Ob #Rheinwiesenlager, „#Bombenholocaust“, „linke NSDAP“ oder „#AuschwitzLüge“: Ab Dienstag bietet die Website Geschichte-statt-Mythen.de fundierte Infos zu heschichtsrevisionistischen Legenden und ihren Verbreitern in der rechtsextremen Szene.

Diese Woche in Berlin: Flaubert Djateng zenu network präsentiert zivilgesellsch. Erklärung aus Kamerun zu kolonialem Raubgut. Wie reagiert Deutschland? Decolonize Berlin e. V. NARUD ISD Bund e.V. Jonas Kreienbaum AMehler Linden-Museum Stuttgart Christiane Kayser Henning Melber Maria Kind Katja Keul Julia von Sigsfeld

Some personal thoughts on the reactions to Solingen. Pretty much exactly 9 years ago, I went to the then infamous LAGeSO in Berlin-Moabit to support refugees arriving there. At first, all I did was distributing food and water under the horrible conditions reigning at LAGeSO. /1

Did you write an excellent MA or PhD thesis in global history? The call for applications for the Walter-Markov-Prize 2025 is open! The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2025. research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/walter…

Informative article about the racist practice of ethnographic displays, mainly of colonized people, in Berlin‘s Zoologischer Garten.

„Allerhöchstes Desinteresse“. Heute schreibt Andreas Kilb in Frankfurter Allgemeine über meinen jüngsten HZ-Artikel zur Bedeutung des Kaisers für den deutschen Kolonialismus. Wilhelm II. und die Herero: Am Völkermord hatte der Kaiser kein Interesse faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

Jonas Kreienbaum Frankfurter Allgemeine Super! Ich wünschte, es gäbe ein Buch darüber 🙃 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Jonas Kreienbaum Frankfurter Allgemeine 1/3 Kilb resümiert: 'Lothar von Trotha handelte in Wilhelms Namen, aber nicht in seinem Sinn.' Damit lässt Kilb eine Frage offen: Wie kommt jemand wie Trotha dazu, nicht im Sinn des Kaisers zu handeln, obwohl er ausweislich seines Tagebuchs nach dessen Anerkennung gierte?

Finally got hold of a copy of „African Activists in a Decolonising World“ by Ismay Milford. Really looking forward to read it.

Was very happy to see Petra Dolata's extensive and generous double-review of Henning Türk's book on the oil crisis and the IEA and mine on oil and the New International Economic Order. Thank you! fes.de/afs/rezensionen

Stip: 2 Scholarships for International PhD Candidates "Global and Area Studies" (Univ. Leipzig) ift.tt/JP1HVqw

Fellow academics: grant applications are now asking for career impediment statements, like children, illness, pandemic. How do you handle this genre? I have lots of hard feelings around this.

“The AfD has stunned Germany – but this was no surprise victory” – my latest op-ed for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Immensely proud to announce the forthcoming publication of my monograph, a political biography of Wilhelm I as Germany's first Kaiser in January 2025 with Palgrave History 👉link.springer.com/book/978303174… - a little 🧵!

NEU: Toller kolonialer Stadtführer für Hamburg. Bester dieser Art in Deutschland. Mimo 🌍🤷🏾‍♀️📚 Ciraj Rassool Dr. T. Flor/ Dr. T. Flo German Studies Association BLACK GERMANS Matt Fitzpatrick Dr. Adam A. Blackler Henning Melber Hamburgische Geschichten Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg MARKK hamburg.de Kim Todzi Jonas Kreienbaum NID Namibia

#twitterstorians, I'm teaching a seminar on the history if the BRETTON WOODS twins, the WORLD BANK and the IMF this fall - any favorite READINGS or sources? (doesn't have to be history)

THURSDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 🗽 The NIEO 50th Anniversary Celebration in New York City — with Isabella M. Weber, @Adam_Tooze, Branko Milanovic, Jayati Ghosh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, and more. Reserve your place now at bit.ly/3Xg9xFT

Please spread the word and join us: "Global History meets German Zeitgeschichte", jointly organized by ZZF Potsdam (Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft) and GHI Washington with wonderful colleagues - Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn (she/her), Frank Biess, Franziska Exeler and Carolin Liebisch: zzf-potsdam.de/wissenstransfe…

Now published open access by FES Namibia "An Unresolved Issue: Genocide in Colonial Namibia" - have a look at the various chapters engaging with the past and present library.fes.de/pdf-files/buer…

The second part of our special issue on the life and legacy of Kenneth Kaunda will be available shortly: