New article out: Niall Ferguson (Niall Ferguson Hoover Institution/Belfer Center) on ‘Applying History in Real Time: A Tale of Two Crises’ #openaccess #appliedhistory #september11 #bankingcrisis #LehmanBrothers Read and (or) download the paper (open access) here: brill.com/view/journals/…

For an overview of Brill's free content related to the war in #Ukraine, visit ow.ly/vBlG50IAJik Highlighted today: "From Kosovo to #Crimea and Beyond: On Territorial Integrity, Unilateral Secession and Legal Neutrality in International Law" by Simone F. van den Driest

Check our Call for Articles for a special issue on Weaponizing History in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Guest editors: Beatrice de Graaf and @LienVerpoest

🗞️The special double-issue of Journal of Applied History on the weaponization of history and claims about the past in Russia's war on Ukraine is OUT! The issue is currently open-access -- you can read many topical articles, including my own on Southern #Ukraine and Settler Colonialism 👇

Call for Papers for the 2023 autumn issue of the Journal of Applied History 👇

The Journal of Applied History has just issued a call for papers for a special issue on the topic of population policy, guest-edited by Stuart Gietel-Basten (@stuartgb.bsky.social) and Rishita Nandagiri (rishie.bsky.social) Spread the word!

Our latest volume reflects on the weaponization of history in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Beatrice de Graaf and @LienVerpoest are the guest editors. Their introduction to the issue is available in open access here: brill.com/view/journals/… #RussoUkrainianWar #Russia #Putin #History

In her contribution to our latest volume Tatsiana Astrouskaya discusses the place of Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Memory Politics of Post-Soviet Belarus. Available in free access: brill.com/view/journals/… #RussoUkrainianWar #Russia #Putin #history #appliedhistory

In our latest issue Niels Drost & Beatrice de Graaf have analyzed Putin's use of the past based on a corpus of speeches by the Russian president: ‘Putin and the Third Rome: Imperial-eschatological motives as a usable past’. Available in open access here: brill.com/view/journals/…

In his contribution to our special issue on the war @Historian_Sam discusses the use of memory diplomacy by the Ukrainian president: ‘WWII Memory Weaponized: The US, UK, and Ukrainian Memory Diplomacy’: brill.com/view/journals/… #Zelensky #Johnson #Biden #RussoUkrainianWar

In our special issue on the war in Ukraine Dr Olivia Durand 🇺🇦🍉🕊️ discusses ‘‘New Russia’ and the Legacies of Settler Colonialism in Southern Ukraine’. Available in open access here: brill.com/view/journals/… #Ukraine #Russia #NewRussia #BlackSea #appliedhistory #openaccess

In our latest issue: Georgi Verbeeck on "The Return of History as Travesty: The 'struggle against fascism' in the Russian-Ukrainian war" Read in free access here: brill.com/view/journals/… #RussoUkrainianWar #Russia #fascism #WWII #appliedhistory

In our special issue on the #RussoUkrainianWar our guest editor @LienVerpoest discusses the securitization of humiliation in Russia: ‘From Defiance to Civilizationalism: The Securitization of Humiliation in Russia’ brill.com/view/journals/… #Russia #foreignpolicy #Putin

Grigori Khislavski has contributed to our special issue on the #RussoUkrainianWar with a paper titled ‘Weaponizing History: Russia's War in Ukraine and the Role of Historical Narratives’ Read in free access here: brill.com/view/journals/… #Russia #memory #history #appliedhistory

In our special issue on the #RussoUkrainianWar: ‘Not one inch, unless it is from Lisbon to Vladivostok: NATO-Russia Mythmaking and a Reimagined Kievan Rus’ by Carl Mirra Read in free access here: brill.com/view/journals/… #Putin #NATO #USleft #appliedhistory

How does Ukraine respond to Russia's weaponization of history? ‘The Identity Politics of Heritage: Decommunization, Decolonization, and Derussification of Kyiv Monuments after Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine’, by Olena Betlii brill.com/view/journals/…

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