Sandra Ricker
@SandraRicker5
History at @SAISHopkins
📘New issue out now! Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@StAndrewsHist) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univienna) 👉Read open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🗃️ 20thc
Kraftwerk at Düsseldorf HBF, 1977 Photo: Fröhling
'Beauty and grief are next-door neighbors, or maybe grief is beauty in a dark mirror… To see beauty is to glimpse something deeper; to grieve is to glimpse a loss whose consequences we will not unpack for years, and maybe never.'
The geometry of grief – a mathematician on how fractals help us fathom and move through loss themarginalian.org/2021/11/10/geo…
Walter Benjamin on the searching, discontinuous nature of memory. From Jeremy Eichler's Time's Echo (2023)
Totes Meer (Dead Sea), 1940-1, by English artist Paul Nash, who died #onthisday in 1946. See more of his art depicting both the First and Second World War here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/the… #OTD
Fascinating account from French authorities about a meeting in Berlin in October 1917 of Germans, Irish and Muslims from various countries to hear from an Algerian Emir about the struggles of Moroccans against French colonial expansion and Algeria's oppression by the French.
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. --Fanny Howe, RIP
Carlo Schmid’s early belief in an autonomous, apolitical international law collided with the harsh realities of the Nazi rise to power. This forced Schmid to rethink the boundaries between law, history, and politics. My Schmid piece now in English at mpil100.de/2025/04/zeiten…
'German Small Town by Night,' is one in a series of caricatures Georg Scholz made between 1919 and 1923 in which he mocked the bourgeois ideal of the small German town and the pleasures and orderliness of life to be found there.
Viktoria's story is a stark reminder that for Ukrainians, Russian occupation is not peace. It's repression, torture, illegal arrests and extrajudicial killings. Russia's land grab must not be legitimized and justified theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…
It's Armenian Genocide remembrance day. This is a photo of an orphan survivor of the family of fifteen. Library of Congress collection.
„Wer sich einen Überblick verschaffen will über den rechten bis rechtsextremen Geschichtsrevisionismus, der findet in diesem Tagungsband umfassendes Material.“ Sehr positive Rezension der @sz über unseren neuen Band „Rechter #Geschichtsrevisionismus“. sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/dacha…
Granta mourns Mario Vargas Llosa. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on all of his writing for the magazine, from his fiction to his account of running for the presidency of Peru.
This photo of Leo Weissman’s family during Passover in Germany in 1937 was one of his “greatest treasures.” Passover, a Jewish holiday that marks the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt, begins tonight. Leo survived five camps and prisons during the Holocaust.
New MIH Issue: How does Durkheim’s thought relate to colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial theory? George Steinmetz examines the ways Durkheim’s thinking pushed beyond existing French understandings of empire and criticisms of colonialism bit.ly/3PSFH6W
Mit 40 Außenlagern erstreckte sich das KZ #MittelbauDora über den gesamten Harz. Ausgerechnet dort fordert nun - am 80. Jahrestag der Lagerbefreiung - der erste Kreisverband der #CDU ein Zugehen auf die rechtsextreme #AfD. „Nie wieder“? mdr.de/nachrichten/sa…
Das ist der vorläufige Höhepunkt eines kollektiven Versagens: Politisch, medial, bildungspolitisch aber auch zivilgesellschaftlich. Das hier wird die größte Aufgabe für die neue Regierung aber eben auch für jeden einzelnen Demokraten. „Die Politiker“ werden das nicht wegzaubern.
The British historian Charles Webster (1866-1961), involved in drafting the UN Charter, on sacrificing the sovereignty of 'small' states on the altar of peace between Great Powers
Bird of paradise by Conrad Gessner (ca. 1551). Because they'd seen only their skins, with wings + legs removed, C16th European naturalists thought them angelic beings, unable to land, effortlessly suspended by their haloes of plumes: buff.ly/2JiLSxy