Ned Richardson-Little
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
This semester I had my students sign a form starting they understood if they used AI to make material then I would not write them a letter of recommendation or serve as a reference. Teaching is *human* work. I support humans and their thoughts, ideas, and lessons.
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This semester I had my students sign a form starting they understood if they used AI to make material then I would not write them a letter of recommendation or serve as a reference. Teaching is *human* work. I support humans and their thoughts, ideas, and lessons.
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Wie oft müssen wir die immer gleichen Texte noch lesen? Ist das nur noch therapeutisch?
Ich gehe davon aus, dass deutsche Zeitungen diesen immer gleichen Text inzwischen von ChatGPT schreiben lassen, alles andere wäre unverantwortliche Ressourcenverschwendung www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/woke...
Gesellschaft: Wokeness und linke Identitätspolitik sind gescheitert
Während die Aktivisten die Mitte der Gesellschaft verloren haben, hat die Rechte ihre erfolgreichsten Wahlkampfthemen für sich entdeckt.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Wie oft müssen wir die immer gleichen Texte noch lesen? Ist das nur noch therapeutisch?
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Suprematist Composition: White on White https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/white-square-1917
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Suprematist Composition: White on White https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/white-square-1917
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Fragen der SZ zur Weimer Media Group: “Was ist das eigentlich für ein Verlag? Und was sind das für Magazine, deren Titel seriös klingen, die aber in der Wirtschaftswelt keine nennenswerte Relevanz haben? Kommt man vorbei am Sitz der WMG …, fällt auf, wie klein dieser Verlagssitz ist.”
„Erfahren Sie mir“! Fabelhafter Artikel von Jörg Häntzschel. www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/wolfr...
Weimer Media Group: Die potemkinsche Mediengruppe des Kulturstaatsministers
16 Magazine, Agenturen und Verlage gehören nach eigenen Angaben zur WMG. Ein Blick hinter die Fassade lässt dieses Gebilde in sich zusammenfallen
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fragen der SZ zur Weimer Media Group: “Was ist das eigentlich für ein Verlag? Und was sind das für Magazine, deren Titel seriös klingen, die aber in der Wirtschaftswelt keine nennenswerte Relevanz haben? Kommt man vorbei am Sitz der WMG …, fällt auf, wie klein dieser Verlagssitz ist.”
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Elli Barczatis was executed by guillotine in Dresden in November 1955 after being convicted of espionage. She had worked as a secretary for the GDR prime minister, Otto Grotewohl. She was officially rehabilitated by the Berlin District Court in November 2006. www.deutschlandfunk.de/23-11-1955-d...
Elli Barczatis: Wie eine Sekretärin in der DDR zur Spionin wurde
Die Chefsekretärin des DDR-Ministerpräsidenten wurde zur Spionin und bezahlte mit dem Leben. Ihr Fall steht exemplarisch für die Härte der DDR-Justiz.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Elli Barczatis was executed by guillotine in Dresden in November 1955 after being convicted of espionage. She had worked as a secretary for the GDR prime minister, Otto Grotewohl. She was officially rehabilitated by the Berlin District Court in November 2006. www.deutschlandfunk.de/23-11-1955-d...
Historical precedent of note...
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Historical precedent of note...
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Same old, same old: “In terms of content, my perception is that what is currently happening is not what one would understand as a major deradicalization effort,” said @asheinze.bsky.social #farright #radicalright #Germany
Germany’s far-right AfD forms new youth wing in attempt to revamp extremist image
Alternative for Germany’s previous youth group was dissolved to avert a possible ban.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Same old, same old: “In terms of content, my perception is that what is currently happening is not what one would understand as a major deradicalization effort,” said @asheinze.bsky.social #farright #radicalright #Germany
Does any other non Soviet Eastern Bloc country have a nostalgia culture with so much international appeal as the GDR? I get the impression that socialist era Poland and Romania really doesn’t have much traction if any in this regard.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Does any other non Soviet Eastern Bloc country have a nostalgia culture with so much international appeal as the GDR? I get the impression that socialist era Poland and Romania really doesn’t have much traction if any in this regard.
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Leonora Carrington’s magical scraping on tempera, cats and all. One doesn’t feel like Loopings at anything for a while after seeing it. Ladies Run, There Is a Man in the Rose Garden, 1948
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Leonora Carrington’s magical scraping on tempera, cats and all. One doesn’t feel like Loopings at anything for a while after seeing it. Ladies Run, There Is a Man in the Rose Garden, 1948
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Interesting read on Armin Mohler and Die Neue Rechte.
Misunderstood Radicals - The Ideas Letter
Adam Knowles maps how the Swiss philosopher Armin Mohler—a post-WWII apologist of fascism and self-styled theorist of the “Conservative Revolution”—helped launder fascist-adjacent thinkers into respec...
www.theideasletter.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Interesting read on Armin Mohler and Die Neue Rechte.
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
A new piece of mine is now out on Verfassungsblog, where I examine the newest abortion-related ECtHR judgment in A.R. v. Poland. The case shows how women become the primary victims of legal instability, bearing the highest costs of the rule of law crisis.
When Poland’s Constitutional Court struck down abortion due to fetal defects, it withheld publication of the ruling for 3 months.
KAROLINA KOCEMBA on the ECtHR’s A.R. v. Poland judgment and the deeper dynamics of legal uncertainty surrounding reproductive rights.
verfassungsblog.de/legal-uncert...
KAROLINA KOCEMBA on the ECtHR’s A.R. v. Poland judgment and the deeper dynamics of legal uncertainty surrounding reproductive rights.
verfassungsblog.de/legal-uncert...
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A new piece of mine is now out on Verfassungsblog, where I examine the newest abortion-related ECtHR judgment in A.R. v. Poland. The case shows how women become the primary victims of legal instability, bearing the highest costs of the rule of law crisis.
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Far-Right Networks in Motion — Webinar on Dec 5, 4 PM CET A discussion on the transnational dynamics of the far right with
@steppe-project.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
steppe.hypotheses.org/2236
📩 Register with [email protected]
@steppe-project.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
steppe.hypotheses.org/2236
📩 Register with [email protected]
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Far-Right Networks in Motion — Webinar on Dec 5, 4 PM CET A discussion on the transnational dynamics of the far right with
@steppe-project.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
steppe.hypotheses.org/2236
📩 Register with [email protected]
@steppe-project.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
steppe.hypotheses.org/2236
📩 Register with [email protected]
Firewall between center-right and far right in Germany losing a few more bricks.
Noch eine Wende mit Mauerfall:
www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Firewall between center-right and far right in Germany losing a few more bricks.
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
1,5 Jahre saß Jens C. wegen Fahrens ohne Ticket im Gefängnis. Heute konnten wir ihn freikaufen. David Bieber vom @nd-aktuell.de hat ihn in Haft besucht.
Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen treffen besonders Arme – und kosten den Staat Millionen. Kritiker fordern, das Geld lieber in den öffentlichen Nahverkehr zu investieren.
Wenn Schwarzfahren ins Gefängnis führt
Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen treffen besonders Arme – und kosten den Staat Millionen. Kritiker fordern, das Geld lieber in den öffentlichen Nahverkehr zu investieren.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
1,5 Jahre saß Jens C. wegen Fahrens ohne Ticket im Gefängnis. Heute konnten wir ihn freikaufen. David Bieber vom @nd-aktuell.de hat ihn in Haft besucht.
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
„Indigenous belongings from nations including Cree, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Nipissing, Kanien’kehá:ka, Wolastoqiyik and Kwakwaka’wakw have remained in the Anima Mundi collection without Indigenous care for 100 years. Now some of them will be returned home.“
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
An art historian looks at the origins of the Indigenous arts collection at the Vatican Museums
Catholic missionaries sent thousands of Indigenous belongings to Rome for a 1925 exhibition. Beyond what the Vatican has now committed to repatriating, many more belongings must be returned.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
„Indigenous belongings from nations including Cree, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Nipissing, Kanien’kehá:ka, Wolastoqiyik and Kwakwaka’wakw have remained in the Anima Mundi collection without Indigenous care for 100 years. Now some of them will be returned home.“
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
theconversation.com/an-art-histo...
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
Heute Abend - Anne Weber, Untot und unvergangen: Der Angriff der Virtual Reality auf die Vergangenheit (18h, Centre allemande d'histoire de l'art - Paris). www.dfk-paris.org/fr/node/4143
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Heute Abend - Anne Weber, Untot und unvergangen: Der Angriff der Virtual Reality auf die Vergangenheit (18h, Centre allemande d'histoire de l'art - Paris). www.dfk-paris.org/fr/node/4143
Like with Vought et al in the US thinking they can roll back all social change in the last few decades by destroying the administrative state bureaucracy, Glasman et al seem to think you can do the same by making the post-secondary sector implode in the UK.
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Like with Vought et al in the US thinking they can roll back all social change in the last few decades by destroying the administrative state bureaucracy, Glasman et al seem to think you can do the same by making the post-secondary sector implode in the UK.
so much ordentliches Brot.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
so much ordentliches Brot.
Whenever I see my nationality highlighted in connection to my work as a historian, I start of triple guess why it's there. Is this just a point of information, a way to invoke an "outside" authority, or a kind of othering, especially when some scholars are just listed as people without national ID?
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Whenever I see my nationality highlighted in connection to my work as a historian, I start of triple guess why it's there. Is this just a point of information, a way to invoke an "outside" authority, or a kind of othering, especially when some scholars are just listed as people without national ID?
Reposted by Ned Richardson-Little
📆 Die #TuesdayTalks begrüßen morgen (25.11.) unseren ehemaligen Kollegen @historyned.bsky.social um 18 Uhr zum Vortrag "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present". Welcome back 😉 www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...
Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present
Vortrag von Ned Richardson-Little (Potsdam) im Rahmen der Tuesday Talks. Eine Veranstaltung des Forschungskollegs Transkulturelle Studien / Sammlung Perthes in Kooperation mit verschiedenen Partnern. ...
www.uni-erfurt.de
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📆 Die #TuesdayTalks begrüßen morgen (25.11.) unseren ehemaligen Kollegen @historyned.bsky.social um 18 Uhr zum Vortrag "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present". Welcome back 😉 www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...
Saying you cant judge if the Holocaust is the worst of humanity because you don’t have a comprehensive listing of atrocities to make a definitive judgement is one of those coy statements that is never just someone being excessively pedantic.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Saying you cant judge if the Holocaust is the worst of humanity because you don’t have a comprehensive listing of atrocities to make a definitive judgement is one of those coy statements that is never just someone being excessively pedantic.
I just signed!
Not sure how I’m just seeing this now — a succinct, smart open letter, so far signed by over 1100 professional educators, which articulates the key rationales of those of us who refuse the unsupported-by-facts pressure to adopt GenAI anywhere in the educational process. Read & consider signing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I just signed!