Historian based in Germany | history of empires | memories of empires | critical mission history | colonial education | histories of collections | fishfingers | u. a.https://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3mplfs3sxqc2bPleased to announce that I began work today at the FernUniversität Hagen with Prof. Jürgen Nagel (Lehrgebiet Geschichte Europas in der Welt), filling Dr. Fabian Fechner's position whilst he is on leave. https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/geschichte/lg3/team/felicity.jensz..shtml01 Jul 2026 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplfs3sxqc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3mj2kh77wls23My newest publication with Philipp Erdmann in 75/2025-2026 If Westfälische Forschungen. Our contribution is entitled "Wer schreibt Postkoloniale Stadtgeschichte? Eine Zwischenbilanz aus Münster.09 Apr 2026 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2kh77wls23https://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3mgf5umdzds2ihttps://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/zaa/74/1/html Thank you to Kai Wiegandt and Lukas Lammers for including me in this open access issue on Abdulrazak Gurnah and for providing me the opportunity to share the stage with the amazing Maaza Mengiste, she's such an inspiration and phenomenal storyteller.06 Mar 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgf5umdzds2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3mfyoekj5as24I guess I won't get to see the last day open to the public....was wonderful (and the catalogue is also worth purchasing).01 Mar 2026 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfyoekj5as24https://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3mfyo76vsls24Last visit for me to our#DFG GloBil Project exhibition01 Mar 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfyo76vsls24https://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3m7pbuhgxgc22Geschichte wird nie alt. Vielleicht sucht ihr noch ein interessantes Weihnachtsgeschenk? Das Buch ist sehr zu empfehlen! Sieh unten! 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Dec 2025 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pbuhgxgc22https://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3m7nx2l342s2tI love stumbling on things during archival work. Maybe this is common knowledge, but I didn't know that after the 1896 Colonial Exhibition in Berlin some 20 people brought to Germany to be 'displayed' remained. These people were overwhelming men from the German colonies. Has anyone written on this?10 Dec 2025 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7nx2l342s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3m46ews2hwc2phttps://globalbible.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/10/16/global-bible-exhibition/ What an amazing exhibition opening and conference. Read all about our #DFG funded, internationally connected and inspiring work here.27 Oct 2025 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m46ews2hwc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3m24sxii3kc23Our #DFG GloBil project exhibition on the legacies of Bible translations in the Arctic, West Africa and Oceania is opening next week. Come along to the @bibelmuseum in Münster from 10. October 202501 Oct 2025 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m24sxii3kc23https://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lz3sd5ijdk2aIch bin begeistert vom Veranstaltungsort und natürlich vom Inhalt hier am #historikertag202518 Sep 2025 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz3sd5ijdk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lyzd2cew7c2j#historikertag2025 Reflexion on influences that shape history writing with Dipesh Chakrabarty17 Sep 2025 07:33 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzd2cew7c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lyzcugutbk2j#historikertag2025 Great start to the conference.17 Sep 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzcugutbk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lype6osvok2wHad a few inspirational days in Växjö at ENIUGH.13 Sep 2025 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lype6osvok2whttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lu36pqhdi22iSome summer listening...16 Jul 2025 10:15 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu36pqhdi22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lskpf6cc2s2mLast day of the conference. It's been a inspiring few days. Thanks to @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social and GHI Washington27 Jun 2025 03:33 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lskpf6cc2s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lrxlp6fnhc2cHot off the press : My latest article in @jich.bsky.social open access. Read, discuss, share. Thanks to all the scholars who helped shape this work. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2025.2508271#abstract19 Jun 2025 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxlp6fnhc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3loasdelugk2sMy new article is now out on various experiences of internment during WWI in German East Africa. Thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser for putting the (forthcoming) issue together https://academic.oup.com/gh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerhis/ghaf017/8123984?redirectedFrom=fulltext03 May 2025 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3loasdelugk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3ljp4tb2mxs2vmuse.jhu.edu/article/950281 New article out by me and my wonderful colleague Marleen Reichgelt on children, photography and transimperialism https://muse.jhu.edu/article/95028106 Mar 2025 08:57 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljp4tb2mxs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lhgxcsvboc2zhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0046760X.2023.2223559 Just reminding you all that this article I co-wrote with the fabulous Daniel Gerster on methodology in researching boarding is open access.... Enjoy05 Feb 2025 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhgxcsvboc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lhdsfqcwtk25Delighted to share here that I am a Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor for the month of February at the University of Bristol working with my wonderful colleague Prof Hillary Carey. My time here is already been very inspiring and productive. Very grateful for the opportunity.04 Feb 2025 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhdsfqcwtk25https://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lgbbhhfvfs2yMy DFG Globil project has case studies of the historical processes of bible translations in three areas including West Africa, Australia and Oceania and the Arctic.... And now I see in the city library in Münster this catégorisation exists too21 Jan 2025 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbbhhfvfs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lfrgg6yqd22fRelevant in the current situation. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-63998-315 Jan 2025 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfrgg6yqd22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lfcktzysdc2hThis piece I wrote years ago is relevant again... https://theconversation.com/greenland-isnt-denmarks-to-sell-some-essential-reading-for-trump-on-colonialism-12219309 Jan 2025 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfcktzysdc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lfckltgn6s2hBack from my winter break and look what I found in my postbox. Thanks to Franziska Metzger and the team at SZRK for putting together this special issue on Religion and Post Colonial memory!09 Jan 2025 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfckltgn6s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3lfac6zaw322iSeen in the window of Rosta book shop. Our edited volume about Colonial traces in Münster and Münster land. Published by @transcript-verlag.bsky.social08 Jan 2025 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfac6zaw322ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3ld76oujlls2zhttps://globalbible.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/12/13/peni-lelei-and-bible-translations-at-the-german-colonial-exhibition-of-1896/ New post from our GloBil DFG/AHRC funded project.13 Dec 2024 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld76oujlls2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fjensz.bsky.social/post/3ld3tdp4jgk2qhttps://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=14461 Our GloBil project, funded by the DFG, is featured in the December issue of the Münster University newspaper. You can read it here.12 Dec 2024 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:mlhcyyrldijl3rd4yubjevnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld3tdp4jgk2q