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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · 16d

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'Mr Baird was so excited that words didn't come': The office worker who became the first person ever to appear on TV

On 2 October 1925, John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image of a human face. Forty years later, the world's first television star told the BBC about that dramatic moment.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Aug 5

So has become the great responsibility shifter for the most privileged

American Historical Association @historians.org · Aug 5

The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️

Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education

These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.

www.historians.org

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Jul 24

This winter semester I’ll be taking over as interim professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge (Vertretungsprofessor für Transregionale Wissenskulturen) at #DIMAS, University of Regensburg.

www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

Students at Regensburg, do consider taking one of my classes.

My courses at the University of Regensburg this Winter 2025:
-The United States and Africa
-Decolonization and Intellectuals
-Global History: Methods, Approaches, Sources
-Decolonization and the End of European Empires
-Tips, Tricks and Hacks: Researching and Writing a Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel @zasb.unibas.ch · Apr 15

📢The #CallForPanels for the #SGAS-VAD-2026 conference is now open.

🌍Theme: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"
‼️Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2025
📅Conference date: 26-28 Aug 2026
📍Location: Basel, Switzerland

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#CfP #AfricanStudies #VAD #SGAS #SSEA

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Apr 11

CfP
Basel, 26-28.08.2026

Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel.

www.sagw.ch/africa/aktue...

Call of panels: African Perspectives on Global Transformations (Basel, 26-28.08.2026)

Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Base...

www.sagw.ch

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Mar 28

Happy to see this in print:

💽"What is Digital Global History Now?"
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2025), 1–19.

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Find the full issue here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 15

Excellent piece by two dear friends @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social & @themorningsnows.bsky.social about the cyber truck & its uncanny similarities to the Casspir, the tank by which the Apartheid regime brutalized Black south Africans during Elon's childhood. 1/
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.

Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.

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Vivian Chenxue Lu @themorningsnows.bsky.social · Mar 21

It is worth reading the 4 pages of Columbia's enthusiastic over-compliance to federal threats to get a sense of what's coming down the pipeline for other universities: Expanded commitments to disciplining + policing speech, protest, and intellectual life

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clabrunebadiane.bsky.social @clabrunebadiane.bsky.social · Mar 25

Avec Giulia Bonacci nous lançons un appel à articles autour des retours en Afrique. Propositions attendues au plus tard le 15 mai.

revuerhca.bsky.social @revuerhca.bsky.social · Mar 25

🔴🔴 Appel à contributions - n° 11. Retour(s) en Afrique
Appel à propositions pour la revue Sources. Matériaux & terrains en études africaines et RHCA Coordination : Giulia Bonacci (IRD) Céline Labrune-Badiane (ITEM)🔴🔴 @clr-nicolas.bsky.social @kramondy.bsky.social oap.unige.ch/journals/rhc...

Appel à contributions - n° 11. Retour(s) en Afrique | Revue d'histoire contemporaine de l'Afrique

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Mar 13

Interested in plantation studies? American empire? Globalization? Liberia? I wrote a review of Gregg Mitman‘s book „Empire of Rubber.“

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Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America - Regensburg @europeamerica.bsky.social · Feb 24

Welcome to our Bluesky! We are a research platform based in #Regensburg, #Germany, exploring interconnections and frictions between regions of #Europe and the #Americas Check out our Open Call for Contributions: #Transatlantic Ruptures and Transformations
frictions.europeamerica.de#open-call-tr...

Frictions: Europe, America and global Transformations

Frictions is a blogjournal – a hybrid format of blog and e-journal – discussing Europe and the Americas in the context of global transformations.

frictions.europeamerica.de

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Feb 18

Yes, we collected various memories from and impressions of that time. It was wonderful.

Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Feb 18

On Valetine‘s Day we held a public viewing of lost & found tv & film in and on Liberia (prewar, 70s/80s) in collaboration with Liberian filmmaker Artina Michelle. We were joined by some former anchors, current members of the movie union, school teachers, and many students.
#Watchshowlib2025

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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · Jan 14

Public history in Africa: Let's map and support existing projects.
If you have (or know of) PH projects in Africa, please add it in the comment section here. You can see some projects such as the fantastic African Digital Heritage Foundation
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
#PublicHistory #Africa

Public history projects - Google My Maps

Each entry should include: 1 ) a name of the project, 2 ) A few lines of description, 3 ) at least 2 keywords on the practice (for instance Oral History, Migration), 4 ) a link to a website and contac...

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · Dec 30

Dieter Roth, Basel on the Rhine, 1969

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136178

Barbara Jakobson Fund and Jeanne C. Thayer Fund

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Thando Njovane @thandorasbox.bsky.social · Dec 6

Come work with me 😊
Successful candidates will be required to register for full time study in February 2025.

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Dec 17

L. Schulte Nordholt, N. Nkealah, and R. Bod have edited a special issue of History of Humanities dealing with Classics in the History of the African Humanities.

My chapter: "Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante, 1895." www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/GAQKB...

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Dec 1

„Could a new ‘religious turn’ in society be one unexpected, counter-intuitive impact of the rise of Artificial Intelligence? What might that mean for our institutions and communities – and for public policy.“

History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · Dec 1

Today we launch our Advent Calendar with a daily offering from our website. We start with a new article by our @ihr.bsky.social colleague @cathamclarke.bsky.social who asks whether the rise of AI will lead us to reconsider the “spooky stuff” in our natures. www.historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · Nov 29

💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.

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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · Nov 28

Liberia's notorious rebel-turned-senator Prince Yormie Johnson dies. Johnson was one of the key figures in the country’s civil war, in which 250,000 people died many survivors from sexual assault and other attacks were left permanently scarred /1

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Nov 21

New open access article: „Black American Agricultural Experts and the Vernacularization of American Science in Liberia Prior to Decolonization in Africa“. muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic....

Lamar E. Fort delivering a „simple press“ to produce high quality palm oil in a Liberian village.

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Emmanuel Freudenthal @emmanfre.bsky.social · Nov 16

Amazing job opportunity: news editor at
@thecontinent.bsky.social

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Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social · Sep 2

More on my chapter: „Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past“.

link.growkudos.com/1f1filuje2o

A study of the history and institutional memory of the Historical Society of Ghana.

This chapter explores the possibilities and limitations of historiography and memory as it explores the past of the Historical Society of Ghana.

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · Aug 22

As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!

Society’s journal ‘Transactions’ now fully Open Access | RHS

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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Jul 25

Originally reported that Taylor and Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social were only making 10 million off of #selling #scholars' work to AI firms

Wrong! - Turns out it is #75million in 2024 thus far, and that doesn't include a deal w/ @microsoftincel.bsky.social

www.thebookseller.com/news/taylor-...

Taylor & Francis set to make £58m from AI in 2024 as it reveals second partnership

The parent company of academic publisher Taylor & Francis has revealed it expects to earn £58m ($75m) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships in 2024 and that it has a second AI technology part...

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