Do you want to study globalisation in a transdisciplinary and transnational setting? Do you like to critically engage with concepts and methods of the Social Sciences? Then apply for the 2027 intake of the Global Studies Programme 🌍 Applications open Sept 15 - Nov 30: uni-freiburg.de/global-studi...

🚀🚨🚀 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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💥Out now💥 Gesellschaft der Migration. Zur sozialtheoretischen Revision einer kontroversen Wissenspraxis Hg. Helge Schwiertz / Serhat Karakayalı #OpenAccess www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Mit Beiträgen von: Anna Amelina, @karobarg.bsky.social, @cbcmoi.bsky.social, Inken Bartels, @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, @heikedelitz.bsky.social, Coretta Ehrenfeld, Fabian Georgi, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Serhat Karakayalı, @fabios.bsky.social, @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social, Anja Weiß

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Mampfradfahrer@giraffetoe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Bei Niran handelt es sich vermutlich um einen jungen Mann aus Indien. " In Schulen und Universitäten lagern tausende Tote mit fraglicher Herkunft. Skelette aus Kolonien, Skelette von Rechtlosen. So eine Scheiße. www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft...

Next Monday afternoon in Freiburg, Sujata Patel, Ali Meghji and I, together with Ercüment Çelik, will be discussing how to address, navigate, and critique positionalities in our research and who gets to do so in academic contexts with or beyond decolonial and anticolonial commitments. Join us!

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196

Starting tomorrow - the inaugural conference of the new Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich! Delighted to be on this fantastic opening panel that asks all the right questions - hope we'll be able to provide a few answers! Join us if you're around!

infoclio.ch@infoclio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Eastern Europe’s Invisibilities: Epistemics, Politics, Arts #infoclioevent

Die Reihe "Faschisierung - analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien" geht in die zweite Runde, organisiert von der KriSol-AG "Was ist Faschisierung?". Alle Vorträge hybrid. @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social

"The past is a foreign country", sex tourist edition.

The Economist@economist.com · 4mo ago

Frustration with modern dating has fuelled the rise of “passport bros”

I am very grateful to Lea Horvat & Ana Sekulić for creating Women* write the Balkans as a platform for conversation and experimentation, as well as for their masterful editorial guidance and patience. I enjoyed writing this para-ethnographic story and might do more of that in the future

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

Am 8. April, dem Internationalen Tag der Rom*nja und Sinti*zze, erinnern wir an den ersten Welt Roma Kongress 1971 in London und damit an den Beginn einer internationalen Bürger*innenrechtsbewegung. "Romani Zor" heißt auch den Kampf heute weiterzuführen. #RomaDay #8April #InternationalRomaDay

Was machen eigentlich die deutschen Regierungsvertreter aus den Parteien mit dem C im Namen gerade...

No, @britannica.com, it's not "the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution", it's the Haitian Revolution - with Black political subjects carrying out their own revolutionary acts, not subsumed under/inspired by white Europeans' revolutionary actions. #trouillot #silencingthepast

NOW in berlin: www.hkw.de/programme/ti... www.hkw.de/programme/pu...

Sklaverei verschweigen Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon www.akweb.de/gesellschaft...

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Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon

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Papst Leo XIV. in seiner Osteransprache: „Wer Waffen in der Hand hält, lege sie nieder! [...] Wir sind gerade dabei, uns an die Gewalt zu gewöhnen, wir finden uns damit ab und werden gleichgültig. [...] Es gibt eine immer ausgeprägtere ‚Globalisierung der Gleichgültigkeit‘.“

Danke für die Einladung und die sehr schöne Diskussion mit der engagierten und interessierten Gruppe! Hat Spaß gemacht! 🤗

Ulrich Brand@ulrichbrand.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lateinamerika-Vorlesung in diesem Semester Dekoloniale Perspektiven auf die Moderne Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă, Universität Freiburg, Fellow Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen 📅 Freitag, 20. März, 11:15–12:15 Uhr 📍 Gerda-Lerner-Saal HS 41, Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at, 1. Stock, Stiege 8

Alfred Bulai a fost trimis în judecată, după investigația Snoop

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

Can't believe I'm saying this, but here is a serious warning against "Theory & Society" as a publication venue, which seems to be run by a right-wing board with an evolutionist agenda.

Paula Villa Braslavsky@paulita.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

Friends and colleagues in Vienna - a warm invitation to my talk next Wednesday at the Department of Development Studies: ie.univie.ac.at/aktuelles-un...

Book review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars. By Rita Maricocchi, PhD candidate at the University of Münster and Brian Quinn, PhD candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington. newfascismsyllabus.com/contribution...

Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism Syllabus

Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]

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Join us on March 17 for the screening of the documentary and a subsequent discussion on memory and decoloniality.

Yan Matusevich@ymatusik.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For anyone based in Vienna, the Dialogbüro is organizing a wonderful animation workshop with the incredibly talented Ukrainian animation director Polina Poddubni. Her latest film "My grandmother is a skydiver" premiered at Cannes last year. Sign up here: dialogbuero-vienna.at/tpost/animat...

see you there!

Looking forward to the conversation with like-minded colleagues and students of critical development in Vienna!

Franziska Müller - DECT 6097@squirrelista.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Come join us for the ie talks this summer term, as always Sensengasse 3, Vienna! @oefse.at @economicethics.bsky.social @degrowthvienna.bsky.social @vienna-van.bsky.social @etienneschneider.bsky.social @manuelaboatca.bsky.social @alinabrad.bsky.social @felixdorn.bsky.social

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

Not to be missed if you're in Berlin and work on anti-racism!

Madeline Potter@madelinepotter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you’re in Berlin on 20 March, come along to the launch of the German edition of my book, ‘The Roma’ eriac.org/book-present...