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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 23h

A Danish parliamentarian, the MP Victoria Velasquez, has been abducted by the Israeli military this morning.

Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 23h

Det her er jo vanvittigt. Et dansk folketingsmedlem, der bortføres militært af en fremmed magt i et åbenlyst brud på folkeretten. Hvordan kan vi opretholde almindelige diplomatiske forbindelser med et sådan forbryderisk regime.

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Dansk politiker en del af opbragt skib: - Jeg er blevet kidnappet

Det danske folketingsmedlem Victoria Velasquez (EL) er en del af besætningen på et af de skibe fra nødhjælpsflotillen, der er blevet opbragt af Israels militær...

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Aug 5

Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...

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Janich Frederiksen @janichfre.bsky.social · Jul 30

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„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“

Bibliotekernes udlån stiger for tredje år i træk: Vi elsker at læse papirbøger

Den fysiske bog giver os et frirum i en travl, elektronisk hverdag.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 23

I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...

Engang røg hun 15 joints om dagen – nu bliver hun kaldt for en 'stor kunstner'

Det hjalp Laura Helene Hansen med at komme ud af sit stofmisbrug, da hun opdagede sit talent for at synge opera.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...

Minor Detail book: how the language of the past can help us read the present situation in Palestine

Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 19

#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...

Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory – SlowMemory – CA20105

Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory

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Politics in Action @politicsinaction.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a [email protected]

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Peter Osborne @peterosborne.bsky.social · Jul 18

Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland

A huge wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 17

You might want to come to our roundtable on Administrations of memory later on today, if you are interested in a new(ish) research agenda for political memory studies?

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 15

Started MSA 25 with an excursion to Strahov Stadium. A space still in use but also out of time. #MSA25 @

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 15

Started MSA 25 with an excursion to Strahov Stadium. A space still in use but also out of time. #MSA25 @

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 10

The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 10

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 10

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica

Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · Jul 5

'After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind'

Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind

Inspiring account of IWU, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan, has left this reviewer turbocharged for further change

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 5

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 3

Mette Frederiksen bliver interviewet i Britisk Vogue (August). www.vogue.co.uk/article/mett...

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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'm very eagerly anticipating the start of our fourth and final @slowmemo.bsky.social COST Action conference at the University of Porto tomorrow. Judging by the prep done by the stellar team led by Prof Alice Semedo, it is going to be absolutely fantastic. #slowmemory

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jun 19

The pleasure was all mine - congratulations! It was spectacular - even in its pursuit of the everyday.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jun 19

I should add the overall title of her work: Living and Dying in Transit - violence, bodies and survival in the Tunesian borderlands.

Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jun 19

An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jun 19

An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk

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Ciarán Wallace @cwallacedublin.bsky.social · Jun 15

This looks very interesting! 👇👇👇
Free public talk:

The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness: The Art of Commemoration.

Monday, 16 June 2025 11:00 - 12:30
Doors at 10:40am
Old Carnegie Library,
Library Road, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-elepha...

The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness: The Art of Commemoration

A free public talk by Louise Lowe of ANU Productions in the Old Carnegie Library DLR on art, theatre, history, remembering, and forgetting.

www.eventbrite.ie

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · Jun 14

Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton

Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Jun 11

Historians of Ireland, Britain, the British Empire, Empires, Unions, Federalism, and those working in the history of ideas and political theory, this is definitely worth a look. Particularly the second debate, in which arguments are made about what form the Union should take.

Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Jun 11

'A Report of the Debate in the House of Commons ... on the Subject of an Union', is now up @virtualtreasury.bsky.social. Use the link below to explore two key debates on the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The debates took place in Jan. and Feb. 1800.

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Virtual Treasury

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