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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 32m

A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 3d

Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social . New blog post by Christian Jones on shorturl.at/EKABu This way to the special issue itself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue

This article relates to a new special issue published in Urban History titled ‘Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn’. The issue was edit…

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 3d

Gaza. 04.10.2025

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Bernd Hüttner @berndhuettner.bsky.social · 6d

Die Ausschreibung für den Thomas- Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 ist da. Er wird von der German Labour History Association "für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour History" verliehen.
Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...

Thomas-Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 - German Labour History Association

Die German Labour History Association (GLHA) schreibt zum vierten Mal den Thomas-Welskopp-Preis für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour Histor...

www.germanlabourhistory.de

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 7d

I understand and share the alarm and exasperation, but is there really “an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now”?

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8d

So much unreality. There is an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now and no sign that we are learning anything from it.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone want to tell him what happened to the largest battleship ever built?

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks!

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Title and abstract for the linked article

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, and I forgot the link over all the excitement: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

FirstView articles | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Urban History - Professor Shane Ewen, Professor Prashant Kidambi, Professor Rosemary Sweet, Professor Rosemary Wakeman

www.cambridge.org

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 13d

Ademide Adeluyi-Adelusi (on Lagos), Cyrus Schayegh (on Beirut), and Guadalupe García (on Havana). Here's to hoping that some people find it useful for teaching and future research. Thanks to all the authors, the journal, and the @snsf.ch for making this happen! 3/3

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 13d

Apart from our own team members as authors, the special issue features articles by Michael Yeo (on cities in North Borneo), Sujit Sivasundaram (on Colombo), Lucia Carminati (on Port Said), Olivia Durand (on New Orleans and Odessa), Adrián Lerner Patrón (on Iquitos), Anindita Ghosh (on Calcutta), 2/3

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 13d

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 13d

"...scheint es angebracht, der Dämonisierung des Nationsbegriffs entgegenzuwirken... Wer Nationen untersuchen will, essentialisiert sie nicht automatisch". Weiterer Debattenbeitrag zur russländischen Imperiengeschichte, u.a. von meinem Kollegen Robert Kindler

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Joel. Hope you are well and would be marvelous to see you in Berlin one day.

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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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 17d

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 17d

First read him in a German translation and loved it.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19d

More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies.
www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22d

A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza.
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 22d

Yes, that would be better.

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 22d

Yes, I don’t think it’s a serious option either. A political non-starter also… But 🤷🏽

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 22d

Yeah, no, I mean I don’t think prohibition is a serious option, so 🤷🏽

Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 22d

Increasingly convinced that the best way to save democracy is to prohibit social media.

Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.

Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 24d

I know this is a secondary point, but American citizenship is not a dimension that matters or should matter in this context.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 25d

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Aug 31

This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature

Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...

www.nature.com

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 25d

Dutch paper De Volkskrant interviewed 15 international doctors who say they saw minimum 141 children with single shot wounds to head/chest in Gaza. Adds to other doctors’ testimony indicating some IDF shooters deliberately targeting children. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur

Artsen zagen in Gaza een verontrustend patroon: kinderen met een enkele schotwond in hoofd of borst, een teken dat er gericht op ze is geschoten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Volkskrant, die sprak ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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