Lukas Schemper
@lukasschemper.bsky.social
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History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | research associate for ERC project "Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800" @zfl-berlin.bsky.social
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How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)
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lukasschemper.bsky.social
How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)
lukasschemper.bsky.social
The collection of essays is dedicated to the memory of our co-contributor, Sam Jones, who tragically passed away last year.
lukasschemper.bsky.social
It is part of the spec. issue "Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea since 1800" ed. by Trüper et al. - like my article part of the now-concluded @erc.europa.eu project "Archipelagic Imperatives" at @zfl-berlin.bsky.social The other contributions can be found here shorturl.at/YxW4c (4/4)
Vol. 58 No. 119 (2025): Special Issue: "Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea since 1800" | Histoire sociale / Social History
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lukasschemper.bsky.social
Part of the article also touches on the Gleichschaltung and engineering of the Nazi charity market, perhaps a broader reminder of what can happen to humanitarianism under fascism...If you'd like to know more, the article is OA on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1734... (& soon on project muse) (3/4)
Rescuing the National Body? The Role and Imaginary of Maritime Lifesaving in the Nazi State
The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger (DGzRS) is a German maritime rescue organization founded in 1865 and based on humanitarian principles to save shipwrecked persons regardless of na...
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lukasschemper.bsky.social
...maritime lifesaving not only served a certain function for the Nazi state, amplified within the context of WWII, but that idioms of rescue also resonated w/ the social imaginaries of humanitarianism & Nazism. (2/4)
lukasschemper.bsky.social
How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)
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h-net-job-guide.bsky.social
New job:

Professor of History

The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien)

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69197
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thedialmag.bsky.social
Over the 1990s, Washington transformed Guantánamo Bay into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse. Miriam Pensack reports on this little-known history.
Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial
Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets
www.thedial.world
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gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction
www.cambridge.org
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alfredlandecker.bsky.social
📢 Call for applications: @chlcologne.bsky.social is offering 2 positions in a research project exploring how the 1990s reshaped global governance & human security. 

👉 PhD Position: bit.ly/46vKCnp
👉 Postdoc Research Position: bit.ly/46ufZ1D

Apply now!
PhD & Postdoc
Research Positions
Konrad Adenauer Synergy Research Project
"Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security: What lessons can we learn from the pivotal decade of the 1990s?"
Apply until 12 October 2025 Part-Time PhD Position
Open to students who hold an excellent Master's degree in modern history or international history.
Key responsibilities:
• Conduct independent, original PhD research related to the project
• Support the organisation of academic workshops and conferences
• Present your research findings at events
• Work collaboratively with the research team under supervision Full-Time Postdoc
Research Position
Open to researchers with (or near completion of) a PhD/DPhil in modern history or international history.
Key responsibilities:
• Conduct independent, original research related to the project
• Organize academic workshops and conferences
• Present research findings at events
• Collaborate closely with the project team
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shafrhistorians.bsky.social
The Cologne Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law (CHL) is hiring for two positions with the Synergy Research Project: Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security in the 1990s.

Info on the PhD position: tinyurl.com/4azzjuxu
Info on the Postdoc: tinyurl.com/5n73343s
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historicaljnl.bsky.social
📘From our latest Special Issue

Sarah Knoll (@sarahmknoll.bsky.social) (@uni-graz.at) on 'Hungarian Refugees in the United States between Cold War Politics, Economic Growth, and Labour Demands, 1956–1958'

#ColdWar #Emigration #Religion 20thc 🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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beatricedegraaf.bsky.social
📣 what a great way to start the new term! This paper has been long in the making, and combines years of research from the two of us, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our research Group, @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📣
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patchcritics.bsky.social
Ich bin ja nicht immer einer Meinung mit #IchBinHanna , aber
"verpflichtende Titellehre"
musste ich erst mal nachschlagen.
So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.
jenniferhenke.bsky.social
Die Statusgruppe der PDs muss endlich mehr Gehör in der öffentlichen Debatte um prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft finden. Vor allem müssen sich PDs untereinander besser vernetzen! Wir – @juliahauser.bsky.social, @joergsternagel.bsky.social & ich – haben deshalb 1 Netzwerk gegründet: 1/3
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ferenclaczo.bsky.social
Bring it on: Judson & Zara on the catastrophe to begin all catastrophes!

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Where are our university presidents? They are totally silent, completely absent from the public square as this existential crisis is about to break the entire business model of American higher education & scientific research 🤷‍♂️

bsky.app/profile/mcop...
zacklabe.com
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
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kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...