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Cecilia Tossounian @cecitoss.bsky.social · 11d

Historia de la moda www.eldiarioar.com/1_c0d396?utm...

En este episodio, Cecilia Tossounian conversa con Teresita Garabana y Gabriela Mitidieri sobre aquel mundo del vestir, sus reglas, sus productores y consumidores.

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Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · May 2

"'I have a gift for you.'" (Isser Harel)

The documents can be found here:
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#Argentina #Eichmann

Argentina declassifies 1,850 documents about Nazi activities in the country

Until now, documentation related to the activities of Nazi leaders in Argentina could only be viewed in a specially designated room at the National Archives.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Apr 29

⚡Nationalism has reshaped and destabilized the world. Is its rise today a contradiction to globalization, or part of it? In the new #AskDifferent podcast episode, historian @mgoebel.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social explores the deep roots of the concept. www.einsteinfoundation.de/podcast

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Mar 25

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New Methods for New Histories
9-10 July 2025

Online workshop that encourages new approaches to internationalism’s histories that go beyond the confines of traditional, state, and institution-centred archives in the Global North so as to bring understudied networks and processes into focus.

Main goal is to consider how we can write histories of internationalism that acknowledge the instrumental roles played by postcolonial, grassroots, marginalised, or simply unconventional actors, organisations and places. Does the meaning of internationalism itself change depending on where, when and how we look for it?

We invite team roundtable proposals and/or ideas for individual short presentations that reflect on new methods for histories of internationalism, drawing on historical case studies that emphasise underused archives, use old sources in new ways, consider alternative methods, and permit reflection on ethical and practical considerations. Our priority is to feature contributions from those who have considered a plurality of international participants and international forums. Examples may include refugee, indigenous, queer, feminist, agricultural, anti-colonial/postcolonial, racially hierarchical, anarchical, dissident, reactionary, radical and minority internationalisms.

We also hope that the online format permits global participation.

The conference is part of the AHRC-funded ‘Rethinking Internationalism: Histories and Pluralities’, led by Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck), Ria Kapoor (QMUL), Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) and Margot Tudor (City St George’s). It seeks to build a community of scholars beyond (sub-)disciplinary silos and across different career stages to decentre histories of internationalism dominated by Anglo-American liberal internationalism. The project includes a mentoring scheme, plus ‘buddy’ mentoring for more established scholars

If you are interested in sending a participating, please contact ria.kapoor@qmul.ac.uk by 5 May 2025.

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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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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · Mar 12

CFP: The conference "Shaping Neighborhoods: Norms, Identities, and Spatial Practices Over Time" invites contributions that explore the historical dynamics of neighborhoods from the 18th to the 21st century. Conf in Germany, 5-7 Nov 2025. #MaterialCulture networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Shaping Neighborhoods: Norms, Identities, and Spatial Practices Over Time/Nachbarschaften gestalten: Normen, Identitäten und räumliche Praktiken vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert | H-Net

The conference "Shaping Neighborhoods: Norms, Identities, and Spatial Practices Over Time" invites contributions that explore the historical dynamics of neighborhoods from the 18th to the 21st century...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Mar 11

Sign up now for our upcoming Short Writing Course designed specifically for PhD researchers in the humanities. We aim to help you with your writing skills with a particular emphasis on style and structure. Led by the historian and writer Lisa Pine.

Short Writing Course (PhD Training)

The aim of this course is to help PhD students with their writing skills and craft, with a particular emphasis on style and structure.

www.history.ac.uk

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Martín Becerra @aracalacana.bsky.social · Feb 23

las calles andan diciendo...

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Feb 14

New book from @uncpress.bsky.social:

Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 6

Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest

Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards For decades, archaeologists have believed that human occupation of the Amazon basin was…

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Cecilia Tossounian @cecitoss.bsky.social · Dec 24

Escribe Roy Hora uno de los mejores analisis sobre el primer año de milei. nuso.org/articulo/jav...
Nueva Sociedad: Javier Milei y el incierto experimento libertario

Javier Milei y el incierto experimento libertario | Nueva Sociedad

Durante su primer año de gobierno, Javier Milei se ha valido de una retórica que hace eje en el individualismo extremo, la demonización del Estado y la primacía del mercado. El presidente argentino, q...

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Ernesto Resnik @ernestorr.bsky.social · Dec 17

El paper de Didier Raoult que en 2020 llevó a lunáticos desde Trump a libertarios argentinos a promover la Hidroxicloroquina como la ‘solución’ para el COVID en vez de restricciones y vacunas fue finalmente retractado. El burocrático fin de un error brutal y nefasto. www.science.org/content/arti...

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · Dec 1

FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk
Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality.
Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field.
saferesearchers.eu

SAFE - Supporting  At-risk researchers  with Fellowships in Europe

As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Dec 13

New book from @dukepress.bsky.social:

The Buenos Aires Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Diego Armus and Lisa Ubelaker Andrade

www.dukeupress.edu/the-buenos-a...

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Dec 10

A Swiss church installed an #AIJesus in a confessional, but it wasn't actually hearing confessions. A #Catholic scholar explains why #AI can't replace human priests in granting absolution. https://buff.ly/3VvpdFk (Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross) #religion

AI Jesus might ‘listen’ to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins − a scholar of Catholicism explains

In the future, a program like AI Jesus could be used to hear confessions around the clock. But with no experience of having a human body, it cannot engage or absolve human sins.

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Andrés Gattinoni @andresgattinoni.com.ar · Dec 8

Las apps para embarazadas del siglo XVII

RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social · Dec 6

For #FoldOutFriday the 'child turning itself in birth' from James Cooke's Marrow of Chirurgery (1685). Similar images depicting fetal presentation were common in 17thc surgical & midwifery texts. With the fetuses often resembling small toddlers just busy going about their day! #earlymodern

Fold-out from a work by James Cook showing 13 depictions of the fetus in various positions in the womb before birth, which resemble small children bouncing about.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · Nov 26

An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.

Old ruin viewed through a glass frame with the original outlines of the building etched onto the glass

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Nov 27

I don't think I'm ever going to stop being angry at the choice people have made, and angry at them for making it, no matter how much we talk about disinformation and the rest of it.

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Cecilia Tossounian @cecitoss.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hello, can you add me? thanks.

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Cecilia Tossounian @cecitoss.bsky.social · Nov 26

‘We need a cultural revolution’: femicide victim’s family seek change in Italy

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Lydia Walker @lydiawalker.bsky.social · Nov 22

I wrote an essay on decolonization talk for Aeon Magazine, sparked in part by the seemingly odd image search results for 'decolonization' when making posters for Ohio State's International History Seminar last year. @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

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What is behind the explosion in talk about decolonisation? | Aeon Essays

There’s more talk of decolonisation than ever, while true independence for former colonies has faded from view. Why?

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Ernesto Semán @eseman.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hei, come work with me at DARKLAX here in Bergen!
A great four-year PhD in Latin American history: commodities, environmental, nature and resources, colonialism and the Anthropocene, sustainability, multispecies history of capitalism.
Questions? Ask.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Position in Latin American History connected to the DARKLAX project (271256) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Position in Latin American History connected to the DARKLAX project (271256), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025

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Ernesto Resnik @ernestorr.bsky.social · Nov 21

Cosa ha pensato la Meloni quando l'anormale gli ha regalato questo?
1) "Guarda cosa mi ha dato questo imbecille"
2) "E adesso che cazzo ci faccio con questo?"

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · Sep 23

I'm really glad to relaunch the Global History Colloquium with my colleague Sebastian Conrad @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Have a look at our exciting program below and feel free to come along Mondays 4-6pm.

Global History Colloquium Convened by Sebastian Conrad and Michael Goebel Winder 2024-25 Mondays 4-6pm Koserstr. 20
Nov 11 Iza Ding Northwestern University Nov 25 Nell Irvin Painter Princeton University Dec 9 Nikolaus Wachsmann Birkbeck College Jan 7 Quentin Deluermoz Université Paris Cité Jan 13 Elise Franklin University of Louisville Jan 30 Onur Edur Humboldt Feb 3 Sherene Seikaly University of California Santa Barbara

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