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Peter Davies

@pdavies.bsky.social
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German Studies, U of Edinburgh. Translation History, Holocaust testimony, archives, interpreters at Holocaust trials. Audio drama and the Holocaust. Occasional Scottish political nonsense. He/him

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Nicole Seifert @nicoleseifert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heute ist Hieronymustag, der internationale Tag des Übersetzens, und wir Übersetzenden fordern von den Verlagen, dass sich unsere Arbeitsbedingungen endlich ändern. Es reicht. #weilesnichtreicht
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SCILT @scilt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you teach, or would like to teach, German in your setting our Teachers of German in Scotland (TOGS) network provides an opportunity to meet with like-minded professionals! Meetings for this session all available to book now! loom.ly/SPYauHo #professionalnetwork #german
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Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The W+IGS Book Prize deadline has been extended until 15 October! Don’t miss out! More information below @wigsblog.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social @katherinestone.bsky.social #GermanStudies
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wonderful opportunity for PGRS and ECRs - A Day in the Literary Archive: British Academy Seminar and Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Tuesday 3rd November 2026 at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6626
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A Day in the Literary Archive: British Academy Seminar and Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers – BARS Blog
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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As many of you will be aware, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment (CCEA) awarding body in Northern Ireland is to discontinue GCSE and A-level German. This is a real blow to language education in Northern Ireland, depriving future generations of the opportunity to learn German.
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wanted to invite you all to my lecture next week at @greshamcollege.bsky.social gres.hm/queer-shoah
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Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History?
Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. Anna Hájková explains why the history of same-sex desire in the Shoah, that is, queerness among Jews persecuted by the Na...
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Lhaulde @lhaulde.com · 16/08/2026
Un type en train de travailler des poutres en bois avec des scies bizarres, le texte (en anglais) suivant par dessus :
rappelez vous de traiter votre corps comme un data center.
Consommez autant d'eau et de littérature que vous pouvez.
Contrariez vos élus locaux par votre existence
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On 23 September, @katarzynaperson.bsky.social and I will discuss writing an inclusive Jewish history of Nazi ghettos, invited by the wonderful colleagues at the Lviv Center for Urban History. Online; register. www.lvivcenter.org/en/conferenc...
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Overlooked: Online Research Seminars on the History of the Ghettos
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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anna Saunders & Caroline Summers explore how German unification should be understood not as a single completed event in 1989, but as an ongoing & complex transformation shaped by diverse East German experiences. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/aTo37qV #BookSky #SkyStorians @profannasaunders.bsky.social
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Telling New Stories about German Unification
Anna Saunders & Caroline Summers explore how East German perspectives reveal German unification as an unfinished transformation.
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🍄 @peddasson.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
"this fucking sucks actually"-meme
with Adorno pointing at jazz music (represented by Miles Davis playing the trompete)
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“managed retreat dressed in progressive language” - tough but fair way to describe the funding crisis in Scottish unis. We see results every day in cuts and closures. More protests, interventions from Scottish students against govt policy would really help wonkhe.com/blogs/englan...
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England and Scotland's funding experiments have both failed
Craig Mahoney argues it's time for a conversation about what higher education is worth, who benefits from it, and who should pay
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.
NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES photo of Nicole Kidman looking incredibly joyful and free after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalised
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some bank holiday / end of summer reading for you all! A blog about a book that’s been a long time coming - and we’re pretty proud of it! Thanks to @profsarajones.bsky.social & Betiel Wasihun for all the hard work and collegiality while writing and for keeping us going when times were tough 🙏🏽🤓
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Worth noting though that not everyone on BlueSky lives in the US and/or cares who Chuck Schumer is
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Let’s try again: I’d like to hear about new research from Scottish historians. Especially ECRs whose work may not get much attention. This is because I have a newspaper column where I publicise new work by Scottish historians! Tell me about your research!
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ok folx, any other examples of grammatical forms (any language, present or past) being named, seriously or jokingly, after translators?
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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Chairing the business meeting is one of the last duties of outgoing AGS President Prof Peter Davies (@pdavies.bsky.social). Enormous thanks to Peter for all he’s done for the discipline and especially his thoughtful leadership as President of the association over the last three years!
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Congrats to Anna and Ben - no one better to take the Association forward!
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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As the conference draws to a close, let us thank Dr Stephan Ehrig (@herrehrig.bsky.social) and his excellent te am for their meticulous organisation of #AGS2026, which has run like clockwork. Thanks for having us @glasgow.ac.uk! See you all next year in Cambridge for #AGS2027!
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I learned last night that even a bad Dolly Parton tribute is an excellent Dolly Parton tribute
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Edinburgh festival notes: Is there anything, literary anything, more annoying than a silent disco?
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Auch das ist Sachsen-Anhalt. Heute 10.000 Menschen beim CSD in Magdeburg! 💖
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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's now less than a week until this year's AGS conference (26-28 Aug), hosted by the University of Glasgow (@glasgow.ac.uk)... The most up-to-date version of the conference programme can be found here: ags.ac.uk/conferences/... Very much looking forward to seeing lots of you there!
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AGS Conference 2026 – Association German Studies
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@agatumilowicz.bsky.social I was at this exhibition in berlin today and thought of your project. Interesting photography and trilingual texts… www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/news/ostg...
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The by-election result is an excellent excuse to look again at all the fun translations of Count Binface in the international press
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Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The annual lament theconversation.com/a-level-resu...
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A-level results: key takeaways for language learning
Combined A-level entries in French, German and Spanish rose slightly in absolute terms in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You can’t translate ‘literally’ or ‘word for word’. And that’s fine.
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Reading at Brandenburg Gate of names and biographies of those killed at the Berlin Wall - 65th anniversary of the Wall going up
Crowd at Berlin Brandenburg gate listening to speakersTransparent wall installation at Brandenburg gate
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 13/08/2026
Congratulations to everyone getting their A-level results today & herzlichen Glückwunsch to those who chose German 🥳 If you realised that German is an absolute blast and want to continue past GCSE, you're in luck: @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social is launching the National German A-Level Class.
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Important piece about ML degrees at Nottingham - not a victory, but it shows that campaigning has an effect. All credit for colleagues at Nottingham for their well researched, positive campaign. We’ll keep up the national pressure and visibility @ags-gbi.bsky.social
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
28 Tage noch - Sachsen-Anhalt ist viel zu schön, zu großartig, zu bezaubernd, um es den AfD-Zerstörern zu überlassen! Es kommt auf jede Stimme an! Schaut auf diese kleine Land, wie sich dort großartige Menschen wehren und wie sie nicht aufgeben, sondern für uns alle kämpfen!
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
FDP gut Sprache einfach Berliner dumm Wahl gewonnen 👍
Wahlplakat der FDP mit Spruch ‘Gutes Deutsch. Gute Chancen’
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@herrehrig.bsky.social expect you know about this already…
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Dear Deirdre, how do I stop my children from being French? Yours Englishly, Frustrated Mum Dear Frustrated Mum, [gallic shrug].
Smug looking mother with her smug looking kids in her smug French farmhouse. 

“We moved to France but I did not expect my kids to be so
French”
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sehr zu empfehlen
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Summer reading recs for yez. Y’welcome.
Cover of novel Sibir, by Sabrina JaneschCover of novel So, in etwa, ist es geschehen, by Sharon Dodua Otoo
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
How to speak about Ceuta like an actual social democrat
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Teaching Translation in the Age of AI: Rethinking its Place in Language Degrees
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FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Teaching Translation in the Age of AI: Rethinking its Place in Language Degrees
Editors: Christine Schallmoser, Alice Dias-Mercier and Raquel Fernández-Sánchez (King's College London) We invite proposals for chapters for an edited volume provisionally titled Teaching Translation in the Age of AI: Rethinking its Place in Language Degrees. This edited collection explores the role of translation in language degree programmes at a time when artificial intelligence and machine translation are changing how students, future professionals and educators work with languages. It
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Spanish government of Pedro Sanchez is the biggest threat to the European mainstream: a left-wing government that implements left-wing policies that work, including on immigration. They show that “the narrative” is false and humane immigration is possible. This is why they all jump on Cueta.
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I would read Adorno and Horkheimer’s book on Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The video for I’m in the Mood for Dancing youtu.be/XbAM2_6jKY0?...
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The Nolans - I'm In the Mood for Dancing (Official Video)
YouTube video by TheNolansVEVO
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Memorial in front of the Brandenburg gate for the victims of Saturday’s attack. People passing by, stopping, chatting, remembering, trying to explain to their kids
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. Flowers and flags in memory of the victims of the attack on CSD parade, people standing around it
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#CSD in front of New National Gallery, Berlin
cSD Party in front of gallery with sign announcing Brancusi exhibition
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Daily Mayröcker @dailymayroecker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
der runde Blick wie Horizont : ein Blau verschwimmt in den Augen ein flimmerndes Gelb / ist Juli schon o Erde o halt mich fest noch einen Sommer nein zwei nein drei laß mich noch hier (22.7.95 | Notizen auf einem Kamel, S. 46)
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A series of increasingly desperate tie ins from the Homeric Extended Universe
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sheinbaum and Carney doing a fine diplomatic job here
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Spanish fans partying on the square outside my flat now booing Trump and Infantino
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Watching in Germany and am confident that at least half the population are now thinking “And I missed Tatort for *this*??”
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