@mihatsch
Global historian working on sovereignty, nationalism & Sudanese political parties. Formerly British University in Egypt and @camhistory.bsky.social. Now Wenzhou Kean University. Author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social.
Many thanks @mihatsch.bsky.social for your fantastic lecture yesterday @humanitiesuu.bsky.social on your book @shiftingsovs.bsky.social! It was fascinating, thought-provoking and timely!
Brace yourself: the civilisation sovereignty nexus is making a comeback.
Escape the dreary Utrecht weather, and join us for a "cozy" discussion of sovereignty this evening.
This year the beginning of Ramadan coincides with the Chinese Lunar New Year. And so, I want to wish you at the same time, a Happy Ramadan and a wonderful Year of the Horse.
Yet you still won’t be able to comment on footnotes
🇳🇱🗣️💬 Come and discuss sovereignty with me in Utrecht on 19 February 2026 at 17:15 (details in the link).
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🇳🇴 Join us tomorrow!
I have a new article out (open access!) about what the Archaeological Survey of India was doing in Nepal in the 1960s, with thoughts about the global complexity of post-war archaeological knowledge and the categories we use to understand it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Article 7: Andrew Ivaska on the history department of the university of Dar al Salam
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Soon the special issue is complete. Here comes Andrew Ivaska's "Two African Historiographies in a Decolonising Moment: Dependency Theory, the “Dar School,” and Institutional Politics at the University of Dar es Salaam"
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I wish people would do / understand basic source criticism.
Person X says Y happened ≠ Y actually happened.
What does person X actually know? Who are they talking to and for what purpose? How does that change the reliability of the information or our interpretation? etc.
Article 6: Carlotta Marchi on constructing the Sanusi monarchy in Libya through history writing
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Next one in the special issue is Carlotta Marchi's wonderful piece on Sanusi history in Libya:
"Building the Nation in the Monarchical Era: History, Historiography, and Historians in Libya’s Independence Process (1940s – 1950s)"
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Excited that my article (based on my MPhil dissertation that was supervised by @lianachua.bsky.social and @mihatsch.bsky.social ) is out!
cc/ @lianachua.bsky.social
Article number 5: Ben Goh on the history department at the University of Malaya in Singapore
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I'm really excited to announce that the next article of our special issue. @bengohstoschool.bsky.social article titled:
“Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”: A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s
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New year, new instalment of the Utrecht Lectures in Political History!
On Thursday 19 February 2026, @mihatsch.bsky.social (Wenzhou-Kean University), author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social, will deliver the fifteenth Utrecht Lecture in Political History at @humanitiesuu.bsky.social!
🕯️🎉🥂 One year ago Shifting Sovereignties came out. We are very grateful for the reception the book has received from readers, at book talks in 5 countries on 3 continents, and in 2 very positive reviews. We look forward to seeing very soon what people are doing with our ideas in their own research!
Meet me in Utrecht 🇳🇱
small hours big time what moon is it? sky. empty black, black a crude drawing of Saturn just to get something on paper later still - reading Pevsner on Reynolds and Detachment the eerie gaze of Nelly O'Brien, 1760-2 - night
24/1/26 - nocturn
Trump: "China makes almost all of the windmills. And yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China."
Well, Mr President, I can be of help. 😂
🌍🇨🇦 Carney says that he wants to "combine to create a third path with impact". The parallels to the language of the non-aligned during the Cold War is quite striking.
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Casper and I on the UNESCO's History of Mankind
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This is part of our special issue on history writing after independence. Follow this thread to see all the articles of the special issue as they are coming out in FirstView.
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Casper Andersen and my article on UNESCO's History of Mankind in the context of decolonisation is out now:
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