#empires — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #empires, aggregated by home.social.
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📝 New blog post:
Finding the perfect PhD topic – or how it finds youJulia Flattich reflects on the early stages of doctoral research: how an initially well-defined proposal develops through reading, discussion and new questions. Her post explores the challenges of balancing curiosity, academic relevance and feasibility—and why uncertainty can be an important part of the research process.
🔗 Read more: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/finding-the-perfect-phd-topic-or-how-it-finds-you/
#PhDlife #doctoralresearch #humanities #literarystudies #academia #academicmastodon #empires
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📝 New blog post:
Finding the perfect PhD topic – or how it finds youJulia Flattich reflects on the early stages of doctoral research: how an initially well-defined proposal develops through reading, discussion and new questions. Her post explores the challenges of balancing curiosity, academic relevance and feasibility—and why uncertainty can be an important part of the research process.
🔗 Read more: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/finding-the-perfect-phd-topic-or-how-it-finds-you/
#PhDlife #doctoralresearch #humanities #literarystudies #academia #academicmastodon #empires
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Every empire believed it would last forever. None did. What lesson should today's nations learn from history?
#History #Empires #WorldHistory -
Every empire believed it would last forever. None did. What lesson should today's nations learn from history?
#History #Empires #WorldHistory -
“The #apocalyptic impulse is as old as #sciencefiction itself, but the advent of #nuclearweapons gave it fresh urgency and immediacy. #Empires rise and fall like ocean waves in #postwar science fiction … “ #books #BookSky #RobertCharlesWilson open.substack.com/pub/robertch...
Against Nostalgia: Reading Lib... -
“The #apocalyptic impulse is as old as #sciencefiction itself, but the advent of #nuclearweapons gave it fresh urgency and immediacy. #Empires rise and fall like ocean waves in #postwar science fiction … “ #books #BookSky #RobertCharlesWilson open.substack.com/pub/robertch...
Against Nostalgia: Reading Lib... -
Geopolitic history and current insanity.
Sarah Paine - Why Russia and China can't escape geography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1NZLgKM2cOne hour well worth your time.
#Geoplitics
#US #China #Russia #UK
#Empires #History #Politics
#Trade vs #Conquests
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Geopolitic history and current insanity.
Sarah Paine - Why Russia and China can't escape geography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1NZLgKM2cOne hour well worth your time.
#Geoplitics
#US #China #Russia #UK
#Empires #History #Politics
#Trade vs #Conquests
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Oil Prices Are About To Get F@$#%@ing Insane #StraitOfHormuz #oil #CostOfLiving #inflation #Trumponomics #GOPLiesAboutEverything #shortages #SupplyChains #shipping #empires #Iran #IsraelFirst youtube.com/watch?v=ZIeT...
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Oil Prices Are About To Get F@$#%@ing Insane #StraitOfHormuz #oil #CostOfLiving #inflation #Trumponomics #GOPLiesAboutEverything #shortages #SupplyChains #shipping #empires #Iran #IsraelFirst youtube.com/watch?v=ZIeT...
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🎓 We are hiring!
The Research Training Group 2571 “Empires: Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders” invites applications for 4 three-year (65%) postgraduate positions (f/m/d). Start: 1 November 2026, ID no. 00005001.
⏰ Application deadline: 21 June 2026.
Please apply exclusively via the university portal: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005001/ (email submissions not accepted).
We offer a structured doctoral programme, international networking, and a supportive environment across multiple disciplines (History, Sociology, Political Science, Islamic Studies, and more). We strongly encourage international applicants.
@unifreiburg @dfg_public @empires @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @fs_islamwissenschaft @sociology @politicalscience
#academicjobs #stellenanzeige #academicmastodon #phd #histodons #empires #history #academia #phdpositions #politicalscience #decolonial #callforapplications
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🎓 We are hiring!
The Research Training Group 2571 “Empires: Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders” invites applications for 4 three-year (65%) postgraduate positions (f/m/d). Start: 1 November 2026, ID no. 00005001.
⏰ Application deadline: 21 June 2026.
Please apply exclusively via the university portal: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005001/ (email submissions not accepted).
We offer a structured doctoral programme, international networking, and a supportive environment across multiple disciplines (History, Sociology, Political Science, Islamic Studies, and more). We strongly encourage international applicants.
@unifreiburg @dfg_public @empires @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @fs_islamwissenschaft @sociology @politicalscience
#academicjobs #stellenanzeige #academicmastodon #phd #histodons #empires #history #academia #phdpositions #politicalscience #decolonial #callforapplications
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« Émission avec #GuillaumeBlanc, historien français spécialiste de l'#histoireDeLEnvironnement et de l'#Afrique au XXe siècle pour sa #bandeDessinée sur le #colonialismeVert #LesSacrifiésDuParadis parue chez Delcourt et #Empires, une histoire sociale de l’#environnement publié aux éditions du CNRS. »
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/c-est-pas-du-vent/20260514-guillaume-blanc-le-colonialisme-vert-fa%C3%A7onne-toujours-nos-imginaires
#colonialisme #conservationnisme #eurocentrisme #néocolonialisme #JusticeEnvironnementale #RacismeEnvironnemental #violencesColoniales #BD #livres @bookstodon -
« Émission avec #GuillaumeBlanc, historien français spécialiste de l'#histoireDeLEnvironnement et de l'#Afrique au XXe siècle pour sa #bandeDessinée sur le #colonialismeVert #LesSacrifiésDuParadis parue chez Delcourt et #Empires, une histoire sociale de l’#environnement publié aux éditions du CNRS. »
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/c-est-pas-du-vent/20260514-guillaume-blanc-le-colonialisme-vert-fa%C3%A7onne-toujours-nos-imginaires
#colonialisme #conservationnisme #eurocentrisme #néocolonialisme #JusticeEnvironnementale #RacismeEnvironnemental #violencesColoniales #BD #livres @bookstodon -
A brief history lesson that sort of works from the middle out with about the kind of sideways conclusion you’d expect. https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/global-power #globalpower #worldhistory #empires #France #England
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The fall of the Harmonica Empire
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President Cal Bradford to Sinatra ( the Musk like character Samantha Redmond in Paradise show-) —-so true 👇
After she told him their redundancies had redundancies for the bunker:
“This gig has me learning a little history. One thing Ive learned. Empires don’t fall on lack of preparation. Nope- they fall high on their horses…and loaded with redundancies.”
How true Cal- how true!!
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Was wondering about the duration of empires as USA appears to be sunsetting.
Knew that the western part of the Roman Empire had collapsed after about 5 centuries, but hadn't realised that the eastern part had lingered for another thousand years.
Didn't know about the long-lived Kanem–Bornu Empire (c. 700 - 1893) or the Kingdom of Kush (780 BC - 1130).
Perhaps USA, too, will be forgotten in the mists of time🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empires
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Was wondering about the duration of empires as USA appears to be sunsetting.
Knew that the western part of the Roman Empire had collapsed after about 5 centuries, but hadn't realised that the eastern part had lingered for another thousand years.
Didn't know about the long-lived Kanem–Bornu Empire (c. 700 - 1893) or the Kingdom of Kush (780 BC - 1130).
Perhaps USA, too, will be forgotten in the mists of time🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empires
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Sédentarité → États → Empires : compétition comme matrice étatique
Sédentarité = concentration → opportunité centralisation techno-bureaucratique (État). Compétition cités → États ; États → empires. Dynamique systémique depuis Mésopotamie : États naissent de rivalités internes/externes. #Sédentarité #État #Compétition #Empires 1. Sédentarité : opportunité centralisation Concentration démographique : Nomades : dispersion naturelle Villages : tensions locales Villes :…
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In this #HotTake I explore a new #idea of #world #citizenship for everyone.
No #passport needed, just have one #border - #life itself.
Have a couple world laws any #region enforces about ones well being, but don't #weaponize things on that level. Leave the rest up to individual #cities to cultivate.
This is about #respect, #culture #conservation and #human #dignity. Throughout #locations where only common ground makes decisions, rather than #laws or #empires instead.
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In this #HotTake I explore a new #idea of #world #citizenship for everyone.
No #passport needed, just have one #border - #life itself.
Have a couple world laws any #region enforces about ones well being, but don't #weaponize things on that level. Leave the rest up to individual #cities to cultivate.
This is about #respect, #culture #conservation and #human #dignity. Throughout #locations where only common ground makes decisions, rather than #laws or #empires instead.
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Every #world has its uncle sam,
the most backward of all #nations.
#Empires erected on plunder and ruin,
are the picture of #degeneration.Abhijit Naskar, World War #Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
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#Nazis are the most #dehumanized #community in #history, while #empires with hundred times the atrocity walk like they invented #morality.
Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock
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Conquerors by Roger Crowley, 2015
How Portugal Forged First Global Empire
The epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match.
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Mapping Medieval Africa - The Great Kingdoms of the West
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https://ubiqueags.org/the-ags-globe-mapping-medieval-africa-the-great-kingdoms-of-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-west-africa-history-facts/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Nehemia-Levtzion/dp/1558763058# <-- shared link to book
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H/T #AmericanGeographicalSociety
“Medieval West Africa was dominated by three great empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai - that grew immensely powerful from the trans-Saharan trade routes, especially for gold and salt, fostering vibrant Islamic cultures, wealthy cities like Timbuktu, and powerful centralized governments before smaller states emerged. These empires were centers of learning, art, and distinct governance, with oral traditions preserving much of their history…”
#mapping #historicmaps #Africa #WestAfrica #Medieval #cartography #empires #kingdom #Ghana #Mali #Songhai #trading #traderoutes #Sahara #gold #salt #Timbuktu #history
@AmericanGeographicalSociety
