Reposted by Richard Legaymedia archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Our 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 14025
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Thanks a lot for organising this incredible event! 110
Reposted by Richard LegayArnold-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... 086
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Nous 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 ! 163
Reposted by Richard LegayArnold-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-... 031
Reposted by Richard LegayManuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Incredible piece by @forbetterscience.bsky.social now painstakingly documenting plagiarism by the HU history professor under investigation for sexual misconduct 😱 095
Reposted by Richard LegayDecolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Restitution 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...france24.comFrench Senate approves draft bill to simplify return of colonial-era artefactsThe 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... 054
Reposted by Richard LegayTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025The 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 99157845007
Reposted by Richard LegayJeannine 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/y4tnyw9acstonline.netDefending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen WheatleyPeople 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… 06852
Reposted by Richard LegayArnold-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/... 052
Reposted by Richard LegayKelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025My 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! 113
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Great 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...impresso.github.ioHomepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History? 122
Reposted by Richard LegayConflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2025New 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... 021
Reposted by Richard LegayWilliam Blanc @hmedievaliste.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Bon, 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/ 14741458
Reposted by Richard LegayRichard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 12/08/2025The 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.socialdegruyterbrill.comPublic History in Global PerspectiveWhere 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... 072
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 12/08/2025The 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.socialdegruyterbrill.comPublic History in Global PerspectiveWhere 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... 072
Reposted by Richard LegayGeorgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Really 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 0125
Reposted by Richard LegayHannah 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/mafs2wrxtinyurl.comPublic History in Global PerspectiveWhere 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... 1106
Reposted by Richard LegayLa Alice, lai h'line deusporiante @marwaue.northsky.social · 31/07/2025www.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.conseil-etat.frAvis 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'ÉtatLe 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 ... 1139
Reposted by Richard LegayASCoR @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 044
Reposted by Richard LegayAfrica 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...koki-freiburg.deAfrikanisches Erbe in Europa | Kommunales Kino Freiburg 076
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 16/07/2025You 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...rewritingpeaceandconflict.netCan Europe come to terms with its colonial past? - Rewriting peace and conflictOver 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... 072
Reposted by Richard LegayArtificial Memory @artificialmemory.bsky.social · 16/07/2025This 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. 122
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Day 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! 053
Reposted by Richard LegaySociety for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Registration 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 0197
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Many 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 142
Reposted by Richard LegayIAMHIST @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...iamhist.netCongratulations to Ross Melnick, winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize for 2024! – IAMHIST 053
Reposted by Richard LegayIAMHIST @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)iamhist.netJournal – IAMHIST 011
Reposted by Richard LegayMax 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... 074
Reposted by Richard LegayRichard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025If 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. 072
Reposted by Richard LegayAfrica Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025JOIN 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 011
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025If 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. 072
Reposted by Richard LegayL'ÂNE KROKRO @abdokro.eurosky.social · 16/05/2025Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse de la vulgarisation historique 25677190
Reposted by Richard LegayJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The piece I wrote got covered by The Week today.theweek.comTrump moves to gut PBS and NPR in latest salvo against the mediaThe 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 04711
Reposted by Richard LegayAndreas Mehler @mehler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025In Kooperation mit Richard Tsogang Fossi... rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/04/25/p...rewritingpeaceandconflict.netPolicy Paper: „Menschliche Überreste" in Universitätssammlungen - Rewriting peace and conflictDieses 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... 088
Reposted by Richard LegayMarie Cronqvist @atommarie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Excited 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 #callforpaperslmc.lu.seSOUND+PURPOSE: Inaugural conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in SoundLunds universitet. 052
Reposted by Richard LegayDr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 24/04/2025If 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? 4912924
Reposted by Richard LegayLuke 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. 30182816791
Reposted by Richard LegayFlorian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Hélène Miard-Delacroix - Les émotions de 1989 France et Allemagne face aux bouleversements du monde À paraître en mai chez Flammarion 0185
Reposted by Richard LegayMatthieu Letourneux @matthieuletourneux.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Bourse 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! 15350
Reposted by Richard LegayRamazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The 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.jobs.ac.ukAssistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin, The University of DublinExplore 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. 14742
Reposted by Richard LegayProgramming 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... 142
Reposted by Richard LegayMonique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025PhD 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.chPhD Position in Global History 04340
Reposted by Richard LegayAgenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Offre d’emploi – Post-doc en histoire médiévale et humanités numériques rmblf.be/2025/04/07/o...rmblf.beOffre d’emploi – Post-doc en histoire médiévale et humanités numériquesL’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… 11820
Reposted by Richard LegayAOC, 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...aoc.mediaJeunes chercheur·euses cherchant à chercher - AOC mediaLa 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… 02715