Last week, Shabana Mahmood visited Denmark and has made changes to the UK's asylum policy that emulate the stricter Danish system ✍️ In this piece from September, @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues there key pitfalls to copying this approach 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

Det næste skridt i vores projekt "Support Your Local Library" er et kreativt familieværksted. Hvis du har børn der elsker at være på biblioteket, så mød op Lørdag d 7 Marts - det bliver sjovt og der er snacks! De kort der bliver tegnet, kommer med i vores levende arkiv om Blågården Bibliotek

Plakatudstillingen er oppe og postkortene ligger klar - i morgen kan du høre mit oplæg "Fra Belfast til Blågården" og diskutere lokalbiblioteker som fredsskabende infrastruktur. Kom og tag en ven med! Biblioteker er all the rage. kl 17.00 på Blågården Bibliotek. @au.dk @carlsbergfondet.dk

På Onsdag holder jeg i oplæg på Blågårds Bibliotek om hvilken rolle biblioteker spiller i krig og fred. Det er en forlængelse af min forskning om lokal fredsopbygning i Belfast og diskuterer biblioteker som en afgørende social infrastruktur alle steder. Kom! fb.me/e/9dkjFn5Gv

Der er aldrig tid nok. Selv når man starter i begyndelsen af det 20. Århundrede. Men til sidst fandt vi ud af at vi begge kom fra Farum (off air) radio4.dk/podcasts/eur...

@mortensode.bsky.social har skrevet den mest vidunderlige beskrivelse af at gå til dans. Hvem får ikke lyst til at gøre det samme når de læser hvilken effekt det har på hans liv?https://www.information.dk/moti/2026/01/laege-morten-sodemann-danser-rumba-tango-pjat-danse

Here are all my book recommendations for 2025, carefully collected in one handy to read list. www.jancarson.co.uk/blog/some-books-i-enjoyed-in-2025

Inspired by Ann Rigney’s work on Remembering Activism, I put the “Internationalism Calendar” on my Christmas wish list. January is called ‘seeds of hope’ and details the story of protests against UK weapon production for Indonesia in the context of the struggle for independence in East Timor.

Hvis 2026 skal være året hvor jeg for alvor begynder at bruge Bluesky, så skal jeg altså have interaktioner med nogle flere mennesker - hvem har knækket koden til hvordan man laver opslag med god trækkraft? #bluesky #whattodo #blueskythinking

One of these PhDs is geared towards Cultural Memory Studies - I must have a ton of former students who might consider applying?! (Let me know if you need a recommendation) @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @slowmemo.bsky.social "memorystudies lnkd.in/ejSDwmhJ

New short research article out in Urban Matters. It is a piece on thick mapping in North Belfast, drawing on ongoing research at the Oldpark Carnegie Library and local memories of regeneration. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...

To engage your mind, you sometimes have to engage your body! Slow Memory COST Action members have developed two walking journals for Prague, Czech Republic, and Prishtina, Kosovo, that help us think through the city, spatial relations, emotion and memory.

Fra Belfast til Blågården! - Glæder mig helt vildt til samarbejdet med Emergency Architecture og Nørrebros biblioteker i formidlingen af min forskning om biblioteker som kritisk social infrastruktur i konflikt og fred. Tak til @carlsbergfondet.dk for støtten! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...

The project to bring the Oldpark Library back to life is so intriguing, not least from a peacebuilding perspective. Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project carnegieoldpark.org/2025/11/03/a...

50 years ago what became the worst feud between the Official and Provisional IRA's began in Belfast. Anthony McIntyre's article, written in 2002, is one of the best accounts of this tragic period. theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html

This! I bought a refurbished 13 mini last year (to replace my ancient SE, which I didn't want to give up precisely because of the size).

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

A superb “Peter Mair Lecture” by @caterinafr.bsky.social at the @psaireland.bsky.social just now presenting her path-breaking work on the continuing rise of the far right. As she noted, Mair’s “void” rather unfortunately is being filled

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Pretty disturbing times: “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999

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

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/...

😊💪 „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.“

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...

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...

#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...

🚨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]

Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland

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

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

'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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

New article alert! Some crazy stuff here 🔻 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Amnesty has documented scores of death threats, bomb threats and violent attacks against journalists in Northern Ireland. 🎬 Powerful testimony from Belfast journalists Allison Morris, Paula Mackin, Richard Sullivan, Martin Breen and Steven Moore. youtu.be/eXriDvx51mE?...

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg

Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.