Viola Müller

Viola Müller

@vfmueller.bsky.social

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Historian at Wageningen University | Book Review Editor at Journal of Global Slavery | author of ESCAPE TO THE CITY 👉 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671062/escape-to-the-city/

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Many thanks to the Journal of #American #History for reviewing my book! Lisa L. Denmark writes that it “should spark further exploration of the topic of unfreedom. *Escape to the City* should be considered a beginning rather than an end.” Thank you! I appreciate this a lot! @uncpress.bsky.social

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“What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned archives?” “The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips soundcloud.com/soul-express...

“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillipssoundcloud.com “The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips “What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned arc

“Escape to the City provides us with one of the most thought-provoking portraits of the urban South yet published,” writes James Illingworth in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. So generous!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to review my book! @uncpress.bsky.social

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Great mail day! #SkyStorians @vfmueller.bsky.social

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June 19 is the anniversary of the sale of the #GU272 in 1838. slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1

Articles of agreement between Thomas F. Mulledy, of Georgetown, District of Columbia, of one part, and Jesse Beatty and Henry Johnson, of the State of Louisiana, of the other part. 19th June 1838 · Ge...slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu

#Africanists based in Africa, the African Studies Center in Leiden offers funded visiting fellowships of 90 days to work in the Netherlands. Click here for the call for 2025: www.ascleiden.nl/content/visi...

Visiting Fellowship Programme | African Studies Centre Leidenwww.ascleiden.nl The ASCL has an active visiting fellowship programme. Selected fellows will be able to make use of our excellent library, collaborate and network with colleagues, and participate in our regular semina...

🤩 @uncpress.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

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We're doing a conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Many-Headed Hydra next May! For the full CfP, please go to www.history.pitt.edu/news/many-he...

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Am overly grateful to the 4 dearest 💜 historians who wrote the generous blurbs supporting my forthcoming book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. For TOC, blurbs and how to pre-order it go to the University of Chicago Press website #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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More information on this summer's graduate student workshop in Early Republic US Labor History. It is going to be epic. And also free, on-line, and only a couple of hours long! @vfmueller.bsky.social and I are super excited to see this conversation unfold.

CFP: SHEAR 2024 Graduate Student Research Workshops (ONLINE)thepanorama.shear.org Visit the post for more.

Oppressed & persecuted groups’ “struggle for international attention and compassion has a surprisingly long history,” David de Boer explains today in @us.theconversation.com #skystorians theconversation.com/how-17th-cen...

How 17th century refugees used the printing press to fight their oppressors – and laid the foundations of modern humanitarianismtheconversation.com Sharing eyewitness accounts of atrocities is a powerful way of gathering international sympathy, and it has a long history.

Talk with @sethrockman.bsky.social & me about #labor history & the early United States at the #SHEAR Grad Student workshop on July 17! For more info & registration, see networks.h-net.org/group/blog/2... @joursouhist.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

Call for Participants: SHEAR Graduate Student Workshops | H-Netnetworks.h-net.org Call for Participants: SHEAR 2024 Graduate Student Research Workshops (ONLINE)SHEAR is pleased to invite participants for the 9th annual graduate student research workshops, open to all current gradua...

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Don't think David de Boer has landed here yet, so let me just tell you that his amazing book is just out with OUP! And even better news: it's fully Open Access! global.oup.com/academic/produ…

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Ik heb met @rensbod.bsky.social en @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social een opiniestuk voor het NRC geschreven: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/.... Het moet en kan anders op de universiteit.

Opinie | Kan de universiteit weer een universitas worden?www.nrc.nl Bestuur: Het gebrek aan democratie aan de universiteiten bedreigt het wezen van de universiteit als instituut, vinden Rens Bod, Remco Breuker en Ingrid…

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I very much enjoyed talking about my book with @nielseichhorn.bsky.social! Give it a listen!

Today, I chat about the slave trade during the American Civil War with @rkdcolby86.bsky.social as we explore his new book _An Unholy Trade_ by OUP Check out our conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... or open.spotify.com/episode/3a6B...

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I will be in Berlin next month for the conference Enslavement and Art at the Humboldt Forum presenting a chapter from one of my current projects: "Iron: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas." If you are in the area join us, the program is below inherit.hu-berlin.de/events/ensla...

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Last Tuesday, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Portugal “takes full responsibility” for the wrongs of the past, and that the country’s crimes, including colonial massacres, had costs... but he did not provide a full apology.

Portuguese government rejects president’s suggestion of slavery reparationswww.theguardian.com President advocated ‘paying the costs’ of colonial-era crimes but government says focus is on deepening international cooperation

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Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Colonial Environmental History (19th Century Dutch East Indies) under the supervision of Roberta Biasillo at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social! Deadline: 17 May For more information: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #envhist #twitterstorians 🌿

PhD Position: Colonial Environmental History (19th Century Dutch East Indies)www.uu.nl Join our team as a PhD in a project on the role of the environment in Dutch colonial projects in 19th century Indonesia.

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The other thing happening on the first Tuesday in November.

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"Archival silence" is shorthand for impt perspectives on bias & erasure in archival collections, and the implications for historical analysis & narratives. I wrote an brief intro. to the inverse, archival shouting & the outsized attention to some materials. 🗃️ www.historians.org/research-and...

Archival Shouting: Silence and Volume in Collections and Institutionswww.historians.org Some collections of historical sources have been given a microphone, with profound consequences for the practices of history.

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At last, the new issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social has arrived to join its companion issues of @historyofscience.bsky.social and Isis! All of your history of science + labor history questions can finally be answered. Congratulations to co-editors Lissa Roberts and @alixhui.bsky.social.

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If you are in Pittsburgh on April 9, don't miss this amazing closing lecture of our series on "Slavery and Memorialization in the Atlantic World": Prof. Pepijn Brandon, VU, "After Apologies: The Troubled Road Towards Recognition of Slavery in the Dutch Empire". All welcome.

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📣Join us for the online📖launch! Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America (OUP) edited by ao @maartjejanse.bsky.social @jorisoddens.bsky.social @brodiewaddell.bsky.social 📅Thu 23 May - 16:00 - 17:00 UK time 📝Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Out April 2nd 'Gender and Animals in History', published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social with Sandra Swart as a guest-editor, including contributions on suffragettecats, riot dogs, lesbian seagulls and how honeybees have managed to confuse scientists about their sex for several centuries.

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„Vor wenigen Tagen wurde bekannt gegeben, dass sich die Bundesregierung auf den Entwurf einschließlich der 4+2-Formel geeinigt hat. Das ist eine schlechte Nachricht für junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler sowie den Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland.“ So ist es. #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland: Hanna ist bald wegwww.sueddeutsche.de Die Bundesregierung muss die „Postdoc“-Phase an deutschen Unis reformieren. Doch ihre Pläne werden Nachwuchswissenschaftler ins Ausland drängen – oder ganz aus der Wissenschaft hinaus.

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London #earlymodern people (and anyone London adjacent), an in-person event not to be missed!! An evening with Urvashi Chakravarty discussing the exhilarating Fictions of Consent, how it has changed our work and how it might have changed itself two years (and a paperback publication) on... 🗃️

“Fictions of Consent”: An evening with Urvashi Chakravarty — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720www.mmor.co.uk

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Such a fun video! “Kangaroo Time,” a four-minute music video about Weli’s years studying eastern gray kangaroos in Victoria, is as fun as it is informative—one of the reasons why it was named the overall winner of this year’s “Dance Your PhD” competition. 🧪 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

Watch This Year's 'Dance Your PhD' Contest Winner, a Musical Celebration of Kangaroo Behaviorwww.smithsonianmag.com “Kangaroo Time” took home the competition’s overall prize, while interpretive dances on early life adversity, circadian rhythms and streambank erosion were also honored

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On Monday, we welcome Nick Radburn (Lancaster University) for the Prize Papers Talks. Paper: Traders in Men. Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 3pm CET (2pm GMT, 9am EST). #earlymodern #history #prizepapers 🗃️ Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/the-prize-...

The Prize Papers Talkswww.eventbrite.de Online Lecture Series of the Prize Papers Project (Oldenburg/London/Göttingen)

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Could you all help me to share this? A multi-year postdoc at Brown to help coordinate programs for Brown 2026, a multi-year project around the fullest histories of the American revolution and its legacies AND the role of research universities in a democracy. apply.interfolio.com/138409 🗃️

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I am particularly delighted to point out, that my "From Windhoek to Auschwitz?" is open access and can be downloaded for free, here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

"From Windhoek to Auschwitz?" interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the 'racial state' and systems of forced labour as points of departure for comparative observation. 🔓 Read it now in open access: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...