What do we mean when we say “transculturality”? Is the term still useful for understanding the movement of objects & people? What happens when collection histories are deeply intertwined with forced labour migration? I’ll be discussing these questions this Wednesday in a hybrid lecture. #skytorians
Our conference is the best you should all come!
We're excited to announce our Summer Lecture Series 2026:
"Environments of Knowledge: Climate, Risk, and Governance from the Middle Ages to the Anthropocene"
The series examines how societies have understood, managed, and monetized environmental change.
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It's #PrideMonth! To mark the occasion, we have compiled some of our most recent GHIL Library acquisitions on #QueerHistory! 🏳️🌈
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#Syria: Robin Yassin-Kassab, author of "The Blood Between Us", on Syria and why the government’s focus on stability may prove a pitfall @qunfuz.bsky.social @saqibooks.bsky.social qantara.de/en/article/s...
Since December 2024, Syria has been oscillating between euphoria and disappointment. The British-Syrian analyst Robin Yassin-Kassab sees optimism as a resource, but the new government’s focus on stabi...
Ten years on from the Brexit vote: a new @yougov.co.uk poll finds that 77% of the British public have trust in the expertise of historians bit.ly/49I9NV7
It's heartening to hear that so many value, and certainly haven't had enough of, the historian as expert. #Skystorians 1/4
For details, see phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/phil-f...
Just two weeks until our conference!! Registration still open in this link: photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... PHRC12 Photography's Tacit Knowledge will be in person (Leicester, UK) and online. Come and join us! #photography #photohist
Pleased to be part of this panel on the "Ecologies of Restitution: Relational and More-than-Human Approaches to Repair into the translocal lives of plants".
This is part of 'Heritage Week', organised by our partner's @unibonn.bsky.social Global Heritage Lab. globalheritagelab.org/event/herita...
Also now available: the 2026 call for applications for the Society's annual Funded Book Workshops - for historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C.
Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with specialist readers to discuss a manuscript in detail before submission #Skystorians
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...
Just a few days left to apply for the job opportunity below—and for our Autumn School on “The Democratization of Heritage” in Paris.
Applications are welcome from heritage and museum practitioners in NRW, as well as graduate students at Uni Cologne & Bonn.
gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
PHRC
Royal Historical Society
Royal Historical Society
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius
Belated but happy to finally share: I began a professorship in Critical Heritage & Memory Studies at Uni Cologne earlier this year.
Please stay tuned for future announcements — exciting things are in the works.
Meanwhile, I’m very happy to say that I’m hiring: www.stellenwerk.de/koeln/resear...
Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesResearch Assistant (f/m/x)Institute of EthnologyWe are one of the largest and oldest universities in Europe and one of the most important employers in our region.
