Norman Aselmeyer
@aselmeyer.bsky.social
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aselmeyer.bsky.social
Here’s the term card for the Northeast Africa Forum in Oxford, a research seminar focused on the broader East Africa region. We meet on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and most sessions are also held in hybrid format. @jasonmosley.bsky.social @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social
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aselmeyer.bsky.social
Over 120 abstracts came in (I even stopped counting at one point). Such an amazing response. We aim to share the line-up in early November.
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eui-history.bsky.social
Promovieren in den Geschichtswissenschaften – aber wie?

Am 6 Oktober 2025 findet ein Info-Abend zu Promotionsmöglichkeiten in den Geschichtswisseenschaften am Europäisches Hochschulinstitut, Florenz statt 👉 loom.ly/5MhCuf4

📣 #PhD #Geschichtswissenschaften
aselmeyer.bsky.social
Neue Besprechung der (mittlerweile schon etwas älteren) Studie von Florence Bernault „Colonial Transactions“. Mehr: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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yossibartal.bsky.social
The headline is clearly false and damaging. Germany has not stopped exporting arms to Israel; shipments licensed before August are still being sent, and my investigation shows that F35 parts from the USA transiting through Germany were transferred as recently as last week.
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urbanhistory.bsky.social
📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
aselmeyer.bsky.social
In bester Gesellschaft. Und mit Empfehlung der Buchhandlung. 🔆🍀
aselmeyer.bsky.social
Ja, das ist allein Kulturkampfrhetorik. Wir sprechen über Postkolonialismus und Genderfragen seit den 1970er Jahren; für manche Herren ist das noch Neuland.
aselmeyer.bsky.social
At this year’s conference of the German Historical Association ("Historikertag"), @schoeckquinteros.bsky.social and I organised the first panel ever on Black German history. The room was packed, with more than 90 participants. With Eve Rosenhaft, @rjmauk.bsky.social and Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago.
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hsozkult.bsky.social
CFP: Cities and Decolonization: Anti-colonial Struggles, Urban Protest, and Global Solidarities

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156398

Oxford, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Norman Aselmeyer, Oxford; Eric Burton, Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025
www.hsozkult.de
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mariehuber.bsky.social
Sometimes the impossible becomes possible ✓
My project "Manufacturing Modernity in Africa" (MAGIC) just won a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant - Europe's most competitive early-career research funding.
I'll be investigating Bata shoe factories in Kenya, Malawi & Zimbabwe from the 1940s to 2000s.
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claudiakreklau.bsky.social
Everyone: we have a cover. I repeat--the cover has landed, and it is glorious!
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ghiwashington.bsky.social
📣 #CFA - We are now accepting applicants for our 2-year Visiting Tandem Fellowship, bringing German and North American postdoctoral scholars together at our Pacific Office at Berkeley @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social - Application deadline: Oct. 15; learn more: www.ghi-dc.org/progr...
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jbprestel.bsky.social
Eyes on Gaza: A daily series of 20-minute talks.

Organized by the Black Flag Group, which unites hundreds of academics across Israel who are dedicated to oppose and resist the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza.

www.eyesongaza.net/en
aselmeyer.bsky.social
Selten so einen hanebüchenen Artikel gelesen. Wahrscheinlich hat Koltermann zu viel mit Hoeres, Rödder & co. geflüstert, die sich als Daueropfer einer linken Geschichtswissenschaft sehen. @pbahners.bsky.social
hist4dem.bsky.social
Dass eine angebliche „linksliberale Hegemonie“ im geschichtswissenschaftlichen Feld im FAZ-Artikel behauptet und als Problem dargestellt wird, beweist, wie wichtig unser Engagement ist. (2/2)
Screenshot eines FAZ Artikels: Wird die Geschichtswissenschaft jetzt konservativ? von Jannis Koltermann, 29.8.2025, 06:22
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he-mel.bsky.social
"Europe’s political and moral paralysis over Gaza is intimately linked to the structural racism and violence which so many black, brown and Muslim Europeans face every day. It is clear to me that attitudes towards Gaza are shaped by an enduring colonial mentality"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam
Europe frames the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis rather than a deliberate political choice. There will be a moral reckoning, says Shada Islam, a commentator on EU affairs
www.theguardian.com
aselmeyer.bsky.social
Given the deliberate starvation in #Gaza, it is crucial for historians to place this within the longer history of colonialism. Who would be interested in working on a piece about the #weaponization of #food in (settler-)colonial contexts?
aselmeyer.bsky.social
From the archives: In 1960, historian Bethwell Ogot drafted the proposal to establish the Kenya National Archives (KNA). Five years later, in 1965, the KNA opened its doors. Today, it stands in Nairobi’s CBD as the country’s central repository of memory.