Very excited about our summer school, and about Prof Hsu & @sulinlewis.bsky.social Prof Lewis's joining us on the teaching team of the summer school! Apply before 3 May 2026.

Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One month to go before registrations close. Excited to announce the latest addition to the programme: Prof Madeline Y. Hsu (University of Maryland, College Park) and Prof Su Lin Lewis (Bristol) will join the teaching team for the Hong Kong History Summer School! www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

Conference time! From protest routes to print networks, from imperial capitals to port cities, urban spaces were not just backdrops but engines of anticolonial struggle. Join us for the "Cities and Decolonization" conference in Oxford this week. More: citiesanddecolonization.com

Thank you @aselmeyer.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to being an urban historian again :-)

Norman Aselmeyer@aselmeyer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨Thursday highlight 🚨 Keynote by the great @sulinlewis.bsky.social on “The Other Side of Power: Anti-Colonialism, Authoritarianism, and the Left in the Decolonising City.” Abstract: citiesanddecolonization.com/abstracts/

We have a zine! Over the past year, I've been working w/ Pusat Sejarah Rakyat and the International Institute of Social History to bring together organisations around Southeast Asia working on archiving and disseminating "people's histories" and the histories of social movements in the region. 1/4

Happening in just over two weeks!

Journal of Global History (JGH)@globalhistjnl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History! JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger. In person and online. Find out more and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...

📣 CFP for a workshop I’m co-convening with UGM as part of the DEVHIST project in Yogya on 8-10 September 2026. Travel support is available for Indonesian and intl speakers. Please share!!

We have organised a series of exciting events throughout March for our Rethinking Internationalism project, including an in-person conference at Birkbeck on 19th-20th. For more details and information on tickets, see our website: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...

March 'Rethinking Internationalism' Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism

Join us for a series of events throughout March 2026 to conclude our 'Rethinking Internationalism' grant project, including an in-person conference hosted at Birkbeck, a public lecture, and a publishi...

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So excited for this @carriegibson.bsky.social ! Listening to this year's Reith Lectures on Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement 🙄 and thinking how much we need this!!!

Carrie Gibson@carriegibson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In the run-up to the publication of my new book, The Great Resistance, on 6 Jan 2026 (link in bio), I’ll have a daily post featuring photos from two decades of research trips, along with a snippet from each of the book’s 35 chapters. Today: Barbados 💙📚#booksky #thegreatresistance #history

In the run-up to the publication of my new book, The Great Resistance, on 6 Jan 2026 (link in bio), I’ll have a daily post featuring photos from two decades of research trips, along with a snippet from each of the book’s 35 chapters. Today: Barbados 💙📚#booksky #thegreatresistance #history

‘Since January 2025, I have collaborated with Imagined Malaysia, a Malaysia-based NGO, and started a public history campaign titled ‘Malaysia Unbound: Transregional Histories through Documents’…

This was a compelling biography of man at the helm of the UN in the turbulent 60s. Here I tried (in 750 words!) to give more context on the #afroasian world, its engagement with the UN, and Burma's decolonisation. Read it just for U Thant and Kruschev bobbing along together in the Black Sea.

Arts Matter Bristol@uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

'He exuded a sense of Buddhist calm and tolerance, yet was at home among the international elite.' Prof @sulinlewis.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reviews a 'riveting new biography' of U Thant, former Secretary-General of the UN, in a new piece for The TLS www.the-tls.com/history/twen...

So in order for a Swedish grandmother to receive her pension, a child in #Myanmar will have to get killed by the junta, did I understand this correctly? "Swedish pension funds had invested $485 million in companies selling arms to or doing business with Myanmar's military rulers"

Fair Finance International@fairfinanceint.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Swedish Pension Funds Criticised Over Myanmar Junta Links www.barrons.com/news/swedish...

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

New Methods for New Histories (Online)

Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

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We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history. Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

@sulinlewis.bsky.social reposted her 2016 essay in Afro-Asian Visions to mark the 70th anniversary of #BandungConference (18 April 2025): tinyurl.com/2t2dkuej. Her final paragraph on reframing the present & future remains inspiring & worthwhile. (1/3) #connectingimaginaries #transregionalstudies

Su Lin Lewis@sulinlewis.bsky.social · last yr.

We had a really fun blog for a while about all things #afroasia with wonderful contributions, but to mark the 70th anniversary of the #Bandung conference here's my first post: medium.com/afro-asian-v... 1/2

We had a really fun blog for a while about all things #afroasia with wonderful contributions, but to mark the 70th anniversary of the #Bandung conference here's my first post: medium.com/afro-asian-v... 1/2

The Afro-Asian Moment

Before I became a professional historian, I was lucky enough to visit Bandung — a cool, green city in the hills of Java, and a welcome…

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Yesterday’s #esshc2025 panel was such a joy. Talking about anticolonial mobilisation with the global history gang @riakapoor.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social and @emleake.bsky.social. Thanks to Anne-Isabell Richard for chairing and the audience for great engagement. Feeling inspired!

The March issue includes the AHR’s first playlist. Jason Gibbs, a leading expert on late 20th Vietnamese popular music, has created a playlist of 12 songs that introduce listeners to Vietnamese soundscapes of the wartime era. 🗃️

Soundscapes of the Vietnam War

As part of a forum on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Jason Gibbs to create a playlist of songs from both North and South Vietnam.

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Very important article by Nyi Nyi Kyaw on the shrinking opportunities for young people in #myanmar with forced conscription of both men and women into the military & cancellation of USAID scholarships to study at Asian universities theconversation.com/myanmars-mil...

Myanmar’s military rule is crippling hope for young people like never before

Over the past year, Myanmar’s military junta has been enforcing mandatory conscription, targeting men and women of working age.

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Later in March we've publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle', by Rachel E. Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB Rachel's is the latest book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series: available free #OpenAccess and p/back print on Thursday 20th #Skystorians

Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... Come join us! Please share widely!

MA Black Humanities | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!

Su Lin Lewis@sulinlewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!

Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!

Su Lin Lewis@sulinlewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...

Obviously I can't read a calendar 😊 the launch is next TUESDAY, Feb 11.

Su Lin Lewis@sulinlewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...

If you haven't read it, I'd strongly recommend Amy Kaplan's book OUR AMERICAN ISRAEL on the development of the special relationship between Israel and the U.S. since 1948 - Amy was a fearless and brilliant scholar, and this book is necessary reading right now

Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...

Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World

In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a ne…

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Jessica Reinisch@jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 2y ago

2. 11 February, 2-4pm: book launch & discussion panel for @sulinlewis.bsky.social's Socialism, Internationalism and Development in the Third World - with @riakapoor.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, Leslie James (QMUL) and @jamesamark.bsky.social (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 209)

The "anniversary" of the coup always brings alot of attention to the situation in Myanmar which is good but alot of people / media / countries who pop up don't really comment the rest of the year. More sustained attention & support is needed. Tis the reasons I built the #whatshappeninginmyanar feed