Frank Gerits
@frankgerits.bsky.social
Tenured Assistant Professor Utrecht University II Research Fellow University of the Free State, Bloemfontein South Africa
Climate Justice Historian and International History of the Global South
Climate Justice Historian and International History of the Global South
Thursday 12 June, 16h: a panel conversation with actual real climate change activists who will participate in the next COP.
Come to Universiteit Utrecht Library! More info behind the QR code!
Come to Universiteit Utrecht Library! More info behind the QR code!
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Thursday 12 June, 16h: a panel conversation with actual real climate change activists who will participate in the next COP.
Come to Universiteit Utrecht Library! More info behind the QR code!
Come to Universiteit Utrecht Library! More info behind the QR code!
Great workshop on the History of Non-Alignment. A collaborative project at the University of Padua History Department.
June 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Great workshop on the History of Non-Alignment. A collaborative project at the University of Padua History Department.
Great conference on AI. Off to Padova to talk Non-Alignment!
May 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Great conference on AI. Off to Padova to talk Non-Alignment!
Sign up if you want to attend.
Powering up towards the Bonn Climate Change Conference
📅 Date: Thursday, 12 June 2025
🕓 Time: 16:00–18:00
Powering up towards the Bonn Climate Change Conference
📅 Date: Thursday, 12 June 2025
🕓 Time: 16:00–18:00
May 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sign up if you want to attend.
Powering up towards the Bonn Climate Change Conference
📅 Date: Thursday, 12 June 2025
🕓 Time: 16:00–18:00
Powering up towards the Bonn Climate Change Conference
📅 Date: Thursday, 12 June 2025
🕓 Time: 16:00–18:00
Swing by tonight if you have time to hear me ramble about the international politics of climate change
April 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Swing by tonight if you have time to hear me ramble about the international politics of climate change
Essay - in Dutch - on the perils of revisionist imperial history ("We also did a lot of good things"). Written together with @gillianmathys.bsky.social , in response to the claims made in "Engelen uit Europa", a book by Hans Van der Jagt.
THE LINK: bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
THE LINK: bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
April 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Essay - in Dutch - on the perils of revisionist imperial history ("We also did a lot of good things"). Written together with @gillianmathys.bsky.social , in response to the claims made in "Engelen uit Europa", a book by Hans Van der Jagt.
THE LINK: bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
THE LINK: bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
Proud to announce the launch of Routledge Resources Online: The Cold War ! 🌍
You can find the link here: www.taylorfrancis.com/rrocw/?conte...
Ruud Van Dijk is the main editor. I am editor for Africa entries. We have a big editorial board.
@shafrhistorians.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social
You can find the link here: www.taylorfrancis.com/rrocw/?conte...
Ruud Van Dijk is the main editor. I am editor for Africa entries. We have a big editorial board.
@shafrhistorians.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Proud to announce the launch of Routledge Resources Online: The Cold War ! 🌍
You can find the link here: www.taylorfrancis.com/rrocw/?conte...
Ruud Van Dijk is the main editor. I am editor for Africa entries. We have a big editorial board.
@shafrhistorians.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social
You can find the link here: www.taylorfrancis.com/rrocw/?conte...
Ruud Van Dijk is the main editor. I am editor for Africa entries. We have a big editorial board.
@shafrhistorians.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social
TOMORROW I WILL GO ON STRIKE! LIKE MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WE RESIST THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE NETHERLANDS
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
TOMORROW I WILL GO ON STRIKE! LIKE MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WE RESIST THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE NETHERLANDS
Thank you so much, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to discuss THE IDEOLOGICAL SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA! @cornellupress.bsky.social You can listen to it here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-ideologi...
February 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Thank you so much, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to discuss THE IDEOLOGICAL SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA! @cornellupress.bsky.social You can listen to it here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-ideologi...
Taught my class on time and decolonisation again. Good stuff
November 22, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Taught my class on time and decolonisation again. Good stuff
Education is a right. Join us in The Hague on 25 November!
November 15, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Education is a right. Join us in The Hague on 25 November!
'Pathways to Sustainability' has decided to fund our research collective "The Political Environment: A Research Collective on Environmental Politics in Past and Present" 🌍 It brings together a group of researchers
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
to study the politics behind the environment.
October 24, 2024 at 9:27 AM
'Pathways to Sustainability' has decided to fund our research collective "The Political Environment: A Research Collective on Environmental Politics in Past and Present" 🌍 It brings together a group of researchers
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
to study the politics behind the environment.
Day zero of the conference on @cser.bsky.social is already a win. From London to Risk communication.
September 16, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Day zero of the conference on @cser.bsky.social is already a win. From London to Risk communication.
@cser.bsky.social On my way to the 2024 annual conference on existential risk to talk about the ideologies that inform the international history of climate justice. Doing new research is just fun. Off course I'll go by delayed train.
September 16, 2024 at 9:10 AM
@cser.bsky.social On my way to the 2024 annual conference on existential risk to talk about the ideologies that inform the international history of climate justice. Doing new research is just fun. Off course I'll go by delayed train.
My review of Emily Marker’s thought-provoking Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era in the American Historical Review with @ahahistorians.bsky.social
academic-oup-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/ahr/article-...
academic-oup-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/ahr/article-...
September 8, 2024 at 11:59 AM
My review of Emily Marker’s thought-provoking Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era in the American Historical Review with @ahahistorians.bsky.social
academic-oup-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/ahr/article-...
academic-oup-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/ahr/article-...
My book in my local library.
February 24, 2024 at 9:17 AM
My book in my local library.
Last book talk @univgroningen on the Ideological Scramble For Africa. After Italy (1), Belgium(1), theUS (4), Germany(1), the Netherlands (2) and the United Kingdom(3) I can safely say: do book talks! It won't help your career, but it is fun.
February 5, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Last book talk @univgroningen on the Ideological Scramble For Africa. After Italy (1), Belgium(1), theUS (4), Germany(1), the Netherlands (2) and the United Kingdom(3) I can safely say: do book talks! It won't help your career, but it is fun.
Research on Belgian Empire also brings you to a Royal Palace once in a while.
January 18, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Research on Belgian Empire also brings you to a Royal Palace once in a while.