Volume 48 of Social Science History SSHA is now published, containing my Presidential Address “Reverberations of Empire,” a book forum on Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought” & other delicious reads. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

For those in Vienna and online, I'm presenting my paper on the land at the bottom of the Peruća lake on Wednesday at 16:45.

Announcing the HTIR summer series Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen, and what a treat!

From Lucian Ashworth's geopolitics, Seán Molloy on Hegel, Inanna Hamati-Ataya and M. Sesay on political ecologies, feminism with D. Ahmadi, and reflecting on the Carnation Revolution...

All curious are welcome!

Applications for the next round of CDH Visiting Fellowships, to be held between October 2024 and March 2025, are now open.

To be considered for this round, please send in your application via the application form by Sunday 21 April.

Read more: buff.ly/3VIq3ze

New blog post: Albert Feierabend shows how blank spaces emerged on 19th-century maps: karafas.hypotheses.org/6276. While earlier maps were colourful and contained information from Africans, (1/2)

One month left to submit abstracts! The Society for the History of the Humanities has announced a call for papers for The Making of the Humanities XI conference in Lund, Sweden: ow.ly/jrFr50QyX9G

📣 Debordering futures: racial capitalism, coloniality and migrant justice

🗓️ 16-17 May 2024
📍 CRASSH
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41935

A re-examination of the intertwined histories of migration, colonialism, racial capitalism, and the aspirations of migrant and racial justice movements

📢Reminder: we are offering a funded PhD studentship on global commodities in #EarlyModern wills!

This post shows the scope a student would have to shape their research & the other resources at their disposal - pls share!

#PhD #twitterstorians #History sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

Cambridge Digital Humanities is recruiting for two new posts:

1️⃣ Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities (5 years fixed term), closing 2 June
2️⃣ Postgraduate Administrator (full time), closing 5 May

Apply now: buff.ly/43GUpUV

New, essential work on the historiography of animals by Jonathan Saha, which is particularly topical to medical anthropologists too in light of avian-flu-related culling: 'A Historiography of Great Animal Massacres' link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Looking forward to speaking next month at the New Scientist Emerging Technologies Summit
New Scientist Events newscientist.com/tech2024

Monday @ 2pm ET/7pm UK

'The Smartness Mandate': Orit Halpern & Robert Mitchell w/ Audrey Borowski

Opening event in the fantastic 'AI and the Digital' series!

Free and all welcome.

Register: bit.ly/48VmsRi

Pls RT The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social, Future Intelligence, Cambridge Digital Humanities, gloknos

2 postdoctoral positions: 'History of the Europeanisation of the universities' (Lund Univ.)

hsozkult.de/job/id/job-143…

Viewpoint: Why the European Union Commission’s proposal to limit patents on gene-edited crops would rewrite global intellectual property rights geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/03/20/vie… via Genetic Literacy Project

📢We have just re-advertised our PhD studentship on Global Commodities in #EarlyModern wills📢

The successful student has lots of scope to shape it: this post outlines some themes they might explore. Please share!

#History #PhDChat #twitterstorians

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

We are hiring for a 4-year researcher position (pre- or postdoc) for a project on 'Predatory publishing practices' funded by VolkswagenStiftung. Looking for a new colleague in Berlin (RMZ_HU) from STS, sociology of science, or criminology. haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/st…

We are very excited to announce that our keynote talk will be delivered by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid (Wolfson College, University of Oxford) Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid! The talk is entitled, 'Heaven to Earth to Clay: Writing and Reality in Ancient Mesopotamia’.
Link to abstract: opcaassyriology.wixsite.com/opca---oxford-…

(Call for papers) Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2024/03/les-id… #histmed

Now on FirstView: Sarah Bridger discusses scientific credibility and prestige in her review essay of Michael Gordin’s On the Fringe, Andrew Jewett’s Science under Fire, and Audra Wolfe’s Freedom’s Laboratory bit.ly/4a9df9o

FYI: An NWO Funding NWO Nieuws PhD scholarship program aimed at the under-represented group of graduates with a migration background from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Turkey in the Netherlands: nwo.nl/en/calls/mosai…