The Bard of Contention: Robert Burns & Scottish Cultural Politics
4 Feb, free online

Robert Burns’s political legacy remains deeply contested. Paul Malgrati explores the transformations of Burns’s image throughout the late modern era, as revolutionaries, nationalists, & avant-garde writers co-opted his myth to challenge Scotland’s social & constitutional order.

@litstudies

https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

The History of Burns Night – History Scotland webinar
23 January, online – tickets £10

Dr Pauline Mackay of the University of Glasgow delves into the rich history of Burns Night. Discover how Burns Night has come to symbolise Scottish identity, gathering people worldwide to honour the poet’s contributions to literature, language, & national pride.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3517373695324/WN_uN-kss27TheF1wKPYXjkcg#/registration

Advancing Music and Minorities Research

Apply for a seed money grant (€8,000) to develop innovative research projects in #MusicAndMinorities with MMRC at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Open to postdocs worldwide; successful projects will be hosted at MMRC.

Deadline for application: 09/03/2025

https://www.musicandminorities.org/seed-money/

Does anyone know of any papers on the German #children's show #Sandmännchen and its totally casual approach to diversity and inclusion?

Exhibit A: the biracial lesbian mothers going camping with their two kids.
In other episodes you have kids with different disabilities, ethnicities or faiths hanging out with each other and doing everyday stuff. The take home message is always the same: be kind.

Also, every episode is available with German Sign Language.

"Based on an analysis of 300k opening posts to the popular image-based discussion forum r/PoliticalCompassMemes, in this paper we offer an empirical analysis of how the ‘political compass’ meme template is used to playfully work out speculative political imaginaries that reconfigure existing ideologies into niche political subcultures. We observe various dynamics over time, including how participants self-identify with different ‘quadrants’ of the compass via meme characters and ‘flair’ metadata. To analyze these dynamics, we revisit a classic argument of the ‘Birmingham School’ of culture studies, concerning the latent relationship between revolutionary politics and youth subcultural styles. While finding value in the latter, we identify a fundamental shift in digital political subcultures from style as a proxy for politics to politics as a kind of style."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423340

First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
—Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.

@socialpsych@a.gup.pe

Job - Alert

Professorship in Jewish Studies (75%, open rank, temporary)

Deadline: 2024-12-01

Location: Switzerland, Lucerne

APPLY: https://www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=5629

Job - Alert

Assistenz (Doc) 60% Professur für Fotografische Medien

Deadline: 2024-11-03

Location: Switzerland, Basel

APPLY: https://www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=5592

Update: My new short book is now live! Paperbacks now available for order!

Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious
(Cambridge Elements in Environmental Humanities)

Open Access / Paperback

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/anthroposcreens/BC9EAF4970A7F3F2EF671B469B82F848

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009317702

Hooray for pandemic co-authoring fun stuff via Zoom! Here's an article on the TV series Dickinson that I wrote with Maria Sulimma @marsul for a special issue of Arts, called New Perspectives on Pop Culture, co-edited by Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. This piece has been taking shape for a while, but it came together despite how busy and/or ill we've been, and now it's up online and open access.

#TelevisionStudies #TV #Television #PopCulture #CulturalStudies #Commodon #MediaStudies #Remix #Intermediality #Multimodal #Poetry #LiteraryHistory #Biopic #Dickinson #AppleTV+
@television @communicationscholars @litstudies @poetry @histodons

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/12/2/62

#introductions I'm an #opensource developer currently working on the COPIM project (https://www.copim.ac.uk/) to enable #openaccess book publishing and experimental publishing. I'm also a #culturalstudies writer and #film critic: I've covered a range of film festivals and reviewed films for @TAKEONECinema and on podcasts. I've written academic work on #videogames like #OuterWilds and #KentuckyRouteZero, on #television like #TwinPeaks and #Yellowjackets, and on #memes.

Hi, I’m Maya. I recently got a Drphil in #culturalstudies (aka #Kulturwissenschaft in #Germany) for writing about #ethics in the #driverlesscar I have a history in #feministtech #digitalrights I study #digitalculture #data #ai #sts ;work as a writer-curator; and teach a Master’s program in #aiethics & #society I love making arguments-via my curricula-to my students in industry, govt & tech about why I am critical of #aiethics and foreground different practices of knowing,being, worldmaking

I now also have a parallel account for the more #academic output and networking over on @_bydbach_@hcommons.social where I will focus on my work on #LitStudies, #WelshWritingInEnglish and #CulturalStudies. I'll stick around this one though because I don't want to miss what's going on in tŵt land.
@litstudies @histodons @museum

#Introduction time.
This isn’t great because I’m ill but I’d like to find my people here. Edit: I like abled people too! :)

I’m #Disabled by #ChronicIllness which is pretty bad at the moment. I have
#SevereME #AdrenalDisease #Hypothyroidism #HyperParathyroidism #Endometriosis #Migraine #POTS / #Dysautonomia #ChronicPain & more, all topped off with #LongCovid. Hello #NEISvoid.

My interests now include not being deathly exhausted, in pain, or being rejected by doctors for being too complex a patient. (If you know good #doctors in #Melbourne #Australia still taking patients, let me know! I’ve tried contacting literally hundreds. Yes tried NIIM, wary now.)

I’m also looking for an #advocate to help with #accommodation #NDIS getting a good #GP #carer / #caregiver & navigating the system. I can’t find good healthcare & running out of energy for this so I’m writing before I can’t reach out. Happened before & hell it’s scary to have no energy to even open your eyes. For months.

Oh, also trying to escape #abuse. Didn’t want to say that because I’ll wear it forever but hi.

Normally interests include #Auspol #healthcare #science #MedicalResearch #MMT #CulturalStudies #philosophy #film #FilmPhotography #music #writing & remembering what I’m interested in… Being sick & in survival mode ruins your leisure time.

https://www.twitter.com/Halcionandon for backstory.

It’s nice to be here.
Hope this place stays cosy.

(More tags: #MECFS #PwME #PwLC #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Spoonie)