merve sen
@mervesen.bsky.social
phd candidate in comparative literature & visual studies at penn state // welcoming anything related the hospital in literature and visual culture // remain curious about temporality, sound and archives despite no direct occupation.
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merve sen
@mervesen.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
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CONFERENCE:
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 5, 11:59 EST.
For CFP and details:
bit.ly/46ZLboF
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 5, 11:59 EST.
For CFP and details:
bit.ly/46ZLboF
CONFERENCE:
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 5, 11:59 EST.
For CFP and details:
bit.ly/46ZLboF
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 5, 11:59 EST.
For CFP and details:
bit.ly/46ZLboF
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
bit.ly
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
CONFERENCE:
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 5, 11:59 EST.
For CFP and details:
bit.ly/46ZLboF
Rendering Violence in Textual and Visual Media
24-25 April, 2026
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 5, 11:59 EST.
For CFP and details:
bit.ly/46ZLboF
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We're happy to announce the launch of the Southwest Asian & North African Literatures Network @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social!
Visit our website to learn about the network & the CfP for our first symposium on Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026)!
swanalit.sites.uu.nl/about/
Visit our website to learn about the network & the CfP for our first symposium on Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026)!
swanalit.sites.uu.nl/about/
About
The Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network (SWANA Lit Network) is a newly launched platform that aims to bring together researchers and creatives with a shared interest in the literatur...
swanalit.sites.uu.nl
May 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We're happy to announce the launch of the Southwest Asian & North African Literatures Network @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social!
Visit our website to learn about the network & the CfP for our first symposium on Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026)!
swanalit.sites.uu.nl/about/
Visit our website to learn about the network & the CfP for our first symposium on Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026)!
swanalit.sites.uu.nl/about/
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Medicine, the Body, and the Senses: Asian Perspectives
University of Buffalo, April 11-12 2025
www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitut...
University of Buffalo, April 11-12 2025
www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitut...
Medicine, the Body, and the Senses: Asian Perspectives
The 2025 Annual Conference of the Asia Research Institute aims to foster fruitful conversation that advances crucial Asian perspectives on the body and the senses and offers fresh insights on the part...
www.buffalo.edu
April 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Medicine, the Body, and the Senses: Asian Perspectives
University of Buffalo, April 11-12 2025
www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitut...
University of Buffalo, April 11-12 2025
www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitut...
"noticing is my way of opposing a particular modernist practice of looking towards an imagined future. certain things get coded as possible futures and then we develop blinders so that all we can see is our trajectory towards one kind of imagined future... a stereotyped dream future."
‘Noticing is my way of opposing’ - Future Observatory Journal
Explore Anna Tsing's insights on design, ecology, and the more-than-human world in this dialogue with Justin McGuirk.
fojournal.org
March 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"noticing is my way of opposing a particular modernist practice of looking towards an imagined future. certain things get coded as possible futures and then we develop blinders so that all we can see is our trajectory towards one kind of imagined future... a stereotyped dream future."
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Researcher Emma Courtney, who studies breast cancer, says she has been advised not to mention "women" in her grant proposals as the Trump administration cuts funding for scientific research and censors certain topics in government work.
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/st...
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/st...
March 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Researcher Emma Courtney, who studies breast cancer, says she has been advised not to mention "women" in her grant proposals as the Trump administration cuts funding for scientific research and censors certain topics in government work.
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/st...
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/st...
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“Among the 23 hot-button issues, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica: vaccines, fluoride, peanut allergies, autism… All materials must be reviewed by an institute ‘clearance team’… Kennedy has… said that the institute should deprioritize infectious diseases like COVID-19…”
National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.propublica.org
March 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“Among the 23 hot-button issues, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica: vaccines, fluoride, peanut allergies, autism… All materials must be reviewed by an institute ‘clearance team’… Kennedy has… said that the institute should deprioritize infectious diseases like COVID-19…”
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Full Special Issue now out! 'Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/1...
The Senses and Society
Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care. Volume 19, Issue 3 of The Senses and Society
www.tandfonline.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Full Special Issue now out! 'Senses and Spaces of Modern Health/Care' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/1...
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Interested in interdisciplinary and cross-sector health research? New to Bluesky? Check out our Critical Medical Humanities starter pack: go.bsky.app/D1uWxze
February 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Interested in interdisciplinary and cross-sector health research? New to Bluesky? Check out our Critical Medical Humanities starter pack: go.bsky.app/D1uWxze
"i reach for a vocabulary for pain and find... nothing equal to the singularity of it... i take recourse in simile—scalp as sensitive to touch as flour—then not-words, onomatopoeia—whoosh, uuuhh."
"what does it mean not to think about the present tense of pain? i try adjacency. nearness..."
"what does it mean not to think about the present tense of pain? i try adjacency. nearness..."
"A soft, internal machine becomes softly blank, receding, not. Into the vast space of not enters pain."
From the essay "Adjacency, or, Words for Pain" by Gabeba Baderoon, new in our winter issue (45.4) and now available to read online.
www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-4-...
From the essay "Adjacency, or, Words for Pain" by Gabeba Baderoon, new in our winter issue (45.4) and now available to read online.
www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-4-...
Adjacency, or, Words for Pain
From the age of nine, I started to be not where I was from, where people shout in the streets, where the accent is flat, flet, plat, as the place. The more educated I became the more I sounded like…
www.nereview.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"i reach for a vocabulary for pain and find... nothing equal to the singularity of it... i take recourse in simile—scalp as sensitive to touch as flour—then not-words, onomatopoeia—whoosh, uuuhh."
"what does it mean not to think about the present tense of pain? i try adjacency. nearness..."
"what does it mean not to think about the present tense of pain? i try adjacency. nearness..."
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How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
us06web.zoom.us
February 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social
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This is one of the images deleted from the CDC historical archive, by the way. I downloaded it this morning and can't access it anymore. We are ready to repeat the past.
February 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This is one of the images deleted from the CDC historical archive, by the way. I downloaded it this morning and can't access it anymore. We are ready to repeat the past.
"While my work utilizes what appears to be authoritative visuals, the reading of diagrams opens up to non-linear exploration, allowing the reader and author to become collaborators of meaning and moving from the transaction of conveying data to personal but ambiguous space..."
The Rupture of Silence: The Body, Language, and The Power Dynamics in Health with Monica Ong - S Y N A P S I S
It was important to put a critical eye on who gets to create, translate, and normalize language about women’s bodies, as a language not only penetrates the logistics of treatment but also affects poli...
medicalhealthhumanities.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"While my work utilizes what appears to be authoritative visuals, the reading of diagrams opens up to non-linear exploration, allowing the reader and author to become collaborators of meaning and moving from the transaction of conveying data to personal but ambiguous space..."