I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK
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I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK
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🔔 L'appel à candidatures pour le Prix de thèse 2026 de la Fondation est lancé 🔔
Depuis 2005, un prix récompense une thèse en SHS, portant sur l'histoire de la traite, de l'esclavage et des abolitions à l'époque coloniale ou sur ses conséquences dans le monde actuel.
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Already looking forward to presenting one of the chapters of my dissertation at the #Africana-ENS research seminar! Do come along if you happen to be in Paris in April 🇫🇷📚
📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History!
JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger.
In person and online.
Find out more and register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...
I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Interested in the politics of #remembering in the #Caribbean?
Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@dependencybonn.de
Go and check out our new blog post! 🥳 #Fever #Histories
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Und noch ein CfP des @dhi-paris.fr: "Doing #MigrationHistory with Digital Methods". Summer School 2026 in Paris, deadline: 15 January 2026. #MigHist #DigHum: dhdhi.hypotheses.org/12659
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
As well as the #Vasa (1628)
Definetly worth a visit: #Sveriges #nationalbibliotek in Stockholm! 📚
We are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!
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!
@mouseemperor.bsky.social
It’s always great to return to Copenhagen and reconnect with @inthesamesea.bsky.social. Inspiring talks and people!
The Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History is hosting a masterclass for (post-) doctoral researchers with Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) on global cultural history, set to take place 22-23 Jan 2026. Spread the word! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...
The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
One of three keynotes was by Jamaica Kincaid.
Have you heard of #socare? It’s the only society for #Caribbean research in Germany, connecting people interested in the region’s history, languages & cultures. This year’s conference focused on #WomenInTheCaribbean.
Come join our community and next events: caribbeanresearch.net/en/about-soc...
Film- und Vortragsreihe: Das Mittelalter auf der Leinwand – Veranstaltungsreihe des Historischen Seminars geht der Frage nach, wie eine vergangene Epoche zur Projektionsfläche für das Kino wird www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #mittelalter #film #kino
📖 In a new post on our FEVER-blog, our very own Lea-Marie Trigilia takes a look at the tensions between learned medicine and medical charlatanism during the petechial fever epidemics that affected Italy in the early 19th century. Happy reading! www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/the-most-...
CfP is out for next year’s #Socare Early-Career-Symposium!
Know someone researching the #Caribbean or related regions? Spread the word and share this call! 🌍
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
It's time to look back on our FEVER conference which took place in early July at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences! To learn more about the tropics discussed, take a look at the conference proceedings at our FEVER-blog: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/workshop-... Huge thanks to everyone that joined!
Das 5. Heidelberger Stadtgespräch des FPI zum Thema "Die digitale Darstellung von Stadtgeschichte" findet dieses Jahr in Kooperation mit den Staatlichen Schlössern und Gärten Baden-Württemberg am 24.09.2025 auf Schloss #Heidelberg statt.
Tironische Note als Initiale. Paris, BnF, lat. 190, fol. 15v. Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1. Hälfte 9. Jh.
Am 11./12. September 2025 findet unsere Tagung "Stenographie und karolingische Schriftkultur" in Lorsch statt. Es geht u.a. um jüngste Forschung zu tironischen Noten und neue Erschließungsmethoden. Mehr Infos & Tagungsprogramm:
heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/f/514068c807...
#medievallatin #palaeography
If you want to know how an elephant from the Zoological Garden in Cologne ended up as a skeleton in the zoological collection of the University of Heidelberg check out the second blog entry on the history of the collections of the university of Heidelberg: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/from-capt...
During the semester we delved into the history of the university's collections with our undergraduate students. The result are some exciting blog posts. You can check out the first one here:
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/colonial-...
Find of the day: Turns out #Foucault was also into Pinel's fever classification!
@feverprojecthd.bsky.social
🩺 eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic...
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Our team member @teresagoeltl.bsky.social recently spoke about her academic journey. Recorded by #Africana, a platform hosted by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, dedicated to showcasing research on Africa and its global connections: africanaens.com/portraits-de...
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