Prof. Catriona Pennell
@teachlearnwar
Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Director of Research/Impact (HaSS Cornwall), Uni of Exeter. PI/Co-I on various AHRC, BA, GCRF & Leverhulme projects.
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I’m in the process of moving over to sunnier horizons @bluesky (it’ll take me a while, I’m a Luddite). I’ve been uncomfortable with this space for a some time; its relationship with a certain president-elect has confirmed my position. You can find me @teachlearnwar.bsky.social
How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)
Catriona and Tommy reflect upon the way in which notions of race underpinned western thought during these conflicts, instances of colonial resistance, memorialisation, and how colonial participation has been taught in British schools. Listen here: buff.ly/4e1XYbF
In the final episode of this series of Talking History, Dr. Tommy Dolan is joined by @teachlearnwar to discuss the necessity, and challenges, of recovering colonial experiences of the wars. Their conversation focuses on the First and Second World Wars.
Bookings are now open for this year's Armistice guest lecture! On 14th November, Professor Heather Jones' talk will focus on 'The Forgotten Front? The civilian experience of war in the Mediterranean in the First World War'. @WW1POWs @UniRdg_Research @UniRdg_Lang
The exile of Mosab Abu Toha: how a Gazan poet was forced to flee his home theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…
Dreaming of a pint and a ‘girl’ back home: first world war soldier’s poignant sketches of life in the trenches theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…
Was a lot of fun to spend time with @OWALPodcast folk alongside my longstanding comrade @ein_haus to reflect on our work over the past decade. Thanks for having us! @HaSSCornwall
How do you teach the #FWW? We’re joined by @ein_haus & @teachlearnwar to reflect on their ‘First World War in the Classroom’ project. We discuss battlefield tours, time constraints faced by teachers, & whether the centenary changed how the war is taught ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/teachi…
Push for black and Asian soldiers’ input in world wars to be taught in UK schools theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…
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Push for black and Asian soldiers’ input in world wars to be taught in UK schools
Exclusive: Awareness of contribution of black and Asian soldiers could help tackle racism, say leading minority ethnic voices
@DavidOlusoga: 'I think [the job of historians] is to try to stand there at this arsenal of dangerous ideas and to make it more difficult for people to raid that arsenal to use it for their political projects. It is to complicate the picture; it is to show that these simple…
Very pleased to see one of our excellent ECRs @jin_alison @HaSSCornwall smashing it with their journal publications!
My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/#OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇 doi.org/10.1080/030661…
The staff and students of our interdisciplinary department @HaSSCornwall had the absolute pleasure of hosting Prof. Susan Grayzel today for our Departmental Research Seminar series. She spoke on chemical warfare and international law in the interwar period. Standing room only!
A Co Roscommon man has marked his 90th birthday by completing a 165km fundraising walk along the National Famine Way. Jim Callery set out from Strokestown Park on 25 September and arrived in Dublin today. He has raised more than €50,000 for charities working with immigrants.
INDEPENDENT: 365 days of horror since October 7 #TomorrowsPapersToday
Britain to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius ending years of dispute theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
Last week EdJAM were in Lahore, Pakistan. EdJAM Pakistan Writing Retreat was hosted by Lahore University of Managment Sciences (LUMs) and EdJAM Co-I's @taniasaeed and @sameen_mohsin. More updates to follow over the next couple of weeks. @SOEBristol @Molesk @Duongkeo55
Look who I’ve managed to persuade to come visit us here @UniExeCornwall! We’re so lucky 🥳
STUDENTS - Please join us on Wednesday 16th October for guest speaker Professor Susan Grayzel who will be delivering a talk on 'Controlling the Wars of the” Air and the Laboratory:” One Hundred Years of Efforts to Curtail Chemical Weapons in International Law and Culture'.
So, so proud to have received this award! this prize will kickstart a project very dear to my heart: some silences are harder to break than others and my thesis did not engage with the poetry of colonial soldiers. Thanks to the @asmcf, I can now remedy that!
ASMCF Early Career Award competition 2024 Winner: Dr Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz (@juliarsct @ILCS_SAS ) To support a research trip for a project entitled ‘Poetry of French colonial soldiers of the First World War: discovering and reading a doubly marginalised corpus’.
The online launch for @AMFoster_'s wonderful new book will be hosted by @FWWsoc on Wednesday this week! There's still plenty of time (and plenty of tickets) left available at our eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…
The Society will be holding its first online book launch event on Wed 25th September. Join us to celebrate @AMFoster_'s wonderful new book 'Family Mourning After War & Disaster in 20th-Century Britain'. You can register to attend at the following link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…
Public inquiries should be shorter and recommendations tracked, Lords says theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
Here’s a video from the first showing of the US National Memorial to World War One by @SabinHoward before it left the Pangolin Foundry in Stroud, UK, and was shipped to D.C. It was a real privilege to see it there. I’m looking forward to seeing it today in its permanent home.
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