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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friendlies, my second book comes out April 2027! Reach out if you are planning your lecture series for the spring/summer! I'd love to come by in person or virtually. Please let your libraries know to get a copy and help me spread the word. 🌈 @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/F/Frag...

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

No Berlin Program competition for 2027-28. Very sad news for U.S. German Studies. This program supported me and many other Ph.D. students and postdocs over the years. www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/bprogram/…

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

browsed madison pages a bit and realized a retired professor from the university of wisconsin has uploaded and organized so many local photos it's almost unfathomable. ordinary hero! makes life better to remember how many people like this exist! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jd...

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A blistering critique of UVA’s presidential search process that also raises some serious concerns about Beardsley’s resume. That guy has got to go. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

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How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find

Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is a perverse form of credentialing that universities provide to those that hate it the most

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Re recent news, is it "capitulation" or "appeasement" if two parties work together to achieve a set of shared goals? I believe there's another word for this

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German Screen Studies Network @g-s-s-n.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Congratulations to our very own Paul Flaig on the publication of his book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed - out today with Bloomsbury, in the World Cinema series edited by Lúcia Nagib and Julian Ross www.bloomsbury.com/uk/weimar-sl...

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Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed

From cabaret songs inspired by Buster Keaton to Mickey Mouse's diagnosis as a “melo-maniac,” Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed explores the extr…

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Warning that Cville Walgreens is out of COVID vaccine. Their appointment system is disconnected from their inventory, so making an appointment does NOT mean they actually have it

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Very honored and excited to be featured at this event next year 🙏 Thank you @mharrabin.bsky.social and @lawrencealexander.bsky.social

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Message from UVA Primary Care. UVA will not give a prescription for COVID vax (which CVS and Walgreens seem to require in VA) and will not do so until Sept 18-19 ACIP meeting. After which RFK's stacked ACIP will likely make it significantly harder for anyone to get the vax. Am I understanding this?

Screenshot of MyChart message: **Thank you for your message about the COVID-19 vaccine.
At this time, we are awaiting guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP/CDC) before we are able to plan how to address this for our patients this fall.
As soon as we have more information, we will be sure to share it with you.
We understand this uncertainty may be distressing, and please know we are working diligently to provide updates as soon as possible.**
- UVA Primary Care

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

UVA wouldn't give me a prescription today. Apparently haven't decided their policy yet.

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This can be thought of alongside ICE, deployments in cities, etc. It's straightforwardly eugenic, obviously, but this move would essentially deputize the virus for social repression www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

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Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’

A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Me - Ray Müller - Leni Riefenstahl...

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Sage just published this interview I filmed with them last year about ongoing research "Casualties Fight Back: Left Disability Activism and Film Production in Germany, 1929-1932" sk.sagepub.com/video/skprom...

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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hey UVA faculty folks (and non-faculty, too)! Wednesday, July 2 from 1-2:30 in Clark 108. Join us for a faculty town hall to start fighting back against political interference in UVA. Tell your colleagues, bring as many as you can. Zoom access available, DM me for the link.

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Our leaders have been evolved in a ecosystem that selects for whatever the opposite of a spine is

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Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Marlene Dietrich's star power is such that undergrads who have no idea who she is at the beginning of the semester will, at the end, vote her best actor, and when you ask them why, simply respond "c'mon, it's Marlene Dietrich!"

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid

Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My book and three other publications

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New issue of German Studies Review has a diminutive special section I edited, “Remediating the Third Reich,” with fantastic essays by Mary Hennessy (on the 1943 film GROßSTADTMELODIE) and Brook Henkel (on Fassbinder’s WORLD ON A WIRE) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54291

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Project MUSE - German Studies Review-Volume 48, Number 1, February 2025

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Project MUSE - German Studies Review-Volume 48, Number 1, February 2025

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Em Gunter 顧安 🍉 @emgunter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

BREAKING: UVA Health has also decided to comply in advance by suspending all gender-affirming care for patients under 19 years of age, per an internal communication sent to medical providers employed by UVA.

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Kristina Köhler @anitsirkk.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

So excited to be part of this workshop on Béla Balázs‘s 1924 film theory „Der sichtbare Mensch, oder die Kultur des Films“ organized by @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social @pdobryden.bsky.social

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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

100 years ago Béla Balázs published "Der sichtbare Mensch, oder die Kultur des Films" (The Visible Man, or the Culture of Film). The book became a foundational text in film theory. My comrade Paul Dobryden and I are organizing a workshop for the occasion. german.as.virginia.edu/visible-cent...

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

I wrote a very short thing about The Curse, as part of a theme week about the show at In Media Res

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Backyard Holocausts: The Curse and The Zone of Interest | In Media Res

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Great to see this review essay by Michael Wedel now in English translation. A number of recent Weimar cinema books discussed, including mine (highlighted as the "most unusual" of the bunch!) at the end www.weimarcinema.org/essay/Wedel

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Paul Dobryden @pdobryden.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I will never not misread "lfg" as liebe f-ing grüße

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