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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 17h

I can't believe I have been passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize again this year! I'd kill for one of those!

Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 21h

Gautam explores the activities of Suhasini Nambiar, the younger sister of Sarojini Naidu and Virendranath Chattopadhyaya as well as the first woman to join the Communist Party of India, in this wonderful article on women, espionage, and empire.

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 23h

"The Dekoloniale project involved the development of decolonial city tours, groundbreaking exhibitions, and powerful artistic interventions, all documented in this book."

I'm delighted to see this book has now come out.

www.falschrum.org/dekoloniale/

Dekoloniale Erinnerungskultur in der Stadt / Memory Culture in the City – Falschrum Books

www.falschrum.org

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for @mark-bray.bsky.social and his family to safely flee from death threats from American fascists. www.freefunder.com/campaign/hel...

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 1d

My good friend Gautam Pemmaraju has written an exciting article about "‘Entangled Agents’: Women, Espionage and Empire from 1920 to 1945" (open access) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2JHPH...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 2d

Tariq D. Khan talks about Red Scares and Americanism: how settler colonial violence shaped anti-left repression in the 19th and 20th century USA and the importance of pushing back on the white washing of history. Hear it now for $3+/month to our patreon!

www.patreon.com/posts/tariq-...

Tariq D. Khan on Red Scares and Americanism | The Final Straw Radio

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to talking about my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918" in the Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire on 7 May 2026 in Paris. Thanks to @johnerik-h.bsky.social for the invitation. sfbh.hypotheses.org

Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire | Actualités du séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire

sfbh.hypotheses.org

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to talking about my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918" in the Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire on 7 May 2026 in Paris. Thanks to @johnerik-h.bsky.social for the invitation. sfbh.hypotheses.org

Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire | Actualités du séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire

sfbh.hypotheses.org

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 3d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 7d

The Secret Desi History blog is a lovely collection of random snippets of South Asian American history from the curators of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour www.secretdesihistory.com

Secret Desi History – Snippets of South Asian American history

www.secretdesihistory.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 4d

David Graeber between anthropology and philosophy site.unibo.it/sivenatura/i...

David Graeber between anthropology and philosophy

International Conference

site.unibo.it

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

My old friend Lyn Innes' next book "Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain" looks splendid! www.lutterworth.com/product/fugi...

Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain - The Lutterworth Press

An insightful investigation of seven extraordinary lives, Fugitive Families is a fascinating portrait of the writers, speakers and activists who left the US under the Fugitive Slave Act and the Britis...

www.lutterworth.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

Having corresponded with Anirvan Chatterjee, I'm delighted to see that the story of M.P.T. Acharya's brief sojourn in San Francisco in 1914 is part of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. www.secretdesihistory.com/mpt-acharya-...

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

Having corresponded with Anirvan Chatterjee, I'm delighted to see that the story of M.P.T. Acharya's brief sojourn in San Francisco in 1914 is part of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. www.secretdesihistory.com/mpt-acharya-...

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

My old friend Lyn Innes' next book "Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain" looks splendid! www.lutterworth.com/product/fugi...

Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain - The Lutterworth Press

An insightful investigation of seven extraordinary lives, Fugitive Families is a fascinating portrait of the writers, speakers and activists who left the US under the Fugitive Slave Act and the Britis...

www.lutterworth.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 7d

The Secret Desi History blog is a lovely collection of random snippets of South Asian American history from the curators of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour www.secretdesihistory.com

Secret Desi History – Snippets of South Asian American history

www.secretdesihistory.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 7d

Open house at the local mosque

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know what happened to the Indian Revolutionaries Abroad Commemoration Committee, set up by Lanka Sundaram in the early 1950s, but it would be exciting to read the memoirs and contributions of veteran exiled revolutionaries.

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 7d

More images that didn't make it into my book. Group photos from India House in London circulated widely in British newspapers in the early twentieth century. These two are from 1907 (left) and 1908 (right).

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 8d

5th International Conference of Anarchist Geographers and Geographies, São Paulo 9-12 December 2025. 5cigga.wordpress.com

Internacional de Geógrafxs e Geografias Anarquistas

Departamento de Geografia, FFLCH, USP, 9-12 dezembro 2025

5cigga.wordpress.com

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 8d

This touches on a dynamic I have thought about for a long time.

Where the postcolonial Left meets the Hindu Right

Postcolonial theory, along with its younger cousin, decolonial theory, is providing fresh ammunition and pathways for the Hindu Right to seize on scholarly respectability for its views.

caravanmagazine.in

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 8d

Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism

www.history.ac.uk

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 8d

Mohammed A. Bamyeh, “The No-State Solution “

www.panarchy.org/palestine/no...

Mohammed A. Bamyeh, The No-State Solution: Histories and Realities (2025)

www.panarchy.org

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 9d

Another image that didn't make it into the book is this of Bhupendranath Dutt from when he arrived in Athens from New York in 1915. Instead, I have his fake passport in the name of "Balthazar Dutt".