Quite the complisult

#StreetArt #Padova #Padua

Happy Monday, everyone 💛

Feel like this is a huge missed opportunity for “warm aber sexy” 😂

Hilfe #Followerpower, kann jemand den Namen entziffern? Sollte ein ukrainischer Name sein (weiblich). Die Ravensbrück-Nummer (96663 oder 96665) brachte bei @arolsenarchives.bsky.social keine Ergebnisse.

Italian vs German vending machines.

“Guten Tag! Ich hätte gern eine Pflaumenstrumpfsohle” was a sentence I hadn’t envisaged saying this morning

Das stimmt auch. Deutschland im Jahr 321 ist ein seltsames Konstrukt. Es war kein Grabstein, es war eine Urkunde über Juden in Köln.

According to the West German Foreign Office in 1960, Soviet propaganda met its match with Brits' renowned sense of fairness and self control...

Back at the BArch

Sharing in case this role is of interest to anyone

Guete Morge, Zürich

An exceptionally helpful visit to the @labiennale archives this past week. A huge thanks to the staff who went out of their way to accommodate and support my research.

Last weekend, I visited the San Sabba Rice Mill National Monument and Museum in #Trieste. On the site of this former rice husking mill was the only concentration camp with a crematorium on Italian soil.

Benvenuti a Venezia!

anti-Algerian pogrom in the GDR 50 years ago; v good research into a neglected event

#Padova #Italy #StreetArt

Today's view in the library #Biennale

This begs the question: what good is a phd-level knowledge of something without its depth? Millions of free phd level articles for free on jstor, but they are all 20+ pages and assume a phd level reader and interpreter. Having a source of the knowledge has never been the issue

One aspect that I hadn't anticipated when researching in the archives of the Venice Film Festival was that the East German Ministry for Culture and the DEFA film studio communicated with the festival committee in French ... except when the Ministry for Culture was angry. Then it wrote in German.

Buongiorno

Today's walk to the archive

Berlin, jetzt

Today’s view from the library

Weitere Impressionen aus dem Schienenersatzverkehr (#SEV) während der #Generalsanierung #Berlin - #Hamburg. Schöne Busse. Doch die Fahrzeit #Ludwigslust - #Berlin verlängert sich von 66 Minuten (ICE) auf mehr als dreieinhalb Stunden. #DB #EcoVista

One like, one history opinion 1. Read the introduction, conclusion and endnotes first - in that order

Every time I walk past this at work, I think “why is there a drawing of Prince Harry playing basketball on the wall?” 😂

It turns out the email I have been putting off writing for the last six weeks look five minutes to write and really wasn't that stressful. And yet there is no way I will learn from this.

Another day on Berlin public transport... This is the argument playing out right now. Peron 1 (P1) shouted at another person (P2) because their dog is unmuzzled on the bus. Another person (P3) agreed that P1 should have muzzled their dog bus is telling off P2 for making a scene and shouting.

Erin Bartram's piece came out 2.5 years ago, and I still think of it every day as the joys of my professional life are frequently crushed by the absolute demands imposed by institutions *refusing to hire people to do necessary work.*

In case you missed it, on ARD's Tagesthemen last night they discussed the Bundeswehrbeschafungsbeschleunigungsgesetztentwurf, with the Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz and Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtenabschaffungsgesetz for context.

Imagine being so powerful that a company is founded just to cater for your every passing whim

Ach, wie schön. Die Kinder gehen auf Klassenfahrt.

Back at the @unipotsdam.bsky.social to meet colleagues from universities throughout Brandenburg to discuss teaching practices as part of the Netzwerk Studienqualität Brandenburg’s qualification programme, recognised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik.

That's a wrap! A fascinating workshop at @unileipzig.bsky.social to kick off our forthcoming @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social book "East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy". In person and online, we came together to share and discuss thematic and methodological approaches.

Fascinating tour of the exhibition "Zwischen Aufbruch und Abwicklung. Die 90er in Leipzig" at the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig to round off our @unileipzig.bsky.social workshop on East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy

A brilliant second day of presentations and discussions at the international workshop East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy at @unileipzig.bsky.social, with a focus not only on the GDR and FRG, but also on France, the UK, Chile, and the US.

Geht eine Etage höher, da ist etwas wichtiges zu sehen. www.l-iz.de/leben/gesell...

All set for day two of East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy at @zeitgeschul.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social. The event is generously funded by the EU's #MSCA.

Preparing for tomorrow morning's papers by viewing (at 10pm in the evening!) Werner Tübke's fascinating painting Arbeiterklasse und Intelligenz at @unileipzig.bsky.social. A huge thanks to the EU's #MSCA for funding the workshop.

After a brilliant day of discussions and presentations as part of our @unileipzig.bsky.social workshop on East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy, we headed out to Plagwitz to learn about the history and legacies of industrialisation in the area.

A first day of fascinating discussions on the role of cultural heritage for the promotion of East German national identity abroad for the workshop East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy at @unileipzig.bsky.social @zeitgeschul.bsky.social . A huge thanks to the EU's #MSCA for funding the workshop.

Really excited to welcome presenters in person and online to Leipzig today for a two-day workshop on East German film and cultural diplomacy.

So schlimm ist der Berliner Wohnungsmarkt inzwischen geworden.

If you are in or around Leipzig later this month, I am hosting a two-day workshop on East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy at the Universität Leipzig on 17 and 18 July. Attendance is free. If you are interested in attending part or all of the event, do get in touch.

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

A question from a 1948 English school book - A First Year Algebra - for 15 year olds.

Student accommodation in the UK has changed since my university days.

For a shameless plug… “Deterritorializing the Stasi in Deutschland 83/86/89” is free to download in Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social, Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social and my @berghahnbooks.bsky.social edited volume “Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film”

I would be keen to hear from academics with an expertise in either film relations between the GDR and African countries or film relations between the GDR and Southern or East Asian countries.