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Liminal Waterway Countercultures

@liminalwater.bsky.social
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A humanities project about liminal waterscapes in Europe, producing digital and museum resources to retrieve submerged narratives of resistance. #BlueHumanities #BlueSocialSciences #EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #CoastalHistory #DigitalHumanties

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 12h
TOMORROW:
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you are on Instagram, we are currently posting a series of introductions to our different projects, starting the @drdaniellashaw.bsky.social and @bengidley.bsky.social from Birkbeck
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join us online next Friday to hear about Sami’s research. 1 pm FR/AT/HR, 12 noon UK/PT. liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/events/li...
LIMINALWATER WEBINARS
Liminal Judeoarabic Cultures in Belsunce, Marseille
Samuel Sami Everett
University of Southampton
2nd October | 13h CET
https://liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/events/
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sami Everett @samsamev.bsky.social will present his work in progress at our next lunchtime webinar on 2 October. Watch this space for joining details! @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @telemme.bsky.social
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Claude McKay: Born on this day in 1890 liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog... @liminalwater.bsky.social
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW on the blog: #Marseille Downtown: Where the Mediterranean City Meets the Tourist City By @samsamev.bsky.social liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog... Cc @unisouthampton.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @telemme.bsky.social
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Marseille’s Downtown: Where the Mediterranean City Meets the Tourist City - Liminalwater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Latest post on our blog: Railways and Waterways: the Betrayed Promise of Modernity Jelena Lalatovic on the Balkan-Adriatic Case liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My summer holiday reading this year #LiminalWater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“Going to the tide, or Ir à maré in Portuguese, happens cyclically every day.” NEW blogpost by @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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Naming waterscapes in Culatra - Liminalwater
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Mylcs @mylcs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Erdtagzeit, Jan Röhnert, 2023
Jan Röhnert, from Erdtagzeit
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Mylcs @mylcs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I tako
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Summer evening,!Regents canal, east London
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Switching off for the weekend on the Adriatic shore
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A nautical Portuguese lesson from @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Bottom left: our @samsamev.bsky.social and @drdaniellashaw.bsky.social on a panel at @biajs.bsky.social on doing ethnography in violent and polarising times.
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Mylcs @mylcs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#water; #bluesky
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My blogpost on my work on Claude McKay for the @liminalwater.bsky.social project liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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Walking the past in riverine East London - Liminalwater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW on the blog: Yvonne Zivkovic on ecofeminism liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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Ecofeminism - Liminalwater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Where some of our research team are this weekend Pelješac, Croatia Wörthersee, Australia Krakow, Poland
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Mylcs @mylcs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#liminalwater meeting; blue humanities 🐟
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New on the blog: Field notes 3 Lived histories of Liverpool’s waterfront, by @drdaniellashaw.bsky.social liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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Currents of Change: Lived Histories of Liverpool's Waterfront - Liminalwater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Can Children’s Literature Change the World? ctih.ffzg.unizg.hr/report-bendi...
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Today: most of us will be in our lunchtime webinar with Milka Car (see pinned post for joining details). But some of us will be doing fieldwork on the Portuguese coast…
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
WEDNESDAY 1300 FR/AT/HR, 1200 UK/PT liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/news/limw...
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LIMWATWEB: Webinar with Prof. Milka Car, 17. 6. 2026. at 13h CET
The webinar featuring Prof. Milka Car presents ongoing research of the Croatian team's subproject "Rijeka/Fiume Waterscape".
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@tereheng.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @jennywustenberg.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social @humap.bsky.social @samsamev.bsky.social
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
WATCH last month’s lunchtime webinar with @drdaniellashaw.bsky.social on participatory photography and maritime local history youtu.be/4ZoT9JZi0Ug?...
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LIMINALWATER WEBINAR: Currents of Change: Lived Histories of Liverpool’s Waterfront
YouTube video by Liminal Water
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ivo Vičić Arex, author & artist from Rijeka, Croatia, reflects on our “Troubled Waters” exhibition in Graz, where his work features. // Ivo Vičić Arex, autor i umjetnik iz Rijeke, Hrvatska, osvrće se na našu izložbu „Uzburkane vode“ u Grazu, gdje su izložena njegova djela.
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jeste li se ikada zapitali kako zvuči tišina? Ili imali strpljenja sjesti uz rijeku, u šumu, kraj mora, pa slušati ono što obično samo prolazi pokraj nas: vodu, vjetar, kamen, metal, ptice, šumove grada i prirode? artkvart.hr/ivo-vicic-ar...
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Ivo Vičić Arexx: Rječinu svakodnevno gledamo, ali je još nismo naučili slušati
Jeste li se ikada zapitali kako zvuči tišina? Ili imali strpljenja sjesti uz rijeku, u šumu, kraj mora, pa slušati ono što obično samo prolazi pokraj nas: vodu, vjetar, kamen, metal, ptice, šumove gra...
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Jelena Lalatovic opening the wanderlust and Utopianism conference in Zagreb yesterday
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Our @samsamev.bsky.social ( @parkesinstitute.bsky.social ) is in Paris this week presenting on ‘“Jewish Maghreb" — Journeys of Return to North Africa’ at the workshop ‘Beyond Binaries: Recalling and Reclaiming Judeo-Arab Relational Worlds’ Read about Sami’s work here: www.imera.fr/en/publicati...
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The Jewish Maghreb - Iméra
The book "The Jewish Maghreb" by Samuel Sami Everett, Senior fellow 2023-2025, was published by Berghahn Books in April 2026.
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New on our blog: @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social on islands as liminal spaces liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/
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Blog - Liminalwater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Liminal water webinar III next week with @mylcs.bsky.social on fluid poetics Lunchtime 17.06 - join us!
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
KONFERENCIJA “BENDING THE RULES: SOCIAL RADICALISM, WANDERLUST, AND UTOPIANISM IN CHILDREN’S AND YA LITERATURE” Our conference in Zagreb, led by Jelena Lalatovic, is starting today historiografija.hr?p=53935
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Konferencija “Bending the Rules: Social Radicalism, Wanderlust, and Utopianism in Children’s and YA Literature”
Centar za teorijska istraživanja u humanistici poziva na međunarodnu konferenciju “Bending the Rules: Social Radicalism, Wanderlust, and Utopianism in Children’s and YA Literature” koja će se održati…
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🎉Our “Troubled Waters” exhibition is going up Akademie Graz right now, in advance of the opening tonight!! liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/events/tr...
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
TOMORROW Liminal Water webinar no.2 with @drdaniellashaw.bsky.social of Birkbeck on doing photovoice with Liverpool residents Zoom link and details: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/events/li...
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sunday greetings from London and Rijeka.
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We have a very DIY approach to branding &/or a very multitalented research team. Credit to @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social for the painting in the poster and for poster design, to Stefanie Populorum for our logo design, and to Nathan Gidley (not part of our research team!) for our theme music.
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our first webinar recording is now online! Jelena Lalatovic on early Balkan decoloniality liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/news/limw...
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LIMWATWEB: Liminality and Decolonization in Adriatic Philology and Early Balkanology
LIMINALWATER Webinar Series
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Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
On 3rd July 1940, Wilhelm Pollak became one of fifteen hundred internees on board the SS Ettrick that left #Liverpool for #Canada Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social's Refugee Map See more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
NEW POST: Two Books That Will Change The Way You Think About Environmental Issues, by Jelena Lalatovic liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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Two Books That Will Change The Way You Think About Environmental Issues - Liminalwater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Blue Saint, one of the performers at our #CurrentsOfChange launch yesterday www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ms-o... #Liverpool
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"One of the first stories I read as a child was the Odyssey and I instantly fell in love with the story."
Rapper, singer-songwriter and spoken word poet, Blue Saint has received many accolades for his music, community work and activism. Making under 30 lists for the Liverpool Echo and The Common Sense Net...
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Our #CurrentsOfChange launch at the Museum of Liverpool was such a joy. Will add some pics to this thread later. The exhibition will be up until the end of August. @ukri.org @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @matthewjdavies.bsky.social @bengidley.bsky.social @tereheng.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Currents of Change
Lived Histories of Liverpool's Waterfront
A community photography project 

Sunday 10 May 2026
PROGRAMME
• Dr Daniella Shaw PROJECT LEAD
Welcome and introduction
🎶 Blue Saint PERFORMER
Heartbeat - The Meadows • Days of Old • LLLI
• Fatima Sharif All PARTICIPANT
By the Rivers of L8
• Stella Melia PARTICIPANT
Grandad
• Ebtisam Eighblawi PARTICIPANT
🎶 Amina Atiq PERFORMER
Belong 2011 - Cobblestones • After the Peort - Grandmother's Doff
Faye Heran PARTICIPANT
Shadows of a Soldier
- Samira PARTICIPANT
Sunken Faith
Betty Vandy PARTICIPANT
Colonising Cleansing
🎶 André Jahnoi PERFORMER
The Rain Meets the River - Another Summer - Sankofa

Funders/partners: 
UKRI, CHANSE, National Museums Liverpool, HERA, Birkbeck

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
With heartfelt thanks
PARTICIPANTS
Adrian Betty Vandy • Ebtisam Eighblawi - Fatima Sharif All - Faye Heran • Liz Shelbourne Rukhsana Rasheed • Samira Kamaly-Fard • Serena Muhanji - Shanaz• Stella Melia - Sue Comer
WORKSHOPS HOSTED AT
Granby Winter Garden, L8
PROJECT LEAD & FACILITATOR
Dr Daniella Shaw, Birkbeck University of London
COMMUNITY LIAISON
Amina Atiq
PHOTOGRAPHY ADVISOR
Dr Terence Heng University of Liverpool
NATIONAL MUSEUMS LIVERPOOL LIAISON
Claire Hunter, Museum of Liverpool
Scan
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The Liverpool waterfront the night before today’s Currents of Change exhibition launch
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Etngráfica Spotlight: Esta entrevista, conduzida por Humberto Martins e gravada nos estúdios da FCCN em Lisboa, apresenta a antropóloga Raquel Carvalheira @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social falando sobre sua etnografia visual no litoral sul de Portugal. youtu.be/-_M93rhuqms?...
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Entrevista com Raquel Carvalheira
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Rencontres fragiles Une série documentaire de Cléo Cohen & Anjely Raïs consacrée aux points de rencontres entre juif·ves et musulman·es aujourd’hui, à l’aune de leur longue histoire commune. Ép.1: #Marseille avec la collaboration de @samsamev.bsky.social. www.radiocampus.fr/podcasts/ren...
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Rencontres fragiles | Une série documentaire de Cléo Cohen & Anjely Raïs - Radio Campus France
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
10 May — exhibition launch in #Liverpool: Currents of Change, curated by @drdaniellashaw.bsky.social, at the Museum of Liverpool. Free, all welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/currents-o...
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Currents of Change Exhibition Launch
A community photography exhibition by twelve Liverpool residents exploring life on the city's waterfront. Free entry, live performances.
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
EXHIBITION TROUBLED WATERS: Forgotten + Suppressed River Stories Akademie Graz 28.05-10.07.2026 Artists: Benedikt Alphart (AT), Anita Fuchs (AT), Ivar Korbar (HR), Ivo Vičić (HR), Susanne Miggitsch (AT) Curators: Yvonne Živković, Astrid Kury liminalwater.uni-graz.at/de/veranstal... @uni-graz.at
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TROUBLED WATERS - Liminalwater
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
OUR NEXT WEBINAR 27 May | 1300 CET | 1200 UK/PT Daniella Shaw, Birkbeck University of London @drdaniellashaw.bsky.social Currents of Change: Lived Histories of Liverpool’s Waterfront Check back here for joining link
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Research in practice: Visual Ethnography in Culatra By @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social and Rodrigo Lacerda liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ICYMI: Rijeka Waterscapes – (Non-)Field-report By @mylcs.bsky.social liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...
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