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Una Mullally
8 days ago
A second Irish citizen who was threatened with expulsion from Germany has had their expulsion order struck out. Charges related to a protest were not pursued "after it emerged Murray was already in police custody at the time the alleged events they were being charged with took place."
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moment mal ndl
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#momentmalblog
Der neue Blogbeitrag ist online! Darin spricht
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mit Antje RĂĄvik Strubel ĂŒber ihr literarisches Schreiben zwischen Poetik und Politik. Schau gerne auf unserem Blog vorbei! đ
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Carl Kinsella
13 days ago
"The reason anyone is hesitant to use AI isnât because they âlack confidenceâ â theyâre not trying to shift the AI at a disco â itâs because itâs being foisted on them in increasingly hamfisted ways that donât acknowledge the many drawbacks that seem to come along with it."
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Surrealing in the Years: I'm not a government minister and AI didn't help me write this article
The article is actually mostly about shopping centres.
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/surrealing-in-the-years-124-7028162-May2026/
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Verbrecher Verlag
13 days ago
Der Tag der Arbeit ist auch der Tag der sogenannten Gastarbeiter*innen. Wir empfehlen dazu: ââDie ganze Geschichte fasse ich an der Hand.â Literatur und Kunst zur Einwanderung ins Nachkriegsdeutschlandâ hg. v. Maha El Hissy.. Leseprobe:
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Joerg Lau
19 days ago
Dass die Berliner CDU ausgerechnet die AntisemitismusprÀvention korrumpiert hat, ist ein ungeheurer Skandal - weil es eine gefÀhrliche, reale Judenfeindlichkeit gibt. Der Skandal ist aber auch ein Effekt der Instrumentalisierung und Aushöhlung des Antisemitismus-Begriffs.
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Claas Gefroi
21 days ago
Wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt, will sie die Provenienzforschung zu Raubkunst aus dem NS stoppen. BegrĂŒndung: Die Forschung dient "nur der kĂŒnstlichen Aufrechterhaltung eines SchuldgefĂŒhls, das wir endlich ablegen sollten". Und es gibt ernsthaft Demokraten, die meinen, sollen die doch mal regieren.
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Wie die AfD sich die âpatriotische Wendeâ vorstellt
Sachsen-Anhalt sucht nach Raubkunst aus dem Nationalsozialismus â doch die AfD will die Provenienzforschung stoppen. Stattdessen sollen KriegerdenkmĂ€ler gepflegt und gefallene Soldaten geehrt werden.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/wie-die-afd-sich-die-patriotische-wende-vorstellt-200761120.html
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Annika Brockschmidt
25 days ago
If youâve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that
@tlecaque.bsky.social
and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now
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Nick Barlow
25 days ago
Totally fine that large parts of the British government are jumping into bed with a company whose public statements are "we are, at a fundamental level, absolutely batshit crazy neofascists".
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Suite (212)
29 days ago
Suite (212) is returning - but we need your support! Please subscribe to our Patreon - we'd love to start recording new shows for you soon ...
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Una Mullally
29 days ago
Lelia Doolan (91) has walked 220km across Ireland to protest the US military's use of Shannon.
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Woman (91) walks 220km to protest US military use of Shannon Airport
Organiser says requests to meet Taoiseach and TĂĄnaiste following two-week trek have gone unanswered
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/04/15/woman-91-walks-220km-to-protest-us-military-use-of-shannon-airport/
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Joe Noonan
about 1 month ago
2023.
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Jen Evans
about 2 months ago
Organizations in Germany from the Anne Frank House to anti-racist and feminist initiatives decry CDU-led defunding of critical democracy building initiatives. "Diversity is not a funding goal of the state."
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Springtime at UCD
about 2 months ago
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Drel:la, default effect
about 2 months ago
"Der parteilose Politiker wolle ein konservativeres Deutschland, was zwar sein gutes Recht sei. Er versuche aber, dieses Ziel nicht im politischen Diskurs zu erreichen, sondern mit dem einzigen Machtmittel, das er habe: Geld fĂŒr die Kulturförderung." ...
www.deutschlandfunk.de/klima-der-an...
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Bundesregierung - "Klima der Angst und Selbstzensur": Staatsminister Weimer verunsichert Kulturszene in Deutschland
Unter Kulturstaatsminister Weimer entwickelt sich offenbar ein Klima der Angst und Selbstzensur in der Kulturszene. Viele Institutionen fĂŒrchten um Fördergelder und erwĂ€gen deshalb einen Verzicht auf ...
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/klima-der-angst-und-selbstzensur-staatsminister-weimer-verunsichert-kulturszene-in-deutschland-100.html
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Volker Dohr
about 2 months ago
Merz 2023: "Kleine Paschas"-Aussage Merz 2023: "Zahnarzt"-Aussage Merz 2025: "Stadtbild"-Aussage Merz 2026: "Zuwanderer"-Aussage ...und dann findet sich noch dies, das, teils bis 2018 zurĂŒckreichend. Man könnte in der medialen Betrachtung langsam von einem gefestigten Weltbild reden, just saying.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 2 months ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Working Class History
about 2 months ago
#OtD
16 Mar 1978 the Beyazıt massacre took place in Istanbul when seven students were killed and 41 injured at the University of Istanbul. The bomb, by right-wing nationalists, targeted left-wing students. No one was punished for the murders
stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7778...
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ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
2 months ago
âDie Justiz muss Beweise sammeln und wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ermitteln. Die rechtliche Aufarbeitung des Massakers ist ein Hebel, um das Regime unter Druck zu setzen. Doch statt die Mittel des Völkerrechts zu nutzen, wird jetzt blind bombardiertâ, so Navid Kermani.
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Autor Navid Kermani zu Irankrieg: "Ich fĂŒrchte, dass danach nur Chaos bleiben wird"
Die USA haben nach Ansicht des Autors Navid Kermani keinen Plan fĂŒr den Iran. Er fĂŒrchtet die Gewalt des Regimes gegen das eigene Volk.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/iran-regierungswechsel-durch-die-opposition-interview-mit-navid-kermani-100.html
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Dr Mary McAuliffe
2 months ago
Probably the largest protest Iâve seen in UCD - in solidarity with the UCD medical student who suffered horrific
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Iâm proud to see so many of my students here.
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JĂŒrgen Zimmerer
2 months ago
BuchhĂ€ndler, die die Demokratie gefĂ€hrden, wer kennt sie nicht....đ€Šââïž Weimer lĂ€sst Buchhandlungen durch Verfassungsschutz ĂŒberprĂŒfen.... Kulturkampf voll im Gang? Wer meint, die GefĂ€hrdung der offenen Gesellschaft gehe nur von extremen rechten Rand aus, irrt vielleicht.
www.zeit.de/feuilleton/a...
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Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis: Wolfram Weimer schlieĂt drei linke Buchhandlungen von Preis aus
Der Kulturstaatsminister hat drei BuchgeschĂ€ften den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis verwehrt. Vorausgegangen war einem Bericht zufolge eine PrĂŒfung des Verfassungsschutzes.
https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/ausland/2026-03/deutscher-buchhandlungspreis-wolfram-weimer-verfassungsschutz-linksextremismus-kunstfreiheit
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Jonathon Catlin
3 months ago
The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads" I co-edited is now out! My long introductory essay, "The Perils of Negative Exceptionalism: German Memory Culture from Model to McCarthyism," is available open access:
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SiobhĂĄn Dowling
3 months ago
Would anyone have come across a retelling of a Grimms Fairytale where the genders were reversed? Snow White would be amazing, but any others would work too!
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Feljin Jose
6 months ago
Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
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Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland - ISD Bund e.V.
9 months ago
»Die Umbenennung ist ein Symbol dafĂŒr, dass eine rassistische Fremdbezeichnung fĂŒr Schwarze Menschen, Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft, aus dem öffentlichen Raum verbannt wurde.«
www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193...
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Hunderte feiern die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-StraĂe in Berlin
AngekĂŒndigt, abgesagt, doch durchgefĂŒhrt: Am Samstag wurde feierlich die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-StraĂe in Berlin eingeweiht. Kurz zuvor drohte die Umbenennung der ehemaligen MohrenstraĂe an einem Eilantrag...
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193532.strassenumbenennung-hunderte-feiern-die-anton-wilhelm-amo-strasse-in-berlin.html
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Marcus đłïžâđđ§đ§
9 months ago
The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions
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BrĂan Hanrahan
9 months ago
anti-Algerian pogrom in the GDR 50 years ago; v good research into a neglected event
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taz
10 months ago
In ihrem PlĂ€doyer kritisierte NebenklageanwĂ€ltin Seda BaĆay-Yıldız das bisherige Verfahren scharf: âWas hier passiert ist, ist ein Spiegelbild unserer Gesellschaft. Alles, was nach rechts aussieht, wird kleingeredet oder am besten gar nicht ermittelt.â
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Leila Essa
10 months ago
A new interview with
@mahaelhissy.bsky.social
in
@newgermanbooks.bsky.social
on her 'Accidental Portents' project and upcoming podcast series 'Ne7ki' with Palestinian writers in and outside Gaza.
www.new-books-in-german.com/interview-wi...
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Counteracting canonisation in literature â an interview with Dr Maha El Hissy â New Books in German
NBG interviews Dr Maha El Hissy
https://www.new-books-in-german.com/interview-with-dr-maha-el-hissy/
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Eliot Higgins
10 months ago
This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.
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Michael Sappir
10 months ago
Terrifying police violence in Berlin again today, against protestors for Palestine of course. Police in heavy gear hammering away at peaceful demonstrators. And the fascists aren't even technically in power (yet)
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Maureen Gallagher
10 months ago
In spite of all the professional chaos lately, I'm pleased to see this piece out today in early view and open access in Unterrichtspraxis. It's the culmination of a couple of years of writing and thinking about these issues, which are more important now than ever. Out in print later this year!
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Reframing GenderâInclusive Language in German Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Possibilities
Recently in Germany the question of gender-inclusive language has become another front in the culture wars. Headlines portray these linguistic innovations as disruptive and unnecessary while politici...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tger.70020
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Jason Hickel
10 months ago
New research published by The Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The health toll of economic sanctions
Financing for global health is the main topic of discussion in 2025, especially since the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville earlier this month. This issue contain...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00278-5/fulltext
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You can hear more about the book and my chapter in particular here on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Nice to hear my research discussed on German radio!
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-ganze-ge...
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In Germany, you canât make connections between antisemitism and other forms of racism. In Britain, you canât say they are different. Make it make sense.
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New publiction in Maha El Hissyâs edited volume '"Die ganze Geschichte fasse ich an der Hand": Literatur und Kunst zur Einwanderung ins Nachkriegsdeutschland'. My own contribution traces a tradition of anti-racist poetry in Turkish-German writing from the 70s to today.
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Jeannette Oholi
11 months ago
Ich freue mich so sehr ĂŒber diesen von
@mahaelhissy.bsky.social
herausgegebenen Band! Ich bin groĂer Fan von SammelbĂ€nden und anderen vielstimmigen Publikationen. Wenn sie, wie dieser Band, gut gemacht sind, können sie nĂ€mlich zu Diskursverschiebungen beitragen.
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Verbrecher Verlag
10 months ago
Jetzt hat es auch die Herausgeberin -
@mahaelhissy.bsky.social
mit dem von ihr herausgegebenen Buch ââDie ganze Geschichte fasse ich an der Hand.â Literatur und Kunst zur Einwanderung ins Nachkriegsdeutschlandâ. Leseprobe:
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Max Czollek
11 months ago
"Wer feministische oder antirassistische Bewegungen, die sich fĂŒr Gleichberechtigung & Teilhabe einsetzen, pauschal als ideologisch motivierte Bedrohung fĂŒr die Kunstfreiheit darstellt, leistet letztlich jener Polarisierung Vorschub, vor der Weimer selbst warnt."
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kultu...
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"Kultur braucht Vielfalt â und klare Haltung": Eine Replik auf Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer
Die Freiheit ist kein neutraler Raum. Gleichsetzungen von links und rechts sind politisch gefÀhrlich, meint Sven Lehmann, Vorsitzender des Kulturausschusses des Bundestags
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kulturpolitik-freiheit-wolfram-weimer-replik-sven-lehmann-li.3265757
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Racial bloodlines, 1945 as a liberation of Germany, imported antisemitism. Chancellor, you are truly spoiling us
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Sing in German, you cowards!
#slcleurovision
12 months ago
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Jeannette Oholi
about 1 year ago
Ich bin sehr dankbar fĂŒr die tollen Beitragenden und die schöne Zusammenarbeit - der Band erscheint im Mai bei
@transcript-verlag.bsky.social
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www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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UCD Humanities Institute
about 1 year ago
We were delighted to host Profs Kader Konuk & Vanessa Agnew, who spoke generously & movingly about their inspiring âAcademy in Exileâ project, a case study on the theme of the crisis of the humanities.
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UCD Humanities Institute
about 1 year ago
We are delighted to welcome world-renowned public intellectuals Aleida Assmann and Susan Neiman to the HI for a TNH roundtable on âThe Future of Cultural Memory in Times of Disruptionâ | 28th May 2025 @ 4.30pm | Please register for this free event on eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-future...
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Honoured to take part in this book launch in Cambridge and see my volume in such good company as work by Maha El Hissy, Jeannette Oholi, Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz and Tara Talwar Windsor. Thanks for the interesting discussions about radical diversity in German Studies!
@ucdslcl.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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