Lisa Gaufman
@lisares.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ University of Groningen.
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
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Lisa Gaufman
@lisares.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume is the first book-length collection of research on language, gender and sexuality in the societies of Central and Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
First seminar on Russian politics and culture of the semester: ended up analysing Ilya's Russian monologue from #heatedrivalry with the students. If that's not something that will get the kids to class I don't know what will!
February 7, 2026 at 9:59 AM
First seminar on Russian politics and culture of the semester: ended up analysing Ilya's Russian monologue from #heatedrivalry with the students. If that's not something that will get the kids to class I don't know what will!
Bonus: @greenleejw.bsky.social ‘s drawings work really well as embroidery patterns!
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Bonus: @greenleejw.bsky.social ‘s drawings work really well as embroidery patterns!
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
How do Russian political and cultural elites legitimize the war on Ukraine, three years into what was supposed to last only a couple of days? And how do these justifications change over time?
Elizaveta Gaufman (@lisares.bsky.social) has a couple of ideas on this: open.spotify.com/episode/36CY...
Elizaveta Gaufman (@lisares.bsky.social) has a couple of ideas on this: open.spotify.com/episode/36CY...
Legitimizing the War on Ukraine in Russia (with Elizaveta Gaufman)
open.spotify.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 AM
How do Russian political and cultural elites legitimize the war on Ukraine, three years into what was supposed to last only a couple of days? And how do these justifications change over time?
Elizaveta Gaufman (@lisares.bsky.social) has a couple of ideas on this: open.spotify.com/episode/36CY...
Elizaveta Gaufman (@lisares.bsky.social) has a couple of ideas on this: open.spotify.com/episode/36CY...
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
New preprint is out!
Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
January 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
New preprint is out!
Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
Funded collaborative PhD opportunity on contested memory with me in @oupolitics.bsky.social and Arthur Dudney at Arcadia:
granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi...
Deadline 7th Jan, please share!
granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi...
Deadline 7th Jan, please share!
Contested histories: cultural memory, narratives and archives
granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Funded collaborative PhD opportunity on contested memory with me in @oupolitics.bsky.social and Arthur Dudney at Arcadia:
granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi...
Deadline 7th Jan, please share!
granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi...
Deadline 7th Jan, please share!
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
Come work with me! 👩🏻💻
📣 CSOH is Hiring!
We’re expanding our global research team and hiring three researchers across Europe/North America, Southeast Asia and South Asia to support our work on digital harms, extremism, and influence operations.
Applications are now open.
More details: www.csohate.org/work-with-us/
We’re expanding our global research team and hiring three researchers across Europe/North America, Southeast Asia and South Asia to support our work on digital harms, extremism, and influence operations.
Applications are now open.
More details: www.csohate.org/work-with-us/
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Come work with me! 👩🏻💻
You know who else called the EU the fourth reich? People (and trolls) who opposed Ukraine’s signing of Association agreement in 2013. Somebody even wrote a paper about this!
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You know who else called the EU the fourth reich? People (and trolls) who opposed Ukraine’s signing of Association agreement in 2013. Somebody even wrote a paper about this!
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
Which is exactly where the article comes into play: rule following is masculine coded *in settings where the superiors issuing orders are expected to be men.* In schools, where most of the teachers are women, it's seen as normal and expected for boys to be unruly or outright defiant.
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Which is exactly where the article comes into play: rule following is masculine coded *in settings where the superiors issuing orders are expected to be men.* In schools, where most of the teachers are women, it's seen as normal and expected for boys to be unruly or outright defiant.
“If civilization is what counts … the likelihood of violence between Ukrainians and Russians should be low. They are two Slavic, primarily Orthodox peoples who have had close relationships with each other for centuries.”
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“If civilization is what counts … the likelihood of violence between Ukrainians and Russians should be low. They are two Slavic, primarily Orthodox peoples who have had close relationships with each other for centuries.”
Do you want to know how Trump won? You love reading about the Middle Ages and hate racists? I have an OPEN ACCESS book for you!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Do you want to know how Trump won? You love reading about the Middle Ages and hate racists? I have an OPEN ACCESS book for you!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
And if you respond with scientific articles about stochastic parrotry and bullshit, these kinds of people get VERY aggressive…
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
And if you respond with scientific articles about stochastic parrotry and bullshit, these kinds of people get VERY aggressive…
I will show this to the next person who says that “AI is unbiased”
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I will show this to the next person who says that “AI is unbiased”
Another day, another mediocre uninformed man tries to mansplain and insult. Oh the fun of being a woman in academia!
Just another day on LinkedIn, where some guy publicly claims there’s no far right in Europe — only “extreme left and extreme woke” — and suggests I should have brain surgery to have my “extreme woke left-wing thread” surgically removed. 🤷♀️ 🧠
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Another day, another mediocre uninformed man tries to mansplain and insult. Oh the fun of being a woman in academia!
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl. Deze week over het fenomeen "pinkwashing": het strategisch verpakken van extreemrechtse politiek in een feminien jasje. 👇
De aanwezigheid van vrouwen binnen extreem-rechtse partijen helpt beschuldigingen van misogynie af te weren, terwijl de kern van hun ideologie onverminderd patriarchaal blijft.
Vrouwen spelen binnen extreem-rechts een steeds zichtbaarder rol
De aanwezigheid van vrouwen binnen extreem-rechtse partijen helpt beschuldigingen van misogynie af te weren, terwijl de kern van hun ideologie onverminderd patriarchaal blijft.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl. Deze week over het fenomeen "pinkwashing": het strategisch verpakken van extreemrechtse politiek in een feminien jasje. 👇
Plenty of sequel material for Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals". Some things never change (apart from the intellectual part)
Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Plenty of sequel material for Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals". Some things never change (apart from the intellectual part)
Please retire the label “populist”. She is a white nationalist and Qanon/pizzagate believer among other things. Just call a racist spade a spade.
A prominent far-right German activist has applied for political asylum in the U.S., as the Trump administration has signaled plans to prioritize protections for White refugees and Europeans who claim they are being targeted for their populist views.
German far-right activist seeks asylum in U.S. as Trump ties deepen
Social media influencer Naomi Seibt, a supporter of the nationalist AfD party, said she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Please retire the label “populist”. She is a white nationalist and Qanon/pizzagate believer among other things. Just call a racist spade a spade.
Kiddo came home saying that everyone in his class voted for #D66 apart from 2, who voted for “Partij voor diertjes” (which is apparently a party he would vote for). He was worried that the “Pif” party might still win, “because they want to send all the foreigners out and we are foreigners”.
October 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Kiddo came home saying that everyone in his class voted for #D66 apart from 2, who voted for “Partij voor diertjes” (which is apparently a party he would vote for). He was worried that the “Pif” party might still win, “because they want to send all the foreigners out and we are foreigners”.
Reposted by Lisa Gaufman
With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.
Ten years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation “Enemies at the gates: existential threat narratives in Putin’s Russia”. I had chapters on Ukraine, the West, homophobia, migrants and “spiritual bonds”. And the argument still freaking holds, damn.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ten years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation “Enemies at the gates: existential threat narratives in Putin’s Russia”. I had chapters on Ukraine, the West, homophobia, migrants and “spiritual bonds”. And the argument still freaking holds, damn.
As I was giving feedback on a clearly ChatGPT generated lit review, I realized that I am just feeding new prompts to the student to feed to his genAI. It’s exhausting and meaningless.
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
As I was giving feedback on a clearly ChatGPT generated lit review, I realized that I am just feeding new prompts to the student to feed to his genAI. It’s exhausting and meaningless.
September 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Had a blast synergising @deconspirator.bsky.social and ARM project with @mariellew.bsky.social at the @clingendael.bsky.social REKA conference. Discussed current approaches to #FIMI and the challenges European democracies face. Despite our happy faces, we were not always optimistic...
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Had a blast synergising @deconspirator.bsky.social and ARM project with @mariellew.bsky.social at the @clingendael.bsky.social REKA conference. Discussed current approaches to #FIMI and the challenges European democracies face. Despite our happy faces, we were not always optimistic...
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume is the first book-length collection of research on language, gender and sexuality in the societies of Central and Eastern Europe.
link.springer.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
I went to the depths of despair and analyZed Russian pro-war poetry with Alsu Buiting:
"Teaching to Love the Mother(land):
Russian Z-poetry, Gendered Rhetoric
and the Legitimization of War" in link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A quick 🧵 on our main findings
For no discernible reason, I will be re-reading this excellent article “Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape” by @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape
Abstract. This article makes a critical contribution to the study of digital reactionary movements by tracing the resonant circulation of “the cuck” memes
academic.oup.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
For no discernible reason, I will be re-reading this excellent article “Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape” by @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...