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Gillian Mathys
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Historian of Great Lakes | Associate Professor African history @ugent | Editor @CJAS_RCEA | Academic mom. I got very lucky. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fractured-pasts-in-lake-kivus-borderlands/28EE1FFBB2BDDA8814964DD39656B959
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · May 20
My book Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu's Borderlands can now be pre-ordered with a 20% discount

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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · 1d
The deadline for submitting a paper, panel or round table for the Biannual CRG African History is nearing. This year it's at Ghent University, and we'll be happy to welcome you!
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CRG African History | AEGIS - African studies in Europe
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · 3d
Hello, I wrote a book. I am going to talk about it soon with Godefroid Muzalia and Koen Vlassenroot. You are all welcome on November 6 at the Egmont Institute in Brussels, but you'll have to register.

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Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands - Egmont Institute
Prof. Dr. Gillian Mathys’ latest book provides an in-depth and historically grounded explanation of the ongoing conflict in East-Congo, beyond commonly assumed reductive narratives. As a historian wit...
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · 6d
Oh it's out! Congratulations! I had been looking for it already!
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Myfanwy James @myfanwyvjames.bsky.social · 6d
New article 'Looking for the local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC' reveals how aid agencies can fuel social tensions when the 'local' aid category interacts with existing discourses around belonging, authority, and territory muse.jhu.edu/pub/35/artic...
Project MUSE - Looking for the Local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC
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Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique EHNE @ehne.fr · 7d
13 septembre 1958, le leader indépendantiste camerounais Ruben Um Nyobé est assassiné.
📸 L’armée française prend son cadavre en photo. Pour quelles raisons ?
Les explications de @kramondy.bsky.social dans cette vidéo : youtu.be/T_ragmYeyHA?...

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Ruben Um Nyobé. Mort d’un leader
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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 7d
Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.
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IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 8d
De Morgen published an op-ed by Prof. Gillian Mathys (UGent) & others: “Scrapping support for IOB: Flanders is shooting itself in the foot.” It warns that cutting IOB hurts knowledge, cooperation & reputation.
✍️ Sign & share: https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm
📖 Read (NL): https://loom.ly/Dg9QyZc
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De Morgen @demorgen.be · 8d
Gillian Mathys is hoofddocent Afrikaanse geschiedenis aan de UGent. De auteur schrijft dit opiniestuk samen met een tiental ondertekenaars.
Ondersteuning voor het IOB schrappen: Vlaanderen schiet zichzelf in de voet
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · 6d
Waarom Vlaanderen echt de financiële ondersteuning voor het @IOB niet mag stopzetten

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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 11
True. I do see more "delve" than ever before --and I feel sorry for people who've always used it 😅
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 11
True. I do see more "delve" than ever before --and I feel sorry for people who've always used it 😅
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 11
Turning him into a martyr
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 11
As a non-native English speaker, I've been using "navigating", "not just...but", and the construction with "merely" for years. I abhor AI-language, but I do think we need to be careful not to take the presence of these expressions now automatically as proof of an AI-generated text
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 10
Famous last words
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 10
Luddites of the world, unite?
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 10
Ik ga eerst deze kopen
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 10
Gaat het ook over Pokémon?
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 9
It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 8
"Exciting opportunity" is doing a lot here. Unbelievable
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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · Aug 24
7 Sep, Brussels

Manifestation nationale contre le génocide en cours à Gaza - Amnesty International Belgique
Manifestation nationale contre le génocide en cours à Gaza
Retrouvez le groupe Amnesty International en face de la tour Luminus au 7 Boulevard Albert II 1210 Saint-Josse. ❌ Manifestation carton rouge ! (…)
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 5
In Kinshasa they are already trying this (the traffic jams there are terrible, but the robot cannot be blamed for that)
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 5
Has anyone had some experience with letting students make annotated pdfs in part as a way to prevent them from just relying on AI summaries? There are always in class discussions, and there will be a kind of oral exam as well.
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 3
Idd, moraliteit is er de basis van...
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 3
Wat me vooral stoort is dat we nu in een wereld terecht zijn gekomen waarin gedaan wordt alsof "moraliteit" een probleem is. Euh ja, genocides zijn slecht.
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Celia Groothedde @celiagroothedde.bsky.social · Sep 3
Wie zonder irritatie kan aanhoren dat in morele termen over genocides wordt gedebatteerd, werpe de eerste steen.
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Sep 2
Nee. Want hij heeft een riant loon, waarmee je heel veel zorg kunt afkopen. Had ik zijn loon, dan was alleenstaande ouder zijn veel en veel makkelijker
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