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Curaçao and Haiti in world cup! A historic day. Also the anniversary a major victory in Haiti's world-changing revolution - if you don't know who the Curaçaon resistance hero Tula is, or what the Battle of Vertières (Haiti) was, today's a great day to look ém up.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Curaçao complete fairytale with battling draw in Jamaica to qualify for World Cup
The tiny Caribbean nation of Curaçao became the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup after battling to a 0-0 draw against Jamaica
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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"If anything, the response by university leaders may have brought to the fore what some of us suspected all along: Academic freedom is being eroded internally by university administrators & externally by politicians."

— Laura Isabel Serna, President of University of Southern California AAUP
Commentary: Fearing Trump, universities themselves restrict academic freedom
Seven out of the nine universities that the Trump administration invited to offer feedback on the so...
www.macon.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Glad this now Open Access. Have at it!

Rest of Book = wonderful authors, teachable chapters. Uni libraries have digital access for non-OA.

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Thanks @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, Dutch Research Council #Re/PresentingEurope funds.
Cultural Pan-Africanism in twentieth-century France | 22 | Routledge H
This chapter examines the practice of cultural Pan-Africanism in twentieth-century France, showing how Pan-Africanists deployed cultural practices and critiques
www.taylorfrancis.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Lovely to see some head nodding, and toe-tapping in a mid-term exam. #BlackCulturalProductionAndSocialChange students are enjoying the audio-visual clip we set for close listening-viewing analysis (kudos @pepperonina.bsky.social )
October 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Ok bluesky historian hive mind. Best cultural history article on Hurricane Katrina? Asking for a methods course... Do rec your own work :)
August 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
OF COURSE. The one time kids' vacation, partner's leave, and my non-teaching weeks at TWO DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS line up (visions of cottages swim in her head) ... a colleague plans AWESOME decolonial futures/Afropean seminar ft yours truly #AcademicParentingDilemmas #OctoberChoices
August 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This picture is part of the exhibition at FOAM on the 1945 hunger winter and the liberation of Amsterdam.
20.000 people died from hunger in 1945, and towards the end allied airplanes dropped food.

Why are we right now not dropping food & water in Gaza?
July 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Fab poster spotted en route to #GCFHSResist fest last night. Of the event? Much festing, less so feasting - many bubbles. Karaoke ensued.
July 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The last #GCFHSResist panel of the day was a bit of a palate cleanser, listening to discussions of French rap through lenses of memory agents and postcolonial soundscapes, with excellent paper from @redgillett.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Infusing the science of knowing with the art of showing... Stéphane Gerson, on writing Families as History
#GCFHResist
July 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
At this. Endorse.
Roundtable on Resistance in the Academy at #GCFHSResist - the situation is dire everywhere. Participants urge collective resistance - it’s the only way, it’s the best way #GCFHSResist
July 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A full house for the #GCFHSResist plenary on Miranda Spieler’s SLAVES IN PARIS: HIDDEN LIVES & FUGITIVE HISTORIES
July 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Playing "how many French Historians can one spot on the metro" on way to Conglomerama, the Francophony of Historians of France, today (what's our official tag and title folk? Help me out here...
July 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
So much joy and love - despite the challenges we share - at the great conglomerama of Historians of France/Francophone world in Paree this week. Rousing, depressing, state of field/solidarity session last night... Carousing to follow...
July 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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New agreement in Kanaky/New Caledonia that will lead to the creation of a 'State of New Caledonia' www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Signature d’un accord pour la création d’un « État de la Nouvelle-Calédonie »
Les forces politiques de l’archipel ont signé, samedi 12 juillet au matin, un projet d’accord avec le gouvernement français, marquant leur engagement vers un nouveau statut du territoire. Une solutio…
www.mediapart.fr
July 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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May all the tyrants tremble and all the Bastilles fall.
July 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
got back on the socials after a long hiatus to LIVE TWEET this via bluesky. rushing from kids end-of-prinary school ceremony last night to join the action today #AcademicParent #FrenchHistoryNerdOut #CollectiveNoun?
Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org
July 16, 2025 at 6:17 AM
My automatic reply today:
🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

I will not be replying to emails today. I am striking to protect the future of our education, and thus of our our students, children, and (knowledge) economy.

Join us on the Domplein at 10:00. 🟥

Let your voice be heard! Protest with us!
March 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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I'm not feeling well so I'm missing the protest in #Utrecht today, but my email is on automatic reply saying I'm on strike, I won't work, and I'll be supporting my colleagues in spirit. These cuts are terrible and should not go ahead. #Nederland #HogerOnderwijs
March 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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I was going to go to the socialist bookstore but I realized I could go to the library instead.
January 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Grant writing Euroversion: You can never have too many (Gantt) charts and graphs; charts and graphs; SMART objectives; outputs and deliverables (only you can)

Send help...
a woman says you can never have enough hats , gloves , and shoes
ALT: a woman says you can never have enough hats , gloves , and shoes
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January 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Panic. Make list. Feel better. Ignore list but do something cos Now there is A Plan. Life is In Control (lists, lists!)

Rinse. Repeat

Anyone else? Just me? OK, as you were then...
a girl with red hair is wearing a pink kimono and making a funny face
Alt: a girl with red hair is wearing a pink kimono and making a funny face
media.tenor.com
January 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We are at "washing vitamins down with wine" stage of diagramming, research design clarification, weeks/months of (mental) prep shaping into something Very Exciting. Hope it gets funded - if not has got makings of GOOD article... #Solidarity #SonicPersistence
January 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Bluesky right now feels a little like all the Whos gathering to sing after the Grinch stole their floofloovers and jingtinglers.
November 15, 2024 at 1:51 AM