Great article! Recommend ⭐️ ‘Fanon’s Vietnam’ - a plea to acknowledge the broader origins of anti-colonial thought. By @juliango.bsky.social and @kdpham.bsky.social - brought to my attention by PhD researcher Dominique Ankoné! www-tandfonline-com.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

Brilliant analysis 👇

Lucas Poy@lucaspoy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nothing good has ever come from old people complaining about the youth :) lucaspoy.substack.com/p/the-ai-con...

My take on Claude’s unbearable, condescending tone lucaspoy.substack.com/p/claude-is-...

Claude is a snob and I often wish it had a face so I could punch it

Talking to Claude feels like a peculiar combination of speaking to the most annoying person at an academic conference and attending a workshop led by a coach your employer has hired to help everyone “...

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Following up on this, it would appear that there are hallucinated references in at least three publications by Dr Hadas Zahavi, Founding Director of Columbia University Global Center for Peace - including an article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications published by Nature...

Kim A. Wagner@kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interesting to see a reference in this article to Daniel Foliard 'Dislocations: The Photography of War in the Middle East' (London: Verso, 2023) - a book that sounds incredible but which doesn't actually exist. Wonder what else has been hallucinated...?

Interesting to see a reference in this article to Daniel Foliard 'Dislocations: The Photography of War in the Middle East' (London: Verso, 2023) - a book that sounds incredible but which doesn't actually exist. Wonder what else has been hallucinated...?

MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA@mmmjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

New Article: Peace in every shot: How Kodak changed the way we see war by Hadas Zahavi Read it here: cup.org/40QIkfG #Kodak #amateurphotography #visualmemory

Very careful, thought-provoking piece on AI and academic (historical) labour, from the coal-face @lucaspoy.bsky.social

Lucas Poy@lucaspoy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

It's so refreshing to read a book with a genuinely fresh and critical approach to the Vietnam War - strongly recommend Gina Marie Weaver's 'Ideologies of Forgetting - Rape in the Vietnam War', which hasn't received the attention it deserves. (h/t @susieprotschky.bsky.social)

"Indeed, his book is a brilliant - illuminating, in the words of Du Bois - guide for how to analyze photographs out of the margins of historical accounts as more than mere illustrations" Very generous review of my last book by @susieprotschky.bsky.social in American Historical Review🙏🏻

📢 NEW RESEARCH ARTICLE Susie Protschky and Melle van Maanen, ‘Trauma, Implication and the Politics of Victimhood in the Netherlands after War in Indonesia (1945–9)’, History, Memory and Conflict (2026) Open access - www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

‘I see many colleagues who use it sparingly and do not have a good understanding of the latest developments. And as a student, teacher and researcher, you need to be aware of those developments.’ Good article, this one www.folia.nl/en/opinie/17...

Han van der Maas | AI is the new smoking

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Brilliant article. This is why we need historical research - to set the record straight and speak truth to power. And challenge enduring narratives based on lies. #westpapua #dutchimperialism #nederlandsnieuwguinea #resourceextraction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Being Economical with the Truth: Dutch Public Claims and Hidden Agendas about Papuan Self-Determination and the Economic Exploitation of Netherlands New Guinea

In its public diplomacy between 1949 and 1962, the Netherlands consistently claimed that its presence in Netherlands New Guinea – also widely referred to at the time as West New Guinea (WNG) and to...

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Delighted to have talked about a new research topic of mine with Anne van Mourik at NIOD Amsterdam, for the terrific Rewind podcast

NIOD@niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#PODCAST | In the first episode of Season 7 @annevanmourik.bsky.social talks with @susieprotschky.bsky.social to explore the question of perpetrator trauma in the aftermath of the Dutch–Indonesian War. 🎧Listen to the podcast in your favourite podcast platform or here: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

‘… an IDIOCRACY, in which low-grade pleasures (such as the capacity to buy cheap goods, pay low or no taxes, carry guns into Starbucks, and maintain the right *not* to help each other) displace all other forms of FREEDOM …’ - Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

That new episode of The Diplomat with Keir Starmer in it was trite

Coming up online on 6 December -

extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...

“The law of the #ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe...our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.” Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com

Lucy Gaynor@lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · last yr.

"We did the work of the office of the prosecutor" #humanrights lawyers yesterday filed a 700-pg brief @ #ICC accusing 122 #EU leaders of crimes against humanity against #migrants in the Mediterranean Former #Dutch PM Mark #Rutte is joined by #Macron, #Orban, & others crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en

Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!

You can now watch the recording of my inaugural professorial lecture on You Tube - ‘A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Futures’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...

Susie Protschky - A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Future)

YouTube video by Susie Protschky

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Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"

Lovende woorden tijdens verdediging proefschrift Katja Paijens, live op de stream @unileiden.bsky.social, over Max Alkadrie. Volgens de opponenten een kasteelroman, een potentiele Netflixserie of een musical!

Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...

The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war

Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?

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One of my favourite parts of being an academic historian is reviewing an outstanding journal article at the cutting edge of research - and waiting with baited breath to find out who wrote it! 🔥 #lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch

No communist armies involved AT ALL 🤣

Kim A. Wagner@kimatiwagner.bsky.social · last yr.

What in the liberal exceptionalism is this?

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

The Colonial Way of War

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

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Great short piece by @csetijadi.bsky.social and Ken Setiawan. 🙀 theconversation.com/how-mps-aban...

How MPs’ ‘abandoned’ cats became the unexpected symbol of Indonesia’s protests

During the recent mass protests and political unrest in Indonesia, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: the MPs pet cats.

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Reading this classic for the first time. Reminded *once again* that I cannot be convinced #perpetratortrauma has any conceptual value aside from clinical, therapeutic purposes

I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.

The Wiener Holocaust Library@wienerlibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

"This is not a game. This is a real world, real suffering and real people that we want to and need to commemorate." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How do we decolonise archives? In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.

Project Naming

Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.

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‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇 press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... #indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography