WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE DEAD?
In 1873, Swedish anatomist Gustaf Retzius plundered Finnish graves at Pälkäne and elsewhere. Following repatriation to Finland in 2024, the remains were subjected to new research at the hands of Finnish researchers. Come discuss the findings and implications at @ki.se!
If the war ends up as a debacle for the US, it is clear that Israel is going to be blamed, and by extension also American Jews, and Jews in general, in a manner surpassing similar accusations regarding the Iraq war. The infrastructure for antisemitism is just far more developed and mainstreamed.
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This image from 1588 shows a tree with big bound books grewing instead of fruits. This tree starts in a house organ that is played from a well-dressed woman and a man. The image of part of. abook praising the art of making books, you may find it here if you fancy: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/uh-20/start.htm
Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.
Med anledning av utvecklingen i Tyskland men också de återkommande utspelen från svenska politiker om "importerad" antisemitism, känner jag mig manad att återpublicera den här texten, som Olof Bortz, Daniel Strand och jag skrev för ett år sedan.
Dream job in a dream department with dream colleagues in a lovely place. Everyone and their mother will apply. 😉
This article by @robin-c.bsky.social is an achievement, and should be read by anyone who seeks to understand the relation between racism, antisemitism, and anti-antisemitism.
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
‘Since October 2023 five thousand years of cultural buildings and ancient libraries have been bombed into dust in Gaza with hardly a whisper from the international media or cultural institutions.’
New on the blog from @selmadabbagh.bsky.social.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/
I'm not sure. I signed a form but it is no longer open. I'd write one or two of the first signatories.
I am but one of 1000+ scholars who have signed this letter in support of UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and in repudiation of the attempts by powerful governments to impede her work for accountability with the aid of fabricated evidence and unsubstantiated allegations.
I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!
Starke Staffan is peripheral to my research...
Johan Vilde
Forskar i biblioteket. Målbilden är en ansökan till ERC.
Lack of media interest makes genocide cover-up unnecessary
Nothing to see here!
Anklagelserna mot Zita är inte ett försvar mot antisemitismen. De är antisemitismens spegelbild.
Jag har skrivit om drevet mot biografen Zita i @flamman.se
www.flamman.se/drevet-mot-z...
”Men jag börjar tro att många debattörer på högerkanten faktiskt inte förstår skillnaden mellan judar och staten Israel.”
Läs @nphellstrom.bsky.social:
Drevet mot biografen Zita visar att många högerdebattörer inte kan skilja på judar och staten Israel.
Resultatet är en förvirrad debatt som i praktiken förstärker antisemitismen, skriver @nphellstrom.bsky.social.
Vintage black and white portrait of a young boy with short dark hair. He is wearing a dark jacket and turns his head towards the camera.
27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstad ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in Barbarei verfällt.“
good
trumps evil
pretti
trumps foul
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." – Hannah Arendt
“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.”
Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
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Hur kan detta inte vara en större nyhet idag? Ja, det händer väldigt mycket och väldigt stora saker just nu. Det är svårt att hänga med själv.
Men det ÄR en stor nyhet att en stat attackerar FN på det här sättet.
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
‘During the Cold War, US-sponsored regime change was most often carried out at arm’s length. The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua between 1900 and 1934.’
Tony Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hehe
It's a fine piece you wrote!
