Daniel G. Williams

We are truly grateful to Werner Sollors and Daniel Williams for taking the time to join us for this wonderful discussion!

On Monday, October 6, 2025, the #BavarianAmericanAcademy had the pleasure of hosting an intriguing conversation among BAA-Honorary Member Werner Sollors (@harvard.edu ) and @danielgwydion.bsky.social (@swanseauni.bsky.social).

Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism: Werner Sollors in Conversation with Daniel G. Williams On October 6, 2025, 7:00 p.m., Werner Sollors (Harvard University) and Daniel G. Williams (Swansea University) will visit Amerikahaus Munich for an intriguing conversation about Sollors work and the r...

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Join us today (Monday, October 6, 2025) for a conversation with Werner Sollors (Harvard University) on his collection of essays on cosmopolitanism & ethnicity.

Daniel G. Williams (@danielgwydion.bsky.social) (Swansea University) will moderate the discussion.

MIT Press expands Direct to Open (D2O) open access model in 2026 with publishing partners Direct to Open, MIT Press’s diamond open access model for monographs, looks to grow even further in 2026 with publishing partners Duke University Press and Goldsmiths Press.

"Duke University Press brings their catalog in the humanities and social sciences to [Direct to Open], offering 20 frontlist titles annually alongside the MIT Press’s 80 scholarly books each year. Goldsmiths Press... will contribute several works that cut across disciplinary boundaries..."

Join us on Monday at 7pm at @amerikahaus.de for an evening w/ Werner Sollors (@harvard.edu) & @danielgwydion.bsky.social (@swanseauni.bsky.social)!

Curious about what to expect? Read @chrisirmscher.bsky.social's article in the @harvardmagazine.bsky.social:
www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/12/harv...

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Book review: Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder by Aled Eirug Desmond Clifford If Plaid Cymru is in government after next year’s election, Dafydd Elis-Thomas will be among those to whom the party owes a debt of gratitude. Plaid was formed a hundred years ago and...

Aled Eirug’s biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas tackles one of modern Welsh politics’ most complex figures, tracing his journey with and beyond Plaid Cymru, his rare talents, charm, and unique capacity to frustrate ✍️ Desmond Clifford

The week in which one right-wing Welsh politician was exposed as a criminal and another as a hypocrite Martin Shipton Have we reached such a low point that criminality and hypocrisy are the dominating factors in our political life? The outrageous behaviour of two right-wing Welsh politicians has depres...

Have we reached such a low point that criminality and hypocrisy are the dominating factors in our political life? The outrageous behaviour of two right-wing Welsh politicians has depressingly pushed me in such a direction ✍️Martin Shipton

This really needs to be vastly bigger news across they media, but it'll be ignored because "just Wales" of course.

Welsh Women for Peace: A Century of Voices Still Rising Merched Cymru dros Heddwch On International Peace Day this year, more than 400 women across Wales completed a 24-hour fast in solidarity with the people of Gaza. It was a simple act of giving up food ...

In 1923, our foremothers carried a peace petition across the ocean. In 2025, we carry forward their spirit✍️ Merched Cymru dros Heddwch

Screenshot of part of a newspaper column: 'Then follows a series of the most suspicious answers and interferences, as the reader will see in the proper place. We have no doubt that the grounds of conspiracy will at last be entirely confined to the inscriptions on the flags, and the pretence of military array; and then there will still remain three baffling points to consider, - First, whether similar flags have not been used on similar occasions with great harmlessness; - Second, whether all large bodies do not naturally fall into what is called military array, *except* when they are merely *riotous*; - and Third, whether the flags and the array, after all, have any thing to do with Mr. HUNT, and whether every man who accompanies, or meets an assembly, or gets up to address it, is responsible for what every other person in it may do.'

The Examiner, commenting on the trial of Henry Hunt, charged with treason after Peterloo in 1819. Sounds familiar. archive.org/details/sim_...

Noson gofiadwy yng Nghaeredin / A lovely evening in Edinburgh. Discussing the Werner Sollors Reader with staff and students. @edinburghup.bsky.social

In 2016, Farage said: "I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long.”

Farage & Nathan Gill have been very close friends for over a decade. Worked together since the pre-Brexit UKIP days.

Gill has just been found guilty of accepting Russian bribes.

Surely Farage must have known.

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Colin Kidd · Lumps of Cram: University English What is the missing noun to which English refers: literature, language or both? If both, does English belong with the...

‘There is a contingent character to the subject we call English. The very name of the discipline, as Stefan Collini argues, is slippery with ambiguity, “an adjective masquerading as a noun”.’

Colin Kidd on university English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yup. Would like some of UUK to read Stefan Collini, please? Make the case of universities *on the basis of what we actually do*, not solely on the basis of the side product.

Keir Starmer The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It's time to give communities back control Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right

The first essential part in doing that is in recognising where some on the Left went wrong on the issue of immigration. There is no doubt that for years, Left-wing parties, including my own, did shy away from people's concerns around illegal immigration. It has been too easy for people to enter the country, work in the shadow economy and remain illegally.

Equally, the belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the Left. It is not compassionate Left-wing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages.

To counter it, we must make and win the case for patriotic national renewal, based on enduring British values. Our country is still the proud, tolerant, diverse island it has always been, full of fierce and fair-minded Britons. True patriotism means choosing renewal for the common good rather than stoking grievances and seeking to divide.

Well, this is a hot mess of dog whistles and utter nonsense. For a speech claiming to tackle "toxic" and "poisonous" rhetoric Starmer leans heavily into pandering to the usual misinformation about migrants and portraying anti-immigration ideals as "patriotic"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".

#OtD 25 Sep 2003 noted Palestinian intellectual Edward Said died. A founding father of postcolonial theory, he wrote extensively on the Middle East and Palestine, and how Western culture has been moulded by imperialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9791...

Edinburgh, Friday 26th, 4pm
G.03 50 George Square (ground floor lecture theatre).

With Werner Sollors. Scotland leg of our world tour promoting The Werner Sollors Reader @edinburghup.bsky.social

edinburghuniversitypress.com/event/werner...

Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism: Werner Sollors in Conversation with Daniel G. Williams On October 6, 2025, 7:00 p.m., Werner Sollors (Harvard University) and Daniel G. Williams (Swansea University) will visit Amerikahaus Munich for an intriguing conversation about Sollors work and the r...

📅 Monday, Oktober 6, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
📍 Amerikahaus, Karolinenplatz 3, 80339 Munich
➡️ Attendance is free, please register at t1p.de/m7g94

#SaveTheDate: On Oct 6, you are cordially invited to join us for an evening with Werner Sollors (@harvard.edu). On the occasion of the publication of "The Werner Sollors Reader," the literary scholar will visit @amerikahaus.de to discuss his work with Daniel G. Williams (@swanseauni.bsky.social).

Cytuno’n llwyr. Sylwadau eraill yr edefyn yma yn gywir hefyd.

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him”…

“When we praise bad-faith performers for ‘engaging‘ with their critics, we’re not celebrating democratic norms—we’re rewarding those who exploit them.”

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Rhywbeth o’i le fan hyn:

Mussolini was never invited on an official state visit to the UK but did visit London in 1922 for a war reparations conference & dined with King George V at Buckingham Palace. Unlike most of the British press, Sylvia Pankhurst's paper, The Workers' Dreadnought, had his measure.

Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide against Palestinians, a UN commission investigating the war in Gaza said on Tuesday. In earlier reports, the commission found that Israel had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, but stopped short of declaring it genocide. nyti.ms/484tpD5