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Esther Peeren

@estherpeeren.bsky.social

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Professor of Cultural Analysis - University of Amsterdam. Intellectual home: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Intellectual hero: Mikhail Bakhtin. Musical hero: Meatloaf. Favorite animal: 🦛

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · 15h

Call for Papers - Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility Amsterdam, 23-24 April 2026. Join us! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) CfP Cultures of InVisibility and InAudibility Conference (Amsterdam, 23-24 April 2026)

PDF | Call for Papers for conference on "Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility", 23-24 April 2026, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, deadline... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · 12d

Can you send that to me? I read German even if most of my students don’t!

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · 13d

Good to know! I’m teaching Enter Ghost this block.

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 20d

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
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Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie

De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26d

Student evals have long been repeatedly shown to be racist and sexist. They expect women profs to be “mommy,” they find Black and Latino men “intimidating” www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Sexism, racism, prejudice, and bias: a literature review and synthesis of research surrounding student evaluations of courses and teaching

This paper analyses the current research regarding student evaluations of courses and teaching. The article argues that student evaluations are influenced by racist, sexist and homophobic prejudice...

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · 28d

here is the job ad in English: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · Aug 27

"“If we stop producing people who are trained or educated to help undergraduates understand the most important things thought or written or painted in human history,” the renowned philosopher Robert Pippin said, “we might not be able to recover that.”"

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 17

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok Times may be tough on the high street but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and as online competition eases. “People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books,” says James Daunt, the CEO of the British retailer, which has 320 UK bookshops and owns the Foyles, Hatchards and Blackwell’s names, and whose parent group also owns Barnes & Noble, the US’s largest bookstore chain. Continue reading...

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · Aug 7

“keeping the humans in humanities” 💯

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Gen Z is not giving up on the arts or the pleasures of reading and thinking for themselves."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.

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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · Aug 3

Anders dan de BBB beweert is noaberschap (burenhulp) geen typisch regionale deugd. Ook andere politieke actoren maken goede sier met de term, veelal om impopulaire maatregelen met de mantel der liefde te bedekken (‘participatiemaatschappij’). 👉 buff.ly/fuqPT86

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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · Jul 14

When we talk about "real life" in rural areas, what does the word "real" actually mean? Check out our chapter in this great new volume edited by @estherpeeren.bsky.social and Tjalling Valdés Olmos! brill.com/display/titl... @soc-muni.bsky.social

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Femke Kramer @femkekramer.bsky.social · Jul 10

Big Agro harkt het leeuwendeel van de landbouwsubsidies binnen en saboteert de ontwikkeling van gezonde, eerlijke en natuurinclusieve landbouw. Agro-watcher Nina Holland roept op tot gezamenlijke tegenmacht van wetenschappers, boeren en burgers.👇 www.duurzaamnieuws.nl/hoe-de-agro-...

Hoe de agro-lobby gezonde landbouw de grond in boort

Wie achter de misleidende frames over landbouw schuilgaat? Volgens lobby-onderzoeker Nina Holland is dat geen mysterie: het zijn grote agrobedrijven en hun lobbyorganisaties die met miljoenenbudgetten...

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · Jul 10

New edited volume on rural imagi nations - out now, fully open access (thanks to the ERC)!

Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World

"Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World" published on 09 Jul 2025 by Brill.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jun 24

On the upside, this doesn’t even come close to the top-10 most embarrassing things Mark Rutte has done in his career.

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · May 24

“As you read, a line might hit you. You feel struck. You pause. Here’s where close reading happens. Hold up. Linger with that line. Read it again, a few more times. What gives it its force here in its immediate moment? Work out its power. Does it reveal something about the text’s project?”

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

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Brendan Hodges @brendanhodges.bsky.social · May 12

I talked to Jia Zhangke about CAUGHT BY THE TIDES for
@nextbestpicture.bsky.social, talking his grand, abstracted mosaic of this century's constant change. One of my favorite conversations I've done with a filmmaker in ages, proud of this one!

Read here:

nextbestpicture.com/the-next-bes...

The Next Best Picture Podcast - Interview With "Caught By The Tides" Filmmaker Jia Zhangke - Next Best Picture

Over the past several decades, Jia Zhangke has become the foremost filmmaker to capture not only the rapid development of China through the 21st century but also how that explosive expansion has shape...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · May 12

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Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

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Framer Framed @framerframed.nl · May 9

#jobvacancy Kunstinstituut Melly is Looking for a Curator of Collective Learning.
Bring your expertise in (un)learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and dialogue to shape innovative public programs that engage diverse audiences

www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/pages/836...

Job Vacancy Curator of Collective Learning 7e editie - Kunstinstituut Melly

www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · May 9

It is time
to remember the ones
who never abandoned
the way to care
for the dead the ones
who said not only my dead
and not only the official dead
matter amidst all the matter.

‘The Historians’, a poem by Maureen N. McLane: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Maureen N. McLane · Poem: ‘The Historians’

www.lrb.co.uk

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · May 8

As a Chicago Pope, he’ll be weighed down by footnotes.

Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · May 8

Waited all day for a delivery supposed to come between 8:00 and 18:00 and of course it came at 18:45…

Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · May 8

I first read the title in cursive as Habermas gender - that would have been an antirely different (but much less special) issue.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · Apr 27

My all-time favorite Christmas film Jingle All the Way!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Apr 25

"But when researchers from Stanford studying young people’s media literacy — the ability to accurately evaluate information in the wilds of mass media — showed the video to 3,446 high school students, only three succeeded in identifying the Russian connection"

How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation

The almighty algorithm is fueling conspiracy theories among young people and ruining their ability to tell fact from fiction on the internet.

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GroenLinks-PvdA @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social · Apr 19

Wij zeggen: Er is wél een rode lijn. Onze advertentie, vandaag in het AD, Trouw en de Volkskrant.

Deel dit statement en help ons om meer partijen te overtuigen.

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Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social · Apr 18

Binnenkort – op 1 mei 2025 – is het 30 jaar geleden dat de Nederlandse muziektelevisiezender The Music Factory (TMF) werd gelanceerd. Wil je hier meer over weten, lees dan mijn boek De muziekfabriek: TMF en de Nederlandse popcultuur.

De muziekfabriek

In 1995 ging The Music Factory (TMF) van start als het Nederlandse antwoord op MTV Europe, om zes jaar later al door MTV te worden overgenomen en in 2011 helemaal van de televisie te verdwijnen door d...

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Mar 20

Het lijkt er toch steeds meer op dat Eppo Bruins de meest incompetente en opportunistische minister van OCW is die Nederland in mensenheugenis heeft gehad. Eerst een sector helemaal in crisis storten, en dan, terwijl er een miljard bezuinigd wordt, >

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Esther Peeren @estherpeeren.bsky.social · Mar 14

As someone using the crappy little HEMA lights, I wonder where people even get these superbright monstrosities!