Reposted by Sabine HankeMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A titanic, pioneering figure in more than one field of history. 1155
Reposted by Sabine HankeAnne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Habe zwei Starterpacks für Euch, die in diesen Zeiten wichtig sind: go.bsky.app/FJHVL2T 44384147
Reposted by Sabine Hankerobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...tribunemag.co.ukWarning from Germany: It’s Socialism or BarbarismFascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope. 14582232
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Happy that the special issue “Lab, Field, and Companion Species” came out in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte! We are trying to bridge the gap between human-animal and human-plant studies with source-based historical research. All open access 132
Reposted by Sabine HankeTomas Bartoletti @tomasbarto12.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In Manaus for fieldwork and just got news my article on Samoa and Pacific history is out in the Journal of Global History! I use a multispecies, more‑than‑human lens on capitalism and colonialism, showing how Samoan people allied with the rhinoceros beetle. OA Link below 👇👇🪲 173
Reposted by Sabine HankeKatherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Very happy to see another article out in the world! Part of a special issue edited by the wonderful @sabinehanke.bsky.social & Anne Sophie Overkamp, from a fantastic (and very hot) workshop we had in Tübingen back in 2024 #envhist #envhum #histsci Available open access: doi.org/10.1002/bewi... 24019
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026🪲🦜🌿The Biodiversity Heritage Library is under threat. Future funding is unclear and donations to help keep it running are open under the donate button here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comA bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyoneThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt 020
Reposted by Sabine HankeAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026„Die TU erweckt den Eindruck, als verstoße ein Teil des Kongresses gegen ein angebliches Neutralitätsgebot. […] Es gibt keine Neutralitätspflicht. Es gilt im Gegenteil die Pflicht, vor den Gefahren für die Demokratie zu warnen, gerade an Schulen und Hochschulen.“ This. #LauteWissenschaft 5240100
Reposted by Sabine HankeAndreas Kemper @andreaskemper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Am Samstag halte ich an der TU Berlin einen Vortrag zum Faschismus von Björn Höcke. Oder auch nicht. Ein Anwalt hat der TU gedroht. Diese überlegt, während des SDS Kongresses einige Vorträge so nicht zuzulassen. Vor allem die nicht, die sich mit Faschismus befassen, unter anderem auch meinen Vortrag 10126861184
Reposted by Sabine HankeJens-Christian Wagner @jcwagner.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Die #AfD radikalisiert sich ständig weiter. Warum eine ernsthafte Prüfung eines AfD-Verbots überfällig ist, habe ich in der heutigen Thüringer Landeszeitung geschrieben. 341655577
Reposted by Sabine HankeJochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 21/02/2026"Provincialising Weimar Culture" is out! @nwbaer.bsky.social, Britta Schilling and I edited a special issue for German Life and Letters on "local and global perspectives on interwar Germany": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483....onlinelibrary.wiley.comSpecial Issue: PROVINCIALISING WEIMAR CULTURE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERWAR GERMANY A SPECIAL NUMBER: German Life and Letters: Vol 79, No 1Click on the title to browse this issue 13515
Reposted by Sabine HankeSadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Some history of science jobs to share. An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a... 13018
Reposted by Sabine HankeJulia Trinkert @jtrkrt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025🚨Job Alert🚨 @hhu.de is offering a permanent 80% position as a member of the academic staff in architectural history. Come work with us in our Medieval art history team! #academia #architecturalhistory #arthistory #kunstgeschichte #earlymodern #medievalsky Link to ad: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...karriere.hhu.deWissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) 01916
Reposted by Sabine HankeAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Es geht wieder los mit der Reform des #WissZeitVG! Der letzte Versuch ist geplatzt, weil die 🚦 auseinandergeflogen ist. Aber: Seitdem liegen aussichtsreiche Lösungen für das Kernproblem Postdoc-Phase auf dem Tisch! Wie lassen sich Befristungen in dieser Phase eindämmen? 5 Instrumente: ⬇️ #IchBinHannasteady.pageWird Zeit fürs WissZeitVG: Auf ein Neues!Die Reform-Debatte nimmt wieder an Fahrt auf -- Grund genug, uns aussichtsreiche Lösungen für die Kernproblematik der Postdoc-Phase ins Gedächtnis zu rufen! 25928
Reposted by Sabine HankeTom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2shorturl.atThe Colonial Way of WarCambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War 1612951
Reposted by Sabine HankeMatt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...flinders.edu.auPhD Scholarship: Pacific Powers - Flinders University 13130
Reposted by Sabine HankeHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/07/2025The spectacle of the circus has long been controversial - but how did performers resist the 'exoticised' commodification of their identities? Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social examines the history of Lakota performers in the Sarrasani circus in interwar Germany: www.historyworkshop....historyworkshop.org.ukPerforming the Exotic and Lakota ResistanceSabine Hanke examines how Lakota performers challenged and resisted the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus. 0104
Reposted by Sabine HankeHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/07/2025How is itinerance tangled up with hierarchies of race, labour, and cultural legitimacy? Sabine Hanke (@sabinehanke.bsky.social) examines the history of Lakota performers in interwar Europe and their fraught relationship with the Sarrasani Circus. www.historyworkshop....historyworkshop.org.ukPerforming the Exotic and Lakota ResistanceSabine Hanke examines how Lakota performers challenged and resisted the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus. 162
Reposted by Sabine HankeDr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Our „Emergence of Natural History“ series @degruyterbrill.bsky.social is growing! The latest volume was just published: Pieter van Wingerden's fascinating account of "The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820–1850)." Please get in touch if you have a #HistNatHist book proposal.brill.comThe <i>Natuurkundige Commissie</i> in the Netherlands Indies (1820–1850)"The <i>Natuurkundige Commissie</i> in the Netherlands Indies (1820–1850)" published on 14 Apr 2025 by Brill. 1188
Reposted by Sabine HankeRohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I am co-organising a workshop (with Dr Isabel Davis) on 'Colonies, hives and queens: Insects and Imperialism' at the Natural History Musuem in London on Thursday the 3rd of April. There will be a set of flash talks on the theme in the morning. Teams link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... 12813
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025I’m studying the history of birds of paradise and this species has just become even more fascinating! The male birds can glow - a visual effect known as photoluminescence. “These birds in their natural habitat are going to be even more fluorescent than in museums” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s...nytimes.comBirds of Paradise Glow on Their Mating Parade (Gift Article)The always colorful males light up with biofluorescence, sending off signals. 140
Reposted by Sabine HankeRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 06/02/2025If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians 11247112
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Oh look what has arrived today! Thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social and everyone involved in getting this out! Worlds of the ring is a rich cultural history that explores the circus from a transnational angle 3257
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025“Noticing that we are at an inflection point is not enough. To overcome it, we need to tackle these underlying structural problems, which inevitably will be a slow process, not a dramatic deed. History is a long game.” @davidmotadel.bsky.social in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAre we at a turning point in world history? | David MotadelPolitical leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we? 041
Reposted by Sabine HankeUni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 16/01/2025In 2024, the National Fairground and Circus Archive (NFCA) turned 30 years old!🎉🎈🎪 We celebrated by creating the #NFCAat30 podcast which features very special guests who have made the NFCA what it is today. Listen to all episodes now on Uni of Sheffield Player ▶️ tinyurl.com/bdcmnd4z 02110
Reposted by Sabine HankeUni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 09/01/2025🎪 Did you know we look after the National Fairground and Circus Archive? 🎠 This unique research archive is dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of fairs, the circus and travelling popular entertainment in the UK. 2389
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Please share and maybe request for your library! Happy that my book “Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus” will be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social later this month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175090/manchesteruniversitypress.co.ukManchester University Press - Worlds of the ringWorlds of the ring - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Worlds of the ring by Sabine Hanke 31812
Reposted by Sabine HankeRachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025📣 The Turku Book Prize deadline is fast approaching! Submit your monographs now. www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/outreach/tur...carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.deTurku Book Prize - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich 052
Reposted by Sabine HankeManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 10/01/2025From new Nursing History to household economy in Victorian England, we're publishing a range of cutting-edge research across Modern History this January. Take a look at all new Modern History titles from MUP this month: tinyurl.com/ycyvsf25 #MUPAcademic #ModernHistory 021
Reposted by Sabine HankeDolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025We are looking for people who want to talk about their new books (2024 or 25) in environmental humanities broadly defined on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring. Online Mondays at 4pm Central European time. (If you are in Asia/Australia, it’s at 10am CET) Contact me to set a date! 94945
Reposted by Sabine HankeESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 12/12/2024🚨 Call for Applications: Writing Support Programme Got a work-in-progress and want to workshop it in a constructive peer group? Do apply to join us: #envhist #envhum @eseh.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social 01512
Reposted by Sabine HankeERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Hello! 👋 Welcome to our new blue sky account! 181
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Happy that this is finally out (in German!) and open access www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109... Imperialismus in der Provinz: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Zirkus in Deutschland (ca. 1918-1945)vr-elibrary.deImperialismus in der Provinz Eine Kulturgeschichte des Zirkus in Deutschland (ca. 1918–1945) | Geschichte und GesellschaftAbstract Imperialism in the Province. A Cultural History of the Circus in Germany (c. 1918- 1945) The modern circus formed a vibrant stage that amalgamated ideas of nation with fantasies of empire and... 251
Reposted by Sabine HankeTina Asmussen @tinasmussen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨 1 PhD position for 3 years a the German Mining Museum Bochum in the interdisciplinary DFG/AHRC funded project "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall". More details: karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2.... Please share! 15742
Reposted by Sabine HankeManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Fellowship opportunities!📢 MUP and the Society for the Study of French History have announced TWO book development fellowships for early-career researchers preparing their first book for publication. Includes: - Mentoring from editors - £1000 grant Apply now: tinyurl.com/53amvrv7 12527
Reposted by Sabine HankeMichael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE 44226
Reposted by Sabine HankeWeimar Film Network @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social · 12/11/2024We have also created a starter pack on Weimar history & culture so that we can connect and learn from one another! If you would like to be added/removed from the list, please get in touch. 82411
Reposted by Sabine HankeKarine Ramondy @kramondy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024🟢[Appel à com n 10] 🟢 Le colonialisme allemand en Afrique et ailleurs : pratiques et circulations en situations coloniales numéro coordonné @rheinze.bsky.social Delphine froment et Tobias Wagemann 👇👇🤓 oap.unige.ch/journals/rhca/…oap.unige.ch Revue d'histoire contemporaine de l'Afrique La Revue d'Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique (RHCA) est une revue à peer-review, publiant des articles portant sur des recherches novatrices utilisant la méthode historique et offrant un regard orig... 066
Reposted by Sabine HankeSadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...uk.bookshop.orgVanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi.Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ... 26517162
Reposted by Sabine HankeESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 10/11/2024📣The Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Historical dimensions of the Anthropocene #envhist #envhumjobs.univie.ac.atTenure-Track Professor in the field of Historical dimensions of the AnthropoceneTenure-Track Professor in the field of Historical dimensions of the Anthropocene 05347
Reposted by Sabine HankeFelicity Jensz @fjensz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7... It's out now... Get your copy now, fresh off the press!transcript-verlag.deKoloniale Spuren in Münster und im MünsterlandWo ist der Kolonialismus bis heute sichtbar? Historische Spuren in der westfälischen Provinzhauptstadt Münster und ihrer ländlichen Umgebung. 1145
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Just done at the other side and trying anew here - early New Year's resolution! 🎉 0111