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Jochen Hung

@jochenhung.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands www.uu.nl/staff/JBHung

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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 17h
Offre d’emploi – Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages with a Focus on Material Cultures (Open Rank) rmblf.be/2026/09/30/o...
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Offre d’emploi – Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages with a Focus on Material Cultures (Open Rank)
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in history of the earlier Middle Ages with a focus on material cultures (open rank) starting on 1 August 2028. Depending on the qua…
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 5h
We are entering a golden age of academic Stakhanovism
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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 5h
Join us on 20 October at 5.30pm for the first lecture in our Autumn/Winter Lecture Series 2026 given by Bernhard Rieger (Universiteit Leiden) on 'Blair, Schröder, and Work in Neoliberal Times'! 📅 1/5
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13h
Most TV is just this now.
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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Duschgel auf einem angeschimmelten Badewannenrand. Darauf Adorno mit dem dm-Balea-Schriftzug: Es gibt nichts harmloses mehr.
Ich weiß nicht mehr, von wem ich das Bild habe. Es ist aus vergangenen Twitter-Zeiten abgespeichert.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!
Tintin cartoon
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Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vandaag de auteursexemplaren van Uitgeverij Boom ontvangen, vrijdag in de boekhandel: 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴: 𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴, een nieuw historisch perspectief op één van de meest besproken problemen van onze tijd,
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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something very exciting for Eisenstein fans. An epic release from @kinolorber.com of the Mexico project in all its subsequent forms. I am honoured to have made a very (very) small contribution to this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZX-...
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SERGEI EISENSTEIN ¡MÉXICO! 2-BD Release November 2026
YouTube video by filmmakershowcase
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/09/2026
Interesting interpretation of the postcolonial dynamics in Geert Wilders's partially Indonesian ancestry. web.archive.org/web/20110720...
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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Die CDU ist eine Gefahr für die Demokratie in Deutschland
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remigration in action:
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Funded PhD Opportunity!
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great news: the School has sacked a third of its academic but we've acquired 2 new interim managers on top of the extra permanent ones. Fine work all round.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Need to add a short paragraph about how my monograph threatens to extinguish all biological matter on Earth in my next book proposal to try and get up to a 10% royalty.
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh look, I'm getting #AIslop ads against the #documentary #Naza now, in #theNetherlands. Can you imagine doing this? Doing an AIslop campaign against a documentary on a random weather app? They really know they lost the #PublicOpinion on their operations in #Gaza. This is pretty desperate shit.
a screenshot of a weather app with an ad - drawn, cartoon-like characters (made to look like the creators of the film), and above them it says "avoid context". same two cartoon characters, and next to them it says "hard evidence / you might not find any".
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Matthew Jefferies @manchesterroman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a bit niche, I know, but my new article on ‘Chiromancy and Chirology in Weimar photobooks’ is available to read free online for the next 30 days at urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Hands Up? Chiromancy and Chirology in Weimar Photobooks
Abstract. Much has been written about the revival of physiognomic discourse in the Weimar Republic, and particularly its representation in the novel medium
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should let people dream of something besides labor
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dehypotheses @dehypotheses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The scenery was magnificent, and so was the hospitality everywhere.” In the 1930s, young Britons travelled through Nazi Germany believing that tourism could promote peace. But their enthusiasm also played into the regime’s propaganda.⬇️ ghil.hypotheses.org/... via @ghilondon.bsky.social
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‘In the Service of Peace’: British–German Youth Hostelling during National Socialism and the Allied Occupation
Hiking in Germany was the title of a propaganda brochure published in 1934 by the Reichsbahnzentrale, an agency established by the German State Railway to advertise rail tourism. The pamphlet was written in English and specifically intended to encourage international tourists to visit youth hostels in the German Reich. The Nazis advertised the roughly 2,000…
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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was in der Berichterstattung über die Linke Neukölln und die sogenannte „Clan-Kriminalität“ fehlt: der Neukölln-Komplex. Über Jahre gab es zahlreiche mutmaßlich rechtsextreme Anschläge, auch gegen migrantische Geschäfte und Wohnhäuser. Auch gegen Ferat Ali Kocak und seine Familie 1/
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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social as they fight what have clearly been proven to be unnecessary and disproportionate cuts within an institution that remains the wealthiest university in Scotland. Victory to the strikers! www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/five-we...
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Staff at the University of Edinburgh start five-week strike — UCU Edinburgh
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh today (Monday) start five-weeks of strikes in a dispute over £140million cuts and compulsory redundancies. The strike f...
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks Lucy! I will never tire of the wonderfulness of my students, past and present. And it's not just in the classroom: many students of mine have appeared in book acknowledgements, too; they shape our research in myriad ways. A reminder that *we* are the university, not the bean-counters!
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
bitte erinnert euch … die deutsche schnappatmung im vergleich wie immer humorlos
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On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wins race for mayor 
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It concerns me that the HE sector continues to over reward individual accolades such as grant getting (partly a matter of luck) and under reward vital things such as sustained collegiality and commitment to supporting students. It’s not healthy.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A lot of the arguments for why it is essential for German democracy that Merz stay in office made by people on here and other sites sound a lot like the arguments made on here and other sites this time last year as to why it was essential for British democracy that Starmer remains in office.
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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Compared to professors, both postdocs and doctoral candidates are more likely to expect restrictions and to perceive their academic freedom as constrained. We interpret this as precarious employment contributing to a "chilling effect" regarding restrictions on academic freedom.
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Frau Nora @fraunora.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Die Artikel in der Widerstandszeitschrift, die mein Großvater mit herausgegeben hat, müssen sicher im Kontext der Zeit gelesen werden. Und trotzdem finde ich interessant, wie sich bestimmte Themen dann doch ähneln. www.die-anachronistin.de/38-ist-hitle...
Screenshot aus dem Blogpost von "Die Anachronistin": "Wenn man mit Deutschen, die betont christlich und national denken, darüber spricht, ob man gegen die heute in Deutschland herrschenden Kreise kämpfen müsse, so ist häufig die erste Frage die, was denn nach dem Ende des « Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland kommen wird. Wird man nicht sozusagen den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub austreiben? Dem Bolschewismus den Weg bereiten und eine Lage schaffen, die dann noch viel radikaler und tyrannischer als heute ist? Das ist in der Regel eigentlich die erste Frage, die diskutiert wird."
Aus Kameradschaft, Ausg. Januar 1938, S. 63
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 "Emory Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar, an expert in 19th-century African American women’s history, is Emmy-nominated as co-executive producer of HBO’s 'The Gilded Age,' where her scholarship helps shape Peggy Scott’s story of Black life in 1880s New York." www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...
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Emory professor has her ‘biggest classroom’ with Emmy-nominated ‘Gilded Age’
Ahead of Monday’s ceremony, we chat with Emory University’s Erica Armstrong Dunbar, co-executive producer of HBO’s Emmy-nominated show.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Job Opportunity! Johns Hopkins University - Krieger School of Arts & Sciences - Medieval European and/or Mediterranean History (400 - 1500) networks.h-net.org/jobs/70412/j...
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Working on a book, article, or dissertation on #18thc British world? The Lewis Walpole Library offers 4-week visiting fellowships and 2-week travel grants for scholars. The deadline for applications is November 2. 🗃️ More info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
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Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants | Lewis Walpole Library
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rob Trip over de afname van acceptatie v homosexualiteit: “meisjes zijn altijd al iets toleranter.” Ik zou het woord “iets” hier niet gebruiken, daarvoor zijn de genderverschillen in acceptatie te groot - zowel in 2021 als in 2025.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Visiting fellowship for PhD students in medical humanities at Upsala www.uu.se/en/centre/me...
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Call for applications: Visiting PhD-student position in Medical Humanities, Uppsala University, spring semester 2027 – Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) – Uppsala University
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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 21/09/2026
Nur so am Rande: Natürlich ist die deutsche Asylpolitik großteils eine Durchführung des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Asylsystems, sodass hier die EU-Grundrechtecharta gilt. Um seine Phantasien "rechtssicher" umzusetzen, müsste Sarrazin Deutschland also gleich auch aus der EU austreten lassen.
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The Economist @economist.com · 21/09/2026
An opportunity to write for The Economist
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Paid interns on The Economist’s foreign desk
An opportunity to write for The Economist
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Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ich wusste ja, dass es exakt so kommen wird. Aber es ist wirklich extrem, das aktuell zu beobachten und am schlimmsten ist, wieviele Leute sich dafür instrumentalisieren lassen.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Anna Neumaier @annaneumaier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Alter. 21627 Einreichungen auf ein Fellowship-Programm. Wer soll das alles begutachten? 😶‍🌫️ Wer jetzt nicht für mehr Grundförderung und weniger Drittmittel argumentiert, der ist doch nicht gescheit.
Text, dass bei einem Fellowship-Call 21627 Bewerbungen eingegangen sind, von der Webseite der Funding Agency.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a really fascinating data-thread for politics nerds
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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sounds a lot like this...
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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
lalito.
I deliberately tell my students not to be devil's advocates in discussions because it normalizes disingenuous argument and leads into gaslighting. There's no point in arguing from the perspective of evil. Nothing good comes from that.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As I keep saying, professional influencers are petty bourgeois entrepreneurs who make their money by harvesting attention, and that position in the capitalist economy tends to lend itself to a certain kind of politics.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.
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nikk @nikk.ca · 20/10/2025
absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago
elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It continues to amaze me that the industry/culture that so demonizes cultural theory and humanities are its greatest purveyors. Naming machine learning “artificial intelligence” is gramsci level politics. yet when we call that naming what it is, suddenly it doesn’t matter what you call it.
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