From #Copenhagen to #Uppsala!
The past two days were full of engaging discussions and insights into diverse, and yet often mutually constitutive colonial legal systems and their influence on family formation in the Caribbean. Many thanks for the invitation!
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Libraries are SO important 🥹
Thanks for coming, Teresa! It was brilliant to have you here!
Dear historians, some of you often think about the Roman Empire, but what about the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation? In an article with Tobias Winnerling, we ask where we can find the #HRE in today’s pop culture. What should we not forget? All tips welcome! #earlymodern #medievalsky #history
Dierks 🥰
I believe that many people want to be a force for good in the world.
But then they insist on eating apples in quiet train compartments!!
I feel like this is a breakthrough moment.
Exactly. It explains EVERYTHING and is, therefore, the best history fact ever.
Excuse me, yet another Early Modernist weighing in, but I do think we need to contextualise more here. This discussion completely ignores the fact that it was constantly dark in the Middle Ages.
It was fantastic to meet *you* - after all these years!
The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
I keep coming back to this James Baldwin quote these days.
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
New hero just dropped.
Master's workshop continues! Thesis on two case studies on claims of compensation against Lübeck in the 16th century (chaired by @mouseemperor.bsky.social), and I just learned that OpenAI's online ChatGTP function recognises Middle Low German elements in Early New German texts.
Selfie with audience holding up joyfully folded letters.
All the world in a postbag! It's always very special for me to speak at public events to history fans who are learning about the Prize Papers for the first time. Yesterday I was invited to the inForum, a cultural event for #bestagers - and what a stimulating evening we had! #earlymodern #wisskom 🗃️
hello from Vienna, which I found out tonight has a fast food place called "Hab's Burgers"
Våren är här!🌞 Dags att fira dess ankomst med ett gediget möte 24 April kl.17:00 på Humanistiska Teatern i Uppsala. Rebecka Lennartsson & Mats Hayen föreläser om projektet "Stadens ansikten" - du vill inte missa det. Vi ses där!🌹
Same here, Gina!! Hope you're well!
Jag stannar också hemma! Party i personalrummet, Brita?!
The @uu.se history students' association invited me as a guest lecturer tonight. Not only were they the sweetest, most engaged audience I've ever had, they also *gave me flowers*. I think I've peaked now, job-wise.
Für Kurzentschlossene: Heute 16-18 Uhr bieten Patrick Heike (Artland-Gymnasium) und ich unsere Fortbildung zum Thema #Games und #Erinnerungskultur (2. Weltkrieg) an. Im Fokus stehen Serious Games und Shooter im #Geschichtsunterricht ab Klasse 8/9. Bei Interesse gerne melden #BlueLZ #Erinnerung
PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement
1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn
2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz
If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!
My University has left X and joined Bluesky.
bsky.app/profile/uu.se
Cover of the book "Letterlocking. The Hidden History of the Letter" by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith. Letter in front of black background.
Join Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group for the online launch event for the groundbreaking new book "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press): Tuesday, March 4, 6pm EST. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jana-dambr...
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![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm)
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
Picture of a pile of Swedish language books, including text books and dictionaries
Are you learning Swedish? If you’re interested in a load of Swedish language books, good grammar guides & dictionaries, from A1 level, let me know. If you’re in the UK & can cover postage, or live in Norwich, these are yours for free
As an archaeologist I'm asking you...if you're eligible to vote in Germany today, go vote and do what Indiana Jones would do.
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#GegenRechts
#fckafd
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