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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius
@mideastineurope.bsky.social
Global+Colonial Historian btw London/Paris/Berlin & the Mid East. Writes on Photography, Memory, Heritage, Museums of 'Lost Objects' & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS

Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://100histories100worlds.org
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Join us for the Annual Lecture of the German Historical Institute London on 7 November at 5:30pm at the Deutsches Haus on 34 Belgrave Square, London! 📅

This year’s lecture will be held by Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.social), one of Germany’s leading modern historians.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Join us on Wednesday, 5 November, at 5.30pm at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a GHIL Joint Lecture by Ulrike Lindner (Universität zu Köln) organised in co-operation with the Modern History Research Seminar, @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social. 📅
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October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Join us on 11 November at 5:30pm at Pushkin House or via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'A Tale of Two Cities: Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!

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November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I signed this open letter from archaeologists, conservation experts, museum curators and other heritage professionals against cultural destruction in Gaza and the West Bank initiated by the incredibly important NGO @emekshavehheb.bsky.social. Please follow and support: emekshaveh.org/en/open-lett...
Open letter from archaeologists, conservation experts, museum curators and other heritage professionals against cultural destruction in Gaza and the West Bank
Download as a PDF In recent days we have learnt of the total destruction of a building housing the archaeological store-rooms of the École…
emekshaveh.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Reminded of this article again after finding an Italian colonial army payroll today, where ascari acknowledged receipt of payment with their fingerprint
October 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
200 years Museum Island in Berlin! 🎂 🎈💥💫
What has changed, or rather, what has to change in the age of repatriation?
Delighted to be part of new documentaries by ARTE @artefr.bsky.social
& Deutsche Welle @news.dw.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnoz...
Tune in on Sunday (ARTE) or use the links below.
September 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf
drive.google.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The road to fascism is paved by German media calling things umstritten...
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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@taz.de: „Am Samstag wird in Berlin-Mitte das neue Stra­ßen­schild in der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße fei­er­lich enthüllt. Damit enden die jah­re­lan­gen Kämpfe um die Um­be­nen­nung der M-Str. Die Ak­ti­vis­tin­nen Regina Römhild & Adela Taleb vom Amo Kol­lek­tiv blicken zurück.“

www.taz.de/!6105262
Umbenennung der Mohrenstraße: „Es betrifft uns alle, wie diese Straße heißt“
Am Samstag wird das neue Straßenschild in der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße enthüllt. Die Aktivistinnen Regina Römhild und Adela Taleb blicken zurück.
www.taz.de
August 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Public Events on Memory & Responsibility

🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg
🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja

Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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In case you've been wondering about the moral and intellectual crisis in Holocaust studies, here's exhibit A.

It also illustrates why we felt the need to found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: www.ghscn.org/home
The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide
How the war in Gaza is dividing scholars of Nazi Germany.
www.newyorker.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Dear colleagues and friends,

A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
August 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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L'Allemagne racontée à travers l'île aux Musées de #Berlin. Deux documentaires donnent la parole à des historien.ne.s comme @mideastineurope.bsky.social pour retracer l'histoire souvent tourmentée d'objets iconiques et d'une archéologie européenne aux racines impériales. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
L'île aux Musées, histoire d'une nation (1/2) - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, l'île aux Musées de Berlin fête son bicentenaire en 2025. À cette occasion, ce documentaire retrace en deux volets l’histoire d'un complexe muséal unique au ...
www.arte.tv
August 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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How did Sufis navigate the complex political landscape of late 19th-century Egypt under British occupation?
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July 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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#CfA Postgraduate Students and Postdoc #Scholarships

📍 for research projects in #Britain | up to three months beginning from January 2026 | awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 September 2025

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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🪧Applications invited from post-doctoral/early career scholars at German universities and research institutions, for a three-month #fellowship
🕔26 September 2025 (23:59 CET)
Details👇
karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/f...
@ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @icasmp.bsky.social
GHIL-MWF Delhi Joint Fellowship on "The British Empire and the History of Colonialism"
karriere.maxweberstiftung.de
July 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Historicide in Gaza
Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told
newlinesmag.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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What does it mean to connect to ‘Country’? Our Sydney Winter School ‘History in the Park. Connecting Histories of Relations to Land’ is coming to an end. A week of discussion on land dispossession (eg park heritagisation, military use or golf courses), from 🇦🇺& Rapa Nui, to South Africa & Palestine.
July 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
What does it mean to connect to ‘Country’? Our Sydney Winter School ‘History in the Park. Connecting Histories of Relations to Land’ is coming to an end. A week of discussion on land dispossession (eg park heritagisation, military use or golf courses), from 🇦🇺& Rapa Nui, to South Africa & Palestine.
July 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Why apply for the ICAS:MP Fellowship?
• Work in an interdisciplinary environment
• Monthly stipend up to €3,500
• Focused writing time
• Present your research to the ICAS academic circle & receive expert feedback
@ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @unierfurt.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de
June 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Join us on 24 June at 5:30pm for the next lecture in our GHIL lecture series given by Aparna Vaidik (Ashoka University) on 'Forensics, Expert Testimony, and Judicial Truth in British India: A History of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Trial (1929–31)'.
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June 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tomorrow if you fancy a late afternoon outing to Greenwich!
📢 June Event coming up at the PEF!

"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.

🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP

RSVP by emailing [email protected] ✍️
June 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Please join us this Thursday in London if you’re around!
📢 June Event coming up at the PEF!

"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.

🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP

RSVP by emailing [email protected] ✍️
June 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Vanished by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social is such an exceptional book. It traces the history of how Western scientists have understood #extinction, and the political and social implications of that thinking, including on colonial fantasies of replacing Indigenous peoples. I can't recommend it enough! 👏
June 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM