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GRK 2571 - Empires

Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).

Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.

🔗Read it here: t1p.de/conf-rep-24

@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory

H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften"The Empire and I"As renewed imperial ambitions endanger our modern democratic systems, imperial research takes stronger interest in individuals and their actions inside imperial structures. While history has traditionally focused on the actions of “Great Men”, imperial studies now also focus on the entirety of imperial agents and subjects.
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The stunning Mediterranean island with 4 million tourists a year that’s ‘divided in two’ | World | News byteseu.com/918229/ #Cyprus #DarkTourism #EasternMediterranean #empires #EuropeanUnion #FourMillionTourists #GeopoliticalTensions #Greece #GreekCypriots #Mediterranean #SplitInTwo #SuezCanal #tourism #Turkey #TurkishInvasion #TwoStateSolution #UnitedNations

Bytes Europe · The stunning Mediterranean island with 4 million tourists a year that's 'divided in two' | World | NewsWhile Cyprus may draw in some four million tourists every year through its balmy summer temperatures of 35C and glorious beaches, the island has actually been plagued by geopolitical tensions for centuries. Its strategically important position in the Eastern Mediterranean has made it a geopolitical prize for rival polities, kingdoms and empires throughout much of its recorded history.It was controlled by many civilisations and empires, including the Greeks, Romans, Crusaders and the British, before gaining independence in 1960. Yet even today, the island is not at peace and stands essentially split in two. Sat in the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus lies
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@jynersolives That is as true as it is only part of the truth. The world order is reorganizing itself, especially since the disruptive reorganization of the West. #Europe must now decide whether it wants to play in the concert of #empires or strengthen international law as a force for peace. #Military spending must be viewed critically against this backdrop. Defense yes, out-of-area operations no!

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European Empires From Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan, 2024

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare.

Victor Kiernan offers a ground-breaking, truly global history of the violence of empire. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa.

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With an acerbic wit, Kiernan unpicks the doctrines and realities of colonial warfare. Europe was fond of parading its concept of ‘civilized war’, he observes, but almost everything could be tolerated if it was deemed necessary for the upholding of prestige. Guerrilla insurgency, he adds, ultimately became one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. Of all the reasons for an interest in the colonial wars of modern times, Kiernan argues, the best is that they are still going on, openly or disguised. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a landmark attempt to see clearly what empire entailed, instead of resting content with legend or fantasy. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston His Times, His Crimes and The Forty-Year War in A Chronicle Foretold .
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All Empires Decline Eventually

#American #decline is inevitable, not just real. All powers are subject to adjustment and stagnation.

For one thing, #empires need #emperors. #Trump’s earliest executive orders testify far more to the desire to be powerful, and exude power, than to any credible policy agenda that could achieve the restorationism he so clearly desires.

It is a fool’s errand to reverse any empire’s relative decline, and rank immorality to try.

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Caption: OUR GLORIOUS EMPIRE WILL LAST FOREVER Cartoons of leaders of past and present empires.
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Imperial violence

"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."

The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
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Benton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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press.princeton.eduThey Called It PeaceA sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires
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GRK 2571 - Empires

🎉 Exciting news!

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted our Research Training Group 2571 "Empires" a second funding phase, extending the project until October 2029!

We’ll be filling multiple positions over the next years:

1 May 2025: 6 PhD positions + 1 PostDoc position
1 May 2026: 4 PhD positions
1 Nov 2027: 4 PhD positions

Stay tuned for job postings or visit t1p.de/jobs-2025 for updates!

@unifreiburg @ManuelaBoatca @dfg_public @empires @histodons @histodon #academicjobs #histodon #histodons #empires #grk2571

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📢 Upcoming Conference!

Join us for our third annual conference, “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”, 28-30 Nov 2024 at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Explore how empires influenced lives and how individuals shaped imperial structures.

All are welcome to attend! Details: t1p.de/conference-2024

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The poster titled “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces” advertises the Third Annual Conference of the Research Training Group 2571, focusing on “Dynamic Transformation, Temporality, and Postimperial Orders.” The conference takes place November 28-30, 2024, at Aula (KG I), University of Freiburg. Program Highlights: Thursday, November 28: 14:00: Introduction by Sitta von Reden and organisers. 14:30: Keynote by Malte Rolf – "The Empire on My Mind." Panel I: Mobility Thursday 15:30: Rens Tacoma – "The Roman Empire and the Mobile I." 17:00: Mathis Hartmann – "Roman Imperialism and Elite Interaction." Friday 09:00: Wilhelm Joest & Carl Deußen – "Imperial Affects and Wilhelm Joest’s Archive." Panel II: Identity Friday 11:00: Johanna Pink – "The Qur’an and Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean." 13:00: Ipek Bozkaya – "Western Reflections on Ottoman Identity." 15:00: Alexander Maxwell – "Habsburg Empire and Jan Kollár’s Panslavism." Panel III: Institutions Friday 17:00: Christelle Fischer-Bovet – "Legal Institutions of the Ptolemaic Empire." 18:00: Marius Rositzka – "Bishops as Mediators in the 4th Century." Saturday 09:00: Marco Cristini – "Sixth-Century Envoys and Post-Roman Europe." Closing Session: Saturday 11:45: Final Discussion. The poster features the DFG and University of Freiburg logos at the bottom, along with a QR code for more details.
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Fully Automated Celtic Anarchy

A really interesting discussion of the similarities between the late stages of the Roman Empire before it's collapse and the American Empire (including it's EU protectorate) recent decline from the position of global hegemon. #uselection #uspol #eu #empires #china #india

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YouTubeIs The West Heading For Civilisational Collapse? | Aaron Bastani meets John Rapley and Peter HeatherBy Novara Media
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GRK 2571 - Empires

Congratulations to Cornelius Beckers for publishing his essey “‘I too in couplets would attempt to paint / Our varied woes, and versify complaint’: Poetic Form and Knowledge in Early Nineteenth-Century Satirical Poetry by East India Company Employees, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 3,1 (2024), 51–64.” (doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2024.4)

Learn more about Cornelius and his research by visiting our homepage!

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'I too in couplets would attempt to paint / Our varied woes, and versify complaint': Poetic Form and Knowledge in Early Nineteenth-Century Satirical Poetry by East India Company Employees Author: Cornelius Beckers Publication: Global Nineteenth-Century Studies • Volume 3, Number 1 • https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2024.4 Abstract This essay explores the ways in which employees of the East India Company (EIC) used the subversive form of satirical poetry during the early decades of the nineteenth century as one way of undermining orientalist bodies of knowledge that had guided previous policies of governing British India. Moreover, it will also be examined how these satires made use of widely known formal arrangements and poetic conventions of neoclassical poetry in order to undermine or break with previously accepted orientalist values of governance and related bodies of knowledge that were central to the education and training of new company officials during the latter decades of the eighteenth century. The specific case of the EIC will be used as a springboard for further discussions about whether similar instances of adapting metropolitan poetic conventions in colonial settings were common in other European imperial spaces on the subcontinent, such as Portuguese India.
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A United States of Europe

“A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?”

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#Essay #History #Histodon #Histodons #Empires #Politics #Philosophy #Europe @histodon @histodons @philosophy

#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Page URL: archive.org/details/dr_europe-

Map: Europe by Jeremiah Greenleaf. Publication date: 1840.
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GRK 2571 - Empires

We are excited that our RTG’s Verena Zabel will interview the political scientist Togzhan Kassenova tomorrow, April 27th 2024, at 4:15 p.m.

They will discuss the topic “Nukleare Steppe. Wie sich Kasachstan von der Bombe lossagte”.

The interview is part of the taz lab 2024 “Alles Osten. Oder was?”.

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taz.deLightning talk: Nukleare Steppe | Programm Alles Osten, oder was?
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Our RTG is very honoured to have Professor Carolyn J. Eichner from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee as a guest this week.
As part of our colloquium, she will present one of her current projects, "Marked by the State: French Jews, Algerian Muslims, and the Surname”. Since this is a rare opportunity for a German audience to meet a professor, we are opening the talk to the public.

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April 25th, 2024, 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.; KG I room 1224 Talk by Prof. Dr. Carolyn J. Eichner University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Associate Professor Carolyn J. Eichner has an impressive academic background in both History and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In 2015–2016, she was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Professor Eichner's scholarly contributions have been featured in leading academic publications such as Feminist Studies, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, French Historical Studies, and Journal of Women’s History. https://bawü.social/@GRK2571 universität-freiburg funded by DFG
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