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Aylin Dilek Walder

@aylinwalder.bsky.social
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#firstgen 📍Braunschweig / Cologne PhD on the #fantastic dawn of #affinity 💫 #belonging 🌈 #eco 🌿 #speculativefiction 🛸 tinyurl.com/adwalder she/her

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today was the first day of this year's annual conference of the #GfF @gffantastik.bsky.social, which I have been organizing together with @aylinwalder.bsky.social, Verena Wurth & Jules Machtenberg at #UniKöln @unicologne.bsky.social on the theme of "Violence & the Fantastic"/"Gewalt & Fantastik."
Poster of the conference featuring a dark broken pane of glass and sharp-edged triangular forms in white and red.
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
this year I tried to make more room for creativity in my class on queer belonging and eco affinities 🎨 and I love how it turned out ✨ (1) The Devourers by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social 🐾 (2) Undercurrency by @sambeckbessinger.bsky.social 🐌 and (3) César Santivañez‘ I Speak With a Thousand Voices 🍃
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The second #Inklings Yearbook I had the pleasure to co-edit with Kristin Aubel, Marion Gymnich, and @maethorath.bsky.social is now online 📚🐉
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
#Inklings2026
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fancy escaping the heat this weekend? Follow @maethorath.bsky.social and me into the abyss of the enmonstered🧚🏼
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Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung @gffantastik.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Zum Tag “Zusammenhalt in Vielfalt” der Initiative Kulturelle Integration hat uns das Phantastik-Autor*innen-Netzwerk eingeladen, einen Beitrag zu gestalten und da konnten wir natürlich nicht Nein sagen ✨👏🏼 Wir freuen uns auf regen Austausch mit euch und unseren Gästen bei einem Show&Tell am 21.05. 🧚🏼
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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 🗓️
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CFP - Speculative Climates: Hauntings Of The Past Across The Humanities – EASLCE
Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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! 💫
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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 🐾💫
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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....
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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
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.
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - IAFA @iafa.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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.
iaftfita.wildapricot.org
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - The VICFA
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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 ✨
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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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
Collage of four photos featuring Katrin Horn speaking in front of a large room of people.
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“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 👀
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Sandra Dinter @sandradinter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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...
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
switching from one great team to another is a total emotional rollercoaster🎢 I’m so grateful for all I learned from @judithrauscher.bsky.social @jpitettiheil.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @sarahbusch.bsky.social❣️and also so touched by the heartwarming welcome @tubraunschweig.bsky.social 💫
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Excited to join this workshop on illness and health @uni-hamburg.de 🏥 while also taking some time to explore the city during its 836th Port Anniversary 🎉
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Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and ...
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Looking forward to the #envhum lecture by Malcom Ferdinand - author of #decolonial #ecology 🌿
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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I had the best time these the 2 days at the conference "Ecoterrorism in Anglophone Media." I was so proud of my student assistant, Una, who gave a great talk & loved that several Cologne students came to support her & another student who presented. Thank you, Burak & Sascha, for this amazing event!
Selfie of me in a petrol coat and Grey scarf in don't of the conference poster,  which reads "Ecoterrorism in Amglophone Media" and features a green wrench.Photo of a young woman behind a standing desk. The screen behind her shows the title of her presentation.Photo of the American Studies group who attended the conference in front of the conference poster. Everyone is smiling widelyPhoto of Burak Sezer, one of the co-organizers of the conference standing next to.a.large projection of the conference poster
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antoniavillinger.bsky.social @antoniavillinger.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Am 22. November veranstaltet das DFG-Netzwerk „Energie & Literatur“ online den Workshop „Energy & Gender“. Herzliche Einladung! Weitere Informationen & Zugangsinformationen unter: energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/ @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social
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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Always wanted to create a more diverse and safer leaning environment for people? Come to our free workshop "Queering the Classroom" @UniCologne Oct 4-5 that uses theatre to learn about equality! 🎭🌈 For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...
Poster for the workshop, for the info it contains and a programme of the workshop, follow the link in the post!
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Just wrapped up an incredible time at the #FantasticClimates conference 🌍 Thanks to the incredible organisers and @anotherdramakid.bsky.social for the opportunity to dive into #EcoGothic themes in #GameofThrones ❄️ who knew Westeros had so much to teach us about our own climate challenges? 🩵
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
back from the interdisciplinary #conference on Communicating #Climate Hope at the Tilburg University 🌿 it’s been a pleasure to talk about #fantastic stories of climate #hope and ideas on reconciliation with Nature 🌻
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Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
back from the fabulous @sfrareview.bsky.social conference @ Tartu 🚀 speculating with old and newfound friends has truly been a pleasure 🔮 discussions on #materialism 🧬 #cofuturism ✨ #science 🔬 and #games filled me with inspiration for my journey to unknown terrains 🪐
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