Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Margaret Thatcher in NE England (© Ella Murtha) #WomensArt
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius
@mideastineurope.bsky.social
Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
1/2 Interesting story of London’s but not Britain’s first purpose built Mosque in London: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
‘A beacon of peace’: London’s oldest mosque celebrates centenary
Fazl Mosque was used as an air raid shelter in the war – but that is not its only link to a pivotal moment in world history
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Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...
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“This is just the latest episode in a long-running debate over the complexion of ancient Egyptians.” Which will never yield clear cut answers, because people mixed and migrated - it can’t. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin
Artwork created in Tahrir Square for Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about Pharaohs’ origins
theguardian.com
We started our autumn school on the Democratization of Heritage with new problematic, defensive labels on provenance @Louvre (see below). But we end with a 🔥discussion that challenges the naming of the building we are in after Colbert, a contested figure involved in colonialism & the slave trade.
I just received this from a dear museum studies colleague. You can pledge here: opencollective.com/goldsmithsmu...
goldsmiths mutual aid - Open Collective
Provide hardship funds to precariously employed staff at Goldsmiths whose employment has been cut or changed as a result of Covid-19 or restructures and who may be further impacted by strike deduction...
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Labour Hub@labour-hub.bsky.social · 2w agoGoldsmiths: Forefront of the Battle for Higher Education Following yesterday’s round-up of universities facing strike action due to staff cuts, George Binette reports on a dispute in southeast London. Located in Lewisham, Goldsmiths, an affiliate of the University of London, has gained an…
Tonight in Paris: A public Panel on Heritage and extractivist practices at INHA.
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius@mideastineurope.bsky.social · 3w agoOur Autumn School on the Democratization of Heritage in Paris is approaching, and we are pleased to announce that two of our events will be public panels with a stellar line-up. Do come if you're in town! gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
Our Autumn School on the Democratization of Heritage in Paris is approaching, and we are pleased to announce that two of our events will be public panels with a stellar line-up. Do come if you're in town! gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Symbol of freedom - and also the former location of a concentration and labour camp, as this exhibition on Lufhansa’s involvement in the Nazi regime’s atrocities shows: www.thf-berlin.de/en/your-visi...
In case you haven’t read this substantial series, it also includes essays on the involvement of the royals, banks, hospitals, the Church of England and women in the transatlantic slave trade: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/seri...
Enslaving nation | The Guardian
<p>How investment in slavery powered Britain</p>
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Good to see lots of women academics at @daadworldwide.bsky.social German Science Day in Cairo (more than in many European conferences I have been to). And also nice to find this feminist history street sign…
Call for Papers, Deadline Extended to Sept 15! "As cities face unprecedented social, environmental, and political challenges, museums must critically reflect on and expand their research practices to remain relevant and responsive...." camoc.mini.icom.museum/programs/lon...
London 2027 | Reimagining Research | ICOM CAMOC
International research conference on research in and with city museums, London Museum Docklands, 27-29 January 2027. Call for papers open through 1 September 2026.
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James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Without detracting from the failure of UUK's efforts, what would it mean if UK universities 'won over Reform'? What compromises would that entail? Binning the arts and humanities? Rejecting duties mandated by the Equalities act? Agreeing that only 30-ish universities should have funded research?
UK universities fail to win over Reform
University leaders have spent months on a charm offensive aimed at gaining the support of the populist rightwing party
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Many, also in Germany, are not aware how little the German governments spends on education, in particular compared to other European countries. We know that education, knowledge about facts (as opposed to feelings) & voting behaviour are related. English Pisa summary: www.dw.com/en/pisa-2026...
PISA test reveals alarming drop in reading and math skills
The 2025 results from the influential global study show a downward trend in students' performance. Germany's 15-year-olds are faring worse than ever.
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DIE ZEIT@zeit.de · last mo.Lesen, Mathe, Naturwissenschaften: Noch nie haben deutsche Schüler bei einer Pisa-Studie so schlecht abgeschnitten. Vielen fehlen Grundkompetenzen für Beruf und Alltag.
'Many students are navigating financial pressure, caring responsibilities, long commutes, paid work and complex lives. The question is not whether students are less committed. It is what kind of university culture they are being asked to inhabit.'
'Students are attending less, reading less, participating less, and often treating university as one commitment among many.'
Students are not disengaged, they are adapting to a thinner university
For Fredrick Agboma and Andrew Doyle, the question isn't whether students are less committed, but what culture they're asked to inhabit
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If you still have German speakers in your circles who sleepwalk, downplay, or gaslight, please ask them to invest 18 mins and listen to this. I think this journalist is right, and I cannot recommend it enough.
Joerg Lau@joerglau.bsky.social · last mo.Hört Euch an, was mein Kollege Robert Pausch sagt. So ist es, und er sagt es in der nötigen Klarheit. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/w...
Historical comparisons with the Nazi era were sometimes more distracting than illuminating. Some parallels are now impossible to dismiss: the normalization of political violence, the integration of old far-right networks, and the belief that the radical right can be contained once it has power. 1/2
Indigenous rightts, protest, environmental action - and more on this week's newsletter. Amid the many threats to independent, multilingual news, we need your help to keep reporting and translating! globalvoices.org/donate/
Indigenous rightts, protest, environmental action - and more!
Indigenous rightts, protest, environmental action - and more! The devastating floods in Nepal, Indigenous protests against mining in the Philippines, Cameroon dance traditions, and more View this email in your browser The stories you haven't heard abou...
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Aus Anlass des Todes von Klaus-Michael #Kühne möchte ich gerne nochmal Henning Bleyl würdigen, unseren ehemaligen Kollegen der @taz.de. Wie niemand sonst hat er sich dafür eingesetzt, dass nie vergessen wird, wie sehr Kühnes Konzern von Arisierungen profitiert hat. Hier ist Hennings Text dazu ⤵️
„Arisierungs“-Mahnmal in Bremen: Vier Quadratmeter Wahrheit
Die Bremer Logistikfirma Kühne + Nagel hat in der NS-Zeit von den Enteignungen der Juden profitiert. 2023 wurde ein Mahnmal eingeweiht – auf taz-Initiative.
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What do denazification, commemoration and fighting antisemitism mean, if German media discourse still protects businesses and industrials that benefited hugely from the Nazi era - companies that built their entire wealth on the lost property, deportation, exploitation and murder of Jewish people?
Krsto Lazarević@krstorevic.bsky.social · 2mo agoDeutsche halten sich für Erinnerungsweltmeister, schaffen es aber nicht im Nachruf auf einen Milliardär zu erwähnen, dass sein Vermögen auf Arisierung und Ausplünderung von Jüdinnen und Juden basiert, die sein Nazivater durchgeführt hat. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
The racialised history of pools. This article gives a good overview, including shocking numbers of those drowning due to lack of access: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Scrapping of Berlin swimming day for Black children becomes latest in long list of race-linked pool rows
Rightwing voices seize on plans to offer Black children an exclusive afternoon at an outdoor pool in the German capital
theguardian.com
So race science/pseudoscience much like the kind the nazis and other eugenicists spread is no longer debunked? Great topic to consider in my gender and race after Hitler class this week. Race science and its adherents remain foolish
Sadly, the Global Eugenics Class I will co-teach with a colleague in the History Department next semester won’t just be about history…
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
"There will be another Jason Arday. We know this. Because the media knows this. The press isn't free if it lacks impunity to do anything it likes. It is how power protects itself. By declaring it has none. There is no check to fetter power when unfettered power resides in the check." My Editorial:
There Will Be Another Jason Arday
There is no check to fetter power when unfettered power resides in the check
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Various unreasonable accusations against Maha El Hissy and indeed the whole discipline of postcolonial studies in this article. I would encourage people to go and read Maha’s original articles in the Berlin Review instead of this hit piece: blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
Maha El Hissy · Literature of Unsettlement 1/4 — Unreconciled Narratives
In Germany, “reason of state” has enshrined the propagandist claim that Palestinians have no land or nation. Yet a survey of academic discourse and the cultural scene reveals the opposite: it is we wh...
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Jüdische Allgemeine@juedischeonline.bsky.social · 2mo agoDie Literaturkritikerin Maha El Hissy hat kein Problem damit, die populärste antisemitische Ritualmordlegende unserer Gegenwart zu verbreiten. Trotzdem wurde sie in die Jury des renommierten Deutschen Buchpreises berufen. Ein Kommentar. www.juedische-allgemeine.de/meinung/poli...
Wir - als freie Autor:innen, die glauben, gegen die aktuelle Faschisierung anzuschreiben - brauchen endlich eine ehrliche Debatte über die Pros & Cons noch für Medien zu arbeiten, die auch in Teilen Triebfeder für Faschisierung und rechten Kulturkampf sind.