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Sandra Mayer

@victorianceleb.bsky.social
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Literary and cultural historian interested in life writing, literature & politics, and digital editing (Auden Musulin Papers: amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at). ACDH, Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.sandramayer.org

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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften @oeaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was verraten sechs Briefe über den Kampf einer Frau um Sichtbarkeit im 19. Jhd? #ÖAW-Forscherin Sandra Mayer @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social entdeckte sie im Nachlass von Benjamin Disraeli und stieß auf die Geschichte der Schriftstellerin und Journalistin Bettina Wirth. www.oeaw.ac.at/news/die-ver...
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Die vergessene Pionierin Bettina Wirth
ÖAW-Forscherin Sandra Mayer stieß auf Briefe von Bettina Wirth an Autor und Politiker Benjamin Disraeli – und zeigt, wie sich eine Schriftstellerin und Journalistin des 19. Jahrhunderts um Sichtbarkei...
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ACDH @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bettina Wirth war im 19. Jahrhundert bemerkenswert sichtbar, hinterließ jedoch keinen eigenen Nachlass. Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social fand einige ihrer Briefe im Nachlass von Benjamin Disraeli und begann zu recherchieren. Mehr dazu im ÖAW-Blog: www.oeaw.ac.at/news/die-ver...
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Die vergessene Pionierin Bettina Wirth
ÖAW-Forscherin Sandra Mayer stieß auf Briefe von Bettina Wirth an Autor und Politiker Benjamin Disraeli – und zeigt, wie sich eine Schriftstellerin und Journalistin des 19. Jahrhunderts um…
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was a pleasure speaking to @oeaw.bsky.social about one of my most exciting archival finds in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk's Disraeli Papers, which led to unearthing the remarkable life of Bettina Wirth. #LifeWriting #cosmopolitanism #fanletters @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
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Die vergessene Pionierin Bettina Wirth
ÖAW-Forscherin Sandra Mayer stieß auf Briefe von Bettina Wirth an Autor und Politiker Benjamin Disraeli – und zeigt, wie sich eine Schriftstellerin und Journalistin des 19. Jahrhunderts um Sichtbarkei...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AAD Pre-Release v0.3.0 alert! Auden in Austria Digital now contains #WHAuden correspondence held in the #ViennaCityLibrary, including letters to Herta Staub and Felix Braun, and two poem typescripts, kept by @adz-krems.bsky.social! @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
image of Auden in Austria Digital landing page Image of Auden in Austria Digital landing page with tiles pointing towards the collections of papers accessible through the web application
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Very excited to share v0.2.0 of Auden in Austria Digital 🙌 Now making available for the 1st time the full correspondence between #WHAuden & #AustrianSocietyForLiterature. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden #DH #DigitalHumanities
screen shot of start page of Auden in Austria Digital edition, with tiles leading to Kurka Papers, Spiel Papers, and Austrian Society for Literature Papers
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QWIEN - Zentrum für queere Kultur und Geschichte @qwien.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Der Open Access-Beitrag im Journal of Homosexuality stellt die Briefe von W. H. Auden an seinen Liebhaber Hugo Kurka in einen historischen Kontext queerer Geschichte. Von Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social, Timo Frühwirth von der ÖAW und Andreas Brunner @andreasbrunner.bsky.social von Qwien.
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Martin Anton Müller @encore.at · 03/07/2026
Freudige Nachricht! Selma Jahnke und ich haben eine Verlagszusage für die Edition der Erzählungen (Der gläserne Käfig), des Theaterstücks (Die Ehrlosen) und der Briefe von #ElsaPlessner. Sie war eine junge Autorin, die zwischen 1896 und 1901 versuchte, am Literaturmarkt Fuß zu fassen. #LitWiss
Bild einer jungen Frau mit Blumen. Entweder von Else Lott oder Fanny Zakucka. (Das Covermotiv, das ich mir wünsche)
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ACDH @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Die Briefe sind außerdem seit letzten Oktober in der digitalen Edition "Auden in Austria Digital" zugänglich: auden.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/kurka.html
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Kurka Papers
Autograph Card Signed W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman to Christa Kurka and Hugo Kurka 1960-10-25
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We were happy to collaborate with @andreasbrunner.bsky.social of @qwien.bsky.social on this first study of the newly discovered Auden Kurka Papers, available OA in the @tandfresearch.bsky.social Journal of Homosexuality. @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social
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Archiv der Zeitgenossen @adz-krems.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ein neues Paper von @victorianceleb.bsky.social, Timo Frühwirth und @andreasbrunner.bsky.social beschäftigt sich mit dem sensationellen Fund von 90 Briefen des Dichters W.H. Auden an seinen Geliebten Hugo Kurka, die 2025 durch Zufall ans Archiv gelangten: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“I Can’t Imagine / A Kinder Set-up”: Mapping Networks of Queer Intimacy Through the Auden–Kurka Correspondence
Recently, a previously unknown private collection of correspondence by the British-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973) surfaced in Austria. The approximately 90 letters and postcards are addresse...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The boxes of fan letters to Benjamin Disraeli yield some intriguing finds - like this correspondence with a young woman from Vienna, Bettina Wirth, which I've written about here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
hand-written letter, in English, with a hand-made drawing of a kissing Austrian couple, by Bettina Wirth to Benjamin Disraeli, held in the Bodleian Library's Special Collectionshand-written letter, in English, with what appears to be a drawn self-portrait of a writing woman, by Bettina Wirth to Benjamin Disraeli, held in the Bodleian Library's Special Collections
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
About yesterday - #UnisRetten: petrifiedmusephotography.net/2026/05/27/s...
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Save the Universities (#UnisRetten): Documenting a Demonstration against University Funding Cuts - Petrified Muse Photography
On May 27, 2026, a demonstration was organised in Vienna to protest against government funding cuts affecting the entire Austrian university sector.
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Many thanks to #Wienbibliothek for having us! It was a great evening talking about the #AustrianAuden & our work here at @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @kathiprager.bsky.social
photo showing laptop displaying Auden in Austria Digital start page against the background of the Vienna City Library's Loos Roomsposter announcing our "glimpse into the researcher's workshop: W. H. Auden in Austria"
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you are in Vienna next Tuesday, join us at #Wienbibliothek for some (German-language) glimpses into AAD editors' workshop: www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun... #AustrianAuden #DigitalEdition #DigitalHumanities #DSE #SDE @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
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Forschungswerkstatt: W. H. Auden in Österreich | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
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katharina prager @kathiprager.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
heute in einer woche geht es in den loosräumen der #wienbibliothek darum, wie ein britischer dichter in hinterholz 6 in kirchstetten landet und wie er (sich in) österreich (ein)findet. #forschungswerkstatt cc: @victorianceleb.bsky.social www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun...
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Forschungswerkstatt: W. H. Auden in Österreich | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Truly seeing out the old year with a bang, in every sense of the word, at Schaubühne Berlin - here‘s to a very happy 2026!
Photograph of the Schaubühne theatre on Kurfürstendamm in BerlinPhotograph of Schaubühne theatre programme for Richard III
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Building tools at the interface of #DigitalEdition and #NetworkAnalysis. Stay tuned. 👀 fedihum.org/@timofruehwi... @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Timo Frühwirth (@timofruehwirth@fedihum.org)
📦 affiliation-builder v0.2.0: a #Python package for creating bipartite affiliation networks from #JSON using #NetworkX. 🌐 https://pypi.org/project/affiliation-builder/ Generic enough for any affil...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Very happy to share some of our research into #AustrianAuden with an international audience in this article by @philipoltermann.bsky.social in @theguardian.com. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften @oeaw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Briefe an Hugo 💌 @theguardian.com berichtet über den Fund von bisher unbekannten Korrespondenzen des Autors W. H. Auden in Niederösterreich, untersucht von ÖAW-Forscher:innen Sandra Mayer und Timo Frühwirth @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social ✒️📮 Mehr dazu ➡️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal
Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Delighted to make available previously unknown (& unexpected) correspondence by poet #WHAuden to his Austrian lover & confidant, shedding new light on Auden's life in Austria & on Austrian queer history. www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/sens... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
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Sensational Discovery: Unknown Letters by Poet W. H. Auden Found in Lower Austria
Around 100 previously unknown letters and postcards written by W. H. Auden to his lover, friend, and confidant Hugo have been discovered in Lower Austria, following after a TV report. Researchers at t...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📣 Excited to release v0.1.0 of the "Auden in Austria Digital" scholarly digital edition, funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social, at the @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social of @oeaw.bsky.social! Featuring previously unpublished correspondences by #WHAuden in Austria. @oegfl.bsky.social auden.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/index.html
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Auden in Austria Digital
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Few things have had a more formative impact on my life and made me the person I am than this episode - so kindly and generously captured by Merlin Holland in his new book, presented at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Thursday, Oscar‘s 171st birthday. I think I might have shed a tear.
Photo of a book dedication reading „For Sandra with all the good wishes and much love from Merlin and gratitude for coming so far 16 Oct 2025Double page of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, recounting the story of the „Austrian schoolgirl“ Sandra MayerPhoto of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, taken in a bookshop in Brick Lane
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Few things have had a more formative impact on my life and made me the person I am than this episode - so kindly and generously captured by Merlin Holland in his new book, presented at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Thursday, Oscar‘s 171st birthday. I think I might have shed a tear.
Photo of a book dedication reading „For Sandra with all the good wishes and much love from Merlin and gratitude for coming so far 16 Oct 2025Double page of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, recounting the story of the „Austrian schoolgirl“ Sandra MayerPhoto of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, taken in a bookshop in Brick Lane
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Martin Anton Müller @encore.at · 16/10/2025
Ladies & Gentlemen, ich darf Sie auf unsere neue Seite mit allen Veranstaltungsteilnahmen von #ArthurSchnitzler bitten: #schnitzler-kultur! Wann war er im Kino? Wann hat er öffentlich gelesen, wann privat? Besuchen Sie: schnitzler-kultur.acdh.oeaw.ac.at @luntner.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
Buntes Bildchen mit Arthur Schnitzler in schwarz weiß, der einen frontal anschaut und Alfred Kerr, der seitlich lächelt. Foto von der Startseite der verlinkten Seite
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Some big news in the making. Stay tuned for more. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden
photo of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the cameraphoto of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the camera
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Some big news in the making. Stay tuned for more. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden
photo of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the cameraphoto of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the camera
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Strong presence of @oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social RU Literary & Print Culture Studies last week at @univie.ac.at for the "Exploring the Scandalous" conference - great papers & great discussions!
Group photo of members of research unit Literary & Print Culture Studies, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, at conference "Exploring the Scandalous"
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Great papers by @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social colleagues @diezypresse.bsky.social & Barbara Tumfart (on Bernhard’s Heldenplatz) & @ftb-oeaw.bsky.social‘s own @danielmilkovits.bsky.social, presenting on #Jelinek & quoting as a polemical practice! As ever, Austrian lit lends itself to a discussion of scandal
Daniel Milkovits at the lectern in front of a PPT projection of his presentation title slide "Copy, Paste, Scandal!"
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Insightful interview with Sharon Marcus (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social), opening our conference on "Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress“ at @univie.ac.at, co-organised by @oeaw.bsky.social, @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social & University of Zurich www.oeaw.ac.at/news/vom-wil...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
On 5 September 2025, literary scholar and theater director #ReinhardUrbach died. www.ots.at/presseaussen... On 28 Sept 1973, he accompanied #WHAuden to his last reading. In the night of 28-29 Sept, Auden died in his Vienna hotel room. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oegfl.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Wir trauern um Reinhard Urbach
Nachruf auf Reinhard Urbach (1939–2025)
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Daniel Milkovits @danielmilkovits.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
In roughly one month, @victorianceleb.bsky.social (@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social), Barbara Straumann (Zurich) and Sylvia Mieszkowski (Vienna) will be hosting a conference on #scandal at @univie.ac.at. I'm excited to be there with a talk on quoting as a polemical practice within the Austrian literary field!
SCANDAL!
EXPLORING THE SCANDALOUS:
SCANDAL AS A CATALYST OF PROGRESS?
MT EMAIRE
University of Vienna, 24-26 September 2025
organised by Sandra Mayer, Barbara Straumann, Sylvia Mieszkowski & team
Keynote Speaker:
Sharon Marcus (Columbia University)
ANNENSIS
universitat wien
ÖAW
SENERSA
TURICENS
Universität
ZürichuzH
Lanis
https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/scandal/
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Another day, another #archive. This time: the manuscript collection of the #ViennaCityLibrary @wien.gv.at 🔎 📄 📃 Great vistas and great material! @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
Photo of door plate of Vienna City Library manuscript collection.Photo of the Vienna City Hall.Stamp "EX BIBLIOTHECA CIVICA VINDOBONENSI" on Vienna City Library document folder.Photo of Auden autograph letters in Vienna City Library manuscript collection.
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Summer is coming to an end, and we are back at the archive, this time at @oegfl.bsky.social - as always, exciting finds! @oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
The image shows a stack of black, marbled binders with metal rings, placed on a wooden surface. The binders have labels on the spine, with visible text and numbers. The labels include "A-32" and "A-XII," with handwritten dates such as "8.4.85" and "2.7.35." The labels also feature a price tag with "2,735" and "8,74" written in orange. The binders appear to be part of an organized filing system, possibly for archival or record-keeping purposes. The background is a plain white wall with a visible electrical outlet.black-and-white photographs of W. H. Audena metallic plaque reading the "Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur" in black, with "2. Stock" (2nd floor)
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
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Writer, Work, and World(s): Stephen Spender as Autobio(mytho)grapher
The British poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995) is perhaps best known today as the chronicler of the 1930s ‘Auden Group’, a cosmopolitan public intellectual, and cultural activist. Throughout his life...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
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Writer, Work, and World(s): Stephen Spender as Autobio(mytho)grapher
The British poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995) is perhaps best known today as the chronicler of the 1930s ‘Auden Group’, a cosmopolitan public intellectual, and cultural activist. Throughout his life...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thank you @adho-org.bsky.social @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social for a great #DH2025 conference! Access our presentations here: 🌐 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🌐 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Onwards to @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social! @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @dhtech-community.bsky.social
View of the Tejo in Lisbon, with bridge and sailing boats
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Timo Frühwirth representing Auden in Austria Digital at the start of @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social in Lisbon! More from us in the course of this week! fedihum.org/@AAD_OeAW/11... @oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Auden in Austria Digital (@AAD_OeAW@fedihum.org)
Attached: 3 images What a brilliant start of #DH2025 here in #Lisbon with @adho.org@adho.org @dhtech Symposium on Monday! 😎 💻 @fwf@mstdn.science @ACDHCH_OeAW @oeaw@bird.makeup @altbot@fuzzies.wtf ...
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
‼️ Important statement by the Elise Richter Network ‼️ eliserichter.net/index.php/20...
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Statement des Elise-Richter-Netzwerks zu den Angriffen des ÖVP-Wissenschaftssprechers auf FWF-Projekte – Elise Richter Network
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Why looking for more information if you can just attack a scholarly project for your cheap propaganda? "Es ist überflüssig, weitere Informationen über das Projekt einzuholen, um zur Erkenntnis zu gelangen, dass […] ein Lapsus bei der Fördergeldvergabe unterlief." www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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ÖVP-Abgeordneter Taschner attackiert Uni und Wissenschaftsfonds: "Verbranntes Geld"
In einer Rede schmähte der ÖVP-Wissenschaftssprecher ein Forschungsprojekt. Der Uni-Rektor ist empört und ortet "billige Vorurteile". Wissenschaftsministerin Holzleitner betont Autonomie des FWF
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are grateful to all our brilliant contributors, reviewers, and copy-editors; as well as #DHd for supporting this project through their #OpenAccess #Publikationsfonds.
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
2 years after our #DigitalBio2023" conference, we're excited to see the complete cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" now online in the #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting: ejlw.eu/announcement... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @wscholger.bsky.social
table of contents of the cluster "Life Narrative and the Digital"
1. "Life Narrative and the Digital: Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field" by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer, pages LDi-LDxi.
2. "Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19" by Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Laksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis, and Elvira Žvarte, pages LD1-LD34.
3. "The Evolution of Arabic Self-Expression in the Western Mediterranean: Using an Annotation Schema as a Comparative Framework" by Laila M. Jreis-Navarro, pages LD35-LD58.
4. "Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" by Katherine Parsons, pages LD59-LD86.
5. "The Digital Life Narrative of a Romanian Transgender Microcelebrity through the Lens of Networked Publics" by Alexandra Cotoc and Anamaria Radu, pages LD87-LD109.
6. "About Disputed Existences: Dys4ia's Conflicted Status between Game and Autobiography" by Felix Tenhaef, pages LD110-LD140.
7. "Narration Through Data: The Life and Relationships of a Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Merchant" by Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Alessia Spadi, and Federica Spinelli, pages LD141-LD164.
8. "'To Bring Them into Dialog': A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital" by Caitriona Ní Dhúill, Anna Spitzbart, Christian Wachter, Florian Windhager, and Sandra Mayer, pages LD165-LD183.
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
2 years after our #DigitalBio2023" conference, we're excited to see the complete cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" now online in the #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting: ejlw.eu/announcement... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @wscholger.bsky.social
table of contents of the cluster "Life Narrative and the Digital"
1. "Life Narrative and the Digital: Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field" by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer, pages LDi-LDxi.
2. "Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19" by Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Laksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis, and Elvira Žvarte, pages LD1-LD34.
3. "The Evolution of Arabic Self-Expression in the Western Mediterranean: Using an Annotation Schema as a Comparative Framework" by Laila M. Jreis-Navarro, pages LD35-LD58.
4. "Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" by Katherine Parsons, pages LD59-LD86.
5. "The Digital Life Narrative of a Romanian Transgender Microcelebrity through the Lens of Networked Publics" by Alexandra Cotoc and Anamaria Radu, pages LD87-LD109.
6. "About Disputed Existences: Dys4ia's Conflicted Status between Game and Autobiography" by Felix Tenhaef, pages LD110-LD140.
7. "Narration Through Data: The Life and Relationships of a Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Merchant" by Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Alessia Spadi, and Federica Spinelli, pages LD141-LD164.
8. "'To Bring Them into Dialog': A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital" by Caitriona Ní Dhúill, Anna Spitzbart, Christian Wachter, Florian Windhager, and Sandra Mayer, pages LD165-LD183.
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Great opening of beautiful new archive/exhibion space/library of @qwien.bsky.social on 11 June with AAD project partner @andreasbrunner.bsky.social 🌈 #pridemonth #queerhistory #sappho @hosiwien.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
Photo of quotation by Sappho "Jemand, sage ich dir, wird sich an uns erinnern, auch in einer anderen Zeit" in entrance hall of new QWIEN buidling.Selfie photo of head of QWIEN Andreas Brunner (middle) with members of the AAD team.Photo of book shelves in library spaces of new QWIEN buidling.Photo of event poster for opening of new QWIEN HQ on 11 June, saying "We're here, we're Qwien".
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Glad to have you and so many other brilliant speakers on board for what is going to be a fantastic conference: anglistik.univie.ac.at/scandal/
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Scandal!: Exploring the Scandalous
Scandal!: Exploring the Scandalous
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QWIEN - Zentrum für queere Kultur und Geschichte @qwien.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Neues Qwien, neuer Vibe! 🌈 Wir haben nicht nur Räume umgebaut, sondern auch uns selbst: Gemeinsam mit @duo.wtf haben wir Identität und Auftritt von Qwien geschärft. OUR VOICE. OUR SPACE. OUR STORY. Selbstbewusst, laut, einladend – unser neues Erscheinungsbild ist da. Grand Opening am 11. Juni!
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Save the date: 11 June 2025 | #QWIEN #Vienna Center for #Queer #History | grand opening | Ramperstorffergasse 39, 1050 Vienna 🌈 🧡 www.qwien.at/2025/03/04/%... @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
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💜SAVE THE DATE. Eröffnung am 11.06.2025 💜 – QWIEN – Zentrum für queere Geschichte
Am 11. Juni ist es endlich soweit – das neue QWIEN öffnet seine Türen! 🥳Mit unseren neuen Räumlichkeiten wächst nicht nur unser Platz, sondern auch unsere Möglichkeiten: QWIEN wird zum queeren Kulturzentrum in Margareten!
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The AAD team has created a #Wikidata item for the 1969-74 Austrian journal Ver Sacrum (eds. #HildeSpiel & #OttoBreicha), which also published poetry by #WHAuden: www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1345... Please help us improve it. 🙏 @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Ver Sacrum. Neue Hefte für Kunst und Literatur
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🔥Hot off the press - the first three contributions to our cluster on "Life Narrative and the Digital" in #EuropeanJournalofLifeWriting are online: ejlw.eu/announcement... #DigitalBio2023 #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #LifeWriting @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
New Cluster: Life Writing and the Digital, edited by Sandra Mayer and Timo Frühwirth

- "Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19" by Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis, and Elvīra Žvarte. 

- "The Evolution of Arabic Self-Expression in the Western Mediterranean: Using an Annotation Schema as a Comparative Framework" by Laila M. Jreis-Navarro.

- "Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" by Katherine Parsons
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