A beautiful text by Selbi Durdieva on where to start reading on decoloniality, very much needed (for my students at least)

Sometimes I feel like I need a poster ”Same Shit - Different Century” but like ”Same Shit - Different Political Regime”. For instance, it is very interesting how the Swedish party of Christian Democrats is visiting Museum Association’s meetings second year in a row, with the same message:

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

"Our study of histories of genocide and mass atrocity gives us insight into the rise of authoritarianism and ethnonationalism; the processes of dehumanization, ethnic cleansing, and genocide that accompany it; and the urgent need for civil society resistance." Spread the word & join us!

Bear with me, SE blurb from #sverigesmuseersvårmöte2025 comes Årets museet blir Tekniska museet - för att ”gå ifrån det traditionella museet till det tekniska kulturhuset” 🎉 Intressant dock i samband med alla diskussioner kring museidefinitionen🤔

Geekification of the office is going well 🌌🫡

The Swedish Museums Association’s chairman in his recent opinion peace declares that nationalism is a useful tool for culture for telling ”the truths beyond ideology and political struggles”. Time until these people start citing Fukuyama: 3, 2, 1…

Ngl I was waiting for this kind of posts

Come to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert! Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...

Swedish museums association Spring summit: sorry we have too many similar proposals for the program, there’s no space for queer heritage. Also Swedish museums association Spring summit: three panels on museums and AI 🤔🤔🤔

👇📖 Book tips for the weekend readings

Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality, a free hybrid one-day symposium at the University of Birmingham on 26 February featuring Sara Ahmed www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcah...

Can’t describe how humbled and excited I was to get a request for writing a review on one of the my favourite books, “Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights museums” by @drkatrinantweiler.bsky.social Here it is, in the recent issue of Museum Worlds: doi.org/10.3167/armw...

Cfp Conference on Collecting the Holocaust: Ethics, Memory, and Materiality in Stockholm, Sweden on November 25–27, 2025 DL for proposals 15/02👇 museumforintelsen.se/en/about-the...

Pov: five boring white men decide if you and your friend are witches (hail Satan) @museiolga.bsky.social

The call for papers for the 2025 Mnemonics Summer School on “Memory and Responsibility” (Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2025) is now open. Featuring keynote lectures by Carlos Fonseca, Sara Dybris McQuaid, and Hanna Meretoja. Please help spread the word! www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...

Just realised that I probably should’ve saved the images of the “TikTok ban” and the following “ban release” for the sake of the future lectures on propaganda.

Hear me out, folks - we need a Starter Pack for museology/Museum Studies in this list: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... If you know any relevant accounts, or scholars who have already migrated here - let me know, I hope to rope @anna-museologist.bsky.social into doing one 😉

‼️ An exciting job opportunity at Aarhus university, Denmark for researchers who combine humanities-based research with art and/or design practice. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Going there next weekend 😏 Need to check this shit myself, the review is great though!

Okay let’s roll😎