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merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Rather than reducing violence to metaphor or instrumentalizing it as something to overcome, move past, or eradicate, this conference instead investigates the role that violence performs in shaping the aesthetic, ethical, political, critical, and conceptual spaces of media production and reception."

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merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"The Liberal Arts Collective invites graduate students, scholars, and artists to submit abstracts under the theme of “Rendering Violence.” The conference engages with the (re)presentation and deployment of violence in all forms of media (film, short stories, graphic novels, video games..)."

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merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

CONFERENCE: Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media 24-25 April, 2026 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 5, 11:59 EST. For CFP and details: bit.ly/46ZLboF

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Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media

24-25 April, 2026 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

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Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network @swanalit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We're happy to announce the launch of the Southwest Asian & North African Literatures Network @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social! Visit our website to learn about the network & the CfP for our first symposium on Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026)! swanalit.sites.uu.nl/about/

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The Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network (SWANA Lit Network) is a newly launched platform that aims to bring together researchers and creatives with a shared interest in the literatur...

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merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"noticing is my way of opposing a particular modernist practice of looking towards an imagined future. certain things get coded as possible futures and then we develop blinders so that all we can see is our trajectory towards one kind of imagined future... a stereotyped dream future."

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‘Noticing is my way of opposing’ - Future Observatory Journal

Explore Anna Tsing's insights on design, ecology, and the more-than-human world in this dialogue with Justin McGuirk.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/03/2025

Researcher Emma Courtney, who studies breast cancer, says she has been advised not to mention "women" in her grant proposals as the Trump administration cuts funding for scientific research and censors certain topics in government work. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/st...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“Among the 23 hot-button issues, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica: vaccines, fluoride, peanut allergies, autism… All materials must be reviewed by an institute ‘clearance team’… Kennedy has… said that the institute should deprioritize infectious diseases like COVID-19…”

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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval

Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Full Special Issue now out! 'Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/1...

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The Senses and Society

Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care. Volume 19, Issue 3 of The Senses and Society

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Interested in interdisciplinary and cross-sector health research? New to Bluesky? Check out our Critical Medical Humanities starter pack: go.bsky.app/D1uWxze

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merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"i reach for a vocabulary for pain and find... nothing equal to the singularity of it... i take recourse in simile—scalp as sensitive to touch as flour—then not-words, onomatopoeia—whoosh, uuuhh." "what does it mean not to think about the present tense of pain? i try adjacency. nearness..."

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is one of the images deleted from the CDC historical archive, by the way. I downloaded it this morning and can't access it anymore. We are ready to repeat the past.

Photograph of a man with his hands over his face, a woman with her hands covering her ears, and another man with his hands covering his mouth

"This is the way many people deal with HIV."

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merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"It was important to put a critical eye on who gets to create, translate, and normalize language about women’s bodies, as a language not only penetrates the logistics of treatment but also affects policies, laws, and education that also impact health outcomes."

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merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"While my work utilizes what appears to be authoritative visuals, the reading of diagrams opens up to non-linear exploration, allowing the reader and author to become collaborators of meaning and moving from the transaction of conveying data to personal but ambiguous space..."

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The Rupture of Silence: The Body, Language, and The Power Dynamics in Health with Monica Ong - S Y N A P S I S

It was important to put a critical eye on who gets to create, translate, and normalize language about women’s bodies, as a language not only penetrates the logistics of treatment but also affects poli...

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