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hi #skystorians, 🗃️ interested in the postcolonial history of Trier/ southwest Germany? There is a new contribution on the blog I'm hosting: trierglobal.hypotheses.org

Provenance, Science & Profit: Natural History Museums and the Global Network of the Umlauff Natural History Trading Houses Natural history traders have been crucial, yet under-researched contributors to museum collections. The Hamburg-based J.F.G. Umlauff family company, founded in the mid-19th century, exemplifies this s...

hi #skystorians, here's a little something I prepared with my fellow researchers Katja Kaiser, André Koch, and Sabine v. Mering: riojournal.com/article/1816... (open access).

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Cover of journal on the topic of colonial history in the Saar region with coffee mug and stylus

hi #skystorians, my project partner CKI and I have written a little something on Trier's postcolonial history. Contact me if you'd like to read the text (alas German only).🗃️

About TREATY for Victoria | The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria Treaty is our opportunity to make sure we – the Traditional Owners of these lands – always have the freedom and power to make the decisions that affect our communities, our culture, and our Country.

The legislation establishes the First Peoples’ Assembly as a permanent representative body to advise the government, under a new statutory corporation called Gellung Warl.
Gellung Warl means ‘tip of the spear’ or ‘pointed spear’ in Gunaikurnai language. 📜 🗃️ firstpeoplesvic.org/treaty/treat...

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives

The Australian state of Victoria has taken a historic step towards reconciliation, passing the nation’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners. 📜 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Die Rückgabe nach Namibia war "eine bequeme Möglichkeit für die Stadt und den Senat, diese Sammlung endlich loszuwerden." Zum Ende des Bremer Afrika Archivs berichtet heute der Weser-Kurier. www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/breme...

Handel mit Schädeln aus der Kolonialzeit: Bundesregierung will aktuell kein Verbot Im Internet und in Auktionshäusern werden menschliche Überreste verkauft, die Deutschland sich vor 120 Jahren gewaltvoll aneignete. Die Ampel wollte das verbieten – doch die neue Regierung sieht das a...

Freie Marktwirtschaft 2025
Handel mit Schädeln aus der Kolonialzeit: Bundesregierung will aktuell kein Verbot www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/hand...

Pacific powers: Imperial competition and cooperation in Micronesia

It sits alongside another PhD scholarship just advertised by ACU, to be supervised by our colleague on the project, Kristie Flannery. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

PhD Scholarship: Pacific Powers - Flinders University

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Title page of book by Jasmin Koehler on cannibalism in early 20th century German literature

🗃️ found this in my pigeonhole today! a wonderful book written by an extremely smart and intellectually engaging academic, who contacted me a few years back out of the blue to talk about cannibalism..., congratulations, Jasmin Köhler! 🎓

Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms 80 percent cut in senior historian roles Manatū Taonga is going ahead with cutting the jobs of most of its historians.

Sheer vandalism. Aotearoa / NZ showing its determination to institutionally forget its history. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I am prone to fatalist climate doomerism. But is it really too late? | First Dog on the Moon It’s bad (real bad) but it’s NOT over

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Einladung zu einem Workshop zum Thema "Trier Postkolonial" am 10.07.2025. Wir werden mögliche Stationen einer Stadtführung vorstellen und diskutieren.

Hi #skystoriens, 🗃️ hier ein Veranstaltungshinweis :-)

Workshop 2025 Recap We look back on a successful workshop on Country in Euston/ Robinvale VIC on the banks of the Miloo [Murray] River, organised by our project partners at Museums Victoria (Caine Muir, Rebecca Carland, ...

🗃️history #skystorians #decolonize A quick shout out and big thank to all the amazing people who made this wonderful workshop possible: collectingoz.hypotheses.org/800

Historische Dokumente zugänglich gemacht Transkriptionen und Scans des Forschungsprojekts „Berlin’s Australian Archive: Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History“ veröffentlicht

The last few weeks have been very busy, here is one of the reasons why: www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/museum/me... - more to follow :-) #skystorians #history🗃️

map with locations of postcolonial city walk Trier 22 Feb 2025

announcement postcolonal city walk in Trier 22 Feb 2025

🗃️ Yesterday we held the dress rehearsal for our newly developed city tour on "Postcolonial Trier". 3 hours reporting on the colonial entanglements of Trier's city history at a total of 7 locations. Now the questionnaires are being evaluated and improvements made. #postcolonial #publichistory

Ankündigung Filmvorführung von "Das leere Grab" (2024) mit anschließendem Gespräch mit den den beiden Direktorinnen Cece Mlay und Agnes Lisa Wegner, Broadway Trier 15.02.2025 Beginn 19:30 Uhr.

Life Sciences: Das betrifft uns! Wir reden längst nicht mehr (nur) über Gender Studies. Unsere internationalen Kooperationspartner*innen ohne Gehalt, unsere Datengrundlagen bei der CDC abgeschaltet, unsere Submissions blockiert.

Brandmauer Demos gegen Rechts Finde Brandmauer Demos gegen Rechts in deiner Nähe.

www.demokrateam.org/brandmauer/

Die Anträge zu stützen, die die Union einbringen wird und Bürger*innen in zwei Klassen teilt, muss gelesen werden als: Man hält sich selbst für überlegen, besser, für die echten Bürger*innen. Das ist rechtsextreme Ideologie, unabhängig davon, mit welchen Fraktionen man stimmt.

Title of Markus Hedrich's book on Bernhard Nocht, who founded the Institute for Tropical Medidine in Hamburg in 1900.

Look, I found a book 🗃️ in my pigeonhole at work! Thank you, and congratulations, @markushedrich.bsky.social , I am very much looking forward to reading it! #colonialhistory

Good morning skystorians! 🗃️ I am curating a research blog connecting local spaces and networks with #globalhistory and the history of #colonialism. The current series of articles focusses on 19th- and 20th-century colonial history of the city my university is located in: trierglobal.hypotheses.org

Trauer um Habbo Knoch Völlig überraschend hat uns die Nachricht ereilt, dass Prof. Dr. Habbo Knoch am 11. Dezember 2024 plötzlich verstorben ist. Wir sind fassungslos! Habbo Knoch wurde 55 Jahre alt, wir alle haben sein En...

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Willkommen und Abschied: Sisyphus und das koloniale Erbe

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Modellprojekt Dekoloniale wird beendet: Kein Raum für Erinnerungskultur Fünf Jahre erinnerte die „Dekoloniale“ an den deutschen Kolonialismus aus Betroffenen-Perspektive. Nun müssen die Initiativen ihre Räume aufgeben.

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fellow #skystorians, this week, 2 important projects on German colonialism & memory culture had to close down and Habbo Knoch, a highly regarded scholar of the impact & legacies of images of the Shoa passed away - what a blow to #decolonial #germancolonialism #multidirectionalmeories

Sehr gerne. Sag einfach Bescheid :-) Weiterhin gute Fahrt! LG

I attended a wonderful workshop earlier this week with truely inspiring presentations, especially by Rahab Njeri, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and Elnathan John. kisd.de/termine/rese... If you ever have the opportunity to meet and/or listen to one of them, jump right to it! #history #decolonize 🗃️