Susie Protschky
@susieprotschky.bsky.social
Professor of Global Political History
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏
Photography | Visual Culture
War | Gender | Environment
www.susieprotschky.com
https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏
Photography | Visual Culture
War | Gender | Environment
www.susieprotschky.com
https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
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Susie Protschky - A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Future)
YouTube video by Susie Protschky
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You can now watch the recording of my inaugural professorial lecture on You Tube - ‘A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Futures’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...
Coming up online on 6 December -
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Coming up online on 6 December -
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extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social
research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...
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“The law of the #ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe...our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.”
Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com
Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com
"We did the work of the office of the prosecutor"
#humanrights lawyers yesterday filed a 700-pg brief @ #ICC accusing 122 #EU leaders of crimes against humanity against #migrants in the Mediterranean
Former #Dutch PM Mark #Rutte is joined by #Macron, #Orban, & others
crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en
#humanrights lawyers yesterday filed a 700-pg brief @ #ICC accusing 122 #EU leaders of crimes against humanity against #migrants in the Mediterranean
Former #Dutch PM Mark #Rutte is joined by #Macron, #Orban, & others
crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en
EU Crimes Against Humanity
Exposing Crimes Against Humanity of EU Officials
crimesagainsthumanity.eu
October 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
“The law of the #ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe...our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.”
Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com
Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com
Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!
October 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!
You can now watch the recording of my inaugural professorial lecture on You Tube - ‘A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Futures’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...
Susie Protschky - A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Future)
YouTube video by Susie Protschky
m.youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
You can now watch the recording of my inaugural professorial lecture on You Tube - ‘A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Futures’
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...
Reposted by Susie Protschky
Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"
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Lovende woorden tijdens verdediging proefschrift Katja Paijens, live op de stream @unileiden.bsky.social, over Max Alkadrie. Volgens de opponenten een kasteelroman, een potentiele Netflixserie of een musical!
October 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Lovende woorden tijdens verdediging proefschrift Katja Paijens, live op de stream @unileiden.bsky.social, over Max Alkadrie. Volgens de opponenten een kasteelroman, een potentiele Netflixserie of een musical!
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Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war
Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
One of my favourite parts of being an academic historian is reviewing an outstanding journal article at the cutting edge of research - and waiting with baited breath to find out who wrote it! 🔥
#lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch
#lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
One of my favourite parts of being an academic historian is reviewing an outstanding journal article at the cutting edge of research - and waiting with baited breath to find out who wrote it! 🔥
#lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch
#lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch
No communist armies involved AT ALL 🤣
What in the liberal exceptionalism is this?
September 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
No communist armies involved AT ALL 🤣
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Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
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September 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2
Reading this classic for the first time. Reminded *once again* that I cannot be convinced #perpetratortrauma has any conceptual value aside from clinical, therapeutic purposes
August 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reading this classic for the first time. Reminded *once again* that I cannot be convinced #perpetratortrauma has any conceptual value aside from clinical, therapeutic purposes
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I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.
"This is not a game. This is a real world, real suffering and real people that we want to and need to commemorate." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.
Reposted by Susie Protschky
How do we decolonise archives?
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
Project Naming
Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
How do we decolonise archives?
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
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#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
August 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography
Out TODAY!
Our upcoming title explores Indonesia’s past and present through the lens of coloniality, examining how colonial power structures persist beyond the formal period of colonisation.
Register your interest today: doi.org/10.22459/RHI...
@susieprotschky.bsky.social @asianstudies.org
Register your interest today: doi.org/10.22459/RHI...
@susieprotschky.bsky.social @asianstudies.org
August 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Out TODAY!
💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
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Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
August 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩
Open access 👇
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
Open access 👇
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
July 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New article! Susie Protschky and Pepijn Brandon, ‘ON “EXTREME VIOLENCE” AND “IMPUNITY’ in #Indonesia 1945-9 🇮🇩
Open access 👇
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
Open access 👇
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
Expert colleagues have written a report substantiating the need for Dutch universities to cut ties at the institutional level with Israeli universities in response to genocide.
academictiesisrael.nl
academictiesisrael.nl
Academic Ties Israel
academictiesisrael.nl
June 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Expert colleagues have written a report substantiating the need for Dutch universities to cut ties at the institutional level with Israeli universities in response to genocide.
academictiesisrael.nl
academictiesisrael.nl
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In the year of our lord 2025, this is not OK. #Journalism #PublicDebate
Zeven witte mannen gaan even bespreken hoe het nou precies zit met Iran.
June 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In the year of our lord 2025, this is not OK. #Journalism #PublicDebate
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Oh my piece is out too now. For colleagues in #PerpetratorStudies, I'd love to hear what you think. #Perpetrators #MassViolence #Genocide #Accountability #Justice
justiceinconflict.org/2025/06/19/w...
justiceinconflict.org/2025/06/19/w...
‘What are perpetrators actually doing, and to whom?’ A call to focus on the actions of perpetrators of mass atrocities
The following contribution to JiC’s ongoing symposium on Alette Smeulers’ “Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?” comes from Dr. Iva Vukušić, an…
justiceinconflict.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oh my piece is out too now. For colleagues in #PerpetratorStudies, I'd love to hear what you think. #Perpetrators #MassViolence #Genocide #Accountability #Justice
justiceinconflict.org/2025/06/19/w...
justiceinconflict.org/2025/06/19/w...
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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...
June 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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...
