Yuliya Komska
@ykomska.bsky.social
writer & German Studies prof w/ a heart in Eastern Europe 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • 2025: Art & Politics of the High Wire • next: where Curious George came from; future of stained glass in the age of disaster • brooch enthusiast • 🐰,🍄,🪡
Pinned
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Mit einem „Walter-Lübcke-Memorial-Park“ konfrontiert das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit die CDU. Es warnt zudem vor einer Annäherung an die AfD.
Mahnung an die CDU: Walter-Lübcke-Denkmal vor die Tür gestellt
Mit einem „Walter-Lübcke-Memorial-Park“ konfrontiert das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit die CDU. Es warnt zudem vor einer Annäherung an die AfD.
taz.de
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Mit einem „Walter-Lübcke-Memorial-Park“ konfrontiert das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit die CDU. Es warnt zudem vor einer Annäherung an die AfD.
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
This is truly awful. I have served in the university media board for 3 years and saw how brilliant and committed the student editors of these magazines were to quality and integrity. This is such a loss for the university community at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is truly awful. I have served in the university media board for 3 years and saw how brilliant and committed the student editors of these magazines were to quality and integrity. This is such a loss for the university community at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Die israelische Regierung gibt zu, zahlreiche Artikel in deutschen Medien im Rahmen ihrer PR-Kampagne gefördert zu haben. Übersetzung aus einem Artikel bei Channel 12 über die diplomatischen Erfolge Israels in Deutschland www.mako.co.il/news-world/2...
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Die israelische Regierung gibt zu, zahlreiche Artikel in deutschen Medien im Rahmen ihrer PR-Kampagne gefördert zu haben. Übersetzung aus einem Artikel bei Channel 12 über die diplomatischen Erfolge Israels in Deutschland www.mako.co.il/news-world/2...
Me, getting börek for 20 students and faculty at Leylak
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Me, getting börek for 20 students and faculty at Leylak
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Sehr zu empfehlen: Dauerausstellung
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sehr zu empfehlen: Dauerausstellung
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
Today was the first time when I, confronted w/ questions about my ostensibly “unaccented” German, said that it comes from practicing for hours in front of a mirror & erasing my own self b/c neither Germans nor Germanists can deal with Slavic accents, & that it’s nothing I’m proud of. Satisfying!
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Today was the first time when I, confronted w/ questions about my ostensibly “unaccented” German, said that it comes from practicing for hours in front of a mirror & erasing my own self b/c neither Germans nor Germanists can deal with Slavic accents, & that it’s nothing I’m proud of. Satisfying!
“Never losing the thick, deliberate accent of his origins, even though he never spoke Czech.” What a life! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Sir Tom Stoppard obituary
One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“Never losing the thick, deliberate accent of his origins, even though he never spoke Czech.” What a life! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Ein wirklich schöner Erfolg der bürgerlichen liberal-konservativen Antifa. ✊️
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Unternehmerverband distanziert sich von der AfD
Nach Austritten von Unternehmen wie Rossmann und Fritz-Kola hat der Verband der Familienunternehmer seine Position korrigiert. Der Verband will sich künftig klar gegen die AfD positionieren.
www.faz.net
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ein wirklich schöner Erfolg der bürgerlichen liberal-konservativen Antifa. ✊️
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
CFP: Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
www.hsozkult.de
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
CFP: Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
An atlas of river stones, collected over 50 years and arranged by shape. Just incredible mossandfog.com/luigi-lineri...
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
An atlas of river stones, collected over 50 years and arranged by shape. Just incredible mossandfog.com/luigi-lineri...
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Trying to picture Adorno in a peep show bar thediasporist.de/from-auschwi...
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Trying to picture Adorno in a peep show bar thediasporist.de/from-auschwi...
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
With for-profit academic platforms and virtual databases/links, students no longer identify authors or original publishers (even if you ask them). Everything becomes "image #1/#2/#3" or "article on Wiley, another article on Wiley." Death of the author is too fucking real & not as Barthes envisioned
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
With for-profit academic platforms and virtual databases/links, students no longer identify authors or original publishers (even if you ask them). Everything becomes "image #1/#2/#3" or "article on Wiley, another article on Wiley." Death of the author is too fucking real & not as Barthes envisioned
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Netanyahu has requested a pardon from Israeli President Herzog. Netanyahu hasn’t been convicted yet and his trial is ongoing. We have to assume a pressure campaign on Herzog will follow and that Netanyahu will demand a pardon without admission of responsibility.
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Netanyahu has requested a pardon from Israeli President Herzog. Netanyahu hasn’t been convicted yet and his trial is ongoing. We have to assume a pressure campaign on Herzog will follow and that Netanyahu will demand a pardon without admission of responsibility.
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Remembering Janusz Korczak: the Polish-Jewish educator and pediatrician who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and refused rescue, choosing to stay with his 200 children when they were deported by the Nazis to the Treblinka extermination camp in August 1942, where...
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Remembering Janusz Korczak: the Polish-Jewish educator and pediatrician who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and refused rescue, choosing to stay with his 200 children when they were deported by the Nazis to the Treblinka extermination camp in August 1942, where...
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
⚡️ Update: 2 killed, 27 injured in 'serious' Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv.
At least 17 of the injured victims have been hospitalized following the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
At least 17 of the injured victims have been hospitalized following the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
2 killed, 27 injured in 'serious' Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv
One person has been killed and 11 others injured, including a child, amid a mass Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Nov. 29, local authorities reported.
kyivindependent.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
⚡️ Update: 2 killed, 27 injured in 'serious' Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv.
At least 17 of the injured victims have been hospitalized following the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
At least 17 of the injured victims have been hospitalized following the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
A GDR-era plaque for the Kochmanns, executed for membership in the German-Jewish Herbert Baum resistance group that fought Nazis with (among other things) arson, in Berlin Mitte. There’s an obvious tension between how Germany remembers past antifascists and how it speaks of those at present.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A GDR-era plaque for the Kochmanns, executed for membership in the German-Jewish Herbert Baum resistance group that fought Nazis with (among other things) arson, in Berlin Mitte. There’s an obvious tension between how Germany remembers past antifascists and how it speaks of those at present.
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
„Passfotos unter Zwang“ von Britta Lange ist eine engagierte und sehr lesenswerte Studie jenes militärisch-fotografischen Komplexes, den das Deutsche Reich während des Ersten Weltkriegs im sogenannten „Ober Ost“ errichtete. Hier habe ich das Buch für die FAZ besprochen:
1914 kam die Passfoto-Pflicht: Um Millionen Menschen beherrschen zu können
Was heute selbstverständlich scheint, begann 1914 als Kriegsmaßnahme: das Passfoto. Britta Lange zeigt, wie besetzte Gebiete zu Experimentierfeldern wurden, in denen bis zu drei Millionen Menschen fot...
www.faz.net
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
„Passfotos unter Zwang“ von Britta Lange ist eine engagierte und sehr lesenswerte Studie jenes militärisch-fotografischen Komplexes, den das Deutsche Reich während des Ersten Weltkriegs im sogenannten „Ober Ost“ errichtete. Hier habe ich das Buch für die FAZ besprochen:
Reposted by Yuliya Komska
07:15. Bereits Tausende sind in Gießen
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
07:15. Bereits Tausende sind in Gießen
If I’d known that German companies still make miniature refugee (ie expellee) figures to sell them, in treck formations, in tiny boxes for railway models and other pastimes, I’d have written my dissertation about that instead of Sudeten Germans at the Iron Curtain
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If I’d known that German companies still make miniature refugee (ie expellee) figures to sell them, in treck formations, in tiny boxes for railway models and other pastimes, I’d have written my dissertation about that instead of Sudeten Germans at the Iron Curtain