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It's been quite a journey! 🥂🍾

Shifting Sovereignties@shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 5d ago

We have been running this account for two years now to post research on sovereignty and promote our book. If you are following us and haven't done so yet, check out our book (which you can currently buy with a 40% discount): www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

My clear favourite. It's time to put people on the money and this is the most original design by far.

Casper Andersen and I are really excited that our special issue on history writing after independence has now been published. In the issue, we are looking at how institutional and epistemological factors impacted the process of history writing in the aftermath of independence. 🧵

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⚽️ football meets sovereignty — a little too on the nose... and yes, don't get me started on FIFA... May the better team win tonight... wait... did I say better? I meant Belgian... May the Belgian team win tonight 🇧🇪

My mom passed away a week ago after struggling with cancer for the last year. Over her life she has done many things and played many roles — including creating the architectural design of the wintergarten you can see in the top picture.

Not sure how I missed this news, but if Burnham is already doing another Starmer, he does deserve a serious Green challenge... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say

Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration

theguardian.com

Get the translated copy of Yongle Zhang's "Shifting Boundaries: A Global History of the Monroe Doctrine" and a copy of our book, to start your "Shifting..." book collection. www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

Where is reviewer 2 when you need them? I am genuinely baffled how this diatribe of "old man shouting at clouds" could be published in what I considered a reputable journal... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Corrosive Leftism; From Revolutionary Origins to the Assault on Culture, Education, and Middle East Studies

This paper traces the evolution of ideological Leftism. It proceeds with this political framework’s origins in the French Revolution and classical Marxist thought, then focuses particularly on the ...

tandfonline.com

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots

“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...

mcsweeneys.net

We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

Be kind to our colleagues. Be canny for our colleagues. Be outraged for our colleagues. Be vocal about our colleagues' plight, which is not of their making. Be there for our colleagues. Be an ally in whatever way we can. 3/3

Teaching in one science department is “now bare-bones, with our pro vice-chancellor using the term ‘minimum viable product’ as the goal”. A politics academic keeps “trying to be positive, but it is exhausting. I moved my whole family here for this job; the guilt is horrendous." 1/3

‘HE has given me a good career. But, my word, it’s in a terrible situation now’

The second part of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey examines the impact that the waves of layoffs have had on those left behind – and reveals a sector riven by rock-bottom mora...

timeshighereducation.com

Too accurate! I did in fact rescue a cat between steps 16-20 when working on @shiftingsovs.bsky.social 😅

Antara Datta@antaradatta.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Life stages of a historian- thread. 1. Oooh I wonder what the archives say about X. 2. Wanders down multiple rabbit holes. 3. Discards several ideas because people have already written about them. Why. But do I like their take on it? 4. Collects more material.

I'm a historian and my province is the past not the future but this is going to end badly

MarketWire 📡@marketwire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📰 #Finance "The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said."

I'm excited to have received my Postgrad Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Ed (PGCTLHE) from Cambridge today & by that to have become a Fellow of the Higher Ed Academy (FHEA). Graduating also meant, that I was finally allowed to take a photo with the @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social horse.

I don't think that's right...

Good morning and happy National Tea Day! 🫖 Has anyone got a more obscure teapot than us? #NationalTeaDay #TimeForTea

Saw a street vendor selling 'The Art of War' to drivers stuck in traffic in Kampala and it is faintly amazing that a book written by a Chinese general 2,500 years ago is still in demand.

See you on Monday!

Shifting Sovereignties@shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Shanghai at NYU Shanghai for what will possibly be the last Shifting Sovereignties booktalk for this academic year.

Yesterday I had the honour to give the inaugural lecture of a new public lecture series hosted by my university, Wenzhou-Kean University, called Liberal Arts by the Lake, named for the lake in the centre of our campus.

The last article of our special issue has now made it to First View. Check out Adrian Young's "Beachcomber at the Ends of Empire: H. E. Maude, Colonial Futurity, and the Origins of Professional Pacific History" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looks like the FRUS online documents are down... please tell me this is temporary!

🎉 It is always exciting to get another review.

Shifting Sovereignties@shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Many thanks to James Sheehan for his very generous review in Comparative Legal History ( @esclh.bsky.social ), where he writes: "They ... transcend the European experience on which most of the scholarly literature on sovereignty has been based."

Just beautiful elephants of the past, printed by (European) humans who likely have rarely seen an elephant before or were just bad printers. A short 🧵

Historian? No, you're being rebranded. You're now a 'Retrospective Content Creator'.

Many thanks @mihatsch.bsky.social for your fantastic lecture yesterday @humanitiesuu.bsky.social on your book @shiftingsovs.bsky.social! It was fascinating, thought-provoking and timely!

Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh@ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New year, new instalment of the Utrecht Lectures in Political History! On Thursday 19 February 2026, @mihatsch.bsky.social (Wenzhou-Kean University), author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social, will deliver the fifteenth Utrecht Lecture in Political History at @humanitiesuu.bsky.social!

Brace yourself: the civilisation sovereignty nexus is making a comeback.