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Elizabeth Ward
@elizabethward.bsky.social
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Film historian in German cinema. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig researching German cultural diplomacy at film festivals during the Cold War. Lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina. www.elizabeth-ward.com
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 3d
A very powerful visit to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, a powerful museum space located in the US's first penitentiary and which reflects on the origins of incarceration, the decisions made and their consequences, and the far-reaching structural inequalities today.
A corridor of the former prison
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
First time in Philadelphia - and I love it here
Standing behind the Rocky monument, looking out onto Downtown Looking along the suspension bridge Looking down onto a street with skyscrapers in the distance
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
Kermit and Jim

📍 University of Maryland, College Park
A monument to Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson. The two are shown in conversation, with Kermit's hand on Jim's
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
Washington memorials pt 6

17. Three Soldiers (Frederick Hart, 1984)

18. Holodomor Genocide Memorial (Larysa Kurylas, 2015)

19. George Mason Memorial (Faye B. Harwell and Wendy M. Ross, 2002)

20. World War II Memorial (Friedrich St. Florian, 2004)
Three soldiers in combat A bronze relief of corn Mason seated and resting next to the constitution A graffiti-style inscription reading: Kilroy was here
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
Washington memorials pt 5

17-20. Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial (Frank Gehry and Sergey Eylanbekov, 2020)
Eisenhower with his fist out addressing troops A boy seated Soldiers listening to Eisenhower Men listening to Eisenhower
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
Washington memorials pt 4

13. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Lei Yixin, 1964)

14. Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II (Nina Akamu, 2000)

15. Titanic Memorial (Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1931)

16. Victims of Communism Memorial (Thomas Marsh, 2007)
Martin Luther King Jr. Two birds with barbed wire around them A person with outstretched arms A woman holding a torch
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
Washington memorials pt 3

9. Man Controlling Trade (Federal Trade Commission Building) (Michael Lantz, 1942)

10. Albert Einstein Memorial (Robert Berks, 1979)

11. Boy Scout Commemorative Tribute (Donald De Lue, 1964)

12. National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial (Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman, 2008)
A man wrestling to control a horse Albert Einstein holding a text Two Greek-style figures being led by a boy scout
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
Washington memorials pt 2

5-8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Lawrence Halprin, 1997)
A man sitting on a chair listening to the wireless Desolate men in a queue for bread A downtrodden man and his wife A wall with the text: I have seen war. I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 4d
Washington memorials pt 1

1. Vietnam Women's Memorial (Glenna Goodacre , 1993)

2. Korean War Veterans Memorial (Cooper-Lecky Architects, 1995)

3. National World War I Memorial (Joseph Weishaar, Sabin Howard, Phoebe Lickwar, 2021)

4. National Native American Veterans Memorial (Harvey Pratt, 2020)
A woman looking up and calling out A close up of a soldier's face A bronze relief of a battle progressing from civilians on the home front to a soldier in battle A bronze ring in a memorial garden
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 12d
Very happy to be back in Washington DC for the @thegsa.bsky.social conference!

(For the avoidance of doubt: Conference venue *very* much not pictured)
The US Capitol
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Allyson Fiddler @allysonfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 22
Delighted to see my Art of Resistance out in paperback with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social The cultural analysis is still so relevant, Austria not an exceptional case. The Far Right and the cultural protest it engenders is now geographically wide-reaching.
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · Aug 13
THE ART OF RESISTANCE: Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century by Allyson Fiddler (@allysonfiddler.bsky.social) is now available in paperback!

Find out more here: bit.ly/3U0qL9b

Review by @ahy-history.bsky.social

#History #CulturalStudies
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 13d
It's the German Studies Association conference @thegsa.bsky.social!

Come visit us at our booth, and remember to use code GSA25 for 35% off ALL #GermanStudies titles until 16th Oct 2025: bit.ly/46iWObl

#theGSA2025
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 13d
It's the @thegsa.bsky.social conference this week which also means it's that time of the year when I get to experience the world through the eyes of a morning person #jetlag
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 14d
The final image to flash on my screen before I disembarked in Washington DC
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
It's the #GermanHistSoc2025 @germanhistsoc.bsky.social! Check out our #OpenAccess #GermanHistory titles: bit.ly/3VxOMos

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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · 15d
It’s @thegsa.bsky.social time!

(a far preferable expression of time than the actual time I had to get up)
A Washington DC guidebook on top of a suitcase
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · Aug 25
#StreetArt #Padova #Padua
A bike propped against a wall with street art of a young girl taking a photo
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · Aug 25
Happy Monday, everyone 💛
Grafitto. Reads: Be good to people for no reason
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · Aug 22
Feel like this is a huge missed opportunity for “warm aber sexy” 😂
An advert sloganed “Beat the heat” by the Berlin Senate to warn of the dangers of overexposure in hot temperatures
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Martin Clemens Winter @martincwinter.bsky.social · Aug 22
Hilfe #Followerpower, kann jemand den Namen entziffern? Sollte ein ukrainischer Name sein (weiblich). Die Ravensbrück-Nummer (96663 oder 96665) brachte bei @arolsenarchives.bsky.social keine Ergebnisse.
handschriftlicher Name, unleserlich
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · Aug 22
Italian vs German vending machines.
A vending machine selling wine A vending machine selling sausages
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · Aug 20
Haha I wonder if there is a “I’m losing the will to live” special!
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · Aug 20
That was my suspicion too!

I once went to a “Milchreisbar” where grown adults were required to say sentences such as “ich hätte gern einen Grandma‘s Hug… und zwar warm“
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Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social · Aug 20
“Guten Tag! Ich hätte gern eine Pflaumenstrumpfsohle” was a sentence I hadn’t envisaged saying this morning
A pastry with plums
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