Reposted by Ervin MalakajSara Friedman @srfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026 weimarcinema.org/essay/friedm...weimarcinema.orgReflecting on Anders als die Andern Today · WeimarCinema.orgIf the future imagined by Weimar filmmakers for 2026 came true, we would inhabit Metropolis (1927).1 Skyways and skyscrapers, a Moloch machine, seductive… 021
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thank you so much! Glad to know the project is in the world soon. 010
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You are an international superstar and recognized poet! We have to celebrate soon! Xoxo 110
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026yay!!! I'm very excited. This one started out as a WashU diss ... took a while to get to this place 010
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026yayyyy thank you so much dear Tom! Glad it is moving on from my desk 000
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026oh yay thank you!!! It took a lot to get this one across the finish line 010
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026thank you so much dear Sébastien!! I need to work on merch 010
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026xoxo thank you! Boy oh boy did this one take a while to write 110
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thank you so much! Next up is proofs, my fave part of the process. 020
Reposted by Ervin MalakajRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026*clears throat* “This is an original study that will appeal not just to scholars of German literature but to any reader interested in understanding how the modern publishing world came to be.” I love this book. Affect studies! Media studies! Formalism! The material conditions of production! 1265
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So very grateful to have had the chance to work with you. 130
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I engaged with the work of many of my fellow nineteenth-century literary studies comrades, including from scholars working on various North American and European literary histories. The framework could not be possible without the work of my queer feminist literary studies peoples! 050
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Huge shout-out to the inimitable @rcolesworthy.bsky.social whose work as public intellectual and stellar editor extraordinaire drew me to SUNY Press initially. The team there has been fabulous. 1100
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Friendlies, my second book comes out April 2027! Reach out if you are planning your lecture series for the spring/summer! I'd love to come by in person or virtually. Please let your libraries know to get a copy and help me spread the word. 🌈 @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/F/Frag... 128319
Reposted by Ervin Malakajilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Friends, send us your proposals, abstracts, thoughts, in English or French - and please help us spread the word about this journal issue on distraction we're putting together. The CFP is attached: intermedialites.com/en/call-for-...intermedialites.comCALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités 11412
Reposted by Ervin MalakajErvin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Jasbir Puar and I are very excited to invite you to the launch of the UBC Queer Trans Centre for Radical Praxis. The event will feature our distinguished comrades Billy-Ray Belcourt, Xaytun Ennasr, Likes Hettinga, and Jules Gill-Peterson. Please help us spread the word. 0164
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Jasbir Puar and I are very excited to invite you to the launch of the UBC Queer Trans Centre for Radical Praxis. The event will feature our distinguished comrades Billy-Ray Belcourt, Xaytun Ennasr, Likes Hettinga, and Jules Gill-Peterson. Please help us spread the word. 0164
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Friendlies, if you are in Vancouver Sept 24/27, check out the two public events associated with our Queer Play Workshop: a teach-in for educators and a pop-up museum planned. A bunch of fab people are coming together to theorize queer play in anti-queer times. More info: queerplayworkshop.org 021
Reposted by Ervin MalakajErvin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Friendlies, help us spread the word about the THIRD annual Tobin Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies, to be held by Rafi Balling Oct 22, in person and online. You can find out more about Rafi's exciting talk on German trans literatures of the self + RSVP info here: ces.ubc.ca/events/event... 11513
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The initiative was established to support emerging scholars in the broad fields of queer and trans German studies, whose work has already had an impact on scholarly discourse. Our first two lectures were the fabulous @benwritesthings.bsky.social and Andrea Rottmann. 020
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You can find out more about the Tobin Lecture on the website for it, where we outline ways for community members to support the Tobin fund. While we have secured regular funds for the lecture, for it to continue we are regularly accepting community donations. ces.ubc.ca/news-events/...ces.ubc.caTobin Distinguished Lecture Series - Centre for European StudiesBrowse events in the Robert D. Tobin Distinguished Lecture Series in Queer and Trans German Studies at UBC. 130
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Friendlies, help us spread the word about the THIRD annual Tobin Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies, to be held by Rafi Balling Oct 22, in person and online. You can find out more about Rafi's exciting talk on German trans literatures of the self + RSVP info here: ces.ubc.ca/events/event... 11513
Reposted by Ervin MalakajJeannette Oholi @jeannetteoho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Heute ist May Ayims 30. Todestag. Ich habe eine Laudatio für die bedeutende Autorin, Aktivistin und Forscherin geschrieben, die demnächst im neuen Rundbrief von Edition Zweifel erscheinen wird. Schaut unbedingt mal bei Edition Zweifel vorbei und bestellt den Rundbrief: zweifel.jetzt/rundbrief 12312
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Hi! I’m trying to be on here more. Yay! Omg my big mouth has been on tour whispering about a secret forthcoming book to everyone 020
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Coming up in the next two days at the @zfl-berlin.bsky.social: workshop titled “Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century” organized by Sean Franzel and @spoerhase.bsky.social. 🌈🌈🌈 www.zfl-berlin.org/event/transa...zfl-berlin.orgTransatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century - ZfL Berlin 1123
Reposted by Ervin MalakajRoxanne Phillips @ancaleth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Super happy and excited to be hosting @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social tomorrow morning @kwi-essen.bsky.social for a talk on "Lubitsch's Aesthetics of Suspicion"! If you would like to join, our colloquium begins at 10:30 AM (CET). Details about Ervin's talk and for remote access (Zoom) can be found here:kulturwissenschaften.deKulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)Das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskolleg für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Tradition internationaler Institutes for Advanced Study. Als i... 0234
Reposted by Ervin MalakajKulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026🎭 For this week’s #Colloquium we are welcoming @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social. He will draw on queer feminist discourse on affect to foreground the endings of Lubitsch comedies not as stabilizing but as strategically misplaced features. #ComicLiteracies 💡 shorturl.at/60Xpg 092
Reposted by Ervin MalakajDr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I’m very proud to have contributed a chapter on coded references to queerness in Pandora’s Box to this wonderful volume! Equally proud to have worked with & feature alongside such wonderful people, including Jonah, @katielmsutton.bsky.social, @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social, Ina Linge & more! 092
Reposted by Ervin MalakajDr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!forms.gleQueer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference RegistrationWe are looking forward to welcoming you to the Queer Lives and Trans* Formations Conference on 30-31 March, 2026! As the conference will be taking place online, we ask that you register to attend by c... 1108
Reposted by Ervin MalakajJoela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com 01211
Reposted by Ervin MalakajErvin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Nothing will come in the way of tetka theory. After all, tenacity is part of tetka style. The book is now drafted. It contains lots of tetka wisdoms others want to suppress. It endured much and so it will also endure the long way to publication. Biće, biće! 0171
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Nothing will come in the way of tetka theory. After all, tenacity is part of tetka style. The book is now drafted. It contains lots of tetka wisdoms others want to suppress. It endured much and so it will also endure the long way to publication. Biće, biće! 0171
Reposted by Ervin MalakajHarper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026This program recruiting scholars from outside Canada comes with *incredible* funding. If you're looking to move, check it out! research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...research.ubc.caCanada Impact+ Research Chairs ProgramThe University of British Columbia is inviting expressions of interest from top-tier, internationally based researchers as 03218
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Yay! Got you on our list. More info will come your way in due time. 110
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 11/12/2025UBC is sorting through its internal application process. Comrades working outside of Canada who are interested might like to read up more about the program at the link above. 020
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 11/12/2025"The Government of Canada announced the launch of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program on December 9, 2026. This new $1 billion investment will provide Canadian institutions the opportunity to recruit top-tier international researchers." research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...research.ubc.caCanada Impact + Research Chairs ProgramThe Government of Canada announced the launch of the 130
Reposted by Ervin MalakajErvin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 01/12/2025@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comLinguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading GroupLinguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group Hosts: David Gramling & Ervin Malakaj The “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual Universi... 3105
Reposted by Ervin MalakajErvin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Fantastic comrades are organizing this important workshop at UBC on Trans German Studies with keynotes by Emma Heaney & Kadji Amin. The submission deadline is coming up. Consider submitting a proposal. Would be great to welcome some of you to our campus. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...networks.h-net.orgCfP: Trans German Studies: Contours, Critiques, and Emerging Conversations (Workshop), May 21-22, 2026 | H-NetCfP: Trans German Studies: Contours, Critiques, and Emerging Conversations (Workshop)May 21-22, 2026University of British Columbia and onlineModality: Hybrid (online and in-person)Public keynotes: Emm... 0167
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Fantastic comrades are organizing this important workshop at UBC on Trans German Studies with keynotes by Emma Heaney & Kadji Amin. The submission deadline is coming up. Consider submitting a proposal. Would be great to welcome some of you to our campus. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...networks.h-net.orgCfP: Trans German Studies: Contours, Critiques, and Emerging Conversations (Workshop), May 21-22, 2026 | H-NetCfP: Trans German Studies: Contours, Critiques, and Emerging Conversations (Workshop)May 21-22, 2026University of British Columbia and onlineModality: Hybrid (online and in-person)Public keynotes: Emm... 0167
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 01/12/2025@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comLinguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading GroupLinguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group Hosts: David Gramling & Ervin Malakaj The “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual Universi... 3105
