@muvonbulow.bsky.social
Mom. Historian. Lecturer in School of IR @ University of St Andrews: decolonization & Cold War, colonial conflict, intel & security, Algeria, Franco-German relations, civil society actors & IR
Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
I wrote about why I left academia, why I left America, why I left Substack - and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:
Some major personal news:
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We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire"
Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into
Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9
CFP: Violence and Empire. From the Early 1800s to the End of the Great War
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156683
80138, 06.03.2026-07.03.2026, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Bewerbungsschluss: 16.11.2025
CFP: Zwischen Imperium und „Neuen Kriegen“. Eine geschichtswissenschaftliche Einordnung der Dekolonisierungskonflikte
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156680
Eichstätt, 05.02.2026-06.02.2026, Grischa Sutterer, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, …
With all the news about Elon Musk and the AfD, I guess it’s time to repost my starter pack: “Experts on German Rightwing Extremism”
go.bsky.app/DnB9hMz
Thank you!
11.11.2024 22:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
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The main gate of the former Auschwitz I camp with the 'Arbeit macht frei inscription.
We are on @bsky.app.
Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.
Repost please.
I have started building a stater pack for history of colonialism and imperialism
go.bsky.app/TDMSz4Y
A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3
09.11.2024 20:53 — 👍 168 🔁 100 💬 79 📌 9Really useful list, thank you! Please could you add me?
11.11.2024 06:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Great list, thank you! please could you add me?
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Excellent news for historians of humanitarianism & disasters: the catalogue for the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (League of Red Cross Societies) Library & Archives is finally online!! Lots of digitized material, too. Yay! ifrc.soutron.net/public/catal...
11.01.2024 18:04 — 👍 35 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2Bab el Oued City might work, too
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Still time to apply for fully-funded PhD studentships at Kew and a wide range of excellent UK universities. Projects span from History through to Natural History:
03.01.2024 09:57 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0In alarming turn of events, ChatGPT accidentally develops a social conscience. Management promises to nip this problem in the bud.
11.12.2023 21:19 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0From the AHR in March 2023: In the AHR History Lab, a forum “On Transnational and International History” asked, “what should we make of the transnational turn?” A dozen scholars reflected on "the challenges and satisfactions in working on a transnational canvas." 🗃️ doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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UCD Dublin is recruiting a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in 20th Century Military History to join an interdisciplinary team.
Project: « Spectres & Camouflage: The Sound of Silence (1938-1970) »
Duration: 36 months
Deadline: 29th November 2023.
#Job #PostDoc
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEE029/p...
47/2023 exceptional work by Dr. Aimée Fox on British Army learning during WWI. I had no idea the British Army prized flexibility and individual initiative in that era. Lots of lessons about observing allies, training, publications, civilian expertise, and integrating Australian units.
26.11.2023 05:38 — 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 01/26 Die Ukrainer:innen erinnern heute an ihr größtes nationales Trauma, den Holodomor. Diese von Stalin und seinen Gefolgsleuten künstlich herbeigeführte Hungersnot kostete in der Sowjetukraine etwa vier Millionen Todesopfer.
We're hiring a historian of modern Europe; area, period, and rank open, with pref. for an interest authoritarianism or autocracy. Applications due 12/3. I'm on the committee and happy to answer any questions here or by email: tpeterso [at] fiu [dot] edu
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
My book, Age of Emergency, is out now. It’s about how colonial violence comes home and what it means to live with warfare that is simultaneously distant and present, unsettling and unstoppable, existential and futile.
05.11.2023 19:12 — 👍 57 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 3Excellent piece with my wholehearted recommendation
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🗃️ Researchers of French history and culture: the call for papers for the next George Rudé Seminar is now out (see images for details). The conference will be held at Macquarie University 11 to 13 July 2024. For more details keep an eye on h-france.net/rude/cfp/ Hope to see you in Sydney, Australia!
13.10.2023 05:10 — 👍 34 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0Hi everyone! It’s nice to catch up with you all again.
Big news around here: I quit my tenured academic job at the University of South Florida earlier this year and have started an academic developmental editing and translation company called Les plumes rouges with my friend Sandrine Sanos.
Friends: my department, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke, has three tenured/tenure-track positions open in Japanese Studies (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25879), Korean Studies (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25886) and South Asian Studies (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25880)!
03.10.2023 21:55 — 👍 55 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 0If anyone is wondering what it has been like to live and work at a public university in Florida for the last few years (and why I quit my job), here’s a piece I wrote for the LRB about the DeSantis admin’s war on education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against 🇮🇱, we have indications of X/Twitter being used to disseminate illegal content & disinformation in the EU.
Urgent letter to Elon Musk on DSA obligations ⤵️
ISA Online Panel on State Violence on 19th October - 1PM BST, 8AM ET.
Join us next week for this ISA panel on State Violence.
I'll be discussing racial militarism & state violence as features of the (post)colonial state.
Register here: isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
w/@tsolomon.bsky.social, Alexandria Innes, Leonie Fleischmann, Sasikumar Sandaram #Polisky
