Three-year Mellon postdoc in American History at the University of Cambridge. Any subfield. Fast turn-around—application closes March 1.

Please spread widely.🗃️
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Join @mariamsalehi.bsky.social and @amenzel.bsky.social excellent roundtable !!

Join the Debate! Deadline: Feb 19 2026, Full call: eisa-net.org/sections-lis... From Mamdani’s political vision for New York to explorations of socialist secret services-we welcome diverse approaches, ranging from historical and sociological to contemporary perspectives!

Amidst ongoing changes in world orders – interested in how (post-)socialist internationalisms shaped global politics? @luisaue.bsky.social & I are convening "Post-)Socialist Internationalism: Knowledge, Positionality, and Global Politics" (PoSoc) at #EISA2026 in Lisbon

Einladung zur Buchvorstellung mit Muriel Asseburg am Montag, den 8. Dezember um 17h am ZMO.

Danke an alle, die heute gegen die Gründung der Jugendorganisation der rechtsextremen AfD in Gießen protestieren. Passt auf euch auf!

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!

We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.

This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”

Deadline: 17 Dec 2025

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„Die Begriffe „Krieg“ und „Genozid“ sollten nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden“ - @amenzel.bsky.social und ich haben als Friedens- und Konfliktforscherinnen ein Plädoyer für diskursive Mehrgleisigkeit geschrieben
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Hope

#RethinkingViolenceDVPW

In den nächsten 2 Tagen berichten @mariamsalehi.bsky.social und @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social vom Workshop der DVPW-AKs Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung sowie Internationale Politische Soziologie am @zmo-berlin.bsky.social. Gemeinsam denken wir über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Gewalt nach.

🪃We have a new article out in @millennjournal.bsky.social: “Imperial Boomerangs: Transnational and Transtemporal Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict Configurations“

I am very happy, because this has been a proper team effort! @laurakotzur.bsky.social

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Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

It’s in Geneva ?

Practising Pluriversalism in Africa - Raoul Bunskoek, Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino, 2025 This special section examines how African and non-African actors, including Chinese and Western, co-produce knowledge through pluralistic encounters. Emphasizin...

Publication day for Practicing Pluriversalism! By Raoul Bunskoek @clingendael.bsky.social and @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social @zmo-berlin.bsky.social
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Kindly supported by
@africamultiple.bsky.social.

– especially Werner Distler and @tbonacker.bsky.social for providing the foundation through project B05 @sfb138.bsky.social. 3/3

and examine how the international forums closed off space for claims to independence – and how this foreclosed space contributed to the eruption of violence. Thanks to the reviewers and to everyone whose comments and questions have shaped this piece since its first version 2/3

Temporalities of independence and closure: violence in the UN-trusteeships of Togoland and Cameroon After World War II, the former German colonies of Cameroon and Togoland were placed under United Nations trusteeship, a system meant to guide territories toward self-governance. Despite similar str...

📢 New publication alert!
Happy to share that our article is out now with Cambridge Review of International Affairs: doi.org/10.1080/0955...
Together with Julius Heise, we compare the two UN trusteeship territories of Cameroon and Togoland 1/3

Die neue Protestkultur Der Druck der Straße wächst: Bauernproteste, Klimastreiks oder Proteste gegen unterdrückende Regimes – der Politikwissenschaftler Tareq Sydiq beleuchtet die neue Protestkultur

Heute findet am ZMO um 17h die Buchvorstellung von Tareq Sydiqs neuem Buch "Die neue Protestkultur" in Anwesenheit des Autoren statt. Wir laden herzlich dazu ein!
Das Buch wird auf Deutsch vorgestellt, die Diskussion auf Englisch & Deutsch geführt.

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The deadline for abstract submissions is today!

this workshop addresses the need to critically rethink how violence is studied and understood in world politics, particularly of gendered, racialized, structural, and “slow” forms of violence. Feel free to share widely! #CfP #IPS #ViolenceResearch #IR #DVPW #ZMO #PoliticalSociology #PeaceAndConflict

Submit your abstract (max. 250 words) and short bio (max. 200 words) by May 31, 2025 to: gewaltordnungen@dvpw.de. In light of current wars, shifting geopolitical landscapes, authoritarianism, and the marginalization of civil society,

Save the date! Our next annual conference will take place on October 29–30, 2025 @zmo-berlin.bsky.social in Berlin, in cooperation with the DVPW Working Group on International Relations (AK SiB): "Rethinking the Past, Present and Future of Violence: Inputs from International Political Sociology"

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I'm grateful to the reviewers for their valuable feedback, to the colloquium of the @postcolh.bsky.social colloquium, and to @janahoenke.bsky.social and her chair group for their critical engagement throughout the article's development. You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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I'm excited that my article "Postcolonial Embarassment" was published over the holidays. The article examines the UN Arria Formula Meeting on the humanitarian situation in Cameroon 2019 and argues that the meeting significantly shaped international responses to the violence. 1/1

FSP2/FSP3/FSP4 : Podiumsdiskussion mit Onur Erdur, Bernardo Bianchi und Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino : "Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie" Podiumsdiskussion mit Onur Erdur (HU Berlin), Bernardo Bianchi (CMB Berlin) und Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino (ZMO Berlin). In Kooperation mit dem ZMO organisert das CMB am 25.02.2025 von 14 bis 16...

Wer am Dienstag 14:00 Uhr gerne mitdiskutieren will - kommt zum Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin): Podiumsdiskussion mit Onur Erdur, Bernardo Bianchi und mir zur "Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie". cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...

Eine Karte zeigt, wohin Merz' Flugzeug 2022-2024 geflogen ist

Alle paar Tage ist Friedrich Merz’ Privatflugzeug in den letzten drei Jahren gestartet. Nicolai Kary und ich haben die Flüge seines Propellerflugzeugs analysiert. Auch wenn die Maschine sehr effizient ist - die Emissionen sind selbst für reiche Deutsche hoch: taz.de/Privatflugze...