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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · 19d

@ghilondon.bsky.social @dandavidprize.org @italianacademy.bsky.social @globalyacademy.bsky.social

Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · 19d

200 years Museum Island in Berlin! 🎂 🎈💥💫
What has changed, or rather, what has to change in the age of repatriation?
Delighted to be part of new documentaries by ARTE @artefr.bsky.social
& Deutsche Welle @news.dw.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnoz...
Tune in on Sunday (ARTE) or use the links below.

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20d

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf

drive.google.com

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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · Aug 21

The road to fascism is paved by German media calling things umstritten...

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · Aug 21

@taz.de: „Am Samstag wird in Berlin-Mitte das neue Straßenschild in der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße feierlich enthüllt. Damit enden die jahrelangen Kämpfe um die Umbenennung der M-Str. Die Aktivistinnen Regina Römhild & Adela Taleb vom Amo Kollektiv blicken zurück.“

www.taz.de/!6105262

Umbenennung der Mohrenstraße: „Es betrifft uns alle, wie diese Straße heißt“

Am Samstag wird das neue Straßenschild in der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße enthüllt. Die Aktivistinnen Regina Römhild und Adela Taleb blicken zurück.

www.taz.de

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Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies @mnemonics.bsky.social · Aug 20

Public Events on Memory & Responsibility

🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg
🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja

Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

In case you've been wondering about the moral and intellectual crisis in Holocaust studies, here's exhibit A.

It also illustrates why we felt the need to found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: www.ghscn.org/home

The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide

How the war in Gaza is dividing scholars of Nazi Germany.

www.newyorker.com

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Aug 13

Dear colleagues and friends,

A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨

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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · Aug 11

L'Allemagne racontée à travers l'île aux Musées de #Berlin. Deux documentaires donnent la parole à des historien.ne.s comme @mideastineurope.bsky.social pour retracer l'histoire souvent tourmentée d'objets iconiques et d'une archéologie européenne aux racines impériales. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

L'île aux Musées, histoire d'une nation (1/2) - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE

Inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, l'île aux Musées de Berlin fête son bicentenaire en 2025. À cette occasion, ce documentaire retrace en deux volets l’histoire d'un complexe muséal unique au ...

www.arte.tv

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Jul 17

How did Sufis navigate the complex political landscape of late 19th-century Egypt under British occupation?
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Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de · Jul 18

#CfA Postgraduate Students and Postdoc #Scholarships

📍 for research projects in #Britain | up to three months beginning from January 2026 | awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 September 2025

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

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Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies @mwfdelhi.bsky.social · Jul 21

🪧Applications invited from post-doctoral/early career scholars at German universities and research institutions, for a three-month #fellowship
🕔26 September 2025 (23:59 CET)
Details👇
karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/f...
@ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @icasmp.bsky.social

GHIL-MWF Delhi Joint Fellowship on "The British Empire and the History of Colonialism"

karriere.maxweberstiftung.de

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · Jul 17

The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Historicide in Gaza

Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told

newlinesmag.com

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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · Jul 13

What does it mean to connect to ‘Country’? Our Sydney Winter School ‘History in the Park. Connecting Histories of Relations to Land’ is coming to an end. A week of discussion on land dispossession (eg park heritagisation, military use or golf courses), from 🇦🇺& Rapa Nui, to South Africa & Palestine.

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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · Jul 13

What does it mean to connect to ‘Country’? Our Sydney Winter School ‘History in the Park. Connecting Histories of Relations to Land’ is coming to an end. A week of discussion on land dispossession (eg park heritagisation, military use or golf courses), from 🇦🇺& Rapa Nui, to South Africa & Palestine.

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ICAS:MP @icasmp.bsky.social · Jun 19

Why apply for the ICAS:MP Fellowship?
• Work in an interdisciplinary environment
• Monthly stipend up to €3,500
• Focused writing time
• Present your research to the ICAS academic circle & receive expert feedback
@ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @unierfurt.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Jun 11

Join us on 24 June at 5:30pm for the next lecture in our GHIL lecture series given by Aparna Vaidik (Ashoka University) on 'Forensics, Expert Testimony, and Judicial Truth in British India: A History of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Trial (1929–31)'.
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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tomorrow if you fancy a late afternoon outing to Greenwich!

Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · Jun 7

📢 June Event coming up at the PEF!

"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.

🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP

RSVP by emailing [email protected] ✍️

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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · Jun 16

Please join us this Thursday in London if you’re around!

Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · Jun 7

📢 June Event coming up at the PEF!

"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.

🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP

RSVP by emailing [email protected] ✍️

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Jun 10

Vanished by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social is such an exceptional book. It traces the history of how Western scientists have understood #extinction, and the political and social implications of that thinking, including on colonial fantasies of replacing Indigenous peoples. I can't recommend it enough! 👏

The cover of Sadiah Qureshi's Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction. It shows a historical image of an elaborated Mastodon skeleton towering above an elephant being ridden by a man, while a Native American man and a colonist in a suit and top-hat look on.

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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · Jun 12

“According to @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social animal extinction should not be treated as a separate historical development from human extermination.” ‼️
Brilliant as expected (& just on time for our Winter School in 🇦🇺 on Settler Colonialism, National Parks & Heritage 😉) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire

In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss

www.theguardian.com

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Jun 3

🌱🌺🌸🌼🌱
A huge thanks to Penguin for giving me these seeded bookmarks to mark the publication of my book Vanished on Thursday. I’ll give them out at launch events to the first people buying the book, or bringing copies, so that they can grow wildflowers as they read about amazing ways of being.
🌱🌺🌸🌼🌱

Front and back designs for a bookmark.

Front features the following text:
‘Extinction extinguishes ways of being: a coalescence of possibilities, a quickening of leaf, wing, scale, and bone into lives we call trees, bees, sharks, tigers, or human.

Extinction isn't just a natural phenomenon: it's a political choice.’

Back features an image of the book’s front cover with the following text:

'A vital and important book’
DAVID OLUSOGA

'A marvellous, troubling, moving and important book lit with hope’
HELEN MACLONALD

‘Enthralling, devastating and yet empowering’
OLIVETTE OTELE

Vanished
An Unnatural History of Extinction
Sadiah Qureshi

Wildflower seeded bookmark.
Plant and water me to grow.

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · May 16

Join us on Monday, 19.5., for the sixth lecture in our series in cooperation with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on 'Science, Knowledge and the Legacy of Empire' given by Helen Tilley!

www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...

#histsci #globalhistory #colonialhistory

German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are delighted to welcome Helen Tilley (Northwestern University) on 19 May 2025 when she will give our next #ThyssenLecture. 📯

Her talk is entitled 'Thinking with Blind Men and Elephants: A Dialogue on Personhood, Empires, and Unknowable Things'.
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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · May 13

Today! Join us in person or online.

German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join us for a special event on 13 May at 5.30pm (BST)! 📣

"London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise"

with Janina Struk (independent scholar), Paul Betts (University of Oxford) and James Bulgin (Imperial War Museums)
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