Eleonor Marcussen
@eleonormarcus.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in History
South Asia, environment, disasters, aid, colonialism, postcolonial studies, critical theory, infrastructure, archives, political ecology...
Author of Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction...(CUP, 2023)
South Asia, environment, disasters, aid, colonialism, postcolonial studies, critical theory, infrastructure, archives, political ecology...
Author of Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction...(CUP, 2023)
Our new research project, starting next year & funded by the #SwedishResearchCouncil
From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970. Read more here, for now:
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
@niladri4u.bsky.social
From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970. Read more here, for now:
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
@niladri4u.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Our new research project, starting next year & funded by the #SwedishResearchCouncil
From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970. Read more here, for now:
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
@niladri4u.bsky.social
From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970. Read more here, for now:
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
@niladri4u.bsky.social
Very glad to have Mitul Baruah from Ashoka U visiting us for 2 weeks, teaching in our master' programme in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, participating a workshop which I'm organising - Ecologies of Infrastructure - and also giving a talk in the LNUCC seminar series on his book "Slow Disaster."
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Very glad to have Mitul Baruah from Ashoka U visiting us for 2 weeks, teaching in our master' programme in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, participating a workshop which I'm organising - Ecologies of Infrastructure - and also giving a talk in the LNUCC seminar series on his book "Slow Disaster."
Årets stora evenemang för allmänheten äger rum på Huseby bruk i Småland med Malin Lennartsson (LNU), Gunnel Cederlöf (LNU) och Arun Kumar (Nottingham University) - organiserat av projektet "Vändpunkter" om entreprenörskap sedan 1860-talet. ☀️ 🌿 🌲
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Årets stora evenemang för allmänheten äger rum på Huseby bruk i Småland med Malin Lennartsson (LNU), Gunnel Cederlöf (LNU) och Arun Kumar (Nottingham University) - organiserat av projektet "Vändpunkter" om entreprenörskap sedan 1860-talet. ☀️ 🌿 🌲
Had to leave the #ESEH early for a meeting and simultaneously visited Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, the Stufvenäs oak: 800 years! An oak grows for 300 years, lives for 300 years and dies for 300 years according to the sign.
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Had to leave the #ESEH early for a meeting and simultaneously visited Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, the Stufvenäs oak: 800 years! An oak grows for 300 years, lives for 300 years and dies for 300 years according to the sign.
August 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
For faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research to sign:
#uppsaladeclaration
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#uppsaladeclaration
uppsaladeclaration.se
May 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research to sign:
#uppsaladeclaration
uppsaladeclaration.se
#uppsaladeclaration
uppsaladeclaration.se
Ended the work day with a screening of the documentary No Other Land (2024)on the forceful eviction & violence against Palestinian villagers in the West Bank, followed by panel discussion w Nina Gren (Lund U), Wafa Jamil (film director) and Anders Persson (Linnaeus U). Highly recommend it...
May 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ended the work day with a screening of the documentary No Other Land (2024)on the forceful eviction & violence against Palestinian villagers in the West Bank, followed by panel discussion w Nina Gren (Lund U), Wafa Jamil (film director) and Anders Persson (Linnaeus U). Highly recommend it...
Four-leaf clover anno 1867 pressed in notebook of Joseph Stephens at Huseby Bruk.
April 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Four-leaf clover anno 1867 pressed in notebook of Joseph Stephens at Huseby Bruk.
Happy to host PhD student Joseph Manock from Manchester University at LNUC #Concurrences this spring - arrived on campus Växjö with spring and a clear blue sky. ☀️🌻
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Happy to host PhD student Joseph Manock from Manchester University at LNUC #Concurrences this spring - arrived on campus Växjö with spring and a clear blue sky. ☀️🌻
Delighted to read this short story translated by Sarah Irving in The Book of Gaza.
Part of literary readings in continuation of last year's history seminars on disasters and politics during the 20th cent.
#bookclub
@drtermagant.bsky.social
Part of literary readings in continuation of last year's history seminars on disasters and politics during the 20th cent.
#bookclub
@drtermagant.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Delighted to read this short story translated by Sarah Irving in The Book of Gaza.
Part of literary readings in continuation of last year's history seminars on disasters and politics during the 20th cent.
#bookclub
@drtermagant.bsky.social
Part of literary readings in continuation of last year's history seminars on disasters and politics during the 20th cent.
#bookclub
@drtermagant.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to host Bindu Bhadana as guest researcher LNUC Concurrences for a month, working on gender, far-right politics and performance. Looking forward to the forthcoming publication!
@lnuccon.bsky.social
@lnuccon.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It was a pleasure to host Bindu Bhadana as guest researcher LNUC Concurrences for a month, working on gender, far-right politics and performance. Looking forward to the forthcoming publication!
@lnuccon.bsky.social
@lnuccon.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome to join lectures and discussions in our centre's seminar series this spring! #Postcolonial
Sign-up link: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Sign-up link: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
February 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Everyone is welcome to join lectures and discussions in our centre's seminar series this spring! #Postcolonial
Sign-up link: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Sign-up link: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Continuing my exploration of photos meant for research and these two adorable fluffy #furballs were in the company of cotton fiber drawings and plantation workers in a photo collection at the UK National Archives:
January 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Continuing my exploration of photos meant for research and these two adorable fluffy #furballs were in the company of cotton fiber drawings and plantation workers in a photo collection at the UK National Archives:
When you have prepared the courses for next semester and can return to looking at images for your next talk on infrastructure and the environment:
📷 J.C. Townshend, 1890s: [Bengal-Nagpur Railway Construction, Photograph No. 16] digitized by SMU Libraries.
📷 J.C. Townshend, 1890s: [Bengal-Nagpur Railway Construction, Photograph No. 16] digitized by SMU Libraries.
![[Bengal-Nagpur Railway Construction, Photograph No. 16] SMU Libraries. Digitized photo. Creator J.C. Townshend 1890.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ayfboclumladilvmdnlrpzqc/bafkreifrgyjngepzgrexlkl6o2mhalzqyd4astup5fhrze6wycxz75dm7e@jpeg)
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
When you have prepared the courses for next semester and can return to looking at images for your next talk on infrastructure and the environment:
📷 J.C. Townshend, 1890s: [Bengal-Nagpur Railway Construction, Photograph No. 16] digitized by SMU Libraries.
📷 J.C. Townshend, 1890s: [Bengal-Nagpur Railway Construction, Photograph No. 16] digitized by SMU Libraries.
Last protest encampment gone. University of Gothenburg this morning.
#Palestine
#Palestine
November 22, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Last protest encampment gone. University of Gothenburg this morning.
#Palestine
#Palestine
Tbt Friday and the second keynote in
"6th Digital History in Sweden Conference: Unboxing Digital Methods, Practices and Public Engagement", Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University) speaking about invisible labour and two of his projects:
"6th Digital History in Sweden Conference: Unboxing Digital Methods, Practices and Public Engagement", Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University) speaking about invisible labour and two of his projects:
November 9, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Tbt Friday and the second keynote in
"6th Digital History in Sweden Conference: Unboxing Digital Methods, Practices and Public Engagement", Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University) speaking about invisible labour and two of his projects:
"6th Digital History in Sweden Conference: Unboxing Digital Methods, Practices and Public Engagement", Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University) speaking about invisible labour and two of his projects:
Cfp for up-coming summer school at LNU in Växjö, south Sweden in connection with #ENIUGH at LNU in September 2025. Please circulate, especially in graduate networks!
#history #CFP #Summerschool #globalhistory #indigenousmethods #postcolonialhistory #colonialhistory #diplomacy #genderhistory #envhis
#history #CFP #Summerschool #globalhistory #indigenousmethods #postcolonialhistory #colonialhistory #diplomacy #genderhistory #envhis
October 24, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Cfp for up-coming summer school at LNU in Växjö, south Sweden in connection with #ENIUGH at LNU in September 2025. Please circulate, especially in graduate networks!
#history #CFP #Summerschool #globalhistory #indigenousmethods #postcolonialhistory #colonialhistory #diplomacy #genderhistory #envhis
#history #CFP #Summerschool #globalhistory #indigenousmethods #postcolonialhistory #colonialhistory #diplomacy #genderhistory #envhis
Rvw in Arbetarhistoria (Labour history) of "The Imperial Underbelly Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia"- with my ch on the British Empire, knowledge & migration in the early industrialisation of Southern Sweden.
#OA
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
#OA
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
September 19, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Rvw in Arbetarhistoria (Labour history) of "The Imperial Underbelly Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia"- with my ch on the British Empire, knowledge & migration in the early industrialisation of Southern Sweden.
#OA
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
#OA
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Our seminar series this fall - especially looking forward to #disasterhistory and earthquakes, #digitization and Partition history, as well as a historical perspective on mountaineering and Mt. Everest!
September 3, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Our seminar series this fall - especially looking forward to #disasterhistory and earthquakes, #digitization and Partition history, as well as a historical perspective on mountaineering and Mt. Everest!
Our research cluster Colonial Connections and Comparisons' seminar programme this fall semester with lectures by Sarah Irving (Staffordshire University), Gaurav C. Garg (Ashoka University), and Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University).
August 31, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Our research cluster Colonial Connections and Comparisons' seminar programme this fall semester with lectures by Sarah Irving (Staffordshire University), Gaurav C. Garg (Ashoka University), and Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University).
Four great speakers at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, 13-15 March:
🫛Beppe Karlsson, Stockholm University,
⌚Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo,
🐂Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala University,
🐯Mahesh Rangarajan, Ashoka University.
🫛Beppe Karlsson, Stockholm University,
⌚Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo,
🐂Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala University,
🐯Mahesh Rangarajan, Ashoka University.
March 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Four great speakers at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, 13-15 March:
🫛Beppe Karlsson, Stockholm University,
⌚Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo,
🐂Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala University,
🐯Mahesh Rangarajan, Ashoka University.
🫛Beppe Karlsson, Stockholm University,
⌚Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo,
🐂Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala University,
🐯Mahesh Rangarajan, Ashoka University.
A line of interesting presentations this spring in the seminar series of our research cluster Colonial Connections and Comparisons - and not only historians this time!
February 3, 2024 at 7:49 AM
A line of interesting presentations this spring in the seminar series of our research cluster Colonial Connections and Comparisons - and not only historians this time!
I'll be talking about my current project Tracks Trough Nature... at Institute of Language Studies and Research in #Kolkata on 16th of Jan!
Excited to discuss #infrastructure & #envhis with colleagues and new collaborators.
Excited to discuss #infrastructure & #envhis with colleagues and new collaborators.
January 14, 2024 at 5:09 PM
I'll be talking about my current project Tracks Trough Nature... at Institute of Language Studies and Research in #Kolkata on 16th of Jan!
Excited to discuss #infrastructure & #envhis with colleagues and new collaborators.
Excited to discuss #infrastructure & #envhis with colleagues and new collaborators.
January 2, 2024 at 8:27 AM
High time to apply for the Master's Programme in #Colonial and #Postcolonial Studies!
I'm happy to answer questions regarding admission documents and scope of the programme. Please check links below for scholarships. ⬇️
📚💡☮️👩🏽🎓🏳️🌈🦉
I'm happy to answer questions regarding admission documents and scope of the programme. Please check links below for scholarships. ⬇️
📚💡☮️👩🏽🎓🏳️🌈🦉
December 24, 2023 at 5:27 PM
High time to apply for the Master's Programme in #Colonial and #Postcolonial Studies!
I'm happy to answer questions regarding admission documents and scope of the programme. Please check links below for scholarships. ⬇️
📚💡☮️👩🏽🎓🏳️🌈🦉
I'm happy to answer questions regarding admission documents and scope of the programme. Please check links below for scholarships. ⬇️
📚💡☮️👩🏽🎓🏳️🌈🦉