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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 · 19/09/2026

It's a wrap! Today was the closing day of our conference on "Violence & the Fantastic" at the Uni Köln @unicologne.bsky.social. Thank you to my co-organizers, @aylinwalder.bsky.social & @julesofftheroad.bsky.social (stepping in for a colleague on maternity leave) & my amazing student assistants!

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I enjoyed all the panels I got to attend today immensely, but I was particularly proud of the graduate students & PhD students from my team who presented their research or chaired panels at this year's GfF #conference, some of them while also working behind the scenes of the event 👏👏👏

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Day 2 of our @gffantastik.bsky.social conference on " #Violence & the Fantastic" was rich & busy. After 3 rounds of panels, we took our participants to the #FilmhausKöln for a screening of /Der Golem: Wie er in die Welt kam/ (1920) before heading for our conference dinner. #Humanities #scholarship

Collage of four photos depicting people in conversation over lunch, two people presenting their papers and people sitting in a movie theater.

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

Having welcomed over 60 speakers & guests, we started with a keynote by @spychalam.bsky.social who discussed "Utopia and Violence" in #StarTrek, the Wasteland series of @jcvogt.de + @inksmith.bsky.social & the Monk & Robot series of #BeckyChambers. We then had our first round of 3 parallel panels.

Collage of four photos featuring a selfie of me in front of the conference slide, a group of scholars in the break room, Mareike Spychala addressing her audience And three panelist during Q & A.

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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 · 05/09/2026

I spent the last day of this year's #EAAS2026 conference in Bologna attending a panel discussion on Teaching #AmericanStudies in Europe, a panel on US #DokuPoetry, the concluding keynote on the representational history of #CrispusAttucs & eating delicious pasta. Full brain + full stomach = ☺️

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So much important work was presented on day 2 of the #EAAS2026. I attended a discussion on #AcademicFreedom on both sides of the Atlantic, a panel on future visions of freedom in #ScienceFiction & the keynote, an insistent meditation on ongoing debates about violent resistance to #StateViolence.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What a rich first full conference day we had at the #EAAS2026 in Bologna yesterday! I attended two great panels, the #EAASPoetryNetwork meeting, gave my own talk & then had the privilege of getting to listen to #JorieGraham discuss her new poetry collection 'Killing Spree'. Powerful & unsettling.

Collage of images featuring the conference program, people presenting and American poet Jorie Graham talking on Zoom to a room full of people.

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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 · 01/08/2026

Last but not least: on Friday, we concluded our summer school "Futures of #WellBeing: Speculative Visions & Critical Perspectives" with a session on knowledge-making & well-being in SF led by Jade Arbo & myself and a wrap-up session led by Ruth Möhlig-Falke & myself on #ActiveHope. Today: rest.

Collage of four photos showing Jade (online), Ruth and me teaching. The last photo shows a group photo of the Cologne students and myself.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Still catching up on this whirlwind of a week: On Thursday, our "Futures of #WellBeing" summer school started with a political science session on #EnvironmentalJustice & resource extraction + a #AmericanStudies one on #Ai & #cybergothic. In the afternoon, students presented their group projects.

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Day 3 of our summer school on "Futures of Well-Being" was very busy: we had 2 morning sessions that explored issues of #PublicHealth & #TeacherWellBeing. After students worked on their own projects in the afternoon, we had a short Cologne quiz & watched the documentary "The Magnitude of All Things"

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A few impressions from day 2 of our summer school "Futures of Well-Being: Speculative Visions & Critical Perspectives"with a session on notions of #humanity & #WellBeing, a critical discussion of #Transhumanism & a visit to the NS Dokumentationszentrum for a history of fascist ideas of the good life

Collage of three photos featuring instructors and students presenting ideas and a fourth photo of students listening to a guide (not in the picture) at the NS Dokumentationszentrum Cologne.

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

A few impressions from the first day of our summer school "Futures of Well-Being: Speculative Visions and Critical Perspectives" featuring perspectives on #WellBeing & #TheGoodLife from #linguistics, #AmericanStudies, #IndigenousStudies and #Philosophy by colleagues from Cologne, Brazil, and Spain.

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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

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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!

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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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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I love /A Queer History of the United States/ and the entire series in fact. So good and so teachable too! You can look forward to this one in particular. I got to take one of Bronsky's classes on Queer History at Dartmouth College 15 years ago and I still think about it sometimes!

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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.

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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!

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Infrastrukturen der Energie und Krieg/militärischer Konflikt, @victoriaherche.bsky.social & @antoniavillinger.bsky.social ! Nur eine Möglichkeit, #CriticalEnergyStudies aktuell weiter zu denken.

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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 · 27/03/2026

Some impressions of day 2 of the workshop "Netze: Infrastrukturen der Energie" @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Many thanks to @antoniavillinger.bsky.social, @victoriaherche.bsky.social, Anna Seidel & Kira Jürjens for the organization!

Collage of four photos, featuring the workshop poster, a photo of the four organizers, a photo of one of the keynote speakers with her talk on pipelines as ambiguous objects, and a photo of an open space workshop led by Anna Seidel.

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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!

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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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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This looks sooo cool. I'm really excited to see it together with all of you!

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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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