
Guido van Meersbergen
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Early modern historian. Global history, diplomacy, travel, East India Companies, South Asia. Director @Warwick_Global co-editor @GlobalHistJnl
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Geert Wilders Does it make a difference if the "terrorists" are not labeled "Islamic"? Beyond the rampant racism of this tweet (for which a political leader should be held accountable more than average citizens), one could read this, mutatis mutandis, the making of a case for Palestine and the

I am advertising a #globalhistory PostDoc position full time for 3 years as part of my team at the History Department at the Universität Potsdam 👉🏾uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/proj…




📢 Have you checked out our blog? In our latest entry, Guido van Meersbergen reviews our workshop "The Traveller's Tale" on travel studies & (de)coloniality 👇warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo…




Two weeks left to apply for the Wheeler History of Travel Writing PhD studentship. Start date October 2025. Deadline for applications: 16 January 2025. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo… WarwickHistory Warwick Global History and Culture Centre


Delighted to publish on black women's activist travel during apartheid in the Travel Writing and Decolonial Turn special issue with its roots in the stimulating Hakluyt Society conference. Thank you to the excellent guest editors Natalya Din-Kariuki & Guido van Meersbergen and anonymous reviewers.


Pleased to see my and Guido van Meersbergen’s special issue on “Travel Studies and the Decolonial Turn” is out now! Thanks to our contributors Vishvesh Kandolkar, Gábor Gelléri now on BlSk, Janet Remmington, R. Benedito Ferrão & Joanne Lee. ✨ tandfonline.com/toc/rstw20/27/2


GHCC Annual Conference: "Global Histories of Violence, c. 1800-2025", 29-30 May 2025. Registration now open! Free to attend in-person or online. See full programme and registration here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo… Share widely! WarwickHistory Warwick Doctoral College PAIS Warwick Warwick Arts Faculty


Very nice to see Guido van Meersbergen and my 2024 Hakluyt Society annual lecture in print:


Prof David Anderson opens Warwick Global History and Culture Centre annual conference on Global Histories of Violence. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo… WarwickHistory


Day 2 of the Warwick Global History and Culture Centre annual conference on Global Histories of Violence is underway with a panel on sexual violence. WarwickHistory


Excellent lecture by Prof Sangeeta Dasgupta on writing adivasi histories followed by brilliant ECR presentations at today’s South Asia in Global History workshop Warwick Global History and Culture Centre WarwickHistory
