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Viola Müller

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Historian at Wageningen University | Book Review Editor at Journal of Global Slavery | author of ESCAPE TO THE CITY 👉 uncpress.org/book/9781469671062/escape-to-the-city/

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Friday August 30th I am organizing a public keynote lecture as part of my larger conference on the (post)colonial histories of universities in the Netherlands. The lecture is open to everyone!

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Many thanks to the Journal of #American #History for reviewing my book! Lisa L. Denmark writes that it “should spark further exploration of the topic of unfreedom.

*Escape to the City* should be considered a beginning rather than an end.”

Thank you! I appreciate this a lot!
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)'s avatar Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social
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“What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned archives?”

“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips
soundcloud.com/soul-express...

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“Escape to the City provides us with one of the most thought-provoking portraits of the urban South yet published,”

writes James Illingworth in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

So generous!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to review my book!
@uncpress.bsky.social

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Thank you! This is an honor!

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Ana Lucia Araujo's avatar Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social
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Am overly grateful to the 4 dearest 💜 historians who wrote the generous blurbs supporting my forthcoming book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. For TOC, blurbs and how to pre-order it go to the University of Chicago Press website #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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More information on this summer's graduate student workshop in Early Republic US Labor History. It is going to be epic. And also free, on-line, and only a couple of hours long! @vfmueller.bsky.social and I are super excited to see this conversation unfold.

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Don't think David de Boer has landed here yet, so let me just tell you that his amazing book is just out with OUP!

And even better news: it's fully Open Access!

global.oup.com/academic/produ…

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Ana Lucia Araujo's avatar Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social
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I will be in Berlin next month for the conference Enslavement and Art at the Humboldt Forum presenting a chapter from one of my current projects: "Iron: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas." If you are in the area join us, the program is below inherit.hu-berlin.de/events/ensla...

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Márcia Gonçalves's avatar Márcia Gonçalves @margoncalves.bsky.social
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Last Tuesday, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Portugal “takes full responsibility” for the wrongs of the past, and that the country’s crimes, including colonial massacres, had costs... but he did not provide a full apology.

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Seth Rockman's avatar Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social
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The other thing happening on the first Tuesday in November.

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Viola Müller's avatar Viola Müller @vfmueller.bsky.social
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This looks really great! Congratulations!!!

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"Archival silence" is shorthand for impt perspectives on bias & erasure in archival collections, and the implications for historical analysis & narratives.

I wrote an brief intro. to the inverse, archival shouting & the outsized attention to some materials. 🗃️ www.historians.org/research-and...

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If you are in Pittsburgh on April 9, don't miss this amazing closing lecture of our series on "Slavery and Memorialization in the Atlantic World": Prof. Pepijn Brandon, VU, "After Apologies: The Troubled Road Towards Recognition of Slavery in the Dutch Empire". All welcome.

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Larissa Schulte Nordholt's avatar Larissa Schulte Nordholt @lascno.bsky.social
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Out April 2nd 'Gender and Animals in History', published by
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social with Sandra Swart as a guest-editor, including contributions on suffragettecats, riot dogs, lesbian seagulls and how honeybees have managed to confuse scientists about their sex for several centuries.

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„Vor wenigen Tagen wurde bekannt gegeben, dass sich die Bundesregierung auf den Entwurf einschließlich der 4+2-Formel geeinigt hat. Das ist eine schlechte Nachricht für junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler sowie den Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland.“

So ist es.

#IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

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Hannah Murphy's avatar Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social
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London #earlymodern people (and anyone London adjacent), an in-person event not to be missed!! An evening with Urvashi Chakravarty discussing the exhilarating Fictions of Consent, how it has changed our work and how it might have changed itself two years (and a paperback publication) on...

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Such a fun video!

“Kangaroo Time,” a four-minute music video about Weli’s years studying eastern gray kangaroos in Victoria, is as fun as it is informative—one of the reasons why it was named the overall winner of this year’s “Dance Your PhD” competition. 🧪 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

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Could you all help me to share this?

A multi-year postdoc at Brown to help coordinate programs for Brown 2026, a multi-year project around the fullest histories of the American revolution and its legacies AND the role of research universities in a democracy. apply.interfolio.com/138409 🗃️

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Writing histories of the enslaved requires a critical eye.
@drsepinwall.bsky.social reviews Sarah E. Johnson's 𝐸𝑛𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒́𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑟𝑒: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑢 𝑑𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡-𝑀𝑒́𝑟𝑦'𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 (UNC Press). ageofrevolutions.com/2024/02/12/f...

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Psst! It's the last day of our extended Holiday Sale 😲 Don't miss your chance to save 30% + FREE shipping on orders over $75 📚

uncpress.org/holiday-sale/

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Thrilled to receive editor’s copies of COERCION & WAGE LABOUR. The book is much thicker and than I thought! What does it do? In the words of Marcel van der Linden: “It makes a well-founded break with the widespread misconception that wage labour is by definition free from coercion.”

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Grad seminar readings (not pictured Green and Slap’s edited collection on the Civil War in 2020, which will be released in a few weeks)

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Anne Petterson's avatar Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social
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Interview met schrijver en historica Anaïs van Ertvelde. Over waarom we de ervaringen van mensen met een handicap veel meer als fundament zouden moeten nemen voor de samenleving als geheel.

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Feat. @gbba.bsky.social & many others not on BSKY :)
Thanks to IISH Amsterdam for including us in your new series *Work Around the World*!
Also thankful to @dshcs.bsky.social, WORCK, COSTprogramme, Uni Wien, Mozarteum

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Viola Müller's avatar Viola Müller @vfmueller.bsky.social
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Everyone should start applying for the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in Leiden next year!

See, for example, this CfP from the Labour Network: worck.eu/2024/01/17/c...

Deadline: April 15

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Not a podcast or audiobook and orientated to history of science (sorry!), but this open access sourcebook on women and the history of science has loads of non-Western materials and may thus be useful: here's the table of contents www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211...

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To mark this day, I'd like to point you to the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society--Black Perspectives. 🗃️
www.aaihs.org/dr-king-and-...

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Karwan Fatah-Black 's avatar Karwan Fatah-Black @fatahblack.bsky.social
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Our article series in the Low Countries Historical Review on the Dutch defense of slavery continues. The second contribution is by Philip Post

A Benign Empire?
The Instrumentalisation of Abolitionism in the Moluccas, 1817-1879

bmgn-lchr.nl/announcement...

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