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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What an absolute pleasure to welcome so many guests to our Humanities for Humans discussion last week. Thank you to @greta-olson.org (@jlugiessen.bsky.social), Elisabeth Lechner (@femsista.bsky.social) and Irene Kacandes for the animated conversation on #AI #images, and to everyone who came! 1/3

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Greta Olson, Elisabeth Lechner and Irene Kacandes on stage

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 27/05/2026

Join Prof. K. Allison Hammer and the Center for Diversity, Media and Law tomorrow, May 28, at 5 PM Frankfurt time for their talk on developments in transmasc research and activism.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 16/05/2026

So looking forward to K. Allison Hammer's talk this Monday at 4:15 Frankfurt time. Everyone welcome.

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Research Group MeDiMi @for-medimi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🚀 Day 2 of #MeDiMiConference2026 has wrapped up! Day 2 highlights: ➡️ Plenary on the “conditions of possibility” of #humanrightization (J. Bast, A. Kessler, @greta-olson.org). ➡️ Plenary on “consequences & ambivalences” ( @laura-holderied.bsky.social, E. Gutiérrez Rodríguez, B. Bunk). (1/3)

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The discussion series "Humanities for Humans" returns to Berlin! We're throwing our doors open on June 11 for a timely talk on #AI images, authenticity and accountability. With @greta-olson.org (@jlugiessen.bsky.social), @femsista.bsky.social (@univie.ac.at) and Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth).

Visual for the event featuring speaker headshots.Text reads: Humanities for Humans. Reading Images in the Age of AI. June 11, 6pm, De Gruyter Brill, Lützowstr. 33, Berlin. Speakers: Greta Olson, Elisabeth Lechner, Irene Kacandes

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Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy International Trans Visibility Day!

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 02/02/2026

This talk works to contextualize events in Minneapolis within the current administration’s discursive strategy of attacking Renée Good and Alex Pretti and denying responsibility for their deaths after they were shot by ICE agents.

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

America is under siege. Where is the Fourth Estate’s defense of democracy and the Constitution? How many newspaper Editorial Boards have called for President Trump's impeachment (or even resignation)? 👇 bsky.app/profile/medi...

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 13/10/2025

The discussion was enriched by the highly interdisciplinary perspectives. We look forward to the publication of “Garcia Márquez as Law,” a monograph that opens the legal-theoretical aspects of the author’s work with expressive joy. @diml.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 13/10/2025

Héctor Hoyos and Jorge González-Jácome shared their reading of Garcia Márquez’s fictions as a form of legal pluralism that explores how power is constituted by the people imaginatively.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 13/10/2025

I was honored to be a part of the manuscript workshop “Garcia Márquez as Law: A Study in Constituent Power and the Imagination” at Stanford University on 10 October 2025.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 13/08/2025

In July, Anat Rosenberg spoke in my Political Healing seminar about her forthcoming text “Hope against Autocratic Legalism during the Democratic Crisis in Israel.” Her words about maintaining hope during a period of increasing autocracy have accompanied me during the past months. @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 11/08/2025

I was honored to serve as a facilitator at the summer school CRITICAL TIMES 2025 DISRUPTIONS with a session on “Disrupting the Affective Work of Anti-Immigration Narratives and Images“. The Institute is offering Visitor Fellowships that one can apply for until 30 September 2025: lnkd.in/eBNEtynx.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 21/07/2025

Please join us tomorrow, on 22 July 2025, at 11 AM CET, for the founding event of the Legal Humanities Association (LHA). The association places Law and Humanities research and methodologies ever more squarely on the academic map. More information can be found here: lnkd.in/e-CJQShR.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 17/06/2025

Note that Timothy Snyder, author of "On Tyranny" (2017) is a US American historian, who has moved to Canada. Many thanks again to @demsabroad.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social #NoKings

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Research Group MeDiMi @for-medimi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

(1/2) ☀️ MeDiMi at the 2025 Summer Event of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) on 11 June. 💡 Highlight: Talk by MeDiMi PI @greta-olson.org on "Trump 2.0: The Return & Resistance."

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 02/06/2025

Looking forward to speaking at the GGS Summer Event 2025 on June 11. I will give a guest talk, titled "Trump 2.0: The Return & the Resistance," which will cover political pushback, activism, and hope. Register by June 4 via the QR code below or this link: shorturl.at/TSjFg. #TheReturn #TheResistance

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 30/04/2025

A free and independent press is the necessary fourth branch of democracies. So important to speak about encroachments on press freedom during the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 administration and what this means for us in Germany. @djv.de @profausberlin.bsky.social

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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Reminder: Diesen Donnerstag, 18-20 Uhr, diskutieren mehrere Autor:innen von "Ökonomie als Gesellschaftstheorie" (u.a. @tbiebricher.bsky.social) im Senatssaal der HU. Wir freuen uns über das Buch und auf die spannende Veranstaltung! www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 07/04/2025

"This is what democracy looks like." @bostonglobe.com for reporting on crowd size

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 06/04/2025

Feeling the joy of resistance at the Hands Off protest in Boston today. We the people resist and will persist.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 14/02/2025

"Neurodivergence is the norm. We need to develop a society for the greatest level of variation." Thank you Dr. Elizabeth Drame (U of Wisconsin Milwaukee)for a great talk on interactions of Black autistic youth and the police. @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 12/02/2025

@maditaoeming.bsky.social did a fabulous job of explaining how the porn addiction narrative has been instrumentalized to various political ends in her talk at JLU. Madita's critical media work contributes centrally to developing literacy concerning digital porn. Thank you! @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 12/02/2025

Dr. Liz Drame (U Wisconsin-Milwaukee) speaks about interactions between Black and autistic youth and law enforcement today at 4:15 PM Frankfurt time. Dr. Drame will lead us through the intersections of race and disability. @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 08/02/2025

Madita Oeming thinks through simplistic anti-porn positions with critical nuance, this Monday at 2:15 Frankfurt time. Everyone welcome. @maditaoeming.bsky.social, @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 05/02/2025

Dr. Marzia Milazzo (Associate Prof, U of Johannesburg) will speak about Anti-Blackness and Colorblindness in the US, Europe, and South Africa today at 4:15, Frankfurt time. @transcript-verlag.bsky.social @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 25/01/2025

An important talk on the legal and cultural ramifications of sex robots. Join Rüya Toparlak from the University of Lucerne at @diml.bsky.social and JLU for a politically and socially relevant input and discussion.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 25/01/2025

Thanks to Simon Stern and Robert Spoo for making this rich collection of voices in Laws and Literature be heard.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 20/01/2025

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Let's focus on Dr. King's vision of social justice rather than events in Washington, DC. Join us for Dr. Simona Adinolfi's talk on labor exploitation and migration tomorrow at 4:15, Frankfurt time. Everyone is welcome. @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 13/01/2025

Join us today at 4:15 Frankfurt time for Dr. Carolin Gebauer's important talk on how to recognize and counter polarizing representations of migration. Everyone is welcome, no pre.registration necessary. @diml.bsky.social @for-medimi.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 09/12/2024

For those who missed it, here is a filmed version of Allison Hammer's timely talk about trans utopian strategies for addressing the present. @kallison.bsky.social @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 08/12/2024

Join us for PD Dr. Georgiana Banita's talk this Monday at 4:15 Frankfurt time on the political instrumentalization of migrant crime. @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 03/12/2024

Join us for @kallison.bsky.social's talk tomorrow, 4 December at 4:15 Frankfurt and Amsterdam time, on "Exuberant Embodiment: A Trans Utopia for an Unbearable Present." @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 02/12/2024

Gratified by Azka Anees' recent review of the 2022 Oxford UP book. Anees applies the book's model of cultural legal analysis to recent events in Canada and carries out the argument that "aesthetics can be used to interrogate and critique the law." Thank you for this thoughtful review.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 25/11/2024

Wearing black to denote the seriousness of the outcome of the US elections and their effects on Germany and the world, I was impressed by students of two Bad Homburg Gymnasien who asked questions that demonstrated their commitment to the political future. @diml.bsky.social @profausberlin.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 25/11/2024

Was honored to introduce Andreas von Arnauld's extraordinary talk on 20 Nov at JLU Giessen on how metaphors and narratives interact in ECtHR adjudication. Happy that this interdisciplinary intervention took place within the MeDiMi, whose work is more relevant than ever.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 19/11/2024

After a few years of incarceration behind a fierce paywall, "#Feminist -- Naming Controversies and Celebrating Points of Connection and Joy" is now open access. @femsista.bsky.social @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 11/11/2024

After the shock, the critical autopsy of the results of the US elections continues, now in light of the political instability in Germany. I will be discussing transnational Trumpism with Christian Lammert, Emanuel Bergmann, and Dr. Lea Conrad tomorrow in German at daz Stuttgart. @diml.bsky.social.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 07/11/2024

Like many of us, I am working through the shock and disbelief regarding the results of the US elections. Join us in Frankfurt and online today as we dissect how the Trump victory happened and what it means for the US, Germany, and the world. @diml.bsky.social @boell.de

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 23/10/2024

Join us for @diml.bsky.social's first book launch at 4:15 (CET) today. @kallison.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 23/10/2024

Join us for the book launch of "Diversity Issues in the USA" today. 4:15 (CET). Everyone welcome. @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 23/10/2024

Join us for @diml.bsky.social 's first book launch at 4:15 (CET) today. Everyone welcome. @marielreiss.bsky.social

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 21/10/2024

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 21/10/2024

We define transnational Trumpism as the steady testing of the say-able and do-able at the expense of democratic institutions and non-violent speech. – Greta Olson and Melanie Kreitler (University of Giessen) Join us on 23 October. @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 21/10/2024

When the economic elite feels threatened by revolutionary mobilizations – and climate mitigation demands a revolution –, they relinquish their political power to authoritarian leaders in order to safeguard their profits and property. – Esther Edelmann and Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden U and LUCAS)

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 17/10/2024

Drag storytelling events are fundamentally about democracy itself and the practice and possibility of imagining and creating more diverse and inclusive political communities with (our) children and future generations. – Christine M. Klapeer (University of Giessen) Join us on 23 October.

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 17/10/2024

Belonging to Trump’s world is about bluffing your way along in the game and then deciding with others collectively that this is the real world, that is, the world that matters. – Sara Polak (Leiden University) Join us on 23 October. @diml.bsky.social @sarapolak.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 14/10/2024

Reactionary white U.S. Americans … respond enthusiastically to … demographic dystopia. This fiction encapsulates the ongoing national struggle to reconcile ideals of equality with the realities of racial and ethnic diversity. – Georgiana Banita (University of Bamberg) @diml.bsky.social

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Greta Olson @greta-olson.org · 14/10/2024

“[I]n times of political polarization and close elections, Native voters are able to make a difference.” – Sabine N. Meyer (University of Bonn), “IndigiPolitics: Native American Voters and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election” Join us on 23 October. @diml.bsky.social

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