Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Thank you for featuring Assembly by Design in exceptional company @iajournal.bsky.social !! 031
Reposted by Olga TouloumiThe Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025As institutions retrofitted themselves to house Richard Serra’s massive steel forms, this piece shows how his work transitioned from confrontational public interventions to museum-bound monuments. By @mmogi.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com buff.ly/DKEQjUAbuff.lyMan About Town | Mariana MogilevichPerceptive critics noted early on that Serra’s sculpture only made sense in relation to its time and place and gave meaning only to those specific conditions against which it unfolded. Serra insisted… 1135
Reposted by Olga TouloumiLiette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️ See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information. Please repost. 22217
Reposted by Olga TouloumiShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b... 2487
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025That was fun! Also useful for anyone curious to know what the book is about. Thank you @danielryansyd.bsky.social 081
Reposted by Olga TouloumiThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 23/03/2025Trump is demanding social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants whether they're already in the U.S. or not.interc.ptTrump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for CitizenshipLast time Trump demanded social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants, it was only for immigrants outside the U.S. 1811877
Reposted by Olga TouloumiLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 17/03/2025New from the University of Georgia Press @ugapress.bsky.social , @stephenlegg11.bsky.social 's Spaces of Anticolonialism explores the anticolonial movements in Delhi before India’s independence, analysing subaltern geographies and hidden spaces through a spatial governmentality lens. bit.ly/LeggSOA 1118
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This event looks fantastic for those in NY! Do not miss 020
Reposted by Olga TouloumiShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Please join us at The New School next Friday evening! 0103
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Come hear me talk with Claire Zimmerman, who co-edited a fantastic volume on nationalist internationalisms! March 11 6:30pm ET. The event will be online! 050
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Throughout my experience in US academia, my hate for abstract writing remains an uncomfortable constant. Don't get me wrong: I understand the algorithm (here is what others say; here is the gap; that's how I will address it; and that'swhy we should care about it), but I have no love for it. 040
Reposted by Olga TouloumiChelsea Spencer @chelseaspencer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 ! Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop... Deadline: >>Feb 21<< 👍tinyurl.comCosts of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops • Call for AbstractsTHE COSTS OF ARCHITECTURE NETWORKSUMMER 2025 WORKSHOPSCALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline: February 21, 2025 The Costs of Architecture Network is pleased to announce a call for paper abstracts for a series ... 184
Reposted by Olga TouloumiDeborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social · 11/12/2024@bsky.app Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/jobs.cam.ac.ukAssistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 - Job Opportunities - University of CambridgeAssistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge. 01720
Reposted by Olga TouloumiDavia Downey @downeydavia.bsky.social · 10/12/2024When I was in college I worked at the library. One of my least favorite tasks was shelving books. One day I happened upon a book of Nikki Giovanni’s poems and my life was forever changed. Rest in Power and Thank You. 0359
Reposted by Olga TouloumiElizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I'm currently working as an independent scholar and writing a history of the material and spatial cultures of broadcasting in 20s30s England with a focus on BBC Broadcasting House & the wireless sets manufactured by EKCO Ltd. 3246
Reposted by Olga TouloumiShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 04/12/2024"...back in the day when ppl wld talk abt 📕 bans, [they'd] say “Oh, you must be 🤗! Bc the minute they ban a 📕 everybody’s running to get... it.” But now we’re living in a different ⏰, where it’s legislated. If 📚 are banned, + ppl try to put them into the ✋ of young ppl, they lose their jobs."lithub.comJacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025The author Jacqueline Woodson has been in censors’ cross-hairs for years, simply for writing queer characters into young adult books and documenting racial consciousness. But she’s unus… 0132
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Thank you for reading @coastofbohemia.bsky.social ! Your thoughtful post made my day! I hope we get to meet one day :) (psst @uminnpress.bsky.social ) 120
Reposted by Olga TouloumiDaniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 29/11/2024My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...thedigradio.comMAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy BrownFeaturing Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trump’s triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MA... 1013449
Reposted by Olga TouloumiBryan E Norwood @bryannorwood.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Just published an article in ATR: Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History Free eprints!tandfonline.comRacial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural HistoryElaborating on the techniques that the Black Studies scholar Cedric Robinson uses to write the histories of racial capitalism, this essay outlines a way to approach longue durée architectural histo... 0328
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024This is such a wonderful article on weaving together, not just building, collective life and its spaces! 🧶🪡🧵 030
Reposted by Olga TouloumiSusan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Lots of starter packs out there, but haven't seen any for architectural history yet, so I assembled one. Please send along suggestions for additions. The pack is broadly conceived (architecture / urbanism / landscape) and covers any period, but should focus on history / theory. go.bsky.app/CqLE4UM 5220266
Reposted by Olga TouloumiChica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The “public sphere” today. Tradwives, pod bros and wellness grifters www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took ControlTrump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity. 1246
Reposted by Olga Touloumi@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...stuarthallfoundation.orgThe Stuart Hall Essay Prize - Stuart Hall FoundationThe Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpubl... 2157181
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Achievement unlocked. You get your first review, expertly done by Alexander Stagnell, a review that opens your work to IR conversations; and Quinn Slobodian, whose work has been important for mine, posts about it. Somebody please pinch me. 071
Reposted by Olga TouloumiPetra Matić @petramatic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The Non-Aligned Archive (Arhiv Nesvrstanih) is the most exciting project I am working on. It is a digital archive documenting the presence of African, Asian, and American communities in Croatia, and will be publicly presented in May 2025, online and offline. 3618
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024📣 My book Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Public Interior is out and thanks to the good people at @uminnpress.bsky.social I have a promotional code to share! Happy to conspire for events, talk to your students, or put together a panel. 65217
Reposted by Olga TouloumiOpen Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 01/07/2024New #ArchitecturalHistories publications 👇 “Field Notes: Athens in Flux” by Olga Touloumi et al.: doi.org/10.16995/ah.... “Managing Luso-Utopia in Guinea-Bissau: Imperial Fictions and Dwelling Practices in Late Portuguese Colonialism (1945-74)” by Rui Aristides Lebre: doi.org/10.16995/ah....doi.orgField Notes: Athens in FluxThese Field Notes present a fragmented and diachronic portrait of Athens through the mobilities of people and cultures, which, as they clashed, intersected, and syncretized, defined different aspects ... 001
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social · 11/04/2024Shannon is a constant inspiration. It was such a privilege to be in dialogue her! I loved every minute of it 1131