Greta Olson

The discussion was enriched by the highly interdisciplinary perspectives. We look forward to the publication of “Garcia Márquez as Law,” a monograph that opens the legal-theoretical aspects of the author’s work with expressive joy. @diml.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

Héctor Hoyos and Jorge González-Jácome shared their reading of Garcia Márquez’s fictions as a form of legal pluralism that explores how power is constituted by the people imaginatively.

I was honored to be a part of the manuscript workshop “Garcia Márquez as Law: A Study in Constituent Power and the Imagination” at Stanford University on 10 October 2025.

In July, Anat Rosenberg spoke in my Political Healing seminar about her forthcoming text “Hope against Autocratic Legalism during the Democratic Crisis in Israel.” Her words about maintaining hope during a period of increasing autocracy have accompanied me during the past months. @diml.bsky.social

I was honored to serve as a facilitator at the summer school CRITICAL TIMES 2025 DISRUPTIONS with a session on “Disrupting the Affective Work of Anti-Immigration Narratives and Images“. The Institute is offering Visitor Fellowships that one can apply for until 30 September 2025: lnkd.in/eBNEtynx.

Please join us tomorrow, on 22 July 2025, at 11 AM CET, for the founding event of the Legal Humanities Association (LHA). The association places Law and Humanities research and methodologies ever more squarely on the academic map.

More information can be found here: lnkd.in/e-CJQShR.

Note that Timothy Snyder, author of "On Tyranny" (2017) is a US American historian, who has moved to Canada.
Many thanks again to @demsabroad.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social #NoKings

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☀️ MeDiMi at the 2025 Summer Event of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) on 11 June.

💡 Highlight: Talk by MeDiMi PI @greta-olson.org on "Trump 2.0: The Return & Resistance."

Thank you for the engaged questions and comments.

Looking forward to speaking at the GGS Summer Event 2025 on June 11. I will give a guest talk, titled "Trump 2.0: The Return & the Resistance," which will cover political pushback, activism, and hope. Register by June 4 via the QR code below or this link: shorturl.at/TSjFg. #TheReturn #TheResistance

A free and independent press is the necessary fourth branch of democracies. So important to speak about encroachments on press freedom during the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 administration and what this means for us in Germany. @djv.de @profausberlin.bsky.social

Reminder: Diesen Donnerstag, 18-20 Uhr, diskutieren mehrere Autor:innen von "Ökonomie als Gesellschaftstheorie" (u.a. @tbiebricher.bsky.social) im Senatssaal der HU.

Wir freuen uns über das Buch und auf die spannende Veranstaltung!
www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...

"This is what democracy looks like."

@bostonglobe.com

for reporting on crowd size

Feeling the joy of resistance at the Hands Off protest in Boston today. We the people resist and will persist.

"Neurodivergence is the norm. We need to develop a society for the greatest level of variation." Thank you Dr. Elizabeth Drame (U of Wisconsin Milwaukee)for a great talk on interactions of Black autistic youth and the police. @diml.bsky.social

@maditaoeming.bsky.social did a fabulous job of explaining how the porn addiction narrative has been instrumentalized to various political ends in her talk at JLU. Madita's critical media work contributes centrally to developing literacy concerning digital porn. Thank you! @diml.bsky.social

Dr. Liz Drame (U Wisconsin-Milwaukee) speaks about interactions between Black and autistic youth and law enforcement today at 4:15 PM Frankfurt time. Dr. Drame will lead us through the intersections of race and disability. @diml.bsky.social

Madita Oeming thinks through simplistic anti-porn positions with critical nuance, this Monday at 2:15 Frankfurt time. Everyone welcome. @maditaoeming.bsky.social, @diml.bsky.social

Dr. Marzia Milazzo (Associate Prof, U of Johannesburg) will speak about Anti-Blackness and Colorblindness in the US, Europe, and South Africa today at 4:15, Frankfurt time.
@transcript-verlag.bsky.social @diml.bsky.social

powerfully said

An important talk on the legal and cultural ramifications of sex robots. Join Rüya Toparlak from the University of Lucerne at @diml.bsky.social and JLU for a politically and socially relevant input and discussion.

Thanks to Simon Stern and Robert Spoo for making this rich collection of voices in Laws and Literature be heard.

We ignore the spectacle and celebrate Dr. MLK's legacy and vision of racial and social equality, and we consider forms or resistance.

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Let's focus on Dr. King's vision of social justice rather than events in Washington, DC. Join us for Dr. Simona Adinolfi's talk on labor exploitation and migration tomorrow at 4:15, Frankfurt time. Everyone is welcome.
@diml.bsky.social

Join us today at 4:15 Frankfurt time for Dr. Carolin Gebauer's important talk on how to recognize and counter polarizing representations of migration. Everyone is welcome, no pre.registration necessary.
@diml.bsky.social
@for-medimi.bsky.social

For those who missed it, here is a filmed version of Allison Hammer's timely talk about trans utopian strategies for addressing the present.
@kallison.bsky.social
@diml.bsky.social

Join us for PD Dr. Georgiana Banita's talk this Monday at 4:15 Frankfurt time on the political instrumentalization of migrant crime. @diml.bsky.social

Join us for @kallison.bsky.social's talk tomorrow, 4 December at 4:15 Frankfurt and Amsterdam time, on "Exuberant Embodiment: A Trans Utopia for an Unbearable Present." @diml.bsky.social

Gratified by Azka Anees' recent review of the 2022 Oxford UP book. Anees applies the book's model of cultural legal analysis to recent events in Canada and carries out the argument that "aesthetics can be used to interrogate and critique the law." Thank you for this thoughtful review.

Wearing black to denote the seriousness of the outcome of the US elections and their effects on Germany and the world, I was impressed by students of two Bad Homburg Gymnasien who asked questions that demonstrated their commitment to the political future. @diml.bsky.social @profausberlin.bsky.social