#CallforPapers for the 5th “MEMORY, AFFECTS AND EMOTIONS” conference! 📅27-28 April 2023 📍Online ❗️Deadline for submission: 7 April More information: memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-paper…

We have spent the last 30 years trying to make urban mobility sustainable. Should we spend the next 30 years to free cities from mobility altogether? Here is a masterclass and discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=--AhgC…

If a singular image could confirm my PhD's running theory it would be this one: yesterday I captured this image of a cyclist deciding to lock up to the Berlin Wall Memorial - showing an inadvertent appropriation of memorial space by an impatient? ignorant? or indignant? cyclist.

For my PhD I am circulating a questionnaire to see how people use monuments for their own pragmatic agendas. I am first examining the usage of the contested Sir John A Macdonald Monument, Montreal. If you are familiar it, please fill in this short survey:uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3F…

I see a return to the kitchen on my academic horizon.

Alongside my PhD that absolutely does not pay the bills, I cook professionally to keep myself afloat financially, and sane mentally. On June 2/3 myself and some chef friends are doing a taking over a restaurant MK9 Amsterdam. DM on insta (MENU.CA.parfois) or message here to reserve

Bon week-end Montréal ☀️🍦 📍Avenue du Mont-Royal #Montréal #MTLmoments #PhotoduJour

💡A New Journal in Memory Studies: Meet the Memory Studies Review! Editors-in-Chief: Erol Gülüm (Frankfurt), John Greaney (Frankfurt), Justyna Tabaszewska (Warsaw), Paul Leworthy (Edinburgh), and @HTeichler (Frankfurt) #MemoryStudies @BrillPublishing

This are sidewalks for!

Funding: 0/4 Conferences: 4/4 Publications: 2/2 I give it one more year until I abandon this poorly paid (and mildly exploitive) academic game.

Call for Papers: 📷The Early Career Researchers Network of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) is organising a symposium, "Heritage Justice II: Contestation, Motion, and Emotion". 📷Deadline for abstract submissions: June 30th. #CfP #MemoryStudies #MSA

A handbook for academics to go rogue: what we all need, and what we cannot all handle.

Day 1: Workshop on Arendt's Kant Lectures Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College @degruyter_phil Ronald Beiner @HelgaVarden Thomas Bartscherer Javier Burdman

I had the pleasure of sharing a chapter on counter-monuments, Arendt, and Mouffe at the Hannah Arendt Centre. We ended up exercising our imaginations and tapped into reflective judgements to show participatory design can bear fruit. So, disagreement can be beautiful and powerful.

This is my desk for the summer at the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM). Feels nice to be back at McGill for my PhD fieldwork, as this is where it all started during undergrad. Even got a bit of Bard and Arendt that made the cut Nick Dunn.

Montreal leads us in an obvious direction!

For my PhD research I am surveying three Montreal public memorial spaces to examine how people use urban heritage in their everyday life. If anyone is familiar with the Monument Maisonneuve, please answer this short and anonymous survey! uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0J…

Marie Luise Knott, who edited a collection of Arendt and Gershom Scholems’ letters, will join us for our upcoming HAC Conference. Knott, an expert in Arendt’s lively, intellectual friendships, will join us to explore both friendship and politics. hac.bard.edu/membership/

Montréal at night. 💙 📷 Eva Blue #montreal

Images from fieldwork: things people do at a particular Montreal monument... Painting, skateboarding, making out for a photograph... Expect the unexpected in public space, even at a relatively unknown monument next to city Hall.