Laura Bradley

University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The AGS's President (@pdavies.bsky.social) and VP (@profannasaunders.bsky.social) have put out a joint statement with Women+ in German Studies and the German Language Association in response to today's announcement of the University of Nottingham's plan to close all modern language degrees.

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Congratulations - looks fantastic!

Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel return to the Eastern Sector of #Berlin after wartime exile in 1948.

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Close up of a sunflower in full bloom.

Sunflowers in full bloom today at the Balgone Estate 😍🌻

This focus on spectatorship matters because the main aim of Brecht's epic theatre was to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. 🎭

Finally, it investigates Brecht's attempts to transform the composition of the audience and cultivate critical spectatorship at the Berliner Ensemble, the theatre he founded with his wife, the actor Helene Weigel, in East Berlin after the Second World War.

It relates this analysis of onstage spectatorship to Brecht's own formative experiences as a spectator, to his poems and theories, and to productions directed by Brecht and his close collaborators.

Taking its cue from Brecht’s call for theatre to develop 'the art of spectatorship', my book explores vision, observation, and spectatorship in twelve of his plays, spanning his career - using archival material and sources that have previously been rarely consulted.

Thank you for asking - and for all your help with the book! 😊

Thank you! You have a well-deserved mention in the acknowledgements!

A smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair and glasses holds a copy of a book called Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, with a picture of the playwright Brecht on the front cover. A black cat is sitting in the background.

My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social
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Here it is - my book on the interpreters at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial is now out in physical form (not in open access for a year or two unfortunately) but good to hold a copy www.bloomsbury.com/uk/interpret...

The image shows a blue book with the title Narrative Universes of Disability: Global Perspectives, edited by Someshwar Sati, Shilpa Das and Banibrata Mahanta. The publisher is Springer.

If you want to find out about the first German translation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the subject of translating disability, my chapter on this has just been published in the book Narrative Universes of Disability. It includes a great image of Frankenstein's creature reading Werther.

BREAKING: The Trump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling international students.

Harvard enrolls nearly 6,800 international students out of a student body of 24,596.

Current international students at Harvard will need to transfer or lose their legal status. nbcnews.to/4dzg6eq

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking international students' legal status The order prevents students from being arrested, detained or transported based on their legal status until their case is resolved.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of international students at universities across the U.S.

Unmasking Frank Wedekind | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Looking forward to having an excuse to talk about Wedekind and Spring Awakening at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - and to seeing their productions of the play and musical soon 🎭 www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/unm... @rcsofficial.bsky.social

Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war

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German does yearning so well. ’Fernweh’, ‘far-sickness’, is the longing for distant places, while ‘Sehnsucht’ is a wistful desire for something intangible. #shoutoutforgerman

Welcome to Kuba! We loved trying out your menu today at Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social 😋

Wir alle Robert, wir alle.

Very sorry to see you have left - good luck with your next steps. Any university or organisation will be lucky to have you!

Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished

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Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

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Hello! I'm late but the weather was scary...

"Liebe Fahrgäste, bitte achten Sie beim Aussteigen auch auf Ihr Gepäck! Wir sind nicht nachtragend." (deichvoigt) #BahnAnsagen

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Lovely cold dry day for a long winter’s walk 😍❄️

Even though the fireworks were cancelled, David Hume still seems to have had a party-filled night