Margherita Scazza 🍉

YouTube video by Memetic Warfare Meaning of Hypernormalisation

Clip explaining the term Hypernormalisation (subpar audio/visual quality, sorry); youtu.be/DjPkRQbKeO4?...

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish citizen.

Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep Greta safe!

Web: government.se/contacts/

X : @SweMFA

FB : @SweMFA

IG : swedishmfa

#AllEyesOnMadleen

Witnessing, Tourism, Solidarity — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $50). Step 2: Register for “Witnessing, Tourism, Solidarity” here . In this workshop, Jenny Kelly will discuss the history of vir...

Registrations still open for 2 workshops next weekend. Both to support Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer camp.

The first is Jenny Kelly's Witnessing, Tourism, Solidarity:

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wit...

My (20 yo) cat prefers to have a towel over his carrier to cover his view, otherwise he gets very stressed.

"I've been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream meets life we are shut down" ❤️

❗DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW WANT TO DO A PHD?

We have a PhD project on 'Democratic Resilience, Identities, and Geographical Imaginaries'.

Fully funded ✅
Generous research support grant ✅

Supervised by me and a colleague in Geography.

Details: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/irs/wp-conte...

This Thursday - an online discussion on anti-Palestinian racism and the silencing of Palestinian solidarity in higher education

Organised by staff members from BSU (bsustaffforpalestine.wordpress.com),
UWE (universitywestengland.unison.site/2024/04/03/p...)
and Uni of Bristol (uobstandwithpalestine.wordpress.com)

Join us for ‘Speaking up for Palestine’ - a webinar on academic freedom
of speech and equality in higher education with Prof Rebecca Ruth Gould (SOAS) @rrgould.bsky.social and Dr Narzanin Massoumi (University of Exeter). Thu 28 November, 7pm

Changing Institutions: Common Sense, Complaint and Other Lessons in Legacy - UBC Okanagan Events Calendar Join us for an insightful lecture about diversity and equality featuring guest speaker Sara Ahmed.

I will be giving my last virtual lecture for the year tomorrow, dedicated to everyone fighting for a #FreePalestine. I have found giving virtual lectures hard during these times. So I will be taking a break & expressing rage in other ways. You can register here: events.ok.ubc.ca/event/changi...

My highlights so far are Indigisky 🔥, Fungi Friends, and geosky naturally

It is obscene, especially seeing how obstinately people continue to defend it

#COMETIERRA una novela estupenda de Dolores Reyes, censurada y menospreciada por el gobierno de #Milei. Propongo que la leamos, la compartamos y la regalemos. Leer es un acto de protesta. Y protestar es necesario...

Edinburgh from Salisbury Crags: a cityscape with setting sun

NEW FELLOWSHIP:

The Institute is delighted to announce a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. The Artist at Risk Fellowship will support an artist to spend 2 months as a Visiting Fellow at IASH in May/June/July 2025: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/artist-risk-...

Maroon Landscapes: Past and Present (RDF25/EE/GES/ZAVALAGUILLEN) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Maroon Landscapes: Past and Present (RDF25/EE/GES/ZAVALAGUILLEN) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

This is great! I’ll add two:

Dr Ana Laura Zavala Guilen and Dr Isabel Meier are advertising funded PhD positions at Northumbria University for the themes “Maroon Landscapes: Past and Present” (tinyurl.com/427pj54b) and “Affective Geographies of Migration and Bordering”(tinyurl.com/yt689hjd)

Digital Geographies – Theory, Space and Communities This machine-generated volume showcases how digital technologies are having deep transformative impacts on geographies and temporalities

Fancy buying a ‘machine-generated literature review’ of digital geographies for €192.59? Just stumbled across this book. So many questions related to audience, editor, publisher, scholarship, academic integrity, etc. link.springer.com/book/9789819...

Geozone Teaching with Zines Workshop 9 13 24

📢 The recording of our "Teaching with Zines" workshop is now posted to YouTube! 📢 Check it out for some really insightful and creative discussion of how to use zines in your classroom! Stay tuned for more workshops on teaching and researching with zines! bit.ly/3XSgyhu #geosky

Godspeed You! Black Emperor last night in Bristol: petro-despair and lots of rage

Comrades! Verso Needs Your Support for Radical Publishing Verso Books needs your help to launch its Autumn 2024 list of books after the bankruptcy of one its most trusted partners.

Verso books lost one of its trusted partners - they are the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

Make a pledge and share please!
There are rewards for supporting as well

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver...

Three days packed with exciting research presentations, learning from and with Latin American socioterritorial movements. Great to see ideas travelling beyond LatAm as well, from North America to the UK and China.

📌The provisional programme is now available on our website 🌐
Don't forget to register for the next LATINMOV, 12th Friday is the last day!

lagukinfo.wixsite.com/lag-uk/latin...

Hope in Common – David GraeberLink to youtube

Hopelessness isn’t natural - the last 30 years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness

David Graeber's "Hope in Common"
Full text here:
davidgraeber.org/articles/hop...