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There is still time to register for Anita Guerrini's (@nickytheprof.bsky.social) seminar on Wednesday (3-4 CET) about the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhwyd : The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales. For Zoom-link please email: [email protected] Welcome!

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Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

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"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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Our book is getting much closer now @lindaaburnett.bsky.social! #Enlightenment #race #colonialhistory #intellectualhistory #naturalhistory

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CFP: Material Scotland, Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference, 15-16 May 2025, University of Edinburgh. Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR and postgrad particularly welcome. Please share!

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We're recruiting! Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000. Please share with suitable candidates. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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Formerly enslaved, Anna Julia Cooper earned an MA in math in 1887 & a PhD. Educator, leader, democracy activist, her 1892 book championed women's rights. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

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It is not too late to sign up for today's seminar ( 15-16 CET) by the terrific Matthew D Eddy: "Information against empire: Parliamentary Instructions, Colonial Databanks and the Subversion of Racialised Health". For Zoom link please email: [email protected]. Welcome!

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A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

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Join us on Mon (9 Dec, 15-16 CET) for seminar by @bookscribbler.bsky.social on the 19th-c black surgeon William Fergusson in Sierra Leone: "Information against empire: Parliamentary Instructions, Colonial Databanks and the Subversion of Racialised Health". Zoom-link: [email protected]

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Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

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1/4 I hope there’ll be a proper commemoration of the 5th anniversary of Colston’s statue toppling next June. At the time I objected to the right wing press & politicians describing it as an attempt to ‘rewrite history’, but actually it did, in two senses:

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Don't miss tomorrow's seminar by Maria Florutau, Prize questions as instructions: useful colonial knowledge in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (1770-1800). The seminar can be accessed via Zoom, for link please email: [email protected]. Time: 15.00-16.00 C.E.T

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

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In no particular order, some great new books and articles that came out in 2024 and that touch upon topics of archives and knowledge infrastructure. 1/ 🧵

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Check out this short film on the making of blank spaces on maps of Africa. The film is a collaboration between my wonderful colleague Petter Hellström (based on his current project) and the Swedish Museums of World Cultures.

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We are delighted to announce the publication of our 2024 Special Issue: "Mapping Uncertain Knowledge", edited by Professor Djoeke van Netten! Explore a captivating reading at the following link: journalhistoryknowledge.org//mapping-unc...

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This Wednesday (23 Oct) we have the pleasure to host a seminar by Laurence Talairach: Women Instructing Women: Shaping Communities of Seaweeders in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Time: 15-16 (Please not this is CET), Uppsala och Zoom. For Zoom link, please email: [email protected]

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New term and new terrific line up of speakers for the Instructing Colonial Natural History seminars. Topics are women teaching women; black scientists subverting racialised science, and prize questions in the Batavian society. For Zoom link see poster. #history #colonialism #museums #naturalhistory

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The History of Science Department at Harvard University seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in the history of technology. Deadline: October 1, 2024 jobs.chronicle.com/job/37689389... #histsci #STS #PhilTech #HistTech 🗃️

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Last seminar of this term of the Instructing Colonial Natural History series is this Wed, 29th of May from 15:00 CET, with a wonderful paper by Staffan Müller-Wille and Elena Isayev, titled Linnaeus in Lapland: Generating Knowledge in Transit. The seminar can be accessed via Zoom, for link

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Ropa det så ministern hör!

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We are holding the next seminar in the Instructing Colonial Natural History series tomorow, 7th of May 15:15-16:15 CET, with a paper by Bruce Buchan, To “attract the attention of travellers”: Instructions, Race and the Science of Colonisation, 1768-1800. For Zoom: [email protected]

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Don't miss the paper on colonial infrastructures in natural history collecting by the wonderful @dominikhhh.bsky.social! This Wednesday at 15 (CET!). To register for Zoom-link please email: [email protected]. Abstract: instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/semin... #skystorians #envhist

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Tomorrow's seminar on instructions should be a real treat! Nicholas B. Miller will give the paper “Migrating Instructions: Wilhelm Hillebrand’s Mission to Asia for the Kingdom of Hawai‘i (1865–1866)” Time: 15:00-16.00 (please note: CET). For Zoom link please email: [email protected]

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HISTORY JOB ALERT 🚨🗃️ Assistant Professor in Modern History (post 1800), of Britain (including Ireland) or Europe and/or their empires. Come work with us @WarwickHistory! Please share and circulate. Details below 👇 Deadline: 14 January 2024 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate...

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Join us at the next Collection Ecologies CHSTM seminar on 8 Feb at 12pm EST (6pm CET)! CollEcol member Nuala Caomhanach & many others will present on 'Building an Inclusive Botany: The “Radicle” Dream' 🪻 Register: www.chstm.org/content/coll... #collections #museums #histknow #envhum #envhist

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