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Glasgow Germanist working on remediations of architecture in film and literature | DEFA | Kleist | Urban Humanities | East(ern) Germany | Transnationalism | Formerly Dublin, Durham, Bristol, Leipzig | he/him

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Gut 18 % rechsextreme Stimmen in einem der reichsten Bundesländer. Wir müssen mal wieder über die Folgen der neoliberalen und patriarchalen Strukturen der alten Bundesrepublik und die Baseballschlägerjahre in Westdeutschland inklusive Mölln und Solingen sprechen, um das erklären zu können.

08.03.2026 17:29 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Closure of language courses is ‘national catastrophe’, warns VC - Research Professional News Birmingham leader Adam Tickell says “institutional mergers” may be needed to protect “national cultural assets”

Closure of language courses is ‘national catastrophe’, warns VC www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

05.03.2026 23:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Wir müssen alle aufmerksam sein - in Kanada wie in Deutschland - wegen solche Massnahmen. Ich schätze, sie werden mehr und nicht weniger in den kommenden Jahren.

05.03.2026 13:06 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Culture and Leisure at Risk, Glasgow 2026 - eblknd

Someone has compiled a list of cultural spaces in Glasgow that have closed this year. It's embarrasing and really highlights how badly the city is failing arts & culture. eblknd.leaflet.pub/3mg6akzx3n22l

05.03.2026 11:12 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

25.02.2026 19:10 👍 13 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1

Der Perlentaucher meldet heute:
Übrigens: Das gab es noch nie in der Geschichte des Perlentaucher: In keiner der vom Perlentaucher ausgewerteten Zeitungen - FAZ, FR, NZZ, SZ, taz, Welt, Zeit - gibt es auch nur eine einzige Buchkritik, nicht eine!

#booksky #germanbooksky #literaturkritik

13.02.2026 09:05 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2
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Had the great luck to see the incredible historical document Indian director Chetna Vora produced in East Berlin in 1982. The intimate and unfiltered interviews with women of all ages and class identities are fascinating and I could have listened to them for even longer than its 2h20 running time.

13.02.2026 09:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Can’t wait for my swing through the UK to talk about queer women in Nazi Germany

08.02.2026 16:28 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Events | Goethe-Institut UK Mon, 09.03.2026 – Samuel Clowes Huneke in Conversation

Save the date! Sam Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social is coming to Glasgow to present his new book next month www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

08.02.2026 15:47 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Exactly. And we pointed out the many shortcomings of the actual unification.

30.01.2026 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On the pro side, for the fun of the argument :)

30.01.2026 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Had a great time at the St Andrews Debating Society last night, debating whether Germany should have stayed divided, in great company.

30.01.2026 19:58 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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One of my favourite public art works in Glasgow. The Empire sign by Douglas Gordon (1998) is a reverse-written, illuminated neon sign referring to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and exploring the Merchant City's historical ties to the slave trade and the British Empire.

25.01.2026 18:29 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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In Somerset, I found glorious proof that the UK can build great council houses. So what is holding us back? | John Harris It was life-affirming to meet the residents of Rainbow Way in Minehead. But so much still stands in the way of Labour’s vision for social housing, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

25.01.2026 09:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Come to Glasgow in August!

23.01.2026 11:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hervorragendes Gespraech. Absolut hoerenswert.

Grosses Kompliment an beide Gespraechsteilnehmer!

18.01.2026 11:39 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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wildes Gefühl: Erst langes Interview mit Dagmar Herzog über die Geschichte und wirklich gruselige Gegenwart der Euthanasie in Deutschland führen – und paar Tage später bei Springer lesen, warum "wir" / "die Kommunen" uns die Kosten für Behinderte jetzt leider nicht mehr leisten können sollen

11.12.2025 23:01 👍 164 🔁 50 💬 5 📌 1
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‘The Red Road flats were spectacular – and terrifying’: striking photographs of Glasgow in flux From Franz Ferdinand fusing a basement pub’s lights to high-rise flats just days before their demolition, a new show captures the changing city. Its photographers talk us through their shots

Need to make sure to see this! #glasgow
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

08.12.2025 23:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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4 December 2025. Are we seeing the end of languages at Russell Group universities? - The Languages Gateway

With the UK continuing to make bad academic decisions and making itself intellectually poorer, it's fair to ask as Zara Fahim so eloquently does: www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/are-we-...

05.12.2025 10:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ja: Alle, deren Verträge an der Uni Leipzig in den nächsten zwei Jahren auslaufen, sind raus. Die Lehre soll über Lehraufträge abgedeckt werden. Sachmittel werden gekürzt. Zudem sollen alleine an der Phil Fak 4 Professuren und 11 Mitarbeiterstellen abgebaut werden. Grund sind sinkende Zuweisungen.

05.12.2025 08:10 👍 79 🔁 42 💬 6 📌 2

In Giessen: 2-jähriges Stellenmoratorium: keine Stelle - ob Verwaltung, wiss. Mitarbeiter, Professur - wird besetzt oder vertreten (auch nicht
bei Elternzeit, Krankheit, Vakanz). Verlängert (3+2) wird aber. Meine Fakultät wird 20% der Professuren ersatzlos streichen. Die Landesregierung will es so.

05.12.2025 08:06 👍 52 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0

Ja. Alle, deren Verträge in den nächsten zwei Jahren auslaufen, sind raus. Die Lehre soll über Lehraufträge abgedeckt werden. Alle Sachmittel werden gekürzt. Zudem sollen alleine an der Phil Fak 4 Professuren und 11 Mitarbeiterstellen abgebaut werden.

05.12.2025 08:06 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1

Nicht mehr verlängert, würde doch bedeuten, dass ein größerer Teil des befristeten Mittelbaus entlassen wird?

05.12.2025 07:51 👍 99 🔁 21 💬 11 📌 0
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‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures The imposing concrete buildings that defined British postwar architecture held a vision of the future – but many fell into disrepair. A new book finds the finest examples

So excited for this book!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

04.12.2025 13:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exciting news - details of next year's AGS conference, which will be held in Glasgow, will be published this week!

More to follow here soon too but in the meantime keep your eyes on your inboxes!

02.12.2025 16:54 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yes the same for me. Such accomplished and unique musicians! The set list was perfect for me as it featured most of my favourites that I did not expect them to play :)

26.11.2025 08:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fascism's Body Politics - Public Seminar Dagmar Herzog explains how ableism's historical legacy informs the fascisms of Donald Trump and Germany's AfD.

Important insight from Dagmar Herzog on the New Fascist Body venerated by today's right.

publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...

26.11.2025 00:46 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

Saw them last night and only managed to get seated tickets but very much relieved my teens which was a sublime experience.

26.11.2025 01:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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WEEKEND READING: The future of languages in a multilingual Britain - HEPI This blog was kindly authored by John Claughton, Co-Founder of The World of Languages and Languages of the World and former Chief Master of King Edward’s School, Birmingham. The other day, there was a...

And World of Languages, Languages of the World (WoLLoW) - www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/11/09/w...

25.11.2025 08:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Languages Crisis: Arresting Decline - HEPI A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, The Languages Crisis: Arresting decline by Megan Bowler (HEPI Report 192), sponsored by Duolingo, shows a big drop in formal language learning....

Megan Bowler's Higher Education Policy Institute report on languages - www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/the-... - @meganlbowler.bsky.social @hepi-news.bsky.social

25.11.2025 08:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0