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Manuela Boatcă
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Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Jul 17
Our book now has a website! As it was getting hard to keep track of materials around "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social, we put them all in one place. Many thanks to Louise Link @uni-freiburg.de! We hope the overview is helpful & a possible teaching resource. creolizingthemodern.com
Creolizing the Modern Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu & Manuela Boatcă
Presenting the award-winning book
creolizingthemodern.com

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 7h
Well put...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 7h
I wrote almost exactly the same words as you 15 minutes ago on Facebook www.facebook.com/manuela.boat...
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Incredibly disappointed and angry (but not terribly surprised)... Dozens of prominent professors, among them a few of my colleagues whose work I value, have signed a letter to the presidium of the...
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 7h
Wenn ihr der Meinung seid, dass der Schutz der Opfer Vorrang hat und ihr noch nicht unterschrieben habt: Die Petition der Studierenden ist weiterhin offen. Gegenwärtig ca. 3500 Unterschriften www.change.org/p/wieder-ein...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 7h
Ein Update hier: Dutzende prominente Professor*innen sprechen sich in einem Brief an das Präsidium der HU Berlin FÜR den wegen des Vorwurfs sexueller Übergriffe angeklagten Geschichts-Professor aus und gegen Notwendigkeit, Studierende zu schützen! #meetoohistory
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 11h
2023 begann man in über sexuellen Mißbrauch in der Geschichtswissenschaft zu diskutieren. #metoohistory veränderte den Diskurs. Andreas Kohring musste gehen. Ein weiterer Prof der HU muss sich vor Gericht verantworten, die Uni stellte ihn außer Dienst.
ABER:
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Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities
Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – German sexual harasser defended by peers, Italian cheater defended by former mentor, Daddy’s darling wins in court, antivaxxer loses in court, retractions …
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you for the invitation and the generous introduction! It was a great discussion indeed!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 10d
Many thanks for the invitation and lovely to reconnect, dear Ivan!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17d
Next Monday at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, thanks to Ivan Kalmar's kind invitation! Join us if you're around!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 25d
She certainly does!

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klaus radke @kradke.bsky.social · 26d
Sämtliche Titelbilder, Artikel und Ausgaben aus der 100-jährigen Geschichte des ‚New Yorker‘ können nun online angesehen werden. Stöbern lohnt sich. Das Magazin schätze ich sehr, es gehört zu den angelsächsischen Publikationen, die ich regelmäßig mit Gewinn lese.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Dec 19
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · Dec 19
It's out!🍾
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.

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

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Dec 18
Very many thanks for your generous and careful reading, dear Aleks, always a treat to be in dialogue with you! 🤗

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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · Dec 18
It's been inspiring to engage with Anca Parvulescu's & @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's book 'Creolising the Modern': rather than doing a traditional review, I decided to extract the lessons the book offers to (still quite West-centric) scholarship on race & racism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe - Aleksandra Lewicki, 2025
In this book review, Aleksandra Lewicki engages with Anca Parvulescu’s and Manuela Boatcā’s ‘Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires’ to extract key ...
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Comrade Golem 🕎🇵🇸🌹 @redpleb.bsky.social · Dec 17
Vivek Chibber is the worst part of Jacobin and its not even close weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…
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Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social · Dec 17
My book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalepress.bsky.social) has been out for 6 months! I’m thrilled that in 2026, it will be available as an audiobook (March) and a paperback (July)!
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I Have Avenged America
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule  ...
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Dec 9
Oh my God, this is terrible! I am
so sorry! There are so many prominent academics right now about whose sexual abuse and worse many people know. Some of them are under investigation. And still they publish, teach, advise students, and walk free 🤬 It makes me SO mad!! Solidarity 🤲🏼

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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · Dec 9
"Nearly half (43%) of the journalists slain in the past 12 months were killed in Gaza by Israeli armed forces"

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2025, a deadly year for journalists: this is where hate and impunity lead
Journalists do not just die – they are killed. The number of murdered journalists has risen again, due to the criminal practices of military groups — both regular and paramilitary — and organised crim...
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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Dec 9
Spricht ja noch weniger für die Redaktion, als wenn sie es gar nicht gemerkt hätten, wie es richtig ist!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Dec 5
A new review symposium of our "Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires" in International Sociology @isa-sociology.org is online on the last day of our publisher's winter sale! If that isn't a sign that you should buy the book! 😇 tinyurl.com/2s4zf57v

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Dec 2
Thank you!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Dec 2
Thrilled that I'll be spending February and March at the @iwm.at in Vienna working on part II of Creolizing the Modern, this time focused on the political economy and literary discourses on racialized enslavement in interimperial Moldavias!
www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Nov 30
Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Nov 29
This is for my Ukrainian friends who might be interested in this reading group. Very many thanks, dear Oksana, I hope you have a good discussion and will make some of the insights known in some form afterwards.
oksanadudko.bsky.social Oksana Dudko @oksanadudko.bsky.social · Nov 28
really looking forward to discussing "Creolizing the Modern" by @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and Anca Parvulescu at our Ukrainian Reading Group in December.

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