Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social
Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm
Eastern Europeans endlessly reciting geography lessons, Epstein edition. No map.
February 3, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Eastern Europeans endlessly reciting geography lessons, Epstein edition. No map.
Was ist mit der Fürsorgepflicht der Universität gegenüber Studierenden, Doktorand*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen? Wie kann man in einem Brief, unterschrieben von Dutzenden von Universitätsprofessor*innen, unerwähnt lassen?
January 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Was ist mit der Fürsorgepflicht der Universität gegenüber Studierenden, Doktorand*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen? Wie kann man in einem Brief, unterschrieben von Dutzenden von Universitätsprofessor*innen, unerwähnt lassen?
Many thanks for the invitation and lovely to reconnect, dear Ivan!
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Many thanks for the invitation and lovely to reconnect, dear Ivan!
Next Monday at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, thanks to Ivan Kalmar's kind invitation! Join us if you're around!
January 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Next Monday at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, thanks to Ivan Kalmar's kind invitation! Join us if you're around!
Thrilled that I'll be spending February and March at the @iwm.at in Vienna working on part II of Creolizing the Modern, this time focused on the political economy and literary discourses on racialized enslavement in interimperial Moldavias!
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December 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thrilled that I'll be spending February and March at the @iwm.at in Vienna working on part II of Creolizing the Modern, this time focused on the political economy and literary discourses on racialized enslavement in interimperial Moldavias!
www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...
www.iwm.at/fellow/manue...
Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8
So, the big news is that Bolsonaro has been arrested, but in German-Brazilian relations, the other news will soon be that Der Spiegel follows in Merz‘ steps in being so ignorant about Brazil that they wrote Lula has been arrested. Screenshot for posterity, hope the online text is corrected soon!!! 😎
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So, the big news is that Bolsonaro has been arrested, but in German-Brazilian relations, the other news will soon be that Der Spiegel follows in Merz‘ steps in being so ignorant about Brazil that they wrote Lula has been arrested. Screenshot for posterity, hope the online text is corrected soon!!! 😎
In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig!
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
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Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig!
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs
🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week!
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
October 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week!
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.
🔊Thinking of applying to the Global Studies M.A. in Social Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de? 🎓🌍 Our next info session this year is on October 15th, 2-3pm CEST! 🗓️
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🔊Thinking of applying to the Global Studies M.A. in Social Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de? 🎓🌍 Our next info session this year is on October 15th, 2-3pm CEST! 🗓️
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!
Happy to present new research on the investment migration industry at REMESO, Linköpings universitet's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society to scholars of migration with whom I have long been in dialogue. All welcome!
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September 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Happy to present new research on the investment migration industry at REMESO, Linköpings universitet's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society to scholars of migration with whom I have long been in dialogue. All welcome!
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That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store.
P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!
P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store.
P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!
P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!
Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇
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September 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇
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Erinnert mich an diesen Post 😎.
September 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Erinnert mich an diesen Post 😎.
Update: A kind soul ran the whole chapter through a citation checker and came up with many non-existing references...
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Update: A kind soul ran the whole chapter through a citation checker and came up with many non-existing references...
Web dossier on uneasy postcolonial spaces, with contributions on Latin America, Ireland, Goa, Palestine & the European East, initially published in 2013 in honor of Fernando Coronil, is now available for free download tinyurl.com/3bp6wky6. Thanks to Louise Link for invaluable work on the new layout!
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Web dossier on uneasy postcolonial spaces, with contributions on Latin America, Ireland, Goa, Palestine & the European East, initially published in 2013 in honor of Fernando Coronil, is now available for free download tinyurl.com/3bp6wky6. Thanks to Louise Link for invaluable work on the new layout!
New call for applications for the Global Studies cohort of 2026! There's still time, but you can get an early start on your application & mark your calendars for our virtual info events about @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de! Details below & here: tinyurl.com/4y2ra9p9
August 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
New call for applications for the Global Studies cohort of 2026! There's still time, but you can get an early start on your application & mark your calendars for our virtual info events about @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de! Details below & here: tinyurl.com/4y2ra9p9
Die Karibik als Labor der Moderne - nicht nur seit dem 16. Jh., sondern auch hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der Pille, für die in Puerto Rico Experimente ohne Einwilligung der betroffenen Frauen stattfanden - drei starben. Starker, verstörender Artikel von Steffi Malleier @katapultmagazin.bsky.social!
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Die Karibik als Labor der Moderne - nicht nur seit dem 16. Jh., sondern auch hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der Pille, für die in Puerto Rico Experimente ohne Einwilligung der betroffenen Frauen stattfanden - drei starben. Starker, verstörender Artikel von Steffi Malleier @katapultmagazin.bsky.social!
New review of "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social by my long-time interlocutor and earlier co-author @giopicker.bsky.social is now online first in EJST, and we couldn't be happier about its main message, the inspiring critique & suggestions and the really heart-warming conclusions! 🙏🤗
July 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New review of "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social by my long-time interlocutor and earlier co-author @giopicker.bsky.social is now online first in EJST, and we couldn't be happier about its main message, the inspiring critique & suggestions and the really heart-warming conclusions! 🙏🤗
Happy about another generous review of our book, this time in the Slavic and East European Journal. Many thanks to Siobhán Seigne for carefully excavating of the many connections that brought Anca Parvulescu's & my work together before we even met!
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July 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Happy about another generous review of our book, this time in the Slavic and East European Journal. Many thanks to Siobhán Seigne for carefully excavating of the many connections that brought Anca Parvulescu's & my work together before we even met!
seej.org/issues/68.3....
seej.org/issues/68.3....
Off to Rabat for the @isa-sociology.org World Forum that starts tomorrow. Since our Monday morning panel on #sociology and the politics of history appears differently in the online program depending on the search term, here is the correct version for those interested in joining us!
July 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Off to Rabat for the @isa-sociology.org World Forum that starts tomorrow. Since our Monday morning panel on #sociology and the politics of history appears differently in the online program depending on the search term, here is the correct version for those interested in joining us!
Until Friday, you can get our book (and all other @cornellupress.bsky.social books in print) at half price when ordering to the U.S. using the code below!!
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Until Friday, you can get our book (and all other @cornellupress.bsky.social books in print) at half price when ordering to the U.S. using the code below!!
Es ist genauso gekommen....
June 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Es ist genauso gekommen....
Our panel is starting soon! Very excited to present Fabio Santos' and my article on Refiguration/Transformation in the Caribbean on site - in the Caribbean 🤩🤗🙏!
P.S. German-language article open access here: tinyurl.com/7ac4mju5
P.S. German-language article open access here: tinyurl.com/7ac4mju5
June 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our panel is starting soon! Very excited to present Fabio Santos' and my article on Refiguration/Transformation in the Caribbean on site - in the Caribbean 🤩🤗🙏!
P.S. German-language article open access here: tinyurl.com/7ac4mju5
P.S. German-language article open access here: tinyurl.com/7ac4mju5
If you're in or headed for Cluj tomorrow, you might want to check out this series of events around the Global History of Romanian Comparatism project Anca Parvulescu directs at UBB, including a keynote by @ananyajahanara.bsky.social bridging inter-imperial contexts and a double special issue launch!
May 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If you're in or headed for Cluj tomorrow, you might want to check out this series of events around the Global History of Romanian Comparatism project Anca Parvulescu directs at UBB, including a keynote by @ananyajahanara.bsky.social bridging inter-imperial contexts and a double special issue launch!