If you're interested in the relationship between art and history after colonialism, please join us on May 14, 2026 at UCL for the launch of a small exhibit of contemporary Namibian art! Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

The Comforts of Provincialism: The History and Future of Colonial Memory in Germany This article analyzes some of the historical causes for contemporary disputes in Germany over the commensurability of colonial violence and the Holocaust, which have once again intensified after Hamas...

How can insights from African history inform current debates about commemoration of colonial violence and the Holocaust? Check out my new article in New German Critique to find out: doi.org/10.1215/0094... Thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for a great special issue on German Memory Politics!

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Come and work with me! Two home-fee scholarships on Nigerian history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...

The Ottoman Empire Imagined from Africa: Visions of Tripolitan Elites for an Islamic African State under Ottoman Rule

African history can enrich our understanding of Ottoman history, not just the other way around. Join us next Wednesday, February 4, for the IHR African History Seminar with Kerem Duymus (Leipzig University) to learn more! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade

Next Wednesday, the IHR African History Seminar welcomes Jake Subryan Richards, who will present his new book The Bonds of Freedom (Yale UP) on the possibilities and constraints faced by liberated Africans in the 19th-century Atlantic world! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade

Next Wednesday, the IHR African History Seminar welcomes Jake Subryan Richards, who will present his new book The Bonds of Freedom (Yale UP) on the possibilities and constraints faced by liberated Africans in the 19th-century Atlantic world! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Nineteenth-Century Central Sahel Between Orality and Literacy: Interpreting the Kanuri Scholarship of Al-Hajj Musa Ibn Hissein of Borno

Interested in the intellectual history of West Africa? Then please join us next Wednesday in person or via Zoom for the IHR African History Seminar on the Kanuri scholar al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org, @africaatlse.bsky.social

The Nineteenth-Century Central Sahel Between Orality and Literacy: Interpreting the Kanuri Scholarship of Al-Hajj Musa Ibn Hissein of Borno

Interested in the intellectual history of West Africa? Then please join us next Wednesday in person or via Zoom for the IHR African History Seminar on the Kanuri scholar al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org, @africaatlse.bsky.social

Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola: Law and Multinormativity in Early Modern West Central Africa

If you're in London and interested in Angolan and West Central African history, please join us next Wednesday at the IHR African History Seminar with João Figueiredo! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @africaatlse.bsky.social

Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola: Law and Multinormativity in Early Modern West Central Africa

If you're in London and interested in Angolan and West Central African history, please join us next Wednesday at the IHR African History Seminar with João Figueiredo! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @africaatlse.bsky.social

Today:
Fabian Krautwald (UCL) will be speaking on “Fluid Remembrance: Oceanic Crossings and Colonial Memories in the Rise of African Nationalism” as part of our lecture series on transoceanic exchanges.
2-4pm, Hörsaalzentrum Hz 8 @goetheuni.bsky.social

www.movingcultures.de/fabian-kraut...

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There is only one week left to apply for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium 2026. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/4nyWsmv

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We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨

🗓️ 14 Oct 2025
🕠 5:30–7:30 pm
📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London

All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN

Institute of Historical Research The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

All sessions are hybrid, so you can easily join from outside London and the UK!

Recasting the Past: Zeinab Badawi’s An African History of Africa

The inaugural meeting of the new African History Seminar at London's Institute of Historical Research will take place on October 14 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Zeinab Badawi will talk about her fantastic book, An African History of Africa. You can register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Join us!

📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.

• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History

Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

The @erc.europa.eu's Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdocs go live tomorrow.

Would you like to hold one @uclhistory.bsky.social? If so get in touch with me! #skyhistorians

Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Next up in the #SOAS History Seminar is @fkrautwald.bsky.social (UCL) who will be speaking about 'Mnemonic sovereignty: Memories of German colonialism and Africa’s decolonization'. Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 5pm in room C325. All welcome!
For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

A Zeitenwende for Whom? German Colonial Memory and Epistemic Barriers On November 21, 2024, The Namibian, Namibia’s leading English-language newspaper, reported that the ongoing negotiations between Namibia and Germany over ...

Dr Fabian Krautwald has recently published a short article for the American-German Institute on the nearing conclusion of the 'reconciliation agreement' between Namibia and Germany about the genocide of 1904-1908 against the Herero and Nama 📖

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