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detroittoaccra.bsky.social
Africanist by training; historian by trade; teacher, singer, cook by passion - talking up the new book (Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra), History at Virginia Tech, and Gen Ed at the AAC&U
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Join this Call for Co-Panelists to explore "how and why African creatives meld technology and tradition in their production, looking back as they move forward." There are 30+ sessions to join on ASA's Call for Co-Panelists! africanstudies.org/a...

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I get to be in conversation with @thetattooedprof.bsky.social next month so I spent today re-reading Radical Hope and I highly endorse everyone else doing the same

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My amazing colleagues at VT Libraries have assembled a truly exemplary Digital Humanities lib guide that I think deserves wider readership and praise. Hats off to Jesse, Mariam, Corinne, and co! guides.lib.vt.edu/dh

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I've just cleared a few to-do list items and been alerted that the first pre-ordered copies of Postal Intelligence have arrived (!) so now seems like as good a time as any to share some exciting and troubling tidbits from my ten years with Europe's postal technocrats 1/? #earlymodern 🗃️

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This is a fabulous piece about kindness and education, by emareena x danielles. A timely reminder that kindness nourishes change traumaresponsive.substack.com/p/kindness-e...

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Our African Urban Dynamics Collaborative Research Group - AEGIS is organizing a series of pedagogy workshops that are focused on urban Africa. Check out registration links on the website and plan to join us: teachingafricancities.vt.domains/uncategorize...

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I’m very grateful to Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi for his review of Making an African City in Research Africa Reviews! I am particularly gratified by the way he connects the themes of each chapter to experiences across Anglophone Africa. researchafrica.duke.edu/files/2025/0...

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The ASA 2025 Call for Proposals is now open for submissions! Submit to present on this year's program and join us in Atlanta Nov. 20-22. Don't forget to check out what's new for #ASA2025 including new session types. More participation info here: africanstudies.org/news/the-asa...

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New Call for Co-Panelists: Africa in the 19th Century. This panel will explore African advances and innovations prior to European colonization and interrogate the complicated relationship between Europe & Africa in the decades before the 1880s. Full call africanstudies.org/annual-meeti...

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Don't forget to submit your abstracts for @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social's 2025 conference! Deadline: 24 February The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 🗓️ 4th & 5th Sept 2025 📍 University of Leicester 🔗 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...

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JOB ALERTS Aarhus University - Two Postdoctoral positions in the research project 'Mobilities, Imaginaries & Articulations (MIA): Revisioning the African City from the Periphery' www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Academic gigs: Brown University - Postdoctoral Research Associate in West, Central, or East African History www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Society launches new Open Access book series on 'History and Contemporary Society' bit.ly/4aqCiG4 With @cambridgeup.bsky.social, we invite proposals for our new series: 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society' to explore the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture 1/2 👇

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Today, more than ever, I'm glad to be a teacher - to spend my day with people learning read closely and think carefully; who are stoking their curiosity, asking questions, and corroborating their answers. It's a small thing in the face of so much, but it might be everything, too.

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We are delighted to announce with the National Archives and @ihrlibrary.bsky.social that the History and Archives in Practice 2025 registration is now live! Join us to explore 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance' orlo.uk/HAP25_hq0EE

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"The biggest pros I’ve encountered have 4-5 stories that they can trot out for any occasion when they’re talking abt the 📕. Does this mean that every article or interview they do is entirely original? Absolutely not. Do avg readers read every single piece of press written about a 📕? Absolutely not."

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"I never want to pretend that I’m inventing something new or starting some new conversation... It’s an exercise in intellectual humility to say: We as readers, I as a writer, am entering smthg that is ongoing. Novelty is fetishized in academia. Everyone wants to do the new thing." - Ruha Benjamin

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So excited to see my amazing colleague Amanda Demmer among the recipients of an NEH fellowship this year!

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Due today!! Get your nominations in!

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Deadline today!!

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Highly recommend Chuck's thoughts on generative AI and higher ed, especially this bit.

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I’m just Jason and this week Historians At The Movies talks all things about gender norms, self acceptance, patriarchy, and personal growth. Join us on Netflix at 8pm this Sunday, January 19th for BARBIE. Keep the #HATM community growing by sharing this watch party and we’ll see you soon!

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I’m excited to see this! Congratulations @coastalhistory.bsky.social !!!

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📢NACBS M.A. Essay Prize📢 🗓️Deadline January 15! More info here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

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#academicsky: I forgot that last year I wrote a guide for undergraduates on how to read an academic article or monograph (not monetized): christophersrose.com/2024/01/26/u... Feel free to use if it's helpful - that's why I wrote it! #academia #university

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This is one of the most thoughtful and comprehensive discussion of these issues that I’ve seen! Critical for thinking about what teaching and learning looks like in the years to come and how we might adjust in productive ways!

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“Making an African City” might be coming to a conference near you thanks to my awesome editors at IUPress. Grab a copy to support academic publishing, but you can also access it for free here: publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/mak...

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