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Today our community will be holding a vigil on campus to commemorate 2 years since the war in Ukraine began. 🇺🇦 ⏰ 2pm - 4pm 📍 Hazlerigg Fountain More info: lboro.uk/49pFujU

Great to hear my colleague and Loughborough CRCC member Anastasiya Pshenychnykh giving a keynote at ASEN conference on changes and current dynamics in the monument wars in Ukraine. Empirically rich & thought-provoking 👏

Glad to see that our article on digital monument wars, coauthored with AnastasiyaPshenychnykh and Sabina Mihelj is now out in Social Media+Society - and it's open access! Loughborough CRCC Loughborough Communication and Media journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

New publication alert! It was a pleasure and privilege to co-author this piece on 'digital monument wars' with AnastasiyaPshenychnykh and Alena Pfoser, now published open access in Social Media+Society! Loughborough CRCC Loughborough Communication and Media (Mis)Translating Deceit (AHRC-funded project) doi.org/10.1177/205630… (1/5)

We are delighted be have ranked 1st for Communication and Media Studies for the 2nd year running in the Complete University Guide lboro.ac.uk/subjects/commu…

Ab heute im Handel! "Antiosteuropäischer Rassismus in Deutschland. Geschichte und Gegenwart" von Jannis Panagiotidis & @hcppetersen bei Beltz Juventa ➡️beltz.de/fachmedien/soz…

🥳The collected volume Archiving Activism in the Digital Age, edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney has been published OA with the Institute for Network Cultures (Amsterdam). Get your free hard copy (first come, first served) or download the PDF now: networkcultures.org/blog/publicati….

Closing at midnight on 9th June! please share & apply for this p/t post-doc on Cultural Dynamics: Museums & Democracy in Motion project ACHS2024GALWAY @achs_ecrn Memory Studies Association International Council of Museums (ICOM) ICOM UK Museums Association @museumsbund

📢 The book is out!! Sabina Sabina Mihelj and I are really proud to announce that the final outcome of our Illiberal Turn project has just been published (#OpenAccess). Enjoy downloading and reading! #illiberalism #polarization Loughborough University Loughborough CRCC link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

In their new book, 'The Illiberal Public Sphere' Vaclav Stetka 🇺🇦 and Sabina Mihelj provide the first systematic analysis of the role of the media in the rise of illiberalism. It is the first outcome of their wider Economic and Social Research Council project and it is #OpenAccess. Learn more here: shorturl.at/w1qfm

📢 How do Russian tourists remember destinations in the post-soviet space? What spatial orders do these memories create? Register now for Alena Pfoser's lecture on 12 September 👉leibniz-irs.de/veranstaltunge… #Russia #tourism

Please join me on 12 Sept in Berlin and online for a talk on the spatial orders of Russian tourism memories. Will try to bring together conceptual insights from border studies with research for my forthcoming book Tourism as memory-making Loughborough CRCC

🚨 #CfP The 9th Annual Memory Studies Association Conference is in Prague, July 14-18, 2025, with the auspices of Charles University, the Czech Academy of Sciences, & the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. 🇨🇿 Submit by Oct 20 via our website! 🔗bit.ly/4dvJd1b

Exciting postdoc opportunity studying how audiences perceive misinformation. Plus you get to work with the wonderful Sabina Mihelj and an excellent team of researchers!

Exciting hybrid lecture at the IRS Erkner (close to Berlin) and on zoom "Remembering as de/bordering: Russian tourism memories in the shadow of empire" Public lecture by Alena Pfoser , Loughborough University 🗓 Date: 12 September 🕔 Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

First stay at Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung as a Mercator fellow, talking about border spaces, memory, and methods with Vivien Sommer and her brilliant team. And I even got to visit a Polish border market. Loughborough CRCC

COMING SOON 👀 Economic and Social Research Council funded PhD studentships Loughborough University via MGS ESRC DTP starting in Oct 2025. ⏰Opens 1 Oct with a deadline of 21 Jan 2025 Apply to one of SIX pathways in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities Loughborough Geography and Environment Lboro Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy @lboroCM warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

Happy to share that I passed my PhD viva🎊 My long-suffering supervisors Emily Keightley and Alena Pfoser provided tremendous support throughout the journey, and a heartfelt thank you to Taeyoung Kim and @kathniemeyer for reviewing my thesis and for our exciting discussions!

What a nice start to 2025- my book “Tourism as memory-making” now has a title page and an online announcement 🎉 🎉 🎉 This has been a long time in the making, so pleased that it’s finally coming out this March! Loughborough CRCC Loughborough Communication and Media link.springer.com/book/978303183…

One of the pleasures of being a programme lead is to hand out prizes to our talented students at the end of their studies - well done, Roman, Sahiba, Thomas and Hasulie!