Alles Gute und liebe Grüße!

Deadline 1 October.

www.acla.org/seminar/028c... #litwiss #acla #killjoy #literature #saraahmed @alrik.bsky.social

Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…

I am sure he would love Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus! He should check it out (as long as he can tolerate the very bad special effects 😆)

@dilan-c.bsky.social and I are co-organising a seminar on @saranahmed.bsky.social at next year‘s ACLA! 😱 We want to assemble an international team of Ahmed-nerds and killjoy enthusiasts. Please send us your abstract and join us in The City of Conferences, Montreal! ✨ www.acla.org/seminar/028c...

I can relate to this deep yearning for turning small service interactions into truly authentic friendships

Just using this as an opportunity to share my favourite Ahmed quotes: „Possibility comes from intimacy with what has thickened in time, the walls, the doors, how rooms are occupied, making it hard to breathe.“

@dilan-c.bsky.social and I are co-organising a seminar on @saranahmed.bsky.social at next year‘s ACLA! 😱 We want to assemble an international team of Ahmed-nerds and killjoy enthusiasts. Please send us your abstract and join us in The City of Conferences, Montreal! ✨ www.acla.org/seminar/028c...

"vibrant matters" trauma flashbacks

Does Newnham College think applicants will be happy to have to provide proof they are cis?!? newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Huhu, I’d love your help! Any favorite quotes on activism? Please send me quotes on activism (any language + source) for my research project on activism. All contributions will be credited =D

Current collection/database here:
dilancakir.github.io/whatisactivi...

#activism #litwiss #Aktivismus

A little note with a pile of No's. substack.com/@feministkil...

This is not a USD350 billion investment, it’s handing over extortion money to a single person who will use the money at his will.
Can’t believe the world ex US is not banding together to stop daylight theft.

We convene a mutual aid network for our comrades in German studies. To find out more about how to request resources, share resources, or help get involved with convening the network, check out our website: www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-....

Check out this book coming out this fall: boydellandbrewer.com/978164014155...

Ich (ohne chronische Krankheit, aber mit Bedürfnis nach Me-Time und Schlaf) teile mir Tagungen immer so ein, dass ich nur die Vorträge besuche, die mich wirklich interessieren. In den Pausen suche ich mir Gesprächspartner*innen nach Sympathie, nicht strategisch. Damit geht es mir am besten.

Coming up next week! Our 3rd CPSJ seminar: Dr Anna Richards (Birkbeck College, UoL) will speak on 'Tutelary phantoms in Marie Espérance von Schwartz’s Gemma, oder Tugend und Laster (1877) and the late nineteenth-century anti-vivisection debate'
📅3 May
⏰1-2pm
📍RFB 336

Coming up tomorrow! CPSJ seminar with a presentation by doctoral researcher Weibing Ni on “Reimagining Intimacies Between Afro-/Creole and Sino-Caribbeans: Marronnage in Raphaël Confiant, Patricia Powell, and Victor Chang”
📅22 Feb
⏰1-2pm
📍RFB 336 & on Zoom (email cpsj[at]mmll.cam.ac.uk for link!)💻

Please consider applying for the GSA Seminar organised by
@jeannetteoho.bsky.social, Laura Sturtz & @alrik.bsky.social: Politisch schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: Methodische und theoretische Annäherungen Atlanta, 26-29 September 2024
Deadline: 23 February 2024

Laura, @alrik.bsky.social und ich sind mit einem Seminar auf der GSA 2024 @thegsa.bsky.social in Atlanta dabei. Bewerbt euch bis zum 23.2. für
"Politisch schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: Methodische und theoretische Annäherungen" 😍 Mehr Infos: www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-sem...

Inaugural post! We've finally made it here and hope to build a base of followers who are (understandably) not so active on the other site! Please spread the word that we're here and watch this space for news on our activities in German at Cambridge 🙏