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Nisrine Rahal

@nisriner123.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Europe and Germany. Writing on and thinking about the politics of children's education, revolution, protest, and emotions. Assistant professor at Wake Forest University

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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The Emotion Studies Network of the GSA invites papers that examine the methodologies, archives, and sources used to investigate emotions and affect. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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CFP: GSA Emotion Studies Network: Affect and Emotions: Methods, Sources, Approaches, Phoenix, AZ (01.03.2026) | H-Net
Call for Papers for the 50th Annual Conference of the German Studies AssociationEmotion Studies Network: Affect and Emotions: Methods, Sources, ApproachesConference Information: Phoenix, AZ - Septembe...
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Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de · 01/09/2025
#CfP Transnational Approaches to the Long Nineteenth-Century History of East-Central Europe 📌 Conference in Vilnius | 16.–17.04.2026 | organised by the Nordost-Institut Lüneburg, GHI Warsaw & Lithuanian Institute of History 📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/au...
Ein weißes Blatt Papier, Bleistift und Spitzer.
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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The book’s intro is ready to go… The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s: “Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/07/2025
Winner of the RHS Early Career Article Prize (2025): Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024). bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians
First page of Michaela Kalcher's article: ‘The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, History Workshop Journal
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SHCY @shcy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say theconversation.com/african-pris...
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African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say
African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
2 postdoc posts in in 19th Century Political History: (Public Opinion and the Crimean War): fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoc Positions in 19th Century Political History: Public Opinion and the Crimean War
The Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for two postdoctoral positions (2 years, full-time), with the possibility of extension within th...
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Kaffee und Kuchen in Berlin. A very nice spot.
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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Looking forward to this "Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History" roundtable I organize with @rmgrossmann.bsky.social at @thegsa.bsky.social and supported by @ghiwashington.bsky.social
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/05/2025
‘For the last 30 years there has been almost no new scholarship on the German Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it.’ Lyndal Roper on the blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Lyndal Roper | How is the German Peasants’ War remembered?
Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of...
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our New Voices blog continues with a post from Emma Flanagan. Drawn from her PhD research at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, Emma explores the links between the communist movement and women's anticolonial resistance in post-war French North Africa. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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“Nous les mamans“: ‘European’ Communism, Cross-Cultural Encounters, and Women’s Anticolonial Resistance in French North Africa « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
Mention the words “women” and “Algeria” and the remarkableness of their role in armed resistance during the War of Independence (1954-1962) will often come to mind. Accounts of women planting bombs an...
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D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I had loads of fun talking to history students at Warwick. Here’s me ( with way too much caffeine in) having a chat on their super Warwick History podcast. Curious, enthusiastic, fun. The future may be alright! open.spotify.com/episode/43BP...
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Migration, Refuge, Response: An Eastern European analysis of Foreign Aid and Humanitarianism with Dr. Doina Anca Cretu.
The Warwick History Hour · Episode
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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Here is the latest fantastic interview in @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social's series 'New Directions in the History of the Body'. Here, Professor Karen Harvey, @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, discusses her portfolio of work on the body's material history sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
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New Directions in the History of the Body – Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Karen Harvey
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Good Morning Historians! I am proposing a sponsored panel for the AHA on utopian hope, protest, and radical futures in German speaking Europe. I am on the lookout for a chair and moderator- if you are available, please reach out!
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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Nadine Klopfer, recipient of the 2025 Franz Steiner Prize for her book manuscript “Trade and Taste: French Things in the Making of the American Nation, 1780s–1820s”! We look forward to publishing her book in our Steiner Verlag series “Transatlantic Historical Studies.”
Awarding of the 2025 Franz Steiner Prize, at the annual conference of historians in the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), to Nadine Klopfer (center), with Axel Jansen, deputy director, GHI Washington (left), and Johannes Klemm, Steiner Verlag (right).
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 12/05/2025
The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best published journal article written by an undergraduate student. The article must be published between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025. Submit nominations by May 15. 🗃️
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Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for Undergraduate Articles – AHA
The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best article published in a journal written by an undergraduate student.
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Telling his mother’s story | School of Social Ecology
Dos Santos recognized for work on memoir
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How Black Germans fight for recognition of Nazi-era crimes p.dw.com/p/4tsHB
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How Black Germans fight for recognition of Nazi-era crimes – DW – 05/07/2025
The Nazis targeted Black people living in Germany, excluding them from society through forced sterilization and denial of citizenship. Activists and historians still strive for recognition of these in...
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Every season is soup season. My take on Potaje de Garbanzos y Espinacas (Spanish chickpea and spinach soup)
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Next Saturday is the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," the new exhibition at the Met’s Costume Institute, inspired by Monica L. Miller’s book, "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity." Learn more about the book here! buff.ly/lmuEywU
Graphic displaying the quote, "The history of black dandyism in the Atlantic diaspora is the story of how and why black people became arbiters of style and how they use clothing and dress to define their identity in different and changing political and cultural contexts," by Monica L. Miller. The quote is surrounded by a yellow banner to its left. On its right is the cover of "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity" by Monica L. Miller.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The #WeeklyRead is "Living and Dying in São Paulo" by Jeffrey Lesser, which focuses on São Paulo’s Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials. Read it now for free! buff.ly/MN1gTw3
Cover of Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health and the Built Environment in Brazil by Jeffrey Lesser. The cover has a green background with off-white title text and orange accents. The upper right-hand features a black sketch of a man carrying a stick laden with rat carcasses. A rat perches atop the man's hat and another rides along in the pocket of his blazer.
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International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The International Society for First World War Studies' annual Awards in support of Early Career research excellence are currently open until 1st June 2025. The Society offers a range of awards to recognise emerging scholars in the field of FIrst World War studies from amongst our members.
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Afrique XXI @afriquexxi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New article in english : #interview with the US historian Terrence Peterson for its book ‘Revolutionary Warfare, How the Algerian war made modern counterinsurgency.’ #Algeria #France
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The astonishing legacy of French counter-insurgency doctrine - Interview
In a book based on extensive archives, US historian Terrence Peterson describes the ‘pacification’ carried out by the French army in Algeria in an attempt to erase the Indochinese disaster of Diên (…)
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Waking up to the news that my article has been officially published is an excellent way to start the final week of classes!
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My article “Working for Utopia: Women's Gendered Labor, Activism, and the Kindergarten during the Revolutionary 1840s” with Central European History is now available online. I argue that the kindergarten was a space of protest during the revolution of 1848-49 on par with the barricades.
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Working for Utopia: Women's Gendered Labor, Activism, and the Kindergarten during the Revolutionary 1840s | Central European History | Cambridge Core
Working for Utopia: Women's Gendered Labor, Activism, and the Kindergarten during the Revolutionary 1840s
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BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF @bbfdipf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#Archive30: Our approx. 200,000 digitised Prussian teachers' files contain many #HiddenHistories, maybe even about your family history, but also about the lives of famous teachers like K. Duden: in 1880 he compiled the first & most renowned complete orthographic dictionary of the German language.
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Sarah Frenking @sarahfren.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Here comes the conference report for our conference on "Dark Networks". Thanks to everyone who contributed to making it such a great event!
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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Join us Thursday, May 8th, when Professor Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) will deliver our 16th annual Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture, titled “The Hour of the Archivists: Creating Southwest Germany’s Memory Culture, c. 1960.” Register to attend here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF @bbfdipf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
#Archive30 #ArchivePlan: The photo depicts the building commission and the head librarian, A. Rehbuhn, (centre left) examining the plans for the Berlin Teachers' Association building on Alexanderplatz, which included rooms designated for the library & archive. The building was inaugurated in 1908.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics and the Making of Citizens - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, May 2024 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/enlightenmen...
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Enlightenment Biopolitics
A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the...
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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Listen tomorrow, April 8, to part 1 of "Historians on Democracy: A Transatlantic Conversation Series," the new @maxweberstiftung.de podcast exploring the past and present of democracy www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/ma...
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CRRES @crres.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Join Professor Osamu James Nakagawa as he shares his artistic exploration of the legacy of Japanese American incarceration during World War 2. Join on Wednesday, April 9th, 7:00 pm Online (register for link):
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Food for Thought | American Truths: Picturing Embedded History
Our April 9th livestream will feature a conversation and Q&A with Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography Osamu James Nakagawa.
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BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF @bbfdipf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#Archive30: #ArchivesToday are places of teaching & learning, also in relation to digital historical data, so we have set up a Digital History of Education Lab where we work with and provide information on digital research methods, e.g. in online lectures: bbf.dipf.de/de/dhelab #DHELab #histed #dh
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BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF @bbfdipf.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives One of our most colourful collections is our collection of student drawings. The more than 14,000 sketches provide an insight into art education in German schools with their variety of techniques, materials and themes: bbf.dipf.de/en/student-d... #histed
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BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF @bbfdipf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#Archive30 #ArchiveBeginnings We started as the German School Museum in 1876, primarily as an exhibition of the latest teaching aids & books, to give teachers the opportunity to see and test these items before recommending them for purchase. Next year we will be celebrating our 150th anniversary. 🤩
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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We’re now accepting applications for our next round of doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships! Applications are due April 15; learn more here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A late repost! For those interested in empathy, emotion, and education check out the newest volume of the Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung! I am very happy to have my article "Discipling Love and Care in the Nineteenth-Century German Kindergarten" published with this great group scholars.
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Central European History Society/Central European History @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for its annual Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, awarded to the best book on Central European history published in 2024. Deadline is June 2. More info on eligibility and procedure at: www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?page_id=123
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Book and Article Prizes – Central European History Society
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Central European History Society/Central European History @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for its biennial Annelise Thimme Article Prize, awarded to the best article on Central European history published in 2023 or 2024. Deadline is June 15. More info on eligibility and procedure at: www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?page_id=123
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Book and Article Prizes – Central European History Society
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University of Notre Dame Press @undpress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Giovanna Montenegro's book, divided into three parts and seven chapters, is a timely and welcome contribution to the early history of German involvement in colonialism." ~Sixteenth Century Journal GERMAN CONQUISTADORS IN VENEZUELA is available now: new in paperback! #ndpress #latinamerica #history
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Today on In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Lyndal Roper, about her new book, Summer of Fire and Blood, on the political, religious, and intellectual worlds of thousands of peasants who rose up in Germany in mid-16th cen., one of the most decisive moments in the history of the Reformation.
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Summer of Fire and Blood: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Lyndal Roper
by Disha Karnad Jani
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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Robert Morrison’s new book is out! “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe”
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I assigned The Sorrows of Young Werther for my Germany pre-1871 class session this Tuesday. Poor Werther was so lost in the sauce. I’m super excited for students to unpack the book!
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Nisrine Rahal @nisriner123.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Today is the deadline to submit an abstract to participate in the emotion studies panels at the GSA! This is an excellent spot to share your research on the entanglements of emotions, politics, and power across the German speaking world.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In a review article Michael Sonenscher (@camhistory.bsky.social) analyses two recent books: "The End of Enlightenment" ( @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2023) by Richard Whatmore & "The Holy Alliance" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024) by @nakhimov.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The cover of Whatmore's bookThe cover of Nakhimovsky's book
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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF @bbfdipf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Would you like to research the exceptional library and archive holdings on the history of education at BBF in #Berlin? Until March 31, you can apply for a research #fellowship in 2025 for up to 3 month: ➡️ bbf.dipf.de/en/scholarsh... #histed #scholarship #history #PhDSky #skystorinans #AcademicSky
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International Standing Conference for the History of Education @ische-news.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
#ISCHE46 Registration Now Open! A huge thank you to our amazing reviewers for their hard work! With 619 accepted contributions, programme planning is kicking off soon. ISCHE members enjoy reduced fees. Early bird fees until 30 April. Join #ISCHE2025 #HistEd Fees and details: www.ische.org/f9ct
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