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Ben Schofield

@benschofield.bsky.social
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Germanist | Comparatist | Americanist | Modern Linguist | Bluesky in a private capacity | he/him | 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺

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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My thoughts on Hans Fallada have changed so much thanks to co-supervising an MPhil thesis that approached his works through the methodological lens of criminology (about which I also learnt a lot!) So touched to have been given a print of e. o. plauen‘s caricature of Fallada to remember the project!
A framed print of the author Hans Fallada. Sitting on a desk with dictionaries and notebooks.
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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Normally I’m in full-on 🇸🇪 Swedish mode on the 13th December, to celebrate #SantaLucia, the bringer of light in the midwinter dark 🕯️. This year I’m at a conference in 🇫🇷 France, but Amiens cathedral has provided its own special light on this cold night!
Amiens cathedral illuminated at night
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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A visit to Cambridge for a workshop capped by an unplanned detour on my way home through #GlennLigon’s re-staging & deconstruction of the #FitzwilliamMuseum, “All Over The Place”. What a remarkable intervention by artist & curatorial team!
A view of the exterior of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with a light installation by Glenn Ligon; a view of two interiors of the museum including a gallery space almost free of picture, and a Christmas tree with the guide to the exhibition in the foreground.
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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The lovely students on my unit “Visibility Matters: Identity, Diversity and Power in the Cultural Marketplace” have been insistent that I *have to* go and see #Wicked as it is “my unit… WITH SHOW TUNES!” So… I’m off to do my homework!
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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Nigel Slater’s #ChristmasChronicles recipie for the 29th November: Ricotta Filo Cake. (Very gradually working my way through them all!) #Nov29th
A picture of a cheesecake baked in filo pastry
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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The photos from the “Making the Case for #German” Leadership Symposium clearly reveal one thing: we are already undertaking coordinated action at the sartorial level!
Three colleagues talk at a leadership symposium; two of them in identical outfits
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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Making the case for #German at the DAAD & Goethe Institut Leadership Symposium in London the other week, along with many wonderful colleagues. Pictured: a Franco-German alliance in full swing with Charles Forsdick! @goetheinstitut.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social #TransnationalModernLanguages
Ben Schofield and Charles Forsdick laughing at a symposium on the future of German
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Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Happily reminded by this of kinder (Twitter) days of yore when @pdobryden.bsky.social & @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social marvellously discovered the remarkable similarity between the Angel of History and the (very cute!) red panda…
A red panda holds up its hands, looking like Klee’s image of the Angel of History
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