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Tijana Stevanović

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weeping revolutionary frowning with a ‘recession grimace’ architectural humanities via cultural studies, history, labour, technologies @UCL parent of a toddler with four mother tongues

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · May 2

Enzo Traverso's fierce critique of the return to 'Grossdeutschland', in New German Critique. End both funny and horrifying.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 9d

Here's an insightful piece about Lorde confronting Germany's silences, drawing from the archive and painting some resonances with today.

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How Audre Lorde Studied Berlin’s Warnings and Silences

Less than four decades later, the same forces that frustrated the African-American feminist poet continue to dominate German politics

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Signal @signal.org · 9d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Trouw @trouw.nl · 12d

Nederlandse technische universiteiten delen hun kennis met Israëlische bedrijven: ‘Je kunt ervan uitgaan dat die in de oorlog wordt gebruikt’

Ondanks de hevige protesten aan universiteiten startten de TU Delft en TU Eindhoven onlangs nog samenwerkingen met Israëlische bedrijven die banden hebben met de Israëlische defensie.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13d

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · 13d

Dear community, erasing our Academia online profiles is just a start. this symposium on collective infrastructures and feminist approaches to publishing on4th Oct in London provides hopeful alternatives

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing

4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive pr...

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣

Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
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From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
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Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500 - 1800

Join us at The London Archives for an illustrated talk by Professor Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics).

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Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · 25d

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 22d

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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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 25d

As was posted earlier, how to delete your account without agreeing to the ToS:

Opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 27d

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

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Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation

The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28d

"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations." www.chronicle.com/article/when...

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oh yes, that was brutal.

Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yes, in 10 years between my longer stays it lost a lot of the good sides I imagined it had. Especially sour if you are researching self-organised initiatives in housing.
Then, there is ‘Erziehung nach Gaza’ to take into account etc.

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · Sep 12

Medio volgend jaar word ik 67. De advertentie voor een nieuwe directeur @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social staat vanaf vandaag online. Zegt het voort!

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

I better get into coal trade.

Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

Sigh. Millennial here. My young family moved 9 times within two years in Berlin due to the wicked housing market for migrants and German housing regulations that work against foreign researchers.

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

And indeed, I still see carpenters and members of other building trades in their special uniforms around town. Which actually tells a lot about their autonomy unlike in some other countries we know 🙁

Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

This was also on Winsstraße! Not even sure if someone poor can live there now (unaffordable for me for sure). But, this situation brings this feeling of poverty and fuel shortages in the air.

Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is actually the first time in my life to see coal as a household fuel. And it is (checks notes) in leafy Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, 2025. Not in the picture, single human carrying these full baskets of coal on his back.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 12

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”'

Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...