Matt Fitzpatrick
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
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Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Good luck to everyone who applies! Great opportunities in a great institution.
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Two Research Fellow Positions in Modern and Contemporary History – GHI Washington
www.ghi-dc.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Good luck to everyone who applies! Great opportunities in a great institution.
www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...
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Yeah, I've felt this. At least I look haggard enough now for people to have stopped calling me 'the young Australian historian...'
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yeah, I've felt this. At least I look haggard enough now for people to have stopped calling me 'the young Australian historian...'
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Quite the quote on #COP30, by Professor Michael Jacobs of the think tank ODI Global and the University of Sheffield. Source: ‚Backchannel‘
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Quite the quote on #COP30, by Professor Michael Jacobs of the think tank ODI Global and the University of Sheffield. Source: ‚Backchannel‘
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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How can European history be integrated into global history? This is the question at the heart of „Globalizing Europe“ edited by @davidmotadel.bsky.social. Here is my review.
Rez: D. Motadel (Hrsg.): Globalizing Europe
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-152277
D. Motadel (Hrsg.): Globalizing Europe
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-152277
D. Motadel (Hrsg.): Globalizing Europe
www.hsozkult.de
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
How can European history be integrated into global history? This is the question at the heart of „Globalizing Europe“ edited by @davidmotadel.bsky.social. Here is my review.
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Dekolonial Erinnern in Deutschland: Neues Heft von Geo-Epoche „Die deutschen Kolonien“, parallel zum Dezember-Heft von GEO mit Interview zum deutschen Kolonialismus. Mit DVD Film „Das leere Grab“.
@sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @goldmatt.bsky.social
@sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @goldmatt.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Dekolonial Erinnern in Deutschland: Neues Heft von Geo-Epoche „Die deutschen Kolonien“, parallel zum Dezember-Heft von GEO mit Interview zum deutschen Kolonialismus. Mit DVD Film „Das leere Grab“.
@sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @goldmatt.bsky.social
@sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @goldmatt.bsky.social
In the archives some days not much emerges. But sometimes an entire journal article falls into place with about an hour's reading. Today was the latter. 🤓
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In the archives some days not much emerges. But sometimes an entire journal article falls into place with about an hour's reading. Today was the latter. 🤓
Thanks for introducing me! What a great group too! And there's never too much Bodie 😉
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thanks for introducing me! What a great group too! And there's never too much Bodie 😉
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“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
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Imagine coming to a country after fleeing war, miserable and impoverished, possibly traumatised. All you have is some family jewellery, maybe your dead mother's necklace. And then they take it away. Cruelty beyond belief. What is the UK doing?!?!
Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Imagine coming to a country after fleeing war, miserable and impoverished, possibly traumatised. All you have is some family jewellery, maybe your dead mother's necklace. And then they take it away. Cruelty beyond belief. What is the UK doing?!?!
I'm giving a talk on Monday in Berlin for those around.
**** Global History Colloquium: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) on "The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers" *** share.google/s7sxXYD6xJmm...
**** Global History Colloquium: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) on "The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers" *** share.google/s7sxXYD6xJmm...
Global History Colloquium: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) on
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November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm giving a talk on Monday in Berlin for those around.
**** Global History Colloquium: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) on "The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers" *** share.google/s7sxXYD6xJmm...
**** Global History Colloquium: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) on "The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers" *** share.google/s7sxXYD6xJmm...
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Why low-flying German military planes are in New Zealand skies:
“The joint exercise- Tūhono Rangi - involves German military aircraft doing formation and low-altitude flights and deploying parachutists and cargo around the country.”
“The joint exercise- Tūhono Rangi - involves German military aircraft doing formation and low-altitude flights and deploying parachutists and cargo around the country.”
Why low-flying German military planes are in New Zealand skies
If you looked up in certain parts of the country this week, you may have seen planes you didn't recognise.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Why low-flying German military planes are in New Zealand skies:
“The joint exercise- Tūhono Rangi - involves German military aircraft doing formation and low-altitude flights and deploying parachutists and cargo around the country.”
“The joint exercise- Tūhono Rangi - involves German military aircraft doing formation and low-altitude flights and deploying parachutists and cargo around the country.”
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Mein Kommentar zum Kolonialismus-Rollback von Wolfram Weimer
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/deut...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/deut...
Deutschland war in der Erinnerungskultur schon mal weiter
Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer streicht das Geld zusammen, das die Erinnerung an deutsche Kolonialverbrechen ermöglichen soll. Was für ein Fehler
www.sueddeutsche.de
September 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Mein Kommentar zum Kolonialismus-Rollback von Wolfram Weimer
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/deut...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/deut...
I was just sounding off about psychohistory the other day, and here we are. Remember that terrible book "The Psychopathic God"? It's back, only stupider.
We do not need yet more post facto diagnoses of Adolf Hitler. Such things have been happening since the 1940s and historians — real ones, not the ones who write Father’s Day pulp — put no stock in them, because as explanatory devices they tell us, in the technical jargon of my discipline, fuck all.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I was just sounding off about psychohistory the other day, and here we are. Remember that terrible book "The Psychopathic God"? It's back, only stupider.
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Was für eine Schande für Europa. Die kürzlich erst beschlossene Lieferkettenrichtlinie sollte Konzerne zur Verantwortung ziehen für Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Umweltschäden im Ausland. Um die Regeln zu verwässern, wie Friedrich Merz es gefordert hatte, stimmen Konservative mit Rechtsextremen.
Europa-Parlament: Konservative kooperieren mit extremen Rechten: Die europäischen Konservativen brechen ein Tabu. Im Europaparlament lassen sie es auf eine Mehrheit mit Rechtsextremen ankommen, um das Lieferkettengesetz zu lockern. Die Schuld geben sie den Sozialdemokraten.
Europa-Parlament: Konservative kooperieren mit extremen Rechten
Die europäischen Konservativen brechen ein Tabu. Im Europaparlament lassen sie es auf eine Mehrheit mit Rechtsextremen ankommen, um das Lieferkettengesetz zu lockern. Die Schuld geben sie den Sozialdemokraten.
www.spiegel.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Was für eine Schande für Europa. Die kürzlich erst beschlossene Lieferkettenrichtlinie sollte Konzerne zur Verantwortung ziehen für Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Umweltschäden im Ausland. Um die Regeln zu verwässern, wie Friedrich Merz es gefordert hatte, stimmen Konservative mit Rechtsextremen.
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Kolonien hießen "Deutsch Südwestafrika" und "Deutsch Ostafrika", und die "Hottentottenwahl" war zum Reichstag. Eine offizielle Forderung der "Heim ins Reich" Ideologie war betitelt mit "Auch hier liegt deutsches Land". Vielleicht sollte der Kulturstaatsminister deutsche Geschichte besser kennen?
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Kolonien hießen "Deutsch Südwestafrika" und "Deutsch Ostafrika", und die "Hottentottenwahl" war zum Reichstag. Eine offizielle Forderung der "Heim ins Reich" Ideologie war betitelt mit "Auch hier liegt deutsches Land". Vielleicht sollte der Kulturstaatsminister deutsche Geschichte besser kennen?
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Wie sich die Deutsche Erinnerungspolitik selbst "dekolonisiert" @jhaentzschel.bsky.social in der SZ (Abo oder Onleihe) www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...
Weimers Erinnerungspolitik: Kolonialismus kommt nicht vor
Im neuen Gedenkstättenkonzept von Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer kommt der Kolonialismus nicht vor.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Wie sich die Deutsche Erinnerungspolitik selbst "dekolonisiert" @jhaentzschel.bsky.social in der SZ (Abo oder Onleihe) www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...
They often weirdly hide page numbers...
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
They often weirdly hide page numbers...
So it seems!
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
So it seems!
NOT AI at my end! But now the bar gets higher - will have to cross reference e-text version author details with hard copy versions, if they're unreliable.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
NOT AI at my end! But now the bar gets higher - will have to cross reference e-text version author details with hard copy versions, if they're unreliable.
Hmm, that's not right!
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Hmm, that's not right!
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Looking forward to having you with us tonight!
For anyone interested in joining Matt's talk via WebEx, just send a quick email ([email protected]) or DM to me, and I'll forward the link. We'll start at 12:15pm EST/ 3:45am ACDT (sorry Australia).
For anyone interested in joining Matt's talk via WebEx, just send a quick email ([email protected]) or DM to me, and I'll forward the link. We'll start at 12:15pm EST/ 3:45am ACDT (sorry Australia).
If you happen to be in Erfurt tomorrow, I will be there too, speaking at the university about the Germans in Siam before WWI.
And if you're in Berlin, I'll be at the FU discussing the fate of Chinese contract labourers in German Samoa.
And if you're in Berlin, I'll be at the FU discussing the fate of Chinese contract labourers in German Samoa.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Looking forward to having you with us tonight!
For anyone interested in joining Matt's talk via WebEx, just send a quick email ([email protected]) or DM to me, and I'll forward the link. We'll start at 12:15pm EST/ 3:45am ACDT (sorry Australia).
For anyone interested in joining Matt's talk via WebEx, just send a quick email ([email protected]) or DM to me, and I'll forward the link. We'll start at 12:15pm EST/ 3:45am ACDT (sorry Australia).
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More evidence for the coming reckoning on the Gaza genocide
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
More evidence for the coming reckoning on the Gaza genocide