Jennifer Evans
@JenniferVEvans
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historian | digital curator | winner of the Adenauer Prize | currently writing Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution | repped by PEW Literary
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Best student comment ever: “I like following profs on Twitter. In the class they are g-d and then you see their posts get 10 likes.”
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The introduction to my forthcoming book The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism is now available online via
@DukePress
. It includes the acknowledgements, where I am so fortunate to thank all those who have shaped the manuscript along the way
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....and now the reveal. The Queer Art of History has a cover, featuring the work of artist Benny Nemer and is creative re-imaginging of an iconic scene from Rosa von Praunheim's film It's Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse....
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Excited to say I've just signed a contract with
@DukePress
for my new book Queer Life After Fascism: Kinship and the Queer Art of History (2023). So many people helped this get here. I'm very grateful. 🙏
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Just received word that I won a
@AvHStiftung
Research Prize! I'll spend the next few summers in Berlin working on "A Short History of Drag" thanks to the nomination of folks at the Friedrich Meinecke Institut
@GeDi_FuBerlin
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In a world of “thrilled to announce” I’m thrilled to say I stepped aside and recommended a junior colleague for a transatlantic talk that he was perfect for. Making opportunities for others is the best part of the job. And important too.
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My first foray into German history was through the history of resistance groups. I trained with an expert in the field. And yet, it would be *years* before I learned that Hans Scholl had been arrested as a teenager for suspicion of same-sex activity.
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A reminder that minimizing the experiences of lesbians persecuted by the Nazis was a tactic used to stall official recognition and memorialization of this victim group. We are seeing this again, now against trans persons. It is bad history and it is wrong.
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Adding to the 'must read' list: the new
@tsqjournal
special issue on "Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right."
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I remember years ago seeing Natalie Zemon Davis not only attend every single panel of a graduate student conference, but sit with students in the breaks and engage them - all of them - on their topics. I decided to model myself on her, as best I could.
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Amazing discovery today about the persecution of queer and trans* people during the Third Reich.
A few years back, I wrote an article about Fritz Kitzing, who had been ensnared by the Nazis for purportedly soliciting sex with an undercover SA man.
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Signed a contract with
@RoutledgeHist
for The Global History of Nazism along with co-editors Jonathan Wiesen, Eric Kurlander and Julia Torrie. Watch this …er… maybe another space.
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Donna Shalala, Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, weighs in on the Nancy Fraser debacle at the Uni Köln with strong and principled words.
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My book proposal is off to possible publishers and I’ve only checked my email
Inbox 4000x today.
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That the Nazis targeted trans people is well established in history circles. Last year, a German court recognized it as well thanks to the research of people like
@L_Marhoefer
and
@manwithoutatan
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A friend passed on this amazing photo that would make a great cover for the drag book. From ca. 1968.
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I was excited to see my book’s release date pushed forward by a month! Available already April 21th!
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Officially drops tomorrow!
Save 30% on
#NewBook
"The Queer Art of History" by
@JenniferVEvans
, which examines kinship in postwar and contemporary German history.
#LGBTQBooks
#Twitterstorians
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Taking a moment to recognize the tremendous work graduate students
@ksvarnon
and
@JohnVsetecka
are doing in a public capacity and also behind the scenes. Above and beyond.
#Ukraine
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Friends, sad sad news. Bob Tobin at Clark University passed away yesterday from a short illness. Alongside his work on 19th gay history, many of us welcomed his generosity of spirit and absolute kindness.
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I am one of
@Carleton_U
's award winning researchers. I can't get grants, write papers, and publish without the support of TAs in the classroom. It is interconnected. They support me and we as an institution support them in funding their studies and building their skills.
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Now that it is out, I decided to take a moment to foreground some of the artists whose work and practice indelibly shaped how I conceptualized queer kinship in The Queer Art of History. A 🧵👇
@DukePress
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For those looking for reputable sources into the persecution of trans people and gender non-conformism under the Nazis
@jakenew
has compiled a list of material in english by experts in the field.
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Now that the embargo is over, I'm very pleased to announce that our great team
@Carleton_U
has won a
@SSHRC_CRSH
Insight Grant for a 5 yr multi-platform social media study of populist memory entrepreneurs and the normalization of hate in Canada.
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I am intentional in the way I cite colleagues and their work. My footnotes are a recognition of the time, skill, expertise, and reverence people bring to the craft. The same with in-text mentions. It is an act of acknowledgement, professionalism. /1
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Members of the History Department
@Carleton_U
call on the President and Provost to end their tactics of division and come to a quick and suitable settlement with
@cupe4600
Unit 1.
@jerrytomberlin
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Even for someone who studies social media, it’s been phenomenal watching this tweet take off.
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Honoured to learn that my Humboldt Prize is actually the Konrad Adenauer Award! This is so meaningful for me, especially because my own undergraduate supervisor - Peter Hoffmann - had been one of the first to win it.
@AvHStiftung
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Mark your calendars wayyyyy in advance. I’ve just been asked to deliver the Mosse Lectures in 2026! Such a huge honour.
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I don’t have a cover but I do have a blurb, the first one. The book is slowly becoming real.
@DukePress
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Anti-gender in Hungary, anti-"Islamo-fascism" in France, anti-postcolonialism in Germany, anti-critical race theory in the US.
"The social sciences have been under attack from right-wing populists for years. What’s worrying is that mainstream politicians are now joining in"
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Very much looking forward to giving one of the keynotes at the UK’s
@GermanHistSoc
annual conference in September ‘24. Thanks for the invitation!
Planning is underway for
#GHS2024
at
@ManMetUni
and our first keynote lecture is all booked in!
Prof.
@JenniferVEvans
will be discussing trans and queer histories in modern Germany
To get a sneak peak into her fascinating research see more below
🧵1/
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All I can say as the curator of a project on the
#Historikerstreit
that managed to draw in different viewpoints and positions/positionalities is -- it is doable. It isn't easy. Ours certainly wasn't perfect. But it can be done. It needs to be done. Because it is urgent.
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Alf Lüdtke has died. Together with other politically engaged social history scholars of his generation, he gave us Alltagsgeschichte (the History of Everyday Life). His influence, like his generosity, was great. He will be missed.
#twitterstorians
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In today's post
@tnflorvil
demonstrates the way Black German quotidian intellectuals mobilized memories of the Holocaust to give voice to the continuation of structural racism in post-1945 Germany.
#Catechismdebate
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It is fun seeing how my forthcoming book -- The Queer Art of History -- contains teasers for the next one on photography and the sexual revolution. Like this mention of the "forgotten Surrealist" Pierre Molinier.
@DukePress
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So fortunate to be able to zoom in
@ztsamudzi
to speak to genocide in the German colonies and the problems of German memory today.
#lessonsandlegacies
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Second and final set of proofs. Excited to see this out in the world soon!
@BloomsburyBooks
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Nothing like being denied funding for a project that was forged on a shoestring, built around the notion of collaboration and mutual aid, only to be told part of the reason was "none of the team has a Wikipedia page."
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In Ends and Beginnings, I offer some reflections on what we might take away from this discussion of the place of German memory culture in today's world. Thank you for following along, for spirited disagreement, encouragement and support.
#CatechismDebate
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Beyond words grateful to
@CU_FASS
for selecting me to receive the Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship, which will allow me time to focus on the book. 📷
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Wouldn't it be great to have an accessible primer on queer theory, complete with a reading list? Oh, wait, there is one! Check out the latest episode of
@theoryish_pod
#LGBTQIA
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So apparently my book is available for order now on the
@DukePress
website! My my my things move quickly. There is a steep discount for those who might be interested.
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“Auch Homosexuelle wurden von den Nationalsozialisten systematisch verfolgt und ermordet. In diesem Jahr veranstaltet der Bundestag zum ersten Mal eine Gedenkveranstaltung. Die Geschichte eines langen Kampfes um Gerechtigkeit.”
@sz
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In today's post,
@UssamaMakdisi
asks "What does it mean to atone for a crime against humanity? And how can a nation meaningfully repent for its past if it makes another nation pay the price for this repentance?"
#CatechismDebate
@G_der_Gegenwart
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Keep an eye out for this book by
@andrea_rottmann
, slated to drop sometime this spring/summer with
@utpress
. In the meantime, enjoy its gorgeous cover!
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Bit by bit, book production is coming online. We now have a description. What I really can't wait for is a preview of the cover! Then it will feel truly real.
@DukePress
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I'll be in the UK in February with a series of talks and a workshop I'm especially looking forward to
@UniofOxford
. It will include a series of exercises to make visible trans inclusive queer kinship and the ties that bind us in unearthing this past.
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Now that The Queer Art of History is out in the world with
@DukePress
, I want to take a moment to speak to its intellectual influences to show my gratitude to those who shaped how I came to think about kinship and the work I think it can do. 👇🧵
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I've started a
#Wikipedia
entry now for Marion Kaplan, another pioneer in the field of women and gender and the Holocaust. And three time National Jewish Book Award winner.
@WikiWomenInRed
you have given me the bug!
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Now that Queer Life After Fascism is officially out, I'm going to tweet about some of its content.
@DukePress
One of its main arguments is that we need to consider art, photography, film and memory projects when thinking about post 1945 queer and trans* kinships.
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April 20th, join
@ankahajkova
and me for a conversation around her new book, The Last Ghetto (OUP 2020). Register here:
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It is our professional duty as historians to decry, in no uncertain terms, the weaponization of the past.
#ukraine
#texas
#ottawa
@ModEuroHistColl
#twitterstorians
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I'm sure some colleagues laugh at the thought of a Wikipedia assignment at the graduate level, but students in my MA class on Power discovered many critical things missing from this much-used resource 🧵/1
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The decision to axe the Professorship in Gender History at the F-S Uni Jena is simply unbelievable, even more so when one considers the heightened - and not always informed - level of discussion in current debates.
Das im Fakultätsrat diskutierte Dokument zeichnete sich vor allem durch sichtliche Unkenntnis der geschlechterhistorischen Forschung aus. So wurde behauptet, dass nach Bourdieu und Butler keine innovative Forschung mehr zu verzeichnen sei.
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Members of
@CUHistoryDept
respond to
@CU_Provost
's punitive stance on
@Carleton_U
's graduate students, calling for a reversal of plans to claw back TA funding. Supporting the students of
@cupe4600
.
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Speaking on May Ayim’s wake work at
@AmericanAcademy
,
@tnflorvil
speaks to this extraordinary woman’s contribution.
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There's still a *very* long road to hoe, but it feels good (and a little frightening) to send off this first draft.
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For those in Berlin,
@tnflorvil
is giving her American Academy talk tomorrow. You can register here:
@AmericanAcademy
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Truly grateful for all the interest in my forthcoming book. I should have mentioned that there is a pre-order code for 30% off the price -- E23EVANS
@DukePress
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I model my mentorship after
#NZD
. Years ago, she came to
@CU_History
to keynote the
@CU_Underhill
grad student conference. She stayed for every panel, talked to every single student, asked supportive but probing questions. From that day on, I decided this was the gold standard.
Happy Birthday to Natalie Zemon Davis! One of the great historians of our generation!
#nzd
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Pleased as punch to see the first volume of our DFD Network's output, open access to boot! Just in time for Queer History Month. Know anyone interested in the German state of the field of queer/trans history? This is for them.
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Over the next several days,
@NewFascSyllabus
will feature commentaries from scholars who work on or have ties to the region. To start things off,
@FuerstJuliane
with a reflection on the assertion of Ukrainian fascism
@ModEuroHistColl
#StandWithUkraine
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Why the Story of Hans Heinrich Festersen—Gay, Disabled, and Murdered by the Nazis—Matters - the latest by writer and disability activist Kenny Fries in
@ThePublicSquare
. Part of the ongoing exhibition at
@GayMuseum
"Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer"
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Pleased to see my article on the productively fraught politics of queer activism in Germany was published today in
@Tagesspiegel
/1
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Honoured to be joining the editorial board of German Politics and Society. This in addition to German History. Looking forward to shepherding through some excellent scholarship this next while!!
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The Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation takes a firm stance against TERFism.
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Be on the lookout soon for a revamped
@NewFascSyllabus
, featuring a new research database of resources. Our newest research assistant,
@UMich
's Sophie Wunderlich, has been hard at work over the summer to update our lists. More soon!
@ModEuroHistColl
@GSATeaching
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Pleased to report my article on
#cross
-dressing in Third Reich
#photography
with Elissa Mailander is now out with German History, part of the special issue edited by
@ankahajkova
on
#sexuality
,
#Holocaust
, and stigma in NS Germany
@GermanHistSoc
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Come to Berlin!! 👇
CFP: International Closing Conference - "Queer Contemporary Histories - International and Intersectional Perspectives"
Deadline: March 15, 2024
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Students in my HIST 3106 History of Sexuality class created new
#Wikipedia
pages or fact checked and edited existing pages, part of the excellent Wiki Edu project. Adding themes and people that didn't exist before. Here, Sexuality in South America.
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My 14 yr old won a photo contest with the local SPCA for this spartanly beautiful image she titled "A Bird in Winter."
#myheartmelts
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You want expertise on trans persecution during the Nazi period? Dr. Zavier Nunn,
@UniofOxford
PhD, has now entered the chat.
Boom 💥
We shouldn’t credit Rowling with any shock-value at her latest tirade against trans people. As if this is new. It’s just facile distortions of a discourse she wants to weaponize.
Bad history, bad rhetoric, bad faith.
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This looks extremely interesting.
"Knowing by Ear" by
@anettehoffmann9
examines stories and songs by WWI African POWs held in Germany to gain new understandings of extractive knowledge production & the lived experience of colonialism. Read the free intro now!
#Music
#AfricanStudies
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I am really hoping that
@carleton_u
went back to the bargaining table today to negotiate a fair deal with
@cupe4600
. We want our TAs and contract instructors back in the classroom, paid what they are worth, their intellectual property respected.
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I've just joined the advisory committee of the Berlin Program, one of the major funders of student research to Germany, and am seriously excited to evaluate my first round of applications in the new year. I'm taking it as a sign of hope for a return to normal one day soon.
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An important reminder that attacks on trans people are not new. And that we need to know this history in order to mobilize an opposition and safeguard an open, pluralistic society.
@L_Marhoefer
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Preparing to go to Berlin for 9 days and fitting in 2 years worth of work and socializing.
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Honoured to give the inaugural Jonathan Cooper Memorial lecture last night at Mansfield College
@UniofOxford
in front of friends, students, and members of his family. Keeping the spirit of this great LGBTQ rights defender alive.
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Thanks
@mannfrauundco
for inviting me to a short q and a for
@Queerspiegel
in which I spoke to the role of friends, ancestors, and drag in German queer history today.
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We have organized our current
@NewFascSyllabus
series under the title *Ukrainian Dispatches* and at the end of its run will collate the submissions into a single pdf for ease of use.
@ModEuroHistColl
#UkraineWar
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Thought about holding off until after the holidays, but couldn't help it. We hope our new searchable research database comes in handy! Give it a try and let us know!
Big thanks to Sophie Wunderlich for all her work this fall pulling this together.
We are pleased to announce that we have created a database featuring hundreds of digitized collections on the history of fascist, authoritarian, and right-wing movements. We hope that this project will serve as a useful research tool for our community.
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Chief among the issues at stake in the
@cupe4600
strike is intellectual property.
@Carleton_
is forcing contract instructors to give up the rights to their own designed course materials. This is a line in the sand. It will affect full time faculty one day too. You betcha.
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Today's research find: yiddish drag king Pepi Littman.
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A few teaser's for comments to come to the
@NewFascSyllabus
in response to
@dirkmoses
polemical piece on German memory formations.
@tnflorvil
has written one of this spring's most exciting new books on Black German feminism and transnational solidarity movements. /1
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Over the moon about my student
#Wikipedia
projects, like this one on the San Diego Blood Sisters, a group of lesbian activists who organized blood drives in support of gay men during the AIDs crisis.
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Over the last two weeks
@NewFascSyllabus
has hosted a spirited discussion of Dirk Moses's Catechism text with 19 scholars and writers weighing in. Here, he responds to his critics:
@dirkmoses
@G_der_Gegenwart
#CatechismDebate
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Mark your calendars! In less than a month I'll be giving a talk IRL entitled "What Does It Mean to Queer History?"
@UTKnoxville
Wednesday, October 26 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm. Student Union, 169
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Great to see this out!
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape by
@JenniferVEvans
,
@erfagen
&
@megainer
is a qualitative historical analysis of social media, digital memory & the ways in which this shapes & moulds how people think, represent and remember the Holocaust.
📔
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Of course, trans people were persecuted by the Nazis. We have so much evidence. A dissertation from
@UniofOxford
, research supported by
@ushmm
, heck even the German govt commemorated it in 2023.
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A timely podcast on the persecution of LGBTQ people during the Third Reich and how it is being remembered (and misremembered) today. Featuring Prof. Laurie Marhoefer and
@waitmanb
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