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Christine Andrä

@candrae.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of IR @ RUG Researching and teaching on war&peace, knowledge&politics, arts&crafts in IR Groningen/Bremen

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IPS Netherlands @ipsnetherlands.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Call for Papers: Dutch IPS Series Are you a PhD or early postdoc in (or associated with) the Netherlands engaging with themes in IPS? Then please send us your abstracts by 15 December 2025 to present your work, receive in-depth feedback, and become part of our supportive community!
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pw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🆕 Wir starten heute mit unserem Blogsymposium „Politik-wissenschaftliche Selbstreflexionen in Zeiten des Krieges“. Den Auftakt geben Beiträge v. @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, Alexander Libman, Claudia Brunner & Sabine Jaberg. #PoWiundKrieg #Blogsymposium25 #polisky Hier geht's zur Übersichtseite 👇.
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Politikwissenschaftliche Selbstreflexionen in Zeiten des Krieges
Blog-Symposium
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Sander van Lanen @sanvanlan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & Hanze Hogeschool) staff and students against the cuts and in solidarity with rail way workers. @fnvuniversiteiten.bsky.social @fnv.bsky.social @aob.nl @lsvb.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social @rug.nl
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Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I was interviewed by Miranda Melcher about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the podcast in the link, and the book is available Open Access from @uofmpress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-inter...
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Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/06/2025
If you’re worried about the impact of individual eating habits, just wait until you hear about the ecological impact of militaries insideclimatenews.org/news/1801202...
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The U.S. Military Emits More Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere Than Entire Countries Like Denmark or Portugal - Inside Climate News
This story originally appeared on the War Horse.  In the fall of 2018, Neta C. Crawford, a political science professor at Boston University, prepared to teach a class on climate change designed to hel...
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We're still looking for a PhD student! The basics: four years, fully funded, IR/History/Latin America. Applications are due 30 April! #IRSky
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Katharina Wezel @kawezel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
One week left to apply!
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are looking for a PhD student who wants to rethink Historical International Relations/the History of the Social Sciences from Latin America! Fully funded position with an interdisciplinary supervisory team (Ian Merkel, Konstantin Mierau and myself): www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...
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PhD position Latin America as an Alternative Starting Point
This fully-funded,
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Journal of War and Culture Studies @jwcsjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We are delighted to announce @mark-gilks.bsky.social as the recipient of the Journal of War and Culture Studies 2024 prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar. 'The Aesthetic Influences of War: A Phenomenology of Tim Hetherington’s “Feedback Loop”’, stood out in a strong field.
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are looking for a PhD student who wants to rethink Historical International Relations/the History of the Social Sciences from Latin America! Fully funded position with an interdisciplinary supervisory team (Ian Merkel, Konstantin Mierau and myself): www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...
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PhD position Latin America as an Alternative Starting Point
This fully-funded,
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
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Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
On strike today! #Doehetniet
Protest sign that says Handen af van onze (Do)centen A crowd of protesters in Groningen with signs that say “I brought a tractor to show how angry we are” and a torn sign that says “onderwijs?” To signify the damage the budget cuts would do to education
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Piero Tortola @pierotortola.eurosky.social · 18/03/2025
Groningen strikes
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Scaph @wwscaph.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Solidarity with the University 🟥 #WOinActie #doehetniet Liveblog RUG De universiteit slaapt nog half, maar de eerste staker op het Harmonieplein heeft zich gemeld: Aletta Jacobs. Anderen zijn in de Harmonie bezig met het maken van protestborden en delen flyers uit.
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Hans Risselada 🟥 @hansrisselada.eurosky.social · 18/03/2025
I am going on strike today to protest against the government's budget cuts on higher education. #DOEHETNIET
Flyer stating that I am going on strike today against the government's budget cuts on higher education.
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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Vandaag staak ik - het is de beurt aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social en de @hanzehogeschool.bsky.social in de estafettestaking van het hoger onderwijs. De hele dag doet @ukrant.bsky.social verslag. #DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
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Liveblog: de RUG staakt tegen dreigende megabezuiniging
De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen staakt dinsdag 18 maart vanwege de dreigende bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. In dit liveblog volgen we de staking, uniek in de Groningse universitaire geschiedenis...
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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So many things are so awful these days. As but a small counterpoint, I want to share a few pieces of writing by students (including former students of mine) that have delighted me in the past two weeks or so.
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Heute Vormittag im Wahllokal in Delmenhorst hatten wir kaum eine ruhige Minute. Viele Erstwählende waren auch dabei! Jetzt habe ich Pause bis kurz vor sechs und gerade gelesen, dass die Wahlbeteiligung in Niedersachsen bisher deutlich höher ist als 2021 - es war nicht nur in unserem Wahllokal voll.
Eingang zum Wahllokal, in dem ich heute als Wahlhelferin die Vormittagsschicht verbracht habe.
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Martina Winkler @martinawinkle14.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Ich habe für das @nnwiss.bsky.social ein paar Argumente für eine Trennung von Betreuung und Begutachtung gesammelt. Und nach welchen dagegen gesucht, aber leider keine überzeugenden gefunden. netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de?p=199
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Martina Winkler: Für eine Trennung der Betreuung und Begutachtung von Promotionen – Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft
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Elizabeth Dickinson @dickinsonbeth.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The gravity of USAID's shuttering in #Colombia go well beyond gaps in the budget line. Programs have been shut down in a way that could endanger communities and devastate U.S. access and credibility for many years. It also stands to destabilize #Colombia's delicate security🧵
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Für den @verfassungsblog.de habe ich aufgeschrieben was diese Woche im Bundestag bedeutet. Der Höhepunkt der programmatischen Anpassung an die AfD. Ein Dammbruch der zu ihrer Normalisierung und Legitimation führt. Eine dunkle Stunde für die deutsche Demokratie. verfassungsblog.de/aus-dem-abse...
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Aus dem Abseits in die Mitte der Demokratie: Die Normalisierung der radikalen Rechten im Bundestag und ihre Konsequenzen
Nun ist es passiert. Initiiert von Friedrich Merz – dem Kanzlerkandidaten der Union – verabschiedet der Deutsche Bundestag am 29. Januar 2025 Anträge zur Migrationspolitik mit den Stimmen der CDU/CSU,...
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Prof. Miriam Rürup, Direktorin des Potsdamer Moses Mendelssohn Zentrums für europäisch-jüdische Studien: „Wie soll denn Antisemitismus mit einer Resolution bekämpft werden, der die AfD zustimmen kann?“ Sehr hörenswerte Bundespressekonferenz: 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIq...
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Massive Kritik an Resolution zu "Antisemitismus an Hochschulen" des Bundestags | BPK 30. Januar 2025
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Christina Hölzel @christinahoelzel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Mit breiter wissenschaftlicher Unterstützung: rat-fuer-migration.de/2025/01/31/f...
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Für eine politische Orientierung an Fakten und der historischen Verpflichtung auf die Menschenrechte! -
*Liste der Unterzeichnenden wird laufend aktualisiert* Wir, wissenschaftliche Vereinigungen der Forschung zu Migration, Integration, Rassismus und Menschenrechten, warnen anlässlich der Bundestagswahl...
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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Warum heißt es Altocumulus stratiformis opacus und nicht Bremen?
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
CfP: Co-Laborating for Change? The future of peace and security in an age of crises 25-27 June 2025 @ifshhamburg.bsky.social We are looking for contributions that engage with participatory and collaborative research methods in the study of contemporary and future crises ifsh.de/file/Events/...
A laboratory of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory, 6 King Street, 1899
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Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My book is really coming out in March 🌱 It's been a long road and I'm excited to let it out in the world. Follow the link for a ToC and summary + let me know if you might be interested in a book talk! It will be #OA thanks to @uofmpress.bsky.social & @ukri.org press.umich.edu/Books/B/Beyo...
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Beyond International Intervention
Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond International Intervention takes on the task of e...
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Eight years ago, I was living in DC for a few months - from just before Trump's election until just after the Women's March and his inauguration. This is a really interesting piece on what feels and is different this time around:
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Der geht raus an alle, die dieses Jahr an einem Buchprojekt arbeiten
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Nicolas Gäckle @nfgaeckle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Quite a while ago, two friends/colleagues across two continents and many years had a conversation on Zoom and ended up as co-authors of a chapter in this beautiful book. Mil gracias to the ever-inspiring Laura Coral Velasquez as well as to the wonderful editors Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton!
One happy co-author holding up the new edited volume "Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation", edited by Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton. The book's cover, in shades of blue, shows a doodle of two doves.The first half of the book's table of contents, with chapters on public interventions, painting, photography, performance, architecture, jewelry, textiles (this is Laura's and my chapter), installations, and poetry and performance.Two happy co-authors in a coffee shop in Bogotá, November 2023.
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Claudia Aradau @cearadau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A few days left to submit your abstracts for the International Theory early-career workshop at #ISA2025.
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Groningen, protest against cuts to higher education, 11 December 2024.
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Dear IPSers in the Netherlands and nearby: The fab organizers Federico&Katharina have lots of brilliant ideas for next year's IPS NL seminar series and we all - also including Renata, Enrike and myself - are looking really forward to it. We'd love nothing better than for you to propose a paper!
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Hanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Dear colleagues, friends, more or less desperate observers of German foreign policy in the ongoing war and mass violence in Gaza: Dörthe Engelcke and I have published a piece on the German politics of arms exports to Israel with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germ...
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How Germany bends international law to continue selling arms to Israel
Berlin has supposedly found a legally safe way to export weapons to Israel – a state whose actions it openly believes breach international law
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 23/11/2024
This by Danny Steinmetz-Jenkins on the historical “anti-war political tradition” is great: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-w...
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The Anti-War Political Tradition: An Introduction
Anti-war politics has a rich historical tradition, one that seems to be in desperate need of revival. New FX contributor Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins begins a monthly series on this critical subject.
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I am the co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ywa... Get in touch if you have an idea for a Special Issue. We are keen to support research by ECRs & amplify the work of scholars from underrepresented fields & backgrounds.
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Learn about Journal of War & Culture Studies
Learn about Journal of War & Culture Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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Katharina Wezel @kawezel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
IPS friends: the IPS NL chapter is entering the fourth round of its seminar series. If you are an early career researcher or PhD based in or associated with the Netherlands please join us to present your work, receive in-depth feedback and engage with a supportive community!
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you are in NL, if you've been educated in its high education system, or you want your kids to be, or you just want to continue benefitting from this incredible societal good, come JOIN US, support the protests on the 25th in TheHague. Please share! #HogerOnderwijs #Nederland #DenHaag #TheHague
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Something nice that happened today: our latest reflections on (Des)tejiendo miradas/(Un-)Stitching gazes, the project in which I did my postdoc and which is still very close to my heart, were published: "Peace Dialogues in Colombia: What Role Can Textile-making Play?" peacenews.com/peace-dialog...
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Peace Dialogues in Colombia: What Role Can Textile-making Play? - Peace News Network
How can the methods of “textile narratives” and “textile resonances” enable difficult conversations between Colombians?
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I wrote an op-ed in one of the main Dutch newspapers today, highlighting that the 1 billion budget cuts to Higher eduction can only be explained as a way to make our universities more submissive. The piece has now been translated into English, and can be read here: crookedtimber.org/2024/11/09/t...
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The submissive university
Together with many other academics in the Netherlands, I have been very busy in organizing a nation-wide demonstration next Thursday against the 1 billion budget cuts to higher education that our v…
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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Dear colleagues around the world, As you may know, the Netherlands has, since this summer, been governed by a radical right-wing administration with an agenda reminiscent of Orbán's Hungary.
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Tanja Bhuiyan @tanjabhuiyan.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Last week, the government has agreed on reducing the period Postdocs can work on a temporary contract from 6 to 4 (+2) years. What does this law amendment mean for international Postdocs and marginalized persons in academia? A 🧵 #WissZeitVG #ichBinHanna #ichBinReyhan #ichBinTina
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Viviana García Pinzón @vivigarciap.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
We aim to feature different forms of knowledge and expression. For example, this art piece by (Un)Stitching Gazes/(Des)tejiendo Miradas. They generously allow us to use their political embroidery to illustrate some of the concepts.
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Viviana García Pinzón @vivigarciap.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Our virtual Encyclopaedia is online! 📣📣📣 On our website rewritingpeaceandconflict.net you can discover our texts and podcasts. @postcolh.bsky.social @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @anikaoettler.bsky.social @teraqerat.bsky.social @sidtrip.bsky.social @manuelaboatca.bsky.social
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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
📢 We are inviting panel, roundtable, and paper proposals for the #DoingIPS standing section ‘Doing International Political Sociology’ at the @europeanisa.bsky.social #EISAPEC24 (convenors: Jef Huysmans and Renata Summa). Send in your ideas until 13 March! www.doingips.org/news-events/...
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EISA PEC 2024 – ST02 Doing International Political Sociology – call for panels and papers — DoingIPS
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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
What better way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon in Bremen than by looking for - and finding! - textiles and having delicious cake in @katkusic.bsky.social's favorite café whilst reading the beautifully titled zine "Historia hecho a mano": issuu.com/veronicam10/...
Embroidered faces, detail of "Bewohner", an installation by Eva Matti, Gerhard-Marcks-Museum, Bremen.A Chilean arpillera (textile wall-hanging) protesting the Pinochet regime's practice of forced disappearances.Raspberry cheesecake on a purple table top at Café Pour Pour, Bremen.
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