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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 23d

📚🔍 New project starts at ABI: PhotoTogo

Under the coordination of @richardlegay.bsky.social, a collection of colonial photographs from #Togo held at the Museum Natur und Mensch in #Freiburg will be critically examined.

▶️ Find out more on the project: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · Sep 3

My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!

Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · Jul 21

Job Announcement: Professor Modern European History (1750-Present), open rank, beginning in Fall 2026 at Grove City College, a small Christian liberal arts college an hour north of Pittsburgh. Preference for someone who can also teach courses in a non-Western field. www.gcc.edu/Utility/Port...

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Sep 5

@iamhist.bsky.social @emhis.bsky.social @martingrandjean.ch @atommarie.bsky.social @jimbomed.bsky.social @alecbad.bsky.social @huwagner.bsky.social

Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great Call for Papers for #media historians working on #radio & #magazines! 📻📰
The 'Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?' conference (Lausanne, 30.06-01.07.2026) is looking for contributions.
L'appel est aussi disponible en français.
impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

Homepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026

Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

impresso.github.io

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Conflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · Sep 2

New publication available through open access. Public History in Global Perspective…
Conflict Textiles features in chapter by Nico Ferguson Crossing Borders in Cloth, from Collectivizing to Commemorating…. Full details www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'll have to try it!

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William Blanc @hmedievaliste.bsky.social · Aug 20

Bon, vu les débats lancés à ce sujet depuis plus d’un mois, voilà un fil qui tente d’expliquer le problème que pose l’infiltration par les ultra-conservateurs des spectacles historiques et autres fêtes médiévales (ou de villages). À dérouler ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Aug 12

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔

Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Aug 12

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔

Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social

Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

tinyurl.com

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

tinyurl.com

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Lai Alice, lai hline deusporiante @marwaue.bsky.social · Jul 31

www.conseil-etat.fr/avis-consult...

A défaut du texte de loi, j'ai lu l'avis du conseil d'état qui est majoritairement du blabla de juriste mais qui revient sur deux points de tension dans le texte de loi prévu: les bornes chronologiques et les dons et legs.

Avis sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont été privés. - Conseil d'État

Le Gouvernement a décidé de rendre public l'avis du Conseil d’État sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont ...

www.conseil-etat.fr

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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 #Jobalert

Join us as a #PostDoc in the Horizon Europe project TWON (Twin of Online Social Network)! You'll work in the Political Communication & Journalism group, as well as in the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab.

📅Deadline: 28 July 2025

🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/mswjxnaj

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Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social · Jul 18

📆 Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa - Aufführung von #Dahomey &"If Objects could speak", Diskussion mit #KokouAzamede & @richardlegay.bsky.social

👉24.7. um 19.30 Uhr im Kommunalen Kino #Freiburg

@abi-freiburg.bsky.social @decolonialitynow.bsky.social

www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-o...

Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa | Kommunales Kino Freiburg

www.koki-freiburg.de

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Jul 16

You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?'

Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together!

rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...

Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past? - Rewriting peace and conflict

Over the last few years, several European powers and actors have increasingly engaged with political acts of remembering colonial violence, wars, and crimes committed in Africa in their name. Among ot...

rewritingpeaceandconflict.net

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Artificial Memory @artificialmemory.bsky.social · Jul 16

This thread departs somewhat from the editorial line of this account, but it remains within memory studies. It should be considered as a personal reflection by Frédéric Clavert.

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Jul 14

A podcast episode from Paroles d'Histoire just came out about this!
open.spotify.com/episode/64H2...

390. Andor, un concentré d’histoire et d’antifascisme, avec Jean-Christophe Piot

Paroles d'histoire · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Jun 30

Day 1 of the 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices' @iamhist.bsky.social Conference at the University of Cape Town 📻🎙️📺

Such a pleasure to be in South Africa for our biannual event! Looking forward to a packed programme.

Thanks to @marthaevans.bsky.social for organising it!

The crowd listening to the welcome words

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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · Jun 26

Which French historian is going to write about the second season of Andor????? Come on people. I’m dying for a specialist take on the French Resistance aka Ghorman Front story.

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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · Jun 23

Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Jun 11

Many thanks to French Politics for publishing our research with @mehler.bsky.social at the @abi-freiburg.bsky.social on Franco-German memory politics and colonial past!

The article is available online here: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
And as a pdf upon request!

#publichistory #memory #colonialhistory

Screenshot of the webpage of the article described in the text

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IAMHIST @iamhist.bsky.social · May 30

*IAMHIST News*: Ross Melnick is the winner of the Culbert Family Memorial Book Prize 2024 for his publication Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)! Huge congratulations Ross 🥳 iamhist.net/winner-culbe...

Congratulations to Ross Melnick, winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize for 2024! – IAMHIST

iamhist.net

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IAMHIST @iamhist.bsky.social · May 29

*IAMHIST News* Updated Summer 2025 books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please contact Veronica Johnson should you be interested in reviewing a particular title ([email protected])

Journal – IAMHIST

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Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de · May 23

#CfA Praktikant*innen für 2026 am @dhi-paris.fr gesucht

📌 für Studierende höherer Semester | für 2-3 Monate in #Paris | in den Bereichen #Forschung, #Bibliothek, #Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit u.v.m.

Bewerbungsschluss: 15. September 2025

🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

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