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Researcher in the History of Afghanistan and European empires at @unibern. @SOAS graduate. Mountain lover and partygoer.

Zurich, Switzerland
Joined November 2015
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📣New HJ blog!✨ Rosalind Moran (@RosalindCMoran) explores Francesca Fuoli's (@FranFuoli) recent article on the role of banditry in pre-modern societies #Sovereignty #History #Society #Money 💰 👉Read online here: cambridge.org/core/blog/2024…
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The Cambridge Core Blog @CambridgeUP also did a post on the article. Thanks to @RosalindCMoran for putting this together. “The state tells the story”: how sovereignty and territoriality changed banditry forever cambridge.org/core/blog/2024…
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Check out @SanaaAlimia's list of scholarship on Afghanistan. Seems more necessary than ever right now to remember the history of this amazing country
Some of best English language scholars on Afghanistan & diaspora that go beyond usual tropes. Trying to amplify Afghan scholars too... Google them / Google Scholar them. *Please add more in comments 1. Khadija Abbasi graduateinstitute.ch/.../the…...
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So society’s *real* key workers have just been revealed. Not the bankers. Not the traders. Not the elite hedge fund managers. It’s the nurses. The doctors. The delivery drivers. The carers. The porters. The teachers. The shelf stackers. The check out staff. #COVID19
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Very excited to announce that the conference ""Global Afghanistan: how non-European networks shaped the modern world" is going to happen at @unibern in September. The call for papers is still open until April 10, 2020. Scholars working on all things Afghanistan, apply!
Call for Papers - International conference "Global Afghanistan: how non-European networks shaped the modern world" University of Bern, Switzerland, 10-12 September 2020 Deadline: April 10, 2020
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Austauschworkshop/Podium, Universität Bern 'Geschichten des Gelingens – Gleichstellungsmassnahmen von Hochschulen im Dialog' Freitag 27. März 2020, 15.00–18.45 Uhr, Hauptgebäude, Hörraum 201 Anmelden bis 20. März unter: unibe.ch/universitaet/organi…
Under @BorisJohnson’s new rules anyone earning less than £25.6k is an unskilled worker. NHS starting salaries: Nurse £24.2k Paramedic 24.2k Midwife £24.2k Radiographer £24.2k Care assistant £17.6k Physiotherapist £24.2k Occupational therapist £24.2k theguardian.com/uk-news/2020…
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Workshop, University of Bern 'Imaginaries of development in the highlands: The constitution of mountain areas as spaces for international development cooperation since 1945' February 27-28, 2020 UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Room: A-119 Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, Room: F-121
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Workshop Universität Leipzig/Universität Bern "Neuverräumlichungen und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in der Globalgeschichte" 21.-22. November 2019
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Keynote, Prof. Christof Dejung (Universität Bern) "Auf der Suche nach Ähnlichkeit und Differenz. Überlegungen zu Räumlichkeit, sozialer Schichtung und dem Gang der (Global-)Geschichte" Donnerstag, 21. November 2019, Universität Leipzig
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#twitterstorians and #SouthAsia peeps: check out this fantastic initiative to build an audiovisual archive on Northeast India’s history. Another reason to go back to dreamy Shillong. nearchive.in/archive/
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Check out the conference report of the amazing Global Social History Conference held last August at the @LSE hsozkult.de/conferencereport… Thanks @BouwmanBastiaan for the report.
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'Social Darwinism & militarism had come to dominate European thinking. What moved the masses was military parades ... national heroism & noble self-sacrifice.' @BeatriceHeuser in 'Brexit in History': bit.ly/2PSJK5p #WW1
Francesca Fuoli retweeted
This greenhouse in Spain almost exclusively depends on an invisible, expendable and often illegally employed migrant workforce. Read more on the story here: aje.io/eetwx
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Ich freue mich schon sehr darauf, am 18.11. im Kino Rex, #Bern den Film "African Mirror" über René Gardis #Afrika-Bild mit @mischahedinger und @KasparSurber diskutieren zu dürfen @histunibern @unibern
Demnächst im Kino: African Mirror Mischa Hedingers Film über den Fotografen & Filmer René Gardi & dessen Afrikabild kommt am 14.11 ins Kino. In Spezialveranstaltungen in Bern (18.11) & Zürich (19.11) kommentieren @ChristofDejung bzw. @GesineKruger den Film africanmirror.ch/
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Neuer Podcast Beitrag - Historisches Institut "Ressourcen kollektiv nutzen – Körperschaften im Wandel der Zeit und das Beispiel der Korporation Uri" Mit Rahel Wunderli und @FranFuoli hist.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/podc…
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The best thing about the @britishlibrary cafe (where a sandwich costs £7 or you can get a plate of salad for £10) is the mice!
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Keynote des ehemaligen polnischen Staatspräsidenten Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Podiumsdiskussion und Tagung 17-18 Oktober Bern/Fribourg '30 Jahre «Wende» in Osteuropa 10 Jahre Osteuropa-Studien Bern-Fribourg' osteuropa-studien.ch/jubilae…
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International Conference, 16-17 October Uni Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, Room 172 'The Challenge of Resource Imperialism: Labour, Science and Commodities in Circulation'
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