Sean Allan
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Kleist-reading, East German cinema fan who fills in time watching and playing tennis
St Andrews
Joined July 2012
An excerpt from Thomas Mann’s Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945 (ed. & trans. by Jeffrey L. High, Elaine Chen and Hans Rudolf Vaget) will be presented at the German Bundestag’s WWII commemoration on 8 May. Discover more about the translated text: https://t.co/V2wEe8cmWF
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Language is power. To silence languages is to silence histories, cultures, and ways of being. Cardiff University’s Modern Languages School is one of the best—so why are they trying to shut it down? Stand with students and staff. Sign the petition and resist.
@llantwit Please can you share - Save MLANG at Cardiff University
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Applications are open for a new open-ended Research & Teaching Lectureship in Text/Image Studies at @UofGSMLC University of Glasgow. The post is supported by the generosity of the late Dr Peter Davies https://t.co/FwKxIGineG
@UofGSMC @UofGArtsHums
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Thank you for joining our reception with #DEFAlibrary at #GSA24. We celebrated alongside the authors of DOCUMENTING SOCIALISM, Allan (@SeanAllan4) and Heiduschke (eds): https://t.co/oFF6fCeyMy & SCIENCE ON SCREEN AND PAPER, Ivanova and Scholz (eds): https://t.co/yyNEOo3vuL
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Very excited to announce the publication of our edited volume on East German Documentary Cinema. Thanks to my wonderful colleagues for their fantastic contributions. See https://t.co/WymHisF49d and https://t.co/eExjeTyZjo
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Available now at all good bookshops and at the AISTHESIS website. Thank you to all our brilliant colleagues for their contributions to this multi-lingual project about C18/C19 culture. Out first Bonn-St Andrews joint publication!
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Coming up this Wednesday @ByreTheatre in St Andrews!
📽️🎹The German Screen Studies Network presents a special silent film screening of "Kohlhiesel’s Daughters" (1920) by Ernst Lubitsch as part of the The Future of German Screen Studies conference 19–21 June. Free & open to the public, but pre-book here: https://t.co/PKfNvndRaM.
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It’s next week 30 May, 8:45 am-4:45p in Parliament Hall! Annual One-Day Conference of Cross cultural circa 19th Century Research Centre, 'The Travelling Nineteenth Centruy'!
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Very much looking forward to this!
🎥 Programme for the upcoming QUO VADIS DEFA Conference organized by Elizabeth Ward and Andy Räder is out now! More info: https://t.co/hzc4ahMGVs
#QuoVadisDEFA2024
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Support Our Surrey Campaign - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/Wob6oSLIVW via @UKChange
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Support Our Surrey Campaign
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Why UK universities are going broke| Times Higher Education (THE)
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The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
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Save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Subjects at the University of Kent - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/8Tp5aX2Wq7 via @UKChange
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Save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Subjects at the University of Kent
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A graduate of our #German department, @peterbrownBC is the new Director for British Council Scotland @GlobalOfficeStA @univofstandrews @BCScotland
We have news! 📢 Peter Brown is the new Director for British Council Scotland. Read more about his appointment and his ambitions to sustain & grow global connections for Scotland around arts, education, & cultural relations. 👇👇👇 https://t.co/wTwFLBrNAY
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If you’re around Scotland in January, join me for a screening of East Germany’s only gay-themed film! I’ll be introducing it in Glasgow (GFT) on 18 Jan and at DCA Dundee on 31 January as part of the Fokus film festival @GI_Glasgow #defa #eastGermany
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One month to go - deadline Jan 17th! Funded PhD (& generous research allowance) @SML_Newcastle @StudentsNCL on French popular entertainments in the long nineteenth century. Such as.... • Café-concert, music-hall entertainments • Popular / folk / amateur music making 1/3
What's that? Funded PhD on the world of French popular entertainments in the 19th century? With me at wonderful @SML_Newcastle? YES! https://t.co/kjjShpHOXs
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Brilliant turnout at tonight's rally. University Court- the people have spoken. Do the right thing and #stoptheconsultation
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