Sara Dybris McQuaid
@saradm.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Aarhus University. Peace, Conflict, Memory, Northern Ireland. Here for politics and righteous indignation.
@mortensode.bsky.social har skrevet den mest vidunderlige beskrivelse af at gå til dans. Hvem får ikke lyst til at gøre det samme når de læser hvilken effekt det har på hans liv?https://www.information.dk/moti/2026/01/laege-morten-sodemann-danser-rumba-tango-pjat-danse
Læge Morten Sodemann danser rumba og tango: »Det er jo noget pjat at danse«
Alle mennesker er mere end deres arbejdsliv. I denne serie taler vi med offentlige personer om det, de går op i, når andre ikke følger med
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January 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM
@mortensode.bsky.social har skrevet den mest vidunderlige beskrivelse af at gå til dans. Hvem får ikke lyst til at gøre det samme når de læser hvilken effekt det har på hans liv?https://www.information.dk/moti/2026/01/laege-morten-sodemann-danser-rumba-tango-pjat-danse
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Here are all my book recommendations for 2025, carefully collected in one handy to read list. www.jancarson.co.uk/blog/some-books-i-enjoyed-in-2025
Some Books I Enjoyed in 2025 — Jan Carson
2025 was a great reading year for non-fiction, older books and works in translation.
www.jancarson.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Here are all my book recommendations for 2025, carefully collected in one handy to read list. www.jancarson.co.uk/blog/some-books-i-enjoyed-in-2025
Inspired by Ann Rigney’s work on Remembering Activism, I put the “Internationalism Calendar” on my Christmas wish list. January is called ‘seeds of hope’ and details the story of protests against UK weapon production for Indonesia in the context of the struggle for independence in East Timor.
January 2, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Inspired by Ann Rigney’s work on Remembering Activism, I put the “Internationalism Calendar” on my Christmas wish list. January is called ‘seeds of hope’ and details the story of protests against UK weapon production for Indonesia in the context of the struggle for independence in East Timor.
Hvis 2026 skal være året hvor jeg for alvor begynder at bruge Bluesky, så skal jeg altså have interaktioner med nogle flere mennesker - hvem har knækket koden til hvordan man laver opslag med god trækkraft? #bluesky #whattodo #blueskythinking
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Hvis 2026 skal være året hvor jeg for alvor begynder at bruge Bluesky, så skal jeg altså have interaktioner med nogle flere mennesker - hvem har knækket koden til hvordan man laver opslag med god trækkraft? #bluesky #whattodo #blueskythinking
One of these PhDs is geared towards Cultural Memory Studies - I must have a ton of former students who might consider applying?! (Let me know if you need a recommendation) @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @slowmemo.bsky.social "memorystudies lnkd.in/ejSDwmhJ
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December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of these PhDs is geared towards Cultural Memory Studies - I must have a ton of former students who might consider applying?! (Let me know if you need a recommendation) @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @slowmemo.bsky.social "memorystudies lnkd.in/ejSDwmhJ
New short research article out in Urban Matters. It is a piece on thick mapping in North Belfast, drawing on ongoing research at the Oldpark Carnegie Library and local memories of regeneration. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Thick Mapping and the Local History of Urban Regeneration in North Belfast - Urban Matters Journal
The Oldpark Carnegie Library in North Belfast has been closed since 2010, but is currently being brought “back to life” as part of a community-led regeneration initiative. The library stands in a part...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
New short research article out in Urban Matters. It is a piece on thick mapping in North Belfast, drawing on ongoing research at the Oldpark Carnegie Library and local memories of regeneration. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...
urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...
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To engage your mind, you sometimes have to engage your body! Slow Memory COST Action members have developed two walking journals for Prague, Czech Republic, and Prishtina, Kosovo, that help us think through the city, spatial relations, emotion and memory.
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
To engage your mind, you sometimes have to engage your body! Slow Memory COST Action members have developed two walking journals for Prague, Czech Republic, and Prishtina, Kosovo, that help us think through the city, spatial relations, emotion and memory.
Fra Belfast til Blågården! - Glæder mig helt vildt til samarbejdet med Emergency Architecture og Nørrebros biblioteker i formidlingen af min forskning om biblioteker som kritisk social infrastruktur i konflikt og fred. Tak til @carlsbergfondet.dk for støtten! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...
Support Your Local Library: Research Communication, Reseach Resonances and Research Echoes | Carlsbergfondet.dk
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November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Fra Belfast til Blågården! - Glæder mig helt vildt til samarbejdet med Emergency Architecture og Nørrebros biblioteker i formidlingen af min forskning om biblioteker som kritisk social infrastruktur i konflikt og fred. Tak til @carlsbergfondet.dk for støtten! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...
The project to bring the Oldpark Library back to life is so intriguing, not least from a peacebuilding perspective. Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project carnegieoldpark.org/2025/11/03/a...
Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project
Three months ago, if someone had predicted that I would be the interim chair of the Carnegie Oldpark Library trustees in North Belfast, I would have riposted ‘unlikely’; if they had then explained …
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November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The project to bring the Oldpark Library back to life is so intriguing, not least from a peacebuilding perspective. Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project carnegieoldpark.org/2025/11/03/a...
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50 years ago what became the worst feud between the Official and Provisional IRA's began in Belfast. Anthony McIntyre's article, written in 2002, is one of the best accounts of this tragic period.
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
The Blanket project exists as a commitment to freedom of speech. Its purpose is to facilitate analysis, debate and discussion, to resist censorship, and to create the space for a diversity of views.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
50 years ago what became the worst feud between the Official and Provisional IRA's began in Belfast. Anthony McIntyre's article, written in 2002, is one of the best accounts of this tragic period.
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
This! I bought a refurbished 13 mini last year (to replace my ancient SE, which I didn't want to give up precisely because of the size).
Bring back small phones! This is my iphone 13 mini. It is a perfectly-sized phone. But it's going to die - in a few years, Apple will stop supporting it w/updates. Yet there are now NO new smartphones to buy on the market that fit the human hand. www.ft.com/content/6332...
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This! I bought a refurbished 13 mini last year (to replace my ancient SE, which I didn't want to give up precisely because of the size).
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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A superb “Peter Mair Lecture” by @caterinafr.bsky.social at the @psaireland.bsky.social just now presenting her path-breaking work on the continuing rise of the far right. As she noted, Mair’s “void” rather unfortunately is being filled
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A superb “Peter Mair Lecture” by @caterinafr.bsky.social at the @psaireland.bsky.social just now presenting her path-breaking work on the continuing rise of the far right. As she noted, Mair’s “void” rather unfortunately is being filled
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Pretty disturbing times: “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Pretty disturbing times: “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999
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October 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999
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A Danish parliamentarian, the MP Victoria Velasquez, has been abducted by the Israeli military this morning.
Det her er jo vanvittigt. Et dansk folketingsmedlem, der bortføres militært af en fremmed magt i et åbenlyst brud på folkeretten. Hvordan kan vi opretholde almindelige diplomatiske forbindelser med et sådan forbryderisk regime.
nyheder.tv2.dk/live/udland/...
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Dansk politiker en del af opbragt skib: - Jeg er blevet kidnappet
Det danske folketingsmedlem Victoria Velasquez (EL) er en del af besætningen på et af de skibe fra nødhjælpsflotillen, der er blevet opbragt af Israels militær...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A Danish parliamentarian, the MP Victoria Velasquez, has been abducted by the Israeli military this morning.
Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...
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August 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...
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„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
Bibliotekernes udlån stiger for tredje år i træk: Vi elsker at læse papirbøger
Den fysiske bog giver os et frirum i en travl, elektronisk hverdag.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...
Engang røg hun 15 joints om dagen – nu bliver hun kaldt for en 'stor kunstner'
Det hjalp Laura Helene Hansen med at komme ud af sit stofmisbrug, da hun opdagede sit talent for at synge opera.
www.dr.dk
July 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...
Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...
Minor Detail book: how the language of the past can help us read the present situation in Palestine
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today
theconversation.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...
#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...
Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory – SlowMemory – CA20105
Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory
www.slowmemory.eu
July 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...
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🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
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Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland
Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland
A huge wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.
www.rte.ie
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland