Just in time for #ECAS2023 my book "On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after WWII" is out in paperback (just not yet shipped here). Order it for a 35% discount with code ECAS23 on the @berghahnbooks website: https://t.co/NvkIOsqSNR
for the #NWFF2024 in Bonn @JochenLingelba1 & I have a panel on refugee hosting in Africa, including its histories, actors & how we study it - read about it here https://t.co/x1e0hQnehk and submit your papers by 22nd April 👇
Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Flüchtlingsrecht zeigt,dass ein Eintreten für die Verfolgten und Fliehenden nicht allein eine Lehre aus dem 2.Weltkrieg ist. Es ist auch eine Errungenschaft der Dekolonisierungsbewegungen,die dies gegen d. europäischen Kolonialmächte durchsetzten.
Die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention von 1951 galt ursprünglich nur für Europäer:innen und war unverhohlen kolonial. Jochen Lingelbach @JochenLingelba1 zeigt, dass ihre spätere Universalisierung nur auf Druck dekolonisierter Staaten des Südens erfolgte. https://t.co/mjfrnPLj41
Next week at #ZiF: The Kickoff Conference of our current resident research group! With a public keynote on 8 Nov by Elspeth Guild (@QMUL) and panel discussion on 9 Nov. Both will also be streamed - find details here: https://t.co/a2yoakImWq @wolfffra @VolkerHeins@DanaSchmalz
Paperback of my book “Postcolonial People” out now! Finally, it comes with a reasonable price tag, especially if you use the attached promotion code HIST4323 before the end of the month.
"Über Geld spricht man nicht"? Wir schon in #WerkstattGeschichte 88/2023 "reden über geld"!
hg. von Korinna Schönhärl, Frederike Schotters & Guido Thiemeyer, Gelddiskurse und -semantiken aus dem Blickwinkel der int. Gesch.
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Are you in Bayreuth on 25th July, join us (my class on waste and disposability in late capitalism) to talk about trash from our households and listen what a trash talk. @unibt @BehrendsAndrea @mihirzabaan @kirby_benjamin @JochenLingelba1 @GlasmanJo @NipeFagio@DiscardStudies
Article status (with @KAMackinnon): published!
What becomes a refugee camp? Making camps for European refugees in North Africa and the Middle East, 1943-46
Out now in Journal of Refugee Studies 🥳
Open access ⬇️
https://t.co/cGtm6NBroX
Historical mobilities in Africa challenge the binary conceptualisation of mobility and immobility. Check out our new blog post by Rose Jaji @IDOS_research: https://t.co/mjTvsi9WQa This links to Rose's wonderful new book on non-migration: https://t.co/6W0LYfWNUn
Meet the Fellow!
During her fellowship, Prof. Dr. Pamila Gupta from WiSER, University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, works on a project scrutinizing what happens when an Indian Ocean past meets an African Indian present in a collection of photographs by
The fourth annual Cluster #conference will be held at the @unibt from 11th to 14th October 2023 on the theme of “Spatialities”. The conference will be held in a hybrid format. All sessions are open for the public. https://t.co/bRd68r5xLd
#AfricaMultiple#research#AfricanStudies
PostDoc-Stelle bei mir am Lehrstuhl zu vergeben. Drei Jahre volle Stelle in einem DFG-Projekt zur Geschichte der Finanzpolitik in den deutschen Kolonien. Keine Lehrverpflichtung und volle Konzentration auf die Studie/Habil möglich. Dies an der Uni Flensburg. Bitte bewerben. 1/3
More & more works on Polish DPs 🤩🥳😀@JochenLingelba1 (Berghahn, 2020), my book (Bloomsbury, 2023), & @NowKatarzyna (McGill-Queens, 2023) - contact the publishers for review copies.
Any more works coming out soon? I'd love to hear about them!
#PolishHistory#AcademicChatter
In May, the screening of the film "Looted Art in Benin City" kicked off the series of events created as a cooperation of Afrikaleidoskop and Arte. You can now watch the film and the subsequent discussion here: https://t.co/gk2qUY9UBp
#BlastFromThePast#UniBayreuth#beninbronze