@fkrautwald.bsky.social
Historian of eastern and southern Africa @uclhistory.bsky.social interested in memory, sovereignty, and decolonization.
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23.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨
🗓️ 14 Oct 2025
🕠 5:30–7:30 pm
📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London
All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN
Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!
08.09.2025 16:40 — 👍 28 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0All sessions are hybrid, so you can easily join from outside London and the UK!
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The inaugural meeting of the new African History Seminar at London's Institute of Historical Research will take place on October 14 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Zeinab Badawi will talk about her fantastic book, An African History of Africa. You can register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Join us!
08.09.2025 16:13 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.
• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History
Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Next up in the #SOAS History Seminar is @fkrautwald.bsky.social (UCL) who will be speaking about 'Mnemonic sovereignty: Memories of German colonialism and Africa’s decolonization'. Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 5pm in room C325. All welcome!
For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Dr Fabian Krautwald has recently published a short article for the American-German Institute on the nearing conclusion of the 'reconciliation agreement' between Namibia and Germany about the genocide of 1904-1908 against the Herero and Nama 📖
americangerman.institute/2025/01/a-ze...
