Great view in Durham this morning before the workshop on #Britain #Europe and #Liberty organised by @giannako

*gets in twitter* *reads posts about book manuscripts, conferences & other academic ventures* *sighs* *decides to sign off till the start of the year*. Happy Xmas everyone!

#ASEEES2018 is over so now it’s time to see #ICABoston @icaboston and it’s most perfect media centre

#ASEEES2019 day 3 started with Margaret Sami from @TheNewSchool presenting a fascinating paper on auctions in mid 18th century St Petersburg which in the absence of other forms of public art display enabled people from a range of social classes to learn about art @aseeestudies

Professor Lodder on the shock of living in the USSR in the 1970s “I grew up in England in the 1950s, so I could eat almost anything, but Russian soup was horrible. I had to lived off bulochki” @aseeestudies #aseees2018

Gabrielle Cornish plays some Soviet electronic music, asks whether underground necessarily means subversive (and shows some Soviet manuals how to make your own DIY disco outfit) #ASEEES2018

Second day of #ASEEES2018 started with the brilliant talk on shanson (criminal Russian songs) in Putin regime by Anastasia Gordiienko @aseeestudies

The neoliberal university is increasingly hierarchical & the language of excellence is increasingly competitive yet empty. #FemMeths18 @GenderedL

Book cover wars #FemMeths18

Hilary Robinson on methods of compiling (and ways of persuading publishers) of an anthology of feminism art theory #FemMeths18

A room full of rebels! Acts of memory writing at our Feminist Methodologies Symposium at Loughborough University @LboroSocSci @lboroCRCC @JenniferACooke @hazelmcmichael @Hannahnewm @sianylewis89

Loving Karen Schaller’s talk on Contact Work at #FemMeths18 symposium in Lboro

CfP: Museums in Time of Political Change

#ucustrike #lboro