Iveta Silova
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Iveta Silova
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Scholar of education and planetary futures 🌍 | Exploring the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial, and decolonial thought | Looking for portals 🌿 | Professor at ASU | @isilova.bsky.social

Political science 42%
Education 33%
Pinned
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again.
🔗 theconversation.com/universities...

#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
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The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion

A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion

A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.

books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei

🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion

A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.

books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Reposted by Iveta Silova

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Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth.

This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.

🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman

Read more 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman

What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.

🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

#Anarchive #Memory

🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman

What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.

🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

#Anarchive #Memory

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders”
✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos

What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography?
@microbial-child.bsky.social #Memory @CollectiveBiography #Childhood

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🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders”
✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos

What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography?
@microbial-child.bsky.social #Memory @CollectiveBiography #Childhood

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight
“Rua Liga Dos Comunistas”
✍️ By José Cossa

What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social

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🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight
“Rua Liga Dos Comunistas”
✍️ By José Cossa

What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social

Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2
‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory
✍️ By Pia Koivunen bsky.app/profile/isil... @microbial-child.bsky.social @shermandorn.com #Memory #ColdWar
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2: ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’
✍️ By Pia Koivunen

What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method?

Read (open access):
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

#anarchive #memory

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2: ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’
✍️ By Pia Koivunen

What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method?

Read (open access):
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

#anarchive #memory

Climate education is going digital — but not always in the ways we imagine. Read our preliminary findings from mapping #ClimateEducation digital resources👇https://open.substack.com/pub/edforplanetaryfutures/p/mapping-climate-educations-digital?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Mapping Climate Education’s Digital Landscape: What We Learned from Educators and Youth (Preliminary Findings)
“Most of my education about climate has been online.”
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🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: (Re)membering in Jeong
By Olga Mun bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: (Re)membering in Jeong
By Olga Mun

What does it mean to remember across displacement, across borders within borders? A reflection through Korean philosophy of kindness, relationality, and more-than-human. Read more 👇
doi.org/10.11647/obp... @microbial-child.bsky.social

Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: (Re)membering in Jeong
By Olga Mun

What does it mean to remember across displacement, across borders within borders? A reflection through Korean philosophy of kindness, relationality, and more-than-human. Read more 👇
doi.org/10.11647/obp... @microbial-child.bsky.social

Reposted by Iveta Silova

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 1: Who Do I Remember For?https://bsky.app/profile/isilova.bsky.social/post/3m6fenu2mgc2c
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 1: Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing
✍️ By Petar Odak

What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social

Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 1: Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing
✍️ By Petar Odak

What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social

🔥 Every crisis has its curriculum—and young people are refusing this one. What if the climate crisis is also an education crisis—and the lesson is to unlearn? #EducationFutures #Youth @norrag.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @carkar.bsky.social
www.norrageducation.org/when-educati...
When Education Is the Problem: Lessons from Youth Climate Activism - NORRAG -
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s blog series “Provocations for education from youth climate activism,” Iveta Silova, Jeremy Rappleye and Hikaru Komatsu argue that the crisis we face is educ...
www.norrageducation.org

🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: What is (An)archive? 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: The (An)archive
What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...

🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: The (An)archive
What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...

Reposted by Iveta Silova

Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration

Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV

#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Join us each Monday. One chapter, one memory, one question to carry.
#Anarchive #ColdWarMemories #PostSocialism #DecolonizingMemory

Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei

We co-edited this book as MnemoZIN, a collective name for Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova, and Nelli Piattoeva. Writing together is our method—and our refusal of academic individualism. Inspired by Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory & Daughter of Gaia

#MemoryMondays #MnemoZIN @microbial-child.bsky.social

🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS begins.
What do we carry from childhood? What have we learned to forget? Starting next week, I’ll share weekly glimpses from the book "(An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War"
📘 Read free: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#MemoryMondays #ColdWar #Memory

The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/a...
The End of Development
The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative.
foreignpolicy.com

Reposted by Iveta Silova

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