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Olga Zabalueva

@museiolga.bsky.social
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Culture and Society || Museology || Critical Heritage Studies || Cultural Analysis || Memory Studies Umeå University, Sweden 🌌❄️🏳️‍🌈 Critical theory witch. En gång femtekolonnare - alltid femtekolonnare.

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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A beautiful text by Selbi Durdieva on where to start reading on decoloniality, very much needed (for my students at least)
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So You Want to Learn about Decoloniality? Five Texts for Beginners
What is decoloniality, decolonization, colonialism, postcolonialism, and coloniality? Why is it important to learn about it now? This piece outlines five recommended texts on decolonization/decolon…
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Sometimes I feel like I need a poster ”Same Shit - Different Century” but like ”Same Shit - Different Political Regime”. For instance, it is very interesting how the Swedish party of Christian Democrats is visiting Museum Association’s meetings second year in a row, with the same message:
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Like Amazon, but with human beings."
diagram of a nineteenth century slave ship with humans packed in to achieve maximum economic efficiency
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Our study of histories of genocide and mass atrocity gives us insight into the rise of authoritarianism and ethnonationalism; the processes of dehumanization, ethnic cleansing, and genocide that accompany it; and the urgent need for civil society resistance." Spread the word & join us!
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Bear with me, SE blurb from #sverigesmuseersvårmöte2025 comes Årets museet blir Tekniska museet - för att ”gå ifrån det traditionella museet till det tekniska kulturhuset” 🎉 Intressant dock i samband med alla diskussioner kring museidefinitionen🤔
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Geekification of the office is going well 🌌🫡
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Swedish Museums Association’s chairman in his recent opinion peace declares that nationalism is a useful tool for culture for telling ”the truths beyond ideology and political struggles”. Time until these people start citing Fukuyama: 3, 2, 1…
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Ska den svenska kulturen vara nationalistisk i kristider? | Magasin K
För kulturens stiftelser, företag och föreningar finns en valfrihet – ska vi vara nationalistiska? Det skriver Niklas Cserhalmi.
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Ngl I was waiting for this kind of posts
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Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Come to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert! Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Swedish museums association Spring summit: sorry we have too many similar proposals for the program, there’s no space for queer heritage. Also Swedish museums association Spring summit: three panels on museums and AI 🤔🤔🤔
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
👇📖 Book tips for the weekend readings
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SHARDED MEDIA
This book shows how the election of Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2024 is not a fluke but rather a symptom of a deep crisis within representative democracy
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality, a free hybrid one-day symposium at the University of Birmingham on 26 February featuring Sara Ahmed www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcah...
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Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality
Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality one day conference
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Can’t describe how humbled and excited I was to get a request for writing a review on one of the my favourite books, “Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights museums” by @drkatrinantweiler.bsky.social Here it is, in the recent issue of Museum Worlds: doi.org/10.3167/armw...
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Review Essays
The question of repatriation and restitution looms large in the museum world today, particularly for ethnographic museums in the former seats of empire that house culturally significant artworks and s...
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Cfp Conference on Collecting the Holocaust: Ethics, Memory, and Materiality in Stockholm, Sweden on November 25–27, 2025 DL for proposals 15/02👇 museumforintelsen.se/en/about-the...
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Conference - Sveriges museum om Förintelsen
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Dr Polina Ignatova @drpolina.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Pov: five boring white men decide if you and your friend are witches (hail Satan) @museiolga.bsky.social
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Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies @mnemonics.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The call for papers for the 2025 Mnemonics Summer School on “Memory and Responsibility” (Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2025) is now open. Featuring keynote lectures by Carlos Fonseca, Sara Dybris McQuaid, and Hanna Meretoja. Please help spread the word! www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Just realised that I probably should’ve saved the images of the “TikTok ban” and the following “ban release” for the sake of the future lectures on propaganda.
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hear me out, folks - we need a Starter Pack for museology/Museum Studies in this list: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... If you know any relevant accounts, or scholars who have already migrated here - let me know, I hope to rope @anna-museologist.bsky.social into doing one 😉
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Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory
Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
‼️ An exciting job opportunity at Aarhus university, Denmark for researchers who combine humanities-based research with art and/or design practice. international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Art History, Aesthetics & Culture , Museology, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Going there next weekend 😏 Need to check this shit myself, the review is great though!
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Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Okay let’s roll😎
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