This month we have @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social's own @marsnicoli.bsky.social talking about Queerness in European Cinema. Also coming up this year The National Folklore Survey for England, The Precarious Migrant Worker and Megaliths (tbc). Monday 23rd February, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

I think a reasonably frequent experience for junior academics is a life wherein they were the smartest person in the room in most rooms they were in (even some pretty fancy rooms) up until The Great Filtration suddenly puts them among a bunch of other people with the same life experience.

My main takeaway from this "automation bias", the assumption that if the AI says it it must be true. Basically "computer says no", market fetishism or (as my partner immediately clocked) the plot of Brazil.

Some photos from @davidraho.bsky.social 's talk on AI to Europe in the Pub on Monday (and to @skepticsinthepub.bsky.social) #creenpy

Definitive ranking: 1) Days 2) Years 3) Bones 4) Weeks

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This month (different venue and earlier than usual) Europe in the Pub has another joint session with Sheffield @skepticsinthepub.bsky.social, and have @davidraho.bsky.social asking Should we be Resisting or Embracing AI?. Monday 19th January, 7:30pm, Farm Road Sports & Social Club, all welcome!

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Someone just addressed me as "Europe in the Pub guy", we're slowly building a profile @europeinthepub.bsky.social

Also coming up: megaliths in folk horror, migrant exploitation in the care industry, and AI.

This month we have Joel Mayfield from @unitetheunion.bsky.social talking about the ongoing strike at the Sheffield Veolia plant, which has now outlasted the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Monday 29th September, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

Throwback to the time we saw a heron.

Went to see more great crested grebes and their weird stripy chicks.

Slight change to booking: we're downstairs this evening

ATG Highlights 2025: - We Lost The Sea doing Departure Songs - Envy - Sugar Horse - Godspeed - Melvins - Walpurgis (all Sabbath covers) - Mars Volta channel

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This month, a week earlier than normal, Europe in the Pub has Harriet Earle on Whose war is it anyway? Vietnam, the US and France in conflict... and comics! Monday 18th August, 7:30pm, The Museum. Come along, and bring friends.

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This month the University of Sheffield's Guy Cowman-Sharpe will give us the latest on the US tariff situation. Also coming up this year: Vietnam war comics, early Zionism and folk horror. Monday 28th July, 7:30pm, The Museum, all welcome!

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Anya says: "CQ, measures capability to work effectively in diverse situations. CQ predicts readiness for relating effectively with people from different backgrounds. In this interactive session we investigate how you acquire CQ and what happens if you don’t bother!"

This month (a week early) we have Anya Louis, Professor of Transnational Popular Culture from Sheffield Hallam talking about Cultural Intelligence in a Globalised World. Monday 23rd June, usual time and place of 7:30pm at The Museum on Orchard Square. All welcome!

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This month: Chris Hall on the translation and adaptation of Georges Perec's Un Homme qui dort. 28th April, 7:30pm, The Museum, Orchard Square

Call for Contributions: special edition of the journal Nationalism & Ethnic Politics on Nationalism & Irony Deadline for articles, drafts and proposals: Friday 20th June drive.google.com/file/d/1mO2m...

Next session! On Monday 31st March, former parliamentary candidate for Doncaster North TUSC Andy Hiles will be talking about his experiences discussing Brexit on the doorsteps. As ever, 7:30pm, upstairs in the Musuem on Orchard Square. Hope to see you all there!

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A week on Monday! It's probably going to be bitter medicine for Europey types but not to be missed.

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Reminded of Banksy’s line about how the best way to do illegal graffiti is to wear a hi-viz vest and complain about your hourly rate

Next talk: Historical European Martial Arts with Luke from The Exiles Sheffield Monday 24th February, 7:30pm, The Museum pub

Happy New Year! Instead of the usual, January's session is at Farm Road Sports & Social Club, 7:30pm Monday 20th. In a joint session with Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, Dr Knut Roder from SHU Politics & IR will talk on EU integration: what it is and where it's headed under Trump 2.0. See you there!

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Safe, orderly routes is the only thing that will "stop the boats" and save lives #RefugeesWelcome www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The, quite horrific, details of the abuses carried out make it very, very, clear that this was about human trafficking, not smuggling. At the very least the Home Secretary should get the distinction right. This isn't semantics, it has serious implications. #r4today 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And we all know where in Europe Jews made the most effort towards assimilation and how things turned out there don't we? (Germany/Austria)

I still can't believe they made a Three Body Problem series where Wang Miao is a hot girl, everybody knows everybody else and Luo Ji fucks.

[Chappell Roan voice] Goodbye, Lenin!

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TONIGHT! Field archaeologist Jamal Bingham on The Etruscans. Monday 25th November 7:30pm The Museum, Orchard Square

Ok I didn't realise starter packs would make me follow so many people.

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