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David Motadel

@davidmotadel.bsky.social

Historian at LSE www.davidmotadel.com

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Neuerscheinung: "Das gelebte Europa!" Ich freue mich übermäßig, dass dieses von Florian Greiner und mir herausgegebene Themenheft heute erschienen ist - mit fünf großartigen Beiträgen, von Abolitionskampagnen über Wein und Versicherungen bis hin zu faschistischen Netzwerken und Siedlerkolonien...

28.11.2025 09:59 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...

29.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A fantastic discussion of 'Islam and Nazi Germany's War' in Mehdi Falahati's show (in Persian; from min. 24), with the brilliant @arashtehran.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUP...

29.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A real pleasure! Thank you for your fantastic comment.

27.11.2025 09:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social

26.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social

26.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

20.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0
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Islam is part of European history - Bytes Europe In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the University of Oxford, entitled “Islam and the West”, lamenting that Europeans

Islam is part of European history

https://www.byteseu.com/1555420/

Edwin Lord Weeks’s Interior of the Mosque at Córdoba (1880). Image by Bridgeman Images In 1993, Prince Charles, now King Charles III, gave a spectacular speech at the University of Oxford, entitled “Islam and the West”, …

19.11.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Islam is part of European history Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions

Today, the popular view prevails that Muslims have never been part of European history. It is an environment in which populist right-wing polemics critical of Muslim migration can reach a receptive a mass audience. By David Motadel
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

21.11.2025 12:44 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Islam is part of European history Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions

Feed: "New Statesman"
By: David Motadel on Wednesday, November 19, 2025

20.11.2025 01:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Islam is part of European history Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions

Islam is part of European history
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

20.11.2025 13:35 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

20.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0

How can European history be integrated into global history? This is the question at the heart of „Globalizing Europe“ edited by @davidmotadel.bsky.social. Here is my review.

19.11.2025 07:14 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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A fantastic new review of GLOBALIZING EUROPE by Jonas Kreienbaum (@kreienbaumj.bsky.social): www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... via @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @hsozkult.bsky.social

18.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A fantastic new review of GLOBALIZING EUROPE by Jonas Kreienbaum (@kreienbaumj.bsky.social): www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... via @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @hsozkult.bsky.social

18.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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In der heutigen Wochenendausgabe von Haaretz: Mein Artikel über den indischen Unabhängigkeitsführer Subhas Chandra Bose und seine neue Anhängerschaft in der hindu-nationalistischen Bewegung, mit Einschätzungen von David Motadel und Anita Bose Pfaff.

10.10.2025 06:22 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Religionsmagazin - Tag für Tag Das Religionsmagazin richtet sich an alle, die an aktueller Berichterstattung und an Hintergrundinformationen über religiöse, ethische und andere weltanschaulich orientierte Zusammenhänge des Weltgesc...

dlf Tag für Tag
mit einem hörenswerten Interview mit David Motadel

www.deutschlandfunk.de/tag-fuer-tag...

20.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Europe after Decolonisation

www.uni-konstanz.de/internationa...

16.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Very much looking forward to the EUROPE AFTER DECOLONISATION conference in Konstanz this week! A fantastic line-up.

16.10.2025 07:06 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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Very much looking forward to the EUROPE AFTER DECOLONISATION conference in Konstanz this week! A fantastic line-up.

16.10.2025 07:06 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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Greatly looking forward to a research seminar on GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, tomorrow, 7 October, at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus du Solbosch, Room NA 4 302, funded by Royal Academy of Belgium. All welcome! @universitypress.cambridge.org

06.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Greatly looking forward to a research seminar on GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, tomorrow, 7 October, at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus du Solbosch, Room NA 4 302, funded by Royal Academy of Belgium. All welcome! @universitypress.cambridge.org

06.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Oxford and Cambridge fall out of top three UK universities for first time

Oxford and Cambridge have been knocked out of the top three in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide’s ranking for the first time

19.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 4
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What a great way to celebrate the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE. Many thanks, Cambridge University Press bookshop! @universitypress.cambridge.org @lsehy.bsky.social

07.07.2025 15:58 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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What a great way to celebrate the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE. Many thanks, Cambridge University Press bookshop! @universitypress.cambridge.org @lsehy.bsky.social

07.07.2025 15:58 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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On Tuesday 3 June we hosted our book launch event "Globalizing Europe: A History". The book was edited by Dr David Motadel (who also chaired the event).

We saw much rigorous discussion!

View the event recording here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#events #history #LSE #Globalization #europe

10.06.2025 16:08 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to chair today's launch of Matt Myers' fantastic THE HALTED MARCH OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT: THE WORKING CLASS IN BRTAIN, FRANCE, AND ITALY, 1968–1989 (OUP), Thursday, 5 June, 5:30pm, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre (CBG.1.01), Central Building, LSE. Please join!

05.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to chair today's launch of Matt Myers' fantastic THE HALTED MARCH OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT: THE WORKING CLASS IN BRTAIN, FRANCE, AND ITALY, 1968–1989 (OUP), Thursday, 5 June, 5:30pm, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre (CBG.1.01), Central Building, LSE. Please join!

05.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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TONIGHT - don't miss this exciting panel discussion we are hosting in-person and via Zoom...

Full details and registration here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#events #history #europe #LSE

03.06.2025 10:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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