This is a perverse form of credentialing that universities provide to those that hate it the most

Re recent news, is it "capitulation" or "appeasement" if two parties work together to achieve a set of shared goals? I believe there's another word for this

Congratulations to our very own Paul Flaig on the publication of his book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed - out today with Bloomsbury, in the World Cinema series edited by Lúcia Nagib and Julian Ross www.bloomsbury.com/uk/weimar-sl...

Warning that Cville Walgreens is out of COVID vaccine. Their appointment system is disconnected from their inventory, so making an appointment does NOT mean they actually have it

Very honored and excited to be featured at this event next year 🙏 Thank you @mharrabin.bsky.social and @lawrencealexander.bsky.social

Message from UVA Primary Care. UVA will not give a prescription for COVID vax (which CVS and Walgreens seem to require in VA) and will not do so until Sept 18-19 ACIP meeting. After which RFK's stacked ACIP will likely make it significantly harder for anyone to get the vax. Am I understanding this?

UVA wouldn't give me a prescription today. Apparently haven't decided their policy yet.

This can be thought of alongside ICE, deployments in cities, etc. It's straightforwardly eugenic, obviously, but this move would essentially deputize the virus for social repression www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Me - Ray Müller - Leni Riefenstahl...

Sage just published this interview I filmed with them last year about ongoing research "Casualties Fight Back: Left Disability Activism and Film Production in Germany, 1929-1932" sk.sagepub.com/video/skprom...

Sage just published this interview I filmed with them last year about ongoing research "Casualties Fight Back: Left Disability Activism and Film Production in Germany, 1929-1932" sk.sagepub.com/video/skprom...

Hey UVA faculty folks (and non-faculty, too)! Wednesday, July 2 from 1-2:30 in Clark 108. Join us for a faculty town hall to start fighting back against political interference in UVA. Tell your colleagues, bring as many as you can. Zoom access available, DM me for the link.

Our leaders have been evolved in a ecosystem that selects for whatever the opposite of a spine is

CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!

Unsolicited May 1 movie recommendation. On Criterion boxd.it/s6u2

Marlene Dietrich's star power is such that undergrads who have no idea who she is at the beginning of the semester will, at the end, vote her best actor, and when you ask them why, simply respond "c'mon, it's Marlene Dietrich!"

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

My book and three other publications

New issue of German Studies Review has a diminutive special section I edited, “Remediating the Third Reich,” with fantastic essays by Mary Hennessy (on the 1943 film GROßSTADTMELODIE) and Brook Henkel (on Fassbinder’s WORLD ON A WIRE) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54291

New issue of German Studies Review has a diminutive special section I edited, “Remediating the Third Reich,” with fantastic essays by Mary Hennessy (on the 1943 film GROßSTADTMELODIE) and Brook Henkel (on Fassbinder’s WORLD ON A WIRE) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54291

BREAKING: UVA Health has also decided to comply in advance by suspending all gender-affirming care for patients under 19 years of age, per an internal communication sent to medical providers employed by UVA.

A pleasure to work with @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social !

So excited to be part of this workshop on Béla Balázs‘s 1924 film theory „Der sichtbare Mensch, oder die Kultur des Films“ organized by @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social @pdobryden.bsky.social

100 years ago Béla Balázs published "Der sichtbare Mensch, oder die Kultur des Films" (The Visible Man, or the Culture of Film). The book became a foundational text in film theory. My comrade Paul Dobryden and I are organizing a workshop for the occasion. german.as.virginia.edu/visible-cent...

I wrote a very short thing about The Curse, as part of a theme week about the show at In Media Res

Great to see this review essay by Michael Wedel now in English translation. A number of recent Weimar cinema books discussed, including mine (highlighted as the "most unusual" of the bunch!) at the end www.weimarcinema.org/essay/Wedel

I will never not misread "lfg" as liebe f-ing grüße

Might spruce up the lawn