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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15d

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

Oceans - Dr Emma Kluge, Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History

YouTube video by University of Exeter

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Kristie Patricia Flannery @thehistoriann.bsky.social · Aug 13

I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific.

We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested

www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

Pacific powers: Imperial competition and cooperation in Micronesia

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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · Aug 4

💫 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 🇮🇩 📷

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Jun 23

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

New Methods for New Histories (Online)

Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Digitised Archive @digitisedarchive.bsky.social · Jun 4

Why book a flight—or a reading room?

I take the train, retrieve the files, and deliver bespoke scans from UK archives, so you can stay in your armchair and focus on your research.

🗂️ digitisedarchive.co.uk

#Twitterstorians #MedEd #historyofscience #MedHist #histSTM #historyofmedicine #scicomm

Cartoon image split into two halves. On the left, a cheerful man with dark hair and a beard sits at a desk in an archive, holding a camera and surrounded by a stack of archival papers. On the right, a relaxed academic sits in an armchair at home, using a laptop and sipping a drink. Caption below reads: “The art of doing archival work without leaving your armchair.

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Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social · May 29

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation

In 1961, West Papuan leaders declared their intent to become an independent nation in opposition to both Dutch colonial control and Indonesia’s campaign to incorporate the territory into its Republ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · May 16

We are recruiting for a job at KCL History! 3-year early career development fellowship in Modern Britain & the World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...

Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) at King's College London

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jo...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Apr 1

I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️

Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · Mar 31

As US aid falters, the crisis of liberal internationalism deepens. What comes next when even its strongest institutions can no longer hold the facade together? africasacountry.com/2025/03/libe...

Liberal internationalism after USAID

As US aid falters, the crisis of liberal internationalism deepens. What comes next when even its strongest institutions can no longer hold the facade together?

africasacountry.com

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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hey that’s my file! But HOW do you make them look so pretty?

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Mar 22

HUGE thanks to every single presenter/chair/attendee for making the past two days so inspiring and friendly. It was brilliant to catch up with old friends and to make so many new ones! More to come from our AHRC Rethinking Internationalism project so watch this space…

Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Mar 20

Our AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms’, hosted at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, began this morning and we’ve already had fantastic panels on race, space, religious, and Mexican internationalisms. More to come after the coffee break! It’s a gorgeous day in Newcastle ☀️☀️☀️

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Mar 22

A brilliant start to our AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms project, with generous and thoughtful contributions. Daniel Laqua did an amazing job with our first outing, and he, @drmargottudor.bsky.social , @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and I look forward to continuing these conversations. Stay tuned!

Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Mar 20

Our AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms’, hosted at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, began this morning and we’ve already had fantastic panels on race, space, religious, and Mexican internationalisms. More to come after the coffee break! It’s a gorgeous day in Newcastle ☀️☀️☀️

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · Mar 18

#Skystorians #AcademicSky #History We’re delighted to be supporting the AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past’, which is taking place at @northumbriauni.bsky.social this week. Programme here research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Mar 4

On Thursday!

Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Feb 27

Next week, Elisabeth Leake, the Lee E Dirks Chair in History at Tufts' Fletcher School of Diplomacy, will be speaking @qmul.ac.uk

She will be talking about global histories of Decolonisation.

It's free to attend, with a reception after. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decoloniza...

Decolonization’s Discontents: a lecture by Elisabeth Leake (Tufts)

Decolonization’s Discontents: Unfinished Revolutions in the Age of Independence, a lecture by Elisabeth Leake

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Mar 4

Excited that the first article of my ongoing research project on the history of Indian women in rural development has been published in Comparativ. If you cannot access it and are interested to read, let me know. @unierfurt.bsky.social @emleake.bsky.social

www.comparativ.net/v2/article/v...

Gendered Development Work and Non-State Primary Healthcare Provisions: The Skippo Medical Van Scheme in Rural India, c. 1940s to mid-1970s

This article focuses on gendered rural development work in late colonial and early post-colonial India. Next to the question of livelihood generation and education, the issue of health and hence of wo...

www.comparativ.net

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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · Feb 10

Looking forward to this one :)

Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Feb 10

@emleake.bsky.social will be delivering a lecture 6th March titled Decolonization's Discontents, hosted jointly by @rshc.bsky.social , @qmul.ac.uk 's History and IHSS . It will be great, event (and wine reception) free, but do register here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Decolonization’s Discontents: a lecture by Elisabeth Leake (Tufts)

Eventbrite - Raphael Samuel History Centre presents Decolonization’s Discontents: a lecture by Elisabeth Leake (Tufts) - Thursday, 6 March 2025 at QMUL Graduate Centre, London, England. Find event and...

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Feb 10

We recently had the pleasure of @sandrinekott.bsky.social's company at Birkbeck - and now I'm thrilled that her new edited book is out in the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series, open access & free to download www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

@bbkhistorical.bsky.social

International Organizations and the Cold War

www.bloomsburycollections.com

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Feb 6

Here is the English translation of my essay on South Asian humanitarian aid under colonial rule. It provides some insights of my forthcoming book on this theme with CUP this summer.

www.voluntariness.org/giving-as-an...

Giving as an Act of Voluntariness? - voluntariness.org

Blog post by Maria Franke on motives, circumstances and challenges of voluntary humanitarian aid in late colonial India.

www.voluntariness.org

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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · Jan 20

This is ridiculously good company to be in. Thanks @susieprotschky.bsky.social!

Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · Jan 20

Very happy with how my seminar reading list for the course ‘International Organisations’ is shaping up @asobocinska.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social

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Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social · Jan 16

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · Jan 16

This is a great idea: a developmental editing workshop, run by the Journal of Global History. But, it's for colleagues for whom English is not a first language - and who work in institutions outside Western Europe and North America. 🗃️
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Journal of Global History development editing workshop | H-Net

CFP: Journal of Global History development editing workshop As part of efforts to make the field of global history more truly ‘global’, the Journal of Global History is hosting an online development w...

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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · Jan 15

This looks so cool Susie! Will definitely be reading

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Jan 8

Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals!

More info here:
csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...

Call for Proposals: Bloomsbury Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism — Centre for the Study of Internationalism

We invite contributions to a new handbook on the Histories of Internationalism, to be published by Bloomsbury.

csi.bbk.ac.uk

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · Dec 10

I am very pleased to share the @h-diplo.bsky.social Roundtable of _Catastrophic Diplomacy_. Thanks to Jana Lipman, @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, Davide Rodogno, Ian Seavey, @laurenfturek.bsky.social, Shoon Murray, and Megan Black for their generous reviews! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · Dec 6

It was a real privilege to deliver the Reese Memorial Lecture at Kings College London back in October. Thanks to @asobocinska.bsky.social for facilitating. The video is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UN7...

"Tom Mboya's Australia" - 2024 Reese Memorial Lecture by Dr Jon Piccini

YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London

www.youtube.com

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