Susie Protschky

Coming up online on 6 December -

extremely interesting inaugural lecture, I encourage everyone to read it - by @susieprotschky.bsky.social

research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...

Thanks Boyd!

Unfit Nazis are still Nazis

“The law of the #ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe...our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.”

Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com

Coming to the VU Amsterdam! Anthony Bogues on Fanon at 100, and a public lecture on ‘Illiberalism, violence and the politics of a new conjuncture’!

Thanks Libby!

If you prefer to read the text, it’s now available too - research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...

YouTube video by Susie Protschky Susie Protschky - A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Future)

You can now watch the recording of my inaugural professorial lecture on You Tube - ‘A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Futures’

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...

YouTube video by Susie Protschky Susie Protschky - A Monument to Westerling (and Other Possible Future)

Or you can even watch it (which includes the images) on You Tube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC9...

Inspiring inaugural lecture by @susieprotschky.bsky.social today at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social with the captivating title "A monument to Westerling, and other possible futures"

Lovende woorden tijdens verdediging proefschrift Katja Paijens, live op de stream @unileiden.bsky.social, over Max Alkadrie. Volgens de opponenten een kasteelroman, een potentiele Netflixserie of een musical!

Ah ok, maybe the discussion I heard was about committee members joining us online

So it was online after all? We were told it wouldn’t be!

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Thank you Azarja, great to see you there!

The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?

Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...

🤣 it would be terrific without me in it too.

Terrific Mikko!

I will!!

One of my favourite parts of being an academic historian is reviewing an outstanding journal article at the cutting edge of research - and waiting with baited breath to find out who wrote it! 🔥

#lovereviewing #blindreview #peereviewing #history #newewsearch

No communist armies involved AT ALL 🤣

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It works well with your theme! The photo was taken on Van Heutsz’s 50th birthday. At a rather callous moment in the advance on Batu Illiq.

The Colonial Way of War Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

Van Heutsz at Samalanga on the cover!

Aaaaw, happy birthday sir!

Dogs are ‘unclean’ in Islam, is one reason.

How MPs’ ‘abandoned’ cats became the unexpected symbol of Indonesia’s protests During the recent mass protests and political unrest in Indonesia, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: the MPs pet cats.

Great short piece by @csetijadi.bsky.social and Ken Setiawan. 🙀

theconversation.com/how-mps-aban...

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