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Sara Dybris McQuaid

@saradm.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Aarhus University. Peace, Conflict, Memory, Northern Ireland. Here for politics and righteous indignation.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Better prepare a take for DK media. Dust off my notes from the 90s & readjust the frame completely: OO a small irrelevant heritage organisation, SF the largest party, no side a majority, bigger threats from climate change & AI which will kill us all before anyone gets “their country back” #drumcree
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nå, men nu hvor parader igen (igen) er et instrument til at samle tropperne og distrahere fra manglende politiske løsninger på større spørgsmål i Nordirland (fattigdom, fremtidsudsigter) kom jeg til at tænke på min gamle artikel Parading Memory and Re-membering Conflict www.jstor.org/stable/48720...
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Client Challenge
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The CFP for the @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social 2027 conference is now open - the theme is Memory, Responsibility and Hope! please consider proposing a panel, paper, roundtable, workshop or play! www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...
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2027 - LUND - Memory Studies Association
MSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 14-18 JUNE 2027, LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN Memory, Responsibility, Hope CONFERENCE PORTAL WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON  CALL FOR PAPERS   It is a well-established understanding wi...
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Great opportunity to participate in UNESCOs Intercultural Leadership Programme (Youth for Peace) www.unesco.org/en/call-appl...
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Det sidste 1/2 år har jeg arbejdet sammen med Emergency Architecture og Blågårdens Bibliotek om et eksperiment i forskningsformidling, der får et studie i Nordirland til at vinde genklang på Nørrebro. Se detlevendearkiv.dk & lyt til podcasten, der følger processen podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/f...
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Delighted to be back to present the research I have worked on in @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social Exploring how to write a local history of the peace process from the perspective of a building. Great to hear stories from former librarians and residents, who returned for the first time in decades!
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Glæder mig som en ung Sara til at se Sciaparelliudstillingen i London www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
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Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This exhibition traces the history, impact and continuing influence of one of the 20th century’s most innovative fashion creatives, Elsa Schiaparelli.
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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Free Tour of the Carnegie Oldpark Library
Join us for a fun, free walk-through of the historic Carnegie Oldpark Library—discover its cool stories and spaces!
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Last week, Shabana Mahmood visited Denmark and has made changes to the UK's asylum policy that emulate the stricter Danish system ✍️ In this piece from September, @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues there key pitfalls to copying this approach 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
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Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Det næste skridt i vores projekt "Support Your Local Library" er et kreativt familieværksted. Hvis du har børn der elsker at være på biblioteket, så mød op Lørdag d 7 Marts - det bliver sjovt og der er snacks! De kort der bliver tegnet, kommer med i vores levende arkiv om Blågården Bibliotek
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Plakatudstillingen er oppe og postkortene ligger klar - i morgen kan du høre mit oplæg "Fra Belfast til Blågården" og diskutere lokalbiblioteker som fredsskabende infrastruktur. Kom og tag en ven med! Biblioteker er all the rage. kl 17.00 på Blågården Bibliotek. @au.dk @carlsbergfondet.dk
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
På Onsdag holder jeg i oplæg på Blågårds Bibliotek om hvilken rolle biblioteker spiller i krig og fred. Det er en forlængelse af min forskning om lokal fredsopbygning i Belfast og diskuterer biblioteker som en afgørende social infrastruktur alle steder. Kom! fb.me/e/9dkjFn5Gv
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Der er aldrig tid nok. Selv når man starter i begyndelsen af det 20. Århundrede. Men til sidst fandt vi ud af at vi begge kom fra Farum (off air) radio4.dk/podcasts/eur...
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Europa i krig - Den nordirske borgerkrig
Den irske undergrundshær, IRA, kæmper med bomber for at fravriste Nordirland fra Storbritannien, så hele den irske ø kan blive forenet i en fælles rep
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@mortensode.bsky.social har skrevet den mest vidunderlige beskrivelse af at gå til dans. Hvem får ikke lyst til at gøre det samme når de læser hvilken effekt det har på hans liv?https://www.information.dk/moti/2026/01/laege-morten-sodemann-danser-rumba-tango-pjat-danse
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Læge Morten Sodemann danser rumba og tango: »Det er jo noget pjat at danse«
Alle mennesker er mere end deres arbejdsliv. I denne serie taler vi med offentlige personer om det, de går op i, når andre ikke følger med
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Here are all my book recommendations for 2025, carefully collected in one handy to read list. www.jancarson.co.uk/blog/some-books-i-enjoyed-in-2025
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Some Books I Enjoyed in 2025 — Jan Carson
2025 was a great reading year for non-fiction, older books and works in translation.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Inspired by Ann Rigney’s work on Remembering Activism, I put the “Internationalism Calendar” on my Christmas wish list. January is called ‘seeds of hope’ and details the story of protests against UK weapon production for Indonesia in the context of the struggle for independence in East Timor.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Hvis 2026 skal være året hvor jeg for alvor begynder at bruge Bluesky, så skal jeg altså have interaktioner med nogle flere mennesker - hvem har knækket koden til hvordan man laver opslag med god trækkraft? #bluesky #whattodo #blueskythinking
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
One of these PhDs is geared towards Cultural Memory Studies - I must have a ton of former students who might consider applying?! (Let me know if you need a recommendation) @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @slowmemo.bsky.social "memorystudies lnkd.in/ejSDwmhJ
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New short research article out in Urban Matters. It is a piece on thick mapping in North Belfast, drawing on ongoing research at the Oldpark Carnegie Library and local memories of regeneration. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...
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Thick Mapping and the Local History of Urban Regeneration in North Belfast - Urban Matters Journal
The Oldpark Carnegie Library in North Belfast has been closed since 2010, but is currently being brought “back to life” as part of a community-led regeneration initiative. The library stands in a part...
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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
To engage your mind, you sometimes have to engage your body! Slow Memory COST Action members have developed two walking journals for Prague, Czech Republic, and Prishtina, Kosovo, that help us think through the city, spatial relations, emotion and memory.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Fra Belfast til Blågården! - Glæder mig helt vildt til samarbejdet med Emergency Architecture og Nørrebros biblioteker i formidlingen af min forskning om biblioteker som kritisk social infrastruktur i konflikt og fred. Tak til @carlsbergfondet.dk for støtten! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...
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Support Your Local Library: Research Communication, Reseach Resonances and Research Echoes | Carlsbergfondet.dk
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The project to bring the Oldpark Library back to life is so intriguing, not least from a peacebuilding perspective. Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project carnegieoldpark.org/2025/11/03/a...
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Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project
Three months ago, if someone had predicted that I would be the interim chair of the Carnegie Oldpark Library trustees in North Belfast, I would have riposted ‘unlikely’; if they had then explained …
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This! I bought a refurbished 13 mini last year (to replace my ancient SE, which I didn't want to give up precisely because of the size).
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A superb “Peter Mair Lecture” by @caterinafr.bsky.social at the @psaireland.bsky.social just now presenting her path-breaking work on the continuing rise of the far right. As she noted, Mair’s “void” rather unfortunately is being filled
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Pretty disturbing times: “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
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Fiona Buckley @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999
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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A Danish parliamentarian, the MP Victoria Velasquez, has been abducted by the Israeli military this morning.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...
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Janich Frederiksen @janichfre.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
😊💪 „Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
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Bibliotekernes udlån stiger for tredje år i træk: Vi elsker at læse papirbøger
Den fysiske bog giver os et frirum i en travl, elektronisk hverdag.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...
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Engang røg hun 15 joints om dagen – nu bliver hun kaldt for en 'stor kunstner'
Det hjalp Laura Helene Hansen med at komme ud af sit stofmisbrug, da hun opdagede sit talent for at synge opera.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...
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Minor Detail book: how the language of the past can help us read the present situation in Palestine
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...
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Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory – SlowMemory – CA20105
Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory
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Politics in Action @politicsinaction.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳 A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
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Peter Osborne @peterosborne.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland
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Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland
A huge wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Started MSA 25 with an excursion to Strahov Stadium. A space still in use but also out of time. #MSA25 @
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
'After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind' Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind
Inspiring account of IWU, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan, has left this reviewer turbocharged for further change
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Mette Frederiksen bliver interviewet i Britisk Vogue (August). www.vogue.co.uk/article/mett...
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'm very eagerly anticipating the start of our fourth and final @slowmemo.bsky.social COST Action conference at the University of Porto tomorrow. Judging by the prep done by the stellar team led by Prof Alice Semedo, it is going to be absolutely fantastic. #slowmemory
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I should add the overall title of her work: Living and Dying in Transit - violence, bodies and survival in the Tunesian borderlands.
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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk
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