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Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 1h

Three days to go: Scholarships for postdoctoral research on European History at the IEG Mainz, deadline 15 Oct 2025

Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 2d

Das Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz bietet Stipendien für Postdocs im Umfang von 6 bis 12 Monaten. Deadline für Bewerbungen 15.10.2025

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/1...

IEG Stipendien für Postdocs (m/w/d)

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de

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Gábor Egry @gegry.bsky.social · 2d

Fresh from the press! Check out the whole volume "Habsburg Natures : Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918" eds. Jawad Daheur, Iva Lučić
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.29...

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 3d

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic

Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

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mappingmuc.bsky.social @mappingmuc.bsky.social · 6d

Das neue Buch von @he-mel.bsky.social ist vor wenigen Tagen beim @unrastverlag.bsky.social erschienen:

"Der lange Schatten des deutschen Kolonialismus
Verdrängung, Verleugnung, Umdeutung"

unrast-verlag.de/produkt/der-...

Auf der Titelseite des Buches ist ein weißer Mann mit "Tropenhelm" zu sehen. Er sitzt in einer Art Hängematte, die von zwei Schwarzen Personen getragen wird. Weitere Schwarze Personen blicken in Richtung Kamera.

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Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 2d

Das Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz bietet Stipendien für Postdocs im Umfang von 6 bis 12 Monaten. Deadline für Bewerbungen 15.10.2025

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/1...

IEG Stipendien für Postdocs (m/w/d)

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de

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Andreas Frings @geschichtsadmin.bsky.social · 2d

Es ist sehr schön in Mainz. Und man kann hier - ich spreche aus Erfahrung - fantastisch historisch forschen (und wer mag auch: lehren).

Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 2d

Das Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz bietet Stipendien für Postdocs im Umfang von 6 bis 12 Monaten. Deadline für Bewerbungen 15.10.2025

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/1...

IEG Stipendien für Postdocs (m/w/d)

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de

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Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 2d

Das Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz bietet Stipendien für Postdocs im Umfang von 6 bis 12 Monaten. Deadline für Bewerbungen 15.10.2025

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/1...

IEG Stipendien für Postdocs (m/w/d)

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de

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Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the term card for the Northeast Africa Forum in Oxford, a research seminar focused on the broader East Africa region. We meet on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and most sessions are also held in hybrid format. @jasonmosley.bsky.social @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 10d

The example of Boehringer demonstrates that even Germany's leading industries that appeared to be focused on Europe, such as the pharmaceutical industry, were embedded in global commodity chains that where shaped by colonial and postcolonial structures.

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 10d

In the 20th century, the company also operated its own plantations, for example in the Dutch East Indies, but above all in the Belgian Congo, where the company continued to produce raw materials even after the colony gained independence.

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 10d

Boehringer was one of the largest producers of quinine, which was widely used as an anti-malarial drug. Given its central role, Boehringer maintained close connections to the regions where the raw material, cinchona bark, originated: South America and Southeast Asia.

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 10d

What has been left out of this story is that most pharmaceuticals that were produced until the mid 20th century were not solely synthesized, but were based on natural ressources - many of which came from the Global South.

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 10d

Our key argument is, that the story of one of Germany's key industries from 1870-1950, the pharmaceutical industry, has been written as eurocentric story of scientific progress.

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 10d

Let me briefly summarize this article by Tristan Oestermann ( @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ) and me:

In this article we're tracing the global entanglements of German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Mannheim, one of the largest producers of quinine in the 19th and 20th century.

Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 10d

Sehr erfreut, dass unsere Forschung zu den kolonialen Verflechtungen Boehringer Mannheims nun von der Historischen Zeitschrift publiziert wurde. Schönerweise auch gleich open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Pharmazeutische Industrie und Kolonialismus. Globale Verflechtungen einer deutschen Leitindustrie am Beispiel von Boehringer Mannheim, 1859–1997
Von: Tristan Oestermann und Kim Sebastian Todzi

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Johanna Romberg @johromberg.bsky.social · 3d

Wie hat sich die Industrialisierung der #Landwirtschaft auf die heimische Pflanzenvielfalt ausgewirkt? Eine Schweizer Studie vergleicht aktuelle Daten mit historischen Kartierungen. Die Ergebnisse sind erschreckend - und zeigen zugleich, dass #Biodiversität durch #Naturschutz wieder aufleben kann.

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · Mar 7

Check out this very cool new book by Patrick Hege : "Dividing Dar. Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920" , this is volume 10 of our 'Africa in Global History' series with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for which @rabeari.bsky.social is doing an amazing work

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

So this is out now:

"Intro: Camp Memories in Africa and beyond"

my intro to a special issue on #memorystudies and the contested memorialization of #camps in #africa and beyond

@histodons
#histodons […]

[Original post on h-net.social]

screenshot of the beginning of the mentioned article. Text: Introduction: Camp memories
in Africa and beyond
Jochen Lingelbach
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Abstract
Introducing the special issue on the memorialization of camps in Africa and beyond, this text discusses key
questions of memory studies and the global history of encampment. Whatever their purpose, all camps
are meant to be exceptional, transitory and temporary. Camps are often connected to contested histories
and memorialization efforts by former inmates or others can lead to controversies and struggles over its
interpretation. Building on a range of empirical examples from Africa and beyond, dealing with camps ranging
from the most coercive to the benevolent and from the beginning of the twentieth century until today, this
special issue invites a comparative, globally entangled and actor-centred view on camp memorialization.

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 11d

Memories of German colonialism in Tanzania: Gratulation an Tanzania Network für tollen „Decolonial Travel Guide“ mit vielen Autor*innen aus TZ, zB @mariamgichan.bsky.social

Auf Deutsch, Kisuaheli, English

cc: @diplo.de @geronafrica.bsky.social

Free access: decolonial-travel-guide-tanzania.com

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Mariam Gichan @mariamgichan.bsky.social · 6d

I was delighted to co-host the workshop “What do we (not) know about
German colonialism in Tanzania?” together with @seitzramona.bsky.social at the #bfuturefestival

The discussions reflected how important it is to continue uncovering & rethinking shared colonial histories.

#pamojart

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Franziska Fay @franzifa.bsky.social · 4d

1 Postdoc position OPEN in our newly funded Research Training Group *Technologies of Witnessing* at @unimainz.bsky.social . Deadline: 17. October. *please share widely*

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50726

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Franziska Fay @franzifa.bsky.social · 4d

10 PhD positions OPEN in our newly funded Research Training Group *Technologies of Witnessing* at @unimainz.bsky.social . Deadline: 17. October. *please share widely*

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 4d

Love following @bionomia.net & today is my lucky day! I've been working on Drège for several years now - he's a super interesting commercial collector who only left scant archival traces that I've been slowly piecing together 🌿 #nathist #envhist #envhum

Bionomia @bionomia.net · 4d

Johann Franz Drège https://bionomia.net/Q6215799 collected the holotype PLANTAGINACEAE: Plantago cafra Decne. in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/439202719 #TypeSpecimenToday

Image of the holotype PLANTAGINACEAE: Plantago cafra Decne.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke @rabeari.bsky.social · 4d

Super excited and proud to announce the start of the De Gruyter Brill/GSA Dissertation Prize!!

thegsa.org/prizes/de-gr...

Cannot WAIT to check out everything people have worked on - please spread the word and/or submit, prize is a 1000EUR and a free OA publication :)

@thegsa.bsky.social

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 8d

PULITZER CENTER: Tanzania’s Maasai People Facing Government Pressure To Leave pulitzercenter.org/stories/tanz...? @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @news.dw.com‬ #photojournalism #journalism #documentary

Tanzania’s Maasai People Facing Government Pressure To Leave

Tanzanian authorities have pushed Maasai relocations since 2022, sparking condemnation from rights groups. With elections nearing, will pressure shift or deepen? The Maasai, an ethnic group indigenous...

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