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niki rhyner

@nikir.bsky.social
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history of science and humanities @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Berlin scholar-led publishing @intercomverlag.bsky.social, Zurich-Berlin-Vienna

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Der SNF revidiert seine Reglemente und auch seine Förderungen leider in den letzten Jahren leider etwas an der Fachkulturen der Geisteswissenschaften vorbei. Hier meine two cents zu den Ändrungen der Publikationsfürderung.
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Reading Max Stadler is allways a gift.
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Now online and open access ☀️ www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383536056...
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Stunde der Peripherie | Wallstein Open Library
Die Umgestaltung ländlicher Regionen Europas war ein Effekt der Aktivitäten von angewandten Geisteswissenschaften. In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts brachten Geisteswissenschaftler:innen ein...
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Applied Humanities @appliedhumanities.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Was sind angewandte Geisteswissenschaften? In der heutigen FAZ (Forschung und Lehre, S. N4) kann man unsere Sprecherinnen Anke te Heesen und Viktoria Tkaczyk lesen. „Sie tragen eine Gesellschaft, die mehr will als nur zu funktionieren und sinistre Zirkel unvorstellbar reich wie mächtig zu machen."
Ausschnitt des FAZ Artikels, der den Titel trägt: „Keine Anwendung ohne Reflexion"
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 22/04/2026
This is a really important interview that will give you a lot of historical and political context about the French book publishing world and what’s at stake in the far right takeover of Hachette by Bolloré
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Max Stadler @ultrabeige.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
vaguely related, heute übrigens fängt an die Ringvorlesung 80 Jahre TU Berlin www.tu.berlin/themen/80-ja...
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Ringvorlesung zur Geschichte der TU Berlin
Am 9. April 1946 wurde die Technische Universität Berlin im zerstörten Nachkriegs-Berlin neu gegründet.
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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Could not be more excited about this event at the Peabody: BOX THINGS: a rountable with @shannonmattern.bsky.social, Deborah Schneiderman, Karen Rader + Ivana Dizdar. 5/5, 5-7PM, thinking through "what if the box is not only a container of knowledge, but one of its primary analytic forms?"
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Applied Humanities @appliedhumanities.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Gespräch mit Andreas Rötzer (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) und @nikir.bsky.social im @lfbrecht.bsky.social, DO 23.4. um 19 Uhr (Türöffnung 18:30 Uhr) – Eintritt frei, mit anschliessendem 🥂 Verlegen als Humanities in Action: lfbrecht.de/events/2026-...
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Soziopolis @soziopolis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Drogen erzählen weniger von pharmakologisch wirksamen Stoffen als von Gesellschaften, die sich an ihnen ordnen, von ihnen verunsichern und durch sie neu entwerfen. @schmidt-semisch.bsky.social rezensiert „Drogen zur Einführung“ von Magaly Tornay und Beat Bächi: www.soziopolis.de/hoffnungstra...
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
with the slow, but sure unraveliling of the American century, dare we think about the unravelling of the transnational intellectual property regime as we've known it, which has historically benefitted US and Germany most. all balls are in the air.
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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Deux postes de doctorant·e·s à pourvoir au Centre Walras Pareto pour la rentrée 2026 un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire de la pensée et philosophie économiques un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire des idées politiques Délai de postulation : 2 mai 2026!
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Career Opportunities: Assistant·e diplômé·e en Histoire de la pensée et philosophie économiques (22655)
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
this is just one of the reasons why we have to decentralise academic publishing. see re: the resignation of the entire editorial board: scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/q...
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questions for the new theory & society editorial board
Late last month, the senior editors of the journal Theory & Society announced their collective resignation. Springer, which owns the journal, had decided to replace the existing editor-in-chief…
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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Fortsetzung der 90er-Thematik: Die Ausstellung "Heute noch, morgen schon. Filmische Perspektiven auf Berlin um 1990" noch bis zum 6.4. im Museum Nikolaikirche (Berlin). www.stadtmuseum.de/ausstellung/...
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Heute noch, morgen schon | Stadtmuseum Berlin
35 Jahre nach Ende der deutschen Teilung widmet sich das Stadtmuseum Berlin im Museum Nikolaikirche mit einer großen Filmausstellung den Umbrüchen in Berlin um 1990.
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
nice easter surprise: book has arrived 🪺🪺 its about the rise of cultural development in europe’s peripheries (in german). will be available OA in a few weeks here: www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536056...
Foto des Buchs „Stunde der Peripherie“ auf einem Tisch
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Nadia Brügger @ladysisyphos.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Darf für den Verein Feministische Wissenschaft eine Nummer ihrer Zeitschrift zum Themenschwerpunkt Femi(ni)zid kuratieren, freu mich riesig. Call for Papers hier: www.femwiss.ch/deutsch/fem-... Unbedingt gern weiterleiten an Menschen, die sich wissenschaftlich mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen, merci
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Call for Papers
In Zusammenarbeit mit Nadia Brügger (StopFemizid) 129 Femi(ni)zide. So viele patriarchale Morde hat das Rechercheprojekt StopFemizid in der Schweiz seit 2020 erfasst (Stand: 25.2.2026). In der Schweiz...
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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 27/03/2026
Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm
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THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers
THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
looking forward to this workshop, 10-11 april @appliedhumanities.bsky.social ✍️ program here: www.appliedhumanities.net/events-items...
Image of a museum under construction and title of the workshop
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
—on publishing, 3 events 👀 15 march, ICI Berlin www.ici-berlin.org/events/a-hun... 21 april, Reform oder Revolution? www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/all... 23 april, Gespräch mit Andreas Rötzer (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) über Verlegen als Humanities in Action: lfbrecht.de/events/2026-...
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A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book - ICI Berlin
There is little doubt, as El Lissitzky argues in 'The Future of the Book' (1926), that ‘an alteration in the structure and mode of language implies a change in the usual appearance of the book’.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
💳️ Am 16. März erscheint »Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens« im famosen Kulturverlag Kadmos! 📚️ Das erste Kapitel gibt's schon jetzt auf der Verlagshomepage. 🧵 zum Buch folgt … 👉️ www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/site/assets/... #digipay #bezahlen #booksky #lbm26 #rp26
Cover Sebastian Gießmann: Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens, Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin, 2026
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intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
⏵ Diplomatie in Gesellschaft ⏵ Leisetreter & Chamäleons ⏵ Umweltdiplomatie cache.ch/diplomatiein...
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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
thought it would be a good time to share my syllabus on the global history of petrostates. turned out to be more topical than I could have imagined!
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
—on publishing, 3 events 👀 15 march, ICI Berlin www.ici-berlin.org/events/a-hun... 21 april, Reform oder Revolution? www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/all... 23 april, Gespräch mit Andreas Rötzer (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) über Verlegen als Humanities in Action: lfbrecht.de/events/2026-...
ici-berlin.org
A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book - ICI Berlin
There is little doubt, as El Lissitzky argues in 'The Future of the Book' (1926), that ‘an alteration in the structure and mode of language implies a change in the usual appearance of the book’.
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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Out in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social
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School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory
School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: the...
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Monica Azzolini @m-azzolini.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
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Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 1 incarico post-doc presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia - SSD PHIL-02/B - GSD 11/PHIL-02- Cod. Pica incarichipd202...
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Tolle Doktoratsstelle bei meinem sehr sehr geschätzen Kollegen Nils Güttler an der Uni Wien im NOMIS- project “Science for the People: Social Movements and Knowledge Production, 1960s–1990s”. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Wiss_-Pr...
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Wiss. Projektmitarbeiter*in praedoc
Wiss. Projektmitarbeiter*in praedoc
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
CFP: The History of Agrochemicals and International Development: Knowledge, Politics, and Business, 1940s to the Present www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1599… Florence, 06.11.2026-06.11.2026, Elife Biçer-Deveci, Geneva Graduate Institute; Amalia Ribi Forclaz, Geneva Graduate Institute; …
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Hamburger Edition @hhedition.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
VERANSTALTUNGSTIPP IN HAMBURG: »Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat« Hannah Catherine Davies im Gespräch mit Laura Wolters über die jahrzehntelangen Kämpfe der Neuen Frauenbewegung 21. Januar, 19 Uhr Vortragsraum @stabihh.bsky.social @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41725
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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Kennt ihr schon das Projekt "Women, Resistance and Archive" in Südtirol? Es geht um Widerstand gegen Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus. #GenderHist #Biografie Biografische Porträts u.a. unter wra.bz.it/de/home-2485...
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Home Page - WRA
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
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Senior Research Officer at University of Essex
An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Officer is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Some of my 📚 have included 50+ photos. I've spent *entire summers* tracking down rights holders + handling clearances. Every copyrighted graphic in 100+ articles and chapters: all researched, cleared, and, in most cases, *paid for*. That's a ton of time, expertise, effort, and (unrecouped) 💰.
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David Pretel @davidpretel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📢 Call for Papers 📢 2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” 📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026 ⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/ @davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Shining Diamond? - Petra Gehring zur “katastrophalen Lage” des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens, lesenswert 💥 www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/shin...
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Shining Diamond? – MERKUR
Ein Essay von Petra Gehring. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
H-Science, Medicine, and Technology (H-SMT) is looking to recruit new editors and advisory board members. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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H-Science, Medicine, and Technology (H-SMT) is looking to recruit new editors and advisory board members to join its existing team. New editors and advisory board members will play an integral role in shaping the identity of the network as current network staff look to refresh the network and the vital functions it serves. This includes the standard work of disseminating information about CfPS, funding opportunities, etc., as well as taking on new initiatives, like blog authoring, resource page-building or project-building. H-SMT editors are volunteers who share in the network’s responsibilities as List Editors, who manage memberships, the listserv, and blog content on a rotating basis; Special Projects editors who can develop a short-term or long-term project to serve the network; and Advisory Board Members, who consult with all the editors about larger questions and practices to develop the network as needed. This range of positions also allows for volunteers to engage at different levels of commitment and duration.

H-Sci-Med-Tech is a network for scholars who apply humanities and social science methods to study science, medicine or technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world. While rooted in history, ours is a very interdisciplinary field, bringing together theories and methodologies from across the humanities and the social sciences. With more than 6,200 subscribers, H-SMT is one of H-Net's larger networks and has the benefit of an existing editorial workflow for a new editor to step into or to support an editor focused on special projects.

If you would like to be a part of our team, please submit an application by February 1, 2026. We anticipate that newly hired editors will begin their duties in February 2026.

Applications should consist of a cover letter indicating the position you are interested in (List Editor, Special Projects Editor, or Advisory Board Member), a curre…
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Please join us for a timely discussion on intellectual property and democracy (and other IP theory and history matters) in June in Brazil! Details on CfP:
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 16/12/2025
"Being an editor was intensely sociable as well as stimulating ... I loved being a History Workshop editor and the intellectual excitement that came with it." Barbara Taylor on the social and political fervour of History Workshop Journal in the 1980s.
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An Editors' Picnic
Barbara Taylor introduces a new series with memories of a picnic she shared with other History Workshop Journal editors in 1984.
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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV719/a...
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy (Philosophy, History and Ethics of Science) at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An academic position as a Assistant Professor in Philosophy (Philosophy, History and Ethics of Science) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academi...
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intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
“Verwaltete Umwelt” mit Nils Güttler nächsten Dienstag in Konstanz:
Veranstaltungsankündigung des Vortrags “Verwaltete Umwelt: eine andere Geschichte der Umweltwissenschaften”, Colloquium Modern History, Universität Konstanz am 16.12.2025
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
nice piece, "social science and political action were inextricably linked“, „technological progressivism but also social conservativism, praise of entrepreneurship combined with paeans to the idyllic life of the countryside"
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
👀 www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536056...
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Stunde der Peripherie
Die Umgestaltung ländlicher Regionen Europas war ein Effekt der Aktivitäten von angewandten Geisteswissenschaftler:innen. In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts brachten Geisteswissenschaftler:in...
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Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID
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Bernhard Weidinger @bweidin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
New issue of the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies is out and, as always, fully available online #openaccess: "Women's Movements and Knowledge Formations". journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oe...
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Bd. 36 Nr. 2 (2025): Frauenbewegungen und Wissensformationen | Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
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Hamburger Edition @hhedition.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
++NEUERSCHEINUNG++ Die Neue Frauenbewegung skandalisierte seit den 1970er Jahren männliche Gewalt gegen Frauen in der BRD. @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy rekonstruiert in »Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat« die jahrzehntelangen feministischen Kämpfe: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...
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Hannah Catherine Davies, Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat
Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik 1973 bis 1997
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
'We need a more participatory model for question formation'. Indeed, we do.
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Letter: Elite institutions cannot be sole curators of the science agenda
From Stefaan Verhulst, Research Professor, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Great piece by Fred Turner on the pivot from Californian ideology of connection (which built the web) to Texan ideology of extraction and theocracy thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#Reminder: Heute am KWI – „Die Moral von der Geschicht‘? Über Biopolitik, Bioethik & den Wert des Lebens in Deutschland“, Vorträge und Gespräch mit Petra Gehring, Dagmar Herzog und Jonas Schmidt ⏰ 18 Uhr 📍 KWI Essen & Zoom 🔗 tinyurl.com/45hhddmj
Veranstaltungsinformationen: "Die Moral von der Geschicht' Über Biopolitik, Bioethik und den Wert des Lebens in Deutschland" mit Jonas Schmidt, Petra Gehring, Dagmar Herzog. 4.11.25, 18 Uhr
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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?
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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment. @mellon.org 📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund ⏱️15 Nov 25 🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb
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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Auf das Buch freue ich mich schon sehr! Gratulation, @christianjacobs.bsky.social!
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