1/I attended #BritCult2024 over the weekend! Thanks to all the organisers at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social! We had a blast! www.britcult.de/conference20... Haven't properly used Bluesky so far, but my main takeways of the conference and tips for further reading might be a good way to start this off! 🤓
My first #BritCult experience was great! Got to know a bunch of wonderful colleagues and learned about so many interesting projects! #BritCult2024 #AllTheFeels (the inofficial conference title)
Irene Valenti in front of her presentation
Irene Valenti in front of her presentation of 2 posters depicting Thatcher, one satirically
Dilâra Yilmaz in front of her presentation showing #sadgirl memes
Dilâra Yilmaz in front of her presentation showing the covers of Irish #sadgirlbooks
#BritCult2024 ended on a high note with @tamararadak.bsky.social 's talk on See Red Women's Workshop with great political poster art & @dilarayilmaz.bsky.social s talk on #sadgirl books as a social media phenomenon on the #bookmarket (#booktok), especially by #IrishWriters #IrishLiterature #BritCult
Irene Valenti in front of her presentation
Deborah de Muijnk in front of her presentation
In #BritCult2024 panel 5, Irene Valenti & Deborah de Muijnk explored affects related to #PercyByssheShelley's political poetry & #OscarWilde's #DorianGray respectively
#BritCult #AffectTheory #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies
on my way home from the #BritCult2024 conference in gorgeous innsbruck - 3 days full of inspiring papers and conversations on politics of affect, meeting colleagues old and new - thank you to the lovely team of organisers at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social for putting together such a special event!
In today's 1st panel of #BritCult2024 Ellen Grünkemeier presented her reading of the recent AppleTV+ series #CriminalRecord, read with Calvin & Hobbes & Ken Loach, while Jana Gohrish presented Steve McQueen's 2021 documentary "Uprising"
#BritCult #TelevisionStudies #FilmStudies
The 2nd keynote at yesterday's #BritCult2024 was given by Ann Cvetkovich about public feelings in a time of broken infrastructures. She gave the audience room for a personal writing exercise, acknowledging our feelings
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Gerold Sedlmayr & Joanne Rostek
We also heard a thoughtful conversation between Joanna Rostek & Gerold Sedlmayr on the role of #CulturalStudies in times of affective polarisation - on speechlessness, optimism and pessimism. Their appeal: "Dare to hope - train that Utopian muscle!"
#BritCult2024 #BritCult
Inspiring papers, captivating conversations and company, as well as the beautiful mountains! Thoroughly enjoyed #BritCult2024 @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social and will definitely be thinking over the points made over the past days! (but srsly look at those gorgeous mountains)
Merle Tönnies during video talk
Dennis Henneböhl during video talk
Andrew Wells in front of his presentation
Carolin Steinke in front of her presentation
Yesterday's Panel 2 at #BritCult2024 - Merle Tönnies & @d-henneboehl.bsky.social gave a great talk on the emotional rhetoric of the 2024 GB election, Andrew Wells on Liberty & Carolin Steinke on shame & the female body in Irish Nation-Building (#MagdaleneLaundries)
BritCult #AffectTheory
Currently listening to Ann Cvetkovich talking about "Public Feelings in a Time of Broken Infrastructures" 💜 #britcult2024
Final conference talk of the year is in the books. Looking forward to exciting panels & discussions at #BritCult2024 today.
Susanne Bayerlipp in front of her presentation
Julia Boll in front of her presentation
Anja Hartl in front of her presentation
Day 2 of #BritCult2024 started w a panel on class & politics of emotion in 3 great talks by Susanne Bayerlipp (Burberry & Chav culture), Julia Boll (Neoliberal framing of community volunteering) & @anjahartl.bsky.social (class & shame in Kieran Hurley's "Mouthpiece")
#AffectTheory #BritCult
Today was the first day of #BritCult2024 at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social!
The beautiful scenery of the Alps is breathtaking.
Today's keynote was by @carolynpedwell@bsky.social on #intuition & AI. She asked, "Perhaps we are trained intuitively to speak in the language of Capitalism..."
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My #AcademicWeek:
- a 1st- and a 3rd-year class
- a guest lecture in Munich
- recording my own lecture (so that I can go to Munich to guest lecture)
- #Britcult2024 conference in Innsbruck
- a dragon birthday (+ party) #AcademicParenting
Wish me luck!
