🌍🎓 Discover the complex narratives of colonial violence and the quest for postcolonial identity in West Africa! Join us on 🗓 8 July 2025 from 🕕 20:15 to 21:45 in 📍 HS 1228, KG I, for Dr. Kokou Azamede’s thought-provoking talk: “Koloniale Gewalt und postkoloniale Identität: Auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung in Westafrika.” Whether you’re attending in person or tuning in via Zoom, this is an opportunity to delve deep into history and its impact on identity.
🔗 Curious to learn more? Email anika.becher@act.uni-freiburg.de for the Zoom link and visit the event page: https://t1p.de/23qqm

#colonialism #postcolonial #westafrica #decolonial #globalstudies #empire #histodons #histodon #academicmastodon #empires @empires @unifreiburg @mehlera @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @histodon @dfg_public @politicalscience

Ich bin Deutsche. Wir Deutsche lieben Raubkunst!

#Colonialism #CulturalAppropriation

#Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull. Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/22/oxford-academics-drank-from-cup-made-from-human-skull-until-2015-book-reveals

They should get some genealogical DNA done to learn more about the dead woman.

@byroncclark

#archaeology #colonialism #academia

"So how do I respond to the idea that a place that has been to me and many hundreds of Chevening scholars from across the globe has been such a haven for free enquiry and open expression has been fined for a breach of free speech?"

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/03/free-speech-and-the-university-of-sussex/

"Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming."

My latest substack.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kityates/p/why-im-resigning-my-editorship-at?r=1cw8pl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Rich entrepreneurs who "donate portions of their wealth to favored causes...bask in their status as society’s saviors. Meanwhile, the corporations they own extract wealth on a scale that dwarfs their largess. With one hand they generate supernormal profits by plundering society, and with the other they dole out a few crumbs": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/opinion/philanthropy-charity-billionaires-math.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE4.aY_g.tCYZW0Y378wu&smid=url-share

It's hard to convey how barrier breaking (and not in a good way) this directive is. Weather and climate is one of the most functioning parts of the UN. We have always collaborated internationally, simply because weather does not respect national borders. Even during the Cold War the US and Russia shared weather observations and sat on joint committees.

To be told not to work with "foreign nationals" is almost to be told to "stop doing your job"

https://journa.host/@w7voa/113954372734484406

Marxist theorist Michael Burawoy has tragically died on Feb. 3. On his website at Uni Berkeley, this is the last publication of his, listed as forthcoming in Sociological Review: "Why and How Should Sociologists Speak Out on Palestine?" burawoy.berkeley.edu/Settler%20Co... #sociology

burawoy.berkeley.edu/Settler Coloni...

Very sad news about the death of Michael Burawoy. This’s a huge loss for the global sociological community. His contribution to sociology has been enormous. His Marxist ethnography of the working classes inspired and influenced my research on workers. https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2016/04/michael-burawoy-on-sociology-and-the-workplace/

#sociology #Burawoy #MichaelBurawoy #workingclass #ethnography

@jadp @fulelo According to Wired, the reports of read-only access were not true, they have admin access:

"Despite reporting that suggests that Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force has access to these Treasury systems on a “read-only” level, sources say Elez, who has visited a Kansas City office housing BFS systems, has many administrator-level privileges."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/

Michael #Burawoy was killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Terrible news. One of the greatest representatives of critical #sociology, an inspiration for me as far as I consider myself a part Zambianist. His „Color of Class in the Copper Mines“ is an invaluable classic and highly relevant still today, not read enough as an on the ground analysis of race and class. I met him once at a conference in Lusaka and he was the nicest and most intellectual stimulating conversationalist. RIP

Reminder: Call for submissions 'Have we ever been social? New materialism and economics' Deadline 31 January 2025 "This call starts with a polemic: that, despite their talk about a common human-nonhuman sociality, the majority of new materialisms have evacuated economics from the idea of the social..."
https://www.anthropocenes.net/news/33/

I'm running four public events in London this term, that all have a relation to the archives I look after.

1. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: a short history @CNDuk https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament-a-short-history-tickets-1076543714229?aff=oddtdtcreator

2. Erased: A History of International Thought without Men https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-of-erased-a-history-of-international-thought-tickets-1095100307499?aff=oddtdtcreator

3. Gendered Peace through International Law: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-of-gendered-peace-through-international-law-tickets-1095088833179?aff=oddtdtcreator

4. Ambedkar's Birthday drop in https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ambedkars-birthday-open-archives-tour-tickets-1104518838579?aff=oddtdtcreator

#InternationalRelations #gender #Ambedkar #CND #law #history

“The growing proximity of the virus to humans has resulted in an increasing number of infections in humans in the past year (bird-to-human or cow-to-human), but H5N1 can still not transmit human-to-human”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/16/bird-flu-pandemic-threat-prepared?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

1/52 Good to see this Guardian Long Read, but as a historical ecologist I would like to add: humans do not just either stay within boundaries or destroy nature. It's often been a positive, dynamic human-nature symbiosis, with humans actively shaping and creating forests & #biodiversity #historicalecology

— here a (long!) thread with examples from across the world

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/cop15-humans-v-nature-our-long-and-destructive-journey-to-the-age-of-extinction-aoe

Thematic Conference Grants from the European Consortium for Sociological Research. Only for applicants from @ECSR_Soc affiliated institutions. Deadline to apply: February 15, 2025. More information: https://ecsrnet.eu/thematic-conferences/ #urban #sociology

Job opening: Professor of Sociology, especially Sociological Theory at the Institute for Sociology, University of Bamberg (Germany). Deadline to apply: 15.01.2025. https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/abt-personal/Homepage_ab_2016-03/10_Stellenausschreibungen/01_Professuren/2024/W3-soz%20theorie-eng-11-2024.pdf #urban #sociology

Welcome to all the new people joining Mastodon at the moment!

Just wanted to tell you all about #ClimateDiary - a hashtag to share everyday observations, thoughts, feelings as we are all living through this. You can follow #ClimateDiary or just search it - i love reading several days posts together. And of course, please contribute! Wherever you are

#FediWelcome #introduction https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/109884795065085875

#ClimateDiary 💔 account by Leoncia in the Philippines. This is what it’s like; this is what the #FossilFuel lobby is doing to people.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/nov/18/when-the-water-subsided-i-saw-our-house-was-gone-this-is-climate-breakdown?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Astounding. A silent protest. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/10/25/harvard-faculty-suspended-library-over-protest