Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
Cross-posted from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research
University of Exeter
We are inviting expressions of interest from post-doctoral researchers considering making an application for the 2024 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships scheme. The call opens 1 January 2024. The closing date for applications is 22 February 2024 at 4pm and further information and guidance can be found on the Leverhulme Trust’s website. We will be supporting a limited number of applications for the scheme and there will be an internal sift for candidate selection.
About the Fellowships
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships aim to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers, but who have a proven record of research. The expectation is that Fellows should undertake a significant piece of publishable work during their tenure, and it is hoped that Fellowships will lead to a more permanent academic position, either within the same institution or another institution. Approximately 145 Fellowships will be available in 2024.
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Kensa Broadhurst
University of Exeter
Cross-posted from A Study of the Cornish Language from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Last week I was in the very privileged position of attending the PhD Academy at Venice International University. The week long course promised to improve research practice and transversal skills for young scholars, but in reality it offered far more than that. Nineteen PhD researchers from sixteen nations, based in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas and representing the widest possible range of research topics, alongside faculty staff from Italy, Belgium, and Slovenia, came together to both learn from each other and share experiences and ideas. It was a true example of international collaboration between well-established scholars and those just setting out on their research journeys. For me, it was incredible to be at an academic event and be the only representative from the United Kingdom. As such, it allowed me to gain a wide range of valuable insights, alongside getting to know a group of people who are all either leaders in their field, or with the potential to be so in the future. All this, in one of the most beautiful settings in the world (and one which offers many research questions of its own), Venice.
Venice International University is a collaboration between nineteen universities from all over the world. It offers summer schools (such as the one I attended in June on Linguistic Landscapes), the PhD Academy, and opportunities for undergraduates to spend a semester at the university on the island of San Servolo, located between the historic centre of Venice and the Lido. As such, the university is a true example of both interdisciplinarity and international collaboration.
Continue reading “Interdisciplinarity and International Collaborations”Russia’s disastrous decision to invade Poland in 1920 has parallels with Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine
Peter Whitewood
York St John University
From the beginning, Russia has framed its invasion of Ukraine as necessary for the defence of the country. According to Vladimir Putin, Nato’s deliberate and aggressive encroachment into a region once dominated by Moscow is to blame, as the west seeks to dismember Russia. By extension, Ukraine – a country, according to Putin, without agency and turned into a Nato military outpost – is little more than a pawn in Washington’s nefarious game.
Some conspiracies in Russian propaganda come and go – notably the absurd claims that the US had developed bioweapons sites across Ukraine. But Putin’s core geopolitical framing of the war has remained consistent: Nato and the forces of the “collective west” represent an existential threat to Russia.
Given the popular notion of rival geopolitical blocs and the “no-limits friendship” between Moscow and Beijing, comparisons to the former cold war are commonplace. Commentators and academics are keen to scrutinise various similarities and distinctions. But there is an underappreciated comparison between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and another act of aggression a century earlier: the Red Army’s invasion of Poland in 1920 under Vladimir Lenin.
Although more than 100 years ago, the Bolsheviks framed this conflict in strikingly similar terms to the conspiracies running through Russian propaganda today. Continue reading “Russia’s disastrous decision to invade Poland in 1920 has parallels with Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine”
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From when the US helped kill democracy in Chile to who decided that French food was best, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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Alun Withey
University of Exeter
Cross-posted from Dr Alun Withey
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern people think that the processes of travel, and different kinds of transport, could do to their bodies, and what types of remedies were available to deal with them. Research is still at a very early stage, but there are already some interesting hints that remedies were available to treat a variety of travel-related conditions.
Before the broadening of travel in the 18th century, many journeys were relatively short, and local. As a great deal of work has shown in recent years, the early modern population was surprisingly mobile. People travelled from parish to parish, and from rural to urban areas as they visited market towns to buy and sell goods. Perhaps the majority of journeys were taken on foot, on horseback or on a cart or, for those with means, in small carriages. By the later eighteenth century, post carriages were also available to private passengers.
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From the waves of empire to unsilencing the Haitian Revolution in US hip hop, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation 20 years on to liberalism’s sinful Cold War birth, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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From Putin’s history lessons to the perils of forgetting the Ottoman past, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From Chile’s coup at 50 to the imperial history behind the London meat industry, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History”MA Humanities Funding for BAME Scholars
British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Taught Scholarship (September 2023 Entry)
About the award
In order to increase opportunities for access to postgraduate study and promote diversity within the cohorts of these programmes, the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies is delighted to offer one bursary, worth £25,000, to one BAME1 student enrolling on a postgraduate taught programme within English, History or Modern Languages and Cultures in 2023/24.
This scholarship is open to BAME applicants for the MA programmes in either English, History or Modern Languages and Cultures whose study interests connect chronologically and thematically with those of the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.
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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From the long death of slavery to how Rosa Luxemburg anticipated the end of capitalist globalization, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From the Cold War trap to the Jamaican roots of the British industrial revolution, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From unravelling the Windrush myth to the infinite possibilities of Afrofuturism, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History”Job Klaxon: Lecturer in Modern Imperial/Colonial History
This full time, maternity cover post is available 1st September 2023 until 31 August 2024.
Job details
Job reference: R76217
Date posted: 29/06/2023
Application closing date: 20/07/2023
Location: Exeter (Hybrid)
Salary: The starting salary will be from £40,745 on Grade F, depending on qualifications and experience.
The role
The post of Lecturer in Modern Imperial/Colonial History will be to design, develop, produce, and deliver teaching and learning material across a range of modules, within the area of modern imperial/colonial history, and the history of the British empire and its decolonisation in particular.
You will be able to teach a broad range of topics, contributing to the teaching of core modules at all levels, as well as supervising independent research projects in your specialist field. You will have a keen interest in Decolonising the Curriculum, which is a priority for the Department, Faculty, and wider University. You will also be expected to act as Personal Tutor for undergraduate students, and to play a part in the administrative work of the department, when required.
This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.
About you
You will:
- Possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist and core knowledge in the discipline, demonstrated by a PhD or equivalent in modern imperial/colonial history to develop teaching programmes, and teach and support learning
- Use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students
- Participate in and develop external networks, for example, to contribute to student recruitment, secure student placements, facilitate outreach work, generate income, obtain consultancy projects, or build relationships for future activities
- Will have evidence of excellent teaching identified by peer review and have made an impact at discipline programme level beyond their own teaching
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