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Richard Legay

@richardlegay.bsky.social
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Historian interested in media & memory. Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Göttingen Project coordinator (PhotoTogo) @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA
a MISTY robotics robot appears via security camera on the screen of an Apple IIc computer. An explainer for the Apple IIc is under the screen.
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thanks a lot for organising this incredible event!
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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🤝 Togolese/French/German collaboration on colonial photographs @richardlegay.bsky.social & his project partners from #Togo, #France and #Germany spent 2 days in #Freiburg's ethnological collection to analyse conolial photography. Read their report: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/togo...
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Nous avons eu le plaisir d’organiser le workshop de notre projet PhotoTogo, qui s’est tenu la semaine dernière, les jeudi 28 et vendredi 29 mai 2026, au @abi-freiburg.bsky.social à Fribourg-en-B. Quel plaisir de pouvoir travailler toutes et tous ensemble pendant ces deux jours !
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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📋💬 Conference discussion on decolonisation and restitution @richardlegay.bsky.social took part in a conference on transcultural relations and colonial legacies at Zeppelin University (DE). 💡Read more on their panel discussion: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...
Left to right: Ernst Wagner, Harriet Nana Akua Agyapong, Richard Legay (panelists), and Meike Lettau (moderation) during the panel. | © Leonard Blume
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Incredible piece by @forbetterscience.bsky.social now painstakingly documenting plagiarism by the HU history professor under investigation for sexual misconduct 😱
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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Restitution in Frankreich: Senat verabschiedet einstimmig Gesetzentwurf für kolonial angeeignete Kulturgüter. Und Deutschland @diplo.de @spdfraktion.de @spd.de @laenderkultur.bsky.social? @mehler.bsky.social @goldmatt.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social h/t RM* www.france24.com/en/france/20...
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French Senate approves draft bill to simplify return of colonial-era artefacts
The French Senate on Wednesday adopted a draft legislation to facilitate the return of artworks and other prized artefacts looted during the country’s colonial era. This new procedure could help addre...
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes
Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a
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Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Great opportunities for #publichistory !
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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📚🔍 New project starts at ABI: PhotoTogo Under the coordination of @richardlegay.bsky.social, a collection of colonial photographs from #Togo held at the Museum Natur und Mensch in #Freiburg will be critically examined. ▶️ Find out more on the project: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...
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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Great Call for Papers for #media historians working on #radio & #magazines! 📻📰 The 'Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?' conference (Lausanne, 30.06-01.07.2026) is looking for contributions. L'appel est aussi disponible en français. impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...
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Homepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026
Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?
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Conflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
New publication available through open access. Public History in Global Perspective… Conflict Textiles features in chapter by Nico Ferguson Crossing Borders in Cloth, from Collectivizing to Commemorating…. Full details www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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William Blanc @hmedievaliste.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Bon, vu les débats lancés à ce sujet depuis plus d’un mois, voilà un fil qui tente d’expliquer le problème que pose l’infiltration par les ultra-conservateurs des spectacles historiques et autres fêtes médiévales (ou de villages). À dérouler ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social
degruyterbrill.com
Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social
degruyterbrill.com
Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
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Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social
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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
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Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
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La Alice, lai h'line deusporiante @marwaue.northsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.conseil-etat.fr/avis-consult... A défaut du texte de loi, j'ai lu l'avis du conseil d'état qui est majoritairement du blabla de juriste mais qui revient sur deux points de tension dans le texte de loi prévu: les bornes chronologiques et les dons et legs.
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Avis sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont été privés. - Conseil d'État
Le Gouvernement a décidé de rendre public l'avis du Conseil d’État sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont ...
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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🚨 #Jobalert Join us as a #PostDoc in the Horizon Europe project TWON (Twin of Online Social Network)! You'll work in the Political Communication & Journalism group, as well as in the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab. 📅Deadline: 28 July 2025 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/mswjxnaj
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Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📆 Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa - Aufführung von #Dahomey &"If Objects could speak", Diskussion mit #KokouAzamede & @richardlegay.bsky.social 👉24.7. um 19.30 Uhr im Kommunalen Kino #Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @decolonialitynow.bsky.social www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-o...
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Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa | Kommunales Kino Freiburg
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?' Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together! rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...
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Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past? - Rewriting peace and conflict
Over the last few years, several European powers and actors have increasingly engaged with political acts of remembering colonial violence, wars, and crimes committed in Africa in their name. Among ot...
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Artificial Memory @artificialmemory.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This thread departs somewhat from the editorial line of this account, but it remains within memory studies. It should be considered as a personal reflection by Frédéric Clavert.
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Day 1 of the 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices' @iamhist.bsky.social Conference at the University of Cape Town 📻🎙️📺 Such a pleasure to be in South Africa for our biannual event! Looking forward to a packed programme. Thanks to @marthaevans.bsky.social for organising it!
Picture of the program The crowd listening to the welcome wordsA picture of Cape Town's Waterfront
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Many thanks to French Politics for publishing our research with @mehler.bsky.social at the @abi-freiburg.bsky.social on Franco-German memory politics and colonial past! The article is available online here: doi.org/10.1057/s412... And as a pdf upon request! #publichistory #memory #colonialhistory
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IAMHIST @iamhist.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
*IAMHIST News*: Ross Melnick is the winner of the Culbert Family Memorial Book Prize 2024 for his publication Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)! Huge congratulations Ross 🥳 iamhist.net/winner-culbe...
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Congratulations to Ross Melnick, winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize for 2024! – IAMHIST
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IAMHIST @iamhist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
*IAMHIST News* Updated Summer 2025 books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please contact Veronica Johnson should you be interested in reviewing a particular title (Veronica.Johnson@outlook.ie)
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Journal – IAMHIST
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Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de · 23/05/2025
#CfA Praktikant*innen für 2026 am @dhi-paris.fr gesucht 📌 für Studierende höherer Semester | für 2-3 Monate in #Paris | in den Bereichen #Forschung, #Bibliothek, #Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit u.v.m. Bewerbungsschluss: 15. September 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done! This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.
Poster for an event showing zines on colonial memory
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Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
JOIN this Friday afternoon, 23.5. at UCF @uni-freiburg.de A display of zines on #colonial #memory by students from the University College with @richardlegay.bsky.social from @abi-freiburg.bsky.social
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done! This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.
Poster for an event showing zines on colonial memory
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L'ÂNE KROKRO @abdokro.eurosky.social · 16/05/2025
Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse de la vulgarisation historique
Adaptation du meme du dragon à trois têtes. Ici il a 4 têtes d'abruti et ces têtes sont nommées de gauche à droite : Franck Ferrand, Stéphane Bern, Lorànt Deutsch et Louis Sarkozy.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The piece I wrote got covered by The Week today.
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Trump moves to gut PBS and NPR in latest salvo against the media
The president's executive order targeting two of the nation's largest public broadcasters comes as the White House seeks to radically reframe how Americans get their news
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Andreas Mehler @mehler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In Kooperation mit Richard Tsogang Fossi... rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/04/25/p...
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Policy Paper: „Menschliche Überreste" in Universitätssammlungen - Rewriting peace and conflict
Dieses Policy Paper greift eine dringend notwendige Debatte über postkoloniale Hierarchien in der Forschung auf. Im Zentrum steht die Verantwortung von Universitäten, sich kritisch mit ihrer koloniale...
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Marie Cronqvist @atommarie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Excited about our upcoming #soundstudies event this autumn, the inaugural conference of the newly launched network SOUND+ at Lund University, Sweden. Do join us! See link regarding #callforpapers
lmc.lu.se
SOUND+PURPOSE: Inaugural conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound
Lunds universitet.
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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you're curious about philosophy in France, thousand of students have competed during an exam (6h) and the question was "You must." Without knowing anything about the expected methodology, what would you write?
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/04/2025
"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Hélène Miard-Delacroix - Les émotions de 1989 France et Allemagne face aux bouleversements du monde À paraître en mai chez Flammarion
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Matthieu Letourneux @matthieuletourneux.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Bourse de doctorat sur la presse (deadline 1e juin): Avec Mélodie Simard-Houde, nous proposons une bourse de doctorat en cotutelle (Trois-Rivières & Nanterre) pour un sujet sur des corpus de presse. Tous les sujets sont acceptés (XIX-XXIe S.): www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Reposts bienvenus!
Image de lecteurs de magazines pour illustrer une annonce de bourse en cotutelle
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Ramazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.
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Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
@wcaleb.org shows how to use Python to download and parse MARC records from the internet @archive.org: doi.org/10.46430/phe...
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Monique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:
jobs.ethz.ch
PhD Position in Global History
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Offre d’emploi – Post-doc en histoire médiévale et humanités numériques rmblf.be/2025/04/07/o...
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Offre d’emploi – Post-doc en histoire médiévale et humanités numériques
L’Université d’Artois est implantée sur différents points du territoire du Nord-Pas de Calais : Arras (siège), Béthune, Douai, Lens et Liévin. Elle comprend huit UFR, deux IUT, une école d&rs…
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AOC, un quotidien d'idées @aoc-media.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
« Faire de la recherche, c’est se projeter dans l’avenir – dommage que nous n’en ayons pas ». Par un collectif de jeunes chercheur·euses. aoc.media/opinion/2025...
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Jeunes chercheur·euses cherchant à chercher - AOC media
La précarisation de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche par des coupes budgétaires drastiques est loin d’être le seul fait de Donald Trump ; en France, la Loi de finances 2025 impose des…
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