@thomasmareite.bsky.social
Historian @ehess.fr École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Slavery & Emancipation / Revolutions & Refugees; Age of Revolutions (US, Greater Caribbean & Spanish America).
Very happy to see this great article published! 🥳
12.02.2026 06:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
Un Superbowl Halftime Show anticolonialiste qui s'ouvre sur une image plongeant directement dans la mémoire de l'esclavage à Porto Rico : c'est ce que Bad Bunny a donné au monde dimanche soir. 1/15
09.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 179 🔁 111 💬 6 📌 13
Cher•e•s ami•e•s, j’ai le plaisir de vous partager l’appel du colloque « MARITIMITÉ(S) CARAÏBE » que je coorganise avec Jean-Sébastien Guibert et Boris Lesueur ! Nous attendons vos propositions pour le 1er avril !
05.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0...showing how a range of local idioms—each carrying distinct legal, political, and sociocultural meanings—shaped inclusion and exclusion, with profound consequences for those caught within them. More contributions are forthcoming, stay tuned! 5/5
04.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0... Co-edited by Nicolás and myself over the past three years, the issue will be published online in the coming weeks. Its contributions collectively seek to historicize the category of “refugee” in an age of revolutions and imperial crises.... 4/5
04.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0... At stake are larger questions: when does exile truly end, and how are refugees able to reintegrate their communities of departure? This piece is part of a broader special issue on categories of exile and refuge—and their material effects on populations subjected to them (18th & 19th c.)... 3/5
04.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0..and how those so designated sought either to embrace or to distance themselves from this label in their efforts to regain full citizenship in Colombia. At stake are larger questions: when does exile truly end, and how are refugees able to reintegrate their communities of departure ?... 2/5
04.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nicolás’s article makes a major contribution to the study of political exile in newly independent Colombia during the 1820s. It asks who was labeled emigrados by republican authorities, with what concrete legal and political consequences.... 1/5
04.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pedro Sánchez afirma que España no reconoció al régimen de Maduro, “pero tampoco reconocerá una intervención que viola el derecho internacional”
03.01.2026 18:55 — 👍 530 🔁 158 💬 13 📌 32
BONUS: avant les fêtes, Jon Stewart et son équipe démontrait comment les créatures trumpiennes recyclaient le discours neocon de 2002/03 à propos de l’Irak…pour justifier une intervention au Venezuela !
youtu.be/C5QGzYFjVaU?...
📢#CfP for #PhD and (early) #postdoctoral researchers in #refugee #history: "Historicizing the Refugee Experience (17th-21st Centuries): Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies", Vienna, 25-28 Sep 2026! Extended deadline: 15 Jan. 2026! Apply now
19.12.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Un appel du projet ERC @atlanticexiles.bsky.social qui organise son sixième séminaire d'histoire transnationale des réfugiés à l'Université de Vienne à l'automne 2026 : propositions attendues jusqu'au 20 décembre, jeunes chercheur.es francophones welcome !
13.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
📢 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:
11.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 18 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1CFP: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158675
Wien, 28.09.2026-01.10.2026, University of Tübingen; University of Gothenburg; University of Vienna; American Historical Association, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2025
François Héran impeccable. On vit vraiment une époque formidable.
blogs.mediapart.fr/francois-her...
Décision catastrophique du Collège de France qui ne défend même plus l’histoire et les SHS 😢
www.franceinfo.fr/monde/palest...
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
Enfin, mon projet de recherche actuel porte sur un ensemble de réflexions et de projets visant à repenser les espaces coloniaux de la France et de l’Espagne dans les Caraïbes au début du XIXe siècle dans un contexte de crise et de désintégration qui leur était commun.
14.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0J’y analyse les débats et les transformations provoqués par ces exils concernant le statut de « sujet » impérial espagnol et des droits accordés (ou refusés) aux exilés, qu’ils soient nationaux ou étrangers.
14.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Une seconde monographie, en cours de préparation (révision), porte sur l’ouest de Cuba comme terre d’accueil de milliers d‘exilés français de Saint-Domingue (Haïti) et espagnols de Santo Domingo (République Dominicaine) entre les années 1790 et 1820.
14.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mon premier ouvrage, Conditional Freedom (2022), issu de ma thèse soutenue aux Pays-Bas, explore les trajectoires d’esclaves fugitifs du sud des États-Unis qui cherchèrent refuge au Mexique au XIXᵉ siècle.
14.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mes recherches portent principalement sur les migrations d’exil et les expériences d’asile – ou de refus d’asile – dans la région, avec les multiples contestations de l’institution esclavagiste en toile de fond.
14.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pour les nouveaux abonnés et comme j’ai changé de poste (Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland). Je suis historien des Caraïbes et de l’Amérique du Nord à la charnière des XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècles, postdoctorant à l'@ehess.fr – UMR @mondesamericains.ehess.fr – via une bourse européenne Marie S. Curie.
14.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Avis aux américanistes! La revue @nuevomundo.ehess.fr est en quête d'articles pour sa section "Guide de la recherche américaniste", en particulier concernant le Pérou:
journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/1...
Et la Caraïbe:
journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/1...
@nuevomundo.ehess.fr
New #book #review!
@thomasmareite.bsky.social reviewed *A Southern #Underground #Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country,* by Paul M. Pressly:
brill.com/view/journal...
"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. (...) Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
22.03.2025 06:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 New publication! Out now online and in print: "'Sterile in Spanish Hands': French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution", by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, French Historical Studies 48, no. 1 (2025): 37-64. @sfhs.bsky.social
10.03.2025 20:21 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
👉 Here's a link to the online version: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
27.02.2025 10:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
(...) as a frequent backdrop. Many of these projects aimed to establish new colonies in the Caribbean, replicating the once prosperous economic model of Saint-Domingue. They envisioned these new colonies as bases for re-establishing French influence in the Caribbean and/or the reconquest of Haiti.
24.02.2025 09:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
