Podcast: Recentering African narratives

#2022DanDavidPrize winner Nana Oforiatta Ayim discusses the significance of recentering historical African narratives within the public sphere on BBC History Extra.

👂listen now: https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/recentering-african-narratives-podcast-nana-oforiatta/

Coca-cola sells 1.9bn servings every day. It's stats like these that made #2022DanDavidPrize winner Bart Elmore consider the link between #BigBusiness & #EnvironmentalHistory.

Know an exceptional environmental historian? Nominate them for the 2024 Prize:

https://dandavidprize.org/nominate/

London, 2 June - 21 July: #2022DanDavidPrize winner Natalia's Romik's exhibition "Hand and Trapdoor" at the Ben Hunter Gallery.

Featuring part of her award-winning exhibition "Hideouts", this work explores spaces used as hiding places by Jews in WW2👇

https://www.benhunter.gallery/natalia-romik/hand-and-trapdoor/

"This is a seminal moment in the history of federal environmental policy. Never before have federal policymakers sought to use financial regulation to address climate change in the manner they are now." writes #2022DanDavidPrize winner Bart Elmore:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/05/31/climate-change-banks/

"These objects are largely sacred ones & their return is about more than just restitution. It is also about reparation and repair..."

#2022DanDavidPrize winner Nana Oforiatta Ayim sits on the Ghanaian Government's Restitution Committee: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65614490

Repatriation is changing but colonial dynamics remain - via Museums Association

#2022DanDavidPrize winners Nana Oforiatta Ayim & Mirjam Brusius speak to the limits of restitution & repatriation in the context of unequal power dynamics: https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2023/05/repatriation-is-changing-but-colonial-dynamics-remain

Congratulations 👏 to #2022DanDavidPrize winner Efthymia Nikita and the team at STARC at the Cyprus Institute for launching AgeEst, an open access web application for skeletal age-at-death estimation employing machine learning:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665910723000129

#archaeology #bioarchaeology

The final historian in our review of the #2022DanDavidPrize Winners is Kimberly Welch. Welch is a legal historian of the antebellum South of the US. She uses often neglected or forgotten archives to recover the stories of Black litigants - both free and enslaved - and the ways they interacted with a legal system that was stacked against them.

#Histodons #BlackHistory #LegalHistory #Slavery #thread

We'll be announcing the 2023 winners of the Dan David Prize in just a few weeks. While we wait, we're taking a look back at the winners of the #2022DanDavidPrize.

And today: Kristina Richardson, a historian of the Medieval Islamic World who looks at groups outside of the elite, such as Romani travelers who pioneered print technologies and took them into Europe. #histodons #medieval #MiddleEast #Thread

Next up in our review of the #2022DanDavidPrize is art historian and curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim, whose work focuses on bringing to the forefront African ways of recounting the past.

#Histodons #ArtHistory #Curators #Africa #thread

Reviewing the winners of the #2022DanDavidPrize, today we look at Efthymia Nikita, a bioarchaeologist who studies patterns of health, disease and - increasingly - migration. #archaeology #bioarchaeology #histodons #thread

#2022DanDavidPrize winner Efthymia Nikita talks with Theo Panayides of Cyprus Mail l about her work as an osteoarchaeologist, precarious academia, and the impact of winning the Prize on her career.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/01/04/archaeologist-strives-to-find-well-rounded-view-of-the-past/

Still revisiting the winners of the #2022DanDavidPrize, this is Verena Krebs, a medievalist who looks at Ethiopian diplomatic missions to Europe. Instead of the traditional narrative of Africans coming to Europe seeking military aid, Krebs tells the story of a strong and wealthy kingdom - Solomonic Ethiopia - that goes to Europe to acquire relics, art and artisans as part of its monarchs' internal state-building efforts. #histodons #medieval #Africa #thread

Looking back again at the winners of the #2022DanDavidPrize , our next winner is Tyrone Mckinley Freeman, historian of philanthropy whose work focuses on African American Philanthropy, using it to suggest new ways of thinking about community giving.

#histodons #BlackHistory #Philanthropy #Thread

Looking back at the #2022DanDavidPrize winners, next up is Bartow Elmore, an environmental historian who looks at how big business effects the global environment, and - in his forthcoming book - how conditions in the US South enabled the formation of huge mega-corporations. #EnvironmentalHistory #histodons #Thread

While we look forward to announcing the 2023 Prize winners soon, we're taking a look back at the #2022DanDavidPrize winners.

First up: Mirjam Brusius, a historian of global colonial material culture who asks how objects ended up in museums and what happens to them once they are there. #histodons #MaterialCulture #thread