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carolienstolte.bsky.social
Historian | Leiden University | India | Books | Running #peacemovementsproject
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The term card is out for our Peace Histories Seminar Series! Students, colleagues, and anyone interested in the history of peace movements, please join us at @leidenhumanities.bsky.social for three amazing speakers AND a film screening! Details here: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/serie...

My personal academic Valentine is "I learned a lot from your work." We need to remember to generous in our praise of our fellow scholars

🎧 Listen to our latest podcast with annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, discussing the post-Bandung period from the perspective of cultural and artistic movements open.spotify.com/episode/5B48...

Apply now for 13 #fellowship #grants at Leiden University Libraries’ Scaliger Institute to conduct research using our #SpecialCollections & #DigitalCollections @UBLeiden.bsky.social @UniLeiden.bsky.social. Deadline: 1 April 2025 More information ➡️ www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...

Nu al blij dat ik straks zoveel mooi nieuw werk mag gaan bekijken met de jury! Jonge Leidse kunstenaars in mijn netwerk: meld je aan! Inschrijving open tot vrijdag 6 april. www.lakenhal.nl/nl/verhaal/d...

Dozens Feared Dead in Stampede at Huge Hindu Festival in India www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/w...

Free webinar organised by the Association for Political History: Why and how to publish an edited volume with an international publisher. Featuring @richardtoye.bsky.social @carolienstolte.bsky.social Pasi Ihailainen, Jo Innes and Hagen Schulz-Forberg. 31 January 13:00-14:00.

Another episode from our pocast is is out! @basileboulay.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social are joined by historian Carolien Stolte to reflect on the legacies of the Bandung Spirit that shaped international relations and political economy in the 1950s and beyond open.spotify.com/episode/0mWu...

This is such a great initiative! 🙌 As part of efforts to make the field of global history more truly ‘global’, @globalhistjnl.bsky.social is hosting an online development workshop to help prospective authors through the submission process. Apply by 1 March! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The #peacemovementsproject just visited the Âge atomique exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. If you have a chance to see it before it closes on Feb 9th, go! It's amazing. So much to process, but for now I'll leave this here: Troglodyte with Nuclear Bomb, Stefan Rinck, 2017.

JGH is excited to welcome new editorial board members: Pierre Singaravélou, Seema Alavi, Taomo Zhou, Tawanda Valentine Chambwe, Stefanie Gänger, Carolien Stolte, John-Paul Ghobrial, and Sven Benjamin Schuster. We are looking forward to working with you in 2025!'

Why is the edited volume still a worthwhile option in the current scholarly publication landscape? Join the APH @associationpolhist.bsky.social webinar on Fri Jan 31! 👇 Contributions by ao @richardtoye.bsky.social @carolienstolte.bsky.social

Leiden friends! Join us in celebrating the VVIK Society (Kern Institute for Indology) centennial! Now: Peter Bisschop on VVIK Society founder Jean Philippe Vogel, whose portrait is straight out of a Wes Anderson film. Program: www.instituutkern.nl/agenda/3517/...

Het verslag van de Mare: www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/samen...

Een willekeurige greep uit een groeiende collectie ❤️

Very proud that our new volume on Development, Socialism, and Internationalism is now out on Open Access! Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor Nana Osei-Opare and all our contributors, & @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & David Brydan for welcoming us in their series www.bloomsbury.com/us/socialism...

Postdoc alert! Come join our wonderful Peace Movements Project team! We are looking for someone to work on the history of peace movements in the MENA region - please share widely and let me know if you have any questions! www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Two doctoral positions open with some of my favorite Global History colleagues! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

I'm looking for a postdoc in my project! Postdoc "The Afterlife of Colonial Medicine" - Leiden University (universiteitleiden.nl)

One of Leiden’s newest PhD candidates works on modern Nepal. Using a tour of the library as an excuse to explore some of the Nepali manuscripts in Special Collections - mostly dharani-genre texts. How come I never make time for this normally? I need a #manuscriptmonday!

The journal I co-edit is now on Bluesky. Give them a follow for updates on the work we publish with focus on history of political economy, transnational politics, gender, migration, and many other topics: @conteurohistory.bsky.social

Interested in doing a History PhD in Travel Writing? The history department at the University of Warwick has received a donation from Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, for four fully-funded studentships! 2 with Autumn 2024 entry: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

#job alert: 6-year(!) postdoc position in Econ & Social History at Uni Vienna. Your research proposal can include any theme, time & region but should link #microhistory & global #history with the aim to advance the "micro-spatial perspective." Please circulate the call widely: tinyurl.com/microhis

Starting off this morning with a public lecture by dr Graça Machel on intergenerational justice in a time of planetary crises. Preciously few people can convey the injustices the current generation is inflicting on future ones with such clarity.

Sad news. Re-reading this piece by @fatahblack.bsky.social & Jess Roitman because it typifies NZD so well: an encounter outside the Leiden library, where NZD was reading a Sranan-German dictionary, because "language is an avenue into the mental world of the past." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Met dank aan de gastvrijheid van @maartjejanse.bsky.social voeg ook ik me bij de historici alhier! 📚📖