An age-old academic question: is this manuscript done (submission ready) or am I just done looking at it?
João Fusco Ribeiro
@joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social
Historian | Professor at the Center for Totalitarian Studies | Pilecki Institute | Warsaw | Researching Cold War in Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-0600
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Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
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The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · yesterdayHistory of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present, by Thula Simpson @hurstpublishers.bsky.social; Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid, by Evan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social;
That's it. I've checked the very last proofs of the book and it's now off to the printers. I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century! Publication: 18 Aug (US), 4 Sept (UK) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
"One of the men responsible for the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising was Heinz Reinefarth. Like so many Germans, he was never held responsible for his crimes, but was elected as mayor of Westerland (Sylt) and a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag after the Second World War. "
Franziska Davies@efdavies.bsky.social · 4d ago82 years ago, the biggest and longest uprising against Germany in occupied Europe during the Second World War began. In the latest edition of my newsletter, I have written about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, which, in German memory culture, remains rather marginal.
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
Welcome to Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions! This account accompanies our book series and serves as a space to share new ideas and conversations on the histories of the early modern Iberian world. #EarlyModernHistory #IberianHistory #GlobalHistory #HistoryBooks
25 juillet 2021, décès à Lisbonne d’Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, le stratège de la Révolution des Œillets🇵🇹 « Un peuple enfin libéré de l’oppression et de la peur, émerveillé par le miracle de la liberté reconquise à l’aube lumineuse d’un matin d’avril » (Alvorada em Abril)
In the last year, broad cuts to the agencies and mechanisms that fund scholarship in the U.S., have crippled the work of scholars. But in solidarity, we have collectively come together and developed ways to carry on that work. #scholarship #humanities #socialscience #highered #academia
🎓 📖 J’ai le plaisir de signer dans ce volume collectif, dirigé par Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, à paraître le 28 juillet, le chapitre consacré à la Hongrie de Miklós Horthy. J’essaie de définir la nature de ce régime et de montrer sa spécificité dans le paysage européen des années 1920 et 1930.
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It was really fun to write this article with Jéssica and seeing it now in print :)
Journal of Southern African Studies@jsas-journal.bsky.social · 2w ago📢 New Article! How did UNITA emerge as Angola’s third liberation movement? Höring and Ribeiro revisit UNITA’s founding, revealing the alliances, negotiations and rivalries that shaped its emergence between 1964 and 1966. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨We’re seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. Deadline for applications: 7 August 2026. Please share in your networks!👇
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · last mo.📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
We are welcoming submissions on the Journal of Totalitarian and 20th Studies until the end of August! instytutpileckiego.pl/en/badania/a...
Call for Articles – Volume 9 of the Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies yearbook - Instytut Pileckiego
The Editorial Board of the Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies yearbook announces a call for submissions for the next special issue of the publication, covering the years 2025–2026. We invite resear...
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OTD in 1930, the first FIFA World Cup began in Uruguay. In this article from the archives, Richard Mills explores how football fixtures created meaningful ties between Yugoslavia and its African and Asian allies.
Scoring for the Non-Aligned Movement: Yugoslavia, Football and the Third World
Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Richard Mills explores the role football played in establishing diplomatic ties between Tito’s […]
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Winner of the Spain-Portugal match gets to revise the Treaty of Tordesillas
📢 New Article! How did ideas travel across liberation movements during the Cold War? Wetzel traces the journey of the Frelimo Youth League from Soviet classrooms to Mozambique’s liberation struggle, showing why some ideas took hold while others failed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On Saturday 20, in Lisbon, Goffredo Adinolfi and I had the pleasure of presenting our edited volume Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule: War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes at the Eighth Convention of COMFAS, discussed by Angel Alcalde from the the University of Melbourne.
for the history feeds, follow my skeets in this thread #comfas 🗂️
Rachel Moss@menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s COMFAS time!! We got off to a strong start with COMFAS co-founder Aristotle Kallis reminding us of our moral as well as academic duty to understand, explain and combat the far right 💪🏼
A brief essay about my book, with photos not included in the book itself: www.kathleensheldon.net/online-essay...
The Mackerel Years: A Memoir of War, Hunger, and Women’s History in 1980s Mozambique — Kathleen Sheldon
My husband, Steve Tarzynski is a pediatrician, and he had a contract with the Mozambican Ministry of Health. Our daughter, Mercie, was also with us; she was just 15 months old when we arrived there. W...
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There is still time to read a new book this summer! Check out the list that I have for review with H-Environment #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #climate #sustainability #conservation #envtech #plantstudies #animalhist docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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I wrote this last month and am pretty happy with how it turned out. medium.com/p/33c48f22e617
Cold War 2.0 is Bulls**t.
“The Cold War never ended”. This is a statement that I have seen floating around in headlines, in articles, and certainly in internet…
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João Abel Manta, the greatest cartoonist of the Portuguese democratization, has died. When I published my first academic book in English on Salazar's "Estado Novo" I asked him one of his caricatures for the cover. The publisher's designer converted the caricature of the Dictator into a negative.
How do smartphones reshape the dynamics of war? A new open-access article in African Affairs, by Mirjam de Bruijn and Boukary Sangaré, explores the evolving “war ecology” of Mali, where conflict and digital technologies have grown side by side since 2012. 📖Read the article: doi.org/10.1093/afra...
THE SMARTPHONE CONNECTS IN VIOLENT CONFLICTS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF MALI’S NEW WAR ECOLOGY
Abstract. The Mali conflict that erupted in 2012 has developed simultaneously with the advancement of new information and communication technologies (ICTs)
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Long-awaited, fantastic article by Katherine Lebow on Polish 'ordinary' people’s memoirs of #WWI, exploring how the war generated new mobilities, perspectives and subjectivities, and how these histories from the margins have been silenced. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Grasping the Pencil: Polish Memoirs of Childhood on the Eastern Front, 1914–1921* | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 98, No 1
Abstract This article recovers the voices of civilian survivors of World War I in parts of today’s Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland. Drawing on a rare cache of retrospective accounts composed i...
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🎉 Congratulations to Antonio Frank, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation 'Policing the Periphery: Party-anchored hybrid policing in Luanda, Angola' on 28 April at @unileiden.bsky.social. #Angola #Luanda #policing #PhDdefence #ASCL
Joseph Atta-Mensah, warns that the US-Israel war on Iran may feel like a distant conflict to many in Africa, but it poses a direct shock to the continent’s economic future, impacting energy, trade, agriculture, finance, and domestic production systems @africaatlse.bsky.social
Africa is not watching the war in Iran, but is importing its consequences - Africa at LSE
Joseph Atta-Mensah, warns that the US-Israel war on Iran may feel like a distant conflict to many in Africa, but it poses a direct shock to the continent’s economic future. At first glance, a…
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📢 CfP: Society for the History of War Conference 2026 📍 University of Limerick 🗓 26–27 Nov 2026 Papers & panels invited on all aspects of war & violence incl. gender, memory, civil wars, cultures of conflict, and lived experience. 🗓 Deadline: 3 July 2026 📩 SHOWconferences@gmail.com
