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Olivian (hen/hens) @olivian.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Unter diesem Skeet möchte ich queere (und queerfriendly) Businesses sammeln, bei denen maus Geschenke für Weihnachten oder Chanukka oder auch so kaufen kann. In Zeiten der galoppierenden Inflation ja besonders wichtig, wem man die knappen Moneten gibt. Ich schreib ein paar hin, aber bitte ergänzt.

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Ah, the street outside is preparing for Helloween:

Dirt on bitumen which looks like a skull. And a leaf.

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

What a nice birthday present - The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology, edited by Nathan Ashman. Thanks for your great work, Nathan! 🤫 Check out chapter 20 on Ecologemes in Outback Noir by yours truly 🤫

Cover of The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Ever wondered what is necessary to be invited as keynote to #GAStConferences or become a board member of GASt? The answer is: Karaoke! @wergin.bsky.social

Keynote speaker Noah Riseman singing Rasputin

GASt treasurer Katrin Althans singing Like a Prayer

GASt chair Carsten Wergin singing Don't look back in anger

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

GASt members Lindsay Frost & Elisabeth Bähr then presented their wonderful & absolutely fascinating book Erzählte Welt: Zeitgenössische indigene australische Kunst (Narrated World: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art): wasmuth-verlag.de/shop/kunst-f...

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

To wrap up this wonderful concurrence #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023, we're taking our participants to @unesconow.bsky.social World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein

Fördergerüst / Hoist Frame Zeche Zollverein 12

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

On day four of #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023, we're having a paper by Patricia Plummer on "Colonial Entanglements: Essen and Australasia"

Patricia Plummer presenting "Colonial Entanglements: Essen and Australasia"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

As our last keynote speaker, we're delighted to welcome Noah Riseman with his paper "Transnational Influences on Transgender Australians"

Noah Riseman presenting "Transnational Influences on Transgender Australians"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Afterwards, it was time for Rita Maricocchi and Peri Sipahi's paper "Bodies of Water: Embodied Sites of Hydro-Colonialism and Indigenous/Aboriginal Displacement in 'Water' by Ellen van Neerven" Thank you for this wonderful panel @ #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023!

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Afterwards, we're having Marine Berthiot with "Girlhood Trauma-Telling in Rachael Romero's Series of Paintings and Visual Poem, 'The Magdalen Diaries' (2011)"

Marine Berthiot presenting "Girlhood Trauma-Telling in Rachael Romero’s Series of Paintings and Visual Poem, 'The Magdalen Diaries' (2011)"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Following is David Kern with "Water Protectors, Land Defenders, and the Frame of Indigenous Crime Fiction: (Im-)Mobility and Resistance in Julie Janson’s Madukka the River Serpent"

David Kern presenting "Water Protectors, Land Defenders, and the Frame of Indigenous Crime Fiction: (Im-)Mobility and Resistance in Julie Janson’s Madukka the River Serpent"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

In our parallel session, "Water and (Im-)Mobilities in Contemporary Indigenous Narratives", we start with Victoria Herche: "Water is Life: Mining, Water Flows and Indigenous (Im)Mobilities on Screen"

Victoria Herche presenting "Water is Life: Mining, Water Flows and Indigenous (Im)Mobilities on Screen"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

We start our panel on religious mobilities with Felicity Jensz: "Movement and German missionaries in 19th-Century Australia"

Felicity Jensz presenting "Movement and German missionaries in 19th-Century Australia"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

After lunch, we're continuing with Anne Pattel-Gray's keynote "Red Ochre Theology"

Anne Pattel-Gray presenting "Red Ochre Theology"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

And now for a very first: The very first public reading of Polina Bilinsky Mycak's poems "Beetroot Soup", "Childhood Ghosts", & "The Price of Survival"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Now for the first of today's keynotes: Ghassan Hage. He is talking about "Diasporic Lenticularity in Australian Culture".

Ghassan Hage presenting "Diasporic Lenticularity in Australian Culture"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Our last speaker in this panel is Gianluca Calio with "'Sorry for the history, they say': Cultural Mobility, History, Trauma, and Reconciliation in Kim Scott's Taboo"

Gianluca Calio presenting "'Sorry for the history, they say': Cultural Mobility, History, Trauma, and Reconciliation in Kim Scott's Taboo"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Next is Geoff Rodoreda with his talk "Footnotes in the Work of Kim Scott"

Geoff Rodoreda presenting "Footnotes in the Work of Kim Scott"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Alice Duncan is first with "Representations of Australian Indigenous People in Children’s Books in France and Australia – a comparative study" in Indigenous Mobilities in Language & Literature II

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Then it's Lindsay Frost's talk "Mobility and transcultural approaches in contemporary art discourse: a comparative analysis for Germany/Australia"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

In "Inter- and Transcultural Mobilities", first Joevan der Mattos Caitano presents "Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD) and interactions with Australia: mobility and interculturality".

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

It's day three of #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023! Again, we have parallel panels: "Indigenous Mobilities in Language & Literature II" and "Inter- and Transcultural Mobilities"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

And silly me didn't realise @leoniejohn.bsky.social actually had an account here!

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

And our last talk today is by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell: "Cosmology in Motion: Aquatious Mobilisation of Multi-species Justice in Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip"

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell presenting "Cosmology in Motion: Aquatious Mobilisation of Multi-species Justice in Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

It's already the last panel for today #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023 - starting with Emily Zong's "Ecologies of Affective Im(mobility) in Australian Refugee Writing"

Emily Zong presenting "Ecologies of Affective Im(mobility) in Australian Refugee Writing"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Our last speaker in this panel is Friederike Zahn: "Linguistic Mobility: Performance and Attitudes of Heritage Language Speakers in Australia – The Role of Language Policies"

Friederike Zahn presenting "Linguistic Mobility: Performance and Attitudes of Heritage Language Speakers in Australia – The Role of Language Policies"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

The other panel, "Asia-Pacific Mobilities", features wonderful talks by Louise Thatcher: "'The real Quon Tat': Proving identity and Domicile to Enter White Australia" & by Susanne Liebich: "19th-century Maritime Mobility and Texts in Transit across the Pacific"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

And now it's Leonie John's turn with "Nuclear Im/Mobilities: Stories of Maralinga"

Leonie John presenting "Nuclear Im/Mobilities: Stories of Maralinga"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Our first parallel panels - and I can only attend one of them 😭! Here's @drtinaburger.bsky.social with "'No choice but to fly inhumanly well': The Future of Indigenous Mobilities in @clairegcoleman.bsky.social's Apocalyptic Narratives" #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023

Bettina C. Burger presenting "'No choice but to fly inhumanly well': The Future of Indigenous Mobilities in Claire G. Coleman’s Apocalyptic Narratives"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

After lunch, we're continuing #GASt2023 #AustralianMobilities with Frances Steel's keynote on "Austral(as)ian Mobilities Across the Pacific: 'Blood brotherhood' & its Limits"

Frances Steel presenting "Austral(as)ian Mobilities Across the Pacific"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Next at #AustralianMobilities is Christina Henneke from the Frobenius Institute on "Mobilising Indigenous Knowledge through the Digital Return of the Frobenius A Archive to the Kimberley"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

A great talk by Bill Ashcroft, making us aware of the many critical issues & their nexus to be considered when looking for Australia. And showing us the power of literature!

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Our first panel at #AustralianMobilities, Cultural Heritage, Networks, & Mobility, is up & running with Paul Arthur and Isabel Smith's "Slavery Biographies & Networks".

Paul Arthur presenting "Slavery Biographies and Networks"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Continuing #AustralianMibilities today with Bill Ashcroft's "Looking for Australia"

Bill Ashcroft, presenting "Looking for Australia"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

#Australian Mobilities - #GASt2023 has just started with Sonia Mycak's talk "Ukrainian-Australian Life Writing" #UDE #UniDuisburg-Essen

Sonia Mycak, presenting "Ukrainian-Australian Live Writing"

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Katrin Althans @drkatrina.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Und, warst du erfolgreich 🤭?

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I've updated the book group page! You can see what we're reading into November now! Please note: This week's book group has moved to Thursday (because I realised I can't be in two places at once!) romancingthegothic.com/book-group-a...

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Book Groups and Author Visits

Each week we have a book group on Fridays. There are two slots: 10 am and 7 pm (BST) and you're very welcome to either, wherever you are in the world and however much you'd like to participate. To sig...

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