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Susie Protschky

@susieprotschky.bsky.social
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Professor of Global Political History Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏 Photography | Visual Culture War | Gender | Environment www.susieprotschky.com vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-…

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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great article! Recommend ⭐️ ‘Fanon’s Vietnam’ - a plea to acknowledge the broader origins of anti-colonial thought. By @juliango.bsky.social and @kdpham.bsky.social - brought to my attention by PhD researcher Dominique Ankoné! www-tandfonline-com.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Brilliant analysis 👇
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Lucas Poy @lucaspoy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My take on Claude’s unbearable, condescending tone lucaspoy.substack.com/p/claude-is-...
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Claude is a snob and I often wish it had a face so I could punch it
Talking to Claude feels like a peculiar combination of speaking to the most annoying person at an academic conference and attending a workshop led by a coach your employer has hired to help everyone “...
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Following up on this, it would appear that there are hallucinated references in at least three publications by Dr Hadas Zahavi, Founding Director of Columbia University Global Center for Peace - including an article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications published by Nature...
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Interesting to see a reference in this article to Daniel Foliard 'Dislocations: The Photography of War in the Middle East' (London: Verso, 2023) - a book that sounds incredible but which doesn't actually exist. Wonder what else has been hallucinated...?
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Very careful, thought-provoking piece on AI and academic (historical) labour, from the coal-face @lucaspoy.bsky.social
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It's so refreshing to read a book with a genuinely fresh and critical approach to the Vietnam War - strongly recommend Gina Marie Weaver's 'Ideologies of Forgetting - Rape in the Vietnam War', which hasn't received the attention it deserves. (h/t @susieprotschky.bsky.social)
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"Indeed, his book is a brilliant - illuminating, in the words of Du Bois - guide for how to analyze photographs out of the margins of historical accounts as more than mere illustrations" Very generous review of my last book by @susieprotschky.bsky.social in American Historical Review🙏🏻
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
📢 NEW RESEARCH ARTICLE Susie Protschky and Melle van Maanen, ‘Trauma, Implication and the Politics of Victimhood in the Netherlands after War in Indonesia (1945–9)’, History, Memory and Conflict (2026) Open access - www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
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Trauma, Implication and the Politics of Victimhood in the Netherlands after War in Indonesia (1945–9) | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Abstract Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s 2022 apology for the “extreme violence” of Dutch armed forces during Indonesia’s war of independence (1945–9) was not only extended to the “people of ...
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
‘I see many colleagues who use it sparingly and do not have a good understanding of the latest developments. And as a student, teacher and researcher, you need to be aware of those developments.’ Good article, this one www.folia.nl/en/opinie/17...
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Han van der Maas | AI is the new smoking
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Brilliant article. This is why we need historical research - to set the record straight and speak truth to power. And challenge enduring narratives based on lies. #westpapua #dutchimperialism #nederlandsnieuwguinea #resourceextraction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Being Economical with the Truth: Dutch Public Claims and Hidden Agendas about Papuan Self-Determination and the Economic Exploitation of Netherlands New Guinea
In its public diplomacy between 1949 and 1962, the Netherlands consistently claimed that its presence in Netherlands New Guinea – also widely referred to at the time as West New Guinea (WNG) and to...
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Delighted to have talked about a new research topic of mine with Anne van Mourik at NIOD Amsterdam, for the terrific Rewind podcast
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
‘… an IDIOCRACY, in which low-grade pleasures (such as the capacity to buy cheap goods, pay low or no taxes, carry guns into Starbucks, and maintain the right *not* to help each other) displace all other forms of FREEDOM …’ - Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
That new episode of The Diplomat with Keir Starmer in it was trite
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Coming up online on 6 December -
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“The law of the #ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe...our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.” Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
You can now watch the recording of my inaugural professorial lecture on You Tube - ‘A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Futures’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...
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Susie Protschky - A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Future)
YouTube video by Susie Protschky
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Azarja Harmanny @azarja.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"
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Azarja Harmanny @azarja.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Lovende woorden tijdens verdediging proefschrift Katja Paijens, live op de stream @unileiden.bsky.social, over Max Alkadrie. Volgens de opponenten een kasteelroman, een potentiele Netflixserie of een musical!
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
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The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war
Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
One of my favourite parts of being an academic historian is reviewing an outstanding journal article at the cutting edge of research - and waiting with baited breath to find out who wrote it! 🔥 #lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
No communist armies involved AT ALL 🤣
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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Publication 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/crWw2
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The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Great short piece by @csetijadi.bsky.social and Ken Setiawan. 🙀 theconversation.com/how-mps-aban...
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How MPs’ ‘abandoned’ cats became the unexpected symbol of Indonesia’s protests
During the recent mass protests and political unrest in Indonesia, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: the MPs pet cats.
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Reading this classic for the first time. Reminded *once again* that I cannot be convinced #perpetratortrauma has any conceptual value aside from clinical, therapeutic purposes
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/08/2025
How do we decolonise archives? In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
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Project Naming
Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇 press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... #indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Out TODAY!
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫 Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY press.anu.edu.au/publications... Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩 Open access 👇 bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Expert colleagues have written a report substantiating the need for Dutch universities to cut ties at the institutional level with Israeli universities in response to genocide. academictiesisrael.nl
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Academic Ties Israel
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In the year of our lord 2025, this is not OK. #Journalism #PublicDebate
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#globalhistory @vuamsterdam.bsky.social 🌎💵 #economichistory #americanhistory #imperialism
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Oh my piece is out too now. For colleagues in #PerpetratorStudies, I'd love to hear what you think. #Perpetrators #MassViolence #Genocide #Accountability #Justice justiceinconflict.org/2025/06/19/w...
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‘What are perpetrators actually doing, and to whom?’ A call to focus on the actions of perpetrators of mass atrocities
The following contribution to JiC’s ongoing symposium on Alette Smeulers’  “Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?” comes from Dr. Iva Vukušić, an…
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#rodelijn With 150,000 people protesting genocide and standing with Palestine in The Hague today
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Lucas Poy @lucaspoy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our book has a cover! Coming next November with the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social series at @uclpress.bsky.social
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Lucas Poy @lucaspoy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Mijn bijdrage aan dit artikel in het AD over koopkrachtverschillen tussen Nederland en Argentinië, met wat broodnodige nuance en een kleine herinnering dat publieke universiteiten in Argentinië nog altijd gratis zijn. www.ad.nl/buitenland/m...
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Met Nederlands uurloon naar de supermarkt: video van Argentijnse vrouw gaat viraal in thuisland
Een ogenschijnlijk simpele, Nederlandse boodschappenvideo maakt de tongen los in Argentinië. Een jonge toerist toont daarin wat je in Nederland allemaal kunt kopen met een minimumuurloon en dat leidt ...
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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Petit rappel: la journée "Réactiver les images" avec (notamment) Elizabeth Edwards, Edhem Eldem, @susieprotschky.bsky.social , @kimatiwagner.bsky.social, @elarabertho@bsky.social c'est lundi à l'INHA. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles invisu.cnrs.fr/2025/04/09/1...
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19/05/2025 | Reactivating images / Réactiver les images - InVisu
Journée d'étude consacrée aux manières de donner à voir au présent des images du passé
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Pairing Rothberg with Sremac & Van Liere for my short course on political history - ‘trauma and nostalgia’ plus ‘multidirectional memory’ - and it is a *great* match #historyandtheory #politicalhistory @mrothberg.bsky.social
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Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Great to welcome Kim as invited professor at Université Paris Cité!
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
She did something racist that no normal person would do, and is facing the consequences. It takes until the end of this fawning artilce to reflect on what it did to the 15 yr old girl www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Former vice chancellor's bid to hush offensive behaviour sentence fails
A court heard former University of New England leader Brigid Heywood told a girl: "I didn’t realise you were brown," before wiping spit on her face.
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
For anyone in or near Amsterdam, I'll be hosted this coming Tuesday by @susieprotschky.bsky.social speaking about my new work on the German Empire in the Pacific.
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#globalhistory at the VU Amsterdam presents - Prof. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, ‘Exception or empire as usual? German Samoa and liberal imperialism’ @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social #germanhistory #imperialism #samoa #pacifichistory #liberalism
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Dutton, Abbott and Howard in a game of musical chairs. Called by Antony Green. Fantasy ABC broadcast.
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#colonialism #martialraces #australia #papuanewguinea #britishempire www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Geen zelfkritiek? We hebben een heel pamflet met zelfkritiek geschreven notabene. Tegen dit soort masochisme is het moeilijk strijden. Of eigenlijk gewoon voorspelbaar ordinair contrarianisme. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
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Opinie: Het verzet tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs ontbeert iedere vorm van zelfkritiek
Het hoger onderwijs is volgens diverse onderzoeken een belangrijke aanjager van maatschappelijke verschillen. Daarom mogen best kanttekeningen worden geplaatst bij de financiering ervan.
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