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Josephine Hoegaerts

@singingarchives.bsky.social

historian of political culture and public speech, knitting choral singer, professor of European Culture at U. of Amsterdam

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Seeing Matters Ever wondered how images shape our reality? Join us in unraveling the transformative power of visuals – from protest imagery to social media memes – in mobilizing movements, influencing debates, and r...

📣 Seeing Matters: The Social and Political Lives of Images

Join us for an evening on the power of images in shaping our social and political worlds!

👉 Register here: spui25.nl/programma/se...

📍 Location: SPUI25, Amsterdam
📅 Date: April 4, 2025 | 🕖 17:00 - 18:30

@duitslandinstituut.nl

27.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Architectures of Bureaucracy This monograph examines the interrelationship between politics and modernist architecture in interwar Belgium, focusing on political, architectural, and administrative elites as propagators of new ide...

Jens van de Maele's new book on early 20th century government buildings just came out. If you wonder how Belgians imagine 'efficiency'(and who hasn't), here's your chance to find out! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

25.03.2025 12:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Mere sound, conveying no meaning’ – Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s oratory struggles in the House of Commons, 1831–1841 & 1851–1866 This article examines the reasons for Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s failure to become unanimously successful as a parliamentary orator in the nineteenth century. Bulwer-Lytton’s speeches were often praise...

Very excited (and also quite proud) to see this article by Clarice Säävälä in print. It also features one of my favourite Victorian politicians and his weird voice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

28.02.2025 16:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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