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Lukas Schemper

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History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | research associate for ERC project "Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800" @zfl-berlin.bsky.social

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Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social · Dec 11

My follow-up article on lifesaving in the late Ottoman Empire was accepted for publication in the JWH a few months ago, but since it will only be published a year from now, I decided to make my accepted manuscript version available through zenodo for those interested: zenodo.org/records/1439...

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 5d

Gino Severini, Red Cross Train Passing a Village, 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137947

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 9d

Over the 1990s, Washington transformed Guantánamo Bay into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse. Miriam Pensack reports on this little-known history.

Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial

Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets

www.thedial.world

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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 24d

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction

www.cambridge.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26d

Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns

Pollution could be on par with annual emissions generated by Brazil as experts warn of climate effects of war A planned expansion of military spending by Nato countries could generate an additional 1,320m tonnes of planet-heating pollution over the next decade – on a par with the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated by Brazil, the fifth largest emitter in the world, according to a new report. Military activity is fossil-fuel intensive, yet official country data on military emissions is patchy or non-existent. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Alfred Landecker Foundation @alfredlandecker.bsky.social · Sep 10

📢 Call for applications: @chlcologne.bsky.social is offering 2 positions in a research project exploring how the 1990s reshaped global governance & human security.

👉 PhD Position: bit.ly/46vKCnp
👉 Postdoc Research Position: bit.ly/46ufZ1D

Apply now!

PhD & Postdoc
Research Positions
Konrad Adenauer Synergy Research Project
"Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security: What lessons can we learn from the pivotal decade of the 1990s?"
Apply until 12 October 2025

Part-Time PhD Position
Open to students who hold an excellent Master's degree in modern history or international history.
Key responsibilities:
• Conduct independent, original PhD research related to the project
• Support the organisation of academic workshops and conferences
• Present your research findings at events
• Work collaboratively with the research team under supervision

Full-Time Postdoc
Research Position
Open to researchers with (or near completion of) a PhD/DPhil in modern history or international history.
Key responsibilities:
• Conduct independent, original research related to the project
• Organize academic workshops and conferences
• Present research findings at events
• Collaborate closely with the project team

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bleak

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SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Cologne Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law (CHL) is hiring for two positions with the Synergy Research Project: Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security in the 1990s.

Info on the PhD position: tinyurl.com/4azzjuxu
Info on the Postdoc: tinyurl.com/5n73343s

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Sep 1

📘From our latest Special Issue

Sarah Knoll (@sarahmknoll.bsky.social) (@uni-graz.at) on 'Hungarian Refugees in the United States between Cold War Politics, Economic Growth, and Labour Demands, 1956–1958'

#ColdWar #Emigration #Religion 20thc 🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Sarah Knoll @sarahmknoll.bsky.social · Aug 27

#Neuerscheinung Elisabeth Röhrlich und ich haben sich in einem neuen Band zur österr. Neutralität mit dem neutralen Österreich als Sitz internationaler Organisationen auseinandersetzen - Open Access!
@transcript-verlag.bsky.social @fopolab.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Österreichs Neutralität

Zeit, Farbe zu bekennen? Wesen und Wert der politischen Neutralität Österreichs angesichts fundamentaler Umwälzungen in der europäischen und globalen Ordnung.

www.transcript-verlag.de

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Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣 what a great way to start the new term! This paper has been long in the making, and combines years of research from the two of us, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our research Group, @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📣

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Aug 26

On advance access: "The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830"

by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social‬ and Erik de Lange (‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830*

Abstract. There is a world of imperial connections and consequences of the revolutions of 1830 that historians hardly ever mention. The relationship betwee

doi.org

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Oliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social · Jul 30

Gut gemacht.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Jul 23

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

www.theguardian.com

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ich bin ja nicht immer einer Meinung mit #IchBinHanna , aber
"verpflichtende Titellehre"
musste ich erst mal nachschlagen.
So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.

Jennifer S. Henke @jenniferhenke.bsky.social · Jul 17

Die Statusgruppe der PDs muss endlich mehr Gehör in der öffentlichen Debatte um prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft finden. Vor allem müssen sich PDs untereinander besser vernetzen! Wir – @juliahauser.bsky.social, @joergsternagel.bsky.social & ich – haben deshalb 1 Netzwerk gegründet: 1/3

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · Jul 10

Bring it on: Judson & Zara on the catastrophe to begin all catastrophes!

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Jul 9

Where are our university presidents? They are totally silent, completely absent from the public square as this existential crisis is about to break the entire business model of American higher education & scientific research 🤷‍♂️

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jul 8

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

www.science.org

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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · Jun 19

Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · Jun 5

June 5, 2025 will go down in history as The Night of Long Tweets

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Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · Jun 5

Es ist alles sehr bizarr

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · Jun 2

🗃️ Sad news of Pierre Nora’s passing away.

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · Jun 2

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

www.lemonde.fr

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · May 28

If they go to such lengths for PiS, what will they do for Orban next year…?

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · May 29

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · May 29

A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · May 22

And two Research Fellow posts at the University of Leeds on the 4-year project ‘The Soviet Union, the WHO and Global Health, 1957-91’, which looks superb.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE369/r...

Research Fellow in Global Health History x2 at University of Leeds

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Global Health History x2 on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social · May 22

Looking forward to a great programme!

New Diplomatic History network @ndh-network.bsky.social · May 22

The moment you've all been waiting for! #NDH6 starts today at Sciences Po Aix!

Academics queuing for a badge at the entrance to the NDH6 conference in Aix en Provence

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · May 17

god i love host Hazel Brugger so much #eurovision

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Katrin Kleemann @katrinkleemann.bsky.social · May 14

🚢 Planetary Waters: Call for Papers 🌊 How do we visualize the vastness of oceans while keeping the human connection?

🗓️ Oct 22-24, 2025 📍 German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 June 2025. Find the call here: www.dsm.museum/fileadmin/us...

www.dsm.museum

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