Wunderbar! Glückwunsch! Jetzt muss nur noch der koloniale Name Bernhard Nocht weg. Es kann ja nicht sein, dass Hamburger Spitzenforschung implizit Kolonialisten feiert, und das im internationalen Austausch. Auch eine Aufgabe für Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Another exciting news before the holidays🎄❄️ Our #CfP for the #GlobalHistory Student Journal 10.1 is open until 29/02/2024🚨 Looking for original student work - see the attached call for details!🔍 SUBMIT NOW: globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ… #twitterstorians

New Book Spotlight: Sakiko Nakao on West Africans trying to reconcile nation-building and Panafricanism! The book includes an analysis of the Pan-African Congress 1945 and the African Democratic Assembly in 1946: transimperialhistory.com/book-spotlight… 中央大学広報室 Imperial & Global Center for Transimperial History (CTH)

One of our members, Sakiko Nakao, contributed to the Transimperial History Blog to introduce her newly published book!

💫 Our new article ‘Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology’ in BJPIR is out now! It developed from endless drafts, paper presentations, & debates within the Warnings from the Archive team. Super proud: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

I can't quite believe it's real, but my new article came out in Journal of Global History today! It's about Maya Angelou's work as an anti-colonial journalist in Cairo and Accra, which framed the struggle for civil rights within a global campaign against empire. Link and thread below:

Author’s copies of Pax Economica have arrived. Thank you Princeton University Press! Available for pre-order here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

CTH is delighted to announce that we will hold the second session of our Research Showcase Series on 23 February 2024, with Vicky Shen (University of Pittsburgh World History Center) as a speaker. Sign up on this link for the event: forms.gle/Uxp8vFbMpN6j7k…

Come work with us Universiteit Leiden as part of new and exciting research projects: 4 PhD Positions (0.9-1.0 FTE) universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

First blog article in 2024! Florian Balbiani on how imperial rivalry and transimperial exchange initiated a scramble for Swahili manuscripts. They ended up in Europe and helped to institutionalize African Studies: transimperialhistory.com/ein-wettlauf-u… Center for Transimperial History (CTH) VAD e.V. Koloniales Erbe

My colleague Severyan Dyakonov and I are excited to publish this CfP for a workshop/special issue on internationalist politics of the Global South in the Cold War. The workshop will be at Geneva Graduate Institute Inter History & Politics and selected papers will be published in Global Sixties Journal globalsixtiesjournal.com/workshop-speci…

This just made Valentine’s Day special :) I have been awarded the first of five YERUN (Young European Research Universities) Open Science Awards for the #Globalhistorydialgoues project. The project was recognized for its focus on equity and meaningful citizen involvement!

Congrats Marc! Can’t wait to read it!

Wow! 😳Danke für den außerordentlichen Einsatz, Frau Ministerin! 🤡 👉 jmwiarda.de/2024/03/13/all…

Was Indian nationalism born in Germany? @olebirklaursen on the untold story of Indians who made Berlin their home in interwar Germany: transimperialhistory.com/cosmopolitan-a… Imperial & Global Center for Transimperial History (CTH) Global History German History Society UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies

New article out today! It's about Radio Cairo and its unusual role in Somali decolonisation. From 1956 to 1960, broadcasts to the Horn of Africa helped to build support for a radical break with empire - but they also contributed to deep tensions within between nationalist groups.

#twitterstorians: organizing a WORKSHOP together w Agnieszka Sobocinska on "Historical CHALLENGES to International DEVELOPMENT" King's College London on 12-13 Sept 24 - appl deadline May 1 - pls find and share CFP: networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

From Rostock to Chicago to Moscow to Paris. How ‘transimperial’ were World Fairs and what was their role in spreading racist science? Answers on our blog, by Anna-Maria Begerock, Thea Clasen, Yulia Rashkovsjaya and @KreienbaumJ: transimperialhistory.com/world-expositi…

Great privilege to be moderating yesterday's lecture by Naita Hishoono on Namibian-German cultures of remembrance (or the lack thereof) Jürgen Zimmerer Koloniales Erbe WONAGO @BMBF_Bund Universität Hamburg @NokokureHorstZaire #memory #heritage #Namibia #Germany

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