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Richard Legay

@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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📚🔍 New project starts at ABI: PhotoTogo

Under the coordination of @richardlegay.bsky.social, a collection of colonial photographs from #Togo held at the Museum Natur und Mensch in #Freiburg will be critically examined.

▶️ Find out more on the project: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...

15.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!

03.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

@iamhist.bsky.social @emhis.bsky.social @martingrandjean.ch @atommarie.bsky.social @jimbomed.bsky.social @alecbad.bsky.social @huwagner.bsky.social

05.09.2025 09:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Homepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026 Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

Great Call for Papers for #media historians working on #radio & #magazines! 📻📰
The 'Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?' conference (Lausanne, 30.06-01.07.2026) is looking for contributions.
L'appel est aussi disponible en français.
impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

05.09.2025 09:28 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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New publication available through open access. Public History in Global Perspective…
Conflict Textiles features in chapter by Nico Ferguson Crossing Borders in Cloth, from Collectivizing to Commemorating…. Full details www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

02.09.2025 07:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'll have to try it!

29.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bon, vu les débats lancés à ce sujet depuis plus d’un mois, voilà un fil qui tente d’expliquer le problème que pose l’infiltration par les ultra-conservateurs des spectacles historiques et autres fêtes médiévales (ou de villages). À dérouler ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/

20.08.2025 09:07 — 👍 728    🔁 455    💬 14    📌 43
18.08.2025 14:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Public History in Global Perspective Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔

Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

12.08.2025 13:23 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Public History in Global Perspective Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔

Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

12.08.2025 13:23 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social

11.08.2025 23:36 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Public History in Global Perspective Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

11.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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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 — 👍 6    🔁 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 — 👍 676    🔁 186    💬 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 — 👍 47    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

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