krebsverena.bsky.social
Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German Fixed-Term Professor. GIF lover. Getting better at remembering this app exists.
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Kiki, Still Life with a Broken Ear.
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What a gorgeous and brave pupper! đ
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The participation of women in pre-colonial African politics was determined by historical processes unique to a given society
In medieval Ethiopia, Queen Eleni (d. 1524) became the de facto ruler of the empire and the first woman to hold such a high office
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/chronicles...
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Described by the historian Verena Krebs as âthe single most outstanding female political figure of medieval Solomonic Ethiopia,â Eleni presided over a period of revolutionary change in Ethiopia's international standing.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/chronicles...
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Niiiiceeeeeee!
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BUT WHERE'LL THE ELECTRICITY AND COME FROM, AND WHO'LL REPLACE A BLOWN OUT POWERLINE/SOCKET/WHATEVER??
Rarely have people needed to go out and literally touch some grass (and maybe look around, at the physical world around them, in all its complicated messiness) as these folks need to.
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It's the corporate feudalists that truly make my brain melt. As my husband aptly out it when I told him about Yarvin & co last week (blessed creature had never heard of them): "they do realise that most of them don't ... *make* tangible stuff anymore, right?".
It's the dumbest timeline.
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Ooohhh! Would love to read it, this is đ„đ„đ„
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She's in her early... 30s.
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What sources -- sales records, I assume? A friend working on Jewish communities in 'medieval' Egypt mentioned she saw an uptick of Ethiopians who identified themselves as Jews in a variety of records (e.g. contesting their enslavement to local authorities) the 1530s/40s.
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Interesting! Ayda Bouanga is the Damot specialist, but I've so far I think few have worked on just how e.g. the major wars of conquest (Solomonic in the 1330s, 'Adali in the 1530s, Solomonic again in the 1550s) registered in Egyptian sources, as I suspect they did.
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Kingdom of Damot mentioned!!!
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Haben sie in diesem Fall nicht einfach sogar Libgen und scihub geplĂŒndert, was, ehhh, bedingt legal wĂ€re? Als meine BĂŒcher da verfĂŒgbar wurden freute ich mich einst, da es fĂŒr viele Kollegen aus dem globalen SĂŒden eine wichtige Ressource ist â dass eine der reichsten Firmen der Welt es nutzt... đ€
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Same. Beide BĂŒcher, und der eine Aufsatz, den ich in einem 'prestigetrĂ€chtigen' Journal unterbringen konnte. Lolsob.
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Perfect meme is perfect.
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Kiki is equally useless when it comes to fighting rats, but would like to communicate her appreciation for his very fine form. A most excellent Lab.
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Yesssss! It's a fantastic place to live and work! Excellent with a pupper, too â ours had the best of times in Princeton (and since thinks that German fauna sucks in comparison).
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It's from his 2009 book 'Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter', which left a formative impression on me as a PhD student.
Also one of my all time favourite truism-quotes.
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Hi! (I work on the 'medieval' Horn of Africa and its relations to the larger Mediterranean)
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Yesssss congratulations đđ„łđ! The IAS baby out in the world!
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It's the clip about why he isn't wearing a suit â the self-satisfied bullies pressing in, not a care in the world, just being as bad-faith and feeling superior as they can be for the glib fun of it â that had me boiling with unexpectedly incandescent rage.
Disgraceful.
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Anekdotisch, aber: in den drei FÀchern, zwischen denen ich mich bewege, sind in den letzten zehn Jahren mehr auslÀndische als inlÀndische PoC berufen worden.
Das hier trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf, IMHO: bsky.app/profile/tanj...
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Und mit "leisten können" meine ich nicht nur das Finanzielle, sondern auch die jahr(zehnt)elange Unsicherheit und mangelnde Perspektive, die man sich selbst und dem Umfeld immer wieder als "es wert" rechtfertigen muss. Ein sozialer Druck, mEn fĂŒr FirstGen, (&) PoC, (&) Frauen besonders hoch ist.
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... enden bevor sie beginnen, vom Sprung von Dr zu PD zu Prof noch nicht Mal zu sprechen. Zunehmende Gefahr (in England schon lange mein Eindruck): Geisteswissenschaften und FĂ€cher wie Geschichte und v.a. Spezialisierungen wie MediĂ€vistik werden zum Hobbyismus fĂŒr die, die es sich leisten können.3/3
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... angesichts der Perspektive im deutschen wie auch internationalen Uniumfeld (GB schon lĂ€nger, Kanada und Niederlande bauen ebenfalls drastisch zurĂŒck, durchschnittlich 3 TT-Ausschreibungen fĂŒr MediĂ€vistik in den USA die letzten Jahre) auch der einzig "vernĂŒnftige" Schritt scheint. Karrieren ..2/3
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Ich hatte das in dem House of Modern History Podcast bereits angesprochen â in meinen Veranstaltungen teils mehrheitlich Studierende "of colour", die auch Interesse an Qualifikationsarbeiten (inkl. Dr.) zu mittelalterlichen Themen haben, aber nach reiflicher Ăberlegung dann doch ins Ref, was ... 1/2
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The AfD's popularity with young(er) voters (mostly high 20s with the 18-44yo, compared to single digits with retirees) continues to be terrifying, even if the resurgence of the Left to 25% among the youngest voters is a gratifying counterpoint.
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Gerne doch! Zur Ablenkung an diesem Tag erlaube ich mir noch ein Hundebild: Kiki der Labrador in ihrem absurd ĂŒbergroĂen "Hundebett".
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I'm not a specialist on these kinds of tests, but after people mailed me their results, I'm very sceptical. Let's just say the (at least local German) companies merrily conflate linguistic groups with ethnicities and cultures and modern nation states to the point where it ... holds very little info?
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What a read!
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Fuelled by absolute terror (because hard deadline, and I'd irrevocably deleted a previous version of the books' manuscript that was based on my PhD) and somewhat manic energy that translated, finally, into clarity. It was the worst of times and the best of times in my academic and writing career.
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In the 50th anniversary proceedings of SIEM (Semana Internacional de Estudios Medievales), I think this will be the DOI once it's officially published: doi.org/10.35462/sie...
I'll also upload a copy to my website and academia when it's out.
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I tried daily writing routines last year, writing, rewriting, deleting 7000 miserable words for an article over 8 months. In 2020, I wrote a 108.000-word book from scratch between April & July. I'd been thinking about the material for years, and once I typed it out, nothing but grammar revisions.
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Same here. By now I know that the weeks or months in which near-nothing gets written are part of the process â I think of it as the buffer time when things percolate through my brain, to fall into near-final form. It makes for some very anxious and frantic writing, though, when on a hard deadline.
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Yeah. I really love Star Wars (learned English reading the Extended Universe books) and a lot of Trek, but the Expanse is a different beast altogether. Loved all the different ways gravity could and would shape and determine nearly everything, from society to health, just to name one example.
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Ah, I put in an order for that when you recommended it in another thread on here last week. Very much looking forward.
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He has his wise, flawed moments and is definitely very noir. Holden is among the most milquetoast of all 'heroes' I can think of, very exasperating, earnest to the point of obnoxious, so ... dim victim of circumstances might be appropriate too?