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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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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think this is the more obvious inspiration...

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So many pics of pigeons...

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My 8-year old got hold of my camera during the holidays. I am posting some highlights.

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Tupperware in the streets,

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The historical context is, of course, the Nazi campaign to make a distinction between "lebenswertes" and "nicht-lebenswertes Leben" – to frame people with a disability as a drain on scarce public resources.

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Ähnliches gibts auch in Würzburg..

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

International teams of cultural historians discuss what we can contribute to fields such as environmental history, digital history and postcolonial studies. Edited by @willemijnruberg.bsky.social and myself. Use this flyer for a discount!

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Here it is in real time..

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My current timeline is just incredible (incredibly depressing).

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"This book will be really interesting to astronomy geeks."

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

He should've kept those 50m instead...

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In 1972, Theodore Draper compared post-Vietnam US with Weimar but warned of taking the comparison too far: “A little of the Weimarian analogy may do us some good, to remind us that a democracy can commit suicide at the same time that it is being murdered."

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In 1971, Life Magazine dedicated a whole issue to the growing nostalgia for the interwar period, a combination of fascination and fear, as an explainer of the current time.

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

If you thought the Weimar comparisons surely must have run their course by now – Michael Gove is here to convince you otherwise!

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Back at it...

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This is the way we're AI-proofing our syllabus next year..

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today, staff and students @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social are on strike to protest against sweeping cuts in higher education!

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Just leaving this here...

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Great things are afoot our Cultural History section! We're working on a new book mapping the field of cultural history and its (possible) future. Today, Simon Gunn is in Utrecht to give a first response to the manuscript.

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Completely normal and not at all unhinged way to speak...

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Getting ready to welcome new students after a summer of archival research

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Great talk today at IISG Amsterdam by Clotilde Faas about gender and violence during the German Revolution 1918/19 – important finding: women were not only victims of violence but used violence themselves...

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Just a few weeks to go before the deadline for our workshop "Provincializing Weimar Culture": www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve.... Send in your abstracts!

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