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Make sure to visit The Wall Rock Bar in Taksim, you will not be disappointed 🤘

1 Mayıs: Emeğin şarkıları Dayanışma, mücadele ve yeşeren umutlar… 1 Mayıs’ın temsil ettiği değerlerin sac ayağını oluşturan kavramlar bunlar. İşte bu kavramları notalarla perçinleyen, emeği melodilerle kaynatan onlarca şarkı v...

1 Mayıs için çalma listeniz bizden. @ozguryilgur.bsky.social emeğin şarkılarını ve hikâyelerini yazdı.

Moving means clearing out the soon to be old apartment during the long weekend. And coming across some wonderful words of wisdom, written in class, sometime in 2019.

Bugün, Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi. Canım gençler, gelecekleriyle oynanmasına karşı direniyor 💚💛

Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi öğrencilerinin yardım çağrısı. Mezunları desteğe çağırıyorlar.

This is not the time to discuss it, but what appears to be the iconic image of a protester in Istanbul disguised as a whirling dervish is actually less "iconic" than one might think.

The last thing we need is the orientalist aestheticization of a genuine and multifaceted social movement.

cezaevlerin de tutulan 301 genci unutturmayalım içerde unutulup gitmesinler

Şişli’de Türkiye yakın siyasi tarihinin en büyük öğrenci eylemine tanık oluyoruz. Maçka’dan çıkan on binlerce öğrenci Şişli Belediyesi’ne yürüyor. Böylesi bir öğrenci hareketi kitleselliği 90’larda dahi görülmemiştir. #TurkeyProtest

A huge anti-Erdoğan protest tonight in Istanbul, defying a four day national ban on protests, to denounce the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

"Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.

A design of different maps with the words transnational polycrisis & essay task 2025 superimposed. An image promoting the master's programme National and Transnational Studies: Literature Culture Language at University of Münster in Germany

Like anglophone literatures & cultures, linguistics, book studies?
Think MA NTS @uni-muenster.de

The application window is near & the Essay Task is live! This year's prompt: #Transnational #Polycrisis
Details 🔗 uni.ms/applyNTS

@pttsmuenster.bsky.social
#StudyInGermany #gradapplication
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📢 Future MA National & Transnational Studies candidates—it's time!

The application window is near, and this year’s Essay Task is live! This year's prompt: Transnational Polycrisis. Details at: uni.ms/NTS

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Severance is an excellent show. Want to think that my article on it in this issue isn't the worst either.

Let's talk about the humanities (particularly critical thinking and Marxism-related investigations) in Turkey, which remain vibrant despite everything. (cont. 🧵)
1/ @tgesgun.bsky.social will soon deliver a talk in Ankara on 'Political Animals in Fables: From Machiavelli's Fox to Kropotkin's Birds.'

It's a Chrome fork but has the best privacy settings apart from TOR. Built-in ad&tracking blocker, somehow manages to bypass youtube's settings that prevent you from minimizing it on your phone. Strongly recommended.

Hot on the heels of this news: just heard that @yordamkitap.bsky.social y.social has acquired the Turkish translation rights! Türk yoldaşlarının Yurttaş Marx'ı okuyabilecek olmalarına sevindim ✊

If you use Brave browser instead of the youtube app, it's even easier.

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Three large letters: N in blue, T in red, S in green which look like snakes and have eyes. Plus tags at the bottom: AM, RKB, MS, DH street art -- Logo of the MA NTS programme --

The top of a nineteenth-century observatory, made from red brick, under a blue sky, partly covered by trees.

10 MA NTS students in front of the English Department, Münster University, Germany. Taken at the 10th anniversary of the MA NTS programme, in July 2018.

World map -- in dark blue, green, beige, grey and white; with Africa at the centre, the Americas to the left, Asia and Australia to the right, and Europe hard to make out.

M.A. Trans|National Studies 🔗 uni.ms/NTS
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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

I am lucky that nobody I work with, neither colleagues, nor students, ever made me feel bad about my struggle in German fluency. They get rewarded with my bad pronunciation and ultra low level puns in German.

If someone wishes you "happy holidays," it doesn't mean they hate Christmas. They're simply acknowledging that there are *many* sacred observances that take place this month, including the anniversary of Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at George W Bush on this date in 2008.

Managing crises as if no one is watching? Governance dilemmas from a public perspective In the midst of ongoing crises, understanding how citizens perceive administrative crisis management is more relevant than ever. Combining organizational literature with insights from legitimacy rese....

My article in @journalpa.bsky.social now has an issue!🎉 I explore how citizens view the #legitimacy of governance #dilemmas during crises. If you haven’t checked it out yet, maybe now’s the time: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PublicAdministration #CrisisManagement

Engels in 1839

Briefträger: Herr Consul, ein Brief! Consul Leupold. Aha! Gut. Engels. Nichts für mich? Briefträger: Nein. Postman: Mr. Consul, a letter! Consul Leupold. Aha! Good. Engels. Nothing for me? Postman: No.

Happy Birthday to Friedrich Engels who was born on this day, 28 November, in 1820! 🎉

He was an autodidact, composer, sketch artist, and, most importantly, a revolutionary

In 1839, the 19 year old shared several compositions (includ. the chorale below) and sketches in his letters

Now I just have to convince those who made the jump from the UPF political science crew to stop working on super boring stuff. Friends from high school already know what's good.

This is a very good article which I'm citing in a forthcoming paper. Yes, that is why I really went into academia: to boost the numbers of old friends who were already there.

Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Utopian: Utopia is in the process of filling the cup, even though it may reach only half, despite the conventional wisdom telling us we shouldn't try it, since we'll never be able to fill it entirely.

Students with TU Darmstadt held a rally today to protest the cancelation of my lecture, and they invited me to give speech and a presentation online. I spoke about the new IHRA definition of antisemitism that prohibits criticism of Israel as an apartheid state. 🧵

Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk