What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Congrats, that's wonderful! 🎉 Looking forward to reading it
Thesis submitted, only 1 seminar to go until reading week, and looking forward to merging with this cuddle pile for hibernation 😴
"I’m saying whether this is genocide or whether it’s ethnic cleansing or whether it’s daily war crimes, I would just think that the focus of a Holocaust historian would be these horrors" really sums up how tired I feel debating what neat little label to use to describe people dying
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Had a great time at the 1st conference of the Occupation Studies Research Network in London (KCL's fancy & much more importantly AIRCONDITIONED premises pictured below). Learnt so much about perceptions of time, life writing, & colonial practices all while chatting with a lovely bunch of people
You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead.
We must defend the right to protest.
Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸
Excited to escape my little writing cave for a few days to participate in the Transatlantic Seminar at the GHI Washington 🧑🏻💻
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Auf dem Weg nach Hamburg - heute Nachmittag red ich darüber was Prügeleien & Eifersucht mit (Besatzungs)Macht zu tun haben. Ich freu mich schon auf den Austausch und mehr über ganz viele spannende Projekte zu lernen!
