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elisabeth-piller.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Transatlantic and North American History @uni-freiburg.de; US food aid / blockades / postwar
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📣📣Are you looking for a postdoc? 📣📣 Does a EU or Horizon Europe assoc country (eg UK, S Korea) seem like a good destination? These fellowships a great funding option for anyone in the 🌎 👀 Check them out - next call opens 8 May 🧪 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

The first Freiburg-based job of BLOCKADE (@erc.europa.eu synergy grant) is out. A 4-year postdoc to research the world war blockades & their impact on women's mobilisation, vulnerability and resilience. Hoping to put together an amazing team in Freiburg. Please share! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

In #AHAPerspectives, get a sneak peek of the March issue of the American Historical Review, including articles on medieval studies, data as sources, and the scientific use of Egyptian mummies, Thavolia Glymph's AHA presidential address, and two collections on the Vietnam War. 🗃️

Merci à @france.theconversation.com et @aureliedjavadi.bsky.social pour nos échanges et cette interview qui revient sur les retours des pères absents au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en France et sur les relations père/enfants en 1945v 👇

Just found out that Neville Wylie and my edited collection will be out in paperback this June. Excellent news

Less than a week to apply for this. Tell 20th c Americanists. 3 years in Cambridge 🗃️ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/

Much talk of FDR, Churchill, Lend-Lease, 1940 and so on at the moment. It is probably important to remind ourselves that the Roosevelt administration flirted with the idea of abandoning Britain in the early years of the Second World War and might have done had events worked out differently. 🧵

CALL FOR PAPERS! I'm co-organising a conference in September on women's work in the Second World War, with a graduate research forum in the afternoon for PGRs to present their work. Please share with any postgrads who might be interested! More details here ⬇️ royalhistsoc.org/calendar/cod...

Exciting news: 'Feeding the Mind' will be available in paperback in May for £29.99 - more affordable than the hardback version. It may be of interest to anyone working on 20th century humanitarianism, post-war reconstruction, internationalism and intellectual life. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

The first Freiburg-based job of BLOCKADE (@erc.europa.eu synergy grant) is out. A 4-year postdoc to research the world war blockades & their impact on women's mobilisation, vulnerability and resilience. Hoping to put together an amazing team in Freiburg. Please share! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Still a few days left to submit - really welcome proposals from ECRs, PGR students, museum professionals and anyone interested in the conference themes - drop me a line with any questions @royalhistsoc.bsky.social @smh-historians.bsky.social @navyrecords.bsky.social

there had to be a slight re-write of chapter 8 🥲

Heads up historians: the State Historical Society of Iowa has a CFP for research grants: history.iowa.gov/resources/gr...

„You have to be more thankful“ Die Trump Doktrin

So I guess I am going back to writing my chapter about "ungrateful Europeans" today ...

Become @andrekrischer.bsky.social and my colleague in beautiful Freiburg!

Full Professorship (W 3) for Modern History with a focus on gender history and historical culture (Univ. Freiburg) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

My latest article was recently published OA with the International History Review. It's about transnational lives and the connections between the League of Nations and the UN seen through the experiences of Walter Kotschnig. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#CfP A World in Motion 📌 #Conference on Eurasian Border Areas in Times of War and Postwar | supported by #MWNEasternEurope and others 📅 12-13 December 2025 in Paris Deadline: 1 May 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

🥇 Reminder: Nominations for the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Friends of the German Historical Institute, are due by March 1st! More details: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...

Ok. So. Look. Lend-Lease, since it’s in the news again thanks to BoJo. LL, introduced in spring 1941, was intended to get around the specific problem that the UK no longer had dollar liquidity to pay for US imports at a time when the United States was still neutral in the war.

Der Sammelband "Wie schreibt man Internationale Geschichte?" von @arvidschors.bsky.social u. Fabian Klose ist Open Access erschienen: www.campus.de/e-books/wiss... Wir freuen uns a. neue Leser:innen! @academycologne.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @unibibkoeln.bsky.social @juetzhd.bsky.social

Jörn Leonhard at the History Department @uni-freiburg.de is looking for three new PhD candidates working on the cultural history of politics from 1880-1950 I European or global comparison www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

📢 Exciting News! JGH is hosting a Development Editing Workshop. Workshop open to scholars for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Find out more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lwRt...

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

The draft program for #SHAFR2025 is available on the conference website! www.shafr.org/shafr2025

This workshop took place last week - but more workshops and a lecture series on postwar periods to follow! You can check out our project group here: uni-freiburg.de/frias/post-w...

Apply now! Freiburg Postdoctoral Academy (FPA) offers 10 memberships in the newly launched Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research. 📌The Good Life – What Makes a Good Society ✅ #Postdocs, 2–6 years after PhD 📆 Oct 2025-Sep 2028 📝 Apply by 15 April #cfa: uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

We advertise a new Full Professorship (W3) in Fire Ecology @uni-freiburg.de. Do you work on effects of fires on vegetation biodiversity, functionality, dynamics and fire mitigation? Consider applying to join our vibrant Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

🇫🇷 ☢️ La relance d’un vieux débat à la lumière du basculement géopolitique actuel. ip-quarterly.com/en/europeani...

Heute ist unser Sammelband erschienen: "Und morgen die ganze Welt". Nationalsozialismus und internationale Öffentlichkeit (Hg. m. Norman Domeier). Vielen Dank an @juetzhd.bsky.social von Campus für die Betreuung und an die Thyssen-Stiftung für die finanzielle Förderung! www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

Please see our call for special issues for 2025 and 2026 here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... We look forward to hearing from you! @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @h-net-humanities.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Thanks to @raherrmann.bsky.social for inviting me to guest edit this special issue of Global Food History, "Empires of Disgust": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfgf20/1...