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@richardlegay.bsky.social

Historian interested in media, memory & culture, and currently working on Franco-German memory politics. Lecturer in French Studies @unigoettingen.bsky.social Associated researcher @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social (DE)

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Avis sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont été privés. - Conseil d'État Le Gouvernement a décidé de rendre public l'avis du Conseil d’État sur un projet de loi relatif à la restitution de biens culturels provenant d’Etats qui, du fait d’une appropriation illicite, en ont ...

www.conseil-etat.fr/avis-consult...

A défaut du texte de loi, j'ai lu l'avis du conseil d'état qui est majoritairement du blabla de juriste mais qui revient sur deux points de tension dans le texte de loi prévu: les bornes chronologiques et les dons et legs.

31.07.2025 06:10 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 #Jobalert

Join us as a #PostDoc in the Horizon Europe project TWON (Twin of Online Social Network)! You'll work in the Political Communication & Journalism group, as well as in the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab.

📅Deadline: 28 July 2025

🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/mswjxnaj

22.07.2025 08:00 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa | Kommunales Kino Freiburg

📆 Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa - Aufführung von #Dahomey &"If Objects could speak", Diskussion mit #KokouAzamede & @richardlegay.bsky.social

👉24.7. um 19.30 Uhr im Kommunalen Kino #Freiburg

@abi-freiburg.bsky.social @decolonialitynow.bsky.social

www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-o...

18.07.2025 08:25 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past? - Rewriting peace and conflict Over the last few years, several European powers and actors have increasingly engaged with political acts of remembering colonial violence, wars, and crimes committed in Africa in their name. Among ot...

You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?'

Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together!

rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...

16.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This thread departs somewhat from the editorial line of this account, but it remains within memory studies. It should be considered as a personal reflection by Frédéric Clavert.

16.07.2025 06:16 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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390. Andor, un concentré d’histoire et d’antifascisme, avec Jean-Christophe Piot Paroles d'histoire · Episode

A podcast episode from Paroles d'Histoire just came out about this!
open.spotify.com/episode/64H2...

14.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Picture of the program

Picture of the program

The crowd listening to the welcome words

The crowd listening to the welcome words

A picture of Cape Town's Waterfront

A picture of Cape Town's Waterfront

Day 1 of the 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices' @iamhist.bsky.social Conference at the University of Cape Town 📻🎙️📺

Such a pleasure to be in South Africa for our biannual event! Looking forward to a packed programme.

Thanks to @marthaevans.bsky.social for organising it!

30.06.2025 08:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Which French historian is going to write about the second season of Andor????? Come on people. I’m dying for a specialist take on the French Resistance aka Ghorman Front story.

26.06.2025 12:54 — 👍 32    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 3
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Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org

23.06.2025 14:02 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
Screenshot of the webpage of the article described in the text

Screenshot of the webpage of the article described in the text

Many thanks to French Politics for publishing our research with @mehler.bsky.social at the @abi-freiburg.bsky.social on Franco-German memory politics and colonial past!

The article is available online here: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
And as a pdf upon request!

#publichistory #memory #colonialhistory

11.06.2025 13:55 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
Congratulations to Ross Melnick, winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize for 2024! – IAMHIST

*IAMHIST News*: Ross Melnick is the winner of the Culbert Family Memorial Book Prize 2024 for his publication Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)! Huge congratulations Ross 🥳 iamhist.net/winner-culbe...

30.05.2025 12:25 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Journal – IAMHIST

*IAMHIST News* Updated Summer 2025 books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#boo... Please contact Veronica Johnson should you be interested in reviewing a particular title (Veronica.Johnson@outlook.ie)

29.05.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#CfA Praktikant*innen für 2026 am @dhi-paris.fr gesucht

📌 für Studierende höherer Semester | für 2-3 Monate in #Paris | in den Bereichen #Forschung, #Bibliothek, #Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit u.v.m.

Bewerbungsschluss: 15. September 2025

🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

23.05.2025 08:46 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
Poster for an event showing zines on colonial memory

Poster for an event showing zines on colonial memory

If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done!
This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.

19.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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JOIN this Friday afternoon, 23.5. at UCF @uni-freiburg.de

A display of zines on #colonial #memory by students from the University College

with @richardlegay.bsky.social from @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

21.05.2025 08:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Poster for an event showing zines on colonial memory

Poster for an event showing zines on colonial memory

If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done!
This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.

19.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Adaptation du meme du dragon à trois têtes. Ici il a 4 têtes d'abruti et ces têtes sont nommées de gauche à droite : Franck Ferrand, Stéphane Bern, Lorànt Deutsch et Louis Sarkozy.

Adaptation du meme du dragon à trois têtes. Ici il a 4 têtes d'abruti et ces têtes sont nommées de gauche à droite : Franck Ferrand, Stéphane Bern, Lorànt Deutsch et Louis Sarkozy.

Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse de la vulgarisation historique

16.05.2025 11:57 — 👍 678    🔁 188    💬 25    📌 12
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Trump moves to gut PBS and NPR in latest salvo against the media The president's executive order targeting two of the nation's largest public broadcasters comes as the White House seeks to radically reframe how Americans get their news

The piece I wrote got covered by The Week today.

05.05.2025 02:10 — 👍 48    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Policy Paper: „Menschliche Überreste" in Universitätssammlungen - Rewriting peace and conflict Dieses Policy Paper greift eine dringend notwendige Debatte über postkoloniale Hierarchien in der Forschung auf. Im Zentrum steht die Verantwortung von Universitäten, sich kritisch mit ihrer koloniale...

In Kooperation mit Richard Tsogang Fossi...
rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/04/25/p...

26.04.2025 05:52 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Neuer Studiengang: Master Public History

Zum Wintersemester 2025/2026 richtet der Fachbereich Geschichte @uni-hamburg.de einen neuen Studiengang ein: Der Master Public History kommt! Erste Infos hier:

www.geschichte.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsberei...

25.04.2025 06:52 — 👍 36    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1
SOUND+PURPOSE: Inaugural conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound Lunds universitet.

Excited about our upcoming #soundstudies event this autumn, the inaugural conference of the newly launched network SOUND+ at Lund University, Sweden. Do join us! See link regarding #callforpapers

24.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

If you're curious about philosophy in France, thousand of students have competed during an exam (6h) and the question was "You must." Without knowing anything about the expected methodology, what would you write?

24.04.2025 10:57 — 👍 134    🔁 24    💬 49    📌 24

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?

anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

24.04.2025 09:17 — 👍 18422    🔁 6821    💬 31    📌 1
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Hélène Miard-Delacroix - Les émotions de 1989

France et Allemagne face aux bouleversements du monde

À paraître en mai chez Flammarion

22.04.2025 05:53 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Image de lecteurs de magazines pour illustrer une annonce de bourse en cotutelle

Image de lecteurs de magazines pour illustrer une annonce de bourse en cotutelle

Bourse de doctorat sur la presse (deadline 1e juin):

Avec Mélodie Simard-Houde, nous proposons une bourse de doctorat en cotutelle (Trois-Rivières & Nanterre) pour un sujet sur des corpus de presse.
Tous les sujets sont acceptés (XIX-XXIe S.):
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Reposts bienvenus!

16.04.2025 06:48 — 👍 53    🔁 50    💬 1    📌 2

Congratulations! Looks fantastic!

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Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

14.04.2025 12:22 — 👍 46    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 1

@wcaleb.org shows how to use Python to download and parse MARC records from the internet @archive.org:

doi.org/10.46430/phe...

14.04.2025 13:05 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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PhD Position in Global History

PhD Opportunity in Global History

Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome.

More details:

09.04.2025 16:12 — 👍 45    🔁 41    💬 0    📌 0

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