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Janne Lahti

@jannelahti.bsky.social

PhD, Historian at Linnaeus University and University of Helsinki. Global, settler colonialism, American West, Nordic colonialism, German colonialism, borderlands

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Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma -kirjan julkaisutilaisuus Tervetuloa Janne Lahden ja Johanna Skurnikin Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma -teoksen julkaisutilaisuuteen tiistaina 21.10.2025 klo 17.00–18.30 kirjakauppa Rosebud Sivulliseen!

Tervetuloa Rosebud Sivulliseen tiistaina 21.10 klo 17.00 kirjamme Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma julkaisutilaisuuteen.
historianswithoutborders.fi/tapahtumat/k...

18.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Kolonialismin kirous | Kalle Haatanen Kolonialismi on merkittävä osa maailmanhistoriaa. Voisi erehtyä luulemaan, että se oli vain historiallinen vaihe, jolloin Eurooppa sorti muuta maailmaa. Kyse on kuitenkin paljon syvemmästä asiasta, j...

Juttelemassa uudesta kirjastani Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma.
Kuuntele Yle Areenassa:

areena.yle.fi/1-75853435

24.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Germany rejects reparation payments to former colonies The German government says it will not make any reparation payments to Germany's former colonies, since there was no international criminal law at the time of […]

The Namibian: „Germany rejects reparation payments to former colonies.“
@he-mel.bsky.social

h/t @heikebecker.bsky.social

www.namibian.com.na/germany-reje...

17.08.2025 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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‘To the Homeland’: Settler Monument, Memory and the Finnish Colony of Petsamo on the Finnish–Russian Borderlands - Janne Lahti, 2025 This article examines a set of entanglements between settler memory and a monument in a nation that does not acknowledge that it ever had a colonial history. It...

My new open access article discussing settler memory and monuments:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

30.06.2025 14:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I appreciate @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's point, but I would argue that there is a logic to waving the Mexican flag, especially in the context of raids on immigrant Latino communities in LA. A short thread. 1/

09.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 34    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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15.05.2025 20:28 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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From Genocide to Greenwashing: Germany’s Legacy in Namibia Germany hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Descendants of the victims want a seat at the table. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks burying the past.

Germany still hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks further burying that history – sidestepping the voices of victims’ descendants. I met some of them in Namibia. This is my report (Support my work on Substack).
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

21.04.2025 07:39 — 👍 141    🔁 56    💬 3    📌 2
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Settler Colonial Studies New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies. Volume 15, Issue 2 of Settler Colonial Studies

New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies is here! Check out what is going on. Edited by @karl-jacoby.bsky.social and Magdalena Naum.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rset20/c...

23.04.2025 18:07 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Konferenssiapuraha – kannustus Yhdysvaltojen tutkimukseen | Suomi-Amerikka Yhdistysten Liitto | SAM

Jos olet väitöskirjatutkija, joka on menossa Yhdysvaltain tutkimukseen liittyvään konferenssiin Euroopassa tai Yhdysvalloissa, voit nyt hakea FASA:n ja Suomi-Amerikka-yhdistysten liiton konferenssiapurahaa www.samsuomi.fi/konferenssia...

12.04.2025 08:37 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of the latest issue of Itinerario: Journal of Global and Imperial Interactions. The cover image is an 1896 photo of a helpless-looking white male tourist being pushed and pulled up the side of a pyramid by a group of Egyptian guides/porters. 'Ascension de la grande pyramide par un touriste', by Félix Bonfils, 1896. Rijksmuseum.

Cover of the latest issue of Itinerario: Journal of Global and Imperial Interactions. The cover image is an 1896 photo of a helpless-looking white male tourist being pushed and pulled up the side of a pyramid by a group of Egyptian guides/porters. 'Ascension de la grande pyramide par un touriste', by Félix Bonfils, 1896. Rijksmuseum.

Woohoo, our Itinerario special issue 'Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires' is now out in its proper, physical form! 🥳

Check out the introduction by myself and Andreas Greiner here: doi.org/10.1017/S016...

And the entire table of contents here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

25.03.2025 08:06 — 👍 31    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1

Members of FASA register at a lower rate! Join FASA here: www.fasa.fi/membership/j...

25.03.2025 11:19 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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As a member of any of the Nordic Associations for American Studies (including @fasafinland.bsky.social), European Association for American Studies, or American Studies Association, you can register at the members rate!

23.01.2025 11:39 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
FASA The Finnish American Studies Association 
JOIN FASA: https://www.fasa.fi/membership/join-fasa-renew-your-membership/

FASA The Finnish American Studies Association JOIN FASA: https://www.fasa.fi/membership/join-fasa-renew-your-membership/

Registration is open! As a member of any of the Nordic Associations for American Studies (including @fasafinland.bsky.social ), European Association for American Studies, or American Studies Association, you can register at the members rate! www.fasa.fi/membership/j... #NAASpirations

23.02.2025 14:16 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows ‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher

1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

23.02.2025 09:30 — 👍 147    🔁 55    💬 2    📌 2
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Associate Editor/s needed for Settler Colonial Studies

Looking for associate editor(s) for Settler Colonial Studies👍👇
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

12.02.2025 20:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“New Directions in Finnish North American Research” Webinar, Thursday, January 23 at 18.00 Finnish time (GMT+2) /10:00am CST - Siirtolaisuusinstituutti This webinar showcases four innovative PhD dissertation projects on Finnish North American history and heritage. The speakers will present new approaches from the perspectives of history, folklore stu...

”New Directions in Finnish North American Research” Webinar, Thursday, January 23 at 18.00 Finnish time (GMT+2) /10:00am CST. @infomigration.bsky.social @fasafinland.bsky.social @ihrc-umn.bsky.social

Info and registration:

siirtolaisuusinstituutti.fi/events/new-d...

22.01.2025 14:26 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
REMINDER: CfP International Summer School Towards Inclusive Global Histories  | H-Net Archives and Voices have become much-debated aspects of recent research in global history. Under the overall theme of “Towards Inclusive Global Histories” the summer school aims to further discussion,...

Send your proposals to our Summer School:
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

19.01.2025 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Associate Editor/s needed for Settler Colonial Studies

Join our team! Settler Colonial Studies is looking for new associate editors. Call here👇
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

14.01.2025 21:58 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This summer the biannual Nordic Assocation for American Studies conference is coming to Turku! You can now follow us here @naas2025.bsky.social for update.

14.01.2025 13:16 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Join FASA // Renew Your Membership

It is time to renew your membership for 2025. On how to renew your membership or join FASA, check our website: fasa.fi/membership/j...

07.01.2025 13:03 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2
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Residential school denialists don’t want you to watch Sugarcane - a new documentary about the St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School that’s getting Oscar buzz and is now streaming on Disney+ and Hula. That’s good enough reason to check it out and learn about the ongoing legacy of the IRS system.

04.01.2025 21:21 — 👍 171    🔁 74    💬 7    📌 5
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‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa While German Samoa has appeared to some historians as a colony that demonstrates the benevolence of liberal colonial government, this article argues that Germany’s administration of Samoa should no...

Thanks to all the new followers! By way of introduction here are 3 more or less recent, open-access articles of mine that might give you a sense of my current research interests.
1) German colonial history and the varied responses of colonised peoples to it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

25.11.2024 07:06 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
A marketing banner for the book 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950', edited by myself and Bernhard C. Schär.

A marketing banner for the book 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950', edited by myself and Bernhard C. Schär.

Bloomsbury wants me to put this pic in my email signature, which isn't going to happen, but I'll post it here as a compromise. Check out our book, maybe? It's free, you know. Hardback coming out in January. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

30.12.2024 09:09 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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FASA: Recognition of Boarding School History - A First Step to Reconciliation? Af­ter fif­ty ye­ars of si­len­ce, the Uni­ted Sta­tes go­vern­ment has be­gun to ad­d­ress its long his­to­ry of vi­o­len­ce against Na­ti­ve Ame­ri­can child­ren in bo­ar­ding schools. Two ma­jor re...

Strong text on Native American boarding schools in the US by Vincent Veerbeek.
www.sammagazine.fi/puheenvuorot...

22.12.2024 21:41 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo) The Aesthetics of Empire cluster within LNUC Concurrences has recently reformed as the new cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo). The decision was made by members during a workshop held ...

Learn more about the research clusters within #Concurrences, like the cluster for Ecology, Culture & Coloniality -

Projects include South African resource & energy cultures; speculative fiction; ecotopian postcolonial comics; the politics of border narratives & more -

lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

09.12.2024 15:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest articles from Settler Colonial Studies Browse the latest articles and research from Settler Colonial Studies

Check out the Latest Articles section in Settler Colonial Studies! A diverse and robust field, I would say. But I may be partial as editor here...
www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

27.11.2024 19:37 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -luento, professori Laura Kolben muotokuva ja gradupalkinnot | Historia

Kuulumisia Historian oppiaineesta, vietimme eilen Akateemikko Eino Jutikkala -seminaaria luentoineen ja juhlallisuuksineen.

blogs.helsinki.fi/historia/202...

27.11.2024 09:38 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Surveying the Archives of the Congo Free State - The Congo Free State: What Could the Archives Tell Us? New Light and Research Perspective Edited by Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Mathilde Leduc-Grima... Surveying the Archives of the Congo Free State - The Congo Free State: What Could the Archives Tell Us? New Light and Research Perspective Edited by Patricia Van Schuylenbergh and Mathilde Leduc-Grima...

How's this for serendipitous archival discovery:
The personal papers of Belgium's notorious King Leopold - believed to have been destroyed- were found hidden in a walled-in cellar in a chateau scheduled for demolition in 1983:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

20.11.2024 16:55 — 👍 58    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 4
CfA: International Summer School Towards Inclusive Global Histories | H-Net Organized by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) in collaboration with Global Diplomacy Network (GDN), Linnaeus University Center fo

The #CFP for our #SummerSchool in #globalhistory is out! In association with @lnuccon.bsky.social and European Network in Universal and Global History.
Join us in #Växjö in September 2025! Link 👇🏼

networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

25.11.2024 16:35 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We are looking for relatively short (1-2,000 words) opinion pieces on issues pertaining to imperial history, historiography, colonialism or the legacies of empire. Please do not hesitate to get in touch (jonas.f.gjerso@uis.no)!

02.11.2024 07:30 — 👍 41    🔁 34    💬 4    📌 0

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