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Buchvorstellung: „Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington“ – Veranstaltung am Heidelberg Center for American Studies gewährt Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung zu amerikanischem Pfarrer und ehemaligem Sklaven https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/buchvorstellung-rediscovering-james-wc-pennington
_________Book Presentation: “Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington” – Event at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies grants insights into current research on the American pastor and former slave https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/book-presentation-rediscovering-james-wc-pennington
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #amerikanistik #americanstudies #theologie #pennington
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Buchvorstellung: „Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington“ – Veranstaltung am Heidelberg Center for American Studies gewährt Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung zu amerikanischem Pfarrer und ehemaligem Sklaven https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/buchvorstellung-rediscovering-james-wc-pennington
_________Book Presentation: “Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington” – Event at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies grants insights into current research on the American pastor and former slave https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/book-presentation-rediscovering-james-wc-pennington
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #amerikanistik #americanstudies #theologie #pennington
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260 Wissenschaftler:innen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für #Amerikastudien (DGfA) treffen sich Ende Mai an der Universität #Münster. Das letzte Mal war die Jahrestagung der DGfA 1991 hier zu Gast, also vor 35 Jahren. Ein Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl darüber, worum es in den „#AmericanStudies“ und in den Beiträgen der Konferenz „Kinship in American Studies“ geht, und warum sich der kulturwissenschaftliche Blick über den Atlantik gerade jetzt lohnt:
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260 Wissenschaftler:innen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für #Amerikastudien (DGfA) treffen sich Ende Mai an der Universität #Münster. Das letzte Mal war die Jahrestagung der DGfA 1991 hier zu Gast, also vor 35 Jahren. Ein Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl darüber, worum es in den „#AmericanStudies“ und in den Beiträgen der Konferenz „Kinship in American Studies“ geht, und warum sich der kulturwissenschaftliche Blick über den Atlantik gerade jetzt lohnt:
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13.-17.4.2026 - Ausstellung "History of U.S. Democracy: Looking Back in Uncertain Times" mit Postern, Podcasts, Videos & Social Media 👉 http://www.obama-institute.com/apr-13-apr-13-17-exhibition-history-of-u-s-democracy/
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Framing America: A Social History of American Art — 5th Edition
by Frances K. Pohl🎨 See history through art.
Framing America — 5th Ed.
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After Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 election, many people concerned with equality in the United States have been asking: “What now?”
Rachel Marie Davis examines feminism in Trump’s second term. She looks at how feminists responded to Trump over the past decade, which strategies failed to connect with the wider public, and what progressive leaders can learn from these experiences 👇
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After Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 election, many people concerned with equality in the United States have been asking: “What now?”
Rachel Marie Davis examines feminism in Trump’s second term. She looks at how feminists responded to Trump over the past decade, which strategies failed to connect with the wider public, and what progressive leaders can learn from these experiences 👇
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#CallforPapers #CfP by the Obama Institute Mainz for a student #conference
topic: “‘We Hold These Truths’? 250 Years Later
deadline: February 28, 2026
conference dates: June 19- 20, 2026.#DeclarationOfIndependence #America250 #AmericanStudies #USA250
link for details: http://www.obama-institute.com/call-for-papers-we-hold-these-truths-250-years-later/
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"The United States of Medievalism" is a #CulturalStudies essay collection edited by Tison Pugh & Susan Aronstein traces the (visual) influence of the European #MiddleAges on today's USA - in #themeparks #gardens #architecture - on highways, in Las Vegas & during Mardi Gras
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"The United States of Medievalism" is a #CulturalStudies essay collection edited by Tison Pugh & Susan Aronstein traces the (visual) influence of the European #MiddleAges on today's USA - in #themeparks #gardens #architecture - on highways, in Las Vegas & during Mardi Gras
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#MerryChristmas 🎁
Will there be any books under your tree this year?
If so, why not explore the tradition of "The Literary Gift in Early America" with David Faflik's interdisciplinary study on gifting books, #giftbooks & beyond!https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=189304355X
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4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet
Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html
#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship
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"Radical Play" by Rob Goldberg traces the revolution in the 1960s and 70s toystore, a time in #AmericanHistory when social movements (#CivilRights M. & #BlackPanther #feminism & anti-Vietnam war movement) were mirrored in #toys
#MaterialCulture #CulturalStudies #AmericanStudies #ChildhoodStudies
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This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other
#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies
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"Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature" ist das Thema einer Online-Konferenz, zu der die #AmericanStudies am Englischen Seminar @uni-muenster.de vom 12. bis 14. November einladen. Interessierte können sich anmelden, Infos: uni.ms/c692l #LitWiss
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Can you believe that #Snoopy, #CharlieBrown & the other Peanuts are 75 years old #OTD ? The 1st ever #Peanuts strip was published 2 Oct, 1950!
You can find all volumes of the complete Peanuts comic strips as well as several secondary sources in our collection! 🥜 -
Or read Myka Tucker-Abramson's "Cartographies of Empire" for an in-depth analysis of the #roadnovel & its place in political economy, problematising the genre's #Americanness by discussing examples from 20+ countries
#AmericanLiterature #AmericanStudies #genrestudies #LiteraryStudies #Roadtrip
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It's (Sea-) #MonsterMonday so here's 3 monster-themed books!
Emerging from the oceans is #Godzilla for this French-Canadian analysis of Godzilla & America by Alain Vézina on the clash of #AmericanCulture with Japan in film, economy, geopolitics & the aftermath of WWII -
You love #GraphicNovels & #Libraries ? Then this essay collection, edited by Carrye Kay Syma, Robert G. Weiner & Donell Callender is for you! The 18 essays look at the depiction of #librarians & #archives in a variety of (mostly 🇺🇸) #comics incl. #Marvelcomics & #BTVS 's Giles
#ComicsStudies #ComicStudies #AmericanStudies #PopularCulture
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Kaitlin Reed's book "Settler Cannabis" places the Northern California green rush in the historical context of settler-colonial violence against #Yurok & other Indigenous peoples of #California
#IndigenousStudies #PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #counterculture #AmericanHistory
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Addicted to new books? 😵💫We got 2 trippy reads for you!
"The Acid Queen" by Susannah Cahalan recounts the #biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, ex-wife of Timothy Leary & #counterculture icon#AmericanHistory #Popculture #AmericanStudies
Read Cahalan's Vogue article: https://www.vogue.com/article/the-little-known-story-of-rosemary-woodruff-leary
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Es ist der 4. Juli – der US-Unabhängigkeitstag! 🎇🗽
Wenn ihr kritische Analysen zu US-amerikanischer Politik, Recht, Gesellschaft und Geschichte von renommierten Amerikanist*innen sucht, ist das New American Studies Journal (NASJ) unsere Empfehlung für euch!
Ihr findet alle Ausgaben kostenlos zum Download auf der Seite des Journals, sowie auf dem Repositorium unseres FID Anglo-American Culture, The Stacks. #subgöttingen #americanstudies #IndependenceDay #4thofJuly #4thofjuly #openaccess -
Es ist der 4. Juli – der US-Unabhängigkeitstag! 🎇🗽
Wenn ihr kritische Analysen zu US-amerikanischer Politik, Recht, Gesellschaft und Geschichte von renommierten Amerikanist*innen sucht, ist das New American Studies Journal (NASJ) unsere Empfehlung für euch!
Ihr findet alle Ausgaben kostenlos zum Download auf der Seite des Journals, sowie auf dem Repositorium unseres FID Anglo-American Culture, The Stacks. #subgöttingen #americanstudies #IndependenceDay #4thofJuly #4thofjuly #openaccess -
It's #4thOfJuly - #IndependenceDay
Find critical analyses of #AmericanHistory & politics by renowned #AmericanStudies scholars, as well as #poetry & articles on #AmericanCulture & #Literature & more, in the New American Studies Journal, free & #openaccess in our repository! -
Amanda Jones @abmack33 is "That Librarian" who stands up against #bookbans in the US - more important than ever now during #PrideMonth
Her book, part #memoir and part manifesto, has now been added to our #library collection. Find it here:https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1900831007
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In the GAPS #conference panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism", Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema / #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis
#PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies
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May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Use #AAPIHM (or any other month!) to learn more about the #AsianAmerican #PacificIslander communities with our many resources - we could never fit all of them in 1 picture, so here's a very small selection
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American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!
Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!
#BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM
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Learning about #JewishAmerican history for #JAHM ?
If you're in Germany, you can explore 'Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954', a wide-ranging digital archive, co-financed by us &
@JuedStudien
@rel_bib
@FID_Ost
@historicumnet.bsky.social👉More info on our website: https://libaac.de/home/full-view-post/detail/News/new-nation-wide-licence-jewish-life-in-america-c1654-1954/
... or head directly to the digital collections on #JewishHistory in #America at AM Digital:
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Farm to Taber draws a direct line of succession from the plantation #oligarchy of the #Confederacy to #usa #oligarchs of today in six short minutes.
With my masters degree in #americanStudies I could not do a better job connecting #class #agriculture #psychology and #economics to understand the impact of #TradeWar on the #civilWar
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Farm to Taber draws a direct line of succession from the plantation #oligarchy of the #Confederacy to #usa #oligarchs of today in six short minutes.
With my masters degree in #americanStudies I could not do a better job connecting #class #agriculture #psychology and #economics to understand the impact of #TradeWar on the #civilWar
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In his Inaugural Adress, Donald #Trump vowed to support Elon Musk’s Mars colonization mission as the United States' "manifest destiny", a divine mandate to conquer space - a 19th century concept which was once used to justify the U.S. westward expansion.
At the HCA Graduate Blog, Peggy Reeder argues that space is no longer just a scientific frontier, but has become a spiritual and ideological battleground ⬇
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In his Inaugural Adress, Donald #Trump vowed to support Elon Musk’s Mars colonization mission as the United States' "manifest destiny", a divine mandate to conquer space - a 19th century concept which was once used to justify the U.S. westward expansion.
At the HCA Graduate Blog, Peggy Reeder argues that space is no longer just a scientific frontier, but has become a spiritual and ideological battleground ⬇
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#GeorgeOrwell's #1984 starts on 04/04 #OTD
For this occasion, 2 new books on #disinformation & resistance:
Joseph R. Hayden's "A History of Disinformation in the US" & Richard L. Abel's "How Autocrats Seek Power: Resistance to #Trump & #Trumpism" -
"Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drivers" by Nancy Williams tells the story of cattle trails such as the Goodnight-Loving, Western, Chisholm & Shawnee Trails and of the Black cowboys who in 1870 made up a quarter of all #cowboys
#BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #BHM #BlackStudies
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"Black Prison Intellectuals", a new 2025 book by Andrea Stone, traces how 19th c early Black prison writing in understudied writings & archival records from 1795 - 1901, shaped Black intellectual movements
#BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #BHM #BlackStudies
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... to our newest #library -themed addition in our collection: small-town librarian Amanda Jones is "That Librarian" who stood up for #diversity & against book banning in #America - this is her #memoir & manifesto
#LibraryLoversDay #AmericanStudies #ReadDiversely #bookbanning #skybrarians
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The 1999 Helms-Biden Act ended a decade-long blockade of U.S. payments to the United Nations and stimulated significant reform of the U.N. institutions. It also points to an underlying principle of Joe Biden’s politics, which is central to understanding his legacy, argues Richard Lange.
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https://youtu.be/qVl0AuoWukM?si=h-W5pl3YoSBCsLLv
Irresistible Gracie.
Now that California has eclipsed Calvin in US culture, what should the other four letters of TULIP stand for?
#USCulture #AmericanCulture #AmericanStudies #Calvinism #GracieAbrams
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Männer kämpften für Unabhängigkeit, ihre Familien, für eine Verfassung: Erzählungen zur Amerikanischen Revolution nehmen fast immer eine männliche Perspektive ein (#Hamilton).
Mit der Ladies Association of Philadelphia, welche die Kontinentalarmee im Kampf der Kolonien für die Unabhängigkeit unterstützte, wurden erstmals Frauen zu politischen Akteurinnen, so Annabelle Heinemann:
https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/5307 (auf Englisch)
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Workers’ protests by the United Farm Workers, Civil Rights, antinuclear protests, peace activism at home and in Vietnam and South America, antiabortion action, advocacy for the environment, vegetarianism... American Catholics had their hands in many of the hot-button issues of the 20th century.
US Catholics have never been a conservative monolith, writes Virginia Zentgraf in the ➡ HCA Grad Blog:
https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/4983
#USHistory #AmericanStudies #hypoverse #HCAGrads #AmericanReligion
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Simon/e Van Sarloos (UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric) and I read excerpts from our Non-Monogamy letters yesterday at the #AmericanStudies meeting in Montreal to an attentive audience who asked good questions and made fun provocations. The letters have been published by Arts Everywhere.
I also write about going beyond settler monogamy or non-monogamy to less rigid ideas of what are supposed to be the most important relationships in our lives.
https://www.artseverywhere.ca/series/the-non-monogamy-letters/
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In the days following the October 7th pogrom, one American Studies professor at Yale saw fit to celebrate the murders,
https://nypost.com/2023/10/12/radical-yale-professor-faces-calls-to-be-fired-over-comments-on-hamas-attacks/
while another at UC-Davis posted a bloodthirsty threat against "zionist" journalists and their children.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/565878/post-by-ucdavis-professor-threatens-zionist-journalists-and-their-childrenI was hoping, therefore, that the American Studies Association might, without mentioning any individuals, call on their faculty members not to celebrate or incite violence against the innocent.
I hoped in vain.
The authors of today's ASA statement cannot find it within themselves to express one word of regret about the murder of Israelis , or one word of reassurance to Jewish students who might be scared by faculty Jew baiting of the type noted above.
The final section of the statement does mention an individual, Fatima Bernawi. She is named as an Afro-Palestinian who was imprisoned by the Israelis for ten years and so showing that "the Palestinian struggle is also the struggle for global Black solidarity in our collective liberation."
Unmentioned by the ASA is the reason for Bernawi's imprisonment; she planted a bomb in a Jerusalem cinema. Unmentioned too, is Avera Mengistu. Like Bernawi, this Ethiopian Jew is of African descent, and is like the majority of Israelis in being of non-European origins. Like Bernawi, he has been held captive for about ten years. Unlike Bernawi, his captors are Hamas and the only reason for his captivity is his nationality. Would the executive Committee of the ASA be keen to explain to Mengistu's distraught family and those related to other hostages that
"we remember solidarity and love as both a practice and an ethic. We protect us. Our struggles as Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples are real, and they connect us " ?https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67165002
Statement on Gaza — ASA Executive Committee | ASA
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#CallForPapers: (Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination
This special issue of REDEN, edited by Marica Orrù, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations. #Superheroes #SFF #Fantasy #PopularCultureStudies #MediaStudies #AmericanStudies #Academics #Film #Television #Comics
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Woohoo! Our panel—Bodily Autonomy and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction—was accepted for this year's American Studies Association conference! Montreal in the Fall! 🏙️🍂 #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #reproductiverights #literature #americanstudies #asa2023 #montreal @litstudies
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Excited that my paper “What It Means to Be an American: The Conversation from Emerson to Baldwin” was accepted for the annual American Literature Association conference this May. I’ll see you in Boston. 👋 #JamesBaldwin #RalphWaldoEmerson #AmericanStudies #professor #ProfessorLife #academia #AcademicMastodon #LitStudies @litstudies
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ASA 2023 panel submitted! Fingers crossed that our "Bodily Autonomy and Reproduction in SF" panel gets accepted! All of the papers sound so incredible and I genuinely can't wait to learn from everyone—and visit Montreal for the first time.
#asa2023 #scifi #specfic #reproductiverights #conference #americanstudies @litstudies
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Re-upping this. Are you a #histodon or scholar who works with historical methods? Do you have something to share about ownership and the politics of consumption in relation to North America?
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I’ll be co-chairing this workshop at this year’s #DGfA #DGfA23 in Rostock: https://dgfa.de/wp-content/uploads/DGfA_JT_2023_Workshop_Ownership-Human-Differentiation-and-the-Politics-of-Consumption.pdf…
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Still time to apply: I’ll be co-chairing the workshop “Ownership, Human Differentiation, and the Politics of Consumption” at this year’s #DGfA #DGfA23 in Rostock.
Find the CfP here: https://dgfa.de/wp-content/uploads/DGfA_JT_2023_Workshop_Ownership-Human-Differentiation-and-the-Politics-of-Consumption.pdf
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#Question: If you were to assign or recommend one #book about/from the US #South, what would it be and why? Asking partially out of curiosity and partially to get the wheels turning for a syllabus.
#syllabus #SouthernStudies #SouthernLit #SouthernHistory #AmericanStudies #AmericanLit #AcademicChatter #Books #Bookstodon #SyllabusPrep
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I’m hoping for any suggestions or examples of a #LandBack research assignment for undergraduates. Some issues: A) I’m white, none or very few of the students will identify as indigenous—so need structure to avoid saviorism; B) I want students to identify and gather details about land parcels that could be granted back to one of the Ohlone bands in the Bay Area, but unsure what details students should gather; (1 of 2) #decolonization #indigenous @histodons @sociology #AmericanStudies
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Just a toot of some basic hashtags to help find folks: #HigherEd #ProfessorLife #AmericanStudies #ReligiousStudies #PNW #SanFrancisco #SFBA #Oregon #France #Français #Québec #Jewish #Judaism #Literature #LitStudies #Photography #Environment #Philosophy #Humanities #Reading #books #SciFi #Fantasy #Democracy #AmericanPragmatism #LGBTQ #Gay #Queer #Hiking #NationalParks #Wilderness #Pedagogy #Writing #Levinas #Ethics #SocialTheory #Sociology #History #StarTrek #Languages
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hehe, it's from when I did my degree in #Sociology, #Film and #AmericanStudies. I wedged #StarTrek in everywhere I could!
Also, growing up on Trek was a gateway to me becoming an actual #Marxist in my teens as both posit a future utopia. The beloved #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism that you also find in #IanMBanks #CultureNovels