George Giannakopoulos

Thank you Tom!

Thrilled to share that my book The Interpreters is out!
It explores how Britain engaged with the politics of Southeastern Europe—national questions, federations, and minority rights—and how those debates echoed from the Balkans to Ireland.
🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160133/

This has been a while in the making. Grateful to the great team @enghistrev.bsky.social

Manchester University Press - The interpreters The interpreters - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The interpreters by Georgios Giannakopoulos

So, my forthcoming book has a website! Massive thanks to Michelle Tusan & Holly Case for their endorsements! More to come manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152616013...

PODCAST – Episode 60: Inventing Ikbal Nile Green walks Jonathan Conlin through Ikbal and Idries Shah’s unstable stable of aliases and identities.

📣 Episode #60 of The Lausanne Project Podcast is out! 📣🎉

Nile Green talks about his new book, "Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah," walking us through their shifting stable of aliases and identities 👇🏼

thelausanneproject.com/2024/11/29/p...

Very much interested to see how they will deal with the ownership question - determining what gets exchanged is not that big of a problem

Not sure if a deal is imminent as this “exclusive suggests” but the Parthenon marbles story never seems to go away. I’ll be discussing this in 15’ live at BBC News amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This is pretty cool!

Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex:
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

🎓 Intersting new book on League of Nations: "Instruments of international order Internationalism and diplomacy, 1900–50" edt by Thomas Bottelier & @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social with chapters by @giannako.bsky.social @lukasschemper.bsky.social @kdstahl.bsky.social
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Don’t Go to War With the ICC America can help Israel without attacking the court.

In light of the news that the ICC has just issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant along with one Hamas leader (the other two have been killed), this piece is once again relevant:

www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/dont-...

Congrats - excellent decision

Out Again: Samaras’ Expulsion Reminiscent of Decades-Old Rift - tovima.com Antonis Samaras’ ousting highlights New Democracy’s ongoing identity crisis

For those interested in Greek politics, here’s a conversation in the English edition of “To Vima” on developments in the right wing www.tovima.com/politics/out...

Tough, moving, brave and utterly compelling reading by my fantastic DPE colleague Paul Sagar. Some of you will find this hard to read. But it is essential that you do.

so heartbreaking - thanks for posting

The Very Model of a Modern Major Liar? By Alan Lester The Red River Expedition with Colonel Garnet Wolseley’s boat featured flying the ensign at Kakabeka Falls, Frances Anne Hopkins, 1877: We understand the British Empire’s military cam…

About to do some more filming for the Canadian TV series Red River Gold. Here’s my blog about Wolseley, whose, let’s say ‘colourful’, account of the Red River Expedition launched him on his illustrious & bloody military career across the British Empire.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-ver...

Intellectual History & Friends Part 3 is here! Do let me know if there is anyone I should add or if you would like to be added go.bsky.app/MX1ZBPL

Collections Researcher at The National Archives Recruiting now: Collections Researcher on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Collections Researcher
The National Archives
#skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ694/c...

That is amazing! Congrats!

⭐️ Exciting News ⭐️
Race & Resistance is excited to officially announce our 2025 conference, RESISTANCE, RENEWAL, REIMAGINATION: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain🚨

⏳CfP deadline: 13th January 2025
📅 7th March 2025
📍University of Oxford

Huge thanks to our sponsor, Black Academic Futures⭐

Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South The Opportunity

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on!
www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

Hello new followers!

My book Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America just came out! academic.oup.com/book/58846

Over the next few days I will use this 🧵 to praise the ideas/books of others - friends, mentors, and enemies - that informed my own

Stay tuned!

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

CFP for the @drinkingstudies @womenandalcoho1 conference, co-organised with the @wellcometrust "Drinking Cultures" project, hosted by @drlucycogan at @ucddublin next June. Our theme this year is 'Dangerous Pleasures?'. Please RT (and submit an abstract)
www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...

War in History and Society, in a time of global conflict!
go.bsky.app/UfGipcf

📌 The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social [52.5] is now online
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cover photo: Véronique Labonté

Keep reading, keep citing

Pretty excited to return to my hometown for the first time since I left home for work, and some olive oil harvesting by one of Greece’s oldest surviving Roman baths. Orders anyone? 😁

Night night newsnight