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A humanities project about liminal waterscapes in Europe, producing digital and museum resources to retrieve submerged narratives of resistance. #BlueHumanities #BlueSocialSciences #EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #CoastalHistory #DigitalHumanties

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Feb 14

Introducing Liminal Waterway Countercultures

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 8d

It was brilliant to kick off the Migration and Mobility Seminar with great papers from @profpanayi.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social @bengidley.bsky.social @marcloureiro.bsky.social - a lot to think about in terms of how we do migration history, especially in the current moment

Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social · 8d

This was a great first session. Looking forward to many more to follow.

Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 8d

Enjoyed first seminar of @ihr.bsky.social Migration + Mobility seminar series led by the fantastic @kabcommons.bsky.social, starring legend @profpanayi.bsky.social and great presentations by @endeeekay.bsky.social (see pic for book out soon w/ @punctumbooks.bsky.social) & @marcloureiro.bsky.social

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 12d

Including @blenormand.bsky.social on Rijeka on 3 February:

Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 14d

Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Nov 3: Romain Tiquet
(Centre Marc Bloch)
Thinking Through Cases: A Political and Social History of West Africa Through Psychiatric Records

Nov 17: Matt Fitzpatrick
(Flinders University)
The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment
of Chinese Labourers

Nov 24: Dora Vargha
(Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Communist M*A*S*H: The Making
of Socialist International in a North Korean Field Hospital

Dec 1: Denis Cogneau
(Paris School of Economics)
joint event with the Frankreich-Zentrum
Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism,
1830–1962

Dec 8: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd
(Stockholm University)
A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and
Social Norm
Jan 12: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Interna-tionalism in the 1930s

Jan 19: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam)
The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany,
1880 to the Present

Feb 3: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University)
A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Con-nected Yugoslavia to
the World

Feb 9: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics

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Nathalie Raoux @nathalieraoux.bsky.social · 13d

Walter Benjamin, 15 juillet 1892 - 26 septembre 1940. In Memoriam. "Il est plus difficile d'honorer la mémoire des sans-noms que celle des gens célèbres. A la mémoire des sans-noms est dédiée la construction historique" (c'est tout le sens du projet Wo, Walter)

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 13d

Our Austrian PI, Yvonne Zivkovic, is presenting about LiminalWater tomorrow morning, as part of a panel on fluid materialities.

Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 13d

Some of our team are in Marseille this week for “Balkan Matters! Material cultures in the Balkans”, hosted by our project partners MucemLab

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@telemme.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @lest-umr-cnrs-amu.bsky.social @gsrl.bsky.social @inalco.fr

Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 20d

Greetings from our Zagreb team on the Adriatic coast this week

Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 20d

We’re very excited to be attending this conference next week at MucemLab!

CETOBaC @cetobac.bsky.social · Sep 3

#Colloque
Bonne rentrée à toutes et tous !
En septembre, RDV à Marseille pour le colloque "Balkan Matters !" organisé par l'AFEBalk, en partenariat avec le CETOBaC.
📅 25-27 septembre
📍 MucemLab
👉 bit.ly/4g4uiNH

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APHG Régionale Aix-Marseille @aphg-am.bsky.social · 24d

aphg.aixmarseille Grâce à un partenariat entre le
MUCEM et l' @aphg-am.bsky.social tous les adhérents de l’ @aphg.bsky.social pourront découvrir l'exposition
« Lire le ciel » le mercredi 24 septembre à 14h30. La visite sera menée par un conservateur du MUCEM.
Inscription : aphg.aixmarseille.fr

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 23d

On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born.

(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Sep 5

From the Croatian littoral

Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Aug 31

Groeten uit Antwerpen!

Researching the Ostend East India Company in Antwerp

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jun 12

The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social treasures exhibit is excellent. Struck by this 1779 letter from the Codrington Papers detailing the coercive sexual relationship between an overseer and an unnamed enslaved woman. Even better is Amina Atiq’s 2021 poem, “Wench” which gives her voice (see ALT text)🗃️

Hung on the wall in the Bodleian museum. An eighteenth-century letter in a wooden frame on the left. On the right on a dark green background is a poem entitled "Wench" (full text below). Underneath the poem is a smaller black rectangular sign with white print explaining the content of the 1779 letter (essentially that an overseer has purchased three of the children he fathered by an unnamed enslaved woman, and is enquiring about purchasing a fourth). There is also a QR code to hear Amina Atiq read her poem.

Wench
Amina Atiq

In your warmest sense of gratitude
you ask of me and my ten-month child
everyone has forgotten us, as you remember I am here
clothed in your waistcoats or worse colony bedding.

I hope you will deem no offense, I promised
death to run while your lingua left my body
thirteen years of drunkenness. But here, you stained
your four white shirts, allow me to wipe your mouth of slavery.

No doubt of your thinking something strange
you write I am your misfortune to breed, an indulged
child-bearer, a sugar-shipped body, dancing cuffs in rituals
around the highest bidders and studying wombs in English slave codes.

I take my liberty of sweet-poetry, a moment of grief
oath to all my four children to bless this Island
under the Barbados windmills, wash in their holy water
build the Codrington Estate in their mother’s bulwarks.

I shall leave you to judge of it as you please
but I still have one particular matter to mention
there is an uprising lost between your starved forlorn eyes

I button me up, I dress your white shirts

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Aug 26

Some of the books our team members are reading over the summer

Masha: Port to Port, by William Kornblum

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Aug 14

Summer greetings from Liverpool

Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Aug 12

This looks interesting. Good to see the Danube as a research focus.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 open PhD position at @bokuvienna.bsky.social's Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management

🌊 part of the FWF project “Industrialization of the Danube as a Dynamic Socio-Natural Site: Fluvial Morphology, Floodplain Use and Long-Term Legacies 1780–1940”

📅 deadline: 15 September

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · Aug 6

A pleasure to have been involved in working towards this new Migration and Mobility history seminar launching in the Autumn and led by the brilliant @kabcommons.bsky.social. Keep your eye out as we have some ace events shaping up.

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.

• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History

Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Aug 1

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Does the World Need a Government?

A meeting organised by the School of Natural Sciences in association with Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism.

www.bbk.ac.uk

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social · Jul 11

📣 CFP for our EAJS Virtual 'Translating Maimonides' on 7th December 2025. We invite cross-disciplinary papers related to linguistics, intercommunal/interreligious dialogue, archives and material heritage, Sephardi identities, creative engagement & more…

Abstracts due 18th September lnkd.in/ey3fie6c

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Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social · Jul 9

A pleasure to be part of a lively and interdisciplinary Liquid Jewish Studies panel with @bengidley.bsky.social Tony Kushner, @ophiragamliel.bsky.social & @samsamev.bsky.social on migration, oceanic perspectives, watermarks & @liminalwater.bsky.social - two pence added from me on the Wandering Jew 🌊

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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Jul 5

What our London team has been up to lately

Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Jul 5

What our Liverpool team has been up to recently

Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · Jul 5

What our Croatian team has been up to recently