It’s #WomensDay2025 and #WomensHistoryMonth. In the last years, we introduced you to female and non-male #emdiplomats or to #emdiplomacy research by female* historians.
This year, we feel the need to #standUpForScience and #democracy. Both are under thread – most visibly in the US, but also in Europe, the recent elections in Austria and Germany clearly demonstrate this.
We as historians and academics are profoundly aware of the dangers fascisms represents for democracy and human rights as well as academic freedom. (1/5)

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Therefore, it is our duty as historians and academics to stand up for democracy, human rights and academic freedom. We cannot be silent and excuse ourselves by saying our research topics are purely historical, because we can only do our job properly in a democratic society that values academic freedom. (3/5)

#standUpForScience #standup4science #NieWiederIstJetzt #DemokratieBewahren #AcademicFreedom

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As handbook editors and authors of this account it was and is always important to us to show #emdiplomacy in its diversity. This means different forms of #emdiplomacy in different European countries as well as different diplomatic actors. Therefore, we introduce you to black #emdiplomats last month.
Moreover, for us this also means giving researchers from different countries a voice: either by introducing you to their work or during the editing process by including them in the #handbook. For us this is fundamental and connected, because only by listening to different (academic and historical) voices we can understand the complexity of (historical and current) societies. But again, we can only do this, when we have academic freedom. (4/5)

#standUpForScience #standup4science #AcademicFreedom #democracy #LifeOfTheEditors

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So, today we celebrate #WomensDay2025 by standing up for science, democracy and women’s and all human rights! We voice our solidarity with all academics under thread, with all women who are in danger and all human beings who defend democracy. (5/5)

#StandUpForScience #NieWiederIstJetzt #WomensDay2025 #WomensDay #DemokratieBewahren