Alican
@alicans.bsky.social
M.A., M.Ed.| PhD student in American Studies @ Leibniz University Hannover | rejuvenation
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Hier bieten wir Journalist*innen und anderen Medienschaffenden unser gebündeltes Expert*innenwissen zu Themen rund um die Geschichte, Kultur, Literatur und Politik Nordamerikas an:
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January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Hier bieten wir Journalist*innen und anderen Medienschaffenden unser gebündeltes Expert*innenwissen zu Themen rund um die Geschichte, Kultur, Literatur und Politik Nordamerikas an:
dgfa.de/opportunitie...
dgfa.de/opportunitie...
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How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth-century Germany?
Robert D. Priest explores these little-known origins.
Robert D. Priest explores these little-known origins.
The Origins of Culture Wars
How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth century Germany? Robert D. Priest explores.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 AM
How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth-century Germany?
Robert D. Priest explores these little-known origins.
Robert D. Priest explores these little-known origins.
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Ich habe zwei PhD-Stellen für die Erforschung von Biodiversitätsnarrativen zu vergeben. 4 Jahre vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanziert an der Universität Fribourg (Schweiz). Bewerbungsschluss 13. März. Bitte an Interessierte weiterleiten!
Mehr Infos:
www.claudia-keller.ch/files/upload...
Mehr Infos:
www.claudia-keller.ch/files/upload...
January 26, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Ich habe zwei PhD-Stellen für die Erforschung von Biodiversitätsnarrativen zu vergeben. 4 Jahre vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanziert an der Universität Fribourg (Schweiz). Bewerbungsschluss 13. März. Bitte an Interessierte weiterleiten!
Mehr Infos:
www.claudia-keller.ch/files/upload...
Mehr Infos:
www.claudia-keller.ch/files/upload...
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Angebote für Studierende, "die noch nicht so gern prompten, weil sie lieber selbst formulieren und denken wollen."
Dazu fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein.
Dazu fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein.
December 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Angebote für Studierende, "die noch nicht so gern prompten, weil sie lieber selbst formulieren und denken wollen."
Dazu fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein.
Dazu fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein.
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On Thursday, November 27, we welcome a special guest: Join us for a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social on newspaper comics and the Yellow Kid! The lecture is part of Kathleen's @kathleenloock.bsky.social course on “Seriality and Popular Culture.”
More info below!
More info below!
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
On Thursday, November 27, we welcome a special guest: Join us for a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social on newspaper comics and the Yellow Kid! The lecture is part of Kathleen's @kathleenloock.bsky.social course on “Seriality and Popular Culture.”
More info below!
More info below!
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D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51
D'Angelo Dead at 51
Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.
www.tmz.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51
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Gerade angekommen: Am 17.9. erscheint mein Buch "Frauen in Bewegung" zu politischen Räumen von Migrantinnen aus der Türkei in West-Berlin (1961-1989) im Print und Open Access. Ich freue mich sehr! Mehr Infos gibts hier: www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535916...
September 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Gerade angekommen: Am 17.9. erscheint mein Buch "Frauen in Bewegung" zu politischen Räumen von Migrantinnen aus der Türkei in West-Berlin (1961-1989) im Print und Open Access. Ich freue mich sehr! Mehr Infos gibts hier: www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535916...
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Wie Feedback geben und wie Feedback bekommen? @joelalala.bsky.social und ich haben einen Guide erarbeitet, der bei @ddgc.bsky.social frei zugänglich ist (Deu&Eng):
www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/be...
Danke an alle, die uns unterstützt haben - inbesondere Isabel von Holt für die Übersetzung.
www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/be...
Danke an alle, die uns unterstützt haben - inbesondere Isabel von Holt für die Übersetzung.
Best Practices for Giving and Receiving Feedback — The DDGC Collective
Joela Jacobs and Jeannette Oholi put together guidelines for sharing feedback during review processes of various varieties, in English or German.
www.ddgccollective.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Wie Feedback geben und wie Feedback bekommen? @joelalala.bsky.social und ich haben einen Guide erarbeitet, der bei @ddgc.bsky.social frei zugänglich ist (Deu&Eng):
www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/be...
Danke an alle, die uns unterstützt haben - inbesondere Isabel von Holt für die Übersetzung.
www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/be...
Danke an alle, die uns unterstützt haben - inbesondere Isabel von Holt für die Übersetzung.
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Wir gedenken: Heute vor 25 Jahren, am 9. September 2000, wurde Enver Şimşek an seinem Blumenstand in #Nürnberg vom #NSU ermordet. Er hinterließ seine Ehefrau und seine zwei Kinder. Er war das erste Opfer der rassistischen Mordserie des NSU.
#KeinSchlussstrich #KeinVergessen
#KeinSchlussstrich #KeinVergessen
September 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Wir gedenken: Heute vor 25 Jahren, am 9. September 2000, wurde Enver Şimşek an seinem Blumenstand in #Nürnberg vom #NSU ermordet. Er hinterließ seine Ehefrau und seine zwei Kinder. Er war das erste Opfer der rassistischen Mordserie des NSU.
#KeinSchlussstrich #KeinVergessen
#KeinSchlussstrich #KeinVergessen
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@dilan-c.bsky.social and I are co-organising a seminar on @saranahmed.bsky.social at next year‘s ACLA! 😱 We want to assemble an international team of Ahmed-nerds and killjoy enthusiasts. Please send us your abstract and join us in The City of Conferences, Montreal! ✨ www.acla.org/seminar/028c...
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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August 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
@dilan-c.bsky.social and I are co-organising a seminar on @saranahmed.bsky.social at next year‘s ACLA! 😱 We want to assemble an international team of Ahmed-nerds and killjoy enthusiasts. Please send us your abstract and join us in The City of Conferences, Montreal! ✨ www.acla.org/seminar/028c...
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
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"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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July 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."
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Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
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This piece is a how-to guide for analyzing cartoons as historical documents and propaganda, but the questions within it apply to all media:
Who made it? Who commissioned it? What's the social/political/cultural context of the piece? What is depicted and whose perspective informed that choice?
Who made it? Who commissioned it? What's the social/political/cultural context of the piece? What is depicted and whose perspective informed that choice?
So, this week, in lieu of a film review, I shared a learning resource I wrote a few years ago that was published behind a paywall.
Some of our best scholarly sources are locked away from the people who would benefit from them most and I find that despicable.
open.substack.com/pub/vaughnjo...
Some of our best scholarly sources are locked away from the people who would benefit from them most and I find that despicable.
open.substack.com/pub/vaughnjo...
Jokes and Mirrors: Using Cartoons as Primary Sources for Historical Research
A Media Literacy Lesson Plan
open.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This piece is a how-to guide for analyzing cartoons as historical documents and propaganda, but the questions within it apply to all media:
Who made it? Who commissioned it? What's the social/political/cultural context of the piece? What is depicted and whose perspective informed that choice?
Who made it? Who commissioned it? What's the social/political/cultural context of the piece? What is depicted and whose perspective informed that choice?
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Wer kann hier bei einem wichtigen Promotionsprojekt helfen?
June 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Wer kann hier bei einem wichtigen Promotionsprojekt helfen?
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Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
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I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What is Close Reading?
By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?
www.thenation.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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In diesen Zeiten 1 wichtiges Signal: #Koalitionsvertrag stellt Stärkung der Sozial-, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in Aussicht.*
*(Ja, gut möglich, dass wir daran werden erinnern müssen -- aber es ist gut, dass es hier 1 Versprechen gibt, dessen Einhaltung wir einfordern können.)
*(Ja, gut möglich, dass wir daran werden erinnern müssen -- aber es ist gut, dass es hier 1 Versprechen gibt, dessen Einhaltung wir einfordern können.)
April 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In diesen Zeiten 1 wichtiges Signal: #Koalitionsvertrag stellt Stärkung der Sozial-, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in Aussicht.*
*(Ja, gut möglich, dass wir daran werden erinnern müssen -- aber es ist gut, dass es hier 1 Versprechen gibt, dessen Einhaltung wir einfordern können.)
*(Ja, gut möglich, dass wir daran werden erinnern müssen -- aber es ist gut, dass es hier 1 Versprechen gibt, dessen Einhaltung wir einfordern können.)
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Ich bin sehr dankbar für die tollen Beitragenden und die schöne Zusammenarbeit - der Band erscheint im Mai bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social 💜
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
April 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Ich bin sehr dankbar für die tollen Beitragenden und die schöne Zusammenarbeit - der Band erscheint im Mai bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social 💜
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...