With the fall of the Assad regime, the brutal violence with which the regime had held on to power for 54 years came overwhelmingly into the public eye. The Hama massacre in February 1982 is a momentous example of this violence. This central and defining event of Assad’s rule, which was a strong taboo for decades and has never been discussed or dealt with publicly, is now openly and freely commemorated for the first time:
#englishfridays — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #englishfridays, aggregated by home.social.
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Across the globe, populist leaders draw on a shared set of methods: A rhetoric of "we the people", emotional appeal, anti-pluralism and majoritarianism. They also form ties across countries, creating a counter-project to the liberal world order.
Katarina Ristić, Therese Mager, Constanze Blum and Man Zhang on populism in global perspective 👇
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Architect, Gardener, or Librarian: Which type of notetaker are you?
Just like there are no fixed types of learning styles (though the myth is still out there), maybe there isn't a fixed type of notetaker, either, writes Stefan Siegel at #NoteLab:
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During the campaign for the 2024 presidential election in Iran, the successful candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, shared an image from a 1980s textbook on his social media platforms - one that had been censored since 2009.
As embodiments of official narratives, changes in textbooks tell the story of shifting hegemonic values. Yasamin Alkhansa explores the changes in the concept of 'devotion' taught in the lesson on the 'Selfless Farmer'.
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Social media and digital platforms such as Telegram have allowed Ukrainian migrants to maintain close ties to home. They have also helped form a close-knit Ukrainian diaspora. Their digital connectedness has an impact on Ukrainian migrants' plans to return to Ukraine, as well as their adaptation to a new country, writes Taisiia Ratushna:
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One of academia’s most cherished myths is that identifying an unstudied area automatically creates a valuable research problem. But just because there is no research on what color socks professors wore while writing groundbreaking papers doesn't make it a problem worth studying, writes @vmmmh at #NoDiscipline.
In a world drowning in information but starving for understanding, which would you rather contribute?
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Going through her deceased mother's belongings, Alina Lange discovered an old collection of recipes - an emotional find that led her to ponder the question:
What role (if any) do emotions play when it comes to giving or following instructions? Are how-to books really devoid of sensory and emotional experience?
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On June 5, 1975, in the midde of the Cold War, David Rockefeller visited East Berlin. His visit was meticulously planned: Nothing was to go wrong when the chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the third largest bank in the world, and brother of US-American Vice President Nelson Rockefeller came to the GDR.
How can we understand Rockefeller’s visit and the effort of the GDR’s leadership to accommodate him?
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What is European integration - and who shaped it? The #DeconstructingEurope project at @MaxWeberStiftung sought to challenge traditional views of European integration and cast light on alternative viewpoints and underappreciated actors.
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"For years, we train students in a peculiar form of intellectual performance. It’s a carefully choreographed dance, performed for an audience of one: the professor who already knows everything you’re writing about. Then suddenly, in graduate school, we expect these same students to write for real readers.
What if we taught writing not as a performance of expertise but as an act of intellectual service?"
Victoria Mummelthei on #AcademicWriting 👇
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In den Calico Mills in Ahmedabad, Indien, sollte in den 1950er Jahren die Arbeitszeit reguliert und "wissenschaftliche Löhne" eingeführt werden. Das Projekt, das vom Tavistock Institute of Human Relations durchgeführt wurde, scheiterte am Protest der Arbeiter:
https://ghil.hypotheses.org/2657 (auf Englisch)
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How to write a lot: Sarah Lang reviews Paul J. Silvia's book by the same title. Read her report for a summary - or trust her and read the whole book 📖!
https://epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/4041
#Pomodoro #AcademicWriting #APALifeTools #EnglishFridays #hypolingual
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"Missing the first deadline could have been a good time to drop out. I should have taken the hint."
There are different reasons academics stall in their writing. Maybe you need a vacation - and maybe it's a toxic project and the best solution is to drop it, shares Sarah Lang at #BoulderingEpigrammetry:
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.@SarahOberbichler arbeitet mit großen Datenmengen historischer Zeitungsartikel. Die Korpusbildung dafür nahm in der Vergangenheit oft mehr Arbeit ein als die wissenschaftliche Analyse. Das änderte sich mit der #generativeAI und der Möglichkeit, #LLM für Textextraktion und Artikelseparation zu nutzen.
Wie das konkret aussehen kann, erklärt sie hier:
https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/4938 (auf Englisch, via @DHLab_IEG)
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From a letter to an oppressive symbol:
At ➡ Religion and Urbanity, Claudine Moulin reflects on the letter >Z< as both a propaganda symbol and a symbol of Russian totalitarianism:
https://urbrel.hypotheses.org/8821
#hypoverse #EnglishFridays #hypolingual #RussianZ #UkraineInvasion
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How to Banish Alcohol from Turkish Society:
At ➡ TRAFO Blog, Elife Biçer-Deveci explores how scientists in early twentieth-century Turkey shaped the narrative of drinking as an alien element of the Turkish nation 👇
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"the Habsburg Monarchy became the first state in modern times to make its Jewish population liable for conscription"
https://habsmon.hypotheses.org/1184
Ilya Berkovich on Jewish Kaiserjäger at the end of the Napoleonic period
#HabsburgMonarchy #Habsburgermonarchie #Napoleonic #JewishHistory #JewishStudies #NewMilitaryHistory #englishfridays #hypolingual
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The double-edged power of card-file systems:
Learn about a revolution in information technology in the 1920s, which may seem old and dusty to us at first, but really isn't. It's about data flows, information management, and data-driven decision making – in a country that devolved into a dictatorship and didn't use these tools for any good.
https://nghm.hypotheses.org/8416
#englishfridays #hypolingual #DigitalHumanities #DataScience #datafication #WeimarerRepublik #NaziGermany
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"When claims of truthfulness and authenticity are implicit in documentary theatre and film, the audience should remain vigilant."
https://vigilanz.hypotheses.org/3969
Lily Climenhaga on "Milo Rau and the Performative Panopticon"
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Among whalers: how missionary William Puckey was reassigned from New Zealand to Sidney and met an early end through alcoholism.
https://transoceanic.hypotheses.org/1469
Blog post by Haureh Hussein
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Astrid Schmölzer on academic New Year's blues and how to get rid of it: