Sara Dybris McQuaid
@saradm.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Aarhus University. Peace, Conflict, Memory, Northern Ireland. Here for politics and righteous indignation.
Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.
July 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.
Mette Frederiksen bliver interviewet i Britisk Vogue (August). www.vogue.co.uk/article/mett...
July 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Mette Frederiksen bliver interviewet i Britisk Vogue (August). www.vogue.co.uk/article/mett...
An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk
June 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk
While visiting Albania for work, I've been reading the oral history book "Life is War" by Shannon Woodcock. Before that, the only thing I'd ever read about Albania was Lea Ypi's "Free" -there is much to know about how oppression and self-limitation/survival works prishtinainsight.com/pasts-unspok...
April 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
While visiting Albania for work, I've been reading the oral history book "Life is War" by Shannon Woodcock. Before that, the only thing I'd ever read about Albania was Lea Ypi's "Free" -there is much to know about how oppression and self-limitation/survival works prishtinainsight.com/pasts-unspok...
@slowmemo.bsky.social comes to Tirana. Albania is something else!
March 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
@slowmemo.bsky.social comes to Tirana. Albania is something else!
What happened between Nov 2024 and March 2025? #MaryAnnMcCracken #CliftonStreet
March 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What happened between Nov 2024 and March 2025? #MaryAnnMcCracken #CliftonStreet
When you are trying to preserve an archive that has fallen out of administration, but also the sun is shining.
March 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
When you are trying to preserve an archive that has fallen out of administration, but also the sun is shining.
It was a brilliant experience - I assume you have already been @drdeiana.bsky.social ? Otherwise gogogogo! On until March 23
March 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It was a brilliant experience - I assume you have already been @drdeiana.bsky.social ? Otherwise gogogogo! On until March 23
Waiting to go “in pursuit of repetitive beats” at Carlisle Memorial
March 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Waiting to go “in pursuit of repetitive beats” at Carlisle Memorial
So long, Belfast. I will miss you and your people as ever.
February 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So long, Belfast. I will miss you and your people as ever.
Working in Carnegie Oldpark library is a wonderful process of discovery. Slowly layering up the history & memories of the building, its locality and the people who have been in and around it. A real privilege to be included in the project of bringing it back to life. www.facebook.com/carnegieoldp...
February 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Working in Carnegie Oldpark library is a wonderful process of discovery. Slowly layering up the history & memories of the building, its locality and the people who have been in and around it. A real privilege to be included in the project of bringing it back to life. www.facebook.com/carnegieoldp...
New phone - who dis? (Mesmerised by the picture quality of a (refurbished) phone beyond my 2nd generation SE)
January 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New phone - who dis? (Mesmerised by the picture quality of a (refurbished) phone beyond my 2nd generation SE)
Today we walked up Cave Hill and met a cat. ♥️ Belfast
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today we walked up Cave Hill and met a cat. ♥️ Belfast
It's a great view, but the writing is sloooooooooooooooow
January 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It's a great view, but the writing is sloooooooooooooooow
Two days before Christmas, we all meet to play the boardgame "Derby". It takes around 6-7 hours and it's a wonderful way to settle down for the days to come.
December 22, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Two days before Christmas, we all meet to play the boardgame "Derby". It takes around 6-7 hours and it's a wonderful way to settle down for the days to come.
I aften optrådte min datter m Nøddeknækkeren i Tivoli De var simpelthen så gode & jeg er så stolt af hendes hårde arbejde & rørt af hendes glæde ved dans. Jeg vil ikke poste en video, m børn, som jeg ikke kan spørge om lov, så her er et billede af den åbenhjertede mor og et grab der ligner papirklip
December 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM
I aften optrådte min datter m Nøddeknækkeren i Tivoli De var simpelthen så gode & jeg er så stolt af hendes hårde arbejde & rørt af hendes glæde ved dans. Jeg vil ikke poste en video, m børn, som jeg ikke kan spørge om lov, så her er et billede af den åbenhjertede mor og et grab der ligner papirklip
Everywhere can (and should) be a place for dance (my youngest ascending from Copenhagen's metro).
December 8, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Everywhere can (and should) be a place for dance (my youngest ascending from Copenhagen's metro).
This afternoon, I should have been writing, But instead I was knitting….
December 2, 2024 at 4:45 PM
This afternoon, I should have been writing, But instead I was knitting….
Returning home from Belfast after some packed days of workshopping, walking, talking and stopping. Always a pleasure. Sometimes guilty.
November 21, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Returning home from Belfast after some packed days of workshopping, walking, talking and stopping. Always a pleasure. Sometimes guilty.
The Agreement handwritten on Red Cross stretchers.
November 20, 2024 at 5:54 PM
The Agreement handwritten on Red Cross stretchers.
A couple of years ago, I watched the brilliant documentary "Young Plato", about how the Holy Cross school tries to use philosophy to break patterns of thinking in North Belfast. They created a new kind of mural to illustrate it. Today, I finally walked up to Ardoyne to see it in person.
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
A couple of years ago, I watched the brilliant documentary "Young Plato", about how the Holy Cross school tries to use philosophy to break patterns of thinking in North Belfast. They created a new kind of mural to illustrate it. Today, I finally walked up to Ardoyne to see it in person.
Doing work in Belfast Central Library's excellent local newspaper section - realising North Belfast had a "Best Milkman" competition as late as 2005.
November 19, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Doing work in Belfast Central Library's excellent local newspaper section - realising North Belfast had a "Best Milkman" competition as late as 2005.
Going to Malmø to present some recent work on memories of regeneration policy in Belfast (i.e. past hopes for the future...). It's for a research cluster in urban humanities and I'm really struck by how much some of that field resembles what's going on in the peacebuilding literature: minor utopias!
November 15, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Going to Malmø to present some recent work on memories of regeneration policy in Belfast (i.e. past hopes for the future...). It's for a research cluster in urban humanities and I'm really struck by how much some of that field resembles what's going on in the peacebuilding literature: minor utopias!