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Arbeit - Bewegung - Geschichte @abg-zeitschrift.bsky.social · 22h

Job in Kassel ⬇️⬇️

Hsozkult Service @hsozkultservice.bsky.social · 1d

Job: 0,75 Wiss. Mitarb. "AddF – Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung" (Kassel)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-157928

Kassel, 01.03.2026, AddF - Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung. Forschungsinstitut und Dokumentationszentrum, Bewerbungsschluss: 03.11.2025

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to @hannajanatka.bsky.social for her insightful review of Erin O‘Halloran‘s East of Empire for H-Soz-Kult.

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 9d

Rez: E. M. B. O’Halloran: East of Empire

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-154831

E. M. B. O’Halloran: East of Empire

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Vicky Iglikowski-Broad @vickyig.bsky.social · 14d

Do join us! 👇

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 14d

Last chance to sign up for our webinar w/ Dr Christine De Matos TODAY at 10am BST. Christine will be discussing the role of women as occupiers post-WWII & exploring the requisitioned & constructed homes of occupier families as spaces of occupation. Sign up: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Sign up now for our next seminar with Dr Christine De Matos

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often ov…

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 18d

Reading the proofs!

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 25d

Autumn vibes at home

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks to Svenja von Jan for her insightful review of Transnational Intersections of Germany and India for H-Soz-Kult.

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Aug 28

Rez: P. W. Myers (Hrsg.): Transnational Intersections of Germany and India

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-153802

P. W. Myers (Hrsg.): Transnational Intersections of Germany and India

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Südasien-Institut / South Asia Institute @unihd-sai.bsky.social · Aug 5

EASAS is offering three awards of €300 each to the most outstanding papers by research students presenting at #ECSAS2025.

For more information: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

#SaiHeidelberg #SouthAsiaInstitute #UniversitätHeidelberg #Heidelberg #SaiResearch #ECSAS2025 #ECSAS #EASAS

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Aug 12

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA

We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator - RHS

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop...

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Jul 24

📘New issue out now!

Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at)

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

🗃️ 20thc

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Jul 22

A major new resource by a wonderful team that will be essential for anyone teaching, and researching, South Asian histories of Britain. A huge congratulations and thank you for making this wonderful, and much needed, site a reality!

#skystorians

Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · Jul 22

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

Visit southasianbritain.org

@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Jul 22

Back in the British Library ☺️

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Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social · Jul 21

Lauter neue Mitgliedschaftsanträge und Vernetzungsanfragen für #PDprekär. 🥳 Schließt Euch uns an – nur gemeinsam sind wir stark! ✊ #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG
pdprekaer.jimdosite.com

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Michael Gerloff @michael-gerloff.bsky.social · Jul 17

Privatdozent*innen gehören ebenfalls zu den prekär beschäftigen Wissenschaftler*innen. Häufig wird ihre Arbeit nicht mal mehr entlohnt. #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan sind sicherlich solidarisch mit #PDprekär!
@jmwiarda.bsky.social fragt zu Recht "Titel ohne Zukunft?"
www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · Jun 23

I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core

Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Jun 19

Rez: C. Heffernan: Indian Club Swinging

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-146363

C. Heffernan: Indian Club Swinging

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Jun 12

www.zeit.de/2025/25/huma... wichtiger Beitrag! @glasmanjo.bsky.social

Humanitarian Studies: Humanitäre Hilfe als Wissenschaft

Wo Not herrscht, hilft Deutschland gerne. Doch geforscht wird zur humanitären Hilfe kaum. Dabei trägt Humanitarian Studies dazu bei, dass die Hilfe auch wirklich ankommt.

www.zeit.de

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · May 25

Le Mourne Brabant

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · May 25

The birds of Mauritius

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks to Joanna Simonow for her engaging review of Leonie Wolters‘ Cosmopolitan Elites and the making of globality for @hsozkult.bsky.social.

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Apr 30

Rez: L. Wolters: Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-141968

L. Wolters: Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Apr 29

Lunchbreak walk in Berlin

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Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social · Mar 10

Nearly a decade on from beginning the PhD, we have a book cover!

Out later this year - my book exploring caste, migration and indenture as foundational to Indian diplomacy. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · Apr 23

On 23 April 1933, upon his return to Germany from Italy, Saumyendranath Tagore was arrested in Munich, ostensibly for plotting to assassinate Hitler. Tagore was an outspoken critic of the Nazi regime and had ties to communists, but the accusations were false. valuepast.hypotheses.org/1022

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Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 22

Morgen (23.04.2025) in Erfurt: "Exploring Voluntariness in Postcolonial Settings". Ich spreche über entwicklungspolitische Kampagnen zur "Modernisierung" von Kleidungsmoden im postkolonialen Ostafrika (1960er–1980er Jahre).

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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · Apr 11

A wonderful review of my dear colleague and friend Fritzi-Marie Titzmanns‘s important book on Mediatised Solidarity: Media Practices of Contemporary Indian Social Movements. For all interested the book is open access.

doingsociology.org/2025/04/10/m...

Mediatised Solidarity: Media Practices of Contemporary Indian Social Movements by Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (2024): A Review by Ali Saha - Doing Sociology

Solidarity in social movements involves a sense of shared enthusiasm, devotion, and identification with the group (Benford, 2013). Mediated spaces offer a new paradigm for expressing solidarity in soc...

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