Very belated, but huge congratulations Dr. Graham-Dixon!

Soapbox 7.0: call for papers Between Bodies and Homes — peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals — ‍ To feel like we belong is one of our most common desires. Our bodily relation to home is not a simple one: it is marked by hostile power structures. These structures plunge the body into an interconnected web of demarcations, mediations, and hierarchisation, which determine one’s ability or failure to feel at home. Race, gender, ability, and class are factors that designate one’s sense of home. Labels further differentiate between bodies, some rendered political (“immigrant,” “refugee”), while others insidiously a-political (“expat”). How do we think with the body in ways that address its complicated relationship to home? What are the ways to engage with our bodily positionalities that may allow for a more equitable habitation? ‍ Thinking with aestheSis that privileges sensing over totalising reasoning of aestheTics, María Lugones sees the body through its permeability, which “allows us to reconceive about the world we live in.” Turning towards the sensorial relationality, we discover that the fixed, man-made, ‘rational’ lines that demarcate home and body as separate, contain leaks. Leaks that bring the body home. For its eighth issue, Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis invites (young) researchers, (established) scholars, and creatives alike to submit works that consider practices, experiences, and methodologies that uncover punctures and cavities of structures, lines, boundaries, and borders. What seeps, spills, or flows through these holes? What exists in between home and body that informs who and where we are? What are the moments when the body and home are torn apart? And when do they collapse into one?

I'm pleased to share this cfp from Soapbox (graduate journal in Cultural Analysis)
Between Bodies and Homes
— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —

‍www.soapboxjournal.net/page/call-for-papers-7-0...

Cracking the Magafacists code

We’ve put together a starter pack of alternative media outlets. Follow these to get a different take on the news. 👇

The Future of Cultural Analysis Across the humanities and the social sciences, “cultural analysis” is a vibrant research practice. Since its introduction in the 1990s, its main principles have remained largely the same: interdiscipl...

Now available in open access: The Future of Cultural Analysis, edited by Murat Aydemir, Noa Roei, and Aylin Kuryel, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Great piece (in Dutch) by @cineville-nl.bsky.social 's Maan Melker on Raoul Peck's new film, 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' - and the still unresolved mystery of how Cole's lost archive suddenly appeared in the vaults of a Swedish bank www.cineville.nl/magazine/int...

Sent to your uni mail!

Palestinians don’t need your sympathy or your pity or your symbolic gestures. We need you to cut ties with our killers and colonizers. We need you to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. Yes that includes academic institutions, whose commitment to genocide and apartheid is well documented.

What a day. What a club. The Reds 😍❤️❤️❤️

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) | Melkweg Amsterdam Together with Steppin' Into Tomorrow and Africadelic we present this new documentary by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez, which brings together jazz and colonial history. 16 February 1961. Two j...

www.melkweg.nl/en/agenda/so... Superb film - twisting the kaleidoscope on familiar and unfamiliar sounds and images to produce 2hrs of cinema that honours the ongoing histories of decolonization and exposes both the cynicism and pantomime of geopolitics - and their painful entanglements with jazz.

"We cannot separate the question of reparations from decolonization. What good is a transfer of stolen land from settlers to victims of kidnapping? We have to return to a transformative vision that sees reparations discourse as diagnostic..." Robin D. G. Kelley

Something most people do not know is that there are almost no Black Studies degree courses at UK universities. Birmingham City University has recently cut its only undergraduate course.

Been considering authorship practices in academia, and I think "Guest, Gift and Ghost authorship" no longer describes the full range of unethical issues that we see. Here's a draft longer list. Would love opinions.
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#researchintegrity #academicsky

kabinetsloopthogeronderwijs | De Algemene Onderwijsbond

Just a reminder:

Demonstration against higher education and research cuts
Monday November 25, 1300. Malieveld, The Hague

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Lionel Shriver - The Spectator

View from high in the balcony of the Tuschinski cinema in Amsterdam with two people seated in conversation under screen showing scene from Mati Diop's film 'Dahomey' showing a man looking at one of the 26 'items' - a statue of King Ghazo in the form of a shark - returned to Benin from France in 2021.

Mati Diop's Dahomey at IDFA Amsterdam. Superb film, superb conversation between Diop and Quinsy Gario. What does it mean that 90% of one continent's material cultural legacy is buried in the dark of the catacombs under another continent? Dahomey one answer to the enormity of that fact. #restitution

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

And on November 25, we will still go to protest all of us together, in The Hague, and we will be with many more than originally envisioned.

We will resist these stupid, illogical, unnecessary, harmful, and illegitimate budget cuts -- until they are gone.

#WOinActie

The frustration at Dutch universities is tangible today. Being faced with huge, irrational, shortsighted cutbacks is frustrating. Being denied the opportunity to protest these cutbacks adds to the frustration. But while today’s huge demonstration may be cancel, the protest is not 🟥

Getting ready for national protest tomorrow against the shortsighted cuts in higher education and research in the Netherlands.

You can still join. Details below ⬇️

Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

stand with striking workers! NYT games and cooking are a no-go during the tech guild strike