Martin Kalb

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Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Herzliche Einladung zum Kolloquium des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte des 19.-21. Jahrhunderts im Wintersemester 2025/26

Rez: F. Jacob (Hrsg.): War and Animals

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-152726

F. Jacob (Hrsg.): War and Animals

Rez: N. Kleinöder u.a. (Hrsg.): Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-145848

N. Kleinöder u.a. (Hrsg.): Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte

Auf der Titelseite des Buches ist ein weißer Mann mit "Tropenhelm" zu sehen. Er sitzt in einer Art Hängematte, die von zwei Schwarzen Personen getragen wird. Weitere Schwarze Personen blicken in Richtung Kamera.

Das neue Buch von @he-mel.bsky.social ist vor wenigen Tagen beim @unrastverlag.bsky.social erschienen:

"Der lange Schatten des deutschen Kolonialismus
Verdrängung, Verleugnung, Umdeutung"

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Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

I hate passive voice - in history books and news articles.

Die Zeit zitiert Götz Aly im Hinblick auf Wolfram Weimers Entscheidung, Kolonialismus nicht in in seine Gedenkstättenentwurf aufzunehmen, damit, dass es zum Verhältnis NS und Kolonialismus kaum Forschung gäbe. Das sagte er schon 2021, und ich antwortete
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/juergen-zimm...

Poster depicting an owl hunting gerbils in a field, juxtaposed with an image of the zoonotic cycle of plague. Arrows connect a rat with fleas, and a man sleeping in a bed. The image reads 'Friend of the Farmer Conserve Owls'.

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".

Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...

Ach, ich finde es sehr schön, dass es mit der Einheit geklappt hat, trotz allem

For more information you can visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/steven-van-w...

Here is an infographic that Tessa Moll (@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social) and I made about the development of racial classifications in South Africa from 1652 to the present. A paper explaining its content is in the works. For now, feel free to download the infographic here: dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

"Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust image," via @theguardian.com - The word "help" does a lot of work in the headline given that historian Jürgen Matthäus used a variety of tools and spent years on this...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Heute erschienen: Eine Erinnerung daran, dass nicht an alles erinnert wird...
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🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.

Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!

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Seminar Series Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

Dekolonialismus: Zurückgeschaut mit Widerstand „Wege des Erinnerns“ heißt eine Ausstellung im Afrikanischen Viertel in Wedding über die Straßenumbenennungen. Dekoloniale Bewegung kämpft gegen das Vergessen.

Dekolonial Erinnern in Berlin:
Schöner Artikel in @taz.de. Wann kommt gesamtstädtisches Erinnerungskonzept des Senats?

@decolonizeberlin.bsky.social @isdberlin.bsky.social @rjmauk.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social @dpwes.bsky.social

taz.de/Dekolonialis...

What is at stake when we write Environmental History? And what is the right story? I used texts by Ted Steinberg, Stefania Barca & Erik Loomis' review of Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" to discuss these questions with our M.Phil students last week. Can only recommend! #envhist

A mostly fair critique of Segregated Species in South African Journal of Science from Anjuli Webster. The point that I have not engaged enough with Indigenous African language sources is a very important critique. doi.org/10.17159/saj...

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast: Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together contributions from a Namibian and international group of scholars and conservation practitioners, working on topics ranging from colonial histories to water management, perceptions of ‘wildlife’ and the politics of belonging. Together, these essays confront a critical question: how can the conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes be reconciled with historical injustices of social exclusion and marginalisation?

Both Ruben & Jeff also have chapters in our Big Book "Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast" - now with over 2,700 downloads 🙂

See Chapter 5 and Chapter 8...
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Germany’s court immunity over genocide challenged %%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% A Coalition of applicants are mounting a legal assault in an effort to force the German government into a Namibian court over the 19...

Namibia: Germany’s court immunity over genocide challenged www.namibian.com.na/germanys-cou...

Dekolonial Handeln in Deutschland: Gut, dass @laenderkultur.bsky.social ernst macht „Anlaufstelle zu menschlichen Gebeinen“, gefördert von @diplo.de & @bundeskultur.bsky.social. Wie werden Zivilgesellschaft & Wissenschaft in Ursprungsgesellschaften & Deutschland beteiligt?

@isdbund.bsky.social

The issue includes research on: management of natural resources in early modern Italy; mules & settler colonialism in southwest Africa; migrations of the Negev Bedouin; olive yield in Türkiye; waste & Italian-Nigerian relations; dacoits in colonial Bengal; and the US environmental justice movement.

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...

#envhist

Flyer for the conference “Comparative Perspectives on Taxation and the Colonial State,” September 25–27, 2025 at Europa-Universität Flensburg.

Very interesting conference on colonial taxation at the University of Flensburg.

www.uni-flensburg.de/en/frzph/for...

Title and abstract for the linked article

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Contents | Global Environment 18, 3 This article was published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

The latest issue of 'Global Environment' is now online, including my article "Mules, Global Networks, and Settler Colonialism in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1915" (open access).
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu...
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