Maria Rovisco
@mariarovisco
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Associate Prof. at @sspleeds University of Leeds. @wrssdtp Pathway Director Civil Society🇵🇹
Menston & Leeds
Joined July 2009
This has just arrived! With this collection we want to open up within the field of visual politics spaces of academic dialogue and publication where scholars from the North and the South can engage in truly productive intellectual exchanges.
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RT @estrangeirada: The Carnations Revolution in Portugal was 50 years ago. It changed my life and that of all Portuguese. It gave the playg….
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Well said @a_musiyiwa! Important thread on how theatre can help dismantle structural and systemic racism.
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RT @BSATheory: Video recording of the June event co-organised with the Sociology of the Arts Study Group, 'Theorising with Art and Music':….
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RT @dieworkwear: if you're a young person, ask a middle-aged man what music they listened to in the 90s. let them talk for 30 mins. act int….
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RT @OtherSideLitMag: It'll be hard to make this one happen. Poems by refugees & immigrants, in any language, no matter what language. But w….
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RT @rain_later: Folk at UK universities may want to sign this petition: . University communities stand against the Illegal Migration Bil. S….
actionnetwork.org
This government’s Illegal Migration Bill will essentially ban most people from seeking asylum in the UK. Be it the lecturer forced to flee the Taliban, the young woman attacked for defending her...
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RT @JolyonMaugham: Annual cost of helping 23,000 hugely wealthy families by abolishing inheritance tax: £7.1bn. Annual cost of lifting 250,….
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Such a powerful defence of the value of the humanities in this thread by @cupofassam.
I’m a professor of theatre and performance. I have been teaching ‘rip-off’ degrees all my adult life. Let me summarise the pointless skills and experiences my students have accumulated: 🧵.
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RT @DrMatthewSweet: Literature isn’t lovely stuff. It’s unsettling, painful, shapes your morals, shows you the sublime and the foul rag and….
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RT @horton_official: We aren't on track to meet net zero or meet the 1.5 degree Paris agreement. France is outstripping UK tenfold on heat….
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RT @mckinneytweets: Link to today's government announcement on visa taxes and fees: - Immigration health surcharge….
hansard.parliament.uk
Hansard record of the item : ' Public Sector Pay' on Thursday 13 July 2023.
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‘The beams of The Unbearable Lightness of Being are: weight, lightness, the soul, the body, the Grand March, shit, kitsch, compassion, vertigo, strength, and weakness. (…) these words cannot be replaced by synonyms’
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“The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious—think of Cervantes!”
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Thank you for all the novels, especially ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’.
theguardian.com
The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction
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RT @AlfDubs: Something has shifted in the public mood regarding refugees. I've been tweeting about refugees for many years but never before….
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Priceless!.
I find this so interesting. This footage from 1986 shows New Age travellers making a pilgrimage to Stonehenge and the police trying desperately to stop them. Watch the reaction from local residents. It may not be what you’re expecting from a certain age group…
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RT @davidabbottbris: “But above all, we at York jointly recognise that the current pay offer is not what staff deserve. At the University o….
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Britain is the Dorian Gray economy, hiding its ugly truths from the world. Now they are exposed
theguardian.com
Our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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RT @Jake_ThompsonBe: Thks to all delegates who came + offered such engaging ideas at the Climate Hackathon @LeedsMusicDrama last 2 days. Ar….
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RT @LouCalvey: I don’t usually share identifiable photos. But this is so powerful by Victoras Antonopoulos. Two Syrian brothers reunited af….
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With my lovely SSP colleagues at the picket lines. We are striking over the threat of 100% deductions for participation in the marking boycott. So many students at risk of not graduating because senior leadership refuses to come to the negotiating table #SettletheDispute
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