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Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8

Sem: Colonialism, Material Culture and Museum Collections

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158914

München, 11.05.2026-15.05.2026, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in cooperation with the University of Bamberg (Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies / KDWT) …

Pacific Heritage — Association of Critical Heritage Studies Sofya Shahab, University of Stirling Pacific Heritage: embodied modalities of peacebuilding with the past There are some moments that become etched in memory. Similar to 9/11 and the 2004 Boxing ...

We have a new Currents in Critical Heritage Studies post up by Sofya Shahab from the University of Stirling, Pacific Heritage: embodied modalities of peacebuilding with the past www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen Offene Stellen

Come work with us in Bremen and with Nasima Selim! Postdoc for #anthropologists with focus on #environment. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

This Friday! If you’re in Johannesburg, please consider joining us.

In addition, the call for new Heinz Heinen fellows has just gone live: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/fellowshi... (for doctoral, junior postdoc, senior postdoc, and alternative knowledge producer positions)

A cohort of graduate students is coming through who-- shook by the uncertainties of the COVID pandemic and forced into the disruptive environment of online learning, leaned into AI writing tools--are really struggling with the demands of doing original research. It is tough out there.

Rez. Ex: umbenennen?! Ausstellungsprojekt zur Geschichte der Berliner Straßennamen

https://www.hsozkult.de/exhibitionreview/id/reex-154915

Berlin, 28.03.2025-31.12.2026, Aktives Museum. Faschismus und Widerstand in Berlin e.V.; Arbeitskreis Berliner Regionalmuseen

❗⚠️ We are hiring a Professor at W2 level in urban and regional geography. The link below is in English, however candidates must also be able to speak German. If you have any questions about the position itself, please write to the email in the job ad.

www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/de/medien-fo...

Web dossier on uneasy postcolonial spaces, with contributions on Latin America, Ireland, Goa, Palestine & the European East, initially published in 2013 in honor of Fernando Coronil, is now available for free download tinyurl.com/3bp6wky6. Thanks to Louise Link for invaluable work on the new layout!

Stip: DAAD Doctoral Scholarship for International Researchers "Understanding Written Artifacts" (Univ. Hamburg)

https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-156913

Hamburg, 01.01.2026-31.12.2028, Universität Hamburg, Cluster "Understanding Written Artefacts" Graduate School, Bewerbungsschluss: …

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Rez: K. Antweiler: Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-134614

K. Antweiler: Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums

Titelseite des Berichts in DIE ZEIT, 09.07.2025, zur Umbenennung der M-Straße

BREAKING: M-Straße darf umbenannt werden.
Jetzt wird der große Schwarze deutsche Philosoph der Frühaufklärung, Anton Wilhelm Amo, im Herzen des früheren Kolonialimperiums geehrt. Wahrlich historisches Ereignis.
Dank an alle Initiativen!
h/t @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

Radical History Review | Duke University Press

Memory over Forgetting, Radical History Review. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

Unnatural Economies — Association of Critical Heritage Studies Rachel King, UCL Institute of Archaeology & University of the Witwatersrand Unpacking the entanglement of heritage, loss, and growth in the 20th century For a field preoccupied with value, he...

🏺 So pleased to have this out for ACHS #Currents about my adventures in economic history, how markets have valued the past, and how #heritage buys into growth (but doesn’t have to!).

🙏🏻 @heritagethings.bsky.social for being the most patient editor!

www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

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I’ve started tracking political actions affecting museums in 2025 here. Please add your own links so we can build a comprehensive record of the actions happening to the field.
#Museums #GLAM #MuseumEthics 📜🏛️

drive.proton.me/urls/7CRNDY5...

Really cool exchanges. Many thanks!

CFP: Fleeting Voices. Preserving Acoustic Heritage in the Archives and the Arts

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-153192

Wien, 01.10.2025-03.10.2025, Department Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Cultural Heritage Studies, …

Contested Heritage: A Discussion This discussion brings together experts from a variety of heritage-related sectors, to discuss how these developments have shaped their own work and vision.

Oxford! an event on colonial statues and contested heritage, April 9 - couldn't have picked a more suitable town for it - www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/contes...

You want to work in academia in Germany? Read this first: www.haujournal.org/index.php/ha...

An updated version of the series' cover drawing showing a museum shelf with meanwhile seven objects: the wooden figure from episode 1 on the top left slot, episode 2's golden crown top centre, the Rosetta Stone from episode 3 in the lower left, right next to it the Okukor rooster from episode 5, episode 6's Cullinan Diamond above and episode 4's two taxidermied lions again to the right it, finally above them the Kakuungu mask.

There are about 10 such masks, but none remains in the Democratic Republic of #Congo: 1.5 m tall & about 10 kg heavy - that is the truly monumental #Kakuungu dance mask.

In part 7 of their #MuseumOfStolenHistory series, @thecontinent.org tells its story: continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

RETHINKING HERITAGE AS COMMONS — Association of Critical Heritage Studies Pınar Aykaç, Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey Rights-based Approaches in Heritage Studies Recent scholarship on heritage sites places great emphasis on a human rights...

New post up at the ACHS Currents Blog: Pinar Aykac draws on the conversion of the Hagia Sophia to reflect on the pitfalls of rights based approaches in heritage management and the potential of rethinking Heritage as Commons. www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐

www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

📣 CFP for a Special Issue on 'Holocaust Memory Education and the Problem of Coloniality', organised by @drkatrinantweiler.bsky.social & Thomas Van de Putte

⏰ Deadline for abstracts and bios is 1st April 2025 & first versions of the articles October 1st

➡️ www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Heritage Futures — Association of Critical Heritage Studies Cornelius Holtorf, Professor of Archaeology and UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University, Sweden Cornelius Holtorf ‘s most recent paper discusses future-making through cultural herita...

In the latest Currents in Critical Heritage Studies, @corneliusholtorf.bsky.social discusses how to overcome “The Climate Heritage Paradox” (World Archaeology 2024), the emergence of heritage futures as a topic and the dynamics of heritage in society. www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

Let's see how the undergraduates take to this firecracker of a heritage definition: "National heritage is the backward glance taken from the edge of a vividly imagined abyss, and it accompanies a sense that history is foreclosed". Patrick Wright, On Living in an Old Country

Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures at University of Oxford An academic position as a Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities...

Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures- University of Oxford - The Queen’s College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK331/j...

PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions) PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions, each 1.0 fte)The Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites ...

JOB ALERT: I have two vacancies for fully-funded, 4 year PhD positions in my European Research Council Project “Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa”; one on Nigeria, one on Mozambique. Closing date for applications 15 March 2025, start in Sept. 2025

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...