Sarah Bellows-Blakely

Congratulations, Christian!!! This is very exciting. I hope you are celebrating well!

Cover of "The Politics of Culture". It shows the title of the book, the author's name, and a cassette by Radio Assifa.

Everybody is talking about culture – and nobody agrees on what it means. If you want to think about why, you can check out my book published this week. “The Politics of Culture“ is about how three political movements used the concept of culture in France between the late 1960s and the early 1980s:

How many of these contributors to early American science do you recognize? -David Rittenhouse -Joseph Priestley -John & William Bartram -Benjamin Rush -Catherine Haines -James Madison

Our final panelist, @adriannalink.bsky.social, discusses how @amphilsociety.bsky.social's new project (America's Scientific Revolutionaries) will highlight lesser-known contributors to the history of science.

(Although some of these names are pretty well-known in this room...) #HSS2025

We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...

Thank you!

Does anybody know of a translation company in Germany that provides translations of academic books from English into German? I have funds available to pay for a professional translation of my book into German, but it needs to be a company that is registered in Germany. Thanks in advance!

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International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!

Save the date! Really looking forward to this:

New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢

Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Nov 3: Romain Tiquet (Centre Marc Bloch) Thinking Through Cases: A Political and Social History of West Africa Through Psychiatric Records Nov 17: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers Nov 24: Dora Vargha (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Communist M*A*S*H: The Making of Socialist International in a North Korean Field Hospital Dec 1: Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics) joint event with the Frankreich-Zentrum Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism, 1830–1962 Dec 8: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd (Stockholm University) A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and Social Norm Jan 12: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin) Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Interna-tionalism in the 1930s Jan 19: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany, 1880 to the Present Feb 3: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University) A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Con-nected Yugoslavia to the World Feb 9: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics

Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.

Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:

📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to:
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org
✳️Enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org @genderandjustice.bsky.social

We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community.

The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️

If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention

doi.org/10.1093/obo/...

Thank you to the @berlinualliance.bsky.social for nominating me and to my colleagues at the @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social and the MA Global History Program at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for providing my research group with community and an intellectual home. Onward!

There is currently backlash against gender studies in many parts of the world, which has gone hand-in-hand with political repression and violence. It is both timely and urgent to create spaces where scientific inquiry about gender and its intersecting dimensions can thrive.

Excited to have been named a finalist for the Women’s Impact Award from the Falling Walls Foundation, @elsfoundation.bsky.social, and @volkswagenstiftung.de. This award is meant to support researchers whose work advances gender equality and creates tangible societal impact.

Veranstaltungen Gender Campus ist die Plattform für Gender Studies, Equality und Diversity im Schweizer Hochschulraum. Die Redaktion informiert über Aktivitäten und Neuigkeiten zu diesen Themen und vernetzt Personen ...

"Hast auch Du [...] die Erfahrung gemacht, dass der Austausch in einem Seminar, bei einer Konferenz [...] nicht gelungen ist?" - dann zur Veranstaltung "Geschichtswissenschaft - Raum für Dialog?!" anmelden am 12.9.2025 an der #UniBern:
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...

Academics!

Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others).

Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026.

Happy to answer questions!

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Welcome to Bluesky, @sciam.bsky.social! 🦋

More of this, please . . .

Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary: Ova Don’t Make a Woman, and Sperm Don’t Make a Man, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, May 1, 2023.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/here... #lgbtq #queer #science #QueerInSTEM #pride 🌈🔬🏳️‍⚧️🧪

Sex Is a Spectrum Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male

book length version from @princetonupress.bsky.social here: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Go listen to my new series Science in Transition!! It's a history of the current anti-trans backlash and the first two episodes are out!!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

An interesting programme at WHN conference this year -especially as RCN's Teresa Doherty, Joint Head, Library and Archive Service, is giving a keynote on day 2 #histnursing