
Historian @UniLeipzig, interested in East Africa, tourism and travel, (post)colonialism, global history, Sachsen, PhD-student with @studienstiftung
Leipzig, Germany
Joined October 2013
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Mathias Hack retweeted
Dr. @Charisenns & Brock Bersaglio, in partnership with the BIEA, invite you to the launch of their Book;
💫"Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya"
✨Join us on September 5th, from 2-4PM EAT
😇 Registration is still open; tinyurl.com/Settler-Ecologie…
Mathias Hack retweeted
Did you write an excellent MA or PhD thesis in global history? The call for applications for the Walter-Markov-Prize 2025 is open! The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2025. research.uni-leipzig.de/~eni…
Wiederum ein wichtiger Beitrag von Andrea Böhm die in der @zeitonline auf die aktuellen Proteste der Ngorongoro-Maasai gegen Vertreibung aufmerksam macht. Die Verbindung von conservation und Tourismus geht schon lange auf Kosten der Maasai.
zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024…
Ab heute ist die Webseite Geschichte statt Mythen online und informiert über Geschichtsrevisionismus in Thüringen. @stattMythen
geschichte-statt-mythen.de/
Conference @uonbi on "#MauMau: Transitions and Contours of the Postcolonial State" in #Kenya coming up 16th to 18th October 2024.
Call for papers and participation is now up. Thanks to @DrOmbongi and others in putting this together.
More #tourismhistory: It is an age-old question in travel literature: Are you a tourist or a traveller? Find some answers in the 1983 volume of "Der Trotter", the German Globetrotter magazine. :)
As it is holiday time, I thought to post some bits of my work on tourism in Kenya: In the early 1980s German speaking tourists grew in such large numbers the Kenyan newspaper Coastweek always featured at least one page in German - and sometimes even a whole special issue. [1/4]
The touristification of the coast came with opportunities and challenges for the local population. Coastweek frequently reported about racist hotel policies which barred single black women to enter hotels - as they were considered prostitutes. [3/4]
@Tum001Ke is currently digitising the Coastweek newspaper. Large parts can already be accessed here - coastweek.tum.ac.ke/
Mathias Hack retweeted
The portal “Collections from Colonial Contexts” is online now! It offers centralised access to currently more than 100,000 items of 26 institutions.
Press release: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek…
Communiqué de presse: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek…
Unser Portal "Sammlungsgut aus kolonialen Kontexten" ist ab sofort als Vollversion online, mit zunächst 110.000 Einträgen von 26 Partnerinstitutionen - es schafft Transparenz & ermöglicht den Dialog mit den Herkunftsländern. Zur Pressemitteilung: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek…
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Kenyan Police forces have killed protesters of #REJECTFINANCEBİLL2024 near the parliament. This must end now. @GermanyinKenya and @Diplo_Jazz I hope you are adressing Kenyan officials to stop the violence.
Mathias Hack retweeted
Concerns are mounting in Kenya as reports emerge of protesters going missing amid nationwide demonstrations against proposed tax increases. cnn.it/45FLHXH
Mathias Hack retweeted
BREAKING: At least 12 prominent social media users have been "abducted in the middle of the night" ahead of protests in Kenya against over-taxation, Amnesty International tells CNN.
We are starting our 2nd day of the summer school @dhiparis about mobility in thr history of Africa. Program and zoom links here - dhi-paris.fr/veranstaltungsd…
I am sharing a few impressions about the field of German Colonial History which I got from our international conference @dhiparis "Writing German Colonial History Today: Renewed Issues and Perspectives" last week. [1/7]
If you can't wait for the conference reports: Robert Heinze has live-skeeted most of the presentations on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/rheinze.bsk… [6/7]
And finally many thanks to organisation, contribution and support fro @Edictben1 @Delfmt @tobias_wagemann @sabine_hanke_ @karnold01 @TomasBarto12 @kilderbenhauser @dfhufa @gipciera @CRULH3945 @IHMCUMR8066 and the collège doctoral franco-allemand @psl_univ & @UniLeipzig ++
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