"The past is a foreign country", sex tourist edition.

Reuters, breaking at 14:21 CDT Magyar says Orbán has congratulated Magyar has just posted on Facebook to say Orbán has congratulated. Here is a translation of his post: “Just now Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated me on victory in a phone call.”

I am very grateful to Lea Horvat & Ana Sekulić for creating Women* write the Balkans as a platform for conversation and experimentation, as well as for their masterful editorial guidance and patience. I enjoyed writing this para-ethnographic story and might do more of that in the future

Flagge der Rom*nja und Sinti*zze davor weiße box und in orangener Schrift: 8. April, Internationaler Tag der Rom*nja & Sinti*zze Für Sichtbarkeit, Erinnerung und Widerstand.

Am 8. April, dem Internationalen Tag der Rom*nja und Sinti*zze, erinnern wir an den ersten Welt Roma Kongress 1971 in London und damit an den Beginn einer internationalen Bürger*innenrechtsbewegung. "Romani Zor" heißt auch den Kampf heute weiterzuführen.

#RomaDay #8April #InternationalRomaDay

Was machen eigentlich die deutschen Regierungsvertreter aus den Parteien mit dem C im Namen gerade...

No, @britannica.com, it's not "the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution", it's the Haitian Revolution - with Black political subjects carrying out their own revolutionary acts, not subsumed under/inspired by white Europeans' revolutionary actions. #trouillot #silencingthepast

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Sklaverei verschweigen Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon

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Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon
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Papst Leo XIV. auf der Benediktionsloggia.

Papst Leo XIV. in seiner Osteransprache: „Wer Waffen in der Hand hält, lege sie nieder! [...] Wir sind gerade dabei, uns an die Gewalt zu gewöhnen, wir finden uns damit ab und werden gleichgültig. [...] Es gibt eine immer ausgeprägtere ‚Globalisierung der Gleichgültigkeit‘.“

Danke für die Einladung und die sehr schöne Diskussion mit der engagierten und interessierten Gruppe! Hat Spaß gemacht! 🤗

Alfred Bulai a fost trimis în judecată, după investigația Snoop

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We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

Can't believe I'm saying this, but here is a serious warning against "Theory & Society" as a publication venue, which seems to be run by a right-wing board with an evolutionist agenda.

Unbelievably sickening and utterly dangerous.

Friends and colleagues in Vienna - a warm invitation to my talk next Wednesday at the Department of Development Studies: ie.univie.ac.at/aktuelles-un...

Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism Syllabus Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]

Book review:

Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars. By Rita Maricocchi, PhD candidate at the University of Münster and Brian Quinn, PhD candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Join us on March 17 for the screening of the documentary and a subsequent discussion on memory and decoloniality.

ie.talks Public Lecture Series at the Department of Development Studies Summer term 2026 Wednesdays 16:15-17:45 Department of Development Studies, Room SG2, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna March 25, 2026 Creolizing the Modern. European Entanglements of Coloniality and Inter-Imperiality Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg, Germany April 29, 2026 Changing Rural Lives: An Ethnographic Exploration of Transformation in Bangladesh Ranjan Saha Partha, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh May 27, 2026 Territoriale Macht: Wie Unternehmen sozial-ökologische Konflikte unterbinden. Am Beispiel des Extraktivismus in Chile Anna Landherr and Jakob Graf, University of Augsburg, Germany June 10, 2026 Between Social-Ecological Conflicts and Structural Transformation in Colombia: Possibilities and Challenges for Social Movements under a Progressive Government Jakob Rammer University of Vienna, Austria

see you there!

@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social 🎯

Looking forward to the conversation with like-minded colleagues and students of critical development in Vienna!

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
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Not to be missed if you're in Berlin and work on anti-racism!

Look, @madelinepotter.bsky.social, your beautiful book is gaining more traction - as it should! 🤗

That is lovely to hear - I read it in the meantime, too, and feel so well understood and in great company!

Oh, you MUST be kidding me, BBC!!! You first get all of Ukraine's neighbors wrong for four years and in the next war you start mislabeling former British colonies?

MANUELA BOATCĂ: Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal Europes Monthly Lecture Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal Europes Manuela Boatcă, Ayşe Çağlar 24 February 2026, 18:00 CET IWM Library The reigning notion of “Europe” and its corresponding claims to…

"I propose the concept of 'Romani Europeans' not so much as a scholarly concept (yet), but more as a way to signal a political necessity."

📺️Missed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's lecture last Tuesday? Watch the recording and her full lecture on unthinkable European history here:

Yes, recorded and uploaded to YouTube 🤗

What a lineup!!! 🤩 Will it be recorded? I am traveling at that exact time 🥴.

Join us for our next RUTA webinar with @magdamatache.bsky.social and @madelinepotter.bsky.social. We will discuss their paradigm shifting new books that revisit Romani histories, rethink how they’re theorised with and envision pathways toward racial justice

Register here: forms.gle/tn6go6ZJ2pNi...