Samuël Coghe
@samuelcoghe.bsky.social
Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine. PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.
1.747 extra doden tijdens hittegolf: "Dodelijkste van laatste 30 jaar" vrtnws.be/p.KK6oXxV0k @de-nva.bsky.social @vrtnws.be Wanneer krijgen we excuses van Theo Francken??!
1.747 extra doden tijdens hittegolf: "Dodelijkste van laatste 30 jaar" | VRT NWS Nieuws
Tijdens de hittegolf tussen 18 juni en 1 juli stierven er 1.747 mensen meer dan gemiddeld. Dat blijkt uit cijfers over de oversterfte die Sciensano vandaag vrijgeeft. Vooral in Wallonië stierven er op...
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Happy to announce that my article 'Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy' was published in OA in Geschichte & Gesellschaft! @ggjournal.bsky.social @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social You can read it here for free: doi.org/10.13109/geg...
Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy | Geschichte und Gesellschaft
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Geschichte und Gesellschaft@ggjournal.bsky.social · last mo.Im neuen #GG Heft setzen sich - neben dem Herausgeber Friedrich Lenger - Jürgen Osterhammel, Wolfgang Knöbl, Kaveh Yazdani, Samuël Coghe, Alexander Engel und unser Mitherausgeber Kiran Klaus Patel mit Immanuel Wallerstein und der Weltwirtschaft auseinander. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...
In #geschichteundgesellschaft schreiben Historiker:innen Geschichte(n) über soziale, politische, ökonomische und kulturelle Phänomene. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Darstellung und Analyse des gesellschaftlichen Wandels. Gibt es ein Thema, dem Sie einen Aufsatz - oder gar ein ganzes Heft - widmen möchten?
Je ne suis pas Charlie, je n'ai jamais été Charlie parce que Charlie est trop souvent cruel et écœurant. #Charlie #CharlieHebdo @charliehebdo.fr
🚀🚨🚀 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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When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
From 3 to 5 June 2026, the ERC Starting Grant Project CATTLEFRONTIERS organised the international workshop 'Cattle Commodifation in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire'.
We have a new blog post up on our website where team member Paulo Matos talks about some of his experiences conducting fieldwork in Angola earlier this year: cattlefrontiers.eu/paulo-matos-...
Paulo Matos - Snapshots from the Field
Paulo Matos - Snapshots from the Field
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My chapter ‘Livestock Commodities in a Globalizing World: Between Pastoralism and Capitalism’ has been published in Open Acces (doi.org/10.4324/9781...) in the fantastic Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism. All you ever wanted to know about why and how meat, milk and hides became global commodities.
Livestock commodities in a globalizing world | 9 | Between pastoralism
This chapter analyzes how, and with what consequences, livestock commodities became an increasingly important feature of the global economy, from the late 18th
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Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
If a single man has the power to bomb other countries without any mandate of Congress, cause a global economic crisis and commit war crimes as he sees fit, the US of A is, besides all other things, clearly a failed democracy.
It is hard to grasp that no institution in the US seems to be able or willing to prevent their president and his crusaders from committing blatant war crimes.
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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Sur Jacques Revel, grand passeur de la microstoria, qui vient de décéder www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
Mort de Jacques Revel, ancien président de l’EHESS et figure majeure de l’historiographie française
L’historien, qui a notamment travaillé sur la société d’Ancien Régime, a contribué à promouvoir la microhistoire, pour mieux approcher les réalités passées. Il s’est éteint jeudi 12 mars, à l’âge de 8...
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History repeating, the same procedure as in Gaza... This world now needs courageous politicians to stop these illegal wars. Yet historians have a long memory and will bring up the cruelties and war crimes for decades to come! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #WarCrimes #genocide
Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies
Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon
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The journal "Monde(s)" organised a debate around my book "Catholicism and the mkaing of politics" with Profs Elizabeth A. Foster, Samuël Coghe, Markku Hokkanen and myself. Here: shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes... #Mozambique #Africa #Catholic #History #Politics #Church #Diocese #Sociology
After Cees Noteboom earlier this year, another favourite author of mine has died. Reading António Lobo Antunes in Portuguese was a challenge. I remain grateful for his tragic-hilarious stories. RIP www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments
With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose
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Pete Hegseth "You lack the character, composure and competence to hold the position of Secretary of Defense." -Senator Jack Reed youtu.be/qhZ3lILyolM?...
"You lack the character, composure and competence to hold the position of Secretary of Defense."
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If European leaders want international law to survive, then they have to speak up and defend it, instead of remaining silent. How difficult can it be to condemn the illegal actions of states that don't respect us anyway? #SpeakUpEurope
The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.
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A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
The AfricaMuseum in Brussels rightly refuses to transfer mining archives on DRC's geology to Trump and his greedy imperialist techfriends. Back off! vrtnws.be/p.vLePpJvpm #greedyimperialists
AfricaMuseum weigert geologisch archief over Congo over te dragen aan Amerikaans mijnbedrijf, ondanks druk van Trump | VRT NWS: nieuws
Het AfricaMuseum in Tervuren weigert geologisch archiefmateriaal over Congo over te dragen aan een Amerikaans mijnbedrijf dat de gegevens wil gebruiken om waardevolle grondstoffen in kaart te brengen....
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Tomorrow, February 10, Samuël Coghe will be presenting at the Socialist Medicine Seminar at the Humboldt University of Berlin about 'The Ecological Limits of the Cattle Frontier: Anthrax and Transimperial Technopolitics in Colonial Madagascar, 1890s-1960". socialistmedicine.com/samuel-coghe...
Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
Sławomir Łotysz presents on the history of Polish medicine in the Korean War at Socialist Medicine Seminar.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Es gibt häufig nicht die eine Wahrheit. Aber es gibt eindeutige Lügen. Die klar zu benennen, wie @philippsarasin.bsky.social schreibt, sollte Aufgabe unserer Medien sein. Sonst ist alles egal.
Philipp Sarasin@philippsarasin.bsky.social · 6mo agoWarum zum Teufel schreibt der Spiegel (und analog andere Medien), die Videos von der Ermordung von Pretti „scheinen“ der „Darstellung“ von Trump und DHS „zu widersprechen“?! Sie *zeigen* absolut eindeutig, dass Pretti keine Waffe, sondern ein Phone in der Hand hielt. Was alle sehen…/2
