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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Sep 2

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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · Jul 15

This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!

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

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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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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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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 29

Talked to @nature.com last week about scientific conferences in the past, present and future

Nature @nature.com · May 22

Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere

https://go.nature.com/437v5IW

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

go.nature.com

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 27

This is today! Looking forward to discussing this splendid book with @dacretu.bsky.social and colleagues.

Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 9

The Centre for Internationalism has new dates for your diaries!

1. Tuesday, 27 May, 6-8pm (Birkbeck Central Building, G08)
Roundtable discussion of @dacretu.bsky.social's Foreign Aid & State Building in Interwar Romania - with the IHR's Rethinking Modern Europe series
www.sup.org/books/histor...

Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania | Stanford University Press

The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 an...

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 9

The Centre for Internationalism has new dates for your diaries!

1. Tuesday, 27 May, 6-8pm (Birkbeck Central Building, G08)
Roundtable discussion of @dacretu.bsky.social's Foreign Aid & State Building in Interwar Romania - with the IHR's Rethinking Modern Europe series
www.sup.org/books/histor...

Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania | Stanford University Press

The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 an...

www.sup.org

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · May 10

Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’

Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 9

@bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 9

4. Thursday, 19 June, 1-2pm (Birkbeck Central Building, 402)
Lunchtime seminar - Frank Trentmann on "The Moral Geography of Internationalism"

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 9

3. Thursday, 29 May, 6-8pm (room tbc)
Screening of "Adventures in the Empire: a mistold story" (2024), and Rui Lopes in conversation with Julia Lovell

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 9

2. Thursday, 29 May, 4-6pm (28 Russell Square)
Book launch & discussion of Rui Lopes & @nataliatelepneva.bsky.social's Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/globalizi...

Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa

Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography. With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes, figures, and interpretations, all of which ap…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 9

The Centre for Internationalism has new dates for your diaries!

1. Tuesday, 27 May, 6-8pm (Birkbeck Central Building, G08)
Roundtable discussion of @dacretu.bsky.social's Foreign Aid & State Building in Interwar Romania - with the IHR's Rethinking Modern Europe series
www.sup.org/books/histor...

Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania | Stanford University Press

The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 an...

www.sup.org

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · May 5

The third article in the special issue Are Social Sciences Special? which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I co-edit is by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social. It presents results of a large survey of British academics on how they see their own disciplinary identity wrt social sciences #philsci #sts #histsci

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School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social · May 1

Take History Seriously!

A recent article by our Sarah Marks and colleagues, has mapped aversion therapy practices used to ‘treat’ LGBTQ+ people in the past, and called on universities to take this history seriously in effort to address past and ongoing harms

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · May 1

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · May 2

Thanks Brodie and Finn, will do the same

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Apr 30

Still time to send in your proposals! @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Mar 28

An exciting date for your diaries: the first Birkbeck-QMUL Historical Studies Graduate Symposium will take place on 18 June, on the theme of "methodologies in historical research". BBK PhD students @bbkhistorical.bsky.social & @qmul.ac.uk do send your proposals for 5 or 15 minute papers by 30 April!

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · Apr 14

I am so excited that @alexanderboyd.bsky.social is coming to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the 12th May! He will give the talk 'A Hidden History of Violence', Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square - 1pm to 2:30pm.

Drone shot of the affects of bomb practice at Cape Wrath in the North West of Scotland, photograph by Alex Boyd

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Mar 28

An exciting date for your diaries: the first Birkbeck-QMUL Historical Studies Graduate Symposium will take place on 18 June, on the theme of "methodologies in historical research". BBK PhD students @bbkhistorical.bsky.social & @qmul.ac.uk do send your proposals for 5 or 15 minute papers by 30 April!

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Mar 26

The last CSI seminar of the term will take place tomorrow (27 March), 1-2pm: come hear Prof Alex Colas talk about “Maritime Internationalism”. Everyone welcome, no need to book,

Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Jan 13

4. 27 March, 1-2pm: Lunchtime seminar by Prof Alex Colas (School of Social Sciences) on "Maritime Internationalism" (28 Russell Square, Dreyfus room)

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Mar 25

If you were getting major FOMO last week while we were conferencing in Newcastle, please be sure to submit an abstract for our upcoming VIRTUAL conference on ‘New Methods for New Histories’ of internationalism. Pls send to all your friends who want a captive audience for their weird archive story 😅

Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hot on the heels of the first AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms conference on ‘Counter-hegemonic Internationalisms’, here is the CfP (5 May deadline) for our next ONLINE workshop ‘New Methods for New Histories’, with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social , @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Mar 25

After last week’s Newcastle extravaganza we’re keen to think about *how* to write about internationalism(s) (& how not to), about the forgotten voices & sources & archives & readers. If you have been thinking about these questions do send us a short abstract by 5 May @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hot on the heels of the first AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms conference on ‘Counter-hegemonic Internationalisms’, here is the CfP (5 May deadline) for our next ONLINE workshop ‘New Methods for New Histories’, with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social , @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.

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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Mar 25

For my last MA seminar in my history of migration course I've asked the students to bring in examples of uses & abuses of history in contemporary news coverage of migration. Does anyone have any particularly egregious examples we could look at?

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