Martin Kalb

Invitation to the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Bernhard Schär · On Tuesday, Mai 12, Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary History Bernhard Schär will have the honour of delivering his inaugural lecture on the topic “Where Were the Swiss? Switzerland and t...

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Thanks so much!

Oh, look at that - moving pictures! 😎

A bit of advertisement for our conference on "Memory Processes in Imperial Lifeworlds. Object History and Decolonisation Dynamics in a Comparative European Perspective" at the @dhi-paris.fr from 18-20 March 2026 👇

Das zivilgesellschaftliche Erinnerungskonzept „Kolonialismus Erinnern“ wurde jetzt offiziell veröffentlicht – nach drei Jahren intensiver Zusammenarbeit von Initiativen, Wissenschaft, Kunst und Communities.

Das Konzept zum Download unter:
kolonialismus-erinnern.de#konzept

Where can I find the actual call for papers/ information regarding logistics?

🚨Call for Papers!
3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!

Just sent the email (expertoptout@superhuman.com)

Konf: Memory Processes in Imperial Lifeworlds: Object History and Decolonisation Dynamics in a Comparative European Perspective

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161033

Paris, 18.03.2026-20.03.2026, DHI Paris; Philipps-Univ. Marburg; Ruhr-Univ. Bochum Memory Processes in Imperial …

CFA: These are wonderful 3-years postdoc projects, check them out and apply: 🐦🐮

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@esehnextgate.bsky.social

Vorl: Zeitgeschichte

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160870

Stuttgart, 18.03.2026-22.06.2026, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Württembergische Landesbibliothek: Vorträge zu Zeitgeschichte

🌊ICAS:MP Public Lecture
Join us on 10.03.2026 at 6 PM at the IIC Annexe, Delhi for a public lecture by Roland Wenzlhuemer @globaldiscnct.bsky.social
on “Beyond Shipwreck: Salvage and Global History in the Long Nineteenth Century”.
Discussant: Radhika Singha (retd. JNU/@s-nu.bsky.social).
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Rez: S. Küntzel: Kolonialismus im Krieg

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-139404

S. Küntzel: Kolonialismus im Krieg

Konf: Neuere Forschungen zur Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160899

Halle (Saale), 12.03.2026-13.03.2026, Professur für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Neuere Forschungen zur Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts

CFP: Vom Kolonialkrieg zur postkolonialen Erinnerung – Transformationen kolonialer militärischer Gewalt seit 1918

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160903

Potsdam, 07.10.2026-08.10.2026, Christian Stachelbeck / Frank Reichherzer / Pierre Köckert / Martin Schulz, Zentrum für …

Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱
Submit your work now for our Spring issue!
We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow.

Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research.

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📢 New out!

Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social explores different human relationships with the multispecies assemblage of worm and wood across the Pacific.

#marineborers #shipworm #PacificOcean #oceanichistories #imperialhistory #historiesofinfrastructure

Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Are you interested in organizing the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? ESEH offers advisory and financial support to the selected proposal. Consider submitting a proposal by 15 March 2026!
eseh.org/call-for-pro...
#EnvHist

Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during March 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/

Spring has started to sprout and the @greenhouseuis.net is looking forward to full month with events on everything from climate justice in education over the sea urchins on the menu to the architecture of low-voltage cabins.

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The Comforts of Provincialism: The History and Future of Colonial Memory in Germany This article analyzes some of the historical causes for contemporary disputes in Germany over the commensurability of colonial violence and the Holocaust, which have once again intensified after Hamas...

How can insights from African history inform current debates about commemoration of colonial violence and the Holocaust? Check out my new article in New German Critique to find out: doi.org/10.1215/0094... Thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for a great special issue on German Memory Politics!

Wege des Erinnerns | Stadtmuseum Berlin Antikoloniale Stadttour zwischen Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße und „Afrikanischem Viertel“.

#Berlin Stadttouren zu Orten des Erinnerns an den Kolonialismus: Wege des Erinnerns zwischen Wilhelmstraße und „Afrikanischem Viertel“

Ab 05. März 2026, jeden Donnerstag um 15:30 Uhr

Tickets und weitere Informationen: www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltun...

Forced Labour and Transimperial Connections: Railway Construction and the Labour Question in German Southwest Africa, 1903–1909 Abstract. The colonial project required the construction of infrastructure both to integrate overseas territories into the global economy and to make colon

I have written about „Railway Construction and the Labour Question in German Southwest Africa, 1903–1909“ arguing that construction comp. used two key strategies to meet the central problem of labour scarcity: forcing concentration camp prisoners to work and tapping transimperial labour networks.

On the history of the primate trade and colonial/postcolonial ecologies of extraction, conservation and care. Thanks to my co-editor Tara Suri and all who contributed to this Focus section in Isis. FREE ACCESS!
#envhist #sts #conservation #primates

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CFP: Politische Zoologien – Tiere im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Macht und Imagination

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160590

Jena, 08.10.2026-09.10.2026, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,
Exzellenzluster „Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining“, Bewerbungsschluss: …

I am sure it will be money well spent.

Germany’s Colonial Memory Failure %%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% The German Keiserreich was at the beginning of the 20th century the fourth-biggest colonial power.

Germany’s Colonial Memory Failure www.namibian.com.na/germanys-col...

Thanks. Shipping from Germany it is then.

Will there be an ebook option as well?