Ned Richardson-Little

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Historian of crime, international law, and human rights in Germany. Freigeist Fellow at Uni Erfurt. he/him. #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal #histodons
Ned Richardson-LittleMay 23, 2023
In case you have been following any of the big debates about GDR history on social media, you may be interested in reading this roundtable discussion about the state of academic research from the perspective of several researchers in Germany and abroad. (including myself) https://academic.oup.com/gh/article-abstract/41/2/279/7081468?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
What’s Next? Historical Research on the GDR Three Decades after German Unification

Abstract. The once-heated controversies about the history of the East German state and its legacy in the post-unification years have finally come to an end, som

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Ned Richardson-LittleMay 5, 2023
RT @till_hilmar
How do people make sense of disruptive economic change? Deserved examines the memories of the post-1989 period in (East) Germany and Czechia to answer this question @ColumbiaUP
Ned Richardson-LittleMay 5, 2023
RT @chrkalter
@HistoryNed I know the feeling! https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2022/06/the-history-of-others-or-the-historian-as-a-privileged-outsider/
The history of others, or: The historian as a privileged outsider | FifteenEightyFour | Cambridge University Press

In recent years, the combined influence of global history and decolonial movements has reinforced the demand that historians must reflect upon their positionality, including, of course, their relationship with the histories of those they study.

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Show threadNed Richardson-LittleMay 5, 2023
This has cut both ways since: being a foreign academic in Germany can mean I get marked as an outsider who is arrogantly imposing trendy anglo perspectives, but it can also mean I'm so illegible that I get treated like a pure academic with no recognizable biases.
Ned Richardson-LittleMay 5, 2023
Am recently reminded of my first talk given in German on GDR history at the FU and one of the post-docs said it was a nice relief that since I was a Canadian we didn't have to litigate my family history for the first half of the Q&A.
Ned Richardson-LittleMay 5, 2023
RT @obyrska
#twitterstorians if you are in Vienna on the 1-2/06, come over for the @ceu conference "Remaking the World in the Shadow of the Cold War"! I'll be presenting in the morning of the 1st day, but the entire program is amazing. #AcademicChatter
Ned Richardson-LittleMay 4, 2023
RT @GermanHistReGr
📝We are very happy to share our term card for our workshop series on #Gender in #German History! Join us in #Cambridge or on Zoom for an exciting series of talks in May and June. @DAADCamHub
Ned Richardson-LittleMay 4, 2023
RT @ichgruessesie
Heute diskutieren wir live im @Tagesspiegel über Meinungsfreiheit in der #DDR und heute: Was darf, sollte, will man nicht mehr sagen? Darüber rede ich ab 19 Uhr mit Bürgerrechtlerin Marianne Birthler und Sänger André Herzberg. Einen Livestream gibt's hier:
https://youtube.com/live/UrGXu7zkzNI
Livestream von DerTagesspiegel

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Ned Richardson-LittleMay 4, 2023
Stephan GlienkeMay 4, 2023
4.5.1938: Friedensnobelpreisträger Carl von #Ossietzky verstirbt an den Folgen der Misshandlungen durch die SS im #Konzentrationslager #Esterwegen.
#OTD #OnThisDay #Kalenderblatt #gedenken #Erinnerung
Ned Richardson-LittleMay 4, 2023
RT @GioB1974
Call for expression of interest (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship):
"History of Internationalism and of Antifascism in transnational perspective".
DM for information. RT is welcome.
#msca
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/marie-sklodowska-curie-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme-call-expression-interest-0
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme Call for the Expression of Interest: History of Internationalism and of Antifascisms in transnational perspective

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