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THE PICNIC has been shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing

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#OrwellPrizes2024 The Orwell Prizes The Bodley Head W. W. Norton & Company

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Last day of term ... The students in my Hannah Arendt Seminar made me this card ...

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Makes me so impossibly happy and proud ... 🥹

Political Science Leiden #Arendt #IRO

Ooh - just saw that Jenny Erpenbeck won the #InternationalBooker2024 !!!

ICYMI, I wrote an essay about #Kairos in the Los Angeles Review of Books, alongside works by Brigitte Reimann and Katja Hoyer. It talks about Ostalgie and lingering resonance of East Germany.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/ostalg…

How much #security should we want in our lives?⛓️ And how does it affect freedom and equality?⚖️ 🧐

Philosopher at @polscileiden Josette Daemen chose an all but secure existence as #PhD candidate and successfully wrote a dissertation about this dilemma: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Police drones, spotted through Palestinian flag …

Now: riot police …

Our chant: “We are peaceful, what are you?”

I'm reading with Jenny, Vanessa and Shaw on 23rd May St Anne's College . It'll be enjoyable, free, and convivial, and everyone is welcome. Vanessa Lampert Jennifer Wong Shaw Worth

Reminder: Gaza event today Political Science Leiden!!!

5pm, Wijnhaven (Hague Campus). Details below

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The Picnic by Matthew Longo review – the party that pulled down the iron curtain theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

On the timelessness of campus protests... Beautiful.

Thanks The Cultural Tutor! A perfect occasion to plug my new essay on Vermeer's lasting legacy and the values embedded in his work.

thepointmag.com/criticism/out-…

“What makes these paintings so recognizable is that their ordinary is our ordinary too.” New online, Matthew Longo on the Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition and the world the Dutch Golden Age made:
thepointmag.com/criticism/out-…

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Please find an essay I wrote in the The Point Magazine about Vermeer, liberalism (and its discontents), and the new memoir on the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser.

Please give it a read and RT!!!

Out of the Ordinary thepointmag.com/criticism/out-…

TheobaldTiger Enjoyed Matthew Longo's book on that.

After the swift and violent removal of the Berlin-wide students' encampment Freie Universität without any attempt to enter into a dialogue with the students, some of us wrote this statement. Please consider signing. Gerne unterschreiben! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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Just a reminder to join us for a discussion on #GazaWar at Leiden University Political Science Leiden Leiden University

May 14th, 17:00-19:00, Wijnhaven 2.01

Further details below!