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Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ideen für nützliche Deckel: Mietpreisdeckel Brötchenpreisdeckel Zugticketpreisdeckel ÖPNV-Preisdeckel Schulmaterialpreisdeckel Kinderbetreuungsbeitragsdeckel Gemüsepreisdeckel Museumspreisdeckel Medikamentenpreisdeckel Gullideckel Deckel für öffentliche Abfalleimer Tupperdosendeckel

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today was the first day of this year's annual conference of the #GfF @gffantastik.bsky.social, which I have been organizing together with @aylinwalder.bsky.social, Verena Wurth & Jules Machtenberg at #UniKöln @unicologne.bsky.social on the theme of "Violence & the Fantastic"/"Gewalt & Fantastik."

Poster of the conference featuring a dark broken pane of glass and sharp-edged triangular forms in white and red.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So thrilled to be able to take part in this year's #EAAS conference in Bologna. Today's opening was wonderful, not least for seeing so many colleagues & friends from all over #Europe and the US come together to discuss the state of our field & examine different "Visions of Freedom." #AmericanStudies

Collage of photos featuring the conference program, me in front of the conference poster, the auditorium before the opening and a photo of the first keynote on "American Constitutionalism: Where does Violence & Force Fit?

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ich finde es ein wenig mühsam, dass man nun auch Liberalen und Konservativen erklären muss, dass Wissenschaft keine woke Verschwörung ist, die man mit „Sehe ich aber nicht so! Mein Gefühl ist anders!!!“ weg wischen kann. „Unbezahlte Arbeit“ ist ein fester Begriff in den Sozialwissenschaften.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ready for the first day of the interdisciplinary #SummerSchool "Futures of Well-Being: Speculative Visions and Critical Perspectives" that I am co-organizing at @unicologne.bsky.social with my colleagues Jade Arbo & Ruth Möhlig-Falke (EuniWell @euniwell.bsky.social). #WellBeing #CulturalStudies #SSF

Photo of an empty lecture room with a screen showing a power point slide that shows the title if the summer school

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Heute: @unicologne.bsky.social gemeinsam mit den anderen Hochschulen beim #CSDKöln2026. Happy Pride everyone! Today, I get to walk with the University of Cologne celebrating #diversity and pride!

Photo of a large group of people with pride flags on a bridge. The Cologne Cathedral is I the background

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ich freue mich sehr darauf, heute Abend bei einer von 3 Lesungen in der Reihe "Stimmen aus Turtle Island," organisiert von der @stbibkoeln.bsky.social & dem Museum Ludwig, ein paar Gedanken zu #LouiseErdrich s Roman 'The Sentence'/'Das Jahr der Wunder' beitragen zu dürfen. #IndigenousLiterature

Screenshot der Website mit dem Titel der Veranstaltung sowie einem Foto von Acosia Red Elk, einer Indigenen Tänzerin in traditionellem Jingle-Kleid, die im Museum zwischen Exponaten tanzt.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yesterday Prof. Michael Sawyer gave a talk at the @unicologne.bsky.social on "250 Years after Independence: Sounding the Black Event." Thank you to @jpitettiheil.bsky.social for organizing the lecture & to #AmerikahausNRW + #TWMBibliothek for supporting the event! #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies

Collection of four photos from the lecture, featuring the event poster, Johanna Pitetti-Heil introducing the speaker, and Prof. Michael Sawyer speaking.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Celebrating the publication of /Environmental Citizenship/ together with the other authors & our editors Linda Hess @timeflieslike.bsky.social, Sylvia Mayer, Katja Sarkowsky, & Christoph Straub. The book is available #openaccess here: www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/97... #EnvHum #Citizenship

Cover of 'Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations' featuring a bird's eye perspective of a dry landscape

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

DGS-Stellenmarkt: Full Professorship „Sustainability, Knowledge and Society“: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

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Full Professorship „Sustainability, Knowledge and Society“

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Your periodic reminder that the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social / @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series exists, that it's print/open-access, & that I'm always on the lookout for the next potential volume. Talk to me. press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Rainbow over Cologne! Happy Pride Month, everyone, from the queer capital of Germany.

A flock of birds passes before white and dark clouds. There is a rainbow behind the clouds.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Posting 3 days after the fact but still very much on my mind: I had such a wonderful time at this year's annual conference of the German Association for #AmericanStudies on #kinship, organized at @uni-muenster.de by the amazing Silvia Schultermandl & team. See you all again in Saarbrücken next year!

Collage of four photos depicting 1. a person speaking in front of a large room full of people, 2. a different person presenting in a smaller room, 3. A group selfie featuring four people smiling, and 4. a chalk sign saying: "Heute feiert hier American Studies"

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Martina Winkler @martinawinkle14.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"Es gibt keine Studiengebühren, und der Staat ermöglicht vielen jungen Menschen überhaupt erst ein Studium." Bär sieht Bildung offenbar als großzügiges Geschenk "vom Staat". Die Idee von einer Gesellschaft, die mit Bildungsinfrastruktur in ihre Zukunft investiert, ist ihr fremd.

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Ministerin Dorothee Bär zweifelt an baldiger Bafög-Reform

Die Reform war fest eingeplant – doch sie wird wohl nicht kommen. Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär verteidigt den möglichen Stopp der Bafög-Erhöhung. Und erklärt Studierenden, es sei kein Drama, nebe...

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

»Es wird kein Vollkaskostudium geben, jeder muss seinen Teil dazu beitragen« ist schon ein beeindruckend ekliger Satz in einer Gesellschaft mit deutlich ausgeprägter Ungleichheit. www.spiegel.de/panorama/min...

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Ministerin Dorothee Bär zweifelt an baldiger Bafög-Reform

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Der Herr Sigismund @emsig.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ich habe das glaube ich schonmal geschrieben: Dass den Klima-Forscher*innen mehr und mehr die Superlative ausgehen, um die zunehmend extremeren Auswirkungen des Klimawandels zu beschreiben, sollte uns alle beunruhigen.

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‘Mind-bogglingly crazy’: climate experts alarmed by deadly spring heatwaves searing Europe

Scientists warn of ‘new reality’ of heat extremes that claim three times more lives than car crashes and 16 times as many as murderers

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

„Da ist es verstörend, wenn Erstsemester in Gebäuden ankommen, deren Zustand ihnen vom ersten Tag an signalisiert, dass man die Orte ihrer Ausbildung inzwischen behandelt, als könne man ihnen nahezu jede Form materieller Verwahrlosung zumuten.“ www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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Baulicher Verfall deutscher Universitäten: Gefahr für Bildung?

Deutsche Universitäten sind wissenschaftlich exzellent, doch oftmals verwahrlost und baulich marode. Wer sie verfallen lässt, beschädigt auch die Vorstellung, dass Bildung und Wissenschaft geschützt g...

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Had an amazing time earlier this week in Linz. Thank you, Julia Grillmayr, for inviting me to give a talk on #SingleSexSocieties & #violence in North American #SpeculativeFiction for the Kunstuniversität Linz. Even more: I got to speak at the Johannes Kepler Haus of all places! 😍

Collage of four photos: one photo of me before the talk, one of the poster of the lecture series Relatifs, a photo of the Hauptplatz in Linz and one of the river at night.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

#HohesVenn my love. Parts ot this high moor at the border between Germany & Belgium are currently closed to hikers due to fire hazard (in early may!!!) but the parts you can visit are gorgeous, too, and demonstrate why this type of ecosystem needs to be preserved.

Collage of four photos with a wooden path leading through grasses and over a brook surrounded by spring woods, tall pines with forest berries covering the ground and views of the moor with heather, shrubs, and trees

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm infinitely proud of Verena Wurth who successfully defended her Dissertation "Crimecene: Ecocrime in New Golden Age TV" on Tuesday! It was an honor to act as your advisor & I am looking forward to the next chapter of working together here @unicologne.bsky.social!

Photo of two women holding glasses of sparkling wine smiling. There are people and flowers in the background

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Wann kommen wir endlich vom Grundrecht auf billigen Sprit und billiges Fliegen zum Grundrecht auf bezahlbare Mobilität für alle? #Fairkehrswende jetzt!

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Some impressions from the 1. day of the workshop "Netze: Infrastrukturen der Energie"/"Networks: #EnergyInfrastructures". We visited the exhibitions "Das Netz" + #CarbonCulture at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. What a wonderful group of people the "Network Energy & Literature" has assembled!

Collage of four photos showing people walking toward the Technikmuseum, people standing before the entrance of the exhibition Das Netz, the poster for the exhibition Carbon Culture and a group of people clapping next to an installation.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Finally listened to 'The #Safekeep', which a friend recommended to me months ago. I found the main character pretty annoying & saw the twist coming from miles away but that didn't make it a less entertaining read. Would recommend it for people interested in #queer #historicalfiction

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Houden

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

3 new books on trees!🌳 The Non-Human is a big current paradigm in #Ecocriticism / #LiteraryStudies - here's some new reading material for you. This memoir-cum-local history by Ruth Pavey explores her journey of planting "a wood of one's own" in the British countryside in #Somerset #History #Memoir

Holding the book "a wood of one's own" by Ruth Pavey in front of a tree

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Some #Springflowers for you all. Visited the last crocuses in Cologne's botanical garden again during lunch break today. #Flora #Köln

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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sehr sehr zu empfehlen; hört/ seht es euch an.besonders ab Min 19 / 19:30…zu wiss. Autonomie, Plagiatssoftware, KI in der Drittmittelantragsbegutachtung. ⬇️

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antoniavillinger.bsky.social @antoniavillinger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Am 25./26. März findet der Workshop „Netze. Infrastrukturen der Energie“ im Rahmen des @dfg.de Netzwerks „Energie @ Literatur“ an der HU Berlin statt. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen. Informationen: energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/ @victoriaherche.bsky.social @judithrauscher.bsky.social

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#Frühling in Köln! Krokusse und Kamelien! #Spring in Cologne! Crocuses and Camelias!

Collage of four photos: two images of a park with flowers covering the ground. One of a person walking between camelias bushes. Two people standing over a little basin full of camelias flowers

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A few impressions from last week's #Poetica11, a literary festival hosted every year at the @unicologne.bsky.social & in the city. This year, I got to collaborate with Rike Scheffler for a panel discussion with the Poetica poets & by helping to bring to Cologne US poet @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/01/2026

Did you know that 2/3 of Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming -- but 85% of Americans either underestimate how many others are worried, or don’t know enough to say? This key misunderstanding tanks our sense of collective efficacy. How do we overcome it? Talk about it!

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Most Americans underestimate how worried the American public is about global warming

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Starting @unicologne.bsky.social : The DFG-funded conference on "Anthropocene #Necropoetics: Empire, Violence, and Ecological Ruin in US #Poetry" that I'm organizing with Mahshid Mayar. So exciting! #EnvHum #AmericanStudies

Conference poster composed of lines and textures.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

These are the books I discussed in my talk on "Dystopias of Reproductive Work in North Am. #SpeculativeFiction" this week. I'd recommend all of them to a wider audience, except /Sojourn/ (1835) which is viciously racist. Be advised though that all of them contain brutal violence, some of it sexual.

A collage of six books: Holgate's /Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation/, Jack London's /The Iron Heel/… Sinclair Lewis's /It Can't Happen Here/, Suzy McKee Charnas's /Walk to the End of the World/, Atwood's /The Handmaid's Tale/, and Marge Piercy's /Woman on the Edge of Time/

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Earlier today I gave a talk (in German 😲) @ruhr-uni-bochum.de on "Dystopias of Reproductive Work in North American Speculative Fiction" in @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social's super cool lecture class on "Dystopias of Work." 📚 I can recommend it. You get cake. 🍰 #CompLit #AmericanStudies #FeministSF #SFF

Collage of three photos: me at the train station, the cover of Suzy McKee Charnas's The Slave and the Free (Walk to the End of the World & Motherlines), and a chocolate cake

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Received a "Old Library" DYI booknook as a Christmas present and started to assemble it over the weekend. One of the books in the library is "Whitman's Poems"! 😍

Close-up of a 10-cent piece and 3 tiny books. One of them carries the title "Whitman's Poems'

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

It's been a while: Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you get to rest a bit!

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antoniavillinger.bsky.social @antoniavillinger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In der nächsten Woche findet der nächste Workshop des DFG-Netzwerks „Literatur & Energie“ in Bochum & Köln mit u.a. @doctoressa.bsky.social @judithrauscher.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social statt! Herzliche Einladung! energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Yesterday,I attended the opening ceremony of the 5-year celebration of @euniwell.bsky.social, a 12-partner university alliance focused on human and ecological #Well-Being. We heard a wonderful talk by #Happiness researcher Lara Aknin & an amazing performance by the all-female vocal ensemble Aember 🤓

Photo collage of four women opening the ceremony, my name badge, a woman giving a talk and 8 women singing in formation.

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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Just finished /Nomansland/ (2010) by #LesleyHauge, which offers a take on the kind of #SingleSexNarrative I am interested in that is reminiscent of #feminist #criticalutopias from the 1980s, such as #PamelaSargent 's /The Shore of Women/ (1986) & #SheriTepper 's /The Gate to Women's Country/ (1988)

Photo of the cover of the novel Nomansland by Lesley Hauge, which features a woman in worn clothes on a black horse shooting an arrow. A small blurb reads: "On an island of women alone, who.is the real enemy?"

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Still on vacation in the #Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Shire! #Hiking

Photo of a rural landscape with meadows, fields, woods, and hills in the distance. There are clouds in the blue sky

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

On vacation in a region called the Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Midwest. #Thunderstorm

Photo of a yellow field with a dozen tall white wind generators. The clouds in the sky are dramatic and dark

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I am also utterly thrilled to be one of the editors of this new series, and to be working with @lizwfab.bsky.social and @judithrauscher.bsky.social ! ❤️ We can't wait to hear your pop culture book ideas!

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