Recap of @easlce.bsky.social in Utrecht: it’s been amazing 🌿 Dipped my toes into the EASLCE waters — and then went for a dive 🤿 reconnecting with old friends, making new ones, discussing my project, and even finding time to explore the local bookshops 📚 already excited for next time in Bremen 2028 ✨
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Join us for another weekend of discussions on Speculative Ontologies 🚀 this time co-organised with
@gianlucacalio.bsky.social ✨ looking forward to some heated debates on Speculative Climates in Cologne 🔥🌏
deadline for abstracts is April 30 🗓️
thanks for spreading the word! 🌿
deine Überarbeitung kann ich mir sehr gut vorstellen 🥲 aber es lag sicher auch an fehlender Werbung meinerseits 🙂↕️ das nächste Mal sag ich dir Bescheid! 🙏🏻💫
Just a few more hours ⏳⚡️ tomorrow - thx to the Faculty 6 @tu-braunschweig.de - the workshop on “Speculative Cultures” that I co-organize with @lisacristea.bsky.social begins 🙌🏻 it’s the first in a longer future series for a new project on “Speculative Ontologies” 🚀🐉 #futurestudies
books, gaming, knitting.. love everything about this photo 🌿
Gerne! ✨ Biete: auch genug Arbeit an der Diss 🤓
exciting news 🎉 thank you for including my paper on #NKJemisin in this amazing interdisciplinary volume 📚 I’m really grateful to you and Zeynep for your encouraging words along the way - your care and dedication made it such a pleasure working with you both 🍀
thank you! 💫
how wonderful! 💫 that’s the icing on the cake 💝 looking forward to hearing more about your new(ish) position ✨
.. and it gets even better 🤩 my colleagues from @tu-braunschweig.de will also present ✨ @jacbarbau.bsky.social on game studies and Lisa Cristea on Indian clifi ✨ full on school trip vibes 🎓🌈 2/2
best way to end the week: my abstract for @easlce.bsky.social conference on Nonhuman Resistance was accepted 🐋✨ so excited to present on what I call #affinity studies and material identity in dark eco SFF 🌿 1/2
As #Anglistiktag2025 comes to a close, an era of the journal ends with the editorial office heading to Graz for a fresh start 🗞️
it’s been a pleasure working with @victoriaherche.bsky.social and @gianlucacalio.bsky.social
in the past ☀️ all the best to the new editorship @juliahoydis.bsky.social 🍀
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Germany did for a while, but thinking about its past doesn’t give me hope for the future - just more anxiety … no matter the country …
Thank you for gifting me/us this fabulous tale - one of those stories that truly inspire to be(come) more 💫
back home from #GfF25 with an enjoyable keynote by @forgottencreatures.bsky.social on the history of beastiaries 🐲🦄 it’s been fun delving into the realm of creatures & animals again 🪼 also quite happy with the great feedback on my PhD project & talk about The Devourers @indrapramitdas.bsky.social 🐾💫
The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....
congrats! 🌿✨ counting down the days until I can start reading your new work 💫
Elif Shafak: A Sociological Exploration of Gender and Migration. Public lecture by Ahmet Yıkık. Presented and moderated by Aylin Walder. Cologne International Forum: Salon. 2 July 2025. 6pm.
for my Cologne peeps (and anyone willing to travel a little) 🍃
join Ahmet from the @ucy1.bsky.social and me to discuss #ElifShafak and what it means to be human 🌈🎓 a key question also guiding my own research 💫 #PhDSky #envhum
Reminder:
We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits!
The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.
attended my first #DGfA25 ✨ fantastic community ~ inspiring keynotes ~ insightful panels ~ great coffee chats ✨ thanks to @danstein2025.bsky.social and his team for making it such a wonderful experience ✨
Collage of four photos featuring Katrin Horn speaking in front of a large room of people.
The second day of this year's annual conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS) in Siegen started gloriously with an amazingly rich & entertaining talk on 19th-century epistolary culture & queer intimacy by @katrinhorn.bsky.social. #AmericanStudies #QueerStudies #DGfA2025
supi ✨ dann sehen wir uns 😌
“There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true it conjures spirits from the past and future.” 🎶
#Sinners cinematic exploration of temporality is so captivating it conjures its own affective spirits 👀
thrilled for you! ✨
Lost in the world of medical drama and nearly done with my talk for our BritCult workshop on illness and health next week. Super excited to see and meet everyone! 🩺🏥⚕️💊 More info here: www.britcult.de/category/wok...
I’ll definitely visit whenever possible 💞 latest for the DGfA 💫
thanks for all your support that has made this new chapter possible! 💞
thanks ✨
no worries and thank you! 🥹💫