🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder

Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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Join us for a screening and discussion of Episode 1 of the ARTE documentary series "Afrikas vergessene Geschichte". The event will be held in German and recorded for the ARTE event media hub and our YouTube channel. @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social @artefr.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social

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'Mr Baird was so excited that words didn't come': The office worker who became the first person ever to appear on TV

On 2 October 1925, John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image of a human face. Forty years later, the world's first television star told the BBC about that dramatic moment.

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So has become the great responsibility shifter for the most privileged

American Historical Association@historians.org · last yr.

The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️

This winter semester I’ll be taking over as interim professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge (Vertretungsprofessor für Transregionale Wissenskulturen) at #DIMAS, University of Regensburg. www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... Students at Regensburg, do consider taking one of my classes.

📢The #CallForPanels for the #SGAS-VAD-2026 conference is now open. 🌍Theme: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations" ‼️Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2025 📅Conference date: 26-28 Aug 2026 📍Location: Basel, Switzerland zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news... #CfP #AfricanStudies #VAD #SGAS #SSEA

CfP Basel, 26-28.08.2026 Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel. www.sagw.ch/africa/aktue...

Call of panels: African Perspectives on Global Transformations (Basel, 26-28.08.2026)

Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Base...

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Happy to see this in print: 💽"What is Digital Global History Now?" Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2025), 1–19. www.cambridge.org/core/service... Find the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excellent piece by two dear friends @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social & @themorningsnows.bsky.social about the cyber truck & its uncanny similarities to the Casspir, the tank by which the Apartheid regime brutalized Black south Africans during Elon's childhood. 1/ slate.com/news-and-pol...

Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.

Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.

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It is worth reading the 4 pages of Columbia's enthusiastic over-compliance to federal threats to get a sense of what's coming down the pipeline for other universities: Expanded commitments to disciplining + policing speech, protest, and intellectual life president.columbia.edu/sites/defaul...

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW—Columbia has caved on these demands from Trump admin per WSJ, including to: –Ban masks –Give campus police new power to arrest students –Appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies & the Center for Palestine Studies

Avec Giulia Bonacci nous lançons un appel à articles autour des retours en Afrique. Propositions attendues au plus tard le 15 mai.

@revuerhca.bsky.social · last yr.

🔴🔴 Appel à contributions - n° 11. Retour(s) en Afrique Appel à propositions pour la revue Sources. Matériaux & terrains en études africaines et RHCA Coordination : Giulia Bonacci (IRD) Céline Labrune-Badiane (ITEM)🔴🔴 @clr-nicolas.bsky.social @kramondy.bsky.social oap.unige.ch/journals/rhc...

Interested in plantation studies? American empire? Globalization? Liberia? I wrote a review of Gregg Mitman‘s book „Empire of Rubber.“ academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Welcome to our Bluesky! We are a research platform based in #Regensburg, #Germany, exploring interconnections and frictions between regions of #Europe and the #Americas Check out our Open Call for Contributions: #Transatlantic Ruptures and Transformations frictions.europeamerica.de#open-call-tr...

Frictions: Europe, America and global Transformations

Frictions is a blogjournal – a hybrid format of blog and e-journal – discussing Europe and the Americas in the context of global transformations.

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On Valetine‘s Day we held a public viewing of lost & found tv & film in and on Liberia (prewar, 70s/80s) in collaboration with Liberian filmmaker Artina Michelle. We were joined by some former anchors, current members of the movie union, school teachers, and many students. #Watchshowlib2025

Public history in Africa: Let's map and support existing projects. If you have (or know of) PH projects in Africa, please add it in the comment section here. You can see some projects such as the fantastic African Digital Heritage Foundation www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... #PublicHistory #Africa

Public history projects - Google My Maps

Each entry should include: 1 ) a name of the project, 2 ) A few lines of description, 3 ) at least 2 keywords on the practice (for instance Oral History, Migration), 4 ) a link to a website and contac...

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Dieter Roth, Basel on the Rhine, 1969 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136178

Come work with me 😊 Successful candidates will be required to register for full time study in February 2025.

L. Schulte Nordholt, N. Nkealah, and R. Bod have edited a special issue of History of Humanities dealing with Classics in the History of the African Humanities. My chapter: "Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante, 1895." www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/GAQKB...

„Could a new ‘religious turn’ in society be one unexpected, counter-intuitive impact of the rise of Artificial Intelligence? What might that mean for our institutions and communities – and for public policy.“

History & Policy@historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today we launch our Advent Calendar with a daily offering from our website. We start with a new article by our @ihr.bsky.social colleague @cathamclarke.bsky.social who asks whether the rise of AI will lead us to reconsider the “spooky stuff” in our natures. www.historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.

Liberia's notorious rebel-turned-senator Prince Yormie Johnson dies. Johnson was one of the key figures in the country’s civil war, in which 250,000 people died many survivors from sexual assault and other attacks were left permanently scarred /1

New open access article: „Black American Agricultural Experts and the Vernacularization of American Science in Liberia Prior to Decolonization in Africa“. muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic....

Amazing job opportunity: news editor at @thecontinent.bsky.social

More on my chapter: „Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past“. link.growkudos.com/1f1filuje2o

A study of the history and institutional memory of the Historical Society of Ghana.

This chapter explores the possibilities and limitations of historiography and memory as it explores the past of the Historical Society of Ghana.

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As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!

Originally reported that Taylor and Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social were only making 10 million off of #selling #scholars' work to AI firms Wrong! - Turns out it is #75million in 2024 thus far, and that doesn't include a deal w/ @microsoftincel.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/taylor-...

Taylor & Francis set to make £58m from AI in 2024 as it reveals second partnership

The parent company of academic publisher Taylor & Francis has revealed it expects to earn £58m ($75m) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships in 2024 and that it has a second AI technology part...

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Opportunity 👀 Apply for a fellowship or become an artist in residence at global dis:connect for up to 12 months and explore the complex relationships of global interconntectedness and disentanglement in the context of globalisation with us. www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

Really excited that this Friday May 3 the World History Group is organising a keynote by Erica Charters followed by a roundtable (incl. @sulinlewis.bsky.social @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social) on "Teaching Imperial & Global History" on occasion of the @camhistory.bsky.social Faculty Anniversary programme.

Nairobi life.

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ESSHC.bsky.social@esshc.bsky.social · 3y ago

The Call for Papers is now open for the ESSHC of 2025! Submit your paper abstracts or panel proposals before 15 April 2024 so our network chairs can make their selection. Check out our website for the submission guidelines.