Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 24/08/2026If you're an Americanist/Anglicist that has recently read a good MA student paper, consider pointing them to this graduate journal. It's a lovely team over there 054
Reposted by Shayan Rahmanian KoushkakiJens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Americanist: The cup is equal parts white supremacy and settler colonialism. 0142
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The whole campaign against Arday by academia (and media) revealed that “the disaster of Black subjection” and its terror are “deeply atemporal” as Sharpe has said before. This scandalization of Black being and mis/conduct is a continuation of the pervasive anti Blackness that academia re/produces 100
Reposted by Shayan Rahmanian KoushkakiOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It does. How to process 50000 people crossing a border. And not see the border as the violence. 151
Reposted by Shayan Rahmanian KoushkakiDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Promovieren Sie noch oder Prompten Sie schon 181
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It's officialll, and don't miss @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social 's Keynote on the first day!! 041
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I need a senior academic to hold my hand and lie to me that everything will be alright 020
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 26/06/2026So distributing zines and protesting ICE can get people 30+ years in prison (while Jan6 terrorists get pardoned) and somehow I‘m expected to go to the Fascist States of America for research if I ever want to make it in academia? Maybe I should have kept baking pretzels at REWE 081
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 24/06/2026We got the keynote speaker we wanted, what a rush! 020
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Why does writing a Call for Papers for a conference feel so embarassing? 'Oh look at me, I really wanna talk about this thing and I'd love it if eleven other nerds joined and explained it to me' 000
Reposted by Shayan Rahmanian KoushkakiMario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 05/06/2026Sehe ich es richtig, dass die deutsche Forschungsministerin nachweislich nur ein einziges Mal außerhalb der Politik gearbeitet hat, nämlich als Praktikantin beim Axel-Springer-Verlag? taz.de/!6178492/taz.deDas Studium der Dorothee MantelStudierende sollen mehr arbeiten, findet Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär. Sie selbst habe schließlich auch gejobbt. Aber wie war das noch mal genau? 53695201
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 05/06/2026German academia in a nutshell... und jetzt versuch mal sowas deiner Nichtakademikerfamilie zu erklären. Die denken doch wir sind alle bescheuert 110
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The big problems with this are that 1) it is up to university management (Präsidium etc) to decide what constitutes an offence. These extrajudicial committees can make decisions that ultimately lead to deportations. Why no independent council that is less bound by academic-management affiliations? 110
Reposted by Shayan Rahmanian KoushkakiGRK 2806 »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit« @grk2806.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Herzlichen Glückwunsch Arunima Kundu! Sie ist die zweite Kollegiatin der ersten Kohorte, die ihre Dissertation verteidigt hat 🤩🥳 Mehr zu Ihrem Projekt "Mediating Otherness in Cultural Discourse: the Planetary Posthuman Subject in Afrofuturist Science Fiction": www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/amst/... 1103
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki @srahmaniank.bsky.social · 13/05/2026My colleague Emma Barbieux wrote a little column about writing routines for our RTG's newsletter and apparently Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb has it all figured out 041