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Daniel Maul

@ostrovdoktora.bsky.social
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Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)

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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Congratulations to Nikhil Malik, who successfully defended his thesis "Manufacturing Utopia: Refugees, Labour, and the Making of the New Industrial Township Faridabad, 1947-1960" for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD) @UiO - Det humanistiske fakultet.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A great journey reaches a milestone. www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
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Public defence: Partition, Refugees and the making of Postcolonial India's Model Industrial Township - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
Master Nikhil Malik at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Manufacturing Utopia: Refugees, Labour, and the Making of the New Industrial Township Farida...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
www.gnm.de/your-museum-... Warmly recommended if you pass my hometown Nürnberg and want more than gingerbread - or eat gingerbread with fuller awareness for its global dimension. #nürnberg #germanischesnationalmuseum
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GLOBAL Nuremberg
The special exhibition focuses on the internationally operating Nuremberg in the period between 1300 and 1600, on its trade relations at that time and its role as the cultural centre of Europe, withou...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
www.gnm.de/your-museum-... Warmly recommended if you pass my hometown Nürnberg and want more than gingerbread - or eat gingerbread with fuller awareness for its global dimension. #nürnberg #germanischesnationalmuseum
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GLOBAL Nuremberg
The special exhibition focuses on the internationally operating Nuremberg in the period between 1300 and 1600, on its trade relations at that time and its role as the cultural centre of Europe, withou...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
When Algorithms Undermine Democracy: Europe's Wake-Up Call www.socialeurope.eu/when-algorit...
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When Algorithms Undermine Democracy: Europe's Wake-Up Call
Algorithmic power threatens the foundations of democratic oversight—and Sweden's experience shows why Europe must act now.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
At @uio.no we have almost reached the end of this fall's teaching period. What has stood out for me was “Man-Machine-Work”, a course for a mixed cross-disciplinary crowd of Norwegian and int. BA and MA students on the historical relationship between humans and technology in the workplace.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Das war alles eine ganz runde Sache! Mögen die Feierlichkeiten nicht enden!!
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Wir erleben jetzt also nach den Testballons bei der Migration den Frontalangriff der Unionsparteien auf den Sozialstaat samt der Verweigerung einer Debatte um Steuererhöhungen für Besserverdienende. Lässt sich ein Programm zur Stärkung der #noafd eigentlich auf einen einfacheren Nenner bringen?
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Just discovered two fresh reviews of my Politics of Service book on Quaker humanitarianism by Allan Austin in Church History and Marina Pérez de Arcos in European History Quarterly. journals.sagepub.com/.../10.1177/... www.cambridge.org/.../0A091020....
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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🕊In Memoriam: Wulf Kansteiner With great sadness, the MSA shares the news that Wulf Kansteiner passed away on 8 August. Read the full tribute on our website: bit.ly/3UZB0Lb
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wieder ein sieg für die noafd. Wann begreift vor allem die spd, dass es hier absolut nichts zu gewinnen gibt. Diese Grausamkeiten führen doch nur in eine weitere Verrohung der Diskussion und Praxis. So falsch wie fantasielos. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bund...
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Deutschland: Bundestag beschließt Aussetzung des Familiennachzugs für subsidiär schutzberechtigte Geflüchtete
Nach hitziger Debatte stimmt der Bundestag dem Vorhaben der schwarz-roten Koalition zu. Und: Die Mindestlohnkommission empfiehlt eine schrittweise Anhebung auf 14,60 Euro im Jahr 2027.
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Hans-Böckler-Stiftung @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Allein längere #Arbeitszeiten ≠ mehr Wirtschaftswachstum oder Produktivität. Eher: Mehr Überlastung, erhöhte Fehlzeiten & #Burnout. Besser: ➡️ Wahl-Arbeitszeiten ➡️ Verlängerung der Elterngeld-Partnermonate ➡️ Anerkennung und Wertschätzung von #Sorgearbeit Mehr: 🎧 www.boeckler.de/de/podcasts-...
Zitat von Yvonne Lott, Leiterin des WSI-Referats Geschlechterforschung, im Podcast Systemrelevant: Was machen diese Forderungen mit der Gesellschaft, was machen diese Forderungen mit der Demokratie? Ich blicke da schon mit großer Sorge drauf. Denn was suggeriert die Politik? „Ihr macht zu wenig, ihr seid faul, ihr seid schuld.“
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Right now at the ILO: Valerio di Stefano on Social Europe:Shaping the Future of Digital Work: A Bold Proposal for Platform Worker Rights www.socialeurope.eu/shaping-the-...
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Shaping the Future of Digital Work: A Bold Proposal for Platform Worker Rights
A new draft convention proposes to establish a comprehensive rights and protections for platform workers globally.
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Nadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Das ist zentral: Die Rückabwicklung von Bürgerrechten geschieht zwar vor aller Augen, wird aber von den künftig selbst betroffenen Bürgern toleriert, da Politik die geplante Rückabwicklung stets an marginalisierten Bevölkerungsgruppen vornimmt. Wer dazu schweigt, legt die Axt an eigene Rechte an.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
More interesting stuff to read : "The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory" edited by Ingrid de Zwarte and Miguel Ángel Del Arco Blanco is now out with Routledge in open access. www.routledge.com/The-Politics...
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The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory
This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memo...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
For those who happen to be in the Trento region. On the 26 May I will present my book on Quaker humanitarianism at the University of Trento. eventi.unitn.it/it/american-...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
For the second time I had the chance to present the history of the #ILO to a group of trade unionists from the Nordic countries preparing to visit this year's #ilc. This Geneva school has a long tradition reaching back into the 1920s.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Thank you so much, Julia! It means a lot.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What a wonderful surprise to learn about @juliairwin.bsky.social most generous review of my book on Quaker humanitarianism in Diplomatic History. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a... #Quakerhistory #humanitarian #skytorians #humanitarianaid #quaker #historians
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Friends in a Warring World
In 1947, the Norwegian Nobel Foundation awarded its annual Peace Prize to two Quaker relief organizations: the British-based Friends Service Council and th
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
For a lecture on the history of decolonization, I used the story of Sumé, a Greenlandic rockband from the 1970s. Gave me an opportunity to revisit the wonderful documentary "Sumé. The sound of a revolution" (2014) Highly recommended! www.thesoundofarevolution.com
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SUMÉ - THE SOUND OF A REVOLUTION official website | Greenland's fight for independence began with a rock band
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Diese Dinge drohen derzeit im allgemeinen Getöse unterzugehen. Die SPD muss hier in den Verhandlungen klare rote Linien ziehen. Was die Union betreibt verschiebt die Grenzen sonst immer weiter in Richtung einer Orbanisierung des politischen Diskurses. Es geht schlicht um Einschüchterung!
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I agree with almost everything which is said here, except for the obvious discount of the kind of politics a CDU-led government will pursue on the domestic level. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Germany’s election: a chance to reset for a new era | Editorial
Editorial: Sunday’s poll is a turning point for the EU’s most powerful member state, as it comes to terms with Trump 2.0
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
6 days to go until the German elections and the prospectives are pretty bleak - at least from my view. We are heading towards a situation in which there are a much-strengthened far-right and at the same time the prospect of a return/reinforcement of policies by a CDU-led government
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ich war wirklich dankbar für diesen Artikel von @pbahners.bsky.social in der FAZ, der Heinrich August Winklers Thesen und die Debatte um den Asylparagraphen wie ich finde sehr präzise und gleichzeitig fair seziert.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Last October I had the pleasure of being interviewed by our wonderful Oslo-based student-run history magazine Fortid and to talk about my research and my teaching. As their website is still down, I have gained permission to share it. Anyone interested in a pdf of the full interview, let me know.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#humanitarianism #humanitarianhistory #quaker #skytorians
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The urgency of the situation created by the recent assault on USAID conveyed through this statement by the AFSC, a Quaker organization which throughout its long history (founded in 1917) has often acted as a critical observer and participant in official US aid efforts. afsc.org/news/shuttin...
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Shutting down USAID makes the U.S. less safe
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Ich möchte nur noch schreien angesichts der schieren Niedertracht. Biggest German tabloid baselessly suggests that pre-election mass demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of people have been marching for democracy and against normalizing the far right are orchestrated by government agencies.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
www.tagesschau.de/inland/bunde... sorry, ich habe es einfach immer noch nicht verstanden. Unter keinen Umständen mit den rechtsextremen zusammenzuarbeiten - war das nicht im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch "die Brandmauer" sprechen wir hier von einer anderen?
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Ein kategorisches Nein zur AfD auf dem CSU-Parteitag
CDU und CSU sind sich einig beim kleinen Parteitag der CSU in Nürnberg: Nein zur AfD und weiter so in Sachen Migrationspolitik. Nur in der Frage, wer nach der Bundestagswahl mit wem regieren könnte, w...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ich warte eigentlich minütlich darauf, dass der Wahlkampf sich vom Migrationsthema auf Fragen der sozialen Gerechtigkeit, der Klimapolitik, der Infrastruktur, der Sicherung des Rechtsstaats gegen Rechts, künstliche Intelligenz, Wohnungsbau, Bildung verlagert. Wann geht's los?
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Berlin. 200.000 on the street to defend the #brandmauer
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Berlin. 200.000 on the street to defend the #brandmauer
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GEW – Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft @gew.de · 31/01/2025
Deutschland ist ein Einwanderungsland. Die DGB-Gewerkschaften haben selbst viele Mitglieder mit Migrationshintergrund, darunter auch viele Geflüchtete. WIR LASSEN UNS NICHT SPALTEN. WIR STEHEN ZUSAMMEN FÜR DEMOKRATIE! #BlueKita #BlueLZ #BTW25
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Für Demokratie, Rechtsstaat und Menschlichkeit!
Der DGB und seine Mitgliedsgewerkschaften sprechen sich für das Recht auf Asyl und den Schutz von Geflüchteten aus. Die Stellungnahme steht im Lichte der schrecklichen Tat von Aschaffenburg und dem Erstarken von Rassismus in der Gesellschaft.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tag der Schande. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Bundestag stimmt für Fünf-Punkte-Plan der Union zur Migration
Ein von der AfD unterstützter Antrag der Union zur Verschärfung der Migrationspolitik ist im Bundestag angenommen worden. Darin wird unter anderem die umfassende Zurückweisung von Asylsuchenden an den...
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fantastic thread, very happy to hear that there is so much enthusiasm for the history of technology — absolutely essential for critical approaches to tech
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
With all the exciting things recently going on on this platform I thought I'd quickly (re-) introduce myself to all new followers: I am a German-Norwegian #skystorians working as a professor of modern and contemporary history @uio.no www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Bleak beauty. Beams of light and a happy 2025 from frozen Franconia.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Join us in Oslo. My department at @uio.no has announced three openings for ph.d positions in history. Applicants should address at least one the following research Fields: • Democracy • Knowledge • Migration • Rights Please share generously! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of Oslo
Job title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... A very good historically grounded analysis by Ernesto Semán of the recent developments in Argentina with cross-references to among others Quinn Slobodian's book "crack-up capitalism"
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Argentina: Into the Abyss | Ernesto Semán
In 1983, when Argentina held its first presidential election after seven years of military dictatorship, Raúl Alfonsín won with an optimistic slogan:
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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Since we're on this topic, I wrote about Band Aid / Live Aid as populist humanitarianism and the kind of intervention it created here: amzn.eu/d/bu3sJ7r. I also mention Bryan Adams, AC/DC *and* Céline Dion in a single paragraph... 🗃️
Screenshot of page 156 of Kevin O'Sullivan, The NGO Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The page is titled 'Populist Humanitarianism: Ethiopia, 1984-1985'.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great initiative!
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"If we can't unionise at Amazon, we have no future": The film [co-directed by Antipode Foundation trustee Brett Story!] about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
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‘If we can’t unionise at Amazon, we have no future’: the film about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won
From the rousing leader dismissed for leading a walkout to the activists handing out free burgers, pizza and weed, an inspiring new documentary charts the long, hard fight to create the delivery giant...
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Happy to announce that my book on “The Politics of Service. American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917-1945” has been published. Want to know more? Want me to tell it all? Just dm or email me! (2 "promotional" chapters available). www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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The Politics of Service
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1945. Implying ...
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 12/08/2024
Come work with us in the Greenhouse! A fantastic #envhist #energyhistory opportunity. The PhD student will collaborate with the new Energy Lives! project, so lots of opportunities for exciting work.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
Leseempfehlung!
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
My first time that I am testing crowd knowledge here and a question particularly for historians: Does anyone have a good introductory text (bachelor level) on the historical relationship of humans and technology -from the stone ages to AI or on a more narrow time frame. Any suggestion welcome!
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/m... Very sad to learn about Paul Auster's passing today. He has been a constant literary presence in my life ever after being introduced to his New York trilogy at the age of 18. During more than 30 years he has always been there and now no longer...
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‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more
The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
I had two great days contributing to this year's Geneva school at Runö. Geneveskola is an amazing institution, having prepared young trade unionists from the Nordic countries since 1931 (!) to interact with the ILO. Highly rewarding to talk to enthusiastic people about the ILO's history and future.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Only two months to go for the third meeting of our "History of Work in the Cultural Economy" network. This time the turn is on us Oslo people to host a great line-up of speakers on "Getting a Fair Share? Cultural Work under Intellectual Property Regimes".
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Wonderful news! "Cu Li Never Cries" a beautifully poetic movie from Vietnam wins the Berlinale's best first feature award. Congratulations to everyone involved in this piece of art and a very warm and proud special hurrah for my wife Verona Meier, who co-produced it!
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