Bosnian and Albanian Studies: Bridging the Divide Virtual Panel
Today at 3pm EST with @lediona.bsky.social @harunb.bsky.social @ademferizaj.bsky.social Piro Rexhepi
Dženita Karić
#Bosnian #Albanian Studies 🔥🔥🔥
#Balkansky 🗃️
thx for sharing! 🙌
po m’vjen keq që po ju prishi pak iluzionet me sabah, ama shqiptarët e sirisë e kanë ruajtë identitetin shqiptar edhe pse s’kanë jetu në trojet shqiptare, që disa prej jush t’obsesionum me racën tonë ariane t’bardhë, t’pastër e t’lashtë ia kanë mveshë arbëreshëve pa shumë bazë.
we all need to tweet more about the nish genocide against albanians and other muslims in the region during the winter of 1877-78.
i’m sure i’m not the first to say this, but: ethnicity is race for white people.
hard to argue that european colonialism – especially its german variant – didn't disrupt the course of our history, as bosnia was literally colonised by the habsburg empire in 1878, and albania ended up with a german aristocrat as head of state after its independence in 1912.
currently reading this by @edinh.bsky.social and loving what i’m learning about the bosnian intellectual mehmed šaćir kurtćehajić! 👨🏻🏫
thank you, currently reading your book, chapter 5. citing it in my phd inshallah! 👨🏻🏫
thank you, vjosa!
happening right now: @pirorexhepi.bsky.social presenting his book "white enclosures" at the university of prishtina
moderation by lirika demiri and gëzim selaci
prizren, kosova, is full 🍉🍉🍉
Genocide isn’t an event but a spectrum. There will always be semantic/legal debates, but once you reach the point where the mass murder of non-combatants becomes a vital part of a broader campaign to permanently “remove” a population from some territory, it’s perfectly fair to bring up the G word.
So much is being revealed (again) about how little most academics care about the world they write, teach and speak about.
Tweet von Olaf Scholz in dem er Zahl der geflüchteten "zu hoch" nennt und "effiziente Rückführung" ankündigt
Jedes einzelne Wort eine Gewalttat
I really thought nothing could top the insanity that is American political discourse on Israel and Palestine, but now I realize that Germany is every bit as deranged just with a cultured veneer. More smugly self-satisfied than zealously militant, unmistakably racist all the same.
I need white Germans to realize that May Ayim was a poet in addition to being an activist, intellectual, speech therapist, etc. Her writing has literary significance. Just because you don't read her doesn't mean she isn't important. 1/
Today I taught about French settler colonialism and the Algerian revolution (and Fanon’s “A Dying Colonialism”) and it seems like some of my students were struck by French Algerian assimilation policy: that indègenes could be French, or they could *remain* Muslim, but they couldn’t be both.
your daily reminder that if you want to know what's going on in the balkans, just listen to the voices of the racialised – roma, bosnians, albanians
![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we)
There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there. And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important. Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.” And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
