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Dr. Giulia Evolvi

@giuliaevolvi.bsky.social

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Marie Curie fellow with project MERGE - on digital religion, social movements, and gender - at University of Bologna 🇮🇹 and University of Colorado Boulder 🇺🇲. She/her. Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 3h

Please let me know when you find out…

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, there’s a lot of published papers with a bad methodology. It depends by the field of course, but having methodological issues don’t make for sound papers…

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 3h

It looks great!

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 3h

But also the other way round…

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 5h

It's no mystery I love the Young Pope... so, I used this among the quotes for the summer school we had in Erfurt at the end of September.

What do you think? Does a religious leader who doesn't show himself commit "media suicide"?

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 5h

" If I may, Holy Father, what you are proposing is nothing short of suicide, media suicide."

(Paolo Sorrentino, The Young Pope, Episode 2)

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 5h

Quote:

"And so, for my first address, you will see to it that the light is so dim, no photographer, no TV cameraman, and not even the faithful will see anything of me but a dark shadow, my silhouette. They will not see me because I do not exist."

👇

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 7h

Everything can be made into an object of study.

But is everything interesting?

Not at all. Welcome to academia!

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 1d

At least we can see the glass half full... more research!

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! I also met @genderedform.bsky.social and we produce great research together!

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 2d

Controversial opinion:

Only people who are very very good should read their presentations at conferences, because it's more difficult to engage the audience when reading (vs presenting freely)

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

Excellent question. Unfortunately, the answers seems to be: yes

RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 14d

The #RadicalRight in the US: L. de Jonge, V. Georgiadou, D. Halikiopoulou, et al. “Is the Far Right a Global Phenomenon? Comparing Europe and Latin America: A Scholarly Exchange”. In: Nations and Nationalism 31.1 (2025), pp. 7-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nana.13074.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 3d

In two occasions I almost got academic positions I REALLY wanted (I was the second in the list), and I realize only now that they were in places I absolutely don't like... so maybe it's destiny protecting me from living where I won't be truly happy

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 3d

All the best for your new position!

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 4d

Many of the groups I study also are populist in using digital media as an alternative to the "mainstram media," which are seen as in the hands of political elites.

A grounding text on populism is Ernesto Laclau's "On Populist Reason" www.amazon.it/Populist-Rea...

On Populist Reason : Laclau, Ernesto: Amazon.it: Libri

www.amazon.it

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 4d

What I know, is that far-right leaders often use populist communication to interact with people who feel marginalized, so they can present themselves as one of them.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 4d

What is populism?

Populism is how the "common people" are seen as separate and different from the "elites"

I attended the 9th Populism Specialist Symposium in Thessaloniki and I mainly learned that... I still have a lot of learning to do on populism.

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 5d

Me: they’ll release the movie of the cat in the hat

Toddler: really? Can we watch it tomorrow?

Me: No it’s in 2026, next year

Toddler: WHAT? I’ll be 4 in a year! I’ll be old! I won’t even like movies anymore!

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 6d

This is Mount Olympus in case you’re looking for Zeus

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 6d

I spent 5 years of my life studying Ancient Greek for 6 hours a week and now I totally see the point because I entered a shop in Thessaloniki and understood where the children section was

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 6d

If you want to stop the genocide, we're on the same side and we're fighting for the same cause

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 6d

And fun fact: my 2018 monograph has a chapter on anti-gender groups which is titled "who's afraid of gender", but the reason of my chapter's name is a tale for another day So of course that's today reading suggestion

Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 6d

And not only that, she's an incredible human being, she took the time to talk with me and my colleague @genderedform.bsky.social asking about our work, and she's so kind and friendly.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 6d

I've always admired Butler's work but her speech was absolutely fantastic, touching upon all the key issues of our time: from gender to Palestine, from fascism to hegemony.

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 6d

Reading suggestion:

Judith Butler, "Who's afraid of gender?"

I have just attended the 9th Populism Specialist Group Symposium in Thessaloniki, Greece, and one of the keynote speakers was Judith Butler.

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