Miriam Franchina
@barlafuess.bsky.social
Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan. Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪 https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/MiriamFranchina
#Kunstgeschichte -Comm. Kann jmd diesen emaillierten #Glasbecher mitm Wappen des Kronprinzen Jacques-Victor Henry einordnen? (1826 aus #Haiti nach 🇮🇹 mitgebracht.) Vermutung: #Ranftbecher aus dem Umfeld Gottlob S. Mohn & Anton Kothgasser. Jeder Hinweis wäre hilfreich. Danke! #Glaskunst #Biedermeier
Am 7.6. steht die Museumsinsel Berlin im Zeichen der Demokratie. Gemeinsam mit @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, der Hertie-Stiftung, der Stiftung Berliner Mauer, dem Schwulen Museum und weiteren Partnern sprechen wir über Freiheit, Weltoffenheit und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Programm: www.mi200.de
#CfP for #skystorians "Negotiating African Christian Pasts in #Renaissance Europe: Transcontinental #KnowledgeProduction, Representation, and Power" 🗓️ 10–11 June 2027 📌 Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz (🇩🇪) ➡️ Deadline: 31 July 2026 ⬅️ tinyurl.com/4rc3cafj
CfP: „Negotiating African Christian Pasts in Renaissance Europe: Transcontinental Knowledge Production, Representation, and Power“ - Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG)
This conference, organised by the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, focuses on how knowledge about African Christianities was transmitted and circulated within the intellectual landscape...
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Tomorrow for zoom: events.gbz@hu-berlin.de
Miriam Franchina@barlafuess.bsky.social · 3mo ago🗓️Wed. 20 May, from 2pm 📍@humboldtuni.bsky.social Centre for British Studies, Berlin (or online) I'll be discussing my last paper (when I still wore the historian's hat) ➡️ Free e-prints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DYGZK... ⬅️
🗓️Wed. 20 May, from 2pm 📍@humboldtuni.bsky.social Centre for British Studies, Berlin (or online) I'll be discussing my last paper (when I still wore the historian's hat) ➡️ Free e-prints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DYGZK... ⬅️
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Neben Museumsinsel, Kulturforum und den Museen Dahlem hat Berlin nun einen vierten Kultur-Hotspot: Die #MuseumsMeileMitte - Hamburger Bahnhof, Naturkundemuseum, Futurium und Medizinhistorisches Museum haben sich vernetzt. Erste Aktion: Das Nachbarschaftsfest am 13. Juni mit freiem Eintritt
MuseumsMeileMitte: Gemeinsame Initative von Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof, Medizinhistorischem Museum und Museum für Naturkunde
Gemeinsam mit internationalen Unternehmen vor Ort vernetzt sich der Stadtteil zu den Themen Wissen, Kunst, Zukunft.
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Wie hat die spanische Monarchie Menschen nach Religion und Ethnizität unterschieden, um Einwanderung in ihre amerikanischen Kolonien zu kontrollieren? Thomas Weller untersucht, welche Rolle ethnische und religiöse Zuschreibungen für diese Menschen spielten, (1/2)
Per piccoli italo-crucchi, italofoni, italofili alla ricerca di superpoteri : appuntamento venerdí 8 maggio alle 16:00 con #Supersdentata Fumetti, disegni, parole con Margherita Riccardi
Il Mitte@ilmitte.bsky.social · 3mo agoTra due lingue e mille storie, arrivano le avventure di Supersdentata 🦷✏️ Appuntamento l’8 maggio con Cate e Poco! 📚 #Berlino #Fumetti #Bambini #Bilinguismo #Eventi #workshop #ItalianiABerlino www.ilmitte.com/2026/05/labo...
#ItalianResearch in 🇩🇪 has strong figures: - 10,000+ students - 355 professors - 4,500+ scientists & is now gearing up to build even stronger networks. Stay tuned to see what’s next. Made in Italy, made it (quasi) in Germany? #GiornatadellaRicercaItaliananelMondo tinyurl.com/35mpsuzc
Scienziati italiani e tedeschi in Ambasciata per la Giornata della Ricerca italiana nel mondo (23.04.2026)
Con gli Stati generali della Ricerca italiana in Germania e un’iniziativa dedicata alle tecnologie quantistiche l’Ambasciata italiana celebra la IX edizione della Giornata della Ricerca italiana nel M...
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How did #Courtiers shape the #PublicSphere in #18thCentury #France? Explore the free #database by @papaerc.bsky.social on the interdependencies & collaborations among aristocrats, authorities, authors, printers. Feedback: @benoit-carre.bsky.social @1simondagenais.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2w3ybxpd
Pamphlets and PatronsHow courtiers shaped the public sphere in Ancien Régime France
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📚 #CallForContributions for an hashtag#EditedVolume: "Lost in their Words: Rewriting the Political Lexicon of the #FarRight" 🖋️12 chapters, each 4,000 - 5,000 words 🗓️ Deadline: 3 May #PoliticalTheory #Concepts #DiscourseAnalysis #Ideology #altright #skystorians tribes.hypotheses.org/4957
Call for Contributions: “Lost in Their Words. Rewriting the Political Lexicon of the Far-Right”
Over the past three decades, Far-right actors have profoundly reshaped their political language turning familiar words like freedom, democracy, or solidarity into tools of redefinition and legitimatio...
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CfP for #skystorians: "So Far Apart, So Close. #Italy, the #Mediterranean and #Africa from the #14thC to the #20thC"; Rome 19-21 Oct 2026. #earlymodern & #modern history Deadline: 15 June tinyurl.com/5338f7zx
Call for Participation: CALL FOR PAPERS | VIVE - Vittoriano e Palazzo Venezia
for the international research conference:
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Wie ein Angsthase bin ich durch #Redewendungen über Angst und den Aberglauben drumherum im Deutschen und Italienischen gehüpft. #italienisch #deutsch #italienischlernen
Il Mitte@ilmitte.bsky.social · 5mo agoChe rapporto avete con la paura? 😱 Espressioni curiose, idiomi e modi di dire che raccontano un'emozione universale. #linguatedesca #paura #curiositalinguistiche www.ilmitte.com/2026/03/paur...
#BlackHistoryMonth anche in 🇮🇹. #Afrodiscendente è 1dei termini possibili x una ricchezza culturale dal continente africano alle Americhe. Grazie a @nlwillson.bsky.social, entro fine2026 anche BG rifletterà su questa parte del ns presente e futuro, ma anche del ns passato. tinyurl.com/mphd6typ
Il Black History Month in Italia: gli eventi di febbraio 2025 tra musei e istituzioni culturali
In occasione del Black History Month, diverse città e istituzioni culturali in Italia organizzano nel mese di febbraio rassegne e appuntamenti volti a diffondere la produzione culturale nera e la cono...
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📣 The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) seeks to appoint a Publications Manager (m/f/d), 19.5 hours per week | #Berlin 📅 February 28, 2026 👉 www.kultweet.de/jobs/MPIWG_P... #Job #humanities #socialsciences #history #regionalstudies #Wissenschaft @mpiwg.bsky.social
Conference "Deprovincializing German Racism: Exploring and Teaching #LatinAmerican & Global Entanglements, 1500-Present" 🗓️ 25-17 Feb. 📍 @iaiberlin.bsky.social (@kulturspk.bsky.social) Organizers: @unitrier.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EarlyModern #LatAm tinyurl.com/3h7uhp6a
Deprovincializing German Racism: Exploring and Teaching Latin American & Global Entanglements, 1500-Present
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🗓️ 6 Mar, 2-6pm CET @papaerc.bsky.social's grand finale. Find out how this @erc.europa.eu project has shaped perceptions of the #FrenchRevolution — & how its networking has sparked new ideas for future research. #skystorians For online participation: @1simondagenais.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3bf9mpkw
Workshop: Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution. Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons – Pamphlets and Patrons
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Os habéis topado alguna vez con el término “otermano” como grafía de “atamán” (cosaco)? No le encuentro ningún otro sentido en esta línea, pero quizá ojos más listos que los míos sí. También leo “Can” y pienso en “Khan”, en relación con el levantamiento de Pugachёv (1773–75). Gracias! #skystorians
Good to see the corrections and additions to this article, including the contribution of independent researcher Dawnanna Kreeger. Bit of a missed opportunity though to also elaborate on the original researcher, Cathey O'Neill.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe twist in this story is that the A-level student found it back in 1977 but we have only rediscovered this fact 50 years on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
2/2 Uns fehlt ein Bild! "...ruft die Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz deshalb alle Berliner*innen auf, zu Hause in ihren Fotoalben und Fotosammlungen zu schauen." www.ghwk.de/de/blog/samm...
Uns fehlt ein Bild: Sammelaufruf Deportationen Berlin | Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Die Gedenkstätte dokumentiert die Wannsee-Konferenz und setzt sich mit Ausstellungen, Bildungsangeboten und einer Bibliothek mit dem Holocaust auseinander.
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Per chi si trovasse a #Roma, una giornata di studi da non perdere. "Scambi materiali e immateriali fra #Mediterraneo allargato e #Africa in #EtàModerna" (parte del progetto Così lontani, così vicini: Italia, Mediterraneo e Africa 22 Ott., 9.30 - 18.30 Palazzo Venezia tinyurl.com/59zempaz
The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...
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Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition
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Long shot: any1 ever come across a #Laight family in #NewYork in the 1820s, with ties to #Haiti? Tiny info I have: father=Henry, daughter=Maria. She's not a native writer of French, requests orange jams (!) from Modeste Pigeon in Port-au-P., is v. religious. Thanks #skystorians 's hivemind!
Gens de #Paris: une amie cherche une chambre en #colocation ou un micro-appartement. Idéalement pas loin de la Sorbonne — pourquoi ne pas rêver ? — mais il suffit que ce soit bien connecté. Merci de me contacter si vous avez des pistes! #LocationParis, #ChambreParis, #ParisHousing, #LogementParis
A toast to you and your project — virtually, with this glass! Looking forward to plotting things together, and enjoying polenta with a Caribbean twist.
Dr Nicole Willson@nlwillson.bsky.social · last yr.NEWS KLAXON 📢📢📢 I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a major AHRC Catalyst award for my project “Building a Black Nation: Haitian Dynasties of the (Long) Nineteenth Century”.
📣#Praktika des DHI Rom (Externes Angebot | Anzeige) 📅 Frist: 14. September 2025 ➡️ application.dhi-roma.it?fbclid=IwZXh...
Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
How did the staggering pensions secretly paid to nobles—& their exposure—contribute to bringing down the #Bastille & the 🇫🇷 Crown? @benoit-carre.bsky.social takes #skystorians on a journey through neglected archives to reconstruct the fiscal system at the dawn of the #FrenchRevolution.
Benoît Carré@benoit-carre.bsky.social · last yr.Petite livraison surprise ce matin. Merci à l'ensemble du service communication des @puseptentrion.bsky.social pour la remise de ces premiers exemplaires ! Sortie confirmée le 14 août www.septentrion.com/fr/book/?gco...
Check out this double conference: #Colonial Objects: "Material Culture of #Italian Colonialism" Deadline: 5 Sep. Venues: @bhmpi.bsky.social, Rome & Italian Academy, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, NYC #skystorians
Nicola Camilleri@camilleriana.bsky.social · last yr.🎓The Chair of #EarlyModern History at the University of Trier is hiring a doctoral researcher!🎓 NB: German is nice to have, but not required! - Starting October 2025 for 3 years - Deadline: July 7, 2025 #PHD www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...
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