Another "excellent" train experience.
Emergency services on the track, my stop is cancelled and it suggests I take the Sbahn to Heidelberg that left two minutes ago to catch it...

My time at the University of Mannheim is already slowly coming to an end. It was a pleasure to be part of the American Studies team for the semester! Now looking for #newopportunities #jobs #work

#acacademia #museumjobs #phd

Five Rooms of Memory – When Silence Shook Humankind By Antonio C. Westphalen Berlin, April 15, 2025.  Since 2018, four young au pairs from Germany have lived with our family. They shared not just their time and care, but their culture, their language...

Antonio C. Westphalen is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. During a trip to Berlin in April, he visited the Topography of Terror Documentation Centre with his family.

In this essay, he reflects on his impressions and thoughts during their visit to our permanent exhibition:

White Power Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...

The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

uncpress.org/978146969484...

Things I didn't think I'd ever do: download 4 ebooks while on ICE wifi for a course I'm thinking about teaching 🤷

#germantrain #academia #whynot

Warum enden schwäbische Ortsnamen oft auf "-ingen"? Das -ingen ist eine Wortendung, die eine Zugehörigkeit ausdrückt – fast immer zu einer bestimmten Person, einem Anführer. So lebten in Sigmaringen die Angehörigen eines Sigmars. Von Gábor Paál | Text ...

@rrohled.bsky.social falls du wissen willst weshalb ingen 🤣
Aber das beste Beispiel von Bietigheim-Bissingen haben die noch nicht mal drin.

Warum enden schwäbische Ortsnamen oft auf "-ingen"? - SWR Kultur share.google/Fd3dzHzNJw6l...

I'm currently working on developing a research project that is interested in how communities reintegrate objects that are repatriated. This is excellent news and I look forward to hearing more about the work that is being done here!

#research #repatriation #culturalartifacts #restitution

Can this be brought before the ICC? This is nuts

New Campus Cartographies – AHA Infusing historical research into walking tours has helped Andrew Hardy and his fellow graduate students remake their campus into a public history site.

Berkeley history graduate students reimagine their campus as a public history site. Topics include CA Indigenous history, relationship between CA and Asia/Pacific, campus policing, & campus protest. This is such an amazing project! @historians.org #AHAPerspectives
www.historians.org/perspectives...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

AfD here, but presumably would be same in other countries too:

"mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

An inflatable dinosaur skeleton costume at a no kings march giving a thumbs up.

Marching

“Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.”

My post is a little late but: our new issue is out!
A very exciting special issue about cookbooks!
If you have an article, forum, or interview you would like to publish get in touch with amst@dgfa.de
#cookbooks #americanstudies #publishing
amst.winter-verlag.de/issue/AMST/2...

Also wenn die Abkehr heißt ein Verbotsverfahren können wir das natürlich in Betracht ziehen, anderfalls sollten sich die Unionspolitiker fragen, ob sie nicht gleich zu dieser Partei wechseln wollen...

How inflatable frog suits became the protest fashion statement of the year Costumes have been worn as political symbols for decades, but animal outfits have become especially popular at anti-ICE demonstrations in Portland, Oregon.

Portland-based streamer Brooks Brown and a few of his friends created Operation Inflation, an organization providing puff-up costumes to those protesting the crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Deloitte: Peinliche KI-Fehler in Bericht für Arbeitsministerium Deloitte Australien gerät in die Kritik wegen KI-generierter Fehler in einem Bericht für das Arbeitsministerium. Falsche Zitationen und erfundene Quellen sorgen für einen kostspieligen Rückschlag. Unt...

This is gonna be my new favorite example why students just shouldn't and why companies shouldn't let their workforce go for AI
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/d...

Ausstellungen kuratieren bedeutet immer, mit Spannungen & Widersprüchen umgehen zu müssen. Die Beiträger*innen befassen sich mit d. Friktionen & nehmen dabei in d. Blick, wie Wissen in Ausst. ausgehandelt wird & welche Kräfte an d. Entstehung v. Wissen in & durch Ausstellungen mitwirken. #OpenAccess

Oder die nicht vorhandenen Hausärzte? Nein am offensichtlichen kann es nicht liegen, sondern die Leute gehen zu oft zum Arzt...

Dafür war kurz vor Ulm (auf dem Weg nach Mannheim) eine Kuh auf dem Gleis 🤷
Das kenne ich von SH mit Schafen

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire -- for now -- remaining Democrat on FTC At issue is whether the president has the authority to dismiss the heads of those agencies that are protected by Congress.

The Supreme Court is supposed to protect the constitution and therefore American democracy, yet they've handed it to fascism on a platter.
www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

Wurst essen nicht vergessen 😉

YouTube video by The Daily Show Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show

You know things are bleak if comedy turns into a serious discussion
youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4?...
#poststhatgetmebanned #neveragainisnow

Zeigt halt das Privileg, selbst in den USA kann man in jedem Laden aufs Klo, umsonst. Hier war das Mal so, aber jetzt gibt's ja auch komm noch öffentliche Toiletten, selbst welche zum Bezahlen...

Apparently it cut some images

Impressions from Mannheim, the sprinklers, Ferris wheel and square layout remind me of #STL

So it appears I'll be teaching one of my classes in the Schloss, so thats cool

Day 1 commuting to #unimannheim, left myself a buffer of 30min to switch trains from regional to long-distance. Regional train I originally wanted to take delayed by 21min...good thing there was a slightly earlier one. #germantrain #goodtimes

Hilariously no, they're still in their temporary space the old prosecution building. Reminds me a lot of the philosophy department in Stuttgart.

As previously mentioned new things are happening. Starting next week I will be teaching at #unimannheim for a semester. So if anyone has leads for the spring semester send them my way! #jobhunting #academia #phdlife

I should probably add that I went there and know I will start a different job next week 🤣