are being manipulated into crossing borders illegally. Investigate and publish any co-ordination. Remove benefits to countries that weaponise migration.
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Good piece. A thread on some comments I made yesterday on Times Radio. Two things can be true at the same time: 1. It’s very bad to have 60,000 people storm a border, and 70+ deaths. 2. European leaders' responses were opportunistic and disproportionate, and made incidents like this more likely.
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Interesting online event tomorrow: "Perspectives from the Norhern Moroccan Border" with two Moroccan scholars. facebook.com/events/s/per... #Ceuta #EUMigration #externalisation
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IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network @imiscoe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference, hosted by the Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies (@brispo-vub.bsky.social) and the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities at VUB, accepts submissions until 28 September 2026. 👉 More: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...
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Sami Syrjämäki @samisyrjamaki.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
TSV:n kannanotto koskien tieteen vapautta: www.tsv.fi/fi/uutiset/k...
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Kannanotto: Tieteen vapaus on demokraattisen yhteiskunnan kulmakivi
Tutustu TSV:n kannanottoon tieteen vapaudesta, luotettavan arvioinnin merkityksestä tutkimusrahoituksessa sekä luottamuksesta päätöksentekijöihin.
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Still 2 conferences to attend in Germany before the holidays. Will talk to colleagues about discourses of "defections" in Finland. Preparing slides. #GATEproject
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
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Not all migrants are equal: public support for migrant welfare access by migrant type and social protection scheme | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Not all migrants are equal: public support for migrant welfare access by migrant type and social protection scheme
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Very happy to see this out on perceptions of welfare deservingness for different categories of migrants, together with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and Samir Negash @fggaleiden.bsky.social, open access in EPSR:
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Unauthorised border crossings from the Soviet Union to Finland and returns by Finnish authorities, 1946-1990. -Including asylum applicants -2/3 returned -Bit of a change of policy from the late 1970s onward #defectors #loikkarit #coldwar #sovietunion 1/2
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/06/2026
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Kiinnostavia muisteluita Helsingin ulkomaalaispoliisista (2007). #maahanmuutto #historia
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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Luke Shuttleworth @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I defended my dissertation last week! 🎉🎉🎉 I examine how mainstream parties & media respond to far-right challengers. Thanks so much to everyone who supported me along the way. I’m happy to carry on at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & continue ongoing work on reactionary politics & democratic defence.
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InfoMigrants @infomigrants.net · 12/05/2026
In a bid to deport more Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan, the European Union is planning to invite officials from the Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit – despite numerous ethical and other concerns.
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EU to invite Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss deportations
In a bid to deport more Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan, the European Union is planning to invite officials from the Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit – despite n...
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Suomen kansalaisuuden saaneiden määrä saavutti uuden ennätyksen vuonna 2025" - Yht. n. 14 000 kansalaisuuden saanutta - Kaksoiskansalaisia Suomessa 2025 n. 198 000 stat.fi/fi/julkaisu/... #kansalaisuus #maahanmuutto
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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This beauty has now been submitted, approved by the publisher, and is set for production. Across 43 chapters, it covers a wide range of topics, approaches, and countries. Please stay tuned for updates. A big thank you to everyone involved! THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE FAR RIGHT
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InfoMigrants @infomigrants.net · 11/05/2026
A total of 2,276 migrants have arrived on Spain's Canary Islands via the Atlantic route since the beginning of the year. Last year, a total of 17,788 migrants arrived on the archipelago; 46,843 people arrived on the same route in 2024.
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Canary Islands: More than 300 migrants arrive on Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean
Late on Sunday, a wooden boat with 125 people on board was spotted off El Hierro. Earlier that day, a similar boat with more than 100 migrants on board was brought to port in Tenerife by Spanish rescu...
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🚨 Entering the last 2 weeks to apply for one of these postdoc positions on children's political socialization in my team at Aarhus Uni 🚨 I'm looking for talented candidates w qual methods skills who want to understand the deep roots of political marginalization: international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Yle Areena: Passin historia areena.yle.fi/1-75854252 #maahanmuutto #historia
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Passin historia – Kun yhdet saivat liikkua vapaasti, piti toisia valvoa tiukemmin | Elävä historia
Varhaisia ulkomaanpasseja kirjoitettiin lähinnä säätyläisille, sillä rahvaalla oli harvoin asiaa ulkomaille. Vielä 1800-luvun Suomessa myös maan sisäisillä matkoilla tarvittiin liikkumislupa. Sen saat...
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Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Our host at Osnabruck, IMIS, prof. Christoph Rass wrote a really nice blog post describing my and Morten Thomsen's current research interests. nghm.hypotheses.org/44954 @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social
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IMIS Guests @ NGHM | Summer Semester 2026: Matti Välimäki (Helsinki) and Morten Baarvig Thomsen (Odense).
Since early April 2026, two visiting scholars have joined the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück as guests integrated into the NGHM Resear...
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Uuden ajan alun tutkimuksen verkosto @uudenajanalku.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Historiantutkimus vaatii vastedes merkittävästi enemmän aikaa tai rahaa – tai suuntautuu muualle kuin @kansallisarkisto.fi aineistoihin, tutkijat pelkäävät", kirjoittaa @utu.fi historian alumni Ilkka Hemmilä @suomenkuvalehti.fi artikkelissaan Arkistot historiaan. suomenkuvalehti.fi/kotimaa/kans...
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Kansallis­arkisto sulkee puolet toimi­pisteistä – ”lahtaus” on uhka historian­tutkimukselle, sanovat tutkijat
”Tämä on valtava asia kansallisen sivistyksen ja kulttuuriperinnön vaalimisen kannalta”, Suomen ja Pohjois-Euroopan historian professori Tiina Kinnunen sanoo.
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Ulla Ijäs @ullija.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
yle.fi/a/7-10096886 💪🏽
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Forskare i Åbo demonstrerade mot stängning av Riksarkivet
Nästan hundra historieforskare och studenter demonstrerade mot att Riksarkivets forskarsal i Åbo numera bara är öppen en dag i månaden.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Bingo. “Danny Chin, former associate counsel at U.S.C.I.S.: These are countries with no real asylum process and rampant human rights violations…The administration uses these removals [to third countries] to instill fear. They want people to self-deport.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The View From Inside Trump’s DHS
Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.
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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
📢 Don’t miss it! IMIS #SFB1604 Lecture with renowned migration researcher Nina Glick Schiller. Join us at #Osnabrück University (Room 11/212, Schloss) or via livestream: www.youtube.com/@IMIS_UniOsnabrueck #MigrationResearch #Migrationsforschung #Transnationalism #Migration #Migrationspolitik
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is from my 2017 post: Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer pressthink.org/2017/09/norm... "A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job."
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Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Ännu en tragedi som visar att en avskräckande migrationspolitik inte stoppar döden på Medelhavet eller andra migrationsrutter. www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...
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Många migranter saknas sedan båt kapsejsat
Minst två personer har omkommit och ett 70-tal saknas sedan en båt med med irreguljära migranter kapsejsat I Medelhavet.
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 05/04/2026
Orbán gave us a 2-min Facebook update. No one's hurt, gas is still flowing, but then went on to emphasise that Europe is facing an energy crisis, that we're dependent on 🇷🇺 gas. The rest is anti-Ukrainian propaganda, claiming 🇺🇦 "has been working for years on cutting off Europe from Russian energy"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The war crimes have apparently been scheduled
Trump: Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!
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Politiikasta @politiikasta.fi · 01/04/2026
Politiikasta on mukana Valtiotieteellisen yhdistyksen suomalaisen politiikan tutkimuksen vuotuisessa tieteellisessä päätapahtumassa. Politiikan tutkimuksen päivät järjestetään Tampereella 6.–8. toukokuuta 2026. Lisätietoa Politiikastan tapahtumista kommenteissa. #politiikasta #tiedetaivas
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Politiikan tutkimuksen päivät 2026 | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö
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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Attacks against the humanities and social sciences are part of an authoritarian ideology that views them as a problem for its model of inequality, authoritarianism, and ignorance
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Isabella Löhr (Loehr) @isabellaloehr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Please share this CfP on "Student Mobilities and Migration Regimes since 1900" that I am co-organising with my great colleague Daniel Laqua from @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Hope to see you in Potsdam next spring! research.northumbria.ac.uk/studentmigra...
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[CfP] Conference on "Student Mobilities and Migration Regimes since 1900" - University Students as Migrants
Our conference seeks to bridge the gap between histories of student mobility and histories of migration to better understand how […]
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Isabella Löhr (Loehr) @isabellaloehr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
And here another exciting CfP on the history of European Mobility regimes, co-organised by the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Lucie Lamy at the @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social. Spread the word! Link: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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Moving Across Europe as Non-Europeans. Meso-level Analyses of Mobility Regimes (20th and 21st century)
Interdisciplinary Workshop, 6-7 July 2026, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
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