Historian | University of Agder | Author | Discovery of the Third World (CUP 2016) | Postcolonial People (CUP 2022) | New project: European Languages in Post-Independence Africa |https://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3mpkzmye6uc2dI've gone over to the dark side: In what is a first for me, I submitted an article to a journal that displays references in the text as 😱 endnotes 😱, clearly the least user-friendly and most annoying way of referencing that has ever been invented. 😬01 Jul 2026 07:47 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpkzmye6uc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3mp3vq2mtlk26🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303877/post-doctoral-research-fellow-in-european-languages-in-post-colonial-africa25 Jun 2026 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp3vq2mtlk26https://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3m4s3ezy7us2d"A Pan-African couple:" @elarabertho.bsky.social's great book on Miriam Makeba (South African singer-activist) and Stokely Carmichael (Trinidadian-US theorist-activist of Black Power) in Guinea both challenges and inspires scholarship on the 'Global Sixties.' https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QCSCMMEQRIYT8XGHUBSG/full?target=10.1080/27708888.2025.258298904 Nov 2025 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4s3ezy7us2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lzh7fnv3tk2kNorway, the King and the Shaman: My take on the annoying debate that has stormed around a somewhat fun Netflix production. https://www.fvn.no/mening/kronikk/i/63x3nz/norge-kongen-og-sjamanen-en-tapt-mulighet22 Sep 2025 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzh7fnv3tk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lvuqhml6i22tHere's how to fix this AI-attack, presumably at least (see screenshot) - although it does not solve the more general problem of handing over your work to a rather dubious for-profit organization whose account I have not had the heart to delete (yet). [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Aug 2025 07:34 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvuqhml6i22thttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lonutk4s7c24"Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution," @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, eds. Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, @pramospinto.bsky.social. An awesome book! Have a chapter in there that writes the "retornados" aka decolonization, Cold War, and refugeeness back into the picture.08 May 2025 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lonutk4s7c24https://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lom3a3iov22dI will be there! Maybe you will, too? [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2025 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lom3a3iov22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lnniy3fdrs2dIt seems like I am officially beginning my humble and cautious transition into the field of African history! Stoked to be invited to this very exciting author's workshop organized by Mary A. Owusu and @martinrempe.bsky.social. Looking forward!25 Apr 2025 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnniy3fdrs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lmh6jqai4s2u🚨Attention Global Sixties scholars:🚨A typical French handwriting in the mail is always a good omen. Here, it announced the arrival of @elarabertho.bsky.social’s exciting new book “A Pan-African Couple: Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Guinea”. Looking forward to reading!10 Apr 2025 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmh6jqai4s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lkv6cvtd7225"Building Nations, Making Worlds, Creating Subjects: European Languages in Postcolonial Africa" is the megalomaniac title for the presentation of my research project at @sdu.dk (host: @christiandp.bsky.social) that is still very much work in progress and a fragile flower. Join us if you are around!21 Mar 2025 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkv6cvtd7225https://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3ljbbzxy53c2lI am stoked to announce the publication of the Portuguese translation of my 2022 book “Postcolonial People” - finally in the language of the people this book is about, and finally at a very affordable price!28 Feb 2025 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljbbzxy53c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3ljad5ni3xs2s🚨Berlin // Kristiansand, Southern Norway // Home Swap!🚨 We (two adults, one kid) want to spend two weeks in Berlin in July 2025 (exact dates flexible). We offer our beautiful home in Kristiansand on the "Norwegian Riviera" in return. Please be in touch if interested & share widely!28 Feb 2025 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljad5ni3xs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3li2nctimp22gHello! If you know a thing or two about Google's Ngram viewer, please help! I was wondering how I can ngram not a single search term (ex.: "modernization"), or a combination of two (ex.: "modernization theory"), but instead a combination of three or more (ex: "us modernization theory")?13 Feb 2025 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2nctimp22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3li2cesu4nc24🚨Global history & language. Amazing workshop coming up!! 🚨 (Unfortunately, I won’t apply myself 😔 - blame Norway’s ‘fellesferie’ in July! 😖) [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2025 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2cesu4nc24https://bsky.app/profile/christophkalter.bsky.social/post/3lganfomeqk23Look what the library found for me! Excited to explore this 1968 publication in sociolinguistics based on a 1966 conference.21 Jan 2025 10:28 +0000at://did:plc:o7llf4pb6yts3ei6pc3jwxgf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lganfomeqk23