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Sarah Bellows-Blakely

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Historian at Freie Universität Berlin | 📕 Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi (U of Chicago Press, 2025) | Global historian of science, gender, capitalism, the UN, and institutional processes of erasure

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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · Apr 14

My book is out! Official publication date is May 6th, but hard copies are already shipping. Thanks to Abosede George and Lynn Thomas for graciously writing blurbs for the back cover. The acknowledgments section is four pages long for a reason! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social · Apr 22

New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢

Project MUSE - Working-Class Internationalism through Children's Eyes: The International Experiences of Norwegian Young Pioneers in the Interwar Period

muse.jhu.edu

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 15d

Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 16d

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner

Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

www.the-berliner.com

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 16d

Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Nov 3: Romain Tiquet
(Centre Marc Bloch)
Thinking Through Cases: A Political and Social History of West Africa Through Psychiatric Records

Nov 17: Matt Fitzpatrick
(Flinders University)
The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment
of Chinese Labourers

Nov 24: Dora Vargha
(Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Communist M*A*S*H: The Making
of Socialist International in a North Korean Field Hospital

Dec 1: Denis Cogneau
(Paris School of Economics)
joint event with the Frankreich-Zentrum
Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism,
1830–1962

Dec 8: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd
(Stockholm University)
A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and
Social Norm
Jan 12: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Interna-tionalism in the 1930s

Jan 19: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam)
The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany,
1880 to the Present

Feb 3: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University)
A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Con-nected Yugoslavia to
the World

Feb 9: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 18d

A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.

Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 18d

Something I’ve been thinking about:

History as a profession has long relied on affiliation.

Your university or museum pays your salary, and in return, you give time to edit journals, peer review articles, write book reviews, consult on exhibits, and volunteer for institutional support. 1/

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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · Sep 1

Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.

Martin Hamre @hamremar.bsky.social · Sep 1

My monograph "Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s" has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social this summer!
If you are curious, please order the book here or ask your favorite library to purchase it for you

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · Aug 22

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History-Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2024

muse.jhu.edu

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:

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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 25

📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to:
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org
✳️Enquiries: [email protected] @genderandjustice.bsky.social

LEX Research Network – Law Gender & Sexuality

lexnetwork.org

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · Jul 8

We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community.

The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️

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Tori Cann @canndo.bsky.social · Jul 25

If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention

doi.org/10.1093/obo/...

Girlhood Studies

"Girlhood Studies" published on by null.

doi.org

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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you to the @berlinualliance.bsky.social for nominating me and to my colleagues at the @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social and the MA Global History Program at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for providing my research group with community and an intellectual home. Onward!

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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · Jul 25

There is currently backlash against gender studies in many parts of the world, which has gone hand-in-hand with political repression and violence. It is both timely and urgent to create spaces where scientific inquiry about gender and its intersecting dimensions can thrive.

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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited to have been named a finalist for the Women’s Impact Award from the Falling Walls Foundation, @elsfoundation.bsky.social, and @volkswagenstiftung.de. This award is meant to support researchers whose work advances gender equality and creates tangible societal impact.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Hast auch Du [...] die Erfahrung gemacht, dass der Austausch in einem Seminar, bei einer Konferenz [...] nicht gelungen ist?" - dann zur Veranstaltung "Geschichtswissenschaft - Raum für Dialog?!" anmelden am 12.9.2025 an der #UniBern:
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...

Veranstaltungen

Gender Campus ist die Plattform für Gender Studies, Equality und Diversity im Schweizer Hochschulraum. Die Redaktion informiert über Aktivitäten und Neuigkeiten zu diesen Themen und vernetzt Personen ...

www.gendercampus.ch

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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · Jul 16

Academics!

Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others).

Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026.

Happy to answer questions!

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Thinking Through the Legacy of James Ferguson

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb-brighton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Welcome to Bluesky, @sciam.bsky.social! 🦋

More of this, please . . .

Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary: Ova Don’t Make a Woman, and Sperm Don’t Make a Man, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, May 1, 2023.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/here... #lgbtq #queer #science #QueerInSTEM #pride 🌈🔬🏳️‍⚧️🧪

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · Jul 14

book length version from @princetonupress.bsky.social here: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Sex Is a Spectrum

Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male

press.princeton.edu

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · Jul 10

Go listen to my new series Science in Transition!! It's a history of the current anti-trans backlash and the first two episodes are out!!

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jul 11

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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RCN History of Nursing Forum @rcnhistory.bsky.social · Jul 9

An interesting programme at WHN conference this year -especially as RCN's Teresa Doherty, Joint Head, Library and Archive Service, is giving a keynote on day 2 #histnursing

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · Jul 7

This week on the podcast, @bellowsblakely.bsky.social -Blakely tells us about her new book, Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi and how UNICEF helped shape decades of international policy (and not for the better).

Listen now: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/inf... (1/2)

Dr Sarah Bellows-Blakeley on issues around international approaches to girls' education by Infinite Women

Dr. Sarah Bellows-Blakely, a Junior Research Group Leader in the History of Science at the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies at Free University Berlin, tells us about her new book, Gir...

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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · Jul 7

Join us today for the book launch of Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi. Hosted by @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social and Global History program at FU Berlin. 4 pm, Fabeckstr. 23, Room 2.2059. Book talk, comment from Prof. Abosede George, catered reception. See many of you there!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jun 29

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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