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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Ich bin gestern auch arg durch Berlin gerutscht! Die Straßen sind frei, Gehwege aber kaum - abgesehen von der HU, die wohl vor der eigenen Haustür gut kehrt.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

American Studies @ the University of Nottingham is under threat of its programs being closed - there's a petition to try and stop this. www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Heute war im Seminarraum die Uhr noch nicht umgestellt, und dann war auch noch der Sekundenzeiger kaputt, was mich für ca. 3,5 Sekunden (genauer weiß man's ja nicht) aus dem Konzept gebracht hat.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

hah, die Funktion gab's damals bei SMS in alten Nokias.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Wird auch selten angesprochen, wie überfordert die Verwaltungen durch die Dauerbefristung sind…

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

why on God‘s green earth would any theology department invite this guy? Seems to me like there‘s a warped understanding of the field in either the article or in these departments. A cultural anthropologist would be a better match?

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Trivial, but I met Fall Out Boy ca. 2007.

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Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft @nnwiss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Wichtige und dringende Kampagne! Bitte teilen und unterschreiben!

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Mein Vorschlag: am Montag 1 Tag Sonderurlaub für Wahlhelfende.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This list of AI-commonalities might actually double quite well as a general list of "don'ts" to use when teaching academic writing.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Here's a question for fellow researchers: Where/how are you discovering great scholarship? I feel like search engines are not doing a great job, and I miss the lists of books and articles that were on aaaaarg.

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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

hah! i have this saved somewhere from way back when (like, before YouTube? how did we even get this stuff?) and didn't think anyone remembered.

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

pretty sure that's everyone headed out for coffee :-)

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

my inner Bart Simpson keeps writing 'I should have downloaded the relevant material from archive.org' on his inner blackboard. finger's crossed for good-looking slides for #dgfa2025. #archives

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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Just one more week and then we will meet again in Siegen (for the annual #DGfA25 #DGfA2025 #GAAS25 #GAAS2025 meeting). I'm really looking forward to it 💖 This is us. Panel hopping. 😇 www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglist...

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a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground

Alt: a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

thank you so much! I honestly wasted quite some time on both YT and google w/o finding that.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

can anyone tell me how TF you switch from roman to arabic endnotes on word 365 for Mac? if you tell me there's a tiny arrow in a corner, believe me, there's not.

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Sandra Dinter @sandradinter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Looking forward to hosting this event on walking women in Hamburg from 27-29 March 2025! #walkingwomen

Poster of the conference "New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures", including a photo of women's worn boots.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hopefully not! Pls let me get through January.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

But the anecdotes! For example, I couldn't find the door at USC's Hugh M. Heffner Foundation Moving Image Archive (bc construction) but I found a back entrance - ended up between stacks and stacks of film, took a picture (w/ flash) and boom, the staff ran to make sure I wasn't robbing the place :-)

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#archives are fascinating! Since 2011, I've traveled to archives (first for films and film paratexts, then pre-1800 American literature) as a (North) Americanist (not a 'real' historian). I've accumulated both thoughts on archives (and their transformation) and anecdotes about archival research.

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Erin Forbes @eeforbes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Thrilled to have my essay on Charles Chesnutt and early Black environmentalism included in this new collection, edited by the superb Bob Levine and Russ Castronovo www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/12/2024

spent this afternoon reading some early US history (as one does) and was reminded of the important fact that these people were almost constantly drunk as hell

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Das geile an diesem Video ist vor allem @amreibahr.bsky.social's Gesichtsausdruck - unmittelbarer spontan-cringe.

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Haha @astarre.bsky.social you reposting this is too meta (esp. for a decidedly not-meta platform)

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

2nding Alex’ ad: Apply if you’re in long 19c studies - I’ll be there, too!

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thanks to @marsimekko.bsky.social and @tbhallock.bsky.social for editing a (very) special issue of Anglia - and thanks for having me!

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