Janne Lahti

This week!

Nordic Colonialism in 2026: The Truth Commissions and their Outcomes with Gunlög Fur, Professor of History at Linnaeus University and founder of Concurrences.

12 March, 13:15-17:00
Dacke (Fe3016) & zoom (register at link below)

#academicsky

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New era of US expansion

The issue includes contributions by
➡️ Amandine Lauro @ulbruxelles.bsky.social
➡️ @veropouillard.bsky.social University of Oslo
➡️ Gijs Dreijer @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
➡️ Kevin Goergen @uni.lu
➡️ @jannelahti.bsky.social Linnaeus University

✅🔓 Available open access! bmgn-lchr.nl/issue/view/1...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Patrick Wolfe’s Settler Colonial Theory, 20 Years On This special issue of Settler Colonial Studies aims to collaboratively examine the residual impacts of Patrick Wolfe’s influential essay, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native." • What did this essay do to shift or situate the conversation of postcolonial studies towards settler colonialism? • What chord did it strike that made it so widely taken up? And how have the essay’s key concepts travelled globally? • How do the essay’s arguments hold up when considered in settler colonial contexts not addressed in Wolfe’s essay. Our aim is to curate a special issue by inviting a mix of scholars from across the globe, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, established and newer voices, to comment on the essay in 2026 as a way to examine the current state of the field. We seek research article contributions of 5,000 words that will undergo double-blind peer-review and also encourage reflective essays and creative responses to “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” We will hold an online symposium in June 2026, where a working version of accepted essays will be shared with scholars from across the globe. Our target deadlines are as follows: • 350 word abstracts by March 15, 2026; • Conference version of the paper for the online symposium in June 2026; • Submitted draft for peer review, October 2026; • Revised and final draft for publication, Jan 2027; • Publication: May 2027. Please send abstracts of 350 words with a 1 page CV to: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, rebeccawh@vt.edu or raweav1@yahoo.com. Please make sure the subject line indicates the special issue. Abstracts will be acknowledged with an email. If you do not receive a response within 2 weeks, please email Rebecca (in case your original email was unintentionally filtered out by her email program).

Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.

Details below. Please circulate widely!

10 kysymystä | ”Petsamo oli Suomen siirtomaa” – Nämä asiat jokaisen pitäisi ymmärtää kolonialismista Tutkijat tekivät yleistajuisen tietokirjan kolonialismin historiasta ja vaikutuksista. Ovatko suomalaiset siis kolonialisteja, Janne Lahti ja Johanna Skurnik?

Kolonialismin historiasta ajatuksia
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Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma -kirjan julkaisutilaisuus Tervetuloa Janne Lahden ja Johanna Skurnikin Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma -teoksen julkaisutilaisuuteen tiistaina 21.10.2025 klo 17.00–18.30 kirjakauppa Rosebud Sivulliseen!

Tervetuloa Rosebud Sivulliseen tiistaina 21.10 klo 17.00 kirjamme Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma julkaisutilaisuuteen.
historianswithoutborders.fi/tapahtumat/k...

Kolonialismin kirous | Kalle Haatanen Kolonialismi on merkittävä osa maailmanhistoriaa. Voisi erehtyä luulemaan, että se oli vain historiallinen vaihe, jolloin Eurooppa sorti muuta maailmaa. Kyse on kuitenkin paljon syvemmästä asiasta, j...

Juttelemassa uudesta kirjastani Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma.
Kuuntele Yle Areenassa:

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Germany rejects reparation payments to former colonies The German government says it will not make any reparation payments to Germany's former colonies, since there was no international criminal law at the time of […]

The Namibian: „Germany rejects reparation payments to former colonies.“
@he-mel.bsky.social

h/t @heikebecker.bsky.social

www.namibian.com.na/germany-reje...

‘To the Homeland’: Settler Monument, Memory and the Finnish Colony of Petsamo on the Finnish–Russian Borderlands - Janne Lahti, 2025 This article examines a set of entanglements between settler memory and a monument in a nation that does not acknowledge that it ever had a colonial history. It...

My new open access article discussing settler memory and monuments:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I appreciate @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's point, but I would argue that there is a logic to waving the Mexican flag, especially in the context of raids on immigrant Latino communities in LA. A short thread. 1/

Elokuussa....

From Genocide to Greenwashing: Germany’s Legacy in Namibia Germany hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Descendants of the victims want a seat at the table. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks burying the past.

Germany still hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks further burying that history – sidestepping the voices of victims’ descendants. I met some of them in Namibia. This is my report (Support my work on Substack).
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Settler Colonial Studies New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies. Volume 15, Issue 2 of Settler Colonial Studies

New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies is here! Check out what is going on. Edited by @karl-jacoby.bsky.social and Magdalena Naum.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rset20/c...

Jos olet väitöskirjatutkija, joka on menossa Yhdysvaltain tutkimukseen liittyvään konferenssiin Euroopassa tai Yhdysvalloissa, voit nyt hakea FASA:n ja Suomi-Amerikka-yhdistysten liiton konferenssiapurahaa www.samsuomi.fi/konferenssia...

Cover of the latest issue of Itinerario: Journal of Global and Imperial Interactions. The cover image is an 1896 photo of a helpless-looking white male tourist being pushed and pulled up the side of a pyramid by a group of Egyptian guides/porters. 'Ascension de la grande pyramide par un touriste', by Félix Bonfils, 1896. Rijksmuseum.

Woohoo, our Itinerario special issue 'Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires' is now out in its proper, physical form! 🥳

Check out the introduction by myself and Andreas Greiner here: doi.org/10.1017/S016...

And the entire table of contents here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Members of FASA register at a lower rate! Join FASA here: www.fasa.fi/membership/j...

As a member of any of the Nordic Associations for American Studies (including @fasafinland.bsky.social), European Association for American Studies, or American Studies Association, you can register at the members rate!

FASA The Finnish American Studies Association JOIN FASA: https://www.fasa.fi/membership/join-fasa-renew-your-membership/

Registration is open! As a member of any of the Nordic Associations for American Studies (including @fasafinland.bsky.social ), European Association for American Studies, or American Studies Association, you can register at the members rate! www.fasa.fi/membership/j... #NAASpirations

More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows ‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher

1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres.

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Associate Editor/s needed for Settler Colonial Studies

Looking for associate editor(s) for Settler Colonial Studies👍👇
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“New Directions in Finnish North American Research” Webinar, Thursday, January 23 at 18.00 Finnish time (GMT+2) /10:00am CST - Siirtolaisuusinstituutti This webinar showcases four innovative PhD dissertation projects on Finnish North American history and heritage. The speakers will present new approaches from the perspectives of history, folklore stu...

”New Directions in Finnish North American Research” Webinar, Thursday, January 23 at 18.00 Finnish time (GMT+2) /10:00am CST. @infomigration.bsky.social @fasafinland.bsky.social @ihrc-umn.bsky.social

Info and registration:

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Send your proposals to our Summer School:
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Associate Editor/s needed for Settler Colonial Studies

Join our team! Settler Colonial Studies is looking for new associate editors. Call here👇
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This summer the biannual Nordic Assocation for American Studies conference is coming to Turku! You can now follow us here @naas2025.bsky.social for update.

It is time to renew your membership for 2025. On how to renew your membership or join FASA, check our website: fasa.fi/membership/j...

Residential school denialists don’t want you to watch Sugarcane - a new documentary about the St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School that’s getting Oscar buzz and is now streaming on Disney+ and Hula. That’s good enough reason to check it out and learn about the ongoing legacy of the IRS system.

‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa While German Samoa has appeared to some historians as a colony that demonstrates the benevolence of liberal colonial government, this article argues that Germany’s administration of Samoa should no...

Thanks to all the new followers! By way of introduction here are 3 more or less recent, open-access articles of mine that might give you a sense of my current research interests.
1) German colonial history and the varied responses of colonised peoples to it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A marketing banner for the book 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950', edited by myself and Bernhard C. Schär.

Bloomsbury wants me to put this pic in my email signature, which isn't going to happen, but I'll post it here as a compromise. Check out our book, maybe? It's free, you know. Hardback coming out in January. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

FASA: Recognition of Boarding School History - A First Step to Reconciliation? Af­ter fif­ty ye­ars of si­len­ce, the Uni­ted Sta­tes go­vern­ment has be­gun to ad­d­ress its long his­to­ry of vi­o­len­ce against Na­ti­ve Ame­ri­can child­ren in bo­ar­ding schools. Two ma­jor re...

Strong text on Native American boarding schools in the US by Vincent Veerbeek.
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New Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo) The Aesthetics of Empire cluster within LNUC Concurrences has recently reformed as the new cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo). The decision was made by members during a workshop held ...

Learn more about the research clusters within #Concurrences, like the cluster for Ecology, Culture & Coloniality -

Projects include South African resource & energy cultures; speculative fiction; ecotopian postcolonial comics; the politics of border narratives & more -

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