Norman Aselmeyer

Conference time! From protest routes to print networks, from imperial capitals to port cities, urban spaces were not just backdrops but engines of anticolonial struggle. Join us for the "Cities and Decolonization" conference in Oxford this week. More: citiesanddecolonization.com

There is a deeper ideological implication to this: colonial violence is normalised as a form of oppression, whereas National Socialist violence is exceptionalised as an unprecedented form of mass murder. This distinction marginalises the genocidal dimension of colonial violence.

Die neue Ausstellung im DHM Berlin "Umstrittene Verwandtschaft" fängt schon mit einer Frechheit an: hier der industrielle Massenmord, dort die "harmlose" Peitsche. Anstatt Sensibilität für Gewaltverbrechen zu schaffen, wird schon am Eingang hierarchisiert und der Ton gesetzt. Beschämend.

🚨 Are you researching pastoral development schemes and their purported failures in Africa? We'd love to hear from you! 🚨 Submit an abstract to our #ECAS2027 panel in Lisbon, co-organised with @saitabau.bsky.social ! 🔗 www.ecasconference.org/2027/program... 📅 Deadline: 4 January 2027

Interested in researching climate change in and beyond Africa? Please join us next Monday, October 26 from 6-8 PM at UCL for lecture by Emmanuel Kreike (Princeton) on how we can use digital methods and aerial photography to better understand the Great Acceleration: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

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Please join us for next week’s event! Lauren Brown will present part of her PhD dissertation on the visual history of Mau Mau. The talk will be held virtually, but I will be at the African Studies Centre, so please do stop by if you are in Oxford.

The Michaelmas 2026 term card for the Northeast Africa Forum is ready. We hope to see you at the seminar. Details and webinar registration will be online at: events.ox.ac.uk/events/searc...

Kürzungsorgien statt Strukturwandel.

🎉 Welcome to our 13th cohort of KWI International & Thyssen@KWI Fellows! 7 scholars join us for winter 2026/27, exploring topics as state socialism, #AI, #decolonisation, automated therapy, and more. Full profiles: www.kulturwissenschaften.de/kwi-internat... #KWI #Fellows2026 #Research #UARuhr

Beim Deutschlandticket sind „hohe Energiekosten“ der Grund, weshalb es teurer wird. Beim Tankrabatt sind „hohe Energiekosten“ der Grund, warum Benzin „billiger“ wird. Und die CDU wundert sich, warum sie bei Wahlen abschmiert und bald keine Rolle mehr spielen wird?

Bremen is a good place for this. Why Bremen? Because German colonialism wasn’t simply a state project dreamed up in Berlin. It grew out of trading companies, missionary societies, and other private actors in cities like Bremen. That history matters, and it needs to be acknowledged.

#CfP Did The Empire Make Sense? Exploring the Potential and the Limits of Colonial Environmental Knowledge 📍#Conference at #GHILondon @ghilondon.bsky.social 📅 18–20 May 2027 | Apply by November 16, 2026 🔗 www.ghil.ac.uk/event...

Den Aktionismus, den das Wort „Vergesellschaftung“ erzeugt, den hätte ich mir mal in der Politik bei „Remigration“ gewünscht.

The demographic which voted the least for the AfD was socialized entirely in the GDR, the highest share at 53% (35-44) were children or infants when the wall came down and 42% of those born in the 21st century voted for them.

Trans-national, racist far right networks are trying to use Ghent’s suspension & investigation of Nathan Cofnas to legitimate his pseudo-scientific claptrap about race and IQ. This is the counter-petition. Please sign if you care about academic integrity: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wahnsinn, dass sich Leute mehr über Ben-Gvirs Sprache empören als über DIE REALITÄT, die sie beschreibt – und die Deutschland seit drei Jahren aktiv mit unterstützt

Erschreckend an der Ben-Gvir-Sache ist halt wie lächerlich Wissensstand über 🇮🇱 Politik in 🇩🇪 ist. Der einzige 🇮🇱 TV-Sender, dem Netanyahu Interviews gibt, hatte nach 7. Okt. monatelang „Terroristen“-Ticker – gemeint war Zahl *aller* getöteten Palästinenser in Gaza. Nichts an dieser Rhetorik ist neu.

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

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See the recent #OpenAccess discussion piece 'Singularity by Other Means: Germany’s Colonial Question and the Bureaucracy of Memory' by Yuetong Li: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Zur Stärkung internationaler Kooperationen in Wissenschaft und Lehre #Hist4Dem unterstützt den Aufruf zur Beteiligung an einer Bundestags-Petition gegen die Streichung sämtlicher DAAD-Hochschulkooperationsprogramme mit dem Globalen Süden ab 2030. epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/peti...

The Netanyahu regime’s genocidal evil is being allowed to continue, above all by a morally bankrupt US regime and a powerless international community. Netanyahu-Trump-Putin: the early 21st century Axis of Evil.. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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'Ginzburg’s death...means that one of the last living links with a remarkable postwar generation of historians has gone....As the rise of 21st-century authoritarianism creates new generations of scapegoats and misfits, the approach of one of Italy’s greatest scholars speaks directly to our times.'

Worth noting, this very helpful guide is published free Open Access uolpress.co.uk/book/becomin... by @uolpress.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social #Skystorians

Der Entwurf fürs #WissZeitVG ist 1 totes Pferd 💀 #IchBinHanna

„Das "4+2"-Modell der Ampel verschwindet vollständig, die #Anschlusszusage ebenfalls, und selbst die im Ampel-Kabinettsbeschluss bereits enthaltenen begrenzten Lockerungen der sogenannten Tarifsperre tauchen im neuen Entwurf nicht wieder auf.“ Ja, also, danke für nichts. #IchBinHanna

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 2 June for a book launch & discussion: 'Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya' w/author Hanno Brankamp (Glasgow) & discussant Loren Landau (Oxford) *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

Looking for a postdoc? The Faculty of History at Oxford is holding an Expression of Interest competition to select candidates for support through the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme. More information here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/brit...

Please join us for the seminar today. Full details ⬇️

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 26 May, when our very own Norman Aselmeyer & his colleague Saitabau Lulunken present their research on: 'The Osinoni War: A new history of the Kedong Massacre (1895)' *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cd4211...

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Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 19 May, when Fleur Martin (Warwick) will present: ‘Forty strokes with the rhino whip’: Violence, collecting & eastern African caravan journeys in the late nineteenth century *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 12 May for the seminar, when Abdulhakim Nsobya (QU Belfast) presents: 'Rectifying Jihad: Governance, Leadership & the Making of Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP)' *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

Join us for a fascinating public lecture, as Francesca Trivellato interrogates the traditional narratives in the history of capitalism and invites us to rethink the contribution of Max Weber. 17:00 Wed 13th May, followed by a drinks reception. www.history.ox.ac.uk/koch-history...

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 5 May for a book launch & discussion of: Sites of Remembering: The Meaning of African Art Through Memory W/author Abebe Zegeye & discussants Thembinkosi Goniwe & Cressida Marcus *Hybrid event* Webinar registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b579a...

Stephen Legg (Nottingham) has written a fantastic conference report on our “Cities and Decolonization” conference, which has just been published in the Journal of Historical Geography. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Das Motto für den Tag der Geschichtswissenschaft 2027 in Heidelberg steht fest: Rückschritte - Fortschritte. Auch der Call und die Ausschreibung für unsere Forschungspreise sind online! Alle Informationen finden Sie auf den Seiten des VHD www.historikerverband.de/historikerta...