Historians Rethinking Global History
This book, edited by Gänger & Osterhammel, revisits how historians study & write about global history. It discusses issues such as explanation, comparison, time, quantification, directionality & centrism.
Open Access: https://t.co/hO78yEjDbW
Call for Papers
(De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship
27-28 August 2026
University of Turku, Finland
Deadline: 15 February 2026
Thanks to Alice Baroni for sharing!
The Journal of the African Literature Association is now fully indexed in Scopus!
Great news for SANLIC researchers, you can publish in JALA at no cost under the Read & Publish deal with Taylor & Francis.
Explore and submit: https://t.co/8PkHwdujz4
Colonial encounters were transformative events in the life cycle of manuscripts in Muslim societies. From 19–21 June, our workshop explores the complex legacy of these encounters, revealing both loss and new intellectual horizons
Hybrid event, all welcome!
https://t.co/Z6DVO8R2Kx
World Swahili Day 7/7/2025 2pm UK time - organised by SOAS Centre of African Studies and the Swahili Dialects Project (University of Essex, University of Dar es Salaam, Kenyatta University and SOAS University of London) https://t.co/LRH57xlRkq
#HamburgerZeitungenDigital: Heute haben wir einen bedeutenden Meilenstein erreicht. Für 115.000 Ausgaben wurde die OCR nachgeholt, insges. 770.000 Seiten. Damit sind nun alle Zeitungstitel im Portal (305.000 Ausg./2,7 Mio. Seiten) im Volltext durchsuchbar: https://t.co/kLcU7l7wp3
To celebrate today‘s World Kiswahili language day, we talked to @DyonizKindata about the history of Kiswahili and the cultural treasure that‘s transported through Kiswahili poems from the 18th century: watch on youtube 👇
https://t.co/fQf7BAPubs